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Originally Posted by cgjackson222
Perhaps there should be a minimum plate appearances total for the single year rate records, rather than just a minimum of 3.1 Plate Appearances per team game played. But I for one will not lose any sleep about Josh Gibson now being listed as the single season slugging leader instead of Barry Bonds. Nor does it particularly bother me that Hugh Duffy's 1897 batting average of .4397 is no longer considered the highest single season batting average.
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I don't think anyone is arguing losing sleep. My argument is that this doesn't really make sense as a math decision. Whether that is good or bad up to the individual.