One hit wonders/Freak years

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by cgjackson222

I see that Listach snd Charboneau had solid Rookie seasons, and that was about it. Good examples of one hit wonders, but I didn’t mean to limit this to hit Rookie Seasons only.

I thought you were going to go with Norm Cash’s monster season in ‘61 when he hit .362 with 40 HR and 132 RBIs. Cash had other good years, but never got close to .300 or reached 100 RBIs again.

Brady Anderson. Jorge Soler. Alfonso Soriano. Steve Stone. Luis Gonzalez. Davey Johnson. Fidrych. Dontrelle Willis maybe? Cito Gaston.

[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Brady Anderson. Jorge Soler. Alfonso Soriano. Steve Stone. Luis Gonzalez. Davey Johnson. Fidrych. Dontrelle Willis maybe? Cito Gaston.

Cito Gaston might be the biggest one hit wonder with his 1970 season where he hit .318 with 29 HRs and 93 RBIs, leading to 5.1 bWAR. Gaston finished his career with negative bWAR, including 10 seasons of 0 or negative bWAR. His 2nd best season had .4 bWAR.

Brady Anderson’s 50 HR, 110 RBI season in 1996 definitely came out of nowhere. The closest he came to duplicating that feat was 24 HRs and 81 RBIs in ‘99.

Davey Johnson’s 43 HR, 99 RBI season was also an anomaly, more than doubling his 2nd best Home Run output of 18 HRs to go along with 72 RBIs.

But I am not sure about Soriano, as hit over 30 HRs 7x including four 30-30 seasons.

[rats60]

Zolio Versailles won the MVP in 1965 with a 7.2WAR, 115 OPS+ and a league leading 308 total based. His next best year was a 2.6 WAR and 104 OPS+, the only other year he wasn't a below average hitter. He finished with a career 82 OPS+ and 12.6 WAR.

[D. Bergin]

Miguel Andujar 2018 - 2nd to Ohtani in ROY voting. 27HR, 92RBI, .297AVG

Been a negative WAR player ever since.

[D. Bergin]

Kevin Mitchell 1987

Like Norm Cash, he had other pretty good seasons, but this one really stood out.

Led the league in HR's, RBI's, Slugging, OPS, OPS+ and Total Bases on the way to an almost unanimous MVP Award.

Only season he ever led the league in anything and he compiled more Black Ink in that season, then many HOF'ers have in their entire careers.

[packs]

Lesser extent but Aaron Small won all of 25 games in his entire career but in 2005 at age 33 he went 10-0 for the Yankees and pitched his only complete game and shutout of his career.

He never won another game.

[D. Bergin]

1961 was a good year for these types of seasons.

Jim Gentile had an identical WAR (more then double his 2nd best season) to Roger Maris, led the league in RBI's (tied with Maris), and had a much higher OBP and higher Slugging% and OPS+ then Maris.

[SyrNy1960]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Brady Anderson. Jorge Soler. Alfonso Soriano. Steve Stone. Luis Gonzalez. Davey Johnson. Fidrych. Dontrelle Willis maybe? Cito Gaston.

Brady Anderson always stands out in my mind. He hit 50 HR's in 1996. Next highest HR total in his 16 year career is 24 in 1999. He also hit 21 HR's in 1992. Three 20+ HR seasons in his 16 year career.

[Beercan collector]

1890 Hardy Richardson 152 rbis - 58 more than his second best year and 73 more than his third best year

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by SyrNy1960

Brady Anderson always stands out in my mind. He hit 50 HR's in 1996. Next highest HR total in his 16 year career is 24 in 1999. He also hit 21 HR's in 1992. Three 20+ HR seasons in his 16 year career.

Musta got buff from lifting all those bats.

[SyrNy1960]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Musta got buff from lifting all those bats.

Or carrying all of those boxes of steroids and needles.

[clydepepper]

Jim Creighton

[mortimer brewster]

As mentioned earlier Bert Campaneris. 22hr 1970. Next highest year he hit 8 and he played forever!

[mortimer brewster]

Bob Hazel. Hit .403 as a mid season call up for the world champion Milwaukee Braves in 1957. Finished as a major leaguer in 1958.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by SyrNy1960

Or carrying all of those boxes of steroids and needles.

Bret Boone 2001?