One hit wonders/Freak years

[cgjackson222]

In 1993 Phil Plantier hit 34 Home Runs and 100 RBIs. The second most HRs he had in a season was 18, to go along with 41 RBIs.

What are some other one season wonders?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by cgjackson222

In 1993 Phil Plantier hit 34 Home Runs and 100 RBIs. The second most HRs he had in a season was 18, to go along with 41 RBIs.

What are some other one season wonders?

Joe Charboneau.
Pat Listach.
Ron Bryant maybe.
Rick Ankiel as a pitcher.

[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Joe Charboneau.
Pat Listach.
Ron Bryant maybe.

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.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Dale Sveum.

[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Dale Sveum.

Did Sveum actually have a good season?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by cgjackson222

Did Sveum actually have a good season?

25/95/.252 was pretty good.

[Casey2296]

-1910 Jack Coombs pitching for the Philadelphia A's.

9.5 WAR 31 wins 9 losses .775 win % 1.30 ERA no home runs allowed.

[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.

[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.

[Lucas00]

Wally Berger had a monster rookie season in 1930 hitting 38 homers. I always think of him when the question of who had the most potential but didn't pan out as good as they should've comes up. I believe his record for home runs as a rookie stood until Cody Bellinger broke it in 2017 with 39. 87 years holding a record isn't too shabby. (F Robinson also hit 38)

[packs]

John Denny never made an All Star team his entire career but in 1983 at age 30 he went 19-6 with a 2.37 ERA and a league leading 7.4 WAR en route to winning the Cy Young award. He would retire just three years later.

[judsonhamlin]

One year wonder I found doing some other research. 19-11, 3 ShO, led NL in strikeouts (and walks), 5.7 WAR combined as pitcher and hitter (3 hr, 15 rbi), 15th in mvp votes. Rest of career? 2.0 WAR, 13 wins and 137 k’s over 5 years.

[frankbmd]

18-1

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

18-1

Elroy was there

[D. Bergin]

Jose Mesa 1995

Had a 19 year career, mostly middling while pitching 1548 innings as middle reliever, stopper and starter.

Compiled over 34% of his total career WAR in 64 innings in 1995, finishing 2nd in Cy Young voting and 4th in MVP voting (ahead of actual Cy Young winner Randy Johnson, LOL).

Check out his ERA+ of 418. To put that in context, Mariano Rivera's highest ever season was 316.