Greatest Five Year Stretch in a Career

[barrysloate]

Rogers Hornsby from 1921-25, when his batting average for that five year stretch was .403.

Oops, that's what Jay said. I ony read half your post!

[glenv]

Yogi Berra - 1949-53 Won the MVP one year and was 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in voting in the others. Also got five World Series rings in those five years. Hard to top that!

[barrysloate]

Since I duplicated Jay, how about:

Ruth 1920-24
Ruth 1926-30
Gehrig 1930-34

[bbcard1]

if you interpret your question to be which player in comparison to virtually everyone else who was playing at that time and the established norm had the most above context sustained period of excellence, a pretty compelling case could be made for Albert Pujols.

[drc]

1992-98 Greg Maddux had a good string. As a starting pitcher and leading the league in innings pitched each year, he had a 1.56 ERA in 1994 and 1.63 in 1995.

[GasHouseGang]

I was going to say Ruth from 1926-1930. He averaged 51 homers per year during that stretch.

YR HR AVG
1926 47 .372
1927 60 .356
1928 54 .323
1929 46 .345
1930 49 .359

[travrosty]

ichiro suzuki 2006-2010 pretty good.

[Robextend]

Year W L ERA CG SHO SO

1910 25 17 1.36 38 8 313
1911 25 13 1.90 36 6 207
1912 33 12 1.39 34 7 303
1913 36 7 1.14 29 11 243
1914 28 18 1.72 33 9 225
1915 27 13 1.55 35 7 203

[packs]

Griffey was incredible from 1996 to 2000. He hit 249 home runs and drove in 685 RBIs in those 5 years. His 162 game average was 53 home runs and 146 RBIs.

Probably the greatest stretch ever for a modern hitter not cheating.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by packs

Griffey was incredible from 1996 to 2000. He hit 249 home runs and drove in 685 RBIs in those 5 years. His 162 game average was 53 home runs and 146 RBIs.

Probably the greatest stretch ever for a modern hitter not cheating.

Pujols 02-06 is right up there, with a much higher batting average. Unless of course you think he cheated.

[packs]

Albert never hit 50 or drove in 140 runs in a season. Griffey hit 50 two years in a row and drove in 140 runs THREE years in a row.

I should also mention the years Griffey didn't hit 50 in that 5 year stretch he hit 49, 48, and 40. The years he didn't drive in 140 he drove in 134 and 118.

He kills Albert. Especially when you also factor in Griffey won 4 Gold Gloves and Silver Sluggers while also winning one MVP compared to Albert's one Gold Glove, two Silver Sluggers and one MVP.

[rdixon1208]

Those are real fancy numbers, but how many Cy Young Awards did he win?

Originally Posted by Robextend

Year W L ERA CG SHO SO

1910 25 17 1.36 38 8 313
1911 25 13 1.90 36 6 207
1912 33 12 1.39 34 7 303
1913 36 7 1.14 29 11 243
1914 28 18 1.72 33 9 225
1915 27 13 1.55 35 7 203