Greatest fluke seasons

[packs]

Sort of a different take on flukes, but somehow last year Zach Cozart managed to hit 15 home runs while only driviing in 35 runs.

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by packs

Sort of a different take on flukes, but somehow last year Zach Cozart managed to hit 15 home runs while only driviing in 35 runs.

Rob Deer '92 had 32 HR's and only 64 RBIs.
Garret Jones in 2009 had 21/44
Chris Duncan in 2006 had 22/43
Kevin Maas in '90 had 21/41
Chris Hoiles in '92 had 20/40
Carlton Fisk in '84 had 21/43

[stlcardsfan]

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[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by novakjr

Rob Deer '92 had 32 HR's and only 64 RBIs.
Garret Jones in 2009 had 21/44
Chris Duncan in 2006 had 22/43
Kevin Maas in '90 had 21/41
Chris Hoiles in '92 had 20/40
Carlton Fisk in '84 had 21/43

Those stat lines look weird. What's crazy is all those guys still had a higher RBI to HR ratio (near or above 2:1) than Bonds did in his 73 HR season.. Think he ended up with like 132 RBIs.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by itjclarke

Those stat lines look weird. What's crazy is all those guys still had a higher RBI to HR ratio (near or above 2:1) than Bonds did in his 73 HR season.. Think he ended up with like 132 RBIs.

Yeah, that's because they usually walked Bonds if anybody was on base. Sometimes even with the bases loaded.

PED's or not, he had a really mind-boggling effect on National League pitching for a while there. To think he did what he did while everybody was blatantly trying to pitch around him.

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Yeah, that's because they usually walked Bonds if anybody was on base. Sometimes even with the bases loaded.

PED's or not, he had a really mind-boggling effect on National League pitching for a while there. To think he did what he did while everybody was blatantly trying to pitch around him.

It was totally nuts! Regardless of your feelings on the matter, to witness it was awe inspiring. I must have gone to 25-30 games that year and it seemed like he went deep each time.. If not twice. And it seemed those were often his only official at bats in the game. I remember his hitting singles that year that were lasers off the bricks that bounced back to the outfielder too quickly for Bonds to reach 2nd. 232 walks, that was not a fluke and that will not happen again.

[Eric72]

...but worth mention, I think.

Pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, in his first major league at-bat, hit a home run.

He went the rest of his 21 year (432 at-bats) career without hitting another.

[texmrsport]

Virgil Trucks threw 2 no-hitters in 1952 with an overall record of 5-19.