What's all this talk about .400??

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Seven

On the opposing end, we have Kyle Schwarber who is hitting a crisp .177 with 19 home runs. I'd call him a modern day Dave Kingman, but I think that's insulting to Dave because not even he in all his glory, had an average that low!

Somehow Schwarber has a career BA of .228 but the way he's going, it will be dropping. At least he does walk a fair amount so his career OBP is .338. (Kingman was .236 BA and .302 OBP).

I thought he would be helped by shifts being banned, but apparently not. He currently has 19 home runs and only 18 singles and seems to either strike out of fly out so not hitting many ground balls that have a chance to get through the bigger holes on the left side.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Somehow Schwarber has a career BA of .228 but the way he's going, it will be dropping. At least he does walk a fair amount so his career OBP is .338. (Kingman was .236 BA and .302 OBP).

I thought he would be helped by shifts being banned, but apparently not. He currently has 19 home runs and only 18 singles and seems to either strike out of fly out so not hitting many ground balls that have a chance to get through the bigger holes on the left side.

Scary when the comparison is to King Kong Kingman. I guess the bar is lowered. Lol

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Scary when the comparison is to King Kong Kingman. I guess the bar is lowered. Lol

Can't help but compare it to Madison Bumgarners (a pitcher) stats for the 2015 season with the Giants. 19 hits, 5 hr, .247 BA, .275 OBP. Oh, and 18 wins.

[nolemmings]

Back to .400 with another 5 hit game. Wow.

[John1941]

I love having a player like Luis Arraez around - a player who goes completely against the game's trend - Rod Carew in 2023.

How rare is it to have two five-hit games in three games?

I got him in the 23rd round for one of my fantasy baseball teams. I'm hoping I can have the NL batting champ on this particular team for the second straight year - I picked up Jeff McNeil last year as a free agent at the start of the season. I guess batting champions are not in particularly high demand anymore.

[Seven]

Originally Posted by John1941

I love having a player like Luis Arraez around - a player who goes completely against the game's trend - Rod Carew in 2023.

How rare is it to have two five-hit games in three games?

I got him in the 23rd round for one of my fantasy baseball teams. I'm hoping I can have the NL batting champ on this particular team for the second straight year - I picked up Jeff McNeil last year as a free agent at the start of the season. I guess batting champions are not in particularly high demand anymore.

The game is so different, even from 15 years ago. It warms my heart to see a guy like Arraez, I think we were spoiled with so many high average hitters for so long! I even remember, what seems like not too long ago, Chipper Jones flirting with .400 at his age 36 season. Hard to not look at the past and long for yesteryear when we see some of these pitiful batting averages of today.

[John1941]

Originally Posted by Seven

The game is so different, even from 15 years ago. It warms my heart to see a guy like Arraez, I think we were spoiled with so many high average hitters for so long! I even remember, what seems like not too long ago, Chipper Jones flirting with .400 at his age 36 season. Hard to not look at the past and long for yesteryear when we see some of these pitiful batting averages of today.

I feel like one of my roles in collecting circles is to give y'all some time context... I was one year old when Chipper hit .364.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by John1941

I love having a player like Luis Arraez around - a player who goes completely against the game's trend - Rod Carew in 2023.

How rare is it to have two five-hit games in three games?

I got him in the 23rd round for one of my fantasy baseball teams. I'm hoping I can have the NL batting champ on this particular team for the second straight year - I picked up Jeff McNeil last year as a free agent at the start of the season. I guess batting champions are not in particularly high demand anymore.

+1. I know that batting average is not a key indicator of winning games, but it’s the classic measure and a lot more impressive to me than a lot of things we do value now. It rewards consistent success by the batter. I doubt he hits .400 for the year, but I hope he keeps it up and comes close. I’m rooting for him, it would be a great throwback and historical event if he actually did manage to do it. 67 games, 102 hits, wow.

[RCMcKenzie]

Nomar was at .403 on July 3, 2000.

It's fun to follow. I'm glad they banned the shift.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

Back to .400 with another 5 hit game. Wow.

You beat me to posting about it. 2 5 for 5 games with a 1 for 4 in between. What's hard to believe from today's game is that he went 5-5 and the Marlins scored 11 runs but he only scored once.