Home 71 games255 AB 48 runs 79 hits 7 2b 1 3b 28 HR 70 RBI 44 BB 75 K .310 BA .414 OBP .675 SLG 1.089 OBPS
Away 64 G 247 AB 41 R 76 H 11 2b 0 3b 25 HR 64 RBI 34 BB 79 K .308 BA .392 OBP .656 SLG 1.047 OBPS
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Home 61 games 229 AB 41 runs 65 hits13 2b 1 3b17 HR 60 RBI 46 BB 51 K .284 BA .400 OBP .572 SLG .972 OBPS
Away 67 games 256 AB 58 runs 74 hits 12 2b 0 3b30 HR 61 RBI 45 BB 49 K.289 BA .400 OBP .688 SLG 1.088 OBPS
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Manny and Ortiz get it done WHEN IT COUNTS. Does Howard Ryan have a ring? Exactly.
Also: SMALL SAMPLE SIZE!!!! This Howard's a fluke, I doubt if he'll finish with 54, uh, 55 HRs. Only 861 career at-bats?
NEXT.
― Steve O'Shaugnessy (Steve Shasta), Friday, 8 September 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 8 September 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― c('°c) (Leee), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 9 September 2006 04:36 (seventeen years ago) link
HR Player/Team Year73 Barry Bonds, San Francisco (N.L.) 200170 Mark McGwire, St. Louis (N.L.) 199866 Sammy Sosa, Chicago (N.L.) 199865 Mark McGwire, St. Louis (N.L.) 199964 Sammy Sosa, Chicago (N.L.) 200163 Sammy Sosa, Chicago (N.L.) 199961 Roger Maris, New York (A.L.) 196160 Babe Ruth, New York (A.L.) 192759 Babe Ruth, New York (A.L.) 192158 Jimmie Foxx, Philadelphia (A.L.) 193258 Hank Greenberg, Detroit (A.L.) 193858 Mark McGwire, Oakland (A.L.), St. Louis (N.L.) 199757 Luis Gonzalez. Arizona (N.L.) 200157 Alex Rodriguez, Texas (A.L.) 200256 Hack Wilson, Chicago (N.L.) 193056 Ken Griffey, Jr., Seattle (A.L.) 199756 Ken Griffey, Jr., Seattle (A.L.) 199856 Ryan Howard Phiadelphia (N.L.) 2006
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 9 September 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Howard, though, is really something else
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 9 September 2006 05:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Saturday, 9 September 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 September 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― ojitarian (ojitarian), Saturday, 9 September 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/stats/mlb_individual_player_hitting_chart.jsp?playerID=429667&statType=1
Howard has arguably 3-4 "cheap" homeruns at home (down the LF line), I'm sure David Wright or Cliff Floyd or whoever you think is better has about the same amount of cheap homeruns in some other crackerjack box.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 9 September 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 9 September 2006 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 9 September 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 9 September 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 10 September 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, what do Frank Thomas or Larry Walker have to do with anything?
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 10 September 2006 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― FUCK BABY SURI I HOPE IT CHOKES TO DEATH ON HUBBARD WAFERS (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 10 September 2006 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link
With Hafner out and Ortiz/Manny vanishing into the Bermuda Triangle:http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting?split=0&league=mlb&season=2006&seasonType=2&sort=OPS&type=reg&ageMin=17&ageMax=51&state=0&college=0&country=0&hand=a&pos=all
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 10 September 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link
2) One of the reasons why you adjust for park factors REGARDLESS of whether or not a player's home/away splits "seem" different is that value of a run (or a home run) is DIFFERENT based on where you are playing. If everyone is scoring a lot of runs in Philly then you need to score a lot more runs to win a game there then you do in San Diego where runs are relatively hard to come by.
3) What is that link supposed to reflect, Steve?
4) Haha Adrian why am I banned from I Love Football?
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 10 September 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― FUCK BABY SURI I HOPE IT CHOKES TO DEATH ON HUBBARD WAFERS (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 10 September 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 10 September 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
My link was supposed to point to a sorted table of OPS. Howard has now surpassed Ortiz, Manny and Pujols and trails Hafner by 0.003. Maybe yahoo 's table is better:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/stats/bycategory?cat=Batting&conference=MLB&year=season_2006&qualified=1&sort=25
And just a little FYI, Bonds (who does not qualify since he has 437 plate appearances, 2 less than yahoo's qualification of 439 PA's) would fall in #11th place in OPS.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 10 September 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 10 September 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 10 September 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― FUCK BABY SURI I HOPE IT CHOKES TO DEATH ON HUBBARD WAFERS (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 10 September 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 10 September 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 10 September 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Fair enough, that's a good point that I hadn't appreciated before.
― ojitarian (ojitarian), Sunday, 10 September 2006 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 17 September 2006 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link
welp
― nomar, Thursday, 5 January 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link
Ryan Howard is putting together perhaps the best offensive season in the past 5 years.― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Saturday, September 2, 2006 11:33 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 6 January 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
how quickly shasta forgot barry bonds
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 January 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link