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Sunday, January 09, 2005
teddy ballgame
who's the best hitter of all time? i know what you're thinkin, but let's wait till he retires. no, the walconpow system makes it obvious:
year aab w k hr 23 wal con pow avg
1939 565 109 64 31 55 .162 .887 .172 .327
1940 561 99 54 23 57 .150 .904 .158 .344
1941 456 148 27 37 36 .245 .941 .170 .406
1942 522 149 51 36 39 .222 .902 .159 .356
1946 514 158 44 38 45 .235 .914 .177 .342
1947 528 164 47 32 49 .237 .911 .168 .343
1948 509 129 41 25 47 .202 .919 .154 .369
1949 566 164 48 43 42 .225 .915 .164 .343
1950 334 82 21 28 25 .197 .937 .169 .317
1951 531 144 45 30 32 .213 .915 .128 .318
1952 10 2 2 1 1 .167 .800 .250 .400
1953 91 19 10 13 6 .173 .890 .235 .407
1954 389 137 32 29 24 .260 .918 .148 .345
1955 324 93 24 28 24 .223 .926 .173 .356
1956 400 103 39 24 30 .205 .903 .150 .345
1957 422 124 43 38 29 .227 .898 .177 .388
1958 415 102 49 26 25 .197 .882 .139 .328
1959 277 54 27 10 15 .163 .903 .100 .254
1960 312 78 41 29 15 .200 .869 .162 .316
some years he has more home runs than strikeouts. like 1941. 1941, when he batted .406 and didn't win the mvp. in 1942 he won the triple crown and didn't win the mvp. then, in 1947, he won the triple crown and didn't win the mvp. he did win 2 mvp's, in 1946 and 1949, but he should have won seven, at least. maybe eight.
look at 1955. how do you make contact 92.6 percent of the time and have a .173 pow? ok, only 324 aab. but look at 1957: .227 .898 .177. are you kidding me? but let's look at his really good year. that would be 1941. the magical 1941. .245 wal .941 con .170 pow. this paragraph is mostly numbers. a picture is worth a thousand words. i'm trying to think of something meaningful to say but failing. a complete master. he was a complete master at everything he did. flying, hitting, and fishing, at least. this is the site where we talk about hitting. to walk .245 and contact .941 . . . how do you do that? and pow .170. i mean i guess you gotta have that kind of pow to make the pitchers scared enough to throw enough balls that you walk 24.5 percent of the time even though you make contact 94.1 percent of the time. as you can see, i'm ramblin. here's to you, kid.
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