Trout is on pace for a truly historic season

[DrungoHazewood]

Okay, but lgOBP during Ted Williams' career was .356. During Trout's mini-deadball career it's .311.

Damn you and your putting things in context!

[Aglets]

Just to wrap this thread up in a little bow, according to baseball-reference, those who watched Mike Trout this year have witnessed the 20th greatest single season performance of any position player in the history of baseball. Tied with Willie Mays in '64, and Ted Williams in '46.

He reached 10.7 WAR, a hair short of the original projections, but still extremely extremely impressive. Every player who has recorded a season of 10 WAR or higher is either in the Hall Of Fame, or under suspicion of PEDs. Let's hope it's the former for Trout.

Everyone who has done 10.7 or higher: Mays, Williams, Musial, Morgan, Mantle, Ruth, Cobb, Wagner, Ripken, Gehrig, Bonds, Yastrzemski, Hornsby.

Should make for a pretty remarkable career......that's impressive company. Can't wait to see what happens next.

[DrungoHazewood]

Just to wrap this thread up in a little bow, according to baseball-reference, those who watched Mike Trout this year have witnessed the 20th greatest single season performance of any position player in the history of baseball. Tied with Willie Mays in '64, and Ted Williams in '46.

He reached 10.7 WAR, a hair short of the original projections, but still extremely extremely impressive. Every player who has recorded a season of 10 WAR or higher is either in the Hall Of Fame, or under suspicion of PEDs. Let's hope it's the former for Trout.

Everyone who has done 10.7 or higher: Mays, Williams, Musial, Morgan, Mantle, Ruth, Cobb, Wagner, Ripken, Gehrig, Bonds, Yastrzemski, Hornsby.

Should make for a pretty remarkable career......that's impressive company. Can't wait to see what happens next.

So that, in my mind, led to another question: What are the greatest single-season totals for an eligible non-HOFer? Excluding Bonds and Sosa. And ARod and Trout and Pujols, obviously.

The answer is Al Rosen's 9.8 WAR 1953 season, where he put up a 1.034 OPS and was a +9 third baseman.

Then there's Larry Walker and Ken Griffey. Who will be HOFers, probably. Walker may take a while, but I think he eventually gets there.

Then Rico Petrocelli, who put up a .992 OPS and +16 defense in a pretty good pitcher's year (but a hitter's park) in '69. He had a 9.5-win season and finished 7th in the AL MVP voting behind Killebrew and a bunch of others.

Adrian Beltre's 9.3 win 2004 is probably the next guy on the list who probably won't go into the Hall.

Then Terry Turner's 1906. Terry who? He was a pretty good shortstop who had a 125 OPS+ in a very down offensive year/era, and bb-ref sees him retroactively as an otherworldly (and out-of-character for him) +34 shortstop. He's probably the only guy in the top-50 in single-season WAR who even his peers may not have credited with having an excellent season.