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Oakland Athletics slugger Khris Davis hit the most home runs in the majors with 48, and more remarkably, finished with a .247 batting average for the fourth year in a row.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, no player in MLB history has had the same batting average rounded to three decimal places in four consecutive seasons, with a minimum of 10 at-bats each year.

The A's took Davis out for a pinch hitter in the sixth inning Sunday, ensuring that he would match the batting average again this season.

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On 10/1/2018 at 12:42 PM, Frobby said:

Ted Williams is rolling over in his grave!   

Figuratively speaking?  Rolling might be difficult.  In any case, I think Ted maybe has larger things to worry about at the moment.

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After Williams died July 5, 2002, his body was taken by private jet to the company in Scottsdale, Ariz. There, Williams' body was separated from his head in a procedure called neuroseparation, according to the magazine.

The operation was completed and Williams' head and body were preserved separately. The head is stored in a steel can filled with liquid nitrogen. It has been shaved, drilled with holes and accidentally cracked 10 times, the magazine said. Williams' body stands upright in a 9-foot tall cylindrical steel tank, also filled with liquid nitrogen.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-williams-frozen-in-two-pieces/

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He is miraculously carrying a career .248 batting average.  His average this year is .241.  The year before the streak started he hit .244.  He has his rookie season of a 136 at bats at .279 to put him in the rarefied air of a .248 hitter. 

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On 6/7/2019 at 10:06 AM, murph said:

He is hitting exactly .247 again currently.   I am so rooting for him to do it again this year.

 

 
 

I would submit that if he did it again, it'd be the...I don't know how to say this...but for lack of a better term, the most unlikely feat in MLB history.  Maybe tied with DiMaggio's streak.  I'm not arguing which is harder, certainly hitting .247 for a major leaguer isn't a great feat.  But doing it 5 years in a row?  You'll never see that again.  Hell, you'll never see it for three years in a row.  That amount of precision is exceptionally rare in sports.  Maybe that's what I'm trying to say, you'll never see precision like that again.  I'm not here to debate the quality of that precision, just marvel at it.

Cal had back to back .282 seasons.  I know there are a couple other instances where a player has matched batting averages in back to back years. I dunno if anyone did it three years in a row.  

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8 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

 

I just saw that Tony Gwynn had back-to-back .317 seasons ........ and one other season earlier in his career where he hit .317, as well.  

 

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Ralph Garr had back-to-back .300 seasons for the White Sox in 1976 and 1977 ......... and that was after a change of leagues (he played for the Braves from 1968 through 1975.)

 

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