Triple Crown

[backwardsk]

Looks like both Hamilton and Cabrera have shots at winning the triple crown this season. Would be a lot of fun to see one of those guys get it.

[DrungoHazewood]

Would be fun to see. But with expansion, increasing quality of play, and specialization it's a long shot at best. It was much, much easier to do this 50, 75, 100 years ago. Today you don't often see one guy lead their team in all three categories, much less a 14- or 16-team league.

[Moose Milligan]

Pulling for Hamilton.

[Boy Howdy]

One of the SABR journals had an interesting perspective on the Triple Crown in an article by Bill Nowlin awhile back.

Instead of using batting average, they used on-base percentage (or maybe it was OPS), homers and RBIs.

Cabrera's still in striking distance either way.

[Boy Howdy]

One of the SABR journals had an interesting perspective on the Triple Crown in an article by Bill Nowlin awhile back.

Instead of using batting average, they used on-base percentage (or maybe it was OPS), homers and RBIs.

Cabrera's still in striking distance either way.

It was OBP, FWIW. An article about the article here:

http://www.seamheads.com/2008/12/29/triple-crown-plus-obp-plus-more/

"...Nowlin starts with 1903, and notes that since then there have been 12 triple crown winners. But if you substitute OBP for Avg, there would have been 22. For one thing Babe Ruth would have won it five times. Ted Williams would have captured a third crown. And the most recent winner would no longer be Carl Yastrzemski in 1967, as the feat would have occured five times since then: Willie McCovey (1969), Harmon Killebrew (1969), Dick Allen (1972), Mike Schmidt (1981), and Barry Bonds (1993).

Three players would lose their triple crowns by substituting OBP for AVG, namely Foxx (1933), Medwick (1937), and Mantle (1956)..."

[backwardsk]

Those two are really going at it tonight. Both are three for five as the game is in the 11th. Cabrera hit 2 homeruns and has 82 RBI with 24 HRs. He has 2 more HRs and 15 more RBI while Hamilton is ahead by 10 points in average.