As the NL’s Rookie of the Year in 2023, Corbin Carroll produced 30 doubles, 10 triples and 25 homers. Last year, the doubles and home runs columns each saw the Diamondback ink in ‘22’ while adding another 14 three-base hits. This season (his age-24 campaign), he’s on pace to again […]
In 1988, Kirby Puckett was the most Kirby Puckett of all: more hits in a season (234) than any other in his career before or after; a higher batting average (.356) than in any other campaign across his 12-year career; a 3.33 walk rate that was (okay, fine) the second […]
In 1911, when he became the first player with at least 70 steals and 70 extra-base hits in a season, 24-year-old Ty Cobb had 14 of each through his team’s first 26 games of the year. When, in 1984, Juan Samuel joined Cobb as the only players to complete the […]
The early part of any season is so much fun in so many ways, including the weirdness of early-season statistics. The box scores add up, the individual player lines reflect those accumulations and a couple or a few weeks into things, the numerical revelations can be worth a second glance […]
There are a lot of Major League games every season. There have been a lot of Major League seasons. The spring->summer->fall carnival ride of rises and dips, the sheer volume of numbers and storylines, the numerous ways to organize and contextualize: all of this makes it easy and natural to […]
In 1956, Henry Aaron – playing in his age-22 season – led the NL with 340 total bases. Over in the AL, Mickey Mantle – playing in his age-24 season – paced the Junior Circuit in this same category, with 376. This excerpt from that season is notable not only […]
In 1998, Texas cleanup hitter Juan González embodied that descriptive amazingly well and often, with eight different games featuring at least five RBI. No other player in the modern era has produced so many big-RBI games, although a few aren’t too far behind. In 1930, Lou Gehrig had seven such […]
On April 22, 1983, George Brett, batting genius, stroked a double as his Royals improved to 7-4 on the year. The two-base hit gave the future Hall of Famer nine doubles to go along with four home runs and gave him more extra-base hits through his club’s first 11 games […]