tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650264859764006366.post1220229095252083270..comments2023-10-29T08:25:54.951-05:00Comments on The Daily Something: The Somethingiest Something of the Aughts: The HittersBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840958382433052735noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650264859764006366.post-78529011422307179082009-09-16T12:42:49.731-05:002009-09-16T12:42:49.731-05:00Good stuff, Bill. Those categories are much more i...Good stuff, Bill. Those categories are much more interesting than the standard ones you'll see in a piece like Verducci's.<br /><br />I don't find the Tejada GIDP thing all that surprising. The GIDP leader is always one of the players who played the most games, and Tejada played a lot of baseball (where did his consecutive game streak end? ~850?)<br /><br />I do find it interesting that Abreu shows up so highly on all the different categories (including the more standard ones that Verducci lists), but it makes perfect sense: he's a good player who lined up, age-wise, with the decade perfectly. It's not really anything to be impressed by, of course. It more just shows the utter randomness of these kinds of lists. Not that I need to tell you that...larhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17314820003835656973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650264859764006366.post-1226311360301829802009-09-16T10:06:18.305-05:002009-09-16T10:06:18.305-05:00"Slugging Percentage: Bonds, .724
Naturally, ..."Slugging Percentage: Bonds, .724<br />Naturally, and well ahead of Pujols at .630 (though Pujols will end up with nearly 2000 more plate appearances in the decade)."<br /><br />There is nothing "natural" about Bonds....Chaddogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381349910580062539noreply@blogger.com