Jester1534 wrote:PorkChop wrote:It's one thing to strike out a lot, it's another to rarely walk. I love baseball becuz stats are so much fun to look at. Bonds walked 232 times in 2004 and only struck out 100 times in a season once. ( his rookie season)
Sano has walked 265 times in 6 years while striking out 834 times. In 20 years Bonds swung and missed 1539 times.
IMO Bonds stat line across the board in 2004 is the most impressive achievement in modern day sports.
Not fair to compare Sano to Bonds I know. I just really love glossing over Barrys numbers and talking about them!! Lol
Thanks for making the Twins forum worth visiting Jester.
Fun fact gleeman was talking about it on the podcast today. If Barry bonds hit 2nd his whole career instead of 3rd or 4th he would've most likely had 850-900 home runs to end his career based on the extra at bats he would've gotten each year.
Also brought up Lew Ford ironing his shirt while it was on. Lew Ford now denies this story but he went on the DL for this lol. Side note Lew Ford got a perfect score on his ACT.
Jester, I was arguing with a friend about why I hate HR hitters batting 1st or 2nd instead of 3rd or 4th, and he threw out the Gleeman stat about Bonds. I told him Gleeman is fun to listen to about baseball, but sucks at math! First of all, Bonds actually led off several games in addition to generally batting 3rd or 4th, so let's just say on average for his career he hit 3rd. Bonds averaged 135 games per year during his 22 seasons. If he had batted 2nd instead of 3rd, he would have had one additional plate appearance every 9th game (since every player in the lineup has a 1/9 chance of ending a game), so he would have had 135/9=15 additional plate appearances per year. So in his 22 seasons he would have had 22X15=330 additional plate appearances over his career. Since he homered once every 15.5 plate appearances, Bonds would have had 21 more HRs over his career or 783...not a very significant difference. If my math is wrong let me know...but that's what I come up with.
What had a more significant negative impact on his total HRs were his intentional walks. He would have had 44 more HRs if he had been allowed to hit every AB.
Relevance to the Twins? Why does Rocco continue to lead off Kepler with his abominable .319 OBP? Kepler is too poor an on-base guy and too good a HR guy to bat him 1st...doesn't make sense. I'd prefer to see Arraez and his .390 OBP there instead, or Polanco when Luis isn't playing.
