Pierced Years: Mid-Season to Mid-Season Performances |

Using the Day by Day Database over at David Pinto’s Baseball Musings blog, one can do leader boards covering specific in-season time periods, without being bound by the beginning and ends of seasons. So, for example, one can (and I do, after the jump) compare the MLB On-Base Percentage leader for each of the past four full seasons (502 PA minimum) with the OBP leader for each of the the past four year-long periods running from All-Star Break to All-Star Break (same 502 PA minimum):

MLB OBP Leader, Full Season
2011 Miguel Cabrera .448
2010 Joey Votto .424
2009 Joe Mauer .444
2008 Chipper Jones .470

MLB OBP Leader, All-Star Break to Next All-Star Break
mid-2011 to mid-2012 Joey Votto .432
mid-2010 to mid-2011 Jose Bautista .436
mid-2009 to mid-2010 Albert Pujols .421
mid-2008 to mid-2009 Albert Pujols .456

Now let’s do the same for Slugging Percentage:

MLB SLG Leader, Full Season
2011 Jose Bautista .608
2010 Josh Hamilton .633
2009 Albert Pujols .658
2008 Albert Pujols .653

MLB SLG Leader, All-Star Break to Next All-Star Break
mid-2011 to mid-2012 Ryan Braun .619
mid-2010 to mid-2011 Jose Bautista .702
mid-2009 to mid-2010 Miguel Cabrera .603
mid-2008 to mid-2009 Albert Pujols .716

I find it interesting how little overlap there is between these “full season” and “mid-season-to mid-season” lists. You can take a set of multi-year performances and if you divide them up one way, the historic leaderboards take on a certain look, but if you just move the start points and end points a bit, history looks diffferent.

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Brendan

12 years ago

A little over a month ago, you posted an entry about “The Year Tony Gwynn Hit .400” (over an 162 game span). Can you think of any other notable or even record-breaking 162 game “non-seasons” over the last, say, 30 years?

Richard Chester

Reply to Brendan

I posted fairly recently that Wade Boggs batted .401 for the 162 game period ending 6-6-86.

JDV

Reply to Richard Chester

From September 24, 1997 – September 22 1998 (162 team games), Juan Gonzalez drove in 162 runs. I think that makes him and Manny Ramirez (1999) the only players with 162 RBI in 162 G in the 162-game era.

Reply to JDV

Correcting myself…Sammy Sosa had 164 RBI in 162 team games from April 7, 2001 – April 5, 2002.

After reading post #3 I should clarify that Boggs’ BA is only for games in which he actually participated, not a 162 game period for the Red Sox.

I checked Manny Ramirez. From 7-25-98 to 8-14-99 he had 186 RBI for a 162 game period only for games in which he participated. For the period ending 7-30-99, during which his team played 162 games, he had 174 RBI.

Brian

http://bloggingwrisp.blogspot.com/2012/06/year-babe-ruth-hit-402-with-61-homeruns.html

Artie Z

From 9/3/1993-5/14/1995 (which I believe is 162 team games for the Giants – should be the last 29 from 1993, 115 from 1994, and the first 18 from 1995) Matt Williams hit 62 HRs. It’s not a record now but would have been at the time.

Barry Bonds went 40/40 over that exact same time period (45 HRs, 40 SBs).

brp

Adam Dunn must have broken a 162-game strikeout record at some time in there, right?

Reply to brp

Dunn has 134 SO in 84 games this year. In his last 78 games of 2011 he had 116 SO. That adds up to 250 SO which would easily surpass the record of 223 held by Mark Reynolds.