Friday, October 05, 2007

A baseball record that went under the radar

I've started to look more carefully at the final-season baseball stats to try to figure out who I think should win the various awards and just noticed that Jimmy Rollins had 716 at bats this year, establishing a new Major League record. That was lost amidst what his team was doing and all the more prominent records and milestones being achieved this year.

Also, Jimmy Rollins and Curtis Granderson each stole at least 20 bases and hit at least 20 of doubles, triples, and homeruns. That quartest has only been accomplished a handful of times and it's interesting that two guys did it this year. (Amazingly, the sports media focused almost exclusively on Granderson's attempt to achieve this milestone and Rollins' efforts to do so was almost completely ignored. I'm not sure what was going on there.)

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