1992 has finished so I figured I would post the regular-season totals.
Barry Bonds crushed 5 home runs in the last week of the regular season. Thank God! I took this screenshot after the playoffs, so I blacked out the playoff games to eliminate any confusion.
And this is the final team batting stats for 1992...
As you can see, Bonds finished the season with 24 home runs, significantly fewer than he has hit in his previous MLB seasons. Here is a summary of his MLB regular season statistics from his rookie season to the present.
The other two players I mentioned in my original post, Bernie Williams & John Olerud, both failed to live up to their 1991 home run totals. Bernie barely missed it. Olerud was way short. Neither player was truly known as a home run hitter in real life and their OOTP MLB careers are only 3 seasons for each player, much too short to make too much out of the data, as in, I can't say that this or that is a trend. Just a General Manager's observation.
Bernie Williams Career Batting Stats by Year:
John Olerud's Career Batting Stats by Year:
You may have noticed that Olerud played a dozen or so fewer games this year (1992). He suffered an injury and a stint on the IL. If he didn't have that injury, he may have hit one more home run based on his HR frequency. Nothing earth shattering.
Again, I couldn't believe I started the final week of the regular season with Barry Bonds at 19 home runs for the year. Still, B. Williams, B. Bonds & J. Olerud continue to lead my team in Slugging Percentage. That makes me happy as they are my 3-4-5 hitters, respectively. However, Bonds RBI total showed a big drop and his Isolated Power (ISO) was down significantly. His stats were still good enough to capture the American League MVP again, besting his teammate Bernie Williams who had an overall spectacular season. Bernie topped the American League in Hits (211), RBI (122) & AVG (.334) which made me ecstatic. I've tried to lock him down with a nice, long contract, but he's not stupid. He only wants a 1-year deal for around $1,000,000 because he knows when he becomes eligible for Free Agency I'm going to have to write him a very big check to stay with me.
Just for fun, here are our batting stats for the ALCS (4 games) & World Series (6 games)... Home Runs were a plenty! We collected our 3rd World Series title since I took over the team just before the 1981 season began.
