Well lookie, lookie who's won seven straight AL batting titles through his age 24 season!...Shoeless Joe is in another league. Averages of .366, .368, .434, .403, .359, .376, and .360. In five of those seven seasons, he's won the "Quadruple Crown" of BA, OBP, SLG, OPS. A career .376/.438/.590/1.028 slash line and a 189 OPS+ and a 183 wRC+. All of this in a league that's basically in and around a .260/.323/.385/.708 slash line. Now that is getting it done folks! In the other season where he didn't win a batting crown, he didn't qualify and he "only" hit .329 and "only" slashed .329/.383/.517/.900 for a 149 OPS+ and a 149 wRC+. Slacker! Well, I suppose he was just 17 at the time, so we'll cut him some slack. Geez! He's about to come runner up in the MVP voting for the fourth time and he's won it twice. Like I said, he's only going into his age 25 season. Wow!
Last edited by actionjackson; 02-21-2017 at 04:33 PM.
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