How about Adrian Beltre? Coming off five disappointing years in Seattle, Beltre’s .349 batting average entering Friday was second in the majors only to Robinson Cano’s .353, and his 53 RBIs had him tied for seventh in the American League. In 2009, Beltre drove in 44 runs ALL YEAR. (He spent some time on the Disabled List but played in 111 of his team’s games.) In roughly half a season (76 games) in 2010, he has 12 home run runs; last year he hit just eight. Beltre’s signing is looking like the best of the offseason.
Carl Yastrzemski
2 July 2010
f he continues to hit this well, Hamilton has a real chance at winning the first Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967.
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18 December 2009
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Mauer wins Triple Crown in my book
No major leaguer has won the Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967, but this year Joe Mauer did lead the American League in what should be the three Triple Crown categories: batting average (.365), on-base percentage (.444), and slugging percentage (.587). Home runs are exciting and contribute to a higher slugging percentage, but if I were a manager, I’d much rather see my cleanup hitter go 3-4 than hit a solo shot and strike out three times trying to do it again. Reaching 100 RBI’s in a season is a nice accomplishment, but the stat itself is overrated. If all nine guys in the lineup are getting on base 40 percent of the time, it doesn’t matter who is driving them in; someone must be.
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8 June 2008
It was history in the making. But baseball hasn't had a Triple Crown winner since 1967, when Carl Yastrzemski in 1967, the year after Frank Robinson did the trick. There have been eleven horses to win the Derby, Preakness and Belmont since 1919, an impressive feat, as these are races of three different lengths in a five-week period, and the distances are typically more than the horse has ever run.
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