Miguel Cabrera - fantastic feats / performance thread

[HERPDERP]

Cabera is a good player no doubt.

 

But he's still a wife-beater and a drunk driver.

[Angrioter]

Cabera is a good player no doubt.

 

But he's still a wife-beater and a drunk driver.

 

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/091/284/eso_es_racista.gif?1294075992

[Nox]

Yep. I'm convinced he would have been an easy HOF vote without steroids. I get frustrated when people completely write him off as a hitter because of the roids.

 

Lets say Bonds started juicing in 2000. Even before then he was far and away the best player in the league. I mean, just look at this:

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=1999&month=0&season1=1986&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0

 

At least we'll never have to ask the question: "What would it look like if you took a top 5 player in history and shot him full of roids?". A 220 wRC+ with plus fielding over 4 years is the answer.

[Arkadium]

Steroids aside, you need amazing talent to do what he did... I was looking at his number the other day and its just insane. a .404 career OBP and +1 career OPS is nuts.

 

.444 career OBP

[Fearthedoc]

Lets say Bonds started juicing in 2000. Even before then he was far and away the best player in the league. I mean, just look at this:

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=1999&month=0&season1=1986&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0

 

At least we'll never have to ask the question: "What would it look like if you took a top 5 player in history and shot him full of roids?". A 220 wRC+ with plus fielding over 4 years is the answer.

 

Imagine having Barry Bonds on your fantasy team in 2001?

 

.328/.515/.833 and 129/73/137/13

 

Any Bonds owner who didn't make the playoffs that year should have been banned from fantasy baseball forever.

[Angrioter]

Imagine having Barry Bonds on your fantasy team in 2001?

 

.328/.515/.833 and 129/73/137/13

 

Any Bonds owner who didn't make the playoffs that year should have been banned from fantasy baseball forever.

 

Bonds 2002

.370/.582/.799 = .544 wOBA

[Nox]

Bonds 2002

.370/.582/.799 = .544 wOBA

 

Lets also not forget the year he OBP'd over .600.

[Arkadium]

Lets also not forget the year he OBP'd over .600.

 

120 IBB

 

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[G-Snarls]

Lets also not forget the year he OBP'd over .600.

 

Incredible

 

They always say that in baseball "the pitcher always has the advantage", even good hitters "only get on a third of the time", blah blah blah. Well getting on base over half the timelier the course of multiple seasons is truly amazing when you consider how difficult a game it is.

[G-Snarls]

120 IBB

 

cap filler

 

Yeah there were games he'd be intentionally walked like every time he came to the plate.

[imsorry4beatinU]

It's pretty f***ing crazy that Mike Trout has actually improved his hitting across the board this year, though (BB%, K%, AVG, ISO, wOBA). 166 wRC+ last year, up to 179 in 2013. That is downright godly.

 

That's f***ing amazing! I wonder how much it will cost the Angels for not giving Trout a 50k-100k increase in salary for this season.

[z3r0s]

That's f***ing amazing! I wonder how much it will cost the Angels for not giving Trout a 50k-100k increase in salary for this season.

 

I imagine somewhere along the lines of 0 dollars. A guy like that won't take a sweetheart deal because a clubs tossed him 'chump change' during this second season.

[Arkadium]

Yeah there were games he'd be intentionally walked like every time he came to the plate.

 

Even most of the non-IBB were really UIBB (Unintentional intentional BB).

[baseballsss]

Yeah there were games he'd be intentionally walked like every time he came to the plate.

 

even with the bases loaded. Basically everytime to.

[over500]

Steroids aside, you need amazing talent to do what he did... I was looking at his number the other day and its just insane. a .404 career OBP and +1 career OPS is nuts.

You can't even put up his numbers playing video games.