I was looking through the list of all time home run leaders to see where Shohei Ohtan was on ranked (202 all time at the moment) and noticed that he had far fewer plate appearances than the other guys with similar home run numbers.
As at right now he has an average of 15.46 plate appearances per home run which is only behind Mark McGwire 13.139, Aaron Judge 13.592 and Babe Ruth 14.885 on the all time list! List in the pictures (both all time and current players)
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The more I understand. The more impressive Babe Ruth is.
What’s insane is his game power was always suspect up until 2021. His upside was always as a SP until then. I bought rookie cards of him like peanuts in 2020.
What do you have set for minimum PAs? Looks like maybe 3000?
Because Cal Raleigh is at 16.11, but only has 2465 PAs.
(Also, wow has Joey Gallo been injured a LOT.)
What’s insane is that Aaron Judge appears to have the fewest plate appearances per home run in history other than a known PED guy and you skim past him as if he wasn’t playing right now at the same time as Ohtani
Not sure if there’s an easy way to do this but I’d be curious to see what the list looks like if you remove intentional walks.
Damn Nolan Arenado is top 100 in home runs all time?
I’d like to see these statistics normalized for the effect of the designated hitter but I’m not sure that is possible.
So, in 149 years of MLB history, he is the #1 pitcher in most strikeouts per nine innings for those who have started a minimum of 100 games, and #4 hitter in least plate appearances per home run.
Wow!
Note to add: Probably more meaningful is least at bats per home run, and Shohei is #5 on that
https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/at_bats_per_home_run_career.shtml
How tf does Judge even do that.
Yeah, Aaron Judge is by far the best player in the league.
It’s crazy how there’s so many current players on the list, must mean they are all-time greats and has nothing to do with the era.
It doesnt matter judge is higher
Point is ohtani is number 1
If you have a dollar and he has a dollar he has infinite more dollars..
Fun fact if you adjust BA over PA divide it by WAR ohtani gets a 99.9999999 rating. Only player to even qualify for that stat
Why do we even play the game anymore honestly we should shut it down and just put ohtani statues at every ball park
What’s the use anymore??!??
I didn’t expect to see Olson on this list.
Dude has protection all around the lineup. You can’t pitch around him,
Not to sidetrack the conversation, but I noticed the name Ralph Kiner on the first list and thought I’d spotlight his accomplishments for any of the younger folks on this chat:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kinerra01.shtml
Babe wake up, it’s time for another Ohtani jerk off post
Or most homeruns per plate appearance