Some Astounding Baseball Statistics

Ty Cobb

His lifetime batting average of .367 is awesome. It is downright baffling.Year after year of hitting over .300. His first year was the only year he hit less than .300Nine years batting .380 or higher.Including and after age 40 he batted .343When he finished the year he turned 22 he had 765 hits

Lou Gehrig

Knocking in over 150 runs in a year seven times.

Rogers Hornsby

Hitting over .400 for a five year period.From 1921 to 1925 he hit .401 He even batted .424 in 1924

Cy Young

Winning 511 games orLosing 316 times or having 815 complete games.Or pitching 7354 innings in his career. Imagine if he had a reliable bull pen.

Barry Bonds

232 walks in 2002 with 120 of them being intentional base on balls. Maybe the opposition was nervous about pitching to him.He also has 604 lifetime intentional walks.Hank Aaron is number two with 293 intentional walks.

Hank Aaron

755 home runs in his careerHe never hit 50 in a season.6856 total basesStan Musial is number two with6134 total bases1477 extra base hits - # one rankThis is 100 more extra base hits than # 2 Stan Musial

Alex Rodriguez

From 1998 to 2003 (six seasons) 281 home runs average 46.8 home runs per year762 RBIs average 127 per year1100 hits average 183 per yearPlus every year he had at least 100 runs scored

Jimmy Foxx

13 straight years of at least 100 RBIsFour years with at least 150 RBIs

Bob Gibson

1968 season 1.12 ERA, 13 shutouts4 wild pitches, 28 complete games

Walter Johnson

110 career shutouts11 years of at least 290 innings pitched

Warren Spahn

Won 21 games eight timesHe had a total of eight wins by the time he turned 25 years of age.He wins 62 games from age 40 to age 42.

Babe Ruth

In 1920 and again in 1927He hit more home runs than every team in the American League.

Mel Ott

In the year he reached his 22nd birthdayUp to and including age 22 He had the most runs 463Home runs 115 Total bases 1233RBIs 485Bases on Balls 362Times on Base 1089Extra base hits 266Of any 22 year old Major LeaguerI guess Mel got an early start.

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