Chris Davis Has A Good Chance To Be The 13th Player To Reach 100 Extra-Base Hits In A Season

Davis has 85 extra-base hits (47 HRs, 38 2Bs). The Orioles have 30 games left. So it looks like a real possibility. He is on a pace to get 104. Here is a list of all the players who ever did it at least once. Click here to see the all-time single season leaders at Baseball Reference. Cabrera is 2nd this year with 69 (in MLB) and Trout is 3rd with 65.So this is not exactly the kind of year with big numbers like some you will see below.

Albert Belle

Babe Ruth

Barry Bonds

Chuck Klein

Hank Greenberg

Jimmie Foxx

Lou Gehrig

Luis Gonzalez

Rogers Hornsby

Sammy Sosa

Stan Musial

Todd Helton

When the season was 154 games, it was about 5% less than 162. So below is a list of all the times someone reached either 100 in a 162 game season or 95 in a 154 game season. A total of 16 players have done it so far.

Player	XBH	Year	2B	3B	HR
Babe Ruth	99	1920	36	9	54
Babe Ruth	119	1921	44	16	59
Rogers Hornsby	102	1922	46	14	42
Babe Ruth	99	1923	45	13	41
Lou Gehrig	117	1927	52	18	47
Babe Ruth	97	1927	29	8	60
Chuck Klein	107	1930	59	8	40
Lou Gehrig	100	1930	42	17	41
Hack Wilson	97	1930	35	6	56
Chuck Klein	103	1932	50	15	38
Jimmie Foxx	100	1932	33	9	58
Hank Greenberg	96	1934	63	7	26
Lou Gehrig	95	1934	40	6	49
Hank Greenberg	98	1935	46	16	36
Hal Trosky	96	1936	45	9	42
Joe Medwick	95	1936	64	13	18
Hank Greenberg	103	1937	49	14	40
Joe Medwick	97	1937	56	10	31
Joe DiMaggio	96	1937	35	15	46
Hank Greenberg	99	1940	50	8	41
Stan Musial	103	1948	46	18	39
Albert Belle	103	1995	52	1	50
Todd Helton	103	2000	59	2	42
Barry Bonds	107	2001	32	2	73
Todd Helton	105	2001	54	2	49
Sammy Sosa	103	2001	34	5	64
Luis Gonzalez	100	2001	36	7	57

Davis has 39 in home games with an ISO of .377. On the road he has 46 and .375. His home SLG is .686 and road it is .671.  But according to the Bill James handbook, Camden Yards has a HR rating of 129 for lefties over 2010-2012, meaning their HR rate is 29% higher there than average. So he could be helped by his park.

Trout had the most WAR before turning 22

I just happened to check his WAR on Aug. 7, his 22nd birthday. See Ranking The Best Players At Ages 20 & 21 Combined. At that point, he had a WAR of 17.3 for the ages 20 & 21 combined. He had .7 WAR in 40 games at age 19. So that gives us a total of 18.0 before turning 22. Some of guys in the table below might have played some games after they turned 22 in what is called their age 21 season (birthday on June 30 or earlier). But Trout is still ahead of them all. Notice how he did it in alot fewer games than his closes rivals.

Rk	Player	WAR	From	To	Age	G
1	Mike Trout	18.0	2011	2013	19-21	290
2	Mel Ott	17.9	1926	1930	17-21	539
3	Ty Cobb	15.7	1905	1908	18-21	439
4	Al Kaline	15.5	1953	1956	18-21	473
5	Ken Griffey	15.5	1989	1991	19-21	436
6	Alex Rodriguez	14.3	1994	1997	18-21	352
7	Rogers Hornsby	14.3	1915	1917	19-21	302
8	Jimmie Foxx	13.8	1925	1929	17-21	364
9	Frank Robinson	13.4	1956	1957	20-21	302
10	Mickey Mantle	13.1	1951	1953	19-21	365
11	Ted Williams	13.0	1939	1940	20-21	293
12	Vada Pinson	12.4	1958	1960	19-21	335
13	Sherry Magee	12.0	1904	1906	19-21	404
14	Cesar Cedeno	11.7	1970	1972	19-21	390
15	Andruw Jones	10.8	1996	1998	19-21	343
16	Arky Vaughan	10.8	1932	1933	20-21	281
17	Eddie Mathews	10.6	1952	1953	20-21	302

18

Johnny Bench

10.6

1967

1969

19-21

328

Andrelton Simmons now has 3rd best defensive WAR season ever with 5.0

See Single-Season Leaders & Records for Defensive WAR at Baseball Reference. The Braves have 31 games left, so he has a good chance to be the leader.

Rank	Player (age that year)	Defensive WAR	Year
1	Terry Turner (25)	5.4	1906
2	Art Fletcher (32)	5.1	1917
3	Andrelton Simmons (23)	5.0	2013
4	Mark Belanger (31)	4.9	1975
5	Ozzie Smith+ (34)	4.7	1989
6	Brooks Robinson+ (31)	4.5	1968
7	Mark Belanger (24)	4.4	1968
	Frankie Frisch+ (28)	4.4	1927
9	Joe Tinker+ (27)	4.3	1908
10	Darin Erstad (28)	4.2	2002
	Rabbit Maranville+ (22)	4.2	1914
	Brooks Robinson+ (30)	4.2	1967

Seasons With An OPS+ Of At Least 200 And An ERA+ Of At Least 200

It would be the 11th year this happened where both a hitter and a pitcher reached this mark, although it might be an apples to oranges comparison. The point is that it is rare to see such a great season from both a hitter and pitcher in the same year. Notice that we went 63 years without one. Cabrera went 3 for 4 with a HR today, so his OPS+ probably went up.

Maybe if the the 1994 season had been completed, both Thomas and Bagwell would have slipped below 200. I think if they had less than a 167 OPS+ the rest of the way that might have happened. So they both could have hit very well, say 160 and still have fallen below 200. Maddux would have only fallen below 200 with about a 35 ERA+ the rest of the way. Not likely.

Year	Player	OPS+	Pitcher	ERA+
1882	Pete Browning	223	Denny Driscoll	218
1884	Fred Dunlap	256	Fred Dunlap	256
1884	Orator Shafer	201	Old Hoss Radbourn	205
1908	Honus Wagner	205	Addie Joss	204
1912	Ty Cobb	200	Walter Johnson	240
1919	Babe Ruth	217	Walter Johnson	215
1923	Babe Ruth	239	Dolf Luque	201
1931	Babe Ruth	218	Lefty Grove	217
1994	Jeff Bagwell	213	Greg Maddux	271
1994	Frank Thomas	212
2002	Barry Bonds	268	Pedro Martinez	202
2003	Barry Bonds	231	Pedro Martinez	211
2013	Miguel Cabrera	200	Clayton Kershaw	207