Sunday, August 25, 2013

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

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