In 2015, I did a post on "triple threat" triple crowns "triple threat" triple crowns.
Suppose that we looked for league leaders in stats that might represent three different skills:
Speed (triples, SBs, SB%)
Power (SLG, ISO, HRs, TBs, extra-base hits)
Getting on base (OBP, times on base)
So if a player lead his league one year in at least one stat from all
three skills, he won the "triple threat" triple crown. The link above
has a table with all the winners. The last guy to do it was Jim Rice in
1978.
Thru yesterday, Trout is 2nd in SB%, leads in Isolated Power (ISO) and OBP.
To lead the league in SB%, a player has to have .1 attempts for every game his team played (according to Baseball Reference). So they use a minimum of 16 attempts. Trout is 22-2 in stealing for 91.67%. Jackie Bradley is first with 92.86% (13-1). But if Bradley does not reach 16 attempts this season, Trout would be the leader.
Trout leads in ISO (SLG - AVG). He has .309 (.623 - .314). J.D. Martinez is 2nd with .301 (.633 - .332).
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Rating Speed Power and OBP makes more sense than the current triple crown. When someone discusses a 5 tool player none of the 5 are collecting RBI's but Speed, Power and OBP certainly are better considerations.
Thanks for reading and commenting. Glad you liked it
Oh, I really like this way of looking at it. Says far more about a player than BA, RBI, & HR.
Glad you like it. Thanks for reading
Hank Aaron (1963) and Joe Morgan (1976) also did it
https://cybermetric.blogspot.com/2018/09/2-more-triple-threat-triple-crowns.html
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