Sunday, September 9, 2018

Trout still has a chance to be the first player to win a "triple threat" triple crown in 40 years

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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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2018 at 2:24 PM

    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.

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  2. Cyril MorongSeptember 20, 2018 at 2:58 PM

    Thanks for reading and commenting. Glad you liked it

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  3. UnknownSeptember 26, 2018 at 4:43 AM

    Oh, I really like this way of looking at it. Says far more about a player than BA, RBI, & HR.

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  4. Cyril MorongSeptember 26, 2018 at 5:17 AM

    Glad you like it. Thanks for reading

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  5. Cyril MorongSeptember 29, 2018 at 12:37 PM

    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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