Monday, October 1, 2018

Mike Trout is first player to win a triple threat triple crown since 1978

A couple of years ago I came up with what I called a "triple threat" triple crown. If a player led the league in a speed stat, a power stat and an on-base stat, he qualified.

I compiled a list of players I thought had done it and it is at this link

 https://cybermetric.blogspot.com/2015/07/triple-threat-triple-crowns.html

Please let me know if you think I missed someone. Also, just a couple of days ago I added Hank Aaron (1963) and Joe Morgan (176) if you require a 20 SB mininum. Trout led the AL in isolated power (ISO which is SLG - AVG), OBP (.460) and SB% (if we use a 20 SB minimum).

Here are the top 5 qualified batters in the AL in ISO

Player ISO BA SLG
Mike Trout 0.316 0.312 0.628
Khris Davis 0.302 0.247 0.549
J.D. Martinez 0.299 0.330 0.629
Mookie Betts 0.294 0.346 0.640
Joey Gallo 0.292 0.206 0.498

Here are all the AL players with 20+ SBs this year. Baseball Reference has a minimum number of SB attempts of .1 per team game to qualify for the league lead in SB%. So if a player has 16 attempts, he qualifies. But The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition by Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer has 20 SBs as the minimum. Baseball Reference shows Jackie Bradley as the leader with 94.44% (17-1).

Player SB% SB CS
Mike Trout 92.31% 24 2
Jonathan Villar 87.50% 21 3
Andrew Benintendi 87.50% 21 3
Jose Ramirez 85.00% 34 6
Greg Allen 84.00% 21 4
Delino DeShields 83.33% 20 4
Mookie Betts 83.33% 30 6
Adalberto Mondesi 82.05% 32 7
Whit Merrifield 81.82% 45 10
Mallex Smith 76.92% 40 12
Tim Anderson 76.47% 26 8
Rajai Davis 75.00% 21 7
Dee Gordon 71.43% 30 12
Francisco Lindor 71.43% 25 10
Jean Segura 64.52% 20 11


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