Monday, September 28, 2020

Update on Juan Soto's Great Career Start

This is an update on the last post. Since the season is over I thought it would be a good time to do this.

I used Stathead to find the OPS+ leaders thru age 21 with 1000 or more PAs. Juan Soto in great company. 11 of the other 14 are in the Hall of Fame (one of the three not in the Hall is Trout who most likely will be).

Carroll had several good years. But his OPS+ fell to 87 at age 26 in 1891 (just 2 years after a 183 that led the NL). That was his last season. He still finished with a 136 career OPS+ in 3290 PAs.

Magee had over 2000 career hits and a 137 OPS+.

Rk

Player

OPS+

PA

1

Mike Trout

166

1490

2

Ted Williams

161

1336

3

Jimmie Foxx

157

1302

4

Rogers Hornsby

155

1199

5

Ty Cobb

153

1823

6

Juan Soto

150

1349

7

Mel Ott

146

2064

8

Eddie Mathews

145

1274

9

Mickey Mantle

144

1552

10

Fred Carroll

141

1104

11

Frank Robinson

139

1344

12

Sam Crawford

136

1116

13

Ken Griffey Jr.

135

1805

14

Sherry Magee

133

1686

15

Arky Vaughan

131

1210

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