Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Players who had a .900+ SLG in a 40 game span within a single season

Ohtani did it from May 30-July 17 with .916. The minimum PAs was 100. All data from Stathead and Baseball Reference. 

The table below has all the cases that I found.

Player

SLG

Start

End

PA

Barry Bonds

1.049

4/12/2001

5/28/2001

164

Babe Ruth

1.039

6/23/1920

7/31/1920

176

Bob Bailey

1.033

6/4/1970

8/1/1970

108

Barry Bonds

1.019

8/10/2004

9/26/2004

170

Barry Bonds

1.009

8/16/2001

10/6/2001

173

Babe Ruth

1.007

7/5/1924

8/9/1924

178

Babe Ruth

0.985

6/2/1921

7/15/1921

181

Barry Bonds

0.983

6/28/2003

8/30/2003

166

Babe Ruth

0.966

7/30/1921

9/8/1921

181

Frank Robinson

0.952

6/18/1961

7/28/1961

174

Babe Ruth

0.950

5/21/1930

6/29/1930

192

Dusty Rhodes

0.948

6/29/1954

9/1/1954

110

Joe DiMaggio

0.945

7/1/1937

8/12/1937

198

Mark McGwire

0.942

7/4/1999

8/22/1999

169

Albert Belle

0.938

8/16/1995

9/28/1995

176

Babe Ruth

0.934

7/7/1923

8/18/1923

182

Babe Ruth

0.933

4/24/1928

6/10/1928

180

Barry Bonds

0.931

7/4/2002

8/31/2002

168

Norm Cash

0.924

5/16/1961

6/25/1961

163

Giancarlo Stanton

0.918

7/17/2017

8/29/2017

177

Mark McGwire

0.918

5/24/1996

7/11/1996

182

Shohei Ohtani

0.916

5/30/2023

7/17/2023

184

Jeff Bagwell

0.914

6/11/1994

7/27/1994

179

Babe Ruth

0.910

5/2/1920

6/17/1920

174

Jimmie Foxx

0.910

6/7/1933

7/14/1933

181

Jimmie Foxx

0.909

7/18/1939

8/23/1939

188

Barry Bonds

0.908

4/23/2000

6/16/2000

175

Jim Edmonds

0.908

7/22/2004

9/5/2004

166

Mark McGwire

0.908

8/18/1998

9/27/1998

163

Lou Gehrig

0.907

5/16/1930

6/26/1930

190

Frank Thomas

0.906

5/7/1994

6/21/1994

179

Bryce Harper

0.904

5/6/2015

6/23/2015

166

Rogers Hornsby

0.903

5/30/1925

7/16/1925

179

Jim Gentile

0.900

6/27/1961

8/16/1961

172

There were overlapping spans for many of these players. In those cases I only included the one with the highest SLG. To see the full list go to https://stathead.com/tiny/9wLOv.

Ruth is the only player with .900+ in an 80 game span (200+ PAs). He had one in 1920 and one in 1921. To see that list go to https://stathead.com/tiny/HZ5pH. His highest was .996

Ruth had an 83 game span in 1920 with 39 HRs, a .437 AVG and a 1.019 SLG. That was May 11 to Aug. 6.

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