Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Ronald Acuna won a "triple threat" triple crown this year

I have posted before on this. The idea is to find players who led their league in a speed stat, a power stat and an on-base stat in the same year. 

These are the stats I used:

Speed (triples, SBs, SB%)

Power (SLG, ISO, HRs, TBs, extra-base hits)

Getting on base (OBP, times on base)

Recently I searched for leaders in XBT% who might qualify. XBT% is the percentage of times a runner advanced more than one base on a single or more than two bases on a double. 

Acuna led the NL in a speed stat (SB, 73), an on-base stat (OBP .416, times on base, 306) and a power stat (TB, 383)

See Triple Threat Triple Crowns to see all of the past winners. Also see Newly discovered "triple threat" triple crowns using XBT%

2 comments:

  1. I noticed your speed calculations and it seems Stolen Bases are mainly predicated on Speed?

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  2. Thanks for reading and commenting. Speed certainly helps with SBs but timing and reading the pitcher are important, too. Maybe instead of speed I should call it a base running stat

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