Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Power hitting, base stealing third basemen are rare

I noticed that Jose Ramirez has over 200 HRs and 200 SBs. That seemed unusual for a third base man.

So I had Stathead call up all the guys who played at least 50% of their games at third base who had at least 200 HRs & 200 SBs. The table below shows the results:

Player

HR

SB

George Brett

317

201

Jose Ramirez

239

220

Howard Johnson

228

231

That is not many. One guy some people asked me about was Alex Rodriguez. He played about 43% of his games at 3B (and even at SS it was less than 50%, so he would not even come up in a search like this at that position).

Then I used Stathead to call up all the guys who had 150 HRs and 150 SBs while actually playing 3B (this is an option in Split Finder).

Player

HR

SB

Mike Schmidt

509

174

David Wright

242

196

Jose Ramirez

194

165

This still is not many. But pretty impressive for Jose Ramirez to be on both lists. So I lowered the cutoff to 125 for both stats.

Player

HR

SB

Mike Schmidt

509

174

Chipper Jones

389

128

Alex Rodriguez

287

136

David Wright

242

196

George Brett

198

138

Jose Ramirez

194

165

Howard Johnson

149

154

Carney Lansford

139

206

Terry Pendleton

138

127

Still only nine guys. And two of them barely made the cutoff on SBs. Jones had only 128 and Pendleton had only 127.

There were 10 shortstops at those cutoffs. But AROD was on both lists.

Player

HR

SB

Alex Rodriguez

344

177

Derek Jeter

255

351

Jimmy Rollins

229

469

Francisco Lindor

225

172

Barry Larkin

194

378

Alan Trammell

177

224

Hanley Ramírez

174

243

Édgar Rentería

140

291

Trea Turner

137

227

José Reyes

127

481

All of the links below are to Stathead search results and are for the 125-125 club unless otherwise noted.

There are only four first basemen. Bagwell is the only one at 200+ in each stat.

There are 16 2Bmen. 7 are 200-200. Sandberg had the most HRs in the group with 277 (& 311 SBs). Morgan leads with 680 SBs (& 266 HRs).

There were 38 left fielders. Only two were in the 200-200 club, Rickey Henderson and Barry Bonds.

There were 70 CFers. There were five in the 200-200 club.

There were 49 RFers. There were also five in the 200-200 club here.

This option does not allow for grouping all OFers together. But if I use the 50% of games played in the OF option, there were 329 guys who were in the 125-125 club. There were 179 in the 200-200 club.

There were no catchers who had 125+ of both. Here are all the catchers at 75+ for both stats. There were only 7 and only two, Fisk and Rodriguez, were 100+ in both.

Update July 18, 2024: There have been 54 players in total (no matter what position(s) they played) in AL/NL history with 200+ HRs & 200+ SBs.

There have been 180 players with 125+ of both.

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