Newly discovered "triple threat" triple crowns using XBT%

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. A few weeks ago I did a post that combined all the posts I have done on this. See Triple Threat Triple Crowns.

There you can see all players who have accomplished this feat. One issue is who qualifies for the SB% title. How many attempts or SBs does a player need? After my first list, I found that if we change the criteria that Hank Aaron, Joe Morgan and Mike Trout had "triple threat" triple crowns. A list of the first group of players I found is at the end of the post.

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. Baseball Reference has this back to 1916. Here are the three new players I found:

Tris Speaker 1916 (led in XBT% (78%), OBP (.470), SLG (.502))

George Brett 1980 (led in XBT% (72%), OBP (.454) , SLG (.664))

Larry Walker 1997 (led in XBT% (70%), OBP (.452), SLG (.720))

Also, Ty Cobb (1917) and Chuck Klein (1932), who already had "triple threat" triple crowns, also led their leagues in XBT% in addition to their other speed stats their years.

I sorted by XBT% and then looked for the first guy listed who had at least 3.1 PAs per game (that might not be the best way to do it since that is not a measure of base running opportunities but it was easy and it does limit it to full-time players).

Here is the first group I found. Some of them did it more than once.

Honus Wagner
Ty Cobb
Rogers Hornsby
Paul Waner
Chuck Klein
Enos Slaughter
Stan Musial
Snuffy Stirnweiss
Minnie Minoso
Mickey Mantle
Jim Rice

Players who led their league in XBT% and a power stat in the same year

XBT% is the percentage of times a runner advanced more than one base on a single or more than two bases on a double. Baseball Reference has this.

They have it going back to 1916. It is at the AL Baserunning/Misc link. 

I sorted by XBT% and then looked for the first guy listed who had at least 3.1 PAs per game (that might not be the best way to do it since that is not a measure of base running opportunities but it was easy and it does limit it to full-time players).

Then I checked to see if that guy led in any one of the following power stats: HRs, SLG, isolated power, total bases, extra-base hits or AB per HR.

Here are all the cases I found. If you think any of them are wrong or if you think I missed any, let me know. I only show one power stat for each guy. Some of them might have led in more than one. The % is their XBT%. In a couple of cases I had to calculate XBT% to a few extra decimal places to determine the leader. 

NL
Chuck Klein 1932 70%. Led in SLG
Willie Mays 1954 73%. Led in SLG
Willie Mays 1957 69%. Led in SLG
Ernie Banks 1958 64%. Led in SLG
Dick Allen 1966 70%. Led in SLG
Larry Walker 1997 70%. Led in SLG
 
AL
Tris Speaker 1916 78%. Led in SLG
Ty Cobb 1917 65%. Led in SLG
Lou Gehrig 1926 69%. Led in XBhits 
Hank Greenberg 60% 1946. Led in HRs
Al Kaline 1955 65%. Led in TBs
George Brett 1980 72%. Led in SLG
Alfonso Soriano 2002 70%. Led in XBhits

In a couple of cases I had to calculate XBT% to a few extra decimal places to determine the leader. 

Cobb only has 20 opportunities in total in 1917 and Speaker has 22 in 1916, so maybe there was not much data from those years. 

Ruth was 2nd in XBT% in 1924 with 64% while Chick Galloway led with 65% (Ruth led in SLG that year).

Ken Williams in 1925 is the league leader in SLG but he came up a little short on PAs. But there is a rule that says if you charge a guy with extra at-bats and no bases, if his SLG is still the highest he is the league leader.  But if he had played more his XBT% could have fallen. Not sure what to do with a case like that.

Team OPS Differentials So Far

Data from Baseball Reference and Stathead.

Both the Dodgers and the White Sox would be in the top 6 all-time for a full season. See Historical Team OPS Differentials, 1901-2019.

Rk	Team	OPS	POPS	Diff	W-L%
1	LAD	0.805	0.623	0.182	0.710
2	CHW	0.819	0.661	0.158	0.613
3	STL	0.720	0.627	0.093	0.550
4	SDP	0.802	0.713	0.089	0.581
5	NYY	0.799	0.719	0.080	0.593
6	TOR	0.771	0.705	0.066	0.517
7	OAK	0.733	0.667	0.066	0.688
8	ATL	0.778	0.718	0.060	0.600
9	MIN	0.736	0.688	0.048	0.625
10	NYM	0.791	0.746	0.045	0.448
11	TBR	0.773	0.729	0.044	0.656
12	CIN	0.699	0.667	0.032	0.393
13	CLE	0.667	0.641	0.026	0.613
14	BAL	0.764	0.741	0.023	0.467
15	CHC	0.737	0.723	0.014	0.600
16	HOU	0.744	0.736	0.008	0.548
17	COL	0.756	0.759	-0.003	0.516
18	SFG	0.759	0.772	-0.013	0.484
19	WSN	0.761	0.796	-0.035	0.393
20	LAA	0.728	0.764	-0.036	0.313
21	PHI	0.799	0.849	-0.050	0.462
22	KCR	0.710	0.763	-0.053	0.387
23	SEA	0.682	0.736	-0.054	0.387
24	MIL	0.668	0.725	-0.057	0.464
25	DET	0.730	0.814	-0.084	0.448
26	MIA	0.691	0.805	-0.114	0.538
27	TEX	0.623	0.738	-0.115	0.367
28	BOS	0.740	0.860	-0.120	0.323
29	ARI	0.694	0.823	-0.129	0.406
30	PIT	0.623	0.788	-0.165	0.269