Most plate appearances without grounding into a double play
Posted by Andy on March 25, 2009
Here are the leaders for most PAs in a season without grounding into a single double play:
Cnt Player **PA** GDP Year Age Tm Lg G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Positions +----+-----------------+-------+---+----+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+ 1 Frankie Crosetti 757 0 1938 27 NYY AL 157 631 113 166 35 3 9 55 106 0 97 15 5 0 27 12 .263 .382 .371 .753 *6 2 Woody English 755 0 1930 24 CHC NL 156 638 152 214 36 17 14 59 100 0 72 6 11 0 3 0 .335 .430 .511 .941 *5*6 3 Taylor Douthit 752 0 1928 27 STL NL 154 648 111 191 35 3 3 43 84 0 36 10 10 0 11 0 .295 .384 .372 .756 *8 4 Augie Galan 748 0 1935 23 CHC NL 154 646 133 203 41 11 12 79 87 0 53 4 11 0 22 0 .314 .399 .467 .866 *7 5 Taylor Douthit 748 0 1930 29 STL NL 154 664 109 201 41 10 7 93 60 0 38 4 20 0 4 0 .303 .364 .426 .790 *8 6 Rabbit Maranville 747 0 1922 30 PIT NL 155 672 115 198 26 15 0 63 61 0 43 2 12 0 24 13 .295 .355 .378 .733 *64 7 Lyn Lary 745 0 1936 30 SLB AL 155 619 112 179 30 6 2 52 117 0 54 2 7 0 37 9 .289 .404 .367 .771 *6 8 Dave Bancroft 745 0 1922 31 NYG NL 156 651 117 209 41 5 4 60 79 0 27 3 12 0 16 11 .321 .397 .418 .815 *6 9 Craig Biggio 744 0 1997 31 HOU NL 162 619 146 191 37 8 22 81 84 6 107 34 0 7 47 10 .309 .415 .501 .916 *4/D 10 Charlie Jamieson 742 0 1923 30 CLE AL 152 644 130 222 36 12 2 51 80 0 37 6 12 0 18 14 .345 .422 .447 .869 *7 11 Lyn Lary 741 0 1937 31 CLE AL 156 644 110 187 46 7 8 77 88 0 64 3 6 0 18 8 .290 .378 .421 .799 *6 12 Kiki Cuyler 741 0 1930 31 CHC NL 156 642 155 228 50 17 13 134 72 0 49 10 17 0 37 0 .355 .428 .547 .975 *97 13 Red Rolfe 740 0 1937 28 NYY AL 154 648 143 179 34 10 4 62 90 0 53 1 1 0 4 2 .276 .365 .378 .743 *5 14 Frankie Crosetti 740 0 1936 25 NYY AL 151 632 137 182 35 7 15 78 90 0 83 12 6 0 18 7 .288 .387 .437 .824 *6 15 Lou Gehrig 738 0 1931 28 NYY AL 155 619 163 211 31 15 46 184 117 0 56 0 2 0 17 12 .341 .446 .662 1.108 *3/9 16 Buddy Lewis 733 0 1937 20 WSH AL 156 668 107 210 32 6 10 79 52 0 44 3 10 0 11 5 .314 .367 .425 .792 *5 17 Max Carey 732 0 1922 32 PIT NL 155 629 140 207 28 12 10 70 80 0 26 4 19 0 51 2 .329 .408 .459 .867 *8/7 18 Charlie Gehringer 731 0 1936 33 DET AL 154 641 144 227 60 12 15 116 83 0 13 4 3 0 4 1 .354 .431 .555 .986 *4 19 Lefty O'Doul 731 0 1929 32 PHI NL 154 638 152 254 35 6 32 122 76 0 19 4 13 0 2 0 .398 .465 .622 1.087 *79 20 Jack Tobin 731 0 1921 29 SLB AL 150 671 132 236 31 18 8 59 45 0 22 3 12 0 7 12 .352 .395 .487 .882 *9/8
These are all seasons from quite a while ago except for #9, future Hall of Famer Craig Biggio in 1997. For the most part, the rest of the seasons occurred at times when offense was down, meaning fewer baserunners, meaning fewer chances to hit into a double play.
Here are the leaders from just the last 20 seasons:
Cnt Player **PA** GDP Year Age Tm Lg G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Positions +----+-----------------+-------+---+----+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+ 1 Craig Biggio 744 0 1997 31 HOU NL 162 619 146 191 37 8 22 81 84 6 107 34 0 7 47 10 .309 .415 .501 .916 *4/D 2 Rob Deer 511 0 1990 29 MIL AL 134 440 57 92 15 1 27 69 64 6 147 4 0 3 2 3 .209 .313 .432 .745 *93 3 Corey Patterson 498 0 2006 26 BAL AL 135 463 75 128 19 5 16 53 21 5 94 5 8 1 45 9 .276 .314 .443 .757 *8 4 Ray Lankford 482 0 1994 27 STL NL 109 416 89 111 25 5 19 57 58 3 113 4 0 4 11 10 .267 .359 .488 .847 *8 5 Otis Nixon 461 0 1994 35 BOS AL 103 398 60 109 15 1 0 25 55 1 65 0 6 2 42 10 .274 .360 .317 .677 *8 6 Dave Roberts 440 0 2003 31 LAD NL 107 388 56 97 6 5 2 16 43 1 39 4 5 0 40 14 .250 .331 .307 .638 *8 7 Rob Mackowiak 439 0 2002 26 PIT NL 136 385 57 94 22 0 16 48 42 5 120 7 3 2 9 3 .244 .328 .426 .754 *985/47 8 Jose Cruz 413 0 1998 24 TOR AL 105 352 55 89 14 3 11 42 57 2 99 0 0 4 11 4 .253 .354 .403 .757 *8/7 9 Marcus Thames 390 0 2006 29 DET AL 110 348 61 89 20 2 26 60 37 0 92 4 0 1 1 1 .256 .333 .549 .882 7D/9 10 Jose Valentin 386 0 1995 25 MIL AL 112 338 62 74 23 3 11 49 37 0 83 0 7 4 16 8 .219 .293 .402 .695 *6/5 11 Rickey Henderson 376 0 1994 35 OAK AL 87 296 66 77 13 0 6 20 72 1 45 5 1 2 22 7 .260 .411 .365 .776 *7D8 12 Mariano Duncan 356 0 1991 28 CIN NL 100 333 46 86 7 4 12 40 12 0 57 3 5 3 5 4 .258 .288 .411 .699 *46/78 13 Abraham Nunez 335 0 2001 25 PIT NL 115 301 30 79 11 4 1 21 28 1 53 1 4 1 8 2 .262 .326 .336 .662 64/75 14 Jayson Werth 304 0 2007 28 PHI NL 94 255 43 76 11 3 8 49 44 1 73 2 2 1 7 1 .298 .404 .459 .863 *97/83 15 Jerry Hairston 297 0 2008 32 CIN NL 80 261 47 85 20 2 6 36 23 0 36 3 8 2 15 3 .326 .384 .487 .871 6789/45 16 Ron Gant 292 0 2001 36 TOT ML 93 252 46 65 13 3 10 35 35 2 80 0 2 3 5 1 .258 .345 .452 .797 *7D 17 Nick Green 290 0 2004 25 ATL NL 95 264 40 72 15 3 3 26 12 1 63 4 8 2 1 2 .273 .312 .386 .698 *4/59 18 Gary Redus 288 0 1991 34 PIT NL 98 252 45 62 12 2 7 24 28 2 39 3 1 4 17 3 .246 .324 .393 .717 3879 19 Ron Gant 285 0 1989 24 ATL NL 75 260 26 46 8 3 9 25 20 0 63 1 2 2 9 6 .177 .237 .335 .572 *58/7 20 Carl Crawford 278 0 2002 20 TBD AL 63 259 23 67 11 6 2 30 9 0 41 3 6 1 9 5 .259 .290 .371 .661 *7
Pretty interesting, huh? Most of them are fast guys (Nixon, Henderson, Redus, etc) or guys who hit lots of fly balls and strike out a lot (Deer, Gant, Thames, etc.)
March 25th, 2009 at 10:41 am
All those guys from the '20s and '30s are because GIDP were not counted at the time. B-R really should show them as blank, rather than 0. GIDP were not counted until 1933 in the NL and 1939 in the AL.
March 25th, 2009 at 10:46 am
I had considered that possibility, but didn't know if it was the case or not. So then that first list is mainly just the post PAs in a season back in that era...heh.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Armed with Comment 1 above, it looks like only #4 Galan and Biggio would still make the list. It would be tough to draw any conclusions without a new list with the new search criteria.
March 25th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
The easy way to check is the year-by-year leaders for particular stats. So just go here and you can see: http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/GIDP_leagues.shtml
As I said, it would be nice if those showed as blank rather than 0, and it would also be helpful if the PI had a note indicating that searches for particular things prior to particular years are meaningless.
March 25th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
That Biggio achievement is one of those little things that made him so good. I believe it was the 1997 season that Bill James compared Biggio and Griffey. On the surface, Griffey's season (50+ HR, etc) looks superior. But James went through all the oft-overlooked pieces of the statistical puzzle to show how Biggio made up ground on Griffey, and why his season was actually superior (per Win Shares).
March 25th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
I love this stat. Amazing how Biggio is the only one on the top 20 list since 1938