17 Responses to “Career HR Totals Of Those To Have Multi-HR World Series Game”

1. BSK Says:
   October 23rd, 2011 at 12:06 pm

   I had no idea Chad Curtis hit so many HRs. I didn't realize he had much of a career before joining the Yanks. He had a year with 48 SBs. And 24 CSs!

2. Frank Clingenpeel Says:
   October 23rd, 2011 at 12:53 pm

   I had clean forgotten about Big Klu's multi-homer game in 1959. Granted, he was no longer a Redleg at that point and he was at the tail end of his career; but he was still fun to watch.

3. Charles Saeger Says:
   October 23rd, 2011 at 1:23 pm

   Does Nails have the record for felony convictions on this list?

4. Ed Says:
   October 23rd, 2011 at 1:58 pm

   Albert is now 4th in all time post season home-runs, tied with Reggie and Mickey. Still a ways to go to catch Manny.

5. Stu B Says:
   October 23rd, 2011 at 3:03 pm

   @1 BSK: Yes Virginia, there is life in baseball outside of Yankee Stadium!

6. BSK Says:
   October 23rd, 2011 at 3:20 pm

   Stu-

   Ha! I am far from a Yankee fan, but I did grow up outside NY and was only 13 when Curtis debuted with the Yanks in 1997. I'll blame my naivete on that!

7. The Chief (tm) Says:
   October 23rd, 2011 at 4:50 pm

   Speaking of Chad Curtis' time with the Yankees, I was intrigued by the disparity in WAR between his part-time season with them in 1997, and his full-time season in 1998.

   In '97, he had measurably better rate stats than '98, and essentially equal counting stats -- despite having played nearly 60 fewer games. Yet his '97 WAR is 1.1, while his '98 is 2.7.

   Does this make sense? Does the fewer number of games offset the better contribution to such an extent? If so, looking at the "Player Value" tab, which is a better measure of overall contribution *without* the penalty for having played fewer games (as in, something like WAR/game)...is it RBat? oWAR?

8. Ed Says:
   October 23rd, 2011 at 6:28 pm

   @7 The Chief

   You're comparing apples and oranges to an extent. The WAR numbers you cite include defense and baserunning. Curtis had a -1.0 dWAR in '97 and +0.9 dWAR in '98. So if you look just at his offensive WAR (oWAR), he was at 2.1 in '97 and 1.8 in '98.

   Of course, oWAR includes the "baserunning" components of WAR as well: Rbaser, Rroe, Rdp. Curtis had -1 baserunning runs in '97 and +4 in '98. Not sure exactly how those numbers effect his oWAR but clearly they hurt his '97 number and help his '98 oWAR.

9. groundball Says:
   October 23rd, 2011 at 6:31 pm

   @7

   Well, I did used to think WAR was a meaningful stat. But, of late, I have come to the conclusion that it seems a bit too random to be of much use to me.

   And I remember when Curtis came up with the Angels (approx. the same time as Tim Salmon, give or take maybe a year).

10. Albert Pujols, Reggie Jackson, Babe Ruth and Players with Multiple Home Runs in a Single World Series Game « SPORTS LIST OF THE DAY Says:
    October 23rd, 2011 at 8:30 pm

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11. DoubleDiamond Says:
    October 23rd, 2011 at 10:15 pm

    @3 Willie Aikens has spent some time behind bars, both during and after his major league career.

12. Frank Clingenpeel Says:
    October 24th, 2011 at 9:50 am

    #3, #11;

    And let's not forget Bennie Kauff entirely. He was acquitted of car theft charges, but his banishment from baseball is testimony to the opinions about his game-fixing and other activities. Maybe not a candidate to be Big Bubba's date at the prison dance, but not a fair-haired boy, either.

13. Frank Says:
    October 24th, 2011 at 10:45 am

    @4 - Please don't compare "post-season" records with WS records. They are two entirely different sets of statistics. Who knows how many "post-season" games Ruth or Mantle would have played in had there been two extra rounds of play back in their day. You can compare Albert and Manny all you want, but the fact remains that Albert has a total of 4 WS homers (3 of which came in one game). Ruth had 15 and Mantle 18. Still a ways to go to catch them. Not going to happen.

14. Lawrence Azrin Says:
    October 24th, 2011 at 11:42 am

    @13/ Frank -
    Great point, Frank. It drives me crazy when baseball announcers compare the postseason records of recent players with that of older (pre-1969) all-time great players on an equal basis. Of course (for example... ) Derek Jeter has more of almost everything than Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, what with appearing in the playoffs (and often multiple rounds) almost every year of his career.

    If you are going to compare current/recent players to older (pre-1969) players, compare the World Series records ONLY. Otherwise, it's like comparing HR totals of deadball-era players with those of the past couple decades - not really meaningful.

15. Ed Says:
    October 24th, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    @13/14

    If you have an issue, take it up with Baseball Reference. The numbers are on their website:

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/Playoffs_batting.shtml

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/Playoffs_pitching.shtml

16. Lawrence Azrin Says:
    October 24th, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    @15/ Ed -
    It's still the responsibility of the baseball announcers to understand/ explain the context for comparing post-season records.

17. The Chief (tm) Says:
    October 24th, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    @8 Ed,

    Thanks for the heads-up on WAR vs. oWAR. I *had* looked at it the latter, and some of those other figures, but wasn't too sure about the impact that the defense and baserunning would have had overall. It just seemed that Curtis' offensive contribution was vastly better in '97 than in '98, and I thought WAR alone would have reflected this more strongly. Now I see that there's more to that measure than just the offense, and that it doesn't necessarily reflect "contribution per game".