Most HRs Without a SF
Posted by Raphy on August 28, 2009
I was surprised to notice that both Migeul Cabrera and Ryan Braun have both hit 27 homeruns this season without a sacrifice fly between them. The sacrifice fly statistic has been used consistantly since 1954 and in that time only 5 players have finished a season with more than 27 home runs and no sacrifice flies. Here are the leaders since 1954:
Cnt Player **HR** SF Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Positions +----+-----------------+------+---+----+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+ 1 Adam Dunn 46 0 2004 24 CIN NL 161 681 568 105 151 34 0 102 108 11 195 5 0 8 6 1 .266 .388 .569 .957 *73/D 2 Kirby Puckett 31 0 1986 26 MIN AL 161 723 680 119 223 37 6 96 34 4 99 7 2 14 20 12 .328 .366 .537 .903 *8 3 Frank Robinson 31 0 1958 22 CIN NL 148 623 554 90 149 25 6 83 62 5 80 7 0 13 10 1 .269 .350 .504 .854 *785 4 Nick Esasky 30 0 1989 29 BOS AL 154 633 564 79 156 26 5 108 66 9 117 3 0 11 1 2 .277 .355 .500 .855 *3/7 5 Felix Mantilla 30 0 1964 29 BOS AL 133 470 425 69 123 20 1 64 41 1 46 4 0 12 0 1 .289 .357 .553 .910 47/9568 6 Ryan Braun 27 0 2009 25 MIL NL 124 553 496 91 155 29 6 93 47 1 92 10 0 5 12 5 .313 .383 .558 .941 *7 7 Miguel Cabrera 27 0 2009 26 DET AL 123 523 472 77 162 30 0 82 46 7 84 5 0 15 3 2 .343 .407 .578 .985 *3/D 8 Mark Bellhorn 27 0 2002 27 CHC NL 146 529 445 86 115 24 4 56 76 3 144 6 2 6 7 5 .258 .374 .512 .886 *4536/7 9 Jeromy Burnitz 27 0 1997 28 MIL AL 153 577 494 85 139 37 8 85 75 8 111 5 3 8 20 13 .281 .382 .553 .935 *98/7 10 Chili Davis 27 0 1993 33 CAL AL 153 645 573 74 139 32 0 112 71 12 135 1 0 18 4 1 .243 .327 .440 .767 *D/1