Here's a make-up post for one that got deleted accidentally, about the most times players have achieved 40/40, 30/30, 20/20, and 10/10 seasons.

For some reason, with this post, I'm having trouble putting the full lists in here. So you'll have to follow the provided links to see the lists.

First, check out the four 40/40 seasons in history. These were all memorable seasons, especially when Jose Canseco was the first to do it in 1988. As you can see, nobody has done it more than once. Notice that A-rod's in the highest club of all, the 42/42 club.

Here are all the 30/30 seasons, ranked by the most times it was achieved. Barry Bonds comes as no surprise, but I was surprised to see his dad there. Soriano seems destined to take over the lead in this category one day.

And here are all the guys with 20/20 seasons, again ranked by the most times it was achieved. Again, two generations of Bonds are out in front. If Abreu can pop 4 more homers this year, he'll get his 8th 20/20 season, but with his power numbers on the decline he may never get another such season. Beltran and A-rod are the best bets now to get to 10 seasons.

And here are all the guys with 10/10 seasons, again ranked by the most times it was achieved. Pretty cool to see Reggie Sanders up there. From 1998 to 2004 (7 seasons) he played for 7 different teams, and he remained pretty constant in his production. Consider that 2007 will be his first season with fewer than 11 homers since 1991.

Incidentally, nobody is going to join the 40/40 club this year. I figure a guy better have at least 30 stolen bases by now to have any chance whatsoever, and here are all the players with at least that many steals:

  Cnt Player            **HR**  SB Year Age Tm  Lg  G   PA  AB  R   H  2B 3B RBI  BB IBB  SO HBP  SH  SF GDP CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Positions
+----+-----------------+------+---+----+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+
    1 David Wright        28    31 2007  24 NYM NL 141 621 526  98 166 34  1  95  85   6 108   4   0   6   9  4  .316  .411  .544  .955 *5
    2 Jimmy Rollins       26    30 2007  28 PHI NL 143 686 628 124 186 35 17  81  45   5  73   7   0   6  10  6  .296  .347  .530  .877 *6
    3 Hanley Ramirez      26    46 2007  23 FLA NL 137 626 567 109 186 42  6  70  47   3  87   6   4   2   9 12  .328  .384  .561  .945 *6/D
    4 Grady Sizemore      23    31 2007  24 CLE AL 144 672 570 107 157 32  4  73  86   7 141  14   0   2   3 10  .275  .382  .467  .849 *8/D
    5 Eric Byrnes         21    44 2007  31 ARI NL 144 626 559  94 164 28  8  81  56   5  89   8   0   3   8  6  .293  .364  .485  .849 *798
    6 Carl Crawford       11    49 2007  25 TBD AL 139 603 563  92 177 36  9  77  32   5 109   5   1   2  11  9  .314  .355  .469  .824 *7/D
    7 Shane Victorino     11    37 2007  26 PHI NL 118 483 432  76 123 22  3  44  37   1  59   9   4   1   9  3  .285  .353  .426  .779 *9/8
    8 Jose Reyes          10    75 2007  24 NYM NL 141 670 597 106 172 29 12  49  67  13  68   1   4   1   6 18  .288  .360  .427  .787 *6
    9 Brian Roberts       10    41 2007  29 BAL AL 138 637 554  93 164 39  5  49  79   5  84   0   2   2   7  7  .296  .383  .439  .822 *4
   10 Corey Patterson      8    37 2007  27 BAL AL 132 503 461  65 124 26  2  45  21   1  65   4  13   4   3  9  .269  .304  .386  .690 *8
   11 Ichiro Suzuki        6    37 2007  33 SEA AL 141 645 595 103 209 18  7  59  42  11  65   3   4   1   6  4  .351  .396  .435  .831 *8/D
   12 Kazuo Matsui         4    30 2007  31 COL NL  92 398 364  72 106 20  6  34  28   1  63   0   6   0   1  3  .291  .342  .412  .754 *4
   13 Chone Figgins        3    34 2007  29 LAA AL  99 431 384  73 131 21  5  49  41   0  64   0   1   5   7 10  .341  .400  .445  .845 *5/4D
   14 Willy Taveras        2    33 2007  25 COL NL  97 408 372  64 119 13  2  24  21   0  55   7   7   1   1  9  .320  .367  .382  .749 *8/D
   15 Juan Pierre          0    56 2007  29 LAD NL 143 643 594  83 172 20  7  36  25   0  34   5  17   2   9 11  .290  .323  .347  .670 *8

Unless one of those guys can manage 12-14 homers the rest of the way, nobody's going to do it. But Wright (28/31), Brandon Phillips (28/29), Rollins (26/30), and Ramirez (26/46) all have a good shot at making 30/30 this season (numbers are prior to Tuesday's games.)
And just one more list...the strange 50/20 club:

  Cnt Player            Year  SB HR Age Tm  Lg  G   PA  AB  R   H  2B 3B RBI  BB IBB  SO HBP  SH  SF GDP CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Positions
+----+-----------------+----+---+--+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+
    1 Alex Rodriguez    2007  22 52  31 NYY AL 141 628 519 132 165 28  0 140  82   8 101  19   0   8  15  3  .318  .424  .672 1.096 *5/D
    2 Ken Griffey       1998  20 56  28 SEA AL 161 720 633 120 180 33  3 146  76  11 121   7   0   4  14  5  .284  .365  .611  .976 *8/D379
    3 Brady Anderson    1996  21 50  32 BAL AL 149 687 579 117 172 37  5 110  76   1 106  22   6   4  11  8  .297  .396  .637 1.033 *8/D
    4 Willie Mays       1955  24 51  24 NYG NL 152 670 580 123 185 18 13 127  79  13  60   4   0   7  12  4  .319  .400  .659 1.059 *8

Gee, who sticks out like a sore thumb there?

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