Rocktober Men
Posted by Steve Lombardi on November 15, 2009
This post-season, Alex Rodriguez played in 15 games and reached base at least twice in 12 of them. Is that some sort of a record? Well, thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Post-Season Game Finder, we can figure these sorts of things out. And, here's the leader board list of "Post-season games, 1903 to 2009, most games with TOB>=2, sorted by greatest number of games in a single season" -
Of course, with the post-season expanded in 1995, to include the LDS, you're going to see more "modern" players on the top of this list.
Now, for fun, let's take the guys on this list with 10+ such games and sort them by OPS and then look at just the ones with an OPS that rounds to 1.5 or greater:
Now, these guys really rocked an October, didn't they? By the way, there's quite a few confirmed or suspected PED users on this list as well. But, I'll leave that debate to the conspiracy theory guys...