200+ H, 25+ HR @ 2B
Posted by Raphy on October 3, 2010
Robinson Cano notched his 200th hit today giving him at least 200 hits and 25 home runs for the second consecutive season. Cano becomes the only second baseman not named Rogers Hornsby to have more than one such season in his career.
| Rk | Yrs | From | To | Age | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers Hornsby | 5 | 1922 | 1929 | 26-33 | |
| 2 | Robinson Cano | 2 | 2009 | 2010 | 26-27 | |
| 3 | Chase Utley | 1 | 2006 | 2006 | 27-27 | |
| 4 | Alfonso Soriano | 1 | 2002 | 2002 | 26-26 | |
| 5 | Bret Boone | 1 | 2001 | 2001 | 32-32 |
October 3rd, 2010 at 9:00 pm
awesome. awesome. awesome.
points to the idea that, no matter how many googa-bazillions you spend, you still gotta have a surprise guy like Cano to make it.
Think 2006 Tigers and Chris Shelton.
Feel free to insert your guy (Polanco 2010 Phillies, etc)
October 3rd, 2010 at 9:10 pm
I like it when those kinds of milestones are nice and logical. 200 hits is a good number. 25 home runs is a good number. It's nice when the clubs aren't totally bizarre.
October 3rd, 2010 at 9:10 pm
ah a mention of bret boone's very steroid induced 2001 season. excluding that, pretty impressive to see such a small number of people, and all very recently. Proves the power surge of second basemen in the last decade, even without steroids (for most of them)
October 3rd, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Took seven hits in the last two days (three games) to do it. Oh, and he added at least two walks and a HBP. That's ending a season in style. Might even be more impressive than how A-Rod reached 30-100 last year.
October 3rd, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Is there any way we could do the MVP & other awards voting on here like we did a few years ago? If I remember correctly anybody could post a top 10 (or whatever applicable) for each award and someone added it up and put the results up.... no real argument or discussion about it... but we've got a lot of people that really know their stuff here.
I'd be more than willing to keep tabs on the results if no one else wants to.
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Why 25? Does the list change much if it's only 20?
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:17 pm
@1:
I would replace "surprise" with "homegrown". Cano's been kind of a big deal for a while now. And Chris Shelton's never had a year like Cano''s.
October 4th, 2010 at 12:43 am
Agreed, Shelton had a hot start but then was eventually sent to the minors later in the season and didn't make the playoff roster.
October 4th, 2010 at 8:59 am
Not to be not-picky, but 2 of Cano's hits this year were at DH. I suppose this list could be renamed 25+/200+ players who primarily played 2B.
October 4th, 2010 at 9:19 am
@9
Devans, your point is accurate, but I believe that "primarily played X" is the default meaning of all position references in these blogs, unless stated otherwise.
October 4th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Utley also fell under the threshold for second-basemen. Of his 203 H in 2006, 2 were as a DH, 2 were as a 1B, and 1 was as a PH.
October 4th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
I second #5! I'd love to see some polls about how people feel about the awards balloting this year!
October 4th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
And someone needs to dig up and figure out who won that preseason contest we had.
October 4th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
This year, Cano finally overcame his struggles with men on base (check out his career splits: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?n1=canoro01&year=Career&t=b).
It will be interesting to see if that success carries over to the postseason, another area of chronic underperformance for Cano; his .634 postseason OPS is 202 points below his regular-season mark, and he really stunk it up in last year's World Series.
October 4th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Since somebody asked about 200 hits and 20 homers, the answer lies in this sporcle quiz I made a few months back: http://www.sporcle.com/games/sinatra22/SS2B200h20hr
Note: this includes shortstops too.
October 4th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
jeff Kent had two seasons with 195 and 196 hits but oh those HR numers! (33 and 37)