Fewest RBI with a .300+ BA and 30+ HR
Posted by Raphy on November 2, 2008
Here are the players with less than 85 RBI in a season in which they hit over .300 with at least 30 homeruns.
Cnt Player **RBI** BA HR Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS OBP SLG OPS Positions +----+-----------------+-------+-----+--+----+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+---------+ 1 Hanley Ramirez 67 .301 33 2008 24 FLA NL 153 693 589 125 177 34 4 92 9 122 8 0 4 5 35 12 .400 .540 .940 *6/D 2 Brook Jacoby 69 .300 32 1987 27 CLE AL 155 620 540 73 162 26 4 75 2 73 3 0 2 19 2 3 .387 .541 .928 *5/3D 3 Mark McGwire 73 .305 32 2000 36 STL NL 89 321 236 60 72 8 0 76 12 78 7 0 2 5 1 0 .483 .746 1.229 *3/467 4 Rick Wilkins 73 .303 30 1993 26 CHC NL 136 500 446 78 135 23 1 50 13 99 3 0 1 6 2 1 .376 .561 .937 *2 5 Felipe Alou 74 .327 31 1966 31 ATL NL 154 706 666 122 218 32 6 24 6 51 12 2 2 11 5 7 .361 .533 .894 *378/956 6 Kevin Mitchell 77 .326 30 1994 32 CIN NL 95 380 310 57 101 18 1 59 15 62 3 0 8 12 2 0 .429 .681 1.110 *7/3 7 Barry Bonds 81 .312 37 1994 29 SFG NL 112 474 391 89 122 18 1 74 18 43 6 0 3 3 29 9 .426 .647 1.073 *7 8 Larry Parrish 82 .307 30 1979 25 MON NL 153 595 544 83 167 39 2 41 11 101 2 7 1 8 5 1 .357 .551 .908 *5 9 Ron Gant 84 .303 32 1990 25 ATL NL 152 631 575 107 174 34 3 50 0 86 1 1 4 8 33 16 .357 .539 .896 *87/9
Looks like a record for Hanley Ramirez.
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:25 pm
At the opposite end of the spectrum is Vern Stephens in 1950. He had fewer HRs, a lower BA, but *77* more RBIs than Ramirez.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Regarding McGwire, he had a lot of injuries and got his 73 RBI in only 89 games. And Mitchell's was in a strike year. Projected to a full season, they both get 120+ RBI. Bonds in 1994 projects to 100+. Too bad PI doesn't do ratios, as Ramirez likely would have the lowest RBI/PA for a full-time player with those stats (less than 0.100).
In terms of RBI/HR, Bonds in 2001 had only 1.88, lower than any player on this list, and I think the lowest for any player with at least 20 HR. A list of players with 20 or more HR and RBI/HR less than or equal to 2.00 for a season (you can't get this directly from PI, but you can by scanning lists of players with a certain number of HR):
RBI HR Ratio
Bonds 2001 137 73 1.88
Maas 1990 41 21 1.95
Duncan 2006 43 22 1.95
Bonds 2003 90 45 2.00
Deer 1992 64 32 2.00
Hoiles 1992 40 20 2.00
Ramirez with 2.03 this year I believe is next on the list.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
OK, the formatting above didn't work, but hopefully you can read it.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
whiz -
If you count players who split time in different leagues as having different seasons you can add McGwire with STL in 97 (42-24-1.75) and Ron Gant with Phili in 2000 (38-20-1.9) to your list.
Prior to this season the record for lowest rbi/pa among 30+ hr, .300+ ba was Alou's '66 at .104.