Comments on: Career home run graphs for Aaron, Bonds, A-rod, and Pujols http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/149 This and that about baseball stats. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:57:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andy http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/149/comment-page-1#comment-190 Andy Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:25:33 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/sotd/archives/149#comment-190 Kiner's entire career came before 1957, so we won't have complete day-by-day box score info for him. Matthews played 1952-1968 so we can get 2/3rds of his career, but you won't see that early start (just like how we don't have the beginning of Aaron's career.) You're right, though...in his 2nd, 3rd, and 4th seasons, Matthews had 47, 40, and 41 HR (and he had at least 31 in the 6 following seasons.) Of course, keep in mind that with A-rod being the youngest to 500 HR, nobody had a "faster start" than A-rod, at least to the 500 benchmark. Kiner's entire career came before 1957, so we won't have complete day-by-day box score info for him. Matthews played 1952-1968 so we can get 2/3rds of his career, but you won't see that early start (just like how we don't have the beginning of Aaron's career.) You're right, though...in his 2nd, 3rd, and 4th seasons, Matthews had 47, 40, and 41 HR (and he had at least 31 in the 6 following seasons.)

Of course, keep in mind that with A-rod being the youngest to 500 HR, nobody had a "faster start" than A-rod, at least to the 500 benchmark.

]]> By: kingturtle http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/149/comment-page-1#comment-188 kingturtle Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:10:24 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/sotd/archives/149#comment-188 I'd like to see Kiner and Mathews on the graph. They got off to fast starts. With Career Games on the X-axis, Ted Williams would have an impressive start on the chart too. I'd like to see Kiner and Mathews on the graph. They got off to fast starts. With Career Games on the X-axis, Ted Williams would have an impressive start on the chart too.

]]> By: Andy http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/149/comment-page-1#comment-158 Andy Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:40:02 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/sotd/archives/149#comment-158 If you're interested in this, definitely check out Jayson Stark's piece today (link at the bottom), especially the second half about Bill James' Favorite Toy for likelihood of reaching certain career totals. There is no good way of predicting these things, as Stark points out. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=2947658 If you're interested in this, definitely check out Jayson Stark's piece today (link at the bottom), especially the second half about Bill James' Favorite Toy for likelihood of reaching certain career totals. There is no good way of predicting these things, as Stark points out.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=2947658

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