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For all players from their age 31 season through their age 35 season, Jay Bell ranks 92nd in homers with 110. That might not sound very unimpressive until year hear that for players up through their age 30 seasons, Jay Bell ranks 595th in homers with 83.
Check out the list of fewest 38 HR, 112 RBI seasons (discounting all the guys with zero such seasons.) Jay Bell is one of 51 guys with just 1 such season. But so many of the other names on that list are power hitters who consistently hit 20-30 HRs, which Bell didn't do. (Just to name a few: Reggie Jackson, Carl Yastrzemski, Tino Martinez, Greg Luzinski, Fred Lynn...many others.)
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This entry was posted on Friday, January 9th, 2009 at 8:49 am and is filed under Season Finders. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Steroids?
January 9th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
This particular stat certainly opens up the suggestion.
January 11th, 2009 at 2:28 am
I know of a ballplayer who had 7 home runs through age 30, and 165 age 31 through age 35. Put that in your syringe and inject, I mean in your pipe and smoke it.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:07 am
Yeah but Gerry, your player only played 47 games through age 30.
January 11th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Gerry and Raphy are talking about Hank Sauer. (I didn't know this, just looked it up on the PI like this.