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Sosa Retiring

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Wow, check out these stats on Sammy Sosa from the Hardball Times:

HOMERUNS                        HR      RCAA
1    Hank Aaron                  755     1032
2    Babe Ruth                   714     1795
3    Barry Bonds                 708     1502
4    Willie Mays                 660     1008
5    Sammy Sosa                  588      338
6    Frank Robinson              586      852
7    Mark McGwire                583      665
8    Harmon Killebrew            573      516
9    Rafael Palmeiro             569      572
10   Reggie Jackson              563      565

The home run to runs created above average ratio is staggering!

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Posted February 18th, 2006 @ 5:55 PM

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Kevin adds this Comment:

Staggering in a not so good way, right?

Doesn’t that mean that compared to guys like Aaron, Ruth, Bonds, and Mays, Sammy Sosa doesn’t create as many runs. Given the homerun totals are very his other bats then are far less productive.

Ruth and Bonds are in a different league.

- Kevin

February 19th, 2006 at 5:59 am
Alex adds this Comment:

RCAA looks at the differential between a player and their contemporaries. Some of this is due to Sosa playing exclusively in the “juiced” era - where McGwire had some years on the fringe of it. But yes, the numbers shocked me.

February 19th, 2006 at 9:41 am
mojotek adds this Comment:

Wow… The top four are really in a different league aren’t they? The ratio is basically a measure of how effective your homeruns were, and if you go by that measure, The numbers really are astounding.

February 19th, 2006 at 9:49 am
Alex adds this Comment:

Actually, the ratio has nothing to do with the “effectiveness” of the home runs, per se. It is the overall offensive contribution compared to the player’s contemporaries.

Read all about it.

February 19th, 2006 at 10:02 am

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