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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!
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
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.
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.
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.