what in your opinion is the most amazing baseball stat EVER? past or present.?

Question

mine is lou gerhig's 175 rbis in 1927. gerhig batted cleanup, while ruth hit 3rd. all ruth did that year was belt 60 taters, leaving the bases clean for 60 of gerhig's at bats. the iron man still drove in 175 runs!! imagine how many he would have had if ruth had only hit say, 40 homers. AMAZING!!

Answer 1

Lots of good choices above. I don't know if this is the most amazing statistic, but I think of all the records it is the least likely to be broken: Cy Young's 7,356 innings pitched.

It would take 25 years of almost 300 innings pitched per season to break it. It's been 26 years since ANY pitcher logged 300 innings in a season and that was in the days before the advent of pitch counts, expanded bullpens and an intense (and understandable) focus on taking ultra-care of pitchers arms. For these reasons I can't see this one record ever being broken.

Answer 2

Cy Young's 511 wins will NEVER EVER be even approached.
Probably no pitcher will ever win 30 games in a season.
Cal Ripken's record is almost certainly permanent.
Dimaggio's 56 game hitting streak will be approached but maybe to around 40-45 games.
Pujols could have broken Barry Bonds' 73 home runs if he didn't get hurt, but he'll probably end with 60 or so this year.

Answer 3

Nolan Ryan's 5714 strikeouts. The next closest to this feat is Roger Clemens with over 4500. That's still 1200 away and he's at the end of his game. If Roger at age 42 decided to pitch 3 more years full time and get 300 strikeouts a year( pretty decent considering he's never done that in his career) he would still be 300 away at age 45. Ryan's record could be unbeatable.

Answer 4

How about the season Bob Feller had after returning from serving 4 years during WWII...

1946- W-26 L-15 ERA-2.18 IP-371.1 GS-42 CG-36 SHO-10
36 complete games in 42 starts, when was the last time a "team" had 36 complete games in one season? Oh and he pitched 6 times in relief and picked up 4 saves..

Mike Marshall - 1974 - 106 relief appearances - 208.1 innings pitched..

Answer 5

I'd go with Dimaggio's streak. There's so much luck/chance involved in a streak that long (eg. a ball sneaking through the infield, or dropping just in front of an OF) that I think it will be almost impossible to match.

I also have a hard time fathoming the number of bases Rickey stole in a season. I know it was only 20 years ago, but compare those numbers with today's leaders - how things have changed!

Answer 6

Imalso gonna have to go with Cy Youngs 511 wins. I dont think anybody really understands the significance of that. Its the only record in sports in my eyes that is 100% impossible to break. You would need over 25 years of 20 wins. Most pitchers in their career now cant even get 1 20 win season. Its mind boggling.

Answer 7

Dimaggio, Ryan, Cobb - hard to swallow, but these records may all fall someday. Not probable, but definitely possible. Cy Young's win total - I'm not sure about that one. But the game changes enough over time that these are all possibilities.

The one record that I'm almost certain will never be broken - Johnny VanDermeer's two consecutive no-hitters in 1938. Somebody will probably tie it, but if anybody ever throws three no-hitters in a row, they will rename the Cy Young award after him.

Answer 8

Cy Young's 511 wins. Seriously- you'd have to average 20 wins a year for 25 years to be close. Ridiculous.

Answer 9

Ripken's 2,632 consecutive games played.

I believe Tejada has the current lead in consecutive games played among active players, but would need to play every game for 10 more years to break Cal Jr's record.

Answer 10

Most amazing stat ever? Has to be Cal Ripken's game streak. I WILL GUARANTEE THIS WILL NEVER BE BROKEN. I know Joe D.'s record will be difficult; but games played consecutively. With today's primadonna athlete? Not gonna happen. Here's to Cal.