cheaters like barry bonds and mark mcgwire put up monsterous number and get endless hype and even a one week special to lie about their drug use, but the cleveland indian's travis "pronk" hafner ties the major league record in grand slams averages a grand slam every other plate appearance with the bases loaded and has an on base percentage of just over 1(the highest in after a full season was .950 by babe ruth) all of this on a lousy team and gets not even a blurb in the sports page, is this wrong to anyone else? why is it he wont get mvp votes from anyone outside of cleveland?
2006-08-13 14:57:10 · 5 answers · asked by mr benis 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
actually i was meaning ops(amount of plates gained per at bat) and here is that stat i copied and pasted from espn the link to see and verify this state is genuine is http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=cle
OPS Travis Hafner 1.052
2006-08-13 15:44:33 · update #1
it's all about the market. send him down to us in New YORK WE'LL MAKE HIM A STAR.
2006-08-13 15:06:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
an on base percentage of over 1? I think you're talking about a slugging percentage.
True though, he's having a whale of a season and he should definitely get some consideration for MVP. I think he'll have trouble winning though because he plays on a 4th place team
2006-08-13 15:27:21 · answer #2 · answered by Jason 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he is certainly worthy of MVP consideration. many people outside of Cleveland don't know how good he is because they don't care about Cleveland since they are not contending. if they can improve as a team for next year, then he will be more likely to get MVP votes.
2006-08-13 15:07:22 · answer #3 · answered by crime.dog738 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your not only talking about active players,how about Cal Ripkin? In his hometown,he has built a replicate little league size Camden Yards ball field. Each year they host the little league World Series.He has plans for about three other stadiums that will be little league size major league ballparks,GREAT PERSON. Great baseball person.
2006-08-13 21:46:44 · answer #4 · answered by Pat C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question i was wondering the same thing.
2006-08-13 15:11:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋