300/400/500

[Frayed Knot]

Back some 15 years or so years ago, as citing a player's "Slash Stats" first started to become popular among baseball fans and seam-heads, a convenient benchmark for denoting a star offensive player came to be seen as one who could put up a season of .300/.400/.500 [bA / OBA / SLG]
And though it's still early in the season and he's in the midst of a hot streak (plus he slipped just below the OBA threshold last night while I was thinking about this) Mr. Duda is currently hanging around this rarified air, currently sitting at .304/.397/.550. Not something I think most would have had him pegged for just a year or two ago.

Quickly looking for past Mets who have done this (minimum 300 ABs) for a season finds:
PIAZZA 1998* � .324 / .417 / .607
OLERUD 1998 � .354 / .447 / .551
WRIGHT 2007 � .325 / .416 / .546
ALFONZO 2000 � .324 / 425 / .542
BELTRAN 2009 � .325 / .415 / .500
not surprising that many of them are from the offense-happy turn of the century years.

Current NLers in this club so far in 2015: BRYCE HARPER (1201 OPS), PAUL GOLDSCHMIDT (1072), ADRIAN GONZALEZ (1033), and ANTHONY RIZZO (1006). Plus I'll throw MATT CARPENTER in there since he's just shy of the OBA mark (.394) just like DUDA is and with a similar OPS [MC = 958, LD = 947]






* NYM portion of the season only, he actually missed the OBA standard over the entire year ... and remember HE GOT BOOED FOR THIS!!!!

Edited May 30, 2015 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

Always remember.

[Frayed Knot]

So I had a funny feeling while I was posting this that Lucas might have been at a high-water mark and could well slip below this lofty 300/400/500 threshold where he spent much of April & May. But I never dreamed he'd crash and burn so badly.

Since June 1st I've got Lucas at approx .166/.258/.269. He has 3 HRs and 7 doubles (along with 53 Ks) in two months. I think Justin Turner nearly reached those figures by the 5th inning tonight.
And we thought it was Cuddyer who was killing the offense (well he is, but he's not the only or even worst offender).

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: So I had a funny feeling while I was posting this that Lucas might have been at a high-water mark and could well slip below this lofty 300/400/500 threshold where he spent much of April & May. But I never dreamed he'd crash and burn so badly. Since June 1st I've got Lucas at approx .166/.258/.269. He has 3 HRs and 7 doubles (along with 53 Ks) in two months. I think Justin Turner nearly reached those figures by the 5th inning tonight. And we thought it was Cuddyer who was killing the offense (well he is, but he's not the only or even worst offender).

Damn. Stop putting things into focus.

[Lefty Specialist]

Wow. Almost makes you nostalgic for Ike Davis.

[ashie62]

Duda sux.

[Frayed Knot]

Michael Conforto: .302/.392/.535

OK it's a small sample size -- though at over 100 PAs at this point it's not That small.
But for a guy with barely 500 minor league ABs who was called up prior to what the team thought was ideal and about 1/2 season before the more heralded and higher drafted (#2 overall vs #10 the following draft) Kris Bryant as far as their pro careers go (although w/approx the same number of minor lg AB/PAs) this is more than we had any right to expect.
Bryant, btw, at .269/.370/.482 with just about an identical HR rate (1 per 21 ABs)

Now shirley that he's being mostly platooned helps and there'll be the inevitable adjustments which he will in turn need to adjust to (although he seems to have reacted quite nicely to round 1 of that dance) but, to date, I haven't seen more than a handful of ABs where he's looked out of his element. And while I'm at it, he seems at least somewhat better than the negative -- or, at best, indifferent -- reports on his running and fielding that tailed him during his brief journey through prospect-land.

[Edgy MD]

Ashie62 wrote: Duda sux.

Another premature burying.

[ashie62]

Bug off Morrissey.

[Edgy MD]

What?