Miguel Cabrera is the newest member of the 3,000-hit/500-home run club 🥳 Here's how he stacks up to the others (ESPNPlus) 🔗
How to measure power? Aaron leads the group in career home runs, although it should be pointed out that Mays missed nearly two full seasons while in the Army. He did hit 92 home runs his first two seasons back, so he might have been right up there with Aaron's 755 otherwise. Aaron certainly wasn't known for his Titanic blasts, and while he never hit 50 in a season, he did top 40 eight times -- a total matched by Rodriguez and and exceeded only by Babe Ruth's 11.
Isolated power is a good way to measure this category -- it's simply slugging percentage minus batting average, so subtracts singles from the equation and looks only at extra-base hits. Rodriguez and Mays end up tied with Aaron close behind. Cabrera ranks just sixth here, maybe not a surprise since he has just two 40-homer seasons. Even Palmeiro had four.
We can measure his all-fields power approach by looking at the percentage of career home runs he hit to center field or the opposite field. Let's compare to the others with whom we have complete data:Pujols: 73% pull, 27% to center/oppositeCertainly, a much different approach than the more pull-heavy Pujols.
Pujols stands out here not just in terms of the sabermetric numbers, but in raw numbers as well: He's the only player with a 1.100 OPS season -- and he had four of them in 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2009. Those latter two were his second and third MVP seasons. One big difference between Pujols and Cabrera: Pujols never struck out 100 times in a season; Cabrera has 11 100-strikeout seasons.
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