Royals Could Mauer really hit .400 this year? - Page 2

Consistent1 · 06-16-2009, 11:12 PM

Most likely not a popular topic, but what do you think? He had another nice night tonight. Doesn't just swing for the fences. If you ask me, it could be possible.

Deberg_1990 · 06-17-2009, 09:14 AM

Didnt Tony Gywnn and Todd Helton also make it close to .400 ??

Consistent1 · 06-17-2009, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by MIAdragon

I hope not, if he does his next contract will be even more ludicrous than it is already going to be.

**any reason this thread has a Royal icon?**

Just for baseball in general, and they are in the same division as the Royals. It's loose, but I don't see the harm in that small detail. He is going to benefit from having Morneau in that line up also. Someone mentioned a high homer pace. I think that if his home runs get high that his chances would fall. He would just have to be killing everything to go yard that often and stay over .400 . Lots of line drive singles and doubles with an occasional power pop would give him the best chance. Basically putting everything on a rope and getting elevation here and there. He has always been a high average dude that never plays near all the games in a season. I smell a Chipper Jones style batting title and a legit push at 4.

Consistent1 · 06-17-2009, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Didnt Tony Gywnn and Todd Helton also make it close to .400 ??

Helton's 2000 was unreal. Over 40 homers, almost 150 RBI's and he fell off toward the end and only hit .372. His homer numbers went up the next year, but his average went down, but those two years were crazy. He wasn't just slapping stuff in the gaps like Ichiro when he hit over .370. Cue up the steroids stuff on this post....

chiefs1111 · 06-17-2009, 09:32 AM

I don't think he will.

**ChiTown** · 06-17-2009, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Didnt Tony Gywnn and Todd Helton also make it close to .400 ??

Gwynn was amazingly consistent from start to end in 1994 (strike shortened season). He never had his BA above .400 after mid May though. Again, he was just amazing the whole year.

Brett had an amzing 3 months of baseball batting .472, .494 and .430 in the months of June, July and August.

Helton, in 2000, had his average in mid June at .400, and flirted with it until the start of September.

Consistent1 · 06-17-2009, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by ChiTown

Gwynn was amazingly consistent from start to end in 1994 (strike shortened season). He never had his BA above .400 after mid May though. Again, he was just amazing the whole year.

Brett had an amzing 3 months of baseball batting .472, .494 and .430 in the months of June, July and August.

Helton, in 2000, had his average in mid June at .400, and flirted with it until the start of September.

Yeah, Gwynn hit over .350 7 times. He missed quite a few games in most of those years also. That 2000 year by Helton was playing 160 games with 42 homers, 59 doubles and 216 hits and over 100 walks and a measly 147 RBI's. Oh yeah, his OPS was only 1.162. Crazy year. Gwynn was Gwynn but with the bases empty that single wasn't ever going to kill you.

Consistent1 · 06-17-2009, 10:03 AM

This doesn't really matter to this topic, but I am bored and looking at stats, so whatever. If Barry Bonds hadn't had a .999 OPS in 2006, he would have had 16 straight years to the very END of his career at over 1.000. That is crazy. If he didn't get walked so much, Bonds would have hit over .400 with nice power numbers a couple times IMO. His RBI's were never that crazy because other than just not pitching to the dude, most hardly ever did it with guys on base. He had to have screwed up at times getting impatient. Yeah, his discipline was awesome, but he had to have taken some bad hacks in spite of all his success. He did all of that with the specialized relief pitching of the modern era. I get tired of the old-timer crap about all the complete games and shit. I don't care about the steroid stuff, at least he did that versus getting into legal problems off the diamond. I love Adam Dunn for example, but Barry was not that type of power guy. In the end Bonds got shorted of at the very least 50 homers to top off that record due to being the focus of the witchhunt. Amazing.

blaise · 06-17-2009, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Consistent1

This doesn't really matter to this topic, but I am bored and looking at stats, so whatever. If Barry Bonds hadn't had a .999 OPS in 2006, he would have had 16 straight years to the very END of his career at over 1.000. That is crazy. If he didn't get walked so much, Bonds would have hit over .400 with nice power numbers a couple times IMO. His RBI's were never that crazy because other than just not pitching to the dude, most hardly ever did it with guys on base. He had to have screwed up at times getting impatient. Yeah, his discipline was awesome, but he had to have taken some bad hacks in spite of all his success. He did all of that with the specialized relief pitching of the modern era. I get tired of the old-timer crap about all the complete games and shit. I don't care about the steroid stuff, at least he did that versus getting into legal problems off the diamond. I love Adam Dunn for example, but Barry was not that type of power guy. In the end Bonds got shorted of at the very least 50 homers to top off that record due to being the focus of the witchhunt. Amazing.

Well, then he shouldn't have juiced and he could be adored by everyone. He made his own bed by doing what he did.

Consistent1 · 06-17-2009, 02:19 PM

Yahoo put up a story today after I was thinking about this also.

http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy/blog...fantasy,170848

**Buck** · 06-17-2009, 02:22 PM

Gwynn ended up with a .394 in 1994.

Its too bad that the strike happened in his prime, he could have done it that year.

Mr. Krab · 06-17-2009, 02:36 PM

75% of our guys can't make .250

bkkcoh · 06-17-2009, 03:59 PM

If he played a position other then catcher, I would say he would have a better chance. Catcher is a tough position to play for an entire year and then sustain that kind of success at the plate.

**Bowser** · 06-17-2009, 04:02 PM

He would have to keep an average of 3 for 5 the rest of the year, or something. No way he gets there.

Consistent1 · 06-17-2009, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Bowser

He would have to keep an average of 3 for 5 the rest of the year, or something. No way he gets there.

Huh? He is already hitting over .420. 4 for 10 will do it the rest of the way, not 6 for 10. That is a pretty big difference.

**doomy3** · 06-17-2009, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Bowser

He would have to keep an average of 3 for 5 the rest of the year, or something. No way he gets there.

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