Looking Back One Month

On July 11th I posted some baseball statistics that caught my eye. Let’s see how those numbers are progressing.

7/11: Curt Granderson has racked up 15 triples

Granderson has added three more triples this past month. While he hasn't been piling them up at the rate he did in the spring and early summer he certainly has a shot at matching Lance Johnson's 21 triples from the 1996 season. To put a 20 triple season in perspective note that since 1950 only Willie Mays, George Brett, Willie Wilson, Lance Johnson and Christain Guzman have reached that single season total.

Ichiro is just 18 hits from being halfway to 3,000 career hits -- in the American Major Leagues

While his pace slowed considerably in July it's not like he embarrassed himself. Sitting at 1,522 hits, Ichiro is back to hitting in the mid-.300 range for August.

As measured by OPS+, Alex Rodriguez is having the best year of his career. His 186 mark so far this season exceeds the 167 he tallied in 2000 (SEA) and 2005 (NYY)

A slight drop-off to 177 as of Sunday's game. Rodriguez's September's have historically been his coldest month.

Prince Fielder has exceeded last year's home run total by one, 29 to 28

With a league leading 36 home runs Fielder is putting together a remarkable age-23 season.

Sliding. Whoa Nelly.

There. That's better.

I don't know if Jimmy Rollins is nearing exclusive company but this year marks the 5th season of his career that the 28-year old Rollins has hit 10+ doubles, triples and homers. Carl Crawford's done it three times. George Brett did it three times. Roberto Clemente seven times. Lou Gehrig nine times. Willie Mays five times.

Rollins continues to chip away. The current count is 27 doubles, 15 triples and 21 homers. He has a chance at 20-20-20. I wish I had the time to see who's reached those heights. I can tell you that of the triple hitters from the Granderson post above only Brett (42-20-23) and Mays (26-20-35) reached the 20-20-20 plateau.

Hopefully a Career Phillie

I've pegged Rollins as a future Hall of Famer for about four years now. His record of consistency and durability mixed with an impressive array of baseball skills has produced some very impressive counting statistics for the 28 year old shortstop. I'm not clued into the Philadelphia sports scene but I'm guessing that Rollins is pretty popular there. He was a Larry Bowa favorite so that tells you he plays hard (and listens to orders). Nationally he just doesn't get the pub. He's much like Craig Biggio in this respect -- a player who's going to sneak up on a lot of people by the time he's nearing the end of his career and have them saying, "Er, yeah, he's a Hall of Famer".

Oakland's ERA+ has dropped to 117 since early this June when I was all excited about their 130-plus showing

Oakland's ERA+ has dropped to 109 since early this July when I was somewhat tempered over their 117 showing.

In the order of their innings pitched the San Diego relief corps have turned in the following first-half ERA's:

1.78 -- 3.43 -- 2.52 -- 3.03 -- 1.91 -- 0.31 -- 2.30 -- 0.84 -- 7.84 -- 0.00.

Cla Meredith

Scott Linebrink was traded in July but we'll still include his numbers. The following ERA totals are once again ranked by innings pitched with a minimum of 10 IP's,

2.27 -- 3.99 -- 3.96 -- 3.80 -- 0.82 -- 2.20 -- 3.57 -- 6.89 -- 3.60

A bit of a rise but nothing too drastic. The Pads are hanging tough in the NL West due to this very good bullpen and a really good starting rotation.

Kevin Cameron's ERA+ is 1314. In the previous bullet he's the guy with the 0.31 ERA

Cameron's ERA+ has slipped to 499 as his ERA has creeped up to 0.82. He's allowed a good number of base runners for an ERA that low but has minimized the damage to his ERA by allowing zero homers in his 44 innings worked.