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[35] [36] Radbourn struck out 441 batters that season, the highest total for a Triple Crown winner. Walter Johnson holds the highest win total by an AL pitching Triple Crown winner, with 36 in 1913. Among AL pitching Triple Crown winners, Pedro Martínez registered the highest season strikeout total, with 313 in 1999. Since 1901, the major ...
Baseball portal; A Major League Baseball Triple Crown is recorded by: a hitter who leads either the American League or National League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in in the same season. a pitcher who leads either the American League or National League in earned run average, wins, and strikeouts in the same season.
This category contains categories of baseball players who have won the Triple Crown of hitting or pitching over the course of their career. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
In 2012, Cabrera became the first player since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967 to win the batting Triple Crown, leading the AL with a .330 batting average, 44 home runs, and 139 runs batted in (RBI), earning him the AL MVP award that year. In the first half of 2013, Cabrera was on pace to shatter his numbers from his prior Triple Crown season. He ...
Yastrzemski's Triple Crown win in 1967 was the last time a major league hitter won the Batting Triple Crown until Miguel Cabrera in the 2012 season (conversely, six different pitchers have since won the pitchers' version). He was voted Most Valuable Player almost unanimously (one voter chose César Tovar of the Twins). [6]
Joe Medwick of the St. Louis Cardinals was the last NL Triple Crown winner in 1937. The most recent player to achieve the feat in either league was Detroit slugger Miguel Cabrera in 2012, which ...
The following Major League Baseball players have won the National League hitters' Triple Crown by leading the National League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in in the same season. Pages in category "National League hitting Triple Crown winners"
Williams was a nineteen-time All-Star, a two-time recipient of the AL Most Valuable Player Award, a six-time AL batting champion, and a two-time Triple Crown winner. He finished his playing career with a .344 batting average , 521 home runs , and a 1.116 on-base plus slugging percentage , the third highest of all time.