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Currently barred from Hall of Fame consideration due to his betting on baseball. Bill Mueller – Only player in MLB history to hit a grand slam from each side of the plate in the same game. Jimmy Rollins – Phillies all-time career leader in hits and doubles, 2007 National League MVP and Silver Slugger, 3 time All-Star and 4 time Gold Glover.
Morrison showed improved power and situational hitting in 2017, becoming the everyday first baseman, instead of the original plan of platooning with right-handed hitter Rickie Weeks Jr. On May 22, Morrison hit his 12th home run of the year; on that day in the 2016 season, Morrison hit his first of the year.
His ability to pinch hit made him a valuable asset to several teams and earned him the nickname "Matt Stairs – Professional Hitter". Stairs, Larry Walker, Justin Morneau, Jason Bay, and Joey Votto are the only Canadian MLB players to hit at least 200 career home runs. [4] On February 4, 2015, Stairs was elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall ...
Muncy leads the majors with 11 home runs, and has hit 10 of them in his last 13 games — dating to the reincorporation of a “step-back” move to his batting stance after an opening-week slump ...
As he got older, Philley became more of a pinch-hitting specialist. In 1958, playing for the Phillies, he collected 18 pinch hits, including a streak of eight straight to close the season. Philley holds his Orioles' "Most Valuable Player" trophy, awarded in 1955 for leading the club in hitting with a .299 batting average
In the most basic runs created formula: = (+) + where H is hits, BB is base on balls, TB is total bases and AB is at-bats.. This can also be expressed as = = where OBP is on-base percentage, SLG is slugging average, AB is at-bats and TB is total bases, however OBP includes the hit-by-pitch while the previous RC formula does not.
Matt Shaw, hitting in a spring training game with the Chicago Cubs on Feb. 23, 2024.
When using the formula (shown below), the numerator side on its own will give us an estimate of how many runs a player is worth to his team. Similarly, a team's wOBA is a good estimator of team runs scored, and deviations from predicted runs scored indicate a combination of situational hitting and base running. [10]