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Originally Posted by Grandstander
jtur:
28 % is "only?" An average team might hit 75 triples, while the Pirates hit 96...and that's "only?"
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Yes, compared to disparities in recent years of 60-80% on triples. Even for categories like HBP, the team that leads typically has 50% more than the league average. Clearly not park factor.
The point of my question, though, was not how and why he did it, but could somebody else do it under modern playing conditions? When people were leading the league with 12 stolen bases, it might have been asked if Ty Cobb's 96 was impossible under modern conditions. It obviously was not. Could Granderson have hit 13 more, if he had tried in every no-out or 2-out situation where he thought he could make it? In the 50's, when 9 was enough to lead the league, there were plenty of parks with odd configurations.