Non-pitchers with at least 50 PA in a season where their batting average was greater than their on-base average:

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And, yes, this is a very hard “feat” to pull off.

Here’s one list -

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Geesh, you’d think their skipper would thrown them a pitty save somewhere in these seasons…

Best fielding 2B before the age of 30:

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Best fielding 2B after their twenties:

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Is it safe to say, for the most part, with the rare exception, that second baseman are not as good with the leather after they turn thirty?

Here are the numbers:

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It allows some interesting perspective, no?

The goal here is to identify baseball’s all-time best “all-around” non-pitchers with respect to batting, running and fielding.  To that end, I used the following career cut-offs on this sort:  300+ Batting Runs, 75+ Fielding Runs and 30+ Runs from Base Running.  And, here is the final result:

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Without seeing the result, I could have guessed at the first four here. But, I am not sure, at first blush, if I would have named Kaline without seeing the data. And, for sure, I would have been hard pressed to name Walker – but, the data supports his inclusion. As good as Walker was as a player, perhaps, in a sense, one could suggest that he is under-rated (and would have been considered an all-time elite great if he had more playing time)?

Lastly, I think that Rickey Henderson and Roberto Clemente deserve some honorable mention here. See the following:

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These two just sorta/kinda missed the cut here – so close that a good case could be made for their inclusion and expanding this group from six to eight.

Oh, and, if you want to make it a “Prime Nine” then I would throw in this guy as well:

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And, a great case can be made, if not for the courage of Jackie, then most of the guys on the above lists would not have been able to play down the line. And, we’d probably be talking about guys like this here, below, instead (in terms of baseball’s best “all-around” players):

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With no disrespect to any of the above, I am glad that Robinson did make it possible for guys like Bonds, Mays, Aaron, Henderson, et al, to play and the major leagues – and for us to be able to witness their greatness.

Here is the list -

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I don’t know if we’ll ever see a player have 8 of these types of seasons?  Jones, Mays and Piersall did come close. (They had 8 seasons with 14+ FR.  And, Mays had 9 seasons with 13+ FR.)

This is a select group of players:

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Which of these players will ever get into Cooperstown?  Which ones should?

Kirk Gibson and Tony Phillips were teammates on the 1993 Tigers.   Tony Phillips and Tim Salmon were teammates on the 1995 Angels.  And, this trio is the top three of “Retired Batters Who Played From 1933 to 2012 Who Were Never an All-Star“:

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Pitchers with 3+ seasons with the Yankees where they threw 30 innings or less in a year:

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It’s a hard club to crack.

Here is the list:

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Zobrist and Cano will be free agents after 2013.  If you could sign one of them to a multi-year deal, which one would it be and why?

Here is the batters list -

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And, he is the pitchers list -

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The team had 3 Hall of Famers:  Red Faber, Ray Schalk and Eddie Collins.  And, maybe it could have been as many as five – if not for the fix.

I wonder what the record is for most eventual Hall of Famers on a team that lost a World Series?  It couldn’t be more than five or six, could it?

Man, their numbers, to date, are close:

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I wonder if  they ever faced each other back when they were High School age?  Hanson went to Redlands East Valley HS (Redlands, CA) and Hughes went to Foothill HS (Santa Ana, CA). That’s about an hour’s drive between the two schools.

It’s like they are twins, no?

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Here is the list -

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Greg Maddux, from 1992 through 2000, may just be the greatest run by a starting pitcher in the history of baseball.  Only Lefty Grove and The Big Train come close to it.

I wonder how many of these guys will ever make it?  Some have not been on a ballot yet…but others may never get in, for sundry reasons.

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Todd Helton and A-Rod are knocking on the door of this club.

They are the only major league players since 1901, who born in the D.R., to have 4+ seasons where they were ages 24 to 29, with at least 155 games played and where they had an OPS+ of 120 or better.

The leader board on this query:

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It’s a short list which should get shorter very soon:

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Is there ever any chance that Kaat, John, Moyer or Tanana ever make the Hall of Fame?

MLB’s Top 25 in Games Played from 2007 through 2012:

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Lotta current Yankees on this list:  Cano, Ichiro, Granderson, Jeter and Teixiera.  What are the odds  that they all play 150 games (each) in 2013?

Here is the list -