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Well, I was listening to the FSN broadcast of Friday night's Astros @ Dodgers game 1.... and Jim Deshaies laid down some awesome stats about our Astros sluggers (strangely, Bill Brown repeated all five of the stats a few minutes later, almost as if he hadn't heard Jim say them earlier...).
So far this season, the Astros 3-4-5 hitters (i.e. The BLT) are:
- 1st in the majors in batting average
- 1st in the majors in slugging percentage
- 2nd in the majors in home runs
- tied for 1st in the majors in RBI
- 2nd in the majors in runs scored
Impressive, impressive start to the season for the power core of the Astros lineup. That said... while Carlos Lee's season hasn't started quite as hot as Berkman's and Tejada's have, we all saw what Lee and Berkman did by the end of last season. So here's a question for you:
Based on whatever information/gut feelings/etc. you want, including the season/overall stats I've posted below.... who's gonna have the highest OPS by the end of the 2008 regular season? All three guys are well over their career averages right now, including Lee himself, and I suspect they'll be closer to both their average OPS and to each other by September. But take a gander and then vote. Again...
Who will have the highest OPS at the end of the 2008 regular season?
Will it be Bacon (aka Berkman)?
- 2008: .380 AVG, 129 AB, 49 H, 12 HR, 35 RBI, 21 BB, .461 OBP, .783 SLG, 1.244 OPS
- career: .303 AVG, 4377 AB, 1325 H, 271 HR, 890 RBI, 805 BB, .414 OBP, .566 SLG, .980 OPS
Will it be Lettuce (aka Lee)?
- 2008: .284 AVG, 134 AB, 38 H, 7 HR, 24 RBI, 11 BB, .336 OBP, .530 SLG, .866 OPS
- career: .288 AVG, 5331 AB, 1536 H, 260 HR, 925 RBI, 434 BB, .341 OBP, .500 SLG, .841 OPS
Or will it be Tomato (aka Tejada)?
- 2008: .338 AVG, 145 AB, 49 H, 5 HR, 26 RBI, 7 BB, .370 OBP, .545 SLG, .915 OPS
- career: .288 AVG, 6198 AB, 1785 H, 263 HR, 1059 RBI, 469 BB, .344 OBP, .478 SLG, .822 OPS
(Berkman and Tejada are tied for hits this season! And in their careers, Lee and Tejada are tied for batting average! WHO WILL WIN? Feel free to post about your answer, including reasoning if you want, and talk about any other stats besides OPS and how they'll do... I probably should have included stolen bases, but that wasn't relevant to OPS, so I left it out... drat...)
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