Last night Lopez topped 30 doubles, pretty nice number to go along with his 20 HR’s.
How nice?
Historically it’s a hitting season for the ages for a SS in both the NL and the AL, though the AL has achieved the feat 50 times to the NL’s 7.
Just another silver lining from this season missed by most because the Reds have chose to polish the silver with the dirty rag known as the Reds pitching.
BTW Lopez is the youngest on the list
AGE YEAR AGE 2B HR 3B OPS RC/G 1 Barry Larkin 1996 32 32 33 4 .977 8.37 2 Al Dark 1953 31 41 23 6 .823 5.67 3 Alex Gonzalez 2003 30 37 20 0 .704 3.69 T4 Rich Aurilia 2001 29 37 37 5 .941 7.69 T4 Ernie Banks 1960 29 32 41 7 .904 6.60 6 Alex Gonzalez 2004 27 30 23 3 .689 3.43 7 Ernie Banks 1957 26 34 43 6 .939 7.35
Here’s the list by OPS
Felipe has a .805 OPS, 5.60 RC/27 and a Vorp of 44.1
Brian,
“Polishing the silver with the dirty rag that is Reds’ pitching”. I like that!