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Post by Guidas on Nov 15, 2018 15:48:02 GMT -5
I was reading some of the forecasting for the MVP awards and saw that the traditional Triple Crown was mentioned in some - i.e. if JD Martinez won it he would've been a much more likely MVP, or MVP finalist. Being that the Triple Crown was more of a gimmick based on legacy counting stats, I started toying with the idea of what a legit Triple Crown would be. Does this work if we are to keep it to the gimmick of 3 measures?
OBP/ISO/HR
What do y'all think?
This year in the AL, that would give you:
OBP: Trout, Martinez, Betts, Bregman
ISO: Trout, Davis, Martinez, Betts
HR: Davis, Martinez, Gallo, Trout
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Post by James Dunne on Nov 15, 2018 15:54:20 GMT -5
Times on Base: Trout, Bregman, Ramirez
Total Bases: Martinez, Lindor, Betts
wRC+: Trout, Betts, Martinez
Gives two counting stat and a decent catch-all rate state. Iso and HR are too interconnected.
EDIT: Here the NL, for purposes of being complete:
Times on Base: Freeman, Harper, Goldschmidt
Total Bases: Yelich, Story, Baez
wRC+: Yelich, Nimmo, Goldschmidt
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Nov 16, 2018 12:07:15 GMT -5
Does this work if we are to keep it to the gimmick of 3 measures? Probably not, because the natural progression of advanced statistics for offense is to collapse everything into one number. If we absolutely need a "new triple crown", I'd probably cast my vote for the classic ave/obp/slg slash line. I feel like there's a reasonable balance of tradition and modernity there. |
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Nov 16, 2018 12:22:14 GMT -5
How about league MVP, League Championship MVP, and World Series MVP? Just kidding. Nobody would ever win the triple crown that way. I think Mike Schmidt gave that a run in 1980, though but Manny Trillo got the NLCS MVP.
I prefer BA/OBP/SA as triple crown to BA/HR/RBI.
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Post by ramireja on Nov 16, 2018 12:39:52 GMT -5
BA, ISO(D), and ISO(P) would give you three non-redundant metrics
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Nov 16, 2018 13:31:53 GMT -5
All great ideas, baseball doesn't need no stinkin' typical fan interest anyways.
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