Lee May died at age 74. My thoughts go out to his family and friends.
May was a hacking slugger, posting a career .267/.313/.459 slash line. That’s an isolated power of .192. He collected 2031 hits, 725 of them for extra bases. He was fairly even in doubles and homers, 340 doubles, 354 homers.
His best years came in Cincinnati. In 1971 he posted a 5.4 bWAR, and in 1968 and 1969 he was in the mid threes. He drove in 90 runs or more 8 times, leading the AL in 1976, his second year with Baltimore. That’s really the use of hacking sluggers (Joe Carter, for example). Put them up behind people who get on base, and they will drive them in.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2v99UqT
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