The top five hitters in the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings stay the same, although the arrangement changes a bit. Alex Bregman retained his big lead in the number one slot with a double and a single in the 5-4 Astros win over the Tigers. Justin Turner turned in the same performance as he moves into second place. Mike Trout drops to third with an 0 for 4, while Christian Yelich contributes a single and a walk in Milwaukee’s 5-1 win over the Cubs. The Brewers sit one game back of the Cubs. (Curtis Granderson missed the cycle by a double in that game.) Paul Goldschmidt also singled and doubled, but the Diamondbacks lost to the Rockies as DJ LeMahieu hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth.
Bregman’s double was the fiftieth of the season for the league leader. Fifty doubles in a season has become commonplace in the last 29 years. As a point of comparison, from 1961 through 1989, the previous 29 seasons, the 50 double mark was reached just five times. Bregman’s 50 marks the 48th time since then that a player accumulated 50 doubles in a season.
Here are the doubles leaders from 1961 to 1989. Note that this encompasses Pete Rose‘s career, and he made a good run at the doubles record. In that time, only five players cracked the 500 doubles barrier.
The doubles leaders from 1990 to 2018 show 24 players with at least 500 doubles, but no one made a decent run at the doubles record. No one even cracked 700 doubles. The record should be incredibly soft, and should be under assault like the home run record was during the aughties. It may be due to what we are seeing with Jose Ramirez this season; batters who hit doubles start lofting the ball a little more and some of those doubles turn into home runs.
Read down the latest list of players with 300 doubles. There is no one young on the list. No players have put down a doubles base in the twenties that they can use to glide to the record. Players hit a lot of doubles, but unlike the previous era, they are not concentrated in a few players.
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