Happy New Year

I was looking at hits to my ancient blog (I get about 2 per day and I like to see how they got there), and got to read an old column which was pretty fun. I wrote something about Derrek Lee in 2005, who put up this line:


199 hits, 50 doubles, 46 homers, 107 RBIs, 15 SB, 335 BA, 418 OBP, 662 SLG, 1.080 OPS, 393 total Bases .

Led the league in hits, doubles, BA, slugging, OPS and total bases.

Wow. Third in the MVP voting behind Big Al and get this, Andruw Jones.

Guess who was 4th? He had 36 homers, drove in 101 and hit 283.

Think about this as the Jeopardy theme is rolling and I vamp.

The guys after that are fun to read. Remember each and every one finished behind #4.

Miggy Cabrera
Delgado
Burrell
Chris Carpenter
Giles
Rollins
Dontrelle
Jason Bay (remember when he was 32 homers and 21 steals hitting 306?)
Chase Utley
Bobby Abreu
Berkman
Chad Cordero (really?)
Trevor Hoffman
Carlos Lee
Jeff Kent for the Dodgers
David Wright
David Eckstein (really?)
Roger Clemens
Roy Oswalt
Griffey
Andy Pettitte

I’m continuing because this is actually fun.

Adam Dunn
Jim Edmonds
Cliff Floyd (got a special place for this guy – I think we had him in 2005)
Marcus Giles
Scott Eyre for the Giants (really? MVP?? Not even the closer! Zero saves.)
Brad Lidge for Houston

So who was 4th? Been thinking??

Morgan Ensberg.  I bet you laughed out loud. I did.