Brian's Mojito wrote:
I checked back on Jensen's stats -- led the AL in RBIs three times.
I stand corrected about using Jensen as an example.
What about Jim Konstanty? I know he was a Whiz Kid, but he didn't have much of a career.
Konstanty is an oddity, especially in his time, an MVP reliever. I'm not sure about putting his season in context. I'm purposely not looking at
Baseball Reference, but I'm going to say off the top of my head that Robin Roberts on his own team had to have had a better year, not to mention Warren Spahn who was in his prime. And that's just other pitchers. I'm sure that Robinson and Musial had good years and I'm not sure if it was the same season Konstanty won his MVP, but Earl Torgeson had a giant year where he was on base all the time and scored 120-some runs.
This is the kind of stuff that, pre-Internet and pre-smartphones, I could talk about in an bar and if they happened to have a Baseball Encyclopedia to pull out, someone might be impressed. Sadly, it was never a hot girl. Now, people are just like, "yeah right, you just Googled that shit". I didn't, but that's cool. As I get older I remember wrong more often. Like the other day I said Kelly Gruber stopped at second to finish his phony cycle. I looked it up and actually he stopped at first as the single was the last part he needed.