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I mainly follow the NL, so there may be numbers in the AL that are more surprising ... but the two stats I think I'm most surprised by are Bill Hall having 34 HRs and Matt Holliday having 33 HRs.

And, as an honorable mention, Barry Bonds having 26 HRs in 360 ABs. It seemed like the guy hardly played this year; yet he's again on the precipice of 30 HRs. I heard that his 26 HRs is the most by any player age 42. It's too bad his reputation is sullied, rightly or wrongly, because the guy is incredible.

What player's accomplishment this year surprises you the most?

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I don't care what anyone says, Ryan Howards HR total surprised the hell out of me.

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Bonds once again leads the majors in OBP.

Pretty incredible.

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I don't care what anyone says, Ryan Howards bad performance with runners in scoring position surprised the hell out of me.

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Any ERA for a Detroit Tigers pitcher.

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Huge pitchers park + best defense in baseball = really low ERA's.

Or maybe Kenny Rogers is just a gamer who knows how to win [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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Bonds once again leads the majors in OBP.

Pretty incredible.

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What's sick to me is that it's his worst full season since like 1999.

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I don't care what anyone says, Ryan Howards walk totals surprised the hell out of me.

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Frank Thomas 38 bombs @ age 38.

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I'm not sure whether I'm more surprised at Thomas or Bonds. I know in one of the preseason prediction threads I said that Bonds wouldn't even finish this year.

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Dan Uggla.

Florida's win total.

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Papelbon's ERA (0.92), won't get any Cy Young votes with Johan et al, but his ERA was consistently around 0.50 this season. An amazing story... and not likely to happen again since he's probably going to be starting next season. His ERA was 0.00 on May 1st, 0.24 on June 24th (albeit in about 38 innings) and still sub-0.50 as late as August 4th. He only hit 1.00 once, in late August mid-Massacre.

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Papelbon has blown more saves then K-Rod & Jenks

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I know it's been said but what a ridiculous year for rookie pitching... Verlander winning lots, Liriano dominating for a few months, Papelbon lights out, Anibal Sanchez throwing a no-hitter. Also more great rookie pitchers on Marlins and Twins... I think I read somewhere that the number of games won by rookie starters this season set a new record? I'll try to look this up sometime tonight, stuck here working on a Friday night.

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Bonds once again leads the majors in OBP.

Pretty incredible.

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Why? Doesn't he automatically get two walks per game?

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Carlos Beltran 41 home runs. Never thought he'd hit that many playing half his games in Shea.

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Carlos Beltran 41 home runs. Never thought he'd hit that many playing half his games in Shea.

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G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS
Home 66 232 61 52 16 0 15 38 53 47 11 1 .224 .368 .487 .855
Away 71 268 62 85 22 1 26 77 38 50 6 2 .317 .402 .698 1.100

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Bonds once again leads the majors in OBP.

Pretty incredible.

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What's sick to me is that it's his worst full season since like 1989.

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FYP

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cleveland underperforming their expected record by 12 games

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cleveland underperforming their expected record by 12 games for the 2nd straight year

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Bonds once again leads the majors in OBP.

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What's sick to me is that it's his worst full season since like 1989.

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Looking back at it, I guess 1999 wasn't really a full season. But, in 100 games, his line was .262/.389/.617.

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dan uggla is the winner for me. there is really nothing surprising about the numbers for thomas or bonds, except maybe that they played so many games.

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cleveland underperforming their expected record by 12 games for the 2nd straight year

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Nobody has mentioned the fact that FREDDY SANCHEZ is going to come from out of obscurity and probably win the NL batting title with an average near .350?

At the beginning of the year I bet nobody would have even thought he'd get enough Plate Appearences to QUALIFY for the title.