...in the 2007 baseball season, and there's some downright goofy stuff going on. For example:-The New York Yankees are on pace to win 71 games. If that happens, it would be their lowest win total since 1994. And guess what? There was a strike that season, so the Yanks only played 113 games! The last full season in which New York won so few games was 1991. A 22-year-old Bernie Williams made his big league debut and Derek Jeter was a junior in high school.
-Speaking of the Yanks, Mariano Rivera is on pace to save 12 games. That would break Mo's streak of at least 25 saves for 10 straight years.
-Speaking of saves, Francisco Cordero is on pace to save 60 games this season! That would break Bobby Thigpen's record of 57 set back in 1990. That's the good news for the Brew Crew. The bad news is, the year Thigpen broke the record, the White Sox won 94 games but finished 9 games back of the Oakland A's and missed the playoffs. Of course, that was before the wild card.
-The Brewers have been on a great run, and when it comes to scoring runs so has Hanley Ramirez. If he keeps it up, the second year fish will touch home 147 times this season. It sounds like a lot, and it is...just not in the grand scheme. 147 runs would tie him for 57th on the all-time single-season list, a full 45 runs behind Billy Hamilton of the 1894 Philadelphia Phillies (who somehow scored 192 times in 129 games...basically a run and a half a game). To Ramirez's credit, 147 would be the most any player's scored in one year since Jeff Bagwell's 152 in 2000.
-While we're talking about runs, Jose Reyes has stopped running a little bit, but he's still on target to swipe 96 bags this season. It's been 20 years since somebody stole 100 bags (Vince Coleman, 109) and it's been 19 years since somebody topped 90 (Rickey Henderson, 93).
-Barry Bonds never used to run like that, but he did have some speed. Now, he just walks (and hits homeruns, of course). He's on pace to receive 170 free passes this season. And he turns 43 in 2 months. If he gets 170, he'll tie Babe Ruth for 4th on the single-season list behind Barry Bonds '01, Barry Bonds '02, and Barry Bonds '04. Interestingly, Luke Appling holds the record for most walks in a season after age 40. He took 121 base on balls for the 1949 Chicago White Sox, at age 42. Bonds is number two on that list, with his 115 last year. Willie Mays is third with 112 and Darrell Evans is 4th with an even 100. So only 4 times in history has a 40-year-old walked 100 or more times in a season. Bonds needs another 56 this year to be the only 40-year-old to appear on that list twice.
-Adam Dunn is on pace to strikeout 219 times. That would demolish his old mark of 195 in 2004 (an all-time record).
-Jake Peavy is well on his way to a 267 strikeout season on the mound. That would be the most since Randy Johnson's 290 in 2004.
-And just for fun...JJ Hardy's numbers at the end of the season if he keeps it up? .316, 53, 151
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