He has requested to be taken out of the batting title since he served a 50 game suspension..

 

 

Wrong Cabrera....:lol:

1

 

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It’s the smallest of the integers, but the greatest of the ordinals.

 

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It is its own factorial, its own cube, and its own square.* It is a divisor of every other number.

 

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One has identified many many things – from hydrogen to Oscar Robertson, Thomas the Tank to the Warren Moon, Nate The Skate Archibald to the General Lee.*

 

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More significantly, in baseball, the number one identifies the pitcher’s position, and it has been worn by various greats over the decades: Pee Wee Reese, Bobby Doerr, Whitey Ashburn, Billy Martin, Ozzie Smith, and for the Cincinnati Reds, it was worn by the well liked, but ill-fated Fred Hutchinson – who turned the team around following the dismal ’59 and ’60 seasons to win the National League penant in 1961, and who was the first MLB manager to ever write Peter Edward Rose’s name on a score card.

 

(Picture to follow when I'm not operating from my BlackBerry.)

Bahh...wrong thread! Stupid BlackBerry!

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My bad, got them mixed up.

I wonder how many triple crown winners have not made the playoffs?

 

Technically, there haven't been any Triple Crown winners in the playoff era as the league championship series started in 1969 but the last three -- Carl Yastrzemski in 1967, Frank Robinson in 1966, and Mickey Mantle in 1956 -- all played in the World Series. Before that, only one of the nine triple crown winners in the World Series era (starting in 1903) played in the Series: Ty Cobb in 1909.

 

Thanks Wikipedia.

Cabrera might end up with only one of the three if he doesn't have a few big games here.

 

Joe Mauer is now just .003 behind Cabrera for average and is hitting .394 in the last month. Cabrera's hitting .312 in the same span and hasn't had an exceptional couple of weeks.

Cabrera just homered. Believe he is in the lead of all 3 statistics at the moment.

Question: If Cabrera is tied for the lead in HR's but leads in the other categories, is he considered a Triple Crown winner?

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I would say yes.

I would say yes.

 

Agreed.

Do you sit Cabrera to ensure he gets the Triple Crown since the Tigers won their division last night?

Do you sit Cabrera to ensure he gets the Triple Crown since the Tigers won their division last night?

 

 

No. He would take a chance that Hamilton passes him in HR's.

Doesn't seem like Cabrera is built that way. He'd want to play.

Question: If Cabrera is tied for the lead in HR's but leads in the other categories, is he considered a Triple Crown winner?

 

Don't recall who it was, may have been Jayson Stark or Buster Olney, but they were talking about that, and said that tying for 1st in a category counts as winning it, so yes it would be a Triple Crown.