Corey Seager moving up the leaderboards

♦ June 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

Just five days ago we were waxing eloquently about how Corey Seager was going to be breaking into many of the record books for shortstops. Evidently Corey was not satisfied with being at the precipice of the leaderboard, so he had another crazy weekend and has now put himself squarely in those leaderboards.

On June 1st, after his May home run barrage, Corey was not in the top thirty-one home runs seasons for a shortstop age twenty-two or younger. He is now in the top twenty and on his way to having a top five home run season for any twenty two year old SS or younger.

I’ve added a new column to the table. Since Corey has only played 1/3 of a season, I thought it might be beneficial to look at his home run per at bat numbers. It is early, and of course he’s coming off a barrage of home runs, but right now Mr. Seager has the best home run per at bat ratio on the list below.  The list is now thirty-two long because Corey joined it, and it will be the last time we see all thirty two names. I kept them here to show who Seager passed in the past five days.  I didn’t expect to update this list until July 1st, but he’s simply been to hot.

Player HR Year Age Tm PA OPS HR/AB
Alex Rodriguez 42 1998 22 SEA 748 0.919 17.81
Alex Rodriguez 36 1996 20 SEA 677 1.045 18.81
Cal Ripken 28 1982 21 BAL 655 0.792 23.39
Cal Ripken 27 1983 22 BAL 726 0.888 26.89
Troy Tulowitzki 24 2007 22 COL 682 0.838 28.42
Alex Rodriguez 23 1997 21 SEA 638 0.846 27.74
Carlos Correa 22 2015 20 HOU 432 0.857 19.64
Ron Hansen 22 1960 22 BAL 606 0.781 27.55
Vern Stephens 22 1943 22 SLB 571 0.839 25.95
Jim Fregosi 18 1964 22 LAA 591 0.833 32.83
Hanley Ramirez 17 2006 22 FLA 700 0.833 41.18
Zoilo Versalles 17 1962 22 MIN 624 0.660 36.71
Wil Cordero 15 1994 22 MON 467 0.853 31.13
Chris Speier 15 1972 22 SFG 658 0.761 43.87
Corey Seager 14 2016 22 LAD 249 0.874 17.79
Vern Stephens 14 1942 21 SLB 621 0.774 44.36
Starlin Castro 14 2012 22 CHC 691 0.753 49.36
Alex Gonzalez 14 1999 22 FLA 591 0.739 42.21
Jimmy Rollins 14 2001 22 PHI 720 0.743 51.43
Rico Petrocelli 13 1965 22 BOS 363 0.721 27.92
Xander Bogaerts 12 2014 21 BOS 594 0.660 49.50
Francisco Lindor 12 2015 21 CLE 438 0.835 36.50
Arky Vaughan 12 1934 22 PIT 660 0.942 55.00
Travis Jackson 11 1924 20 NYG 633 0.754 57.55
Denis Menke 11 1963 22 MLN 572 0.632 52.00
Edgar Renteria 11 1999 22 STL 653 0.734 59.36
Starlin Castro 10 2011 21 CHC 715 0.773 71.50
Wil Cordero 10 1993 21 MON 521 0.695 52.10
Derek Jeter 10 1996 22 NYY 654 0.800 65.40
Alex Gonzalez 10 1995 22 TOR 425 0.720 42.50

 

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