Projected MLB Statistical Leaders
Posted: May 30, 2011 Filed under: Research 5 Comments »We’re about a third of the way through the 2011 MLB season. That means it’s time to multiply everything by three and see what happens! I have included the current MLB record along with the projected number for the leader in each category. I did this by taking the total games played for each player’s team and extrapolating their current stats based on that.
Hitters:
| Statistic | Record | Current Pace | Leader |
| AVG | 0.440 | 0.374 | Matt Joyce |
| AB | 716 | 705 | Jose Reyes |
| PA | 778 | 769 | Jose Reyes |
| H | 262 | 229 | Jose Reyes |
| 1B | 225 | 165 | Starlin Castro |
| 2B | 67 | 57 | Alex Gordon |
| 3B | 36 | 19 | Jose Reyes |
| HR | 73 | 62 | Jose Bautista |
| R | 192 | 131 | Jose Bautista |
| RBI | 191 | 140 | Adrian Gonzalez |
| BB | 232 | 140 | Jose Bautista |
| IBB | 120 | 32 | Miguel Cabrera |
| SO | 223 | 201 | Adam Dunn |
| HBP | 51 | 29 | Danny Espinosa |
| GDP | 36 | 49 | Albert Pujols |
| SB | 130 | 60 | Jose Reyes |
| CS | 42 | 24 | Juan Pierre |
Pitchers:
| Statistic | Record | Current Pace | Leader |
| W | 59 | 23 | Kevin Correia |
| L | 48 | 23 | Paul Maholm |
| CG | 75 | 12 | Roy Halladay |
| ShO | 16 | 6 | James Shields |
| SV | 62 | 58 | Leo Nunez |
| HLD | 40 | 38 | Rafael Betancourt |
| IP | 680 | 267 | Felix Hernandez |
| H | 772 | 260 | Jeff Francis |
| ER | 291 | 143 | Ryan Dempster |
| HR | 50 | 44 | Brett Myers |
| BB | 289 | 131 | Kyle Drabek |
| HBP | 54 | 20 | Justin Masterson |
| WP | 63 | 26 | A.J. Burnett |
| BK | 16 | 6 | Justin Verlander |
| SO | 513 | 268 | Roy Halladay |
Yup, Kevin Correia is the projected leader for pitcher wins. I’m going to say that doesn’t happen? There are a few records that could possibly be broken. Pujols is on pace to shatter the GDP record, which is very interesting. Many of the pitching records are un-reachable ever, but the holds and saves records are still within reason, along with the home runs allowed record.
I’d like to see a baseball park built that had short home run perches in the left and right field corners and a very deep center field alley. This way, I hope, we could challenge both the home run record and triples record, and yet have a park that was fan-friendly, allowing them to see the action (since the left- and right-field home run perches would be closer to infield). The outfield bleachers could be the very cheap seats and therefore probably also where a lot of weird things happened, mercifully far away from everyone else.
You mean something like the Polo Grounds?
or even Minute Maid Park? Crawford Boxes in Left and its 436 with a hill in center
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