November 22, 2009
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All hail . . . . Ed Kranepool?by Chris JaffeSeptember 09, 2009 In honor of Derek Jeter's imminent breaking of Lou Gehrig's franchise record for most hits, LoHud Yankee blog presented a list of each franchise career hit leader. In a thread on it over at BTF, poster AG#1Fan noted the Mets had a comically low career leader for a franchise that had been around for nearly a half-century: 1,418 by Ed Kranepool. So I wonder, what is the hit leader for each franchise since 1962, and how does Kranepool stack up? Here they are in order from most-to-least, broken up into fives to make it easier to read. I'll include post-1962 expansion franchises, but put them in italics: BOX 3,419 Carl Yastrzmski CIN 3,358 Pete Rose BAL 3,184 Cal Ripken Jr. KCR 3,154 George Brett MIL 3,142 Robin Yount SDP 3,141 Tony Gwynn HOU 3,060 Craig Biggio NYY 2,718 Derek Jeter STL 2,713 Lou Brock ATL 2,390 Chipper Jones CHC 2,385 Ryne Sandberg DET 2,369 Lou Whitaker LAA 2,368 Garret Anderson MIN 2,304 Kirby Puckett SEA 2,247 Edgar Martinez PHI 2,234 Mike Schmidt PIT 2,232 Willie Stargell CWS 2,136 Frank Thomas COL 2,110 Todd Helton LAD 1,977 Willie Davis SFG 1,951 Barry Bonds OAK 1,882 Bert Campaneris TEX 1,734 Ivan Rodriquez DCN 1,694 Tim Wallach CLE 1,616 Omar Vizquel TOR 1,583 Tony Fernandez NYM 1,418 Ed Kranepool ARI 1,337 Luis Gonzalez FLA 1,273 Luis Castillo TBR 1,270 Carl Crawford So yeah, the Mets career leader is as bad as it looks and isn't just some era bias issue. I never would've guessed Omar Vizquel would score so high. He's actually Cleveland's hit leader since 1941. (Push it back to 1940 and Lou Boudreau pulls ahead). History instructor by day, statnerd by night, Chris Jaffe leads one of the most exciting double lives imaginable; with the exception of every other double life possible to imagine. Despite his lack of comic-book-hero-worthiness, Chris enjoys farting around with this stuff. His new book, Evaluating Baseball's Managers is available for pre-order. Chris welcomes responses to his articles via e-mail.
John Proulx said...
Oops, never mind. Missed the post-1962 bit. Sometimes being half-blind sucks :( . Posted 09/09 at 02:09 PM
Chris J. said...
John, The list refers only to what has happened since 1962, to put the Mets on an even playing field with older teams. (And that’s why younger teams are italicized). Sam Rice’s hits all came before 1962, which is why Kirby Puckett leads. Posted 09/09 at 02:09 PM
Chris J. said...
Johnn (your second post): No worries. Happens all the time. Posted 09/09 at 02:10 PM
kranepool said...
No the real crime here is that Steady Eddie does not have a rotunda named after him or that his number is not retired. Jose Reyes wears that number 7 and one thing Eddie Kranepool never did was blown a hammy. Speed Kills I won’t rest until the Mets All Time Hits Kings has the Willets-Pt Subway stop named after him I may have to take a spray paint can up there myself Posted 09/09 at 02:21 PM
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If the Nationals get credit for Tim Wallach, then surely the Twins should get credit for Sam Rice (2,889 hits).