Derrek Lee Total Sploogefest Love-a-Thon Thread

[Mike D.]

Gah! What's worse? That or Karros, A-Gonz, Damian?

The Cubs managed to go seven games in the NLCS with that trio though.

Right but if Hendry had listened to Phil Rogers and Chuck and signed Thome, we'd have not only won the World Series, but the Super Bowl and the Stanley Cup Finals as well.

[Denny Crane]

uh hello??

[forklift]

Lee and E-Ramis going yard in the same inning two nights in a row? Are you f**in' kidding me???

Now, the Franhise and Krissy might both be back soon, and The Big Kahuna had a big start tonight.

I'm hearing the siren song, and I don't care about the rocks...

[Uncouth Sloth]

Lee and E-Ramis going yard in the same inning two nights in a row? Are you f**in' kidding me???

Now, the Franhise and Krissy might both be back soon, and The Big Kahuna had a big start tonight.

I'm hearing the siren song, and I don't care about the rocks...

I went out on one of these sites the other day and made the statement that Lee is having the single greatest year EVER by a Cub.

Gotta be careful what you take, even if it is prescribed to you by a physician.  There is NO such thing as a benign medicine.

[Chuck]

I went out on one of these sites the other day and made the statement that Lee is having the single greatest year EVER by a Cub.

Rogers Hornsby - 1929
http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hornsro01.shtml

AB      R     H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB   BB  SO    BA   OBP   SLG   TB   SH  HBP
602  156  229  47  8  39  149   2    87  65  .380  .459  .679  409   22    1 

[Andy]

How quickly we forget.  No matter what you think of him, it'll be hard to ever top Sammy's 2001.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sosasa01.shtml

[Brian]

How quickly we forget.  No matter what you think of him, it'll be hard to ever top Sammy's 2001.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sosasa01.shtml

D.Lee's OPS is nearly identical.  Higher batting average, fewer HR's, fewer RBI's.  And it's not like Sammy had any more help than Derrek that year.  God was the rest of that lineup pathetic.

[Uncouth Sloth]

How quickly we forget.  No matter what you think of him, it'll be hard to ever top Sammy's 2001.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sosasa01.shtml

No, I didn't forget, certainly the 2001 Sofa numbers will NEVER be matched again.

But all around, in terms of fielding, running, hitting in situations, NOT leaving guys on base, starting things up...his ability to start something when we're dead AND driving in runs when we need them, and last and possibly least, NOT being an asswipe...if this keeps up all year, I'll take the 2005 Lee model.

And Chuck, hmm.  I suppose I ought to not ignore Hack Wilson's 191 ribbies the next year, either. 

I guess my point was: what else will Lee's 2005, Wilson's 1930, Hornsby's 1929, Sosa's 1998 and Sosa's 2001 have in common?  None of them will end in a champagne bath.

[forklift]

I went out on one of these sites the other day and made the statement that Lee is having the single greatest year EVER by a Cub.

Rogers Hornsby - 1929
http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hornsro01.shtml

AB      R     H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB   BB  SO    BA   OBP   SLG   TB   SH  HBP
602  156  229  47  8  39  149   2    87  65  .380  .459  .679  409   22    1 

I'm too lazy to put up the stats, but Hack Wilson's 1930 is the greatest non-steroidal offensive year ever.

[The Paul Popovich Experience]

Greatest Cub Single-Season Outputs, by position:

LF--Hack Wilson, 1930 (honorable mention for Billy Williams 1970)
CF--Kiki Cuyler, 1930 (man, what a murderer's row)
RF--Sammy Sosa, 2001
3B--Ron Santo, 1964
SS--Ernie Banks, 1959
2B--Rogers Hornsby, 1929
1B--since Lee's season is not complete: Phil Cavaretta, 1945?
C--Gabby Hartnett, 1930

[Tonker]

I'm too lazy to put up the stats, but Hack Wilson's 1930 is the greatest non-steroidal offensive year ever.

.356/.454/.723 /1.177 56HR 191RBI 146R 105BB 84K, 423 total bases!

If it hadn't been for the fact that steroids weren't even invented, you'd have thought he was juiced, though.  In 1931 his SLG was just .435 in nearly 400AB - knocking on for a 300 point drop.  Ooyah.

[Heywood]

"Wilson was 5'6" tall, weighed 190, wore a size 5 1/2 shoe and had an 18" collar.  "Wilson was a highball hitter on the field and off it.  Gin was his tonic."  When he died in 1948, a $350 grant from the National League was all that saved him from a pauper's grave."

[Tonker]

My God, what a freak.  Down to the waist he's relatively normal, but beyond that there's something badly out of whack.  It looks like someone's taken the upper body of a man and stapled it to the hind legs of a Shetland pony.  I actually think he could have touched his knees without bending down.

[tjbrown]

PPE,
You can probably come up with a pretty good second team as well:

C- Rick Wilkins, 1993 (a one-year wonder, but outside of Hartnett, no one put up numbers for one season like he did)
1B- Mark Grace, 1995
2B- Ryne Sandberg, 1984
SS- Woody English, 1930
3B- Aramis Ramirez, 2004 (He beats out Madlock 1976 by a nose)
LF-  Billy Williams, 1970
CF- Andy Pafko, 1950
RF- Andre Dawson, 1987
Util-Jim Hickman, 1970 (He played 70 games at 1b, 50 in CF and 30 in RF)

[SD]

Ridiculous.