Happy New Year everyone!!
What does a batting champ’s APBA card look like? Kinda like this. DJ LeMahieu sports a Carew-esque card in the 2020 season. Now excuse me a sec while I add “LeMahieu” to my spell checking dictionary. Ok, good.
LeMahieu won the batting title with the Yankees in the shortened 2020 season with a .364 average. He also came home with the highest OBP mark at .421. DJ still came out slugging with ten homers in the 60-game season and that helped with his .590 slugging percentage. As a result, he led the league in OPS cracking the four-digit barrier at 1.011.
That was enough to push the Yankee second baseman up to third place in the MVP voting behind Abreu and Jose Ramirez.
| Split | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Totals | 50 | 216 | 195 | 41 | 71 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 27 | 3 | 18 | 21 | .364 | .421 | .590 |
Fielding one second baseman? Check.
25-7? Check.
Three 31s? Check.
LeMahieu also has four power numbers (1-0-0-0) to go along with this goodness. I would say his second column is a tad weak but that’s nit-picking.
DJ only has one 24 unlike that nasty Jose Abreu I posted about recently.
I’ll have to go back a bit but it seems odd to me that an OBP leader only has three 14s. Of course, LeMahieu’s .364 batting average had a lot to do with this. Even though he has three, his third one is at 64 because of the multitude of hit numbers.
And just how many thirteens does he have?
Just two.
The 3 14s work out pretty well. 216 PA. 36 chances per card. 36 goes into 216 exactly 6 times. He has 18 BB. 18 divided by 6 is 3.
So… 3! :-)
More to it than that of course but the quick dirty stuff adds up.
While I love this card, does anyone else think that maybe APBA should find another way for the extra hit number with something besides a 31?
They have destroyed the hit and run chart so badly you could not pay me to use the hit and run card on a 21st century team.