Frank Thomas Question/Trivia

[rynesrevenge0206]

I was looking through some stats and I noticed that Frank Thomas has an odd stat.....

 

8 doubles

33 homeruns

 

Is this as rare or odd as it seems? The only player I can think of that might have a similar ratio is Bonds, but he has legged out 19 doubles to his 23 HRs. I realize that zero speed and bad health turn some doubles into long singles, but come on!

 

Any thoughts?

[Abe Frohman]

You may have nailed it on the head with the bad wheels. Ryan Howard has around 20 doubles with 56 HR, about the same ratio. That is pretty odd, though.

[soccer10k]

Mark McGwire had some insane HR:2B ratios as well late in his career. In 2001, his last season, he hit 29 HR's and had just 4 2B's.

[Mark Priors Calves]

Frank Thomas has turned many doubles into singles this season.

[Guest]

amongst the top 40 in SLP

 

PLAYER HR/2b

Frank Thomas 4.00

Ryan Howard 2.94

David Ortiz 1.88

Adam Dunn 1.86

Jim Thome 1.70

Jason Giambi 1.64

Albert Pujols 1.63

Lance Berkman 1.61

Jermaine Dye 1.60

Carlos Delgado 1.44

Troy Glaus 1.36

Travis Hafner 1.35

Alex Rodriguez 1.35

Manny Ramirez 1.26

Jason Bay 1.24

Alfonso Soriano 1.22

Paul Konerko 1.11

Justin Morneau 1.10

Carlos Beltran 1.08

Carlos Lee 1.03

Aramis Ramirez 1.00

Ray Durham 1.00

Joe Crede 0.97

Vladimir Guerrero 0.93

Chipper Jones 0.92

Vernon Wells 0.91

Bill Hall 0.91

Mark Teahen 0.86

Adam LaRoche 0.82

David Wright 0.71

Chase Utley 0.68

Miguel Tejada 0.65

Matt Holliday 0.64

Garrett Atkins 0.53

Miguel Cabrera 0.52

Carlos Guillen 0.49

Lyle Overbay 0.46

Nick Johnson 0.45

Scott Rolen 0.45

Grady Sizemore 0.45

[TB_11]

I was looking through some stats and I noticed that Frank Thomas has an odd stat.....

 

8 doubles

33 homeruns

 

Is this as rare or odd as it seems? The only player I can think of that might have a similar ratio is Bonds, but he has legged out 19 doubles to his 23 HRs. I realize that zero speed and bad health turn some doubles into long singles, but come on!

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thomas really labors when he runs the bases now. Saying he has zero speed is being nice.

[treebird]

yeah, if frank gets a double, something went wrong. it's completely routine for him to hit a line drive into the corner and there's never any consideration of second base.

 

he did score from first on a double last week though. it was pretty awesome.

[WrigleyField 22]

Any of those ground rule doubles?

[NorthsideAvenger]

Are we surprise? This is the era of "Homerun or strikeout."

[Rob]

Are we surprise? This is the era of "Homerun or strikeout."

 

That approach is every bit as old as Rob Deer.

[Geech]

Are we surprise? This is the era of "Homerun or strikeout."

 

Frank Thomas really doesn't strike out excessively. He's even hitting for a pretty good average now (around .280 after today's game). This is really just a case of the Big Hurt being old and kind of broken down.