Triple Crown!

[1gobluedem]

Hooray for Miggy and the Tigers!

[Broken_Hero]

1. Congrats!

I didn't think he would pull it off, especially the HR battle with Hamilton. Congrats Tiger fans,

[Ohio Dem]

2. MVP

If he doesn't win the MVP, something is wrong.

Congratulations to him and Tiger fans.

[KamaAina]

3. Well done!

Hopefully they make it to the ALCS against the A's (and lose ).

[bluedigger]

4. Congrats to Cabrera!

[Auggie]

5. We do realize how difficult this is, don't we?

Last one was in 1967, Carl Yastrzemski.

This is an outstanding accomplishment.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. But The Jamesians Say No Big Deal

Look, i'm as into statistical analysis as anyone, but some of the "advanced" metric fail the eye test.

The diminishment of the RBI is one example, as well as batting average.

Since this has only been done a handful of times in baseball history, it is such a major accomplishment that no amount of WAR, OPS, Range Factor, ad nauseum, will convince me that we just SAW one of the great hitting years ever.

I think too many people saw Moneyball (which i like a lot) and think that all these new stats are actually using the advanced combinatorial equations they show in Pete's papers. Frankly, i don't believe that's true. I think a lot of these are retrogressions to fit success already established by any other measurement. (As in, "gee, Babe Ruth's OPS and WAR in 1927 were the top of the league and the numbers prove it." Well, duh!)

GAC

[Kingofalldems]

7. Congratulations!