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what in your opinion is the most amazing baseball stat EVER? past or present.?
mine is lou gerhig's 175 rbis in 1927. gerhig batted cleanup, while ruth hit 3rd. all ruth did that year was belt 60 taters, leaving the bases clean for 60 of gerhig's at bats. the iron man still drove in 175 runs!! imagine how many he would have had if ruth had only hit say, 40 homers. AMAZING!!
Lots of good choices above. I don't know if this is the most amazing statistic, but I think of all the records it is the least likely to be broken: Cy Young's 7,356 innings pitched.
It would take 25 years of almost 300 innings pitched per season to break it. It's been 26 years since ANY pitcher logged 300 innings in a season and that was in the days before the advent of pitch counts, expanded bullpens and an intense (and understandable) focus on taking ultra-care of pitchers arms. For these reasons I can't see this one record ever being broken.
Arty gets belted by a pitching machine!