You will never find statistics so different from each other as the AL batting leader Ichiro Suzuki and NL batting Leader Barry Bonds. To be fair, Suzuki is Mariner's lead-off hitter while Bonds is the heart of the Giant line-up. But as the book Moneyball reported, the two offensive statistics that lead to victories are on-base percentage and slugging average (total bases divided by total at-bats), with on-base percentage three times as important as slugging average. Small wonder that Suzuki's impressive, potentially record-breaking number of hits hasn't taken Seattle anywhere, whereas Bonds's stats, and his mediocre teams lead in the wild-card race, pretty much verify what Moneyball already said.
Look them up for yourself. My next two posts will be be links to Suzuki's year-by-year stats and Bonds's year by year stats.
James Leroy Wilson's one-man magazine.
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