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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jang Hyun-gu = On the 23rd (Korean time), Hank Aaron, the legendary homerun king of the American Professional Baseball (MLB), who passed away at the age of 86, has left a number of immortal records related to hitting.
Aaron’s great record items that MLB.com and Sports Illustrated (SI) picked on the 24th are many related to his consistency.
In the 23 years of playing in the big leagues, Aaron has never hit 50 homers in a season, and has earned the second place in history with 755 homers in his career. There wasn’t an extraordinary hitting year, but he achieved a feat by hitting more than 20 homers for 20 consecutive years.
We have collected Aaron’s records with special meaning.
▲ Achieve 3,000 hits without a home run = Aaron hit 3,771 hits in his career. There are 3,16 hits minus the home run. Among the all-time hitters who hit 500 homers in the big leagues, Aaron is the only one who has stepped on the high 3,000 hits minus the home run. It was so powerful and sophisticated.
▲ Most All-Star Selection ’21 times’ = Aaron was selected as an All-Star 21 times from 1955 to 1975, setting the most record in this category. Willie Mays and Stan Musial (more than 20 times) follow.
▲’Iron Man’ without disagreement = Aaron played more than 145 games in 16 consecutive seasons from 1955 to 1970, which was two years apart in the big league. He produced home runs thanks to his thorough management and almost completely participating in the game. He hit 579 home runs during this period.
▲ Shining’Seon Guan’… 1,383 total strikeouts = Aaron’s total number of strikeouts is less than the number of total walks (1,402) he picked. He has never exceeded 100 strikeouts in a season.
In 1969, there were only 47 strikeouts, and 87 walks, 40 more than that. He hit more than 30 home runs and reached 10 even if the number of strikeouts did not exceed 65.
▲ The highest record of 6,856 bases = It is highly likely that Aaron’s career record for the most bases will hardly be broken. Albert Pujols (Los Angeles Angels, 5,923 bases), the fifth and most active player in this category, is in pursuit, but the gap is significant.
▲ Life from his late 30s = Aaron’s value shone even more in his late 30s. When I was 35-39, I hit 203 home runs. During this period, it proved that his age was only a number by running at the top of the overall slugging ratio (0.601) in the big leagues and the 1st place in OPS + OPS (0.997).
Aaron left an overwhelming number of 389 home runs since the age of 30 and 62.4 in contribution to victory over substitute players.
Along with Aaron’s name, the number of times he scored 6 WAR (16 times) and the number of times the league’s best player (MVP) won only once despite his remarkable performance every year are records to be remembered.
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2021/01/24 09:13 sent