What's more impressive

by willlinn on Oct 29, 2011 10:26 PM EDT

Winning the Triple Crown

Home Run Champion

RBI Champion

AVG Champion

Matt Kemp

Home Run Champion (39)

RBI Champion (126)

Runs Champion (115)

To be a runs champion means you have to have a combination of on base percentage and speed - Normally opposite Home Run Hitters. It's reflective of the fact that he was second in the league with 40 steals.

I am leaving the fact that he had a phenomenal average (324-3rd) and on base percentage (399-4th), phenomenal steal total (40-2nd), Games (161-2nd), Hits (195-2nd), because I want the question to just compare the three titles.

Anyway, obviously he should be MVP - And Obviously the Braves should consider whether or not it would be worth it to part with the package it would require to get him.

He could be a generational player, and this might be one of those rare times when one is available, and we happen to have the best bargaining chips in baseball--so many that we could offer them whatever it took and still have a plenty.

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Oh and...

He is pretty much the only guy leading these categories coming from SS/CF/C

by willlinn on Oct 29, 2011 10:28 PM EDT reply actions

It depends on what totals you have to achieve to be the leader in each category...

some years the category leader isn’t really a very impressive number like Terry Pendleton in 1991 winning the batting title with a .319 or the AL four way tie for first in homers 1981 with 22. Conceivably one could win the triple crown with a very good but less than historic line. Same goes for any stat category or group of them.

The Braves might could have gotten Kemp last season when he was coming off as an underachieving malcontent, but now he is an MVP quality team leader that it would take a kings ransom to acquire if the boys in blue would even consider it. The price it would that it would that to get him just really outweighs the benefit of actually having him.

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by MWhitexx on Oct 29, 2011 10:45 PM EDT reply actions

I think the Braves could get Kemp but the package would be HUGE.. Its not worth the risk of having him for a season and then him splitting town when the Braves can’t pay him what he wants when free agency comes knocking.

In baseball, you're supposed to sit on your ass, spit tobacco, and nod at stupid things. Perfect life might I add.

by HeywardFTW! on Oct 29, 2011 11:30 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

Agree

Then we would have to watch a bunch of our guys playing in the World Series for the Rangers, I mean the Dodgers.

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by bighop on Oct 29, 2011 11:42 PM EDT up reply actions

Hahaha very true! Imagine our bullpen Kimbrel,Venters,EOF and Feliz… Thats filthy! But better not kick those tires.

In baseball, you're supposed to sit on your ass, spit tobacco, and nod at stupid things. Perfect life might I add.

by HeywardFTW! on Oct 29, 2011 11:55 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

The Braves ...

can’t pay him what he’s getting now. Good luck trading for him.

by hagarwood on Oct 31, 2011 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions

Did you have fun...

Did it rock fap-fap-fappin’ off to the thought of Matt Kemp in a Braves uniform next year, willlin?

Good. Because a trade for Kemp is about as likely as you having anal sex with Mila Kunis. But if you wanted to go for the two-fer tonight, that gives you another fantasy to fap to. };0)

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by Chopaholic on Oct 30, 2011 1:03 AM EDT reply actions

Because a trade for Kemp is about as likely as you having anal sex with Mila Kunis

that’s both funny and titillating.

if we gave up Hanson and Teheran with a piece like Salcedo, MLB would think it’s fair value (and Kershaw, Teheran and Hanson for the next 5 years is scary to think about). However, we don’t have the $$$ to afford an extension for Kemp that would be, on average, around 19 million a year.

by JoelGuzman'sScout on Oct 30, 2011 2:45 AM EDT up reply actions

We will have the money in 2013......

And we should wait til then. No sense in giving up the farm for a guy that can walk away. Wait til he hits free agency and make a run at him.

by SB75 on Oct 30, 2011 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions

This is possibly the best comment on TC that I have ever read.

wayyy tooo funny…Props to you sir.

And yes even though she has and bites for boobs, Mila Kunis is a freakin GODDESS!

Plus One, for the woman you chose to properly explain your statement.

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by chicagobullies on Oct 31, 2011 1:39 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Umm...

In either case, I would pretty much do what was necessary.

Personal attacks are the weapon of the ignorant.

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by MichaelProcton on Nov 2, 2011 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Rec'ed

Like Mila’s chili ring in my dreams…

-C

It’s rough to sit through these games and not have someone that can’t hit a Ball?

by cthabeerman on Nov 3, 2011 1:02 AM EDT up reply actions

I was half expecting a bunch of guys to be unzipping in here when I clicked the thread…

by crimsonqueen9 on Oct 30, 2011 7:43 PM EDT reply actions

LMAO!

Good 1!

by SB75 on Oct 30, 2011 7:48 PM EDT up reply actions

hahaha

by willlinn on Oct 30, 2011 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Which naturally leads to the question, why exactly DID you click the thread? /eyebrow raise

by !Vive la Francoeur! on Oct 31, 2011 12:55 AM EDT up reply actions

It’s tough to be a girl around here.

by crimsonqueen9 on Oct 31, 2011 4:00 AM EDT up reply actions

by Chopaholic on Oct 31, 2011 4:50 AM EDT up reply actions

Excellent banter. Simply excellent.

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by The Keith Lockhart Era on Nov 6, 2011 8:24 PM EST up reply actions

I would say that the original triple crown is more impressive...

…if only because it is rarer. The triple crown you suggested has now been accomplished in the National League for two consecutive year—-Kemp in 2011 and Pujols in 2010. Either way, either one is very impressive. That being said, leading the league in runs has far less to do with stolen bases and speed than it does with being on base a lot, having a lot of extra base hits, having a lot of home runs, and playing for a good team. From 1998-2002, the NL run champion was either Sammy Sosa or Jeff Bagwell, and that certainly had nothing to do with speed. More often than not, it is a slugger, not a speedster who leads the league in runs—-hell, Teixeira led the AL in runs in 2010, that sure as hell had absolutely nothing to do with his speed.

by cavebird on Oct 31, 2011 3:05 PM EDT reply actions