No-Hitters
NIL
Other Feats of Note- Cycles: Enos Slaughter, Dee Moore, Willie Lozado, Fabian Gaffke, Pepper Martin
- 50+ HR Seasons: Harmon Killebrew (59), Harry Taylor (51), Lawrence Hoffman (50), Paul Bentley (50)
- 150+ RBI Seasons: Harmon Killebrew (165)
Awards
Top 20s by WAR
So it wasn't Harry Taylor but a rather more familiar name in Harmon Killebrew who wrote his name in the record books with new marks of 59 HR and 165 RBI. All the same, Taylor's RoY-winning season wasn't too shabby with 51 / 127.
John Shannahan, who led the AL with a new record of 270 K, has come out of nowhere. IRL he played just the single season (1949) for the Cairo Dodgers in the KITTY League, fanning a far more modest 98 in 170 IP.
Lawrence Hoffman continued to outperform his IRL output, mashing 50 taters again. As for those three highly-rated unknowns are concerned, Robert Pierce had another solid year that netted him 4.2 bWAR and a league-leading 440 OBP, Orv Mohler managed to amass 4.6 bWAR despite his season being ended early by an injury, and Carl Mutert matched that total for the Giants.
Jesse Vann put together a sweet little 5.6 bWAR season for a bloke who never made it past A-Ball IRL.
Same goes for
George Quinn, who parlayed a 4-season career at B-Ball into a lovely 7.3 pWAR rookie year for the Marlins.
These guys notwithstanding, there's no doubt the cream is slowly but surely rising to the top.
NB. Didn't like some of the stuff I was seeing on 25/25/25/25, so I've changed AI eval to 45/27/18/10 for now.