Miguel Cabrera Likes To Hit Home Runs

[DaYooperASBDT]

Just heard an interesting stat - of Cabrera's 44 home runs this year, 40 came off a RHP (in 502 PA)

I'll have to work on a list of RH batters who hit 40 off RHP in one season, here goes:

1999 Mark McGwire: 501 PA - 49 of 65 home runs
1998 Mark McGuire: 498 PA - 55 of 70 home runs (better living thru chemistry!)
1997 Mark McGuire: 508 PA - 46 of 58 home runs
1996 Mark McGuire: 417 PA - 40 of 52 home runs


2001 Sammy Sosa: 574 PA - 51 of 64 home runs
2000 Sammy Sosa: 551 PA - 42 of 50 home runs
1999 Sammy Sosa: 525 PA - 45 of 63 home runs
1998 Sammy Sosa: 521 PA - 54 of 66 home runs

1932 Jimmy Foxx: 570 PA - 46 of 58 home runs
1934 Jimmy Foxx: 584 PA - 41 of 44 home runs
1938 Jimmy Foxx: 612 PA - 46 of 50 home runs (guess all the LHP called in sick)

1938 Hank Greenberg: 555 PA - 49 of 58 home runs

2001 Alex Rodriguez: 583 PA - 40 of 52 home runs
2002 Alex Rodriguez: 544 PA - 49 of 57 home runs
2007 Alex Rodriguez: 532 PA - 47 of 54 home runs

more to come

[froggyvk]

Since 1974:

2001 Barry Bonds (56)
1998 Mark McGwire (55)
1998 Sammy Sosa (54)
2001 Sammy Sosa (51)
1999 Mark McGwire (49)
2002 Alex Rodriguez (49)
2007 Alex Rodriguez (47)
2010 Jose Bautista (46)
1997 Mark McGwire (46)
1999 Sammy Sosa (45)
2001 Jim Thome (45)
1997 Larry Walker (43)
1995 Albert Belle (42)
2004 Adrian Beltre (42)
2001 Luis Gonzalez (42)
1997 Ken Griffey Jr. (42)
2001 Todd Helton (42)
2006 Ryan Howard (42)
2005 Andruw Jones (42)
2000 Sammy Sosa (42)
2006 Lance Berkman (40)
2002 Lance Berkman (40)
2012 Miguel Cabrera (40)
1987 Andre Dawson (40)
2007 Prince Fielder (40)
1999 Ken Griffey Jr. (40)
1996 Mark McGwire (40)
2001 Alex Rodriguez (40)
2002 Jim Thome (40)

[froggyvk]

AB/HR:

2001 Barry Bonds (5.98)
1998 Mark McGwire (6.89)
1996 Mark McGwire (8.03)
2002 Jim Thome (8.03)
1999 Mark McGwire (8.14)
2001 Jim Thome (8.53)
1998 Sammy Sosa (8.87)
2006 Ryan Howard (9.14)
1997 Mark McGwire (9.20)
2002 Alex Rodriguez (9.49)
2001 Sammy Sosa (9.49)
2007 Alex Rodriguez (9.51)
2006 Lance Berkman (9.55)
2007 Prince Fielder (9.63)
1997 Ken Griffey Jr. (9.81)
1995 Albert Belle (9.83)
1997 Larry Walker (9.86)
2001 Todd Helton (9.95)
2010 Jose Bautista (10.02)
2001 Luis Gonzalez (10.07)
1999 Sammy Sosa (10.27)
1999 Ken Griffey Jr. (10.90)
2005 Andruw Jones (10.98)
2004 Adrian Beltre (11.05)
2002 Lance Berkman (11.23)
2000 Sammy Sosa (11.43)
2012 Miguel Cabrera (11.58)
1987 Andre Dawson (12.00)
2001 Alex Rodriguez (12.50)

[DaYooperASBDT]

Good stuff, but how many of those 40-plus home runs were off right handed pitchers, as a right handed batter?
That's hard to do - unless you course you had some "helpers" along the way.

[froggyvk]

Ah, okay. Yeah, the list is a bit shorter. Cabrera is one of 9 players since 1974 to do that. As an aside, and this would be a great trivia question, there's only one switch hitter to do so: Lance Berkman with Houston in both 2002 and 2006.

1998 Mark McGwire (55)
1999 Mark McGwire (49)
1998 Mark McGwire (46)
1996 Mark McGwire (40)

1998 Sammy Sosa (54)
2001 Sammy Sosa (51)
1999 Sammy Sosa (45)
2000 Sammy Sosa (42)

2002 Alex Rodriguez (49)
2007 Alex Rodriguez (47)
2001 Alex Rodriguez (40)

2010 Jose Bautista (46)

1995 Albert Belle (42)

2004 Adrian Beltre (42)

2005 Andruw Jones (42)

2012 Miguel Cabrera (40)

1987 Andre Dawson (40)