He preached the fundamental importance of quality at bats through plate discipline and patience.
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Besides stealing 24 bases in 31 attempts, Gordon also hit an impressive .304 over 224 at bats.
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The National League Most Valuable Player hit for 322 total bases in a just 403 official at bats.
He had only 61 at bats last season, but finished the year with a .328 average and slugging percentage of .590.
We then compared each everyday player's (minimum 370 at bats) productivity ranking to his salary ranking to record a value differential.
Tampa Bay's designated hitter and sometime third baseman hit .313 with 23 home runs and 24 doubles in just 454 at bats.
Mattingly will expect big things from Gordon in 2012 and quality at bats will be a consistent theme for the young talent.
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"You got one guy that's struck out 75 times in 200 at-bats, one guy that's struck 22 times in 150 at-bats coming into this series, " Girardi said.
Boston Red Sox right fielder Jackie Jensen had achieved career highs in six key offensive categories and had even accumulated better numbers than Mantle in Games Played, At Bats and Runs Batted In.
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The chart below chronicles the length of time in at bats that it had taken 22 members of the 3, 000 hit club to accumulate the final 10 hits as well as their respective batting average during that period of time.
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Besides striking out once every 18.68 at bats and hitting a home run every 11.82 at bats, Gehrig had finished fifth in the voting to a man who had hit only two home runs during the season and whose batting average was 43 points lower than the Yankee first baseman.
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Excluding the members of the 3, 000 hit club whose careers had coincided with the Dead Ball era (Cobb, Speaker, Wagner, Collins and Lajoie) or even pre-dated the early twentieth century (Anson), the average length of time it has taken for a member of the 3, 000 hit club to accumulate the final 10 hits is 35.14 at bats.
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Travis Hafner figures to get a lot of at-bats at designated hitter, if he avoids injuries that have limited him to fewer than 100 games in four of the last five seasons.
Minimum standards are 150 innings per year for starting pitchers, 50 innings for relief pitchers, and 300 at-bats for everyday players, for at least four of the past five seasons.
He has one hit in his last 22 at-bats and is 0 for 33 in 11 career games at the current Yankee Stadium.
Robinson Cano was hitless in 12 career at-bats against Doubront before solving him for a single.
It was his first hit in his last 27 at-bats with runners in scoring position.
He'd struck out in all four at-bats Friday night, leaving him in a 1-for-42 rut.
Brandon Phillips had a two-run single for his first career hit off Marcum in 13 at-bats.
He has two hits in his last 36 at-bats, and only one RBI in May.
It was his first home run since Sept. 27, 2010, a span of 376 at-bats.
And after that, he says he'll need "50-70 at-bats" before he's ready to rejoin the Yankees.
"We put some tough at-bats on some really tough pitchers, " Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
Over the same number of at-bats, the average American League player hit fewer than six.
Is Eduardo Nunez going to get 500 at-bats this year, and become a great player?
He is batting .361 in spring training with four homers and 11 RBIs in 36 at-bats.
"We're different, " said Damon Hollins, a left-handed thrower and right-handed hitter who compiled 712 major-league at-bats.
Ankiel hit .228 in 68 games and 158 at-bats with the Washington Nationals last season.
If you're wondering about Loria's analysis: Hechavarria, Solano and Brantly have combined for 4, 959 minor-league at-bats.
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