Saturday, March 9, 2013

A Few Seasons at the Hot Corner


Though the position has been oft-maligned in the 40-plus years of the franchise - Sean Burroughs, though a monster in my view, comes to mind - the Padres have had some quality single seasons by third basemen.

Leaving out the names for now, how about these lines produced by Padres third basemen:

1.  .286/.376/.498  31 bombs  115 ribeyes
2.  .330/.385/.580  33 bombs  100 ribeyes
3.  .326/.408/.621  40 bombs  130 ribeyes
4.  .286/.310/.472  21 bombs   64 ribeyes
5.  .306/.388/.588  41 bombs  126 ribeyes
6.  .228/.329/.413  20 bombs   65 ribeyes

Granted, this is pretty much all there is worth mentioning (except maybe a Kouz season I left off), but these seasons are pretty solid.  Even the dicey seasons put up by #s 4 and 6 were at least good enough to produce a few runs virtue of the 4-bagger.

You probably know these guys, but here are the names to match:

1.  '12 Chase Headley
2.  '92 Gary Sheffield
3.  '06 Ken Caminiti
4.  '73 Dave Roberts
5.  '01 Phil Nevin
6.  '84 Graig Nettles

Nothing wrong with a trip down memory lane.  The reason I bring these numbers up is because I wonder if Chaser can improve on his monster '12 season and put up a season like Cammy or Nevin did back in the days of "enhanced" numbers.  Though I don't expect Chase to match those numbers, I'm looking forward to watching him try.