OC's Top MLB Hitters

• Hb31187

  

  Is this just for 2011 or is this body of work? Bc if its for a career body of work, LOL @ Ichiro being 24th
• Ironman92

  

  It's just best hitters....your top 10. You'd be silly not to include some past results that are pretty recent and you'd be silly to throw someone in your top 5 who just happens to be with a high average now and never has proven anything before. You have to consider how much to take away for not playing due to injuries and how some players finished last year iwth a bang maybe the whole 2nd half......and maybe they are not doing great now. Hanley Ramirez, Justin Morneau and Chase Utley were on most everyones rankings the past 3 years......but different factors have them nowhere to be found.........but odds are if healthy and happy they are still 3 of the top 15 or so....but none of them may make it back. To each their own. Some may use batting average too strongly and some may be so overwhelmed with other stats they don't see a .246 average as a problem or believe everything else outweighs it.
  
  The more people that do one the more accurate they are.......seems like I used to get close to 25-30 responses and the list was hard to argue too much.
• Ironman92

  

  and past results and consistency is the only reason Ichiro is even mentioned this year.
• Laley23

  

  I left off Ichiro because I dont think he will ever get back to his .330 days...and he has no power to make up for it. Even at .300, no power takes him away from top 10. If your gonna hit for little power, you better be Jose Reyes or old Ichiro and go .320+
  
  Now, I keep recent results in mind, if the player is "around" their averages, because they have earned it (Pujols). But I look more into what you can do AND have done recently (dont typically go back much more than 2 years) coupled with current stats. Thus, a guy like Justin Upton, at this time next year, is likely to be ahead of a guy like Morneau, Utley, and Ichiro imo.