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Josh Hamilton and Fun With Numbers

So, I subscribed to Bill James' online site recently.  Mainly because it is just $9 per quarter, and it allows me access to the Dewan +/- fielding numbers, which I think are considered pretty close to the gold standard in terms of fielding stats.

Anyway, there's a lot of other cool things in there, one of them being a detailed breakdown of RBIs and runs scored.  This falls in the category of Jayson Stark/Norm Hitzges stats...stuff that doesn't necessarily mean anything, but can be interesting to look at.

So I was looking at Josh Hamilton's RBI breakdown, which I found pretty fascinating...he has 95 RBIs, with 76 of those coming from driving in Ian Kinsler, Michael Young, or himself.  He's driven in Kinsler 31 times, which I'd guess is probably the highest for any pair of players in the league.

There are seven other players who have been driven in by Hamilton this season, all of whom are in single digits in terms of the number of times Hamilton has driven them in. 

Can anyone of you guess (without looking it up, dammit) who those seven are?

And as a bonus question...three Rangers have been driven in just one time by Hamilton?  Can you name those three?

Answers later this afternoon...

UPDATE -- Answers after the jump:

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From the Bill James website...the players Hamilton has driven in, with the number of times:

Ben Broussard
Frank Catalanotto
German Duran
Ian Kinsler 31 
Gerald Laird
Jarrod Saltalamacchia
Chris Shelton
Ramon Vazquez
Michael Young 24 
His Own Bad Self 21 

 

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3 driven in only once

Saltalmachia, Catalanato, Byrd

by 1man5tools on Jul 15, 2008 10:32 AM CDT   0 recs

I'll guess

The 7: Salty, Cat, Byrd, Vazquez, Murph, Laird, Boggs

The 3: Murph, Salty, Broussard

"Will the Rangers ever win...past July?" - Peter Schmidt

by TheJeezus on Jul 15, 2008 10:36 AM CDT   0 recs

That doesn't make any sense

I’ll replace Brousard with Boggs

"Will the Rangers ever win...past July?" - Peter Schmidt

by TheJeezus on Jul 15, 2008 10:37 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

3 only once

Broussard, Melhuse, Shelton

by ksf42001 on Jul 15, 2008 10:36 AM CDT   0 recs

Guys driven in once

Botts, Benny B and Shelton.

Nothing pithy here. Please move long.

by WyoRanger on Jul 15, 2008 10:37 AM CDT   0 recs

first 7 – Cat, Byrd, Duran, Boggs, Laird, Vazquez and Salty

only once – Max Ram, Murphy, Shelton

by cgolden on Jul 15, 2008 10:37 AM CDT   0 recs

The three he's brought in only once

Would have had to have hit in about the 5-6-7 spots.

I’m gonna say… Murphy, Byrd and Boggs.

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by lonestarJon on Jul 15, 2008 10:37 AM CDT   0 recs

The Three

I looked up the answer, well…just because I felt like it. I’ve found two of the three but can’t figure out who the third one is.

Well I can pretend to be Britney Spears. I'm already standing in urine and I'm with someone I don't like.

by Escher on Jul 15, 2008 10:54 AM CDT   0 recs

yeah, i'm beginning to think there may be an error in the question

as well. i’m only seeing two.

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by willamos2 on Jul 15, 2008 11:08 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

guesses

Michael Young
Ramon Vazquez
Gerald Laird
Jarrod Saltalamacchia
Chris Shelton – just 1 time
Kevin Millwood – just 1 time
German Duran – just 1 time

Greatest Inventions Ever? 1. TiVO, 2. Boobs, 3. Baseball

by willamos2 on Jul 15, 2008 10:55 AM CDT   0 recs

shit, forgot Cat

I’ll replace Laird with Cat

Greatest Inventions Ever? 1. TiVO, 2. Boobs, 3. Baseball

by willamos2 on Jul 15, 2008 10:55 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Guesses

(I haven’t looked at the comments above me)

Single digits, multiple times
Vazquez
Duran
Cat
Laird

One RBI/R pairing
MaxRam
Botts
Salty

by JBImaknee on Jul 15, 2008 11:36 AM CDT   0 recs

My guess

Cat
Vazquez
Broussard
Shelton
Laird
Duran
Salty

No clue on the one timers.

by bdavison94 on Jul 15, 2008 12:00 PM CDT   0 recs

Woo hoo!

I got it! No cheating either. Although I was thinking that I might replace Broussard with a pitcher.

by bdavison94 on Jul 15, 2008 2:13 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

one of the 7

i’m guessing one of them is a pitcher.

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Jul 15, 2008 12:11 PM CDT   0 recs

me too....

but I wasn’t going to just throw one out.

by bdavison94 on Jul 15, 2008 12:46 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

i will

feldman?

""If they'd have told me you can make the team but you've got to shine the shoes, I'd have been there shining shoes." -Bradley

by ab03 on Jul 15, 2008 1:09 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

any chance

you can post some of those fielding stats… mainly focusing on Kinsler compared to other 2B?

by zkmavz on Jul 15, 2008 4:28 PM CDT   0 recs

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