WBI Triple Crown results

Forgive the rough formatting, but here are the results of the WBI Triple Crown fantasy points quest! Their name, followed by year is listed first. Underneath each name is their total points and then their average PPG.

Miggy Triple Crown 12  581 3.61

The Yaz Triple Crown 67 632 3.93

Brooks Robinson TC 66 612 3.95

Mickey Mantle TC 56 673 4.49

Ted Williams 47 681 4.37

Ted Williams 42 706 4.71

Joe Medwick 37 662 4.24

Lou Gehrig 34 795 5.16

Jimmie Foxx 33 697 4.68

Chuck Klein 33 638 4.20

Rogers Hornsby 25 726 5.26

Rogers Hornsby 22 796 5.17

Ty Cobb 09 704 4.51

Nap Lajoie 01 703 5.37

Tip O'neill 87 762 6.15

Paul Hines 78 209 3.37

You can see that Miggy's Triple Crown total is the least in the modern era of Triple Crown winners! Wow!

Rogers Hornsby takes the prize by ONE POINT over an incredible year by Lou Gehrig. Tip O'Neill's early era 6.15 ppg is astonishing. Only a handful of batters average HALF of that every year. And even though there is nothing as astronomical as that in the modern era, the PPG's in the upper 4's and point totals rivaling a starting pitcher's best year is really incredible by these Triple Crown winners, and somehow Miguel Cabrera ends up at the bottom of the list after ending up at the top of 3 lists.

Triple Crowners remixed with WBI

What Miguel Cabrera has done is nothing short of history as he has won the first Triple Crown in 45 years! Yet it is debatable if he even had the best year in the American League (a la Mike Trout). And in a WBI sense, his year wasn't as good as Jacoby Ellsbury's 2011 (who may ironically share the fact that he was the hitter with the most points and yet not MVP!). With all of that said...

Here are all of the Triple Crown winners ever, including Miguel Cabrera.

Year Lg	Player	Team/(BA, HR, RBI)
1967 AL	Carl Yastrzemski	BOS .326, 44 HR, 121 RBI
1966 AL	Frank Robinson	BAL .316, 49 HR, 122 RBI
1956 AL	Mickey Mantle	NYY .353, 52 HR, 130 RBI
1947 AL	Ted Williams	BOS .343, 32 HR, 114 RBI
1942 AL	Ted Williams	BOS .356, 36 HR, 137 RBI
1937 NL	Joe Medwick	STL .374, 31 HR, 154 RBI
1934 AL	Lou Gehrig	NYY .363, 49 HR, 165 RBI
1933 AL	Jimmie Foxx	PHA .356, 48 HR, 163 RBI
1933 NL	Chuck Klein	PHI .368, 28 HR, 120 RBI
1925 NL	Rogers Hornsby	STL .403, 39 HR, 143 RBI
1922 NL	Rogers Hornsby	STL .401, 42 HR, 152 RBI
1909 AL	Ty Cobb	DET .377, 9 HR, 107 RBI
1901 AL	Nap Lajoie	PHA .426, 14 HR, 125 RBI
1887 AA	Tip O'Neill	STL .435, 14 HR, 123 RBI
1878 NL	Paul Hines	PRO .358, 4 HR, 50 RBI

2012 AL  Miguel Cabrera DET .330, 44 HR, 139 RBI

Want to take a stab at which one of these crown winners had the best Waffle Ball year? (Miguel Cabrera amassed 581 total points. You are guessing who had the most WBI fantasy points in the above list of players. Hint: it was not Miguel Cabrera or anyone before the year 1910.)

Which one do you think had the best PPG average?

Wanna try and guess what those numbers were? Go for it! Post a response here on the blog or on facebook!

I'll post the results soon, but take a stab! I was wrong with both of my guesses on who won total points and PPG.

I will admit that some statistics were not kept for all of these guys (caught stealing, sacrfice flies, intentional walks and some others) as you go farther back in history, but i do not think it will throw off your guesses.