Inside the numbers

HR’s
Albert Pujols – 40
Mark Reynolds – 38
Carlos Pena – 34
Adam Dunn - 33
Prince Fielder – 33
Adrian Gonzalez – 33

SLG
Albert Pujols - .6651
Joe Mauer - .6352
Prince Fielder - .5942
Mark Reynolds - .5929
Adam Dunn - .5857

OBP
Joe Mauer - .4487
Albert Pujols - .4410
Chase Utley – .4229
Hanley Ramirez - .4215
Adam Dunn – 421.2

RBI
Price Fielder – 110
Albert Pujols – 106
Ryan Howard – 99
Justin Morneau – 94
Mark Teixeira – 93
Adam Dunn - 89
Ryan Braun – 89

A few observations:

- Prince Fielder is both a better hitter and a better eater than his father (which is sating quite a lot on both fronts) and the Fielder father / son tandem takes a back seat to only the Bonds and Griffey famlies (but another few years at this pace will undoubtedly place them ahead of the Griffey’s).

- Albert Pujols is really good.

- The numbers that Joe Mauer is putting up as a catcher are 2nd on record to only Mike Piazza’s 1997 year. 40 HR / 124 RBI / .362 BA / 104 RS / .431 OBP / .638 SLG

- Carlos Pena is Dave Kingman from the left side of the plate.

A closer look:

Adam Dunn is batting is batting .288 (not bad right? – you would have signed for that in a heart-beat in the beginning of the year) and having fantastic year!

In all of MLB he ranks tied for 4th in HR, ranks 5th in SLG, ranks 5th in OBP, and ranks tied for 6th in RBI.

But Adam Dunn has it even worse than Adrian Gonzalez in terms of a supporting cast behind him. The guys in front of him are ok but after him, other than Josh Willingham – it is minor league central. How inept can the Nationals be? They don't put out a major league product on the field, heck they can't even dress their players properly? They sent their two best players Dunn and Zimmerman out on the filed with misspelled jerseys! (see pic above)

Dunn has 66 runs score and ½ of those are produced by himself with his 33 Hrs!

Even with his new contract, the Nationals could have gotten quite a lot for Dunn at the trading deadline. They aren’t going to win during the duration of his contract anyway (Strasburg may add 5-7 wins to their total over the course of a year, but that's it.)

The Nationals didn’t move Dunn at the trading deadline; they should do so this off season. – Mike Cardano

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