Julio Rodriguez just continues to impress, day in and day out. He recently joined the 30-30 club, becoming just the 44th person in baseball's history to accomplish such a feat. That's impressive enough, with baseball having been around since the 19th Century. There's more to it though.
Julio currently sits at 171 hits, 94 runs, and 99 RBI. What's so special about that? Well, if he can manage to get to 100 Runs, he will become just the 38th person member of the 30-30 club with 100 Runs in a season. He would be the 30th to have a 30/30 with 100 RBIs. The club is whittling down and whittling down. Let's go one step further though.
Julio is going to become the 27th player with 30 HR, 30 SB, 100 R, and 100 RBI in a season.
I don't think there is any doubt that he is going to get there. Six runs and a single RBI over the last 16 games? Yeah, that should be doable. He's scored 12 runs this month already in 13 games. Six runs over the remainder should be a better chance than not.
It's the next stat that I really want to look at it. If, and it's a big IF, Julio can get 29 hits over the last 16 games, then he would become just the 8th player in baseball history to have 30 HR, 30 SB, 100 RBI, 100 R, and 200 hits. Check the list... it's pretty impressive.
Player | Season | HR | SB | RBI | R | Hits |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hank Aaron | 1963 | 44 | 31 | 130 | 121 | 201 |
Ellis Burks | 1996 | 40 | 32 | 128 | 142 | 211 |
Larry Walker | 1997 | 49 | 33 | 130 | 143 | 208 |
Alex Rodriguez | 1998 | 42 | 46 | 124 | 123 | 213 |
Vladimir Guerrero | 2002 | 39 | 40 | 111 | 106 | 206 |
Alfonso Soriano | 2002 | 39 | 41 | 102 | 128 | 209 |
Jacoby Ellsbury | 2011 | 32 | 38 | 105 | 119 | 211 |
Julio Rodriguez | 2023 | 30 | 36 | 99 | 94 | 171 |
So, could he do it? Funny enough, he has actually accomplished that feat already this year. Yes, it was wild and insane and took a record-setting performance to do it, but he's shown that he could.
No Vlad, no Arod, No Aaron all of a sudden if he can hit six more doubles and get to 40. Only four players in history have added 40 doubles to their season totals above.
What happens if we up that steals number to 40? Well, that takes out Burks, Walker, and Ellsbury. You're looking solely at Alfonso Soriano as the ONLY PERSON IN HISTORY with 30+ HR, 40+ SB, 100+ RBI, 100+ R, 200+ H, and 40+ 2B.
So, here is what we need for Julio Rodriguez to have a season that has never before been seen in the history of baseball. 29 hits, six runs, 11 RBI, four steals, six doubles. He's got 16 games left. That would probably result in a slash line of like... .426/.460/.647. Is it really that crazy? Yeah, a little bit. Julio did hit .429/.474/.724 in August though, with 45 H, 19 R, 30 RBI, 11 SB, and 10 2B across 23 games. Break that down to 15 games (say he misses one), and you get 29 hits, 12 R, 20 RBI, 7 SB, and 7 2B.
Could you imagine? There is a slim chance that Julio Rodriguez could become the first player in MLB history with the following numbers.
30+ HR, 40+SB, 110+ RBI, 110+ R, 200+ H, 40+ 2B. Let's go Julio. Make it happen. Make history.