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^ According to b-r, Perry was with the Cubs, not the White Sox. Otherwise, good stuff! :-)
In that spirit... I ran another search with the Almanac, looking for the top sluggers in 50-85 AB, roughly the same range as 67-AB Shane Spencer. To keep the search manageable, I limited it to people with at least one home run, figuring that the top slugging percentage was unlikely to come from somebody without a homer, and if it did, it would be a really strange stat line, not at all "Spencerlike."
Anyway, Spencer comes out on top, slugging 1.321.
Number two would be Walt Bond, a talented hitter in limited opportunities. He hit .380 with 6 homers in 50 AB for the Indians in 1962. Slugging percentage: 1.226
Number three: Jeff Baker of the Rockies in 2006, slugging 1.204 thanks to 7 doubles and 5 homers in 57 at-bats. Thank you, Coors Field.
Fourth was Michael Ryan of the Twins, 24-61 with the same doubles and homers, a percentage of 1.195. Why don't I remember this guy?
Fifth comes everybody's favorite guest of a congressional subcommittee, Mark McGwire, slugging 1.193 in 84 at-bats in his injury-shortened 1993. His 9 homers were also second to Spencer on this list. Another group hit 7 homers, including seasons by Drysdale, Ryan Sheeley, Mike Hampton (seriously, thanks, Coors), Matt Nokes, Shelley Duncan, and of course one of my favorite baseball oddities, Brooks Kieschnick, kicking off his two-year stint as a pitcher/pinch-hitter in 2003. The next year, he lowered his ERA by a run and a half, but didn't hit nearly as good.
Spencer's 27 RBI also ranked second in the group, behind 29 in 77 at-bats by Joe Cronin in 1943. I'm guessing he could have driven in even more if not for the Nazis.
This concludes tonight's edition of the Weird Stats Corner. Tune in next week when we explore the question: Catcher's ERA: Pointless or just silly?
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