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Manny Ramirez, Best shot at Triple Crown?

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Well it would have to be a surge of 50 or so games and unless Manny can pull an Ichiro of last year there's no shot in a Triple Crown. Doesn't take anything away form his good season though.
 
Pujols and Lee have a MUCH better shot at a triple crown this year than Manny does....just look at the stats...

Manny is 50pts back in the batting average race...Damon is hitting 338, Manny is hitting 288 - he trails A-Rod by 1 HR, and he leads in RBI's comfortably, by 14.

Lee is .oo1 off the top stop in BA, 4 HR's behind A.Jones, 7 RBI's behind Carlos Lee

Pujols is .009 off the top in BA, 6 back in HR's, and 2 behind in RBI's.

A-Rod is 21 pts back in BA, leads by 1 in HR's, and is 17 back in RBI's

Lee and Pujols (not A-Rod) have a better chance than Manny does this year - 50pts in batting average with ~50 games left is just not very likely - the other guys are a big series away from leading in all categories, minus A-Rod, who would have some work to do to make up RBI's and avg, but I'd still say he's neck and neck with Manny for a shot..

that said, I would be surprised to see Derek Lee in this discussion next year, or any year after that...but Pujols, Manny, and A-Rod, along with the Pujols-esq M.Cabrera on the Marlins, are likely to be in this range for a while....

 
Manny + left field = WTF

BTW still not having that great of a year. Average is down and he frankly often looked confused at the plate this year.

P.S. Yankees still rule.
 
If the season ended today, Manny is the AL MVP IMO. The key there is... You take him out of the Boston lineup, and they become an average offensive team, vs. the juggernaut they are now. He has virtually no shot at the Triple Crown (and as others have said Pujols probably has the best shot coming up, Manny is getting old so he'd probably have to do it in the next couple of seasons), but he'll be in the race for MVP to the end (barring some crazy cold streak). All this after he was hitting as low as .224 earlier in the season, when, yes, he did look confused at the plate. But he doesn't any more and he's putting up great numbers now.
 
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