Congrats to Frank Thomas on his 500th homer today. Frank is now one of the elite in touching all four bases. But his record is less auspicious when it comes to triples--he's only hit 11 for his career. His rate of at bats per triple is the "highest" (i.e., worst) of any player who ever had 7000+ ABs, and third-worst among those with 6000+ . And all three of those worst are active or recent player. Here's the list:
Mark McGwire, 6 triples in 6187 AB, 1031.2 AB per triple
Mike Piazza (active), 7 in 6705, 957.9
Frank Thomas (active), 11 in 7666, 696.9
Boog Powell, 11 in 6681, 607.4
Eric Karros, 11 in 6441, 585.5
John Olerud, 13 in 7592, 584.0
Robin Ventura, 14 in 7064, 504.6
Jose Canseco, 14 in 7057, 504.1
The old Bash Brothers of Oakland may have bashed plenty over the walls, but they were more crash than dash when it came to legging it out on a gapper. Those two form the top and bottom slice of bread on this triple-less sandwich.
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