VOTE: “He’ll win a batting title someday”
Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 9:54 pm by SJK
As long as there has been baseball, there have been broadcasters who say Robinson Cano will win a batting title someday, referring to him like he is a 22-year old prospect making his debut.
Well, after going 1-3 on Thursday and extending his hitting streak to 17 games, Robinson Cano is hitting .373/.414/.632. His batting average is tops in the AL and is .001 ahead of Justin Morneau as of this post.
Considering he still swings at everything, has a career BB% of 4.4%, and currently has a BABIP of .379 -- we ask, is this the year the perpetual prediction becomes reality? Vote and then tell us why or why not.
Could he be right?
Tags: cano, poll, win a batting title someday!
Probably not since everyone keeps mentioning how he will. I wonder if 10 years from now if McCarver and Buck or who ever for that matter will still be saying the same thing. Boston still sucks, that is all.
Package Cano with his mexican buddy Melky and ship them the fuck out of New York NOWWWW.
KEEP JOBA, GET RID OF HUGHES.
PACKAGE HUGHES AND AJAX AND MONTERO TO TORONTO FOR HALLADAY NOW !!!!
Don’t know… but he win hot body title..mmmmnnn
Melky likes to eat peanuts.
I voted yes. Obviously, he’s not going to keep up the current pace and that BABIP is not sustainable…but even with a correction, I could see him around .340 by the end of the year. That could do it.
Cano’s lazy .340 in the wiffleball park cannot compare to the hard playing Pedroia’s .257 in the Nation.
Pedroia sets goals for himself and gets his jersey dirty like every good hard working ballplayer should.
Yeah, the BABIP is a little high (he’s outperforming both his career BABIP and his xBABIP by 50-60 points), but Morneau’s is even flukier (differential is well over 100), and he’s got a sizable lead on Big Fat Miguel Cabrera. It would seem this is the year.
The only thing that I could see Morneau having an advantage is his plate discipline. He’s walking A LOT more this season, and swings at a lot less outside the strike zone. A prolonged slump could really hurt Cano, because he won’t be walking and could be swinging at garbage.
Chut Up Petea Gammon… Robbie set goals, one time he want to fuck me all night and he do.. and he work hard..and get dirty..you bitch
hilarious Mccarver image
I don’t even like baseball
Negative reinforcement you idiots! he needs it!
I heet da baw good cus im lucky and blessed you know? I’m just happy da teem is winning.
I stole the MVP from Jeter when I wasn’t even the best player on my own team.
I did my due dilligence on cano.
I am currently B-ing my L all over American League pitchers Ts
Do I think that Cano deserves a batting title ??? Yes.
Does that mean he will win one this in the foreseeable future ??? Who knows.
lol Mary is true !
if i can reach it…it’s a strike….i taught him everything he knows about hitting….
I heet peetch from peetcher. You know I a bless guy. I jus heet ball an try to may sun happ. Jus giv it up to gah. Teh mang upstair.
My friends this IS…..I repeat IS the year Mr. Cano wins a batting title someday.
You heard it here first,
-Lionel.
You know Robinson Cano really doesn’t remind me of how good I was as a ball player. I would have out hit and fielded Robinson Cano on his best day. My big red machine was far superior to this, or any other Yankee team.
So will Robinson Cano win a batting title? It’s not really important because I am a hall of fame legend.
Everything about this post is freakin’ amazing. Genius.
Robbie is sure to win the title. He looks comfortable at the plate and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Not if I have anything to say about it! Bwhahahahahahaha!
If he does win a Batting Title this season, I like to think I had a little something to do with it.
I mentored him thorughout the spring, and also gave him Kate Hudsons number.
Maybe Tex needs Kate Hudsons number ?
Whether he wins a batting title or not he has already been in the top 10 2x and looks like he will be there in the top 3 this year. He will also be in the top 3 for MVP talk. Add in his defense this year and he could easily win a batting title and MVP this year.
This is sick:
Last 365 days
Games – 161
ABs – 671
PAs – 626
Runs – 106
Hits – 215
2B – 52
3B – 2
HR – 28
RBI – 96
BA – .343
OBP -.379
SLG – .567
OPS – .946
That’s an MVP.
At least he has the right initials.
What’s in the bahx!
Kim’s last name should be Kay.
Oh my goodness gracious!
NoMaas is the 4chan of Yankees blogs.
Also, I’m a big douche.
Robbie Cano is the most exciting player in baseball except for myself.
lol @ the title of the poll
Keep fucking that chicken.
We’re two months in: The batting title requires consistency, consistency requires patience.
Matt I’m glad you brought that up because I was both consistent and patient. My big red machine was so consitent we were the greatest team of all time. I’m so patient that I’d turn a double play better than Cano or any other second baseman of this or any other generation.
Did I mention my hall of fame legend status?
Wow. Batting average?
We’re still talking about batting average?
That’s good.
I was worried that my stat nerdiness had become totally outdated with all this WAR and RE24 and shit.
Anyway, not this year. Ichiro only has two of them, and he’s drawing more walks this year. Robbie will win one with 504 plate appearances in an injury-shortened year at age 34.
If it means we have to take McCarver lording his prediction cock over us so be it. Cano is beast fucking the league and he’ll probably finish around 340ish 350ish.
I’ve never played an inning of baseball and I’m in the hall of fame lolwut
USE THE SCWARTZ!!
This is a strange post considering he has a career batting average of .311. He’s part of a small group of players you can be reasonably confident will have a good batting average most years since he makes such good contact. During a great year, you’d think he has what it takes to compete for a batting title. Really, the thing that coaches and scouts and broadcasters have been saying every year about him that seems more like wishcasting is that he’ll become a power hitter who will 30-35 homers each year. It hasn’t happened yet, although he’s on pace for those numbers this season. But what’s the point of being snarky about Cano? Or am I imagining there is snark in this post?
And thus Cano ends his hitting streak.
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@Serious Poster
you’re imagining the snark
Does this mean I’m not the #1 rated 2B anymore?
You can’t predict baseball folks, I don’t even know why you’d wanna try. Right Suzyn?
Why does clicking on Suzyn Waldman bring you to a power tool site?