MLB after one quarter: Baseball paces to know, from 61-HR rookie to 110-win juggernauts
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It’s believing season in Major League Baseball . This weekend, all but one team will pass the 40-game mark, a very unofficial but nonetheless meaningful checkpoint that signals the season is already – gulp – one quarter complete. And it’s officially OK to start buying what you’re seeing.
Oh, that’s not a hard and fast rule. Fans can believe the New York Mets won’t lose 99 games, and Fernando Tatis Jr. won’t finish with zero home runs, and they’ll probably be correct.
But for many trends, the cement has set even if it’s not totally dry. With that, we take a look at six paces that are defining the season – and would certainly look startling come the end of September: 61: Home runs for Munetaka Murakami OK, this one might be tough to maintain. That doesn’t diminish what the 6-foot-2, 213-pound Murakami has done in his first season in the world’s premier league.
Sure, the worrywarts were right: Murakami is striking out 34. 4% of the time, his 55 punchouts leading the AL. His whopping 43.
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