Mark Mcgwire Vs Sammy Sosa
Mark Mcgwire Vs Sammy SosaAlthough a lot of people play baseball two names that come to mind are Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. McGwire and Sosa are very good hitters but are also so very different hitters. McGwire and Sosa are very great athletes who share apart of baseball history. McGwire and Sosa are good players but off the field they are very charitable individuals. McGwire and Sosa have many similarities and differences.
IT is hard to compare Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa's statistic's because they haven't been in the league the same amount of time. The only way to fairly evaluate and compare these two individuals is to truly wait until they have both retired from baseball. Today we can only compare them to what they have done to today.
McGwire and Sosa's hitting average over all is very close. McGwire has a .265 and Sosa has a .264. At the rate their going Sosa will probably have a better average then McGwire when he retires. Their slugging percent right now as it stands. McGwire has a better slugging percent then Sosa. McGwire has a .575 as Sosa has .497 averages. Lately I noticed that McGwire's slugging percent in the past couple of years has only gotten better so at the rate he is going his slugging percent will probably be over .650 when he retires. However, for Sosa he has pretty much stayed the same in the past few years. If he keeps it up his slugging percent will probably stay pretty much the same.
The number of hits that McGwire and Sosa have been pretty close to the number they should have in this point of there careers. McGwire has 1388 hits in 1576 games and Sosa has 1280 hits in 1289 games. If Sosa was in the league, the same amount of time that McGwire has Sosa would have probably had more hits. Sosa has only played in 1289 games as where McGwire has only played in 1576 games Sosa has a 99 percent change of getting a hit per game but McGwire has only an 88 percent change of getting a hit per game. Sosa has only played in 1289 games but McGwire has played in 1576 games.
Their Runs Batted in (RBI) is a different story. McGwire has 1162 RBI's in his 13-year career so far while Sosa has 832 RBI's in his 10-year career so far. McGwire has struck out only 1294 times in 5267 at bats (AB) but Sosa has struck out only 1244 times in 4832 Ab's. They have both struck out more then they got walked (BB). McGwire BB 1089 time and Sosa bb 371.
During the 1998 baseball season McGwire and Sosa were chasing the home run record which was held for 37 years by Roger Maris who played for the Yankees in which he hit 61 home runs. McGwire started the season off strong. Sosa who came on strong in the middle of the year...
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