Miller: Which of baseball’s most unbreakable records might actually get broken in 2019?
From Sam Miller at ESPN.com on March 19, 2019:
In the years since Barry Bonds retired, records have been mostly replaced in baseball by fun facts. A record is something you chase. People know what it is in advance. A fun fact can be just as impressive, but it is bespoke and discovered only after it happens. Mike Trout has the most WAR in history through age 26. Jamie Moyer had more wins after his 31st birthday than Pedro Martinez had in his career. Mark Grace once hit .825 when he went the opposite way, the highest ever. Fun facts, but not records.
There will be some fantastic fun facts this baseball season, a few dozen from Trout alone, but try to find a real record that might be broken. Records, since Bonds retired, hardly ever get broken. Other than Aaron Judge breaking the rookie home run record in 2017, and the Yankees breaking the all-time team home run record last year — both fairly fringy as records go — can you think of any record in the 2010s that (A) you were aware of before 2010 and (B) has been broken since? Not really!
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Originally published: March 19, 2019. Last Updated: March 19, 2019.