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Biggest Batting Gainers and Losers for 2000.(baseball players, statistics)(Brief Article)
Anaheim's Darin Erstad and Houston's Richard Hidalgo were among the players who improved their hitting average dramatically in 2000.
REBOUNDING SMARTLY FROM A SUB-PAR season in 1999 that saw his batting average plummet to .253, Darin Erstad reached new heights as a major league hitter in 2000 by batting a robust .355 for the Anaheim Angels.
The 102-point improvement represents the biggest batting gain in the majors among players who appeared in 100 or more games in each of the last two seasons, and was the sixth largest increase from one season (based on 400 at-bats) in history.
Erstad topped Baseball Digest's biggest gainer chart by collecting a league high 240 hits, making him only the 14th player to collect that many hits in a season and the first since Wade Boggs garnered 240 safeties for the Red Sox in 1985.
"I really don't have an explanation," Erstad said of his turnaround in 2000. "For some reason, I was finding the holes last season, and the previous year I didn't find anything."
Richard Hidalgo of the Astros followed Erstad on the biggest gain honor roll with an 87-point rise by hitting ...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Bisheff, Steve October 12, 2002 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) October 13, 2002 700+ words
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Source: HighBeam Research, Biggest Batting Gainers and Losers for 2000.(baseball players,...