Last year we started a topic where Mike Bryant stood on the All-time batting lists at the beginning of last season. With a new season about to be underway, it's time to update this and see how far he climbed the Leaderboards during the 2018 season.
With another big year, he added and passed many players in several categories. Though with a down April and a huge year from breakout star Jorge Martinez, he wasn't able to secure coveted 3rd straight MVP and remains 1 of only 3 players to ever win 2 MVP awards along with Jeff Cole and John Crowe.
Before last season Bryant sat behind only Todd Church on the All-Time batting average list, but a sub-par year from Church pushed Bryant back to the top where he holds a career average mark of .330, over 5 points higher than the 2nd place Paco Rosas of Greenville who is at .3249. Bryant remains 2nd in career OPS still sitting behind only Jeff Cole. Bryant still remains on top of the career Slugging % list, but dropped from a 31 points lead over Toronto's German Rivas to a 27 point margin.
As for the compiling categories Coffin is positioning himself inside the Top 50 of almost every major category out there. With his 5th straight 200+ hit season he catapulted almost 40 slots to 57th place and with 2 more 200 hit seasons, 1500 career hits is within reach during the 2020 season. Cuurently only 20 BSA players have reached the 1500 hit mark. With a lot of active players ahead of him, even a big season might only push him up on the list 15-20 spots.
As for HR, his 42 last season pushed him into the Top 20, at No. 20, and only 3 behind teammate John Warner and former St. Louis Brown Carlos Valle. With 29+ HR this season Bryant could join an elite group of players who have hit 250 or more BSA HR. That list is currently at 11 players and shouldn't be added to much this year with only a few threats between Bryant and those 11.
As for RBI, Bryant's 119 was the lowest total since his rookie season, but still good enough to jump 21 places on the all time list and put him in 32nd place. 39 doubles pit Bryant into the Top 100 in 82nd place with 223 career two-baggers, and scoring over 110 runs for the 5th straight year moved Bryant up 31 spots to 55th on the All-Time list.
With Bryant's birthday coming this week, he will turn 31 for the 2019 season. While he is old by no means, the BSA historically has been a young mans game. Many players have hit the magical age of 30 and have fallen off, will this be the case with Bryant? He can only hope not and continue to track his progress among the elite names and all time greats of the BSA.
Current All-Time Rank. (Last season's rank in parentheses.)
BA 1st (2nd): .3300
OPS 2nd (2nd): .9771
SLG: 1st (1st): .5937
VORP 13th (20th): 417.58
Hits: 57th (96th): 1181
Doubles: 82nd (NR): 223
Total Bases: 41st (73rd): 2125
HR: 20th (35th): 221
RBI: 32nd (53rd): 753
Runs: 55th (86th): 655
WAR: 18th (24th): 41.87
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