While you’re singing Neil Walker to a three year extension, here’s some fun facts! Remember, Murph doesn’t run the bases well, don’t be distracted by all that OPS.
Here is a list of the highest slugging percentages produced by a second baseman since the Great Depression: Jeff Kent’s .596 in 2000, and Daniel Murphy’s .595 in 2016. Not impressed by power, and crave something a little more well-rounded? Then here’s a list of the highest on-base-plus-slugging percentages from second basemen over the same 80-year period: Kent’s 1.021 that same MVP season, Joe Morgan’s 1.020 in 1976, and Murphy’s .985 from last year..
Source: Daniel Murphy had a career season; he’s planning, relentlessly to have another – The Washington Post
