Fun With Retrosheet: Players With The Highest Percentage of Post-Season Homers
October 10, 2011 by Tom Ruane · Leave a Comment
A quick one today: here are the players who have hit the highest percentage of their home runs during the post-season:
Player First Last REG POST PCT Mickey Lolich 1963 1979 0 1 1.0000 Don Gullett 1970 1978 0 1 1.0000 Joe Blanton 2004 2011 0 1 1.0000 Paul Goldschmidt 2011 2011 8 2 .2000 Bucky Harris 1919 1931 9 2 .1818 Dave McNally 1962 1975 9 2 .1818 Jose Lind 1987 1995 9 2 .1818 Lenny Dykstra 1985 1996 81 10 .1099 Jayson Werth 2002 2011 140 13 .0850 Derek Jeter 1995 2011 240 20 .0769 Bernie Williams 1991 2006 287 22 .0712 Manny Ramirez 1993 2011 555 29 .0497
The list is current through the end of the division series and is in ascending order of post-season homers. Missing entries have fewer home runs and a lower percentage than the entries shown. For example, the highest percentage for a player with three is Larry Gardner with 3 of 30, a lower percentage than Lenny Dykstra. I did keep the three players behind Goldschmidt because he is unlikely to continue to hit 20% of his home runs in the postseason.
The top three entries (and Dave McNally) are pitchers.
Players with 400 or more home runs who failed to hit a single post-season round-tripper:
Player First Last HRs Ted Williams 1939 1960 521 Ernie Banks 1953 1971 512 Dave Kingman 1971 1986 442 Andre Dawson 1976 1996 438 Billy Williams 1959 1976 426 Darrell Evans 1969 1989 414
