Yordan Alvarez Nears Triple Crown: A Close Analysis
Discover Astros' Yordan Alvarez's bid for the Triple Crown, a feat last achieved by Miguel Cabrera in 2012. Explore his stats and current baseball journey.
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One of the other big stories, Craig, I gotta look into, 'cause I haven't checked with him, was Yordan Alvarez.
I- is he still very much alive for the Triple Crown here?
Yeah.
Because we had Miguel Cabrera was the last one for 2012.
What is the category that he is least, right now?
Is it I don't think it's home runs, right?
I think it's runs- I think he's right there- Let me check with the home runs.
I think it's runs driven in.
He's- 'Cause Caminero's been crushing it.
Yeah, I think it, it could be runs driven in, but let me check.
I know Sal Stewart is having this, like, incredible year.
He's right there too.
Yeah.
I know his batting average- Let's take- is thr- is 317, something along those lines.
Yeah, he's a point bl- yeah, it's well, he- look, he's, m- Uras is in the National League.
Right.
So six, so six batting average ahead of Simpson, and Stewart doesn't count.
Or tied.
What am I saying?
He's in the NL.
He leads, yeah, he leads Pete Alonso by three runs driven in.
No, I mean, he's in a really good position.
Okay.
But as Chris just said, home runs.
No.
Caminero.
He leads in all.
What is Chris saying?
He leads all of them.
No, Caminero's got 37 too.
Okay, fine.
Right, but he's not behind.
Yeah.
Right, but he's not behi- No, no he's not behind in, for the Nah, the Triple Crown, let's just go by the league.
Th- yeah, yeah, yeah.
So- Yeah so yeah, he's r- he, look, he's- he's right there, Joe.
He's right there.
Look, i- if, if Alvarez plays exactly how he's played in September, he's gonna win the Triple Crown, and if he slumps, there's a chance that one of those categories, somebody could catch him.
You're absolutely right, Caminero is as hot as anybody, and he could easily win the home run title too.
But again, will Caminero have anything to play for the final week of the season, Joe?
I don't know the answer to that.
A- and listen, to his credit, he's been so good.
He only hit two home runs and had 12 RBIs in the entire month of August, so a lot of baseball still to be played.
