And you thought Jose Reyes got people fired up with the way he sat his way to a National League batting title last year. As has been mentioned more than a few times since the news of Melky Cabrera's 50-game suspension dropped on Wednesday, the disgraced San Francisco Giants star has a good shot at causing a much bigger controversy. Since he won't be eligible to play for the rest of the regular season, Cabrera ends his 2012 season with a .346 average over 501 plate appearances. Ah, but doesn't a hitter need 502 plate appearances to qualify for his league's batting title? Why yes, he does. But as was also mentioned many times on Wednesday, baseball's rules state that a non-qualifying player will have as many hitless at-bats added to his total as it takes to get him to the qualifying number. So Cabrera, who tested positive for high levels of testosterone, will have an 0-for-1 day added to his number and such a small correction will not affect his average at all — .346 is what will appear on the back of next year's baseball card.
Melky Cabrera will be this year’s batting champion, according to projection system
Published August 16, 2012 at 9:40 AM
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