Reds center fielder and leadoff man Shin-Soo Choo was hit by a pitch yesterday for the 17th time this season, which leads baseball by a wide margin over Starling Marte with 12. And no one else has been hit by more than seven pitches.
Some other crazy stats to consider ...
Coming into this season Choo averaged 12 hit by pitches per 150 games for his career and was never hit more than 17 times in a season.
Choo has a .441 on-base percentage, which ranks third in baseball behind Joey Votto and Miguel Cabrera. If you remove his 17 hit by pitches (and those 17 plate appearances) his on-base percentage would fall to .399.
Choo has been hit 17 times in 264 plate appearances and the rest of the Reds’ roster has been hit a combined 14 times in 1,993 plate appearances.
Choo has been hit more times than the combined totals of 13 teams and the same number of times as three other teams.
Choo is on pace to be hit 48 times, which would shatter the Reds’ record of 24 and be the third-most in the history of baseball behind only Hughie Jennings with 51 in 1896 and Ron Hunt with 50 in 1971.
