Going into a new season, a lazy sportswriter looks at approaching performance milestones. Lazy bloggers do the same thing, but with research. The two biggest are 3,000 hits and 300 wins. The current leaders, Freddie Freeman and Justin Verlander, are not going to achieve their goals this season. Freddie is 569 hits away and and Justin is 34 wins away. Even if we add in playoff performances (an extra 79 hits for Freddie and 17 wins for Justin) they aren’t going to make it, although I guess a case (a bad one) could be made for Verlander, but they don’t count.
Freddie and Justin
