Now that we’ve finished the record book for career hitting stats, we’ll turn our attention to seasonal hitting records. As you might imagine, the “all-time” list is pretty overwhelming to look at…. Gene Richards? Billy Sample? Gary Jones? Wow.

Anyway, we’ll start with the 2006-2017 list, and then look at the bigger, all-time list.

Active players are Sherman Johnson, Jason Kipnis, Mac Williamson, and Joey Butler. It’s been three seasons since a player broke onto the list.

It’s also easy to forget how awesome John Raynor really was in 2007 and 2008. In 2007, in the South Atlantic League playing for Greensboro (Miami’s organization), John hit 333/429/519 in 116 games and 445 at-bats. The next year, up a level in Double-A, he hit 312/402/489. He got 10 at-bats in the majors after being a Rule V draft pick of the Pirates in 2010, but was returned to the Marlins. The Marlins released him in March of 2011 after he failed to make the major league roster. And then he retired at 27.

Sam Perlozzo was just inducted into the VBL Hall of Fame in 2017! If anyone can help me fill in the gaps, drop me a line….