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Sammy Sosa

Five facts about Sammy Sosa:

Sammy Sosa was named to seven All-Star teams. He received MVP votes nine (consecutive) times with seven top-10 finishes. Sosa won the National League MVP award in 1998.

Sosa had 100 or more RBI nine consecutive seasons from 1995 through 2003. He led the league in RBI twice with 158 in 1998 and 160 in 2001. Sosa had 100 or more runs scored five consecutive times from 1998 through 2002, leading the league three times (1998, 2001, and 2002).

Sammy Sosa is the only player to hit 60 or more home runs in three different seasons. He did this within a four-year stretch from 1998 – 2001. Ironically, the only one of these four seasons in which Sosa led his league in home runs was 2000, the only one of these four seasons in which Sosa hit fewer than 60 home runs (he hit 50). Sosa also led his league in home runs in 2002 with 49 – meaning that over a five-year stretch from 1998 – 2002, Sosa either hit 60 home runs or led his league in home runs every season, but never both.

Sosa had 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in the same season twice, in 1993 and 1995.

The first two tables below present Sammy Sosa's career as measured by Player won-lost records, in and out of context.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWORL	pWOPA

Basic Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
+– 1989		20	58	4.6	5.7	-0.7	-1.2
	CHA		33	2.9	3.4	-0.3	-0.6
	TEX		25	1.8	2.3	-0.4	-0.6
1990	CHA	21	153	18.6	17.2	2.5	0.8
1991	CHA	22	115	9.5	8.5	1.5	0.6
1992	CHN	23	67	7.9	8.0	0.3	-0.4
1993	CHN	24	159	21.4	20.9	1.4	-0.6
1994	CHN	25	105	15.3	13.7	1.9	0.5
1995	CHN	26	144	20.9	17.1	4.3	2.4
1996	CHN	27	124	20.3	15.8	5.0	3.3
1997	CHN	28	162	21.9	21.4	0.8	-1.3
1998	CHN	29	159	25.7	18.3	8.2	6.0
1999	CHN	30	162	23.8	20.5	4.0	1.8
2000	CHN	31	156	23.3	20.2	3.8	1.7
2001	CHN	32	160	26.2	19.2	7.9	5.7
2002	CHN	33	150	20.9	20.2	1.5	-0.6
2003	CHN	34	137	20.5	15.2	5.8	4.1
2004	CHN	35	126	16.3	14.4	2.5	0.9
2005	BAL	36	102	8.7	11.3	-2.1	-3.2