Best Of The San Francisco Giants: Top 10 Seasons At 2nd Base
By Phil Watson
6. Joe Morgan, 1982
| Year ▾ | Age | G | PA | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | CS | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 38 | 134 | 554 | 68 | 134 | 19 | 4 | 14 | 61 | 24 | 4 | 85 | 60 | .289 | .400 | .438 | .838 | 136 |
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Generated 2/16/2014.
Joe Morgan bats against the Chicago Cubs in a 1982 game. (This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Baseball Bugs at the wikipedia project. This applies worldwide.)
The Hall of Famer and graduate of Oakland’s Castlemont High School had his last really big season at age 38, his last with the Giants. He was traded to Philadelphia with reliever Al Holland in December for pitchers Mark Davis and Mike Krukow and minor-leaguer Charles Penigar. Morgan was good enough to earn MVP consideration for a San Francisco team that was in the NL West race until the final weekend and it was his homer that eliminated the hated Dodgers on the final day of the season.
He was ninth in the National League with a 5.2 Offensive WAR and 10th with a 136 OPS-plus.
Morgan was second in the NL with a .400 on-base percentage and an 85.71 stolen base percentage (24-for-28) and sixth with 85 walks.
He led NL second basemen with a .289 batting average, 14 home runs, a .400 on-base percentage, .438 slugging percentage and .838 OPS and was third with 61 RBI.