Glaused Over, pt. 2

As promised–as promised late, even–a look at how players with less of a reputation for inconsistency perform when subjected to the arbitrary measure of removing their five best calendar weeks. Here is what we have, from Troy Glaus, to measure by. Glaus’s 740 OPS is just 62% of his 1203 OPS in his best weeks. We’re going to look at the percentages of Albert Pujols, a hitter considerably better than Glaus; Rick Ankiel, a hitter of Glaus’s caliber; and Derrek Lee, a similarly inconsistent–by reputation–thirtysomething hitter. First up we’ve got the consistent-est player who ever did consist, Albert Pujols. I don’t think I need to recount Pujols’s consistency for anybody devoted enough to their Cardinals fandom to continue to read this blog; he’s never had an OPS+ under 150, he’s never hit fewer than 30 home runs, and he’s never not pronounced the silent g at the end of the word mang. To put one of Baseball Re...