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As Aaron Decide flirts with .400, Yankees star’s ideas on pursuit higher resemble Tony Gwynn than Ted Williams
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As Aaron Decide flirts with .400, Yankees star’s ideas on pursuit higher resemble Tony Gwynn than Ted Williams

Last updated: June 7, 2025 4:12 am
Editorial Board Published June 7, 2025
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With a .405 batting common on Aug. 15, 1941, Ted Williams had each proper to really feel assured.

“Sure I will,” the Crimson Sox legend stated of ending the season with a .400 common in an Related Press article that ran that day. “It’s going to be a cinch. All it takes is luck, confidence and good hitting — and boy, I’ve got all three.”

In that very same story, Williams additionally stated, “Every time I go up to bat, I feel like a million dollars.”

Williams ended up hitting .406 that season, making him baseball’s final .400 hitter. That he was so positive of doing one thing that nobody has completed since — on the age of twenty-two, no much less — spoke to the Splendid Splinter’s hitting experience.

Eighty-four years later, Aaron Decide has additionally mastered the artwork type. Already a two-time MVP and recognized for his energy, the Yankees’ celebrity was hitting .392 getting into Friday’s series-opener towards Boston. Then Decide went 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI in a 9-6 win, elevating his league-leading common to .397.

Whereas there’s nonetheless loads of time for Decide’s common to return down, his scorching season has led some to marvel if .400 is feasible once more, even in an period the place pitchers are higher than ever.

Simply don’t anticipate Decide to speak up his possibilities the best way Williams as soon as did.

He playfully added, “This isn’t going to be a good story, I don’t think. I’m not going to give you much.”

However Decide’s anticipated reluctance to speak about his personal success — his mother and father and Fresno State coach, Mike Batesol, taught him to by no means boast — higher resembles Tony Gwynn’s public strategy to .400 than Williams’.

“Tony Gwynn is a legend in this game,” Decide stated. “Hopefully I can get on his level at some point.”

Decide is just too younger to recollect Gwynn’s 1994 season, however the late Padres Corridor of Famer was hitting .394 when a strike introduced the marketing campaign to a untimely finish in August. No participant has come nearer to .400 since Williams.

Royals nice George Brett hit .390 in 1980, whereas Rod Carew hit .388 for the Twins in 1977.

Gwynn not often talked about .400 with reporters throughout his chase. When he did, he generally questioned how achievable the feat was.

Privately, nevertheless, Gwynn advised pals that he may do it. He stood by that within the years that adopted as baseball followers performed “whit if” video games along with his shortened 1994 season.

Ausmus famous that Gwynn did hit .402 over a 162-game span from July 1993 to Could 1995, however he by no means did so in a single season.

“There was no one better that I’ve ever played against or played with at putting the barrel of the bat on the baseball,” Ausmus stated of Gwynn, although he’s hardly amazed that that is now a dialog surrounding Decide.

Ausmus stated that his pal — he and Gwynn hit and golfed collectively within the offseason — had extra of a “quiet confidence” when advised of Williams’ brags again within the day. The coach sees Decide the identical manner, however he added, “They are two different styles of hitter. They both could get there in different ways.”

Ausmus is correct about their variations, as Gwynn by no means hit greater than 17 house runs in a season throughout a 20-year profession that noticed him win eight batting titles.

Decide, a three-time house run champ, hit his seventeenth house run of the season on Could 23 this yr. He’s by no means received a batting title, however Decide entered Friday hitting .342 for the reason that begin of final season.

Elevating his common has been some extent of emphasis; he’s simply completed so at near-historic ranges in 2025.

“I just want to be a complete player,” Decide stated. “I grew up watching some of the best hit above .300, drive the ball all over the park, do little things like that to help the team win. So that’s one part of my game I wanted to continue to improve on. I think it’s kind of something that gets lost in the game. Now, everyone loves slug and homers and power and stuff like that, which is great. I love doing that too, but I think trying to just put the ball in play, drive the ball all over the park, also helps you win games.”

So with Decide striving for a greater common, wouldn’t a .397 mark on June 6 be one thing to take satisfaction in? Wouldn’t a crack at .400 be one thing to pay attention to?

“I’ll probably evaluate at the end of the year,” Decide, absolutely conscious of how predictable his reply was, stated with fun. “I don’t like doing it in the course of the season as a result of there’s nonetheless loads of work to be completed.

“We’re in first place. We’ve got a great record. We’re in a great position. So I take note of that.”

Initially Revealed: June 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM EDT

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