[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua

I think 190 RBIs will be broken. Manny Ramirez gave it a good ride and might have gotten it if he hadn't gotten hurt.

I don't think anyone will ever throw back-to-back no-hitters again. I don;t think anyone will ever pitch 300 innings in a season again (fairly routine into the 70's). Since nobody will log those kinds of innings again I doubt anyone will get the chance to break Ryan's single season strikeout record. I also doubt anyone will ever throw more career no-hitters than he did.

The IPs record is a *lot* higher than 300. That's one of those "iron man" records the OP was alluding to.

I do think that eventually Nolan Ryan's single-season and career K records are going to be surpassed. I'm thinking that the current trend towards starters going 5-6 innings is something that's going to reverse a bit, and K/9 has been trending upwards since the deadball era, so even if the game doesn't produce someone else quite as... unique as the Ryan Express, somebody's going to get there eventually unless the length of the season is shortened or something.

The single-season doubles and tripes records seem unsurpassable to me right now unless the game changes pretty radically. Actually, Earl Webb's 67 isn't that far off from what Todd Helton did in 2000 but the game's dropping off from the high offensive levels of the late 90s and early 2000s. Chief Wilson's 36 triples (36!!!) is, like, twice as many as a really good league-leading total nowadays (Curtis Granderson's 23 notwithstanding - and that 23 is still 13 away from the record).