Most current baseball fans will recognize the name Cody Ross. Even if not, perhaps you should familiarize yourself with him on his main Baseball-Reference.com page. First of all, in his major league career of 486 at-bats, he's got 26 HR, 91 RBI, and .829 OPS and a 114 OPS+.

But here's an interesting tidbit. Most total bases in a season from 1998 to 2007 with at most 200 PAs:

 Cnt Player             **TB**  PA Year Age Tm  Lg  G   AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB IBB  SO HBP  SH  SF GDP  SB CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Positions
+----+-----------------+-------+---+----+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+
    1 Cody Ross           113   197 2007  26 FLA NL  66 173  35  58 19  0 12  39  20   3  38   3   0   1   2   2  0  .335  .411  .653 1.064 *89/7     
    2 Greg Colbrunn       107   185 2002  32 ARI NL  72 171  30  57 16  2 10  27  13   1  19   0   0   1   5   0  0  .333  .378  .626 1.004 *3/5D     
    3 Richie Sexson       103   183 1998  23 CLE AL  49 174  28  54 14  1 11  35   6   0  42   3   0   0   3   1  1  .310  .344  .592  .936 *3/7D     
    4 Shawon Dunston       95   193 2001  38 SFG NL  88 186  26  52 10  3  9  25   2   0  32   2   2   1   2   3  1  .280  .293  .511  .804 987/D3    
    5 Craig Wilson         93   183 2001  24 PIT NL  88 158  27  49  3  1 13  32  15   1  53   7   1   2   4   3  1  .310  .390  .589  .979 392/D7    
    6 Rick Ankiel          92   190 2007  27 STL NL  47 172  31  49  8  1 11  39  13   0  41   0   1   4   3   1  0  .285  .328  .535  .863 *98/7     
    7 Erubiel Durazo       92   185 1999  25 ARI NL  52 155  31  51  4  2 11  30  26   1  43   1   0   3   1   1  1  .329  .422  .594 1.016 *3        
    8 Juan Encarnacion     92   175 1998  22 DET AL  40 164  30  54  9  4  7  21   7   0  31   1   0   3   2   7  4  .329  .354  .561  .915 *98/7D    
    9 Carlos Quentin       88   191 2006  23 ARI NL  57 166  23  42 13  3  9  32  15   2  34   8   1   1   6   1  0  .253  .342  .530  .872 *9/7      
   10 Jason Varitek        85   198 2001  29 BOS AL  51 174  19  51 11  1  7  25  21   3  35   1   1   1   6   0  0  .293  .371  .489  .860 *2        
   11 Doug Mirabelli       84   182 2004  33 BOS AL  59 160  27  45 12  0  9  32  19   0  46   3   0   0   5   0  0  .281  .368  .525  .893 *2/D      
   12 Robb Quinlan         84   177 2004  27 ANA AL  56 160  23  55 14  0  5  23  14   0  26   2   0   1   1   3  1  .344  .401  .525  .926 *53/7D9   
   13 Marcus Thames        84   184 2004  27 DET AL  61 165  24  42 12  0 10  33  16   0  42   2   0   1   3   0  1  .255  .326  .509  .835 *79/D     
   14 Toby Hall            84   196 2001  25 TBD AL  49 188  28  56 16  0  4  30   4   0  16   3   0   1   5   2  2  .298  .321  .447  .768 *2        
   15 Mike Difelice        84   191 1999  30 TBD AL  51 179  21  55 11  0  6  27   8   0  23   3   0   1   1   0  0  .307  .346  .469  .815 *2        
   16 Freddy Garcia        84   193 1998  25 PIT NL  56 172  27  44 11  1  9  26  18   3  45   2   0   1   3   0  2  .256  .332  .488  .820 *5/3      
   17 Russell Branyan      83   182 2004  28 MIL NL  51 158  21  37 11  1 11  27  20   0  68   2   0   2   1   1  0  .234  .324  .525  .849 *5/3      
   18 Fernando Seguigno    83   175 2000  25 MON NL  76 162  22  45  8  0 10  22   9   0  46   3   0   1   5   0  1  .278  .326  .512  .838 379/D     

He's way out in the lead there, although he's helped by having had very close to, but not quite, 200 PAs. Notice that Rick Ankiel got on there too, although some questions his accomplishment given his mention in the Mitchell Report. Notice that both Boston catchers made it (#10 and #11) although that was Mirabelli's last productive season.

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