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Originally Posted by barrysloate
If the baseball season ended today, the batting champions in both the AL and NL would be M. Cabrera? What are the infinitesimal chances of that happening?
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To try to answer your question directly, the chances of batting champions of both leagues being named M. Cabrera is of course extremely small. But I think you are looking at this the wrong way.
The chances of both batting champions sharing the same hispanic surname is clearly not so small since there are more than a few hispanic players with the same surname. Adding in the same first initial does make it less likely - but not that much. I would not be surprised if this happens again.
There are 8 Cabrera's on MLB rosters this year.