The marvel of the club is predicated on the rare combination of speed and power it takes to swipe 30 bases and bash 30 homers in the same season. Shohei Ohtani became the first player this season to reach the mark.
Here is a team-by-team breakdown of the club, ranked in order from the team with the most seasons to the least -- there are actually seven teams that have never had someone pull off the feat.
Note: We list franchises together, even if the club moved. Mays posted the first two seasons in National League history, and narrowly missed the mark in 29 HR, 31 SB and '59 In the twilight of his career, he saw teammate Bobby Bonds accomplish the feat twice with the Giants en route to finishing his career with five.
The younger Bonds later matched his father with his third, fourth and fifth seasons in the late '90s -- no other hitter has notched three straight such campaigns.
Remarkably, both of the Bonds came within four homers or steals of another campaign three times each. Aaron's season was just the fourth in history, and he came close again in 29 HR, 28 SB. Gant came close again when he had 36 homers and 26 steals in Lindor added to his Mets legacy with his inclusion on this list, becoming the first Met to join the club since The Captain 16 years earlier. And while it might be surprising to see Strawberry's name on this list only once, it should come as no surprise that he also came close in 26 HR, 27 SB , '85 , '86 and '88 Johnson, his teammate for nine seasons, wasn't even an All-Star in '87, when the Mets became one of only two teams ever with two players in a season.
