Mickey Mantle batting only righty: .558 SLG.

Mickey Mantle might have increased his slugging average (SLG) from .557 to .558 had he batted only right handed instead of switch hitting.

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Mickey in the Twilight Zone (TZ) of batting only righty against righty pitchers went down at home in Yankee Stadium from .579 to .516 but up on the road from .522 to .565.

Real Mickey led the league in SLG in 1955, 1956, 1961, 1962.

TZ Mickey would still have led:
1955 over Al Kaline: .594 to .546.
1956 over Ted Williams .612 to .605
But not:
1961 Norm Cash over TZ Mickey .662 to .657
1962 Harmon Killebrew over TZ Mickey .545 to .446

TZ Mickey would have led:
1952 over Larry Doby .578 to .541
1960 over teammate Roger Maris .707 to .581
1964 over Boog Powell .782 to .606

Real Mickey's career splits by how the pitcher throws:
Where throws SLG
home L .552
home R .579    TZ: .516
road  L .598
road  R .522    TZ: .565

Real:
home .569
road .546



Year     TZ     Real  TZ-Real
1951 0.294 0.443 -0.149
1952 0.578 0.530 0.048
1953 0.609 0.497 0.112
1954 0.500 0.525 -0.025
1955 0.606 0.611 -0.005
1956 0.608 0.705 -0.097
1957 0.683 0.665 0.018
1958 0.601 0.592 0.009
1959 0.452 0.514 -0.062
1960 0.707 0.558 0.149
1961 0.657 0.687 -0.030
1962 0.446 0.605 -0.159
1963 0.738 0.622 0.116
1964 0.782 0.591 0.191
1965 0.476 0.452 0.024
1966 0.485 0.538 -0.053
1967 0.399 0.434 -0.035
1968 0.361 0.398 -0.037
                 .558          .557         +.001
Year     TZ     Real  TZ-Real