Todd Helton

Accomplishments

• 5-time All-Star (2000-04)
• Dick Howser Trophy (Best National College Baseball Player, 1995)
• The Sporting News Rookie of the Year Award (1998)
• Hit for the cycle (1999)
• NL Hank Aaron Award (2000)
• The Associated Press Player of the Year award (2000)
• Helton is the only player in MLB history to have 100-plus extra base hits in consecutive seasons: 103, in 2000, and 105 in 2001. The only others to do it twice in their careers, but in different seasons, were Lou Gehrig (1927, 1930) and Chuck Klein (1930, 1932).
• Helton is also one of only four players to have reached 400 total bases in consecutive seasons (405 in 2000, 402 in 2001). Klein accomplished this feat in 1929 and 1930; Gehrig did so in 1930 and 1931; and Jimmie Foxx did so in 1932 and 1933. Gehrig reached 400 total bases in three other seasons (1927, 1934, 1936), and Klein did so once more (1932). The other players to reach 400 total bases twice in a career were Babe Ruth (1921, 1927), Rogers Hornsby (1922, 1929), and Sammy Sosa (1998, 2001).