Derek Lee is having an incredible season for the Chicago Cubs. He's a career .280 hitter but this season he's sitting at an MLB leading .415! In fact during his entire career he has only hit over .286 one time and that was 2005 which was by far the best season of his career to date.

In 2005 he hit .335 with 46 home runs.

Perhaps even crazier than his .415 batting average is his insane total of 17 doubles. He has now hit at least one double in 8 straight games. His 17 doubles put him on pace for a ridiculous 106 doubles for the year. His previous high was 50 during his career year of 2005. The major league single season record for doubles is Earl Webb's total of 67 in 1931.

To top off the weirdness of Derek Lee's season thus far: Coupled with all of these doubles he's got a grand total of 1 home run. And Mr. Lee has been a pretty darn good home run hitter of late: He has hit 28, 21, 27, 31, 32, and 46 home runs in each of his last 6 complete seasons.

Well I'd bet a fortune that Lee doesn't hit the 106 doubles nor the 6 home runs that he's on pace for now. Nor the 274 hits! But it's been quite an interesting season so far for Derek Lee. Too bad the Cubs can't really say that about their team overall.