Eddie Collins Stats
How good was Eddie Collins at the bat in his long major league career?
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Presented in this article are Eddie Collins real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did Eddie Collins get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what on average Eddie Collins accomplished for each official at bat he had in the major leagues.
How are the stats calculated out? Simply by dividing each stat listed by official at bats. Just like you do with hits for batting average. Here we are dividing total runs scored by total official at bats to get a player’s run average, total RBI’s by total official at bats for a player’s RBI average and total HR’s by total official at bats for a player’s HR average. For example: if a player has scored 1,000 runs in 5,000 official at bats his run average would be .200. If the player had 900 RBI’s his RBI average would be .180. And if he had 200 HR’s his HR average would be .040. So on average this player would have scored a run 20% of the time, driven in a run 18% of the time and hit a HR 4% of the time he recorded an official at bat in the major leagues.
Obviously the higher the averages the better the player was. Here is a rough guide to determine how a players averages stack up.
Run Average and RBI Average – anything over .150 is good. Anything above .200 is excellent, and the very best players in history have occasionally gone over .300 in some seasons.
HR Average – anything over .055 is good. Anything above .065 is really good and anything above .075 means one of the best HR hitters of all time.
Here are Eddie Collins raw numbers (AB’s/runs/RBI’s/HR’s) 9949/1821/47/1300.
Eddie Collins Career Numbers
Run Average – .183
RBI Average – .131
HR Average – .005
So on average Eddie Collins scored a run 18.3% of the time, drove in a run 13.1% of the time and hit a HR .5% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.
Eddie Collins played in the major leagues for 25 years. One of the longest careers in Major League baseball history. He played for just two teams in his long career. The Philadelphia Athletics (1906-1914 and 1927-1930) and the Chicago White Sox (1915-1926). Collins was a member of the infamous 1919 Black Sox who threw the 1919 World Series for money. Collins was highly educated player from Columbia University and was not involved in the scandal in any way though he did have a bad World Series in 1919 batting only .226. Eight players were banned from the scandal including pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude “Lefty” Williams, outfielder Oscar “Happy” Felsch, first baseman Arnold “Chick” Gandil who masterminded the fix, shortstop Charles “Swede” Risberg, third baseman Buck Weaver who refused to participate in the scandal but was banned for not reporting it, utility infielder Fred McMullin who barely played in the Series but found out about the scandal and demanded an equal share for silence and of course outfielder “Shoeless” Joe Jackson.
Eddie Collins was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.
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