Frankie Frisch Stats
How good was the Fordham Flash every time he batted in the major leagues?
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Presented in this article are Frankie Frisch’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did the Fordham Flash get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what on average Frankie Frisch 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 Frankie Frisch’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/RBI’s/HR’s) 9112/1532/105/1244.
Frankie Frisch’s Career Numbers
Run Average – .168
RBI Average – .137
HR Average – .012
So on average Frankie Frisch scored a run 16.8% of the time, drove in a run 13.7% of the time and hit a HR 1.2% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.
Primarily a second baseman in his 19 year major league career Frankie Frisch played for the New York Giants for 8 years (1919-1927) and the St Louis Cardinals for 11 years (1927-1937). Nicknamed The Fordham Flash, he graduated from Fordham University where he starred in four different sports. He was a fierce competitor and led both the Giants and Cardinals into 4 World Series each and won two World Series with each team. He was the cog behind the “Gas House” gang Cardinals who all played with the fierce recklessness of Frisch. In 1931 Frisch was the National League MVP and helped lead the Cards to World Series victory over the very tough Philadelphia Athletics of Lefty Grove and company.
In 1933 Frisch became the player-manager of the Cards and led them to another World Series victory over the Detroit Tigers. Frisch retired as a player in 1937 but went on to manage 2,246 major league games for the Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs but never won another pennant and finished his managerial career with a 1138-1078 record.
Frankie Frisch was elected by the baseball writers and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947.
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