Gary Carter Stats

Presented in this article are Gary Carter’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did Kid Carter get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what on average Gary Carter accomplished for each official at bat he had in the major leagues.

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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 Gary Carter’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/RBI’s/HR’s) 7971/1025/324/1225.

Gary Carter’s Career Numbers

Run Average – .129

RBI Average – .154

HR Average – .041

So on average Gary Carter scored a run 12.9% of the time, drove in a run 15.4% of the time and hit a HR 4.1% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.

Gary Carter was primarily a catcher and played in the major leagues for 19 seasons. He played for the Montreal Expos (now Washington Nationals) for 12 seasons (1974-1984 and 1992), the New York Mets for 5 seasons (1985-1989), the New York Giants (1990) and the Los Angeles Dodgers (1991). Gary Carter was nicknamed Kid by his Montreal Expos teammates because as a rookie he tried to win every sprint and hit a home run every time up in spring training. Kid Carter was an 11 time All Star and won 3 Gold Gloves behind the plate.

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Gary Carter made it to the post-season 3 times in his career and the World Series once when the New York Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox in 7 memorable games in 1986. Carter played a pivotal role in the Mets winning that Series. He blasted 2 home runs over the Green Monster in Fenway Park in game 4 leading the Mets to a 6-2 win. And in the famous or infamous Bill Buckner Game 6, Carter hit the game tying sac fly in the 8th inning that forced the game into extra innings and then Carter got the first two out hit in the famous 10th inning and came around to score the first of the Mets 3 runs in that inning that eventually won them the game when Bill Buckner allowed Mookie Wilson’s routine ground ball to first to roll right between his legs and on into right field.

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Gary Carter’s mother passed away from Leukemia when he was just 8 years old and Carter has spent a great deal of time and effort raising funds for the Leukemia Society Of America during and after his baseball career.

Kid Carter was the 7-year-old national champion of the inaugural “Punt, Pass and Kick” contest in 1961.

Gary Carter was elected by the Baseball Writers and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.