Jim Rice Stats
How good was Jim Rice per at in the major leagues?
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Presented in this article are Jim Rice’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did Jim Rice get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what on average Jim Rice 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 Jim Rice’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/RBI’s/HR’s) 8225/1249/382/1451.
Jim Rice’s Career Numbers
Run Average – .152
RBI Average - .176
HR Average – .046
So on average Jim Rice scored a run 15.2% of the time, drove in a run 17.6% of the time and hit a HR 4.6% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.
Jim Rice was a fine player. He made the Hall of Fame in 2009 in his last year of eligibility. He played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox and lived up to the play of great Red Sox left fielders like Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski. Jim Rice made it to only one World Series in his career in 1986 when the New York Mets defeated the Red Sox in 7 games after Bill Buckner’s infamous error in game 6 cost the Red Sox the Series. Rice had a great season in 1978 when he won the American League MVP Award but Ron Guidry of the New York Yankees had an all time great season in 1978 and should have won the award. But that is not Jim Rice’s fault and he was one of the best players of his era.
