Joe Cronin Stats
How good was Joe Cronin per at bat in the major leagues?
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Presented in this article are Joe Cronin’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did Joe Cronin get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what on average Joe Cronin 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 Joe Cronin’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/RBI’s/HR’s) 7579/1233/170/1424.
Joe Cronin’s Career Numbers
Run Average – .163
RBI Average – .188
HR Average – .022
So on average Joe Cronin scored a run 16.3% of the time, drove in a run 18.8% of the time and hit a HR 2.2% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.
Joe Cronin was primarily a shortstop in the major leagues for 20 years. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1926-1927), Washington Senators (1928-1934) and Boston Red Sox (1935-1945). He was the American League Writers and Sporting News American League MVP in 1930 when he scored 127 runs and drove in 126 and was an All Star 7 times in his career. Cronin made it to the World Series with the Senators in 1933 but lost to the New York Giants in 5 games.
Joe Cronin was a player-manager for the Senators (1933 and 1934) and Boston Red Sox (1935-1945) and managed the Red Sox for two more years after he retired as a player. In addition to leading the Senators to the 1933 World Series as manager, Cronin also led the Red Sox to the 1946 World Series as manager. The Red Sox lost the Series in 7 games to the St. Louis Cardinals in Ted Williams only World Series appearance. Teddy Ballgame was awful in that Series hitting just .200 and was a major reason why the Red Sox lost.
The Boston Red Sox retired Joe Cronin’s #4 in 1984.
Joe Cronin was elected by the baseball writers and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1956.
