Joe Tinker Stats
How good was Joe Tinker every time he stepped up to the plate?
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Presented in this article are Joe Tinker’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did Joe Tinker get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what on average Joe Tinker 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 Tinker’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/RBI’s/HR’s) 6434/774/31/782.
Joe Tinker’s Career Numbers
Run Average – .120
RBI Average – .122
HR Average – .005
So on average Joe Tinker scored a run 12.0% of the time, drove in a run 12.2% 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.
Tinker was primarily a shortstop and played 12 of his 15 major league seasons for the Chicago Cubs and was one third of the famous double play combination “Tinkers to Evers to Chance” made famous in the poem “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon” by New York newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams.
Tinker’s stats are very light for the Hall of Fame but he did play shortstop on 4 Cubs teams that made it to the World Series (1906-1908 and 1910) and won the World Series twice (1907-1908) vs the Ty Cobb led Detroit Tigers both times. The 1906 Cubs team won 116 games with 36 losses but lost in the World Series to the crosstown rival Chicago White Sox in 6 games.
Joe Tinker was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946 by the Veterans Committee but if not for being made famous due to “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon” poem, Tinker would probably not have made it based upon his stats. Ironically in 1905 Tinker and Evers got into a fistfight on the field and did not talk to each other for over 33 years.
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