Max Carey Real Baseball Stats
Max Carey was the first manager of which Major League Baseball Team?
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Presented in this article are Max Carey’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did Scoops get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what on average Max Carey 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 Max Carey’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/RBI’s/HR’s) 9363/1545/70/800.
Max Carey’s Career Numbers
Run Average – .165
RBI Average – .085
HR Average – .008
So on average Max Carey scored a run 16.5% of the time, drove in a run 8.5% of the time and hit a HR .8% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.
Max Carey played primarily center field in the major leagues for 20 seasons. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1910-1926) and the Brooklyn Robins (1926-1929). Known for his base running, Scoops Carey as he was nicknamed led the league in stolen bases 10 times in his career (1913, 1915-1920 and 1922-1925). Carey made it to one World Series in his career and won it in 1925 when the Pirates defeated the Washington Senators in 7 games. Carey had a great World Series hitting .458 and stealing 3 bases.
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Max Carey became a trivia question when he became the first manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1932 after they switched names from the Robins.
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He managed them for just two season and had a record of 146-161 (.476). Carey went on to manage the Milwaukee Chicks and the Fort Wayne Daisies of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
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The 1992 movie “A League of Their Own” starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Rosie O’Donnell and Madonna and directed by Penny Marshall depicted life in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Max Carey was selected by the Veterans Committee and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1961.
