Mel Ott Stats
How good was Mel Ott at the bat?
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Presented in this article are Mel Ott’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did Master Melvin get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what on average Mel Ott 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 Mel Ott’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/RBI’s/HR’s) 9456/1859/511/1860.
Mel Ott’s Career Numbers
Run Average – .197
RBI Average – .197
HR Average – .054
So on average Mel Ott scored a run 19.7% of the time, drove in a run 19.7% of the time and hit a HR 5.4% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.
Mel Ott was primarily a right fielder for his 22 year major league career and played his entire career for the New York Giants. He was the first National League player to hit 500 home runs. The Polo Grounds where Ott played his home games had a right field foul line only 257 feet from home plate and Ott hit 63% (323) of his home runs at home. He led the NL in home runs 6 times (1932, 1934, 1936-38, 1942). Ott was a 12 time All Star and played in 3 World Series and won the 1933 Series vs the Washington Senators.
Mel Ott was elected by the baseball writers and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951.
