Mickey Cochrane Stats
How good was Black Mike every time he he batted in the major leagues?
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Presented in this article are Mickey Cochrane’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did Black Mike get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what on average Mickey Cochrane 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 Mickey Cochrane’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/RBI’s/HR’s) 9112/1532/105/1244.
Mickey Cochrane’s Career Numbers
Run Average – .168
RBI Average – .137
HR Average – .012
So on average Mickey Cochrane scored a run 16.8% of the time, drove in a run 13.7% of the time and hit a HR 1.2% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.
Mickey Cochrane was nicknamed Black Mike for his dark moods and bad temper. He was a catcher and played played for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1925-1933 and then played for the Detroit Tigers from 1934-1937. He was a mainstay on the great Philadelphia Athletics teams of 1929-1931 that went 313-143 (.686) and made three straight World Series winning two of them (1929-1930) against the St Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs.
In 1934 Cochrane was sold to the Detroit Tigers and became a player-manager. He led the Tigers to two World Series in 1934 and 1935, winning the ‘35 Series against the Cubs and losing the ‘34 Series to the Cards. Cochrane’s playing career came to a sudden end on May 25, 1937 when he was hit in the head by Yankees pitcher Bump Hadley. Cochrane was told by doctors to never play again but he tried to manage the team again in 1938 but was just not the same person and retired halfway through the year. He finished as a manager with a 348-250 (.582) record. He went on to serve in the Navy during WW II.
Mickey Cochrane was elected by the baseball writers and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947.
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