Rabbit Maranville Stats

Presented in this article are Rabbit Maranville’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did Rabbit Maranville get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what on average Rabbit Maranville 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 Rabbit Maranville’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/RBI’s/HR’s) 10078/1255/28/884.

Rabbit Maranville’s Career Numbers

Run Average – .125

RBI Average – .088

HR Average – .003

So on average Rabbit Maranville scored a run 12.5% of the time, drove in a run  8.8% of the time and hit a HR .3% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.

Rabbit Maranville was a shortstop and played in the major leagues for 23 years with 5 different teams, the Boston Braves (1912 – 1920, 1929 – 1933, 1935), Pittsburgh Pirates (1921 – 1924), Chicago Cubs (1925), Brooklyn Robins (1926) and St. Louis Cardinals (1927 – 1928). He played in two World Series, winning the 1914 edition when the Braves swept the Philadelphia Athletics with Eddie Collins and lost the 1928 edition when the mighty New York Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig swept the St. Louis Cardinals.

Rabbit was known mainly for his great defense at a critical position, his small size of 5′5″, his speed and also as a great practical joker.

Rabbit Maranville was elected by the baseball writers and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954.