Ty Cobb Stats
How productive was the Georgia Peach per at bat?
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Presented in this article are Ty Cobb’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did the Georgia Peach get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what, on average, Ty Cobb 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 Ty Cobb’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/HR’s/RBI’s) 11434/2246/117/1937.
Ty Cobb’s Career Numbers
Run Average – .196
RBI Average – .169
HR Average – .010
So on average Ty Cobb scored a run 19.6% of the time, drove in a run 16.9% of the time and hit a HR 1% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.
Ty Cobb was a controversial baseball player. He played a very aggressive style of baseball and went sliding into bases with his spikes up. He got into many fights including with an umpire after a game and once he went into the stands to fight a handicapped heckler for which he was suspended by baseball. Cobb is alleged to have bet on games later in his career and it is believed that baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis concealed details of the gambling to protect the game. Cobb is often referred to as a racist today probably stemming from many incidents including Cobb’s stabbing of a black man who tried to intervene when Cobb slapped a black elevator operator. The man lived and Cobb settled privately with him.
Ty Cobb was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936 and is generally considered one of the best hitters in baseball history and his career run and RBI averages certainly back that up.
