Zack Wheat Real Baseball Stats

Presented in this article are Zack Wheat’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did Zack Wheat get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what on average Zack Wheat 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 Zack Wheat’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/RBI’s/HR’s) 9106/1289/132/1248.

Zack Wheat’s Career Numbers

Run Average – .142

RBI Average – .137

HR Average – .015

So on average Zack Wheat scored a run 14.2% of the time, drove in a run 13.7% of the time and hit a HR 1.5% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.

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Nicknamed “Buck”, Zack Wheat played left field in the major leagues for 19 years. He spent 18 of those years playing for the Brooklyn Robins (1909-1926) and then played one final year for the Philadelphia Athletics (1927). Buck won a batting title in 1918 and played in 2 World Series (1916 and 1920) with the Robins and lost both. In the 1916 World Series the Robins lost to the Boston Red Sox and their star pitcher – Babe Ruth.

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In 1916 the Babe went 23-12 with a 1.75 ERA for the Red Sox and then surrendered just one run when he pitched a complete game win over the Robins in the World Series.

In 2006 a stretch of Route 13 in Caldwell County, Missouri was named the Zach Wheat Memorial Highway.

Zack Wheat was selected by the Veterans Committee and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1959.