Good Hitting Vintage Pitchers

molenick · #1 04-29-2023, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by RUKen

On Baseball Reference, you have to go in Advanced Batting to the Situational Batting stats; that is where the pinch hitting records are listed.

Thank you, I knew it had to be there somewhere. Of some of the people mentioned:

Red Lucas was 117 for 430 (.272) with 2 HRs and 68 RBIs.
Red Ruffing was 56 for 214 (.262) with 2 HRs and 44 RBIs.
Wes Ferrell was 30 for 139 (.216) with 1 HR and 30 RBIs.
Tommy Byrne was 6 for 75 (.080) with 2 HRs and 11 RBIs.

I am not sure why Wikipedia says Byrne had 80 pinch hits. Maybe someone confused his batting average as a pinch hitter with the number of hits he had?

RUKen · #2 04-29-2023, 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by molenick

I am not sure why Wikipedia says Byrne had 80 pinch hits. Maybe someone confused his batting average as a pinch hitter with the number of hits he had?

My old Baseball Encyclopedia indicates that Byrne had 80 pinch at-bats, with just 6 hits. In any case, he clearly did not accumulate 80 pinch hits.

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