Pee Wee Wanninger
Runs Created Above Average (RCAA) is a Lee Sinins creation. It is the difference between a player’s Runs Created total and the total for an average player who used the same amount of his team’s outs. (A negative Runs Created Above Average indicates a below average player in this category.)
As of last Saturday, Tony Womack’s RCAA total for 2005 was -24.
The last time that the Yankees had a left-handed batter with a RCAA total nearly that low was Jim Mason in 1975 (with a mark of -23).
The worst RCAA mark by a LH batter in Yankees history belongs to Pee Wee Wanninger who had a mark of -37 in 1925. That season, Pee Wee, as a 22-year-old, made the jump from Class C-Ball to become the Yankees SS. He was back in the minors the next year – and later played in 46 games with the Red Sox and Reds in 1927 (the only other year he played in the bigs).
However, Wanninger was the player for whom Lou Gehrig PH for in the first of the Iron Horse’s 2,130 consecutive games played.
Now, that’s a good trivia question.
