Yankees RCAA/502 PA Leaders
Posted by Steve Lombardi on December 2nd, 2009 · Comments (9)
As requested by readers earlier today, and powered by the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia, here’s every Yankees batter with at least 3,900 PA with team ranked by their RCAA/502 PA in those PA:
PLAYER RCAA PA RCAA/502 PA Babe Ruth 1634 9197 89.19 Lou Gehrig 1247 9660 64.80 Mickey Mantle 1099 9909 55.68 Joe DiMaggio 708 7671 46.33 Charlie Keller 386 4466 43.39 Alex Rodriguez 316 3924 40.43 Tommy Henrich 280 5409 25.99 Bill Dickey 339 7060 24.10 Earle Combs 307 6509 23.68 Dave Winfield 200 5021 20.00 Bobby Murcer 199 4997 19.99 Derek Jeter 388 9809 19.86 Yogi Berra 323 8352 19.41 Don Mattingly 293 7721 19.05 Bernie Williams 343 9053 19.02 Bill Skowron 139 4102 17.01 Paul O'Neill 178 5368 16.65 Jorge Posada 208 6312 16.54 Tony Lazzeri 221 7059 15.72 Roy White 242 7735 15.71 Ben Chapman 114 4013 14.26 Bob Meusel 139 5544 12.59 Joe Gordon 104 4216 12.38 Hank Bauer 132 5373 12.33 Tom Tresh 102 4518 11.33 Thurman Munson 113 5903 9.61 Gil McDougald 100 5395 9.30 Graig Nettles 109 6247 8.76 Tino Martinez 71 4244 8.40 Willie Randolph 115 7465 7.73 Elston Howard 63 5485 5.77 Red Rolfe 58 5405 5.39 Wally Pipp 18 6340 1.43 Phil Rizzuto -10 6710 -0.75 Joe Pepitone -8 4116 -0.98 Hal Chase -16 4466 -1.80 Rgr Peckinpaugh -50 5269 -4.76 Horace Clarke -63 5143 -6.15 Tony Kubek -66 4494 -7.37 Clete Boyer -67 4035 -8.34 Frank Crosetti -150 7273 -10.35 B. Richardson -141 5783 -12.24
Boy, that Richardson-Kubek-Boyer three-quarters of an infield that played for the Yankees, most of the time, from 1960 through 1965 was a sabermetic nightmare with the sticks.
Goes to show you how great A-Rod has been. He’s way up on a list that describes runs created above the average player in an era, for him, that is defined by offense.
Corey wrote:
He’s good, but, he’s no Charlie Keller!
Steve Lombardi wrote:
I disagree, I think these stats suggest A-Rod is a TON better then Keller. Keller didn’t play in an era defined by offense in the same light as A-Rod. Because of that and the fact that this stat compares the player to the average player in the league during that time, and the fact that their numbers are similar, just shows you how good (and much better than Keller) he is.
RCAA takes era into account.
1 RCAA in the Dead Ball era is the same as 1 RCAA in the PED era.
1 RCAA in the Expansion era is the same as 1 RCAA in the Lively Ball era.
That’s the beauty of RCAA.
@ Steve Lombardi:
It’s not vs. the average player of that era? This stat has confused me lol.
What surprises me is that Rodriguez’s RCAA total is so low. I thought it would be higher.
Raf wrote:
Agreed. A-Rod sucks.
Hey Steve,
Where does “new reliable” Hideki Matsui fall on this list. I know he only has about 3400 PA’s but I would be very curious to see how he stacks up.
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