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Originally Posted by Yoda
Forgive me if the subject has already been hashed over, but what were Ruth's batting stats when he pitched for Boston?
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First off John, did you know that when asked about facing all other pitchers, Ted Williams said Allie Reynolds makes him start thinking about facing him 24 hours before he does so, but that Bob Feller had him thinking about facing him a full three days before he actually did. Feller was that good and got into his head that much more than any other pitcher he ever faced apparently.
And now that I've fulfilled my obligation to discuss Bob Feller and his career in some manner in this post, I can now not be rude and respond to your question, brought up from earlier conversations in this thread surrounding some discourse others may feel is inappropriately off-topic, whatever their warped, myopic or mistaken reasoning.
For Ruth, he played his first six seasons in Boston, primarily as a pitcher. During that time his batting stats were as follows:
G 391
PA 1332
AB 1110
R 202
H 342
2B 82
3B 30
HR 49
RBI 224
SB 13
CS 0
BB 190
SO 184
BA .308
OBP .413
SLG .568
And his offensive WAR just from batting over these six seasons with Boston was 19.2, with the biggest contribution coming in his last year in Boston, 1919, when he played in a total of 130 games that year, only appearing in 17 of those games as a pitcher, and putting up a 9.1 WAR. Commensurately for pitching, for those same six seasons he put up a pitching WAR of 20.5, with 1916 being his best when he posted an 8.8 pitching WAR.