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Years	PA	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	WARP
24	13068	.366	.433	.512	128	18.5

Birth Date	12-18-1886
Height	6' 1"
Weight	175 lbs

Age	137 years, 4 months, 7 days
Bats	L
Throws	R

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MLB Statistics

YEAR	TEAM	AGE	G	PA	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	HBP	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	DRAA	BRR	BWARP
1905	DET	18	41	164	36	6	0	1	10	23	0	2		.240	.288	.300	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1906	DET	19	98	394	113	15	5	1	19	40	3	23		.316	.355	.394	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1907	DET	20	150	642	212	28	14	5	24	55	5	53		.350	.380	.468	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1908	DET	21	150	635	188	36	20	4	34	42	6	39		.324	.367	.475	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1909	DET	22	156	651	216	33	10	9	48	45	6	76		.377	.431	.517	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1910	DET	23	140	590	194	35	13	8	64	46	4	65		.383	.456	.551	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1911	DET	24	146	654	248	47	24	8	44	43	8	83		.420	.467	.621	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1912	DET	25	140	609	226	30	23	7	43	30	5	61	34	.409	.456	.584	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1913	DET	26	122	501	167	18	16	4	58	31	4	51		.390	.467	.535	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1914	DET	27	98	414	127	22	11	2	57	22	6	35	17	.368	.466	.513	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1915	DET	28	156	700	208	31	13	3	118	43	10	96	38	.369	.486	.487	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1916	DET	29	145	636	201	31	10	5	78	39	2	68	24	.371	.452	.493	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1917	DET	30	152	669	225	44	24	6	61	34	4	55		.383	.444	.570	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1918	DET	31	111	473	161	19	14	3	41	21	2	34		.382	.440	.515	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1919	DET	32	124	545	191	36	13	1	38	22	1	28		.384	.429	.515	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1920	DET	33	112	495	143	28	8	2	58	28	2	15	10	.334	.416	.451	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1921	DET	34	128	581	197	37	16	12	56	19	3	22	15	.389	.452	.596	122	9.7	3.8	2.3
1922	DET	35	137	612	211	42	16	4	55	24	4	9	13	.401	.462	.565	142	16.4	-2.9	2.2
1923	DET	36	145	647	189	40	7	6	66	14	3	9	10	.340	.413	.469	123	12.2	3.1	2.6
1924	DET	37	155	726	211	38	10	4	85	18	1	23	14	.338	.418	.450	113	8.8	3.8	2.6
1925	DET	38	121	490	157	31	12	12	65	12	5	13	9	.378	.468	.598	157	21.0	1.5	3.0
1926	DET	39	79	273	79	18	5	4	26	2	1	9	4	.339	.408	.511	115	3.4	0.4	0.9
1927	PHA	40	133	574	175	32	7	5	67	12	5	22	16	.357	.440	.482	136	25.6	4.8	4.3
1928	PHA	41	95	393	114	27	4	1	34	16	4	6	8	.323	.389	.431	107	5.7	-6.4	0.6
Career			3034	13068	4189	724	295	117	1249	681	94	897	212	.366	.433	.512	128	102.7	8.1	18.5

Statistics for All Levels

'opp' stats - Quality of opponents faced - have been moved and are available only as OPP_QUAL in the Statistics reports now.
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YEAR	Team	Lg	LG	G	PA	oppAVG	oppOBP	oppSLG	BABIP	BPF	BRAA	repLVL	POS_ADJ	DRC+	DRC+ SD	BRR	DRAA	BWARP
1905	DET	MLB	AL	41	164	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1906	DET	MLB	AL	98	394	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1907	DET	MLB	AL	150	642	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1908	DET	MLB	AL	150	635	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1909	DET	MLB	AL	156	651	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1910	DET	MLB	AL	140	590	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1911	DET	MLB	AL	146	654	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1912	DET	MLB	AL	140	609	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1913	DET	MLB	AL	122	501	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1914	DET	MLB	AL	98	414	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1915	DET	MLB	AL	156	700	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1916	DET	MLB	AL	145	636	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1917	DET	MLB	AL	152	669	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1918	DET	MLB	AL	111	473	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1919	DET	MLB	AL	124	545	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1920	DET	MLB	AL	112	495	.000	.000	.000	.000			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1921	DET	MLB	AL	128	581	.293	.344	.405	.000	110	15.9	9.2	0.8	122	17	3.8	9.7	2.3
1922	DET	MLB	AL	137	612	.280	.331	.390	.000	86	43.3	8.5	0.8	142	19	-2.9	16.4	2.2
1923	DET	MLB	AL	145	647	.285	.342	.389	.000	94	24.1	10.5	0.9	123	17	3.1	12.2	2.6
1924	DET	MLB	AL	155	726	.291	.347	.396	.000	114	6.6	12.4	1.1	113	17	3.8	8.8	2.6
1925	DET	MLB	AL	121	490	.294	.351	.404	.000	101	35.6	8.8	0.5	157	16	1.5	21.0	3.0
1926	DET	MLB	AL	79	273	.277	.331	.385	.000	106	8.1	4.7	0	115	19	0.4	3.4	0.9
1927	PHA	MLB	AL	133	574	.288	.343	.401	.000	112	27	15.7	-3.1	136	11	4.8	25.6	4.3
1928	PHA	MLB	AL	95	393	.286	.342	.408	.000	104	8.8	11.1	-4	107	9	-6.4	5.7	0.6

Statistics For All Levels

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Year	Team	lvl	LG	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	TB	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	ISO	SH
1905	DET	MLB	AL	164	150	19	36	6	0	1	45	15	10	23	2		.240	.288	.300	.060	4
1906	DET	MLB	AL	394	358	45	113	15	5	1	141	34	19	40	23		.316	.355	.394	.078	14
1907	DET	MLB	AL	642	605	97	212	28	14	5	283	119	24	55	53		.350	.380	.468	.117	8
1908	DET	MLB	AL	635	581	88	188	36	20	4	276	108	34	42	39		.324	.367	.475	.151	14
1909	DET	MLB	AL	651	573	116	216	33	10	9	296	107	48	45	76		.377	.431	.517	.140	24
1910	DET	MLB	AL	590	506	106	194	35	13	8	279	91	64	46	65		.383	.456	.551	.168	16
1911	DET	MLB	AL	654	591	147	248	47	24	8	367	127	44	43	83		.420	.467	.621	.201	11
1912	DET	MLB	AL	609	553	120	226	30	23	7	323	83	43	30	61	34	.409	.456	.584	.175	8
1913	DET	MLB	AL	501	428	70	167	18	16	4	229	67	58	31	51		.390	.467	.535	.145	11
1914	DET	MLB	AL	414	345	69	127	22	11	2	177	57	57	22	35	17	.368	.466	.513	.145	6
1915	DET	MLB	AL	700	563	144	208	31	13	3	274	99	118	43	96	38	.369	.486	.487	.117	9
1916	DET	MLB	AL	636	542	113	201	31	10	5	267	68	78	39	68	24	.371	.452	.493	.122	14
1917	DET	MLB	AL	669	588	107	225	44	24	6	335	102	61	34	55		.383	.444	.570	.187	16
1918	DET	MLB	AL	473	421	83	161	19	14	3	217	64	41	21	34		.382	.440	.515	.133	9
1919	DET	MLB	AL	545	497	92	191	36	13	1	256	70	38	22	28		.384	.429	.515	.131	9
1920	DET	MLB	AL	495	428	86	143	28	8	2	193	63	58	28	15	10	.334	.416	.451	.117	7
1921	DET	MLB	AL	581	507	124	197	37	16	12	302	101	56	19	22	15	.389	.452	.596	.207	15
1922	DET	MLB	AL	612	526	99	211	42	16	4	297	99	55	24	9	13	.401	.462	.565	.163	27
1923	DET	MLB	AL	647	556	103	189	40	7	6	261	88	66	14	9	10	.340	.413	.469	.129	22
1924	DET	MLB	AL	726	625	115	211	38	10	4	281	79	85	18	23	14	.338	.418	.450	.112	15
1925	DET	MLB	AL	490	415	97	157	31	12	12	248	102	65	12	13	9	.378	.468	.598	.219	5
1926	DET	MLB	AL	273	233	48	79	18	5	4	119	62	26	2	9	4	.339	.408	.511	.172	13
1927	PHA	MLB	AL	574	490	104	175	32	7	5	236	93	67	12	22	16	.357	.440	.482	.124	12
1928	PHA	MLB	AL	393	353	54	114	27	4	1	152	40	34	16	6	8	.323	.389	.431	.108	2

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%	CSAA

Injury History — No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Date On	Date Off	Transaction	Days	Games	Side	Body Part	Injury	Severity	Surgery Date	Reaggravation

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2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	VORP	FRAA	WARP
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	0	0	?	?	.000	.000	.000	0	0.0	?	0.0

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Date	Question	Answer
2014-08-06 16:30:00 (link to chat)	Which GM has the best chance of beating up an MLB player, and who is that player, and why do you think a GM could beat him up? (Wooster from Big Poop)	Even though he isn't a GM I would have to say Jack McKeon because he has the kind of experience you can't find anywhere else. He could probably beat up Ty Cobb because Ty Cobb isn't doing that much moving right now. (Cespedes Family BBQ)
2013-01-14 14:00:00 (link to chat)	re: Bonds/HOF. How can people have ethical concerns about Bonds being in the HOF when Ty Cobb, who appears to have repeatedly beaten people into unconsciousness, and Babe Ruth (amongst others), who violated the 18th Amendment on multiple occasions, are in the HOF? Isn't this just a horrific case of not voting for someone because he was generally disliked? (ttt from Manhattan)	I think the distinction some people draw (and again, I wouldn't draw this distinction) is that Cobb, while possibly (probably) a terrible person, played the game with more integrity than Bonds, that his lousy personality was largely an off-the-field problem and not something that affected play. And to play devil's advocate (because again, I'm in your corner), is the fact that some bad people/personalities are already in a good reason to add more of them? Maybe some voters see it as a "two wrongs don't make a right" situation. (Ben Lindbergh)
2012-09-26 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Is Hunter Pence more old-timey than someone like Ty Cobb? (Will from (Rochester))	My Productive Outs comrade Riley Breckenridge broke down Pence perfectly in a recent episode of our PRODcast. Riley said that Pence was kept locked up in a basement for the first 15 or so years of his life and shown nothing but those 1920s-ish baseball films that are all sped-up and funny-lookin', and Pence's entire familiarity with baseball stems from those films. Which is as good an explanation as I've heard for his completely bizarre ... well, everything. (Ian Miller)
2011-10-31 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Following up on an item mentioned in the World Series Game 7 chat, what is the best Ty Cobb biography, if there is one to recommend? I don't have the patience to separate the fiction from the nonfiction in the Al Stump books. (Michael from Detroit, MI)	No contest--Charles Alexander's book will serve. As a writer, Alexander is just functional, but his research is solid. I like his book on John McGraw as well. (Steven Goldman)
2011-01-05 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Jay - thanks again for the JAWS series this year. I'm submitting this question at 8:00am Eastern, so I don't yet know the results. My question is more of a suggestion - how similar is the relationship between Tim Raines and Rickey Henderson to that of Tris Speaker and Ty Cobb. In both cases, the paired players were contemporaries at the same position. In both cases, the former player was seen as awesome, but not the best in his role due to the continued presence of the latter. Hopefully, in both cases, the former player eventually gains enshrinement. What says you? (R.A.Wagman from Toronto)	A question I'd have to research more fully to understand the attitudes toward Speaker and Cobb. Both of whom were apparently members of the KKK, to show you how standards of morality can shift over time. (Jay Jaffe)
2010-06-15 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Hi Steven, Very sorry to hear about your father being in the hospital again. My best to him and to you. My question: As a Red Sox fan, Cano can't be this good, right? Please say he isn't. You may chalk his production this season up to one or more of the following: 1) how his grandmother's magic beans ended up in his chili, 2) Cano's thievery of a pair of rabbit's feet underoos from Mark Teixeira's locker during spring training, 3) BABIP, LD%, Fly Ball %, or 4) actual skill. I'd prefer it was one of the first two, however. As always, thanks for the chat. (mattymatty2000 from Portland, OR)	Thanks mm2000. I think he is kind of real. He's probably not a "real" .371 hitter, because Ty Cobb aside, no one is consistent at that level. When Cano slumped at the beginning of May, I thought (and wrote) "Aha, here comes one of his patented low-concentration/swing at anything cold streaks." Instead, he regrouped and hit .336 for the month. Since hitting eight home runs in April he's whacked only five, so the good news for you is that he's apparently not Rogers Hornsby. The really positive thing that has happened here is that you have a player with a tremendous ability to make contact and hit the ball hard who, while not becoming selective by any means, has upped his patience by just enough to eliminate the easy outs he used to make from time to time (or month to month, and in 2008 for a whole season. At 27 he's freakin' peakin'. If he doesn't regress, I see no reason why he can't give us a few more .320 or .330 seasons before he's done. (Steven Goldman)
2009-07-21 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Is Garrett Jones the greatest hitter of all time? (tycobb from ga)	Better than Ty Cobb? Yes, on the heels of his 8th home run last night in something like 60 at bats, there is little doubt. But seriously, Jones is a good story and a nice shot in the arm for the Pirates. That said, I have to believe that he's a 2-for-12 slump away from sitting on the bench and watching Lastings Milledge play. As popular as Nyjer Morgan was -- and yes, Morgan can play, too -- the Milledge deal was seemingly a wise one for Neal Huntington. There is still a good chance that Milledge will be a star. Garrett Jones is, in all likelihood, the most recent reincarnation of Chris Shelton. (David Laurila)
2008-10-20 13:00:00 (link to chat)	I think the problem with the deadball era is that it's a completely different game. Offensive and defensive have ebbed and flowed throughout the years but different factors thereof still had similar relative values. It's hard to make sense of an era where scoring was way down, averages were way up, power meant triples, everyone stole at a 50% clip and usage and equipment changes since mean contemporary pitching is almost irrelevant as a comparison point. The sixties are a distant, distant second place in the whole "no rational frame of reference" game. And I say this as someone whose loved the era ever since you recommended Crazy 08 and The Glory of Their Times to me at the Boston book signing! (jackalltogether from Boston)	Glad you took me up on those books. There are some really good ones. I also like "The Pitch that Killed," about Ray Chapman and Carl Mays... For me, history, even baseball history, is all about people and their high and low moments, their heroism, their villainy, the fact that they succeeded and failed just like you and me. The challenge as a writer is to bring them to life as people, not just stats. That's what I try to do, though it's sometimes a little difficult in the context of a 1500-word column. Also, even though all the differences you point out are true, a lot of the team-building and strategic problems are relateable. If I ask you to choose between PH A and PH B in a World Series game, and describe the strengths and weaknesses of each, we can second-guess along whether we're talking about Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker or Manny Ramirez and Jason Bay. (Steven Goldman)
2008-10-20 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker vs. Manny Ramirez and Jason Bay? The Analogy Police have reported you to Joe (jackalltogether from Boston)	That was totally random, of course. You really can't go wrong, can you? Bay is the one that doesn't belong, I guess. (Steven Goldman)
2008-09-16 13:00:00 (link to chat)	No Goldstein/Goldman joke today. Sorry. I've run out of material. (Richie from Washington)	Why is it that no one ever asks him to tell some good Ty Cobb stories in his chats? I think that would only be fair. (Steven Goldman)
2008-09-16 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Could you tell some good Ty Cobb stories? Maybe like the time he climbed into the stands and punched the guy in the wheelchair? (Lincoln from Fort Worth)	The guy wasn't in a wheelchair. He had no hands, so operating a wheelchair might have been a problem. When Cobb started stomping the guy, people around him shouted, "He has no hands!" Cobb said, "I don't care if he has no feet!" and kept stomping. Cobb did not discriminate against the physically challenged, just non-whites. (Steven Goldman)
2008-09-16 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Can you tell me about the time when Ty Cobb bet his teammate he could hit the ball through a hole in the outfield fence? (Chris from Wilson, NC)	I can tell you about the time that he said he would hit home runs, just to show that he could play the power game if he felt like it, then popped three in a game... (Steven Goldman)
2008-02-27 13:00:00 (link to chat)	There was some interesting centerfielder talk on the Max Kellerman radio show today. They argued for Jim Edmonds' HOF case and were also discussing Ichiro, at one point even comparing him to Tris Speaker and Ty Cobb. Is Ichiro really at their level? (Peter from Staten Island)	No, I don't think he is. He's got the speed and batting averages of their games, but he doesn't have the power. If you look at Clay's translated stats on the DT pages for these players, you'll see that Cobb works out to .355/.423/.617, and Speaker to .324/.410/.580, but Ichiro to "only" .348/.398/.462. If Speaker and Cobb had had the heart of their career in the lively ball era, they likely would have been huge power hitters, with some of those doubles and triples heading over the fences... As for Edmonds, I think he compares very well with the great CFs. How many of them were both great gloves and slugged .500? Very few. I think Edmonds is deserving, but he's going to have problems because he's short in the counting stats department due to not becoming a regular until 25 and subsequent injuries. (Steven Goldman)
2008-01-22 19:00:00 (link to chat)	A friend and I have a bet: he says they called Ty Cobb "The Georgia Peach" because he was from Georgia, and that was considered clever back then. My theory is that it's an ironic nickname, like calling a bald guy "Curly." Who's right? (Murph from Syracuse)	He was right at first, you became right as time went on. (Jim Baker)

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