Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Did Mike Yastrzemski have the best "old" rookie season since the 1930s last year?

I had Stathead (a Baseball Reference product) call up all the rookies since 1900 aged 27+ with 400+ PAs. The table below shows the leaders in OPS+. Since the 1930s, the only players ahead of him are Jose Abreu, Ichiro Suzuki and Guy Curtright. Abreu and Suzuki are not traditional rookies and Curtright was in a war year.



Rk
Player
OPS+
Year
Age
BA
OBP
SLG
OPS
1
Jose Abreu
173
2014
27
0.317
0.383
0.581
0.964
2
Del Bissonette
145
1928
28
0.320
0.396
0.543
0.940
3
George Watkins
141
1930
30
0.373
0.415
0.621
1.037
4
Buzz Arlett
138
1931
32
0.313
0.387
0.538
0.925
5
Earl Averill
136
1929
27
0.332
0.398
0.538
0.936
6
Bob Johnson
135
1933
27
0.290
0.387
0.505
0.892
7
Ichiro Suzuki
126
2001
27
0.350
0.381
0.457
0.838
8
Johnny Frederick
126
1929
27
0.328
0.372
0.545
0.917
9
Joe Connolly
125
1913
29
0.281
0.379
0.410
0.788
10
Guy Curtright
124
1943
30
0.291
0.382
0.379
0.761
11
Mike Yastrzemski
123
2019
28
0.272
0.334
0.518
0.852
12
Jung Ho Kang
123
2015
28
0.287
0.355
0.461
0.816
13
Mike Mitchell
122
1907
27
0.292
0.339
0.382
0.721
14
Mike Aviles
121
2008
27
0.325
0.354
0.480
0.833
15
Ernie Koy
121
1938
28
0.299
0.352
0.468
0.820
16
Dick Cox
121
1925
29
0.329
0.382
0.477
0.859

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