100. Jimmy Austin- Career: 4.32. Five Consecutive: 2.25. Average: 0.25. Three Highest: 1.88. 10 Highest: 4.16. All-Star Seasons: 0. MVP Seasons: 0
His best season was 1911. His fWAR was 3.7 and his rWAR was 3.4. His slash line was .261/.351/.359 with a wOBA of .347. It was his fifth best full season for avg, his 4th best for onbase percentage, his best full season for slugging percentage and his best season for wOBA. It was also the only year that he was mentioned in the MVP voting, he finished 20th according to baseball reference. Looking over his stats, he must have been a pretty good defensive third basemen, having the best range factor 6 times, best fielding percentage one time, most assists twice, and most putouts twice. Bill James talks about it in the New Bill James Historical Abstract but third basemen weren't always viewed as power hitters, they were originally viewed as how we view second basemen now. This means that we wouldn't expect much offense from him and it may explain why he was pretty consistently in the top 10 in the league for sacrifice hits.
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