Johnny Bench Stats Baseball Almanac

Biography december 7 1947 major league career statistics bench had 2048 hits for a 267 career batting average with 389 home runs and 1 376 rbi during his 17 year major league career all spent with the reds.
Johnny bench stats baseball almanac. Johnny lee bench born december 7 1947 is an american former professional baseball player. Trained by his father ted to throw 254 feet twice the distance from home plate to second base from a crouch johnny bench boasted that he could throw out any runner alive. The johnny bench world series stats seen below include his world series year by year hitting stats world series fielding stats and world series pitching stats where applicable.
Binger hs binger ok debut. December 7 1947 in oklahoma city ok us draft. Bench was the leader of the reds team known as the big red machine that dominated the national league in the mid 1970s winning six division titles four national league pennants and two.
Catcher third baseman and first baseman bats. Look at a list of the top 5 catchers of all time and johnny bench is a lock to be near the top if not in the no. Johnny bench stats by baseball almanac.
The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by retrosheet. When starting this look at mcphee i went took a cursory look at the other second basemen of the 19th century. Right 6 1 197lb 185cm 89kg.
Either way mcphee shows up as an excellent player. Visit the johnny bench biography on baseball almanac for complete statistics. Defensive regression analysis data used here was obtained with permission from michael humphreys author of wizardry.
The statistics used were obtained free of charge from the baseball databank. August 28 1967 age 19 264d 10 221st in mlb history. He played his entire career in major league baseball as a catcher for the cincinnati reds from 1967 through 1983.