Baseball may be over, but check out our Football, Basketball, and Hockey Sites.
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Joe Sommer

Joe Sommer
Joseph John Sommer

Bats Right, Throws Right

Debut July 8, 1880
Final Game October 15, 1890
Born November 20, 1858 in Covington, KY
Died January 16, 1938 in Cincinnati, OH

 About biographical information

BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this person (what's this?)
Oracle: Find all of this player's teammates.

Let people know you like this site. Sponsor this page for $5.

  

Batting  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons / Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1880 21 CIN NL  24   88   10   16   1  0   0    6          0   2  .182  .182  .193   28   17                    
 1882 23 CIN AA  80  354   82  102  12  6   1   29   0     24      .288  .333  .364  129  129                    
 1883 24 CIN AA  97  413   79  115   5  7   3   52   0     20      .278  .312  .346  106  143                    
 1884 25 BAL AA 107  479   96  129  11 10   4    0   0      8      .269  .293  .359  108  172               8    
 1885 26 BAL AA 110  471   84  118  23  6   1   44   0     24      .251  .291  .331   97  156               3    
 1886 27 BAL AA 139  560   79  117  18  4   1   52  31     24      .209  .245  .261   60  146               3    
 1887 28 BAL AA 131  463   88  123  11  5   0   65  29     63      .266  .358  .311   91  144               4    
 1888 29 BAL AA  79  297   31   65  10  0   0   35  13     18      .219  .266  .253   68   75               1    
 1889 30 BAL AA 106  386   51   85  13  2   1   36  18     42  49  .220  .298  .272   64  105               1    
 1890 31 TOT     47  164   17   41   5  2   0   23  10     15      .250  .313  .305   77   50               0    
         CLV NL   9   35    4    8   1  0   0    0   0      2   2  .229  .270  .257   58    9               0    
         BAL AA  38  129   13   33   4  2   0   23  10     13      .256  .324  .318   82   41               0    
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 10 Seasons     920 3675  617  911 109 42  11  342 101  0 238  51  .248  .297  .309   88 1137   0   0   0  20   0
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        647  109  160  19  7   2   60  18  0  42   9  .248  .297  .309   88  200   0   0   0   4   0
 Career High    139  560   96  129  23 10   4   65  31  0  63  49  .288  .358  .364  129  172   0   0   0   8   0
Special Batting  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1880 21 CIN NL   88   72    3   1.1    60| .182  .244| .182  .267| .193  .322| .375  .589|  28  .128  -6.5  -0.8     
 1882 23 CIN AA  378  252   43   4.5    67| .288  .255| .333  .283| .364  .330| .697  .612| 129  .654  11.5   1.3     
 1883 24 CIN AA  433  298   45   4.0    75| .278  .264| .312  .294| .346  .347| .658  .641| 106  .558   2.3   0.3     
 1884 25 BAL AA  495  350   48   3.6    71| .269  .249| .293  .288| .359  .339| .652  .626| 108  .548   3.0   0.3     
 1885 26 BAL AA  498  353   45   3.4    72| .251  .250| .291  .296| .331  .336| .622  .632|  97  .496  -1.1  -0.1     
 1886 27 BAL AA  587  443   35   2.1    73| .209  .243| .245  .306| .261  .324| .506  .631|  60  .279 -26.2  -3.0     
 1887 28 BAL AA  530  340   51   3.9    92| .266  .272| .358  .336| .311  .367| .669  .703|  91  .442  -1.7  -0.2     
 1888 29 BAL AA  316  232   20   2.3    69| .219  .242| .266  .300| .253  .320| .519  .620|  68  .346 -10.4  -1.2     
 1889 30 BAL AA  429  301   31   2.7    91| .220  .265| .298  .337| .272  .360| .570  .698|  64  .312 -17.4  -1.8     
 1890 31 TOT     179  123   15   3.2    91| .250  .266| .313  .346| .305  .352| .618  .698|  77  .416  -5.0  -0.5     
         CLV NL   37   27    2   2.0    83| .229  .252| .270  .328| .257  .341| .527  .669|  58  .217  -1.9  -0.2     
         BAL AA  142   96   13   3.5    93| .256  .270| .324  .350| .318  .355| .642  .706|  82  .465  -3.2  -0.3     
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 10 Seasons     3933 2764  336   3.2    77| .248  .255| .297  .307| .309  .341| .606  .648|  88  .445 -51.6  -5.7     

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Pitching  Glossary / Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  W   L   G   GS  CG SHO  GF SV   IP     H    R   ER   HR  BB   SO  HBP  WP  BFP  IBB  BK  ERA *lgERA *ERA+ WHIP
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+-----+-----+----+-----+
 1883 24 CIN AA   0   0   1   0   0   0   1  0    5.0    9    6    3   0    1    2       0     0       0  5.40  3.27   60 2.000
 1885 26 BAL AA   0   0   2   0   0   0   2  1    3.0    6    3    3   0    0    0   0   1    14       0  9.00  3.24   36 2.000
 1886 27 BAL AA   0   0   1   0   0   0   1  0    4.0   14   12    8   0    3    1   0   0    30       0 18.00  3.41   19 4.250
 1887 28 BAL AA   0   0   1   0   0   0   1  0    1.0    2    1    1   0    1    0   0   0     7       0  9.00  4.08   45 3.000
 1890 31 CLV NL   0   0   1   0   0   0   1  0    1.0    2    3    0   1    2    0   0   0     0       0  0.00  3.46  inf 4.000
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+-----+-----+----+-----+
  5 Yr WL undef   0   0   6   0   0   0   6  1   14.0   33   25   15   1    7    3   0   1    51       0  9.64  3.37   35 2.857
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+-----+-----+----+-----+
 162 Game Avg     0   0  68   0   0   0  68 11  158.7  374  283  170  11   79   34   0  11   578   0   0  9.64  3.37   35 2.857

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Fielding  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons / Sort by Position, then Year
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  GS   Inn    PB  WP  SB   CS  LF   CF   RF
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+---+---+----+---+----+----+----+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1880 21 CIN NL OF 22 38 4 4 1 .913 .855 1.91 1.76 14 8 0 3B 1 2 0 1 0 .667 .870 2.00 3.30 C 1 2 0 0 0 1.000 .909 2.00 6.40 0 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.30 1882 23 CIN AA OF 80 188 9 16 2 .925 .847 2.46 1.78 80 0 0 1883 24 CIN AA OF 94 171 11 31 1 .854 .851 1.94 1.73 82 0 12 3B 3 4 6 2 0 .833 .840 3.33 3.27 P 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.10 0.00 2.34 0 5.0 1884 25 BAL AA 3B 97 118 168 54 10 .841 .848 2.95 2.94 OF 9 16 8 4 1 .857 .845 2.67 1.61 0 2 7 2B 1 4 0 0 0 1.000 .909 4.00 5.90 1885 26 BAL AA OF 107 230 14 21 2 .921 .879 2.28 1.83 105 2 0 3B 2 2 2 3 0 .571 .851 2.00 2.95 SS 2 2 4 0 0 1.000 .882 3.00 4.65 P 2 0 0 0 0 0.00 1.80 0.00 1.80 0 3.0 1B 1 11 1 0 0 1.000 .968 12.00 10.50 1886 27 BAL AA OF 95 186 12 22 4 .900 .877 2.08 1.75 95 0 0 2B 32 84 86 14 9 .924 .908 5.31 6.00 3B 11 16 18 3 0 .919 .850 3.09 3.14 SS 3 2 9 5 1 .688 .853 3.67 4.50 P 1 0 1 1 0 .500 .909 1.00 1.90 2.25 2.02 0 4.0 1887 28 BAL AA OF 110 187 15 22 4 .902 .898 1.84 2.01 110 0 0 2B 13 35 48 11 4 .883 .906 6.38 5.96 3B 10 14 18 10 2 .762 .851 3.20 3.31 SS 2 1 3 1 0 .800 .851 2.00 4.45 P 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.10 0.00 2.70 0 1.0 1888 29 BAL AA OF 44 54 7 9 1 .871 .906 1.39 1.79 30 0 14 SS 34 53 98 20 12 .883 .863 4.44 4.54 2B 2 2 4 1 0 .857 .909 3.00 5.55 1B 1 6 0 0 0 1.000 .984 6.00 10.50 1889 30 BAL AA OF 105 172 24 15 7 .929 .903 1.87 1.96 4 3 99 SS 1 1 2 0 0 1.000 .882 3.00 5.10 1890 31 TOT OF 47 84 5 13 3 .873 .916 1.89 1.81 47 0 0 CLV NL OF 9 15 0 4 0 .789 .915 1.67 1.89 9 0 0 P 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00 0.00 1.80 0 1.0 BAL AA OF 38 69 5 9 3 .892 .916 1.95 1.79 38 0 0
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1885 26 BAL AA 1B 1 11 1 0 0 1.000 .968 12.00 10.50 1888 29 BAL AA 1B 1 6 0 0 0 1.000 .984 6.00 10.50 1884 25 BAL AA 2B 1 4 0 0 0 1.000 .909 4.00 5.90 1886 27 BAL AA 2B 32 84 86 14 9 .924 .908 5.31 6.00 1887 28 BAL AA 2B 13 35 48 11 4 .883 .906 6.38 5.96 1888 29 BAL AA 2B 2 2 4 1 0 .857 .909 3.00 5.55 1880 21 CIN NL 3B 1 2 0 1 0 .667 .870 2.00 3.30 1883 24 CIN AA 3B 3 4 6 2 0 .833 .840 3.33 3.27 1884 25 BAL AA 3B 97 118 168 54 10 .841 .848 2.95 2.94 1885 26 BAL AA 3B 2 2 2 3 0 .571 .851 2.00 2.95 1886 27 BAL AA 3B 11 16 18 3 0 .919 .850 3.09 3.14 1887 28 BAL AA 3B 10 14 18 10 2 .762 .851 3.20 3.31 1880 21 CIN NL C 1 2 0 0 0 1.000 .909 2.00 6.40 0 1880 21 CIN NL OF 22 38 4 4 1 .913 .855 1.91 1.76 14 8 0 1882 23 CIN AA OF 80 188 9 16 2 .925 .847 2.46 1.78 80 0 0 1883 24 CIN AA OF 94 171 11 31 1 .854 .851 1.94 1.73 82 0 12 1884 25 BAL AA OF 9 16 8 4 1 .857 .845 2.67 1.61 0 2 7 1885 26 BAL AA OF 107 230 14 21 2 .921 .879 2.28 1.83 105 2 0 1886 27 BAL AA OF 95 186 12 22 4 .900 .877 2.08 1.75 95 0 0 1887 28 BAL AA OF 110 187 15 22 4 .902 .898 1.84 2.01 110 0 0 1888 29 BAL AA OF 44 54 7 9 1 .871 .906 1.39 1.79 30 0 14 1889 30 BAL AA OF 105 172 24 15 7 .929 .903 1.87 1.96 4 3 99 1890 31 TOT OF 47 84 5 13 3 .873 .916 1.89 1.81 47 0 0 CLV NL OF 9 15 0 4 0 .789 .915 1.67 1.89 9 0 0 BAL AA OF 38 69 5 9 3 .892 .916 1.95 1.79 38 0 0 1883 24 CIN AA P 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.10 0.00 2.34 0 5.0 1885 26 BAL AA P 2 0 0 0 0 0.00 1.80 0.00 1.80 0 3.0 1886 27 BAL AA P 1 0 1 1 0 .500 .909 1.00 1.90 2.25 2.02 0 4.0 1887 28 BAL AA P 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.10 0.00 2.70 0 1.0 1890 31 CLV NL P 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00 0.00 1.80 0 1.0 1880 21 CIN NL SS 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.30 1885 26 BAL AA SS 2 2 4 0 0 1.000 .882 3.00 4.65 1886 27 BAL AA SS 3 2 9 5 1 .688 .853 3.67 4.50 1887 28 BAL AA SS 2 1 3 1 0 .800 .851 2.00 4.45 1888 29 BAL AA SS 34 53 98 20 12 .883 .863 4.44 4.54 1889 30 BAL AA SS 1 1 2 0 0 1.000 .882 3.00 5.10
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+---+---+----+---+----+----+----+ Position Total OF 713 1326 109 157 26 .901 .878 2.01 1.84 567 15 132 3B 124 156 212 73 12 .834 .848 2.97 3.00 2B 48 125 138 26 13 .910 .908 5.48 5.97 SS 43 59 116 26 13 .871 .863 4.07 4.55 P* 6 0 1 1 0 .500 .909 0.17 1.95 0 14.0 1B 2 17 1 0 0 1.000 .973 9.00 10.50 C 1 2 0 0 0 1.000 .909 2.00 6.40 0 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+---+---+----+---+----+----+----+ Overall Total 937 1685 577 283 64 .889 .876 2.41 2.35
An Important note about our fielding stats

Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

Batting Average
1882 AA-.288-9

On-base %
1882 AA-.333-5

Slugging %
1882 AA-.364-10

OPS
1882 AA-.698-8

Games
1882 AA-80-1
1883 AA-97-6
1886 AA-139-5

At Bats
1882 AA-354-1
1883 AA-413-10
1884 AA-479-4
1885 AA-471-9

Plate Appearances (approx.)
1882 AA-378-1
1884 AA-495-7
1885 AA-498-7

Runs
1882 AA-82-2
1885 AA-84-10

Hits
1882 AA-102-4

Total Bases
1882 AA-129-6

Doubles
1885 AA-23-5

Triples
1882 AA-6-9

Home Runs
1883 AA-3-8

RBI
1882 AA-29-8
1883 AA-52-8

Bases on Balls
1882 AA-24-3
1887 AA-63-9

Singles
1882 AA-83-4
1883 AA-100-5
1884 AA-104-9

Adjusted OPS+
1882 AA-129-8

Runs Created
1882 AA-43-5

Adjusted Batting Runs
1882 AA-11-8

Batting Wins
1882 AA-1.3-8

Extra-Base Hits
1882 AA-19-10

Times on Base
1882 AA-126-4

Offensive Win%
1882 AA-.654-8

Outs
1882 AA-252-2
1884 AA-350-5
1885 AA-353-2
1886 AA-443-1

Saves
1885 AA-1-2

Games Finished
1885 AA-2-6
1886 AA-1-9

       

Black Ink: Batting - 2 (587) (Average HOFer ≈ 27)
Gray Ink: Batting - 42 (580) (Average HOFer ≈ 144) Pitching - 3 (2072) (Average HOFer ≈ 185)
HOF Standards: Batting - 3.0 (3105) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank
Click on the Car, Act or Year to see the career, active, or league leaderboard.


Similar Batters  View in Pop-up

Compare Stats
  1. Ed Andrews (943)
  2. Jimmy McAleer (934)
  3. George Moriarty (930)
  4. Bill Coughlin (923)
  5. Ossie Vitt (919)
  6. Hugh Nicol (919)
  7. Pete Hotaling (918)
  8. Ollie Pickering (915)
  9. Jack Manning (915)
  10. Cliff Carroll (915)
Most Similar by Age 

Click on C to compare their stats
Mouse over numbers to view names
  1. Joe Orsulak (970)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Pete Hotaling (965)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. John Morrill (963)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. John Cassidy (952)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Ned Hanlon (958) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Joe Birmingham (930)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Jimmy McAleer (933)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Jimmy McAleer (942)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Explanation of Similarity Scores


Uniforms 
View Joe Sommer's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines
a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit

Other References 
Error?     Compare     Search Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Joe Sommer    

Viewed 7826 times through December 2, 2008.
Name and misspellings: Joseph james joseph jose jon John Joe jimmy jim Sommer

Pages Updated through October 30,2008. Pages designed and created by Baseball-Reference part of Sports Reference, Inc. (Copyright ©2000-2007).
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org and RetroSheet.org..

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Joe Sommer
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page

Stats updated through October 30, 2008.


Copyright © 2000-2008 Sports Reference, LLC, All rights reserved.
A Sports Reference LLC Site : About BR | About Sports Reference | Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service

Partner With: FantasyPlayers.com. Contact Fantasy Sports Ventures for advertising information.