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Charles Earle was a solid OFer and a useful 2-way player at the start of his career.

He was a full-time OFer for a decade, with several years–1910 especially–of star quality. He was above average across the board–decent at making contact, decent power, decent at taking a walk, decent speed. We’ve mirrored his historical pattern here, aside from delaying his debut as a position player until 1907 (a year later than his real life rookie season). We do have him on the mound in 1906, and could easily be convinced that he would have gotten a look in the field that year as well, during which he would hit quite poorly.

Defensively, Earle was … you guessed it … decent! His arm was average at best, but he had decent range, and wouldn’t hurt you in CF, although he was probably best in RF.

Earle pitched well in the start of his career, seeing action on the mound over his first 5 years and culminating in a 1908 season where, for the only time, he eclipsed 200 IP. Earle was never dominant on the mound, but he was useful for sure, and it’s not clear why he never pitched after 1911 (although, as always, theoretical arm injuries loom as a likely explanation).

“Frank” is not really Earle’s nickname; rather he is in the historical record as both Charles Earle and Frank Earle, and it took a while for NeL research to confirm these names were indeed used by the same person.

I like this model for Earle, but could see his overall performance edging up slightly across the board. Some MLE’s have him becoming a threat to lead the league in homers, which I think is a vast overstatement of his potential–Earle had decent power for his era, but not beyond that.

Name	Charles Earle (Frank)
ID / Status	earle-000cha / Draft
Pos	OF
DOB / i9s Career	03/31/1884 / 1906 - 1919
Birthplace	Meriden, CT (USA)
Height / Weight	5'9" / 143
B / T	R / R

 

Batting Projections

Year	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1907	509	150	15	5	1	42	60	21	9	0.295	0.348	0.350	0.698
1908	474	139	18	9	2	45	62	25	7	0.293	0.355	0.382	0.736
1909	417	108	20	11	5	27	43	13	5	0.259	0.304	0.396	0.700
1910	579	185	25	13	6	56	67	35	10	0.320	0.380	0.439	0.818
1911	454	112	20	7	5	39	49	21	6	0.247	0.306	0.355	0.661
1912	376	87	18	6	2	25	40	12	6	0.231	0.279	0.327	0.606
1913	432	105	20	5	1	37	50	16	7	0.243	0.303	0.319	0.622
1914	537	139	24	8	4	45	60	25	6	0.259	0.316	0.356	0.672
1915	618	181	30	7	4	62	71	23	13	0.293	0.357	0.383	0.741
1916	490	133	23	8	3	50	58	17	6	0.271	0.339	0.369	0.708
1917	477	119	18	3	1	56	45	16	7	0.249	0.328	0.306	0.634
1918	233	61	11	4	2	29	22	10	3	0.262	0.344	0.369	0.713
1919	142	33	5	1	1	10	16	2	2	0.232	0.283	0.303	0.586

 

Pitching Projections

Year	G	GS	IP	HA	W	K	HRA	eD	eT	eHBP	BB/9	H/9	K/9	ERA	WHIP
1906	19	4	67.0	79	20	32	1	0	0	2	2.7	10.6	4.3	3.39	1.48
1907	17	3	51.0	43	14	21	0	0	0	2	2.5	7.6	3.7	2.23	1.12
1908	34	27	209.0	180	58	71	2	0	0	7	2.5	7.8	3.1	2.43	1.14
1909	22	16	125.0	127	42	44	2	0	0	5	3.0	9.1	3.2	3.06	1.35
1910	19	17	118.0	108	36	38	2	0	0	4	2.7	8.2	2.9	2.87	1.22
1911	9	5	40.0	57	23	12	3	0	0	2	5.2	12.8	2.7	5.54	2.00