| Career Batting: | .332 BA .397 OBP .600 SLG. 537 HR. 12,491 PA. | (1923-1942) |
Norman “Turkey” Stearnes was a generational talent and a no-doubt HoFer, bursting onto the scene as a 22 year old and posting MVP level numbers well into his 30s.
It’s all stupendous: on our projections, he hits over .300 16 times, posts an OPS over 1.000 in 13 of his first 15 seasons (with a .998 in one of those), leads the league in hits a half dozen times, in doubles thrice, and is up there in homeruns most years. He ends his career within spitting distance of the all-time record in doubles, over 300 triples, and over 500 homeruns.
Oh, yeah, he played CF. Excellently. Not a great arm, but excellent range, and overall strong enough defensively to never be moved down the defensive spectrum (throughout his career he played a handful of games at 1B, another handful in LF, but all before he was 35).
He had a good walk rate and, in probably the only knock against him, he struck out a lot. A lot. Like among the league leaders for 1/3 of his career a lot.
We’ve added a couple years to the end of his career, as it’s hard to see someone playing as well as he was in 1940 just stopping–those are clear decline years, but I still think they would have happened.
Most impressively (at least to me), if anything these projections are a hair conservative: I would not be surprised if his walk rate nudged up slightly in future projections, and his SLG could easily nudge up about 5%. He was that good.
| Name | Norman Stearnes (Turkey) |
| ID / Status | stear01tur / Draft |
| Pos | CF |
| DOB / i9s Career | 05/08/1901 / 1923 - 1942 |
| Birthplace | Nashville, TN (USA) |
| Height / Weight | 6'1" / 185 |
| B / T | L / L |
Batting Projections
| Year | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS |
| 1923 | 467 | 166 | 29 | 15 | 21 | 35 | 59 | 9 | 6 | .355 | .400 | .617 | 1.017 |
| 1924 | 470 | 148 | 31 | 17 | 19 | 38 | 71 | 8 | 5 | .315 | .366 | .574 | .940 |
| 1925 | 556 | 213 | 39 | 17 | 36 | 65 | 65 | 16 | 6 | .383 | .448 | .709 | 1.157 |
| 1926 | 609 | 221 | 52 | 20 | 29 | 71 | 73 | 29 | 2 | .363 | .429 | .657 | 1.086 |
| 1927 | 646 | 238 | 44 | 22 | 30 | 83 | 81 | 18 | 3 | .368 | .440 | .644 | 1.084 |
| 1928 | 571 | 186 | 45 | 21 | 39 | 57 | 91 | 8 | 5 | .326 | .387 | .683 | 1.070 |
| 1929 | 626 | 224 | 45 | 20 | 41 | 80 | 81 | 16 | 16 | .358 | .431 | .690 | 1.121 |
| 1930 | 666 | 243 | 48 | 20 | 47 | 76 | 83 | 32 | 11 | .365 | .430 | .709 | 1.139 |
| 1931 | 588 | 190 | 39 | 14 | 33 | 81 | 90 | 11 | 7 | .323 | .405 | .605 | 1.010 |
| 1932 | 615 | 233 | 46 | 16 | 28 | 63 | 98 | 34 | 13 | .379 | .437 | .642 | 1.079 |
| 1933 | 592 | 210 | 42 | 17 | 33 | 52 | 77 | 9 | 6 | .355 | .407 | .650 | 1.057 |
| 1934 | 599 | 221 | 50 | 17 | 36 | 50 | 90 | 28 | 11 | .369 | .418 | .689 | 1.107 |
| 1935 | 611 | 236 | 44 | 20 | 23 | 84 | 88 | 12 | 6 | .386 | .460 | .637 | 1.097 |
| 1936 | 511 | 164 | 38 | 14 | 27 | 57 | 57 | 5 | 4 | .321 | .389 | .609 | .998 |
| 1937 | 552 | 182 | 36 | 13 | 21 | 63 | 101 | 7 | 5 | .330 | .398 | .556 | .954 |
| 1938 | 525 | 141 | 35 | 15 | 25 | 58 | 89 | 5 | 3 | .269 | .341 | .535 | .876 |
| 1939 | 529 | 166 | 37 | 15 | 18 | 53 | 98 | 6 | 4 | .314 | .376 | .543 | .919 |
| 1940 | 539 | 130 | 34 | 10 | 11 | 56 | 102 | 3 | 3 | .241 | .313 | .403 | .716 |
| 1941 | 546 | 132 | 29 | 8 | 14 | 52 | 97 | 5 | 3 | .242 | .308 | .401 | .709 |
| 1942 | 450 | 97 | 19 | 2 | 6 | 49 | 84 | 3 | 3 | .216 | .293 | .307 | .600 |
| TOTALS | 11,268 | 3,741 | 782 | 313 | 537 | 1,223 | 1,675 | 264 | 122 | .332 | .397 | .600 | .997 |