The 1899 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished in sixth place in the National League with a record of 83–67, 16 games behind the Brooklyn Superbas.

Regular season The Reds were coming off a successful season in 1898, earning a third-place finish with a 92–60 record. However, they once again faded down the stretch, as the team was in first place in the first week of September before slumping for the remainder of the season.

Buck Ewing returned to manage Cincinnati for a fifth season. The Reds also purchased Kip Selbach from the Washington Senators during the off-season for $5,000. Selbach batted .303 with three home runs and 60 RBI with the Senators in 1898. The club also acquired Bill Phillips, who spent the 1898 season with the Indianapolis Hoosiers of the Western League, where he had a 29–8 record. Phillips last played in the National League in 1895 with the Reds, going 6–7 with a 6.03 ERA. Twenty-year-old Noodles Hahn was also signed by Cincinnati, as he split the 1898 season with the Detroit Tigers and St. Paul Saints, going 12–20 between those two clubs.

Jake Beckley had another strong offensive season, batting .333 with three home runs and 99 RBI, all team highs. Kip Selbach batted .297 with three home runs and 87 RBI, and also scored a team-high 105 runs.

On the mound, Hahn was the ace, earning a 23–8 record with a 2.68 ERA in his rookie season. Hahn pitched a team high 309 innings, and struck out 145 batters. Phillips was also very solid, going 17–9 with a 3.32 ERA in 33 games.

Season summary Cincinnati started the season off on the right foot, going 14–7 in their opening twenty-one games, only 1.5 games out of first. However, a 7–15 mark over their next twenty-two games saw the team fall under the .500 level with a 24–25 record, sitting in seventh place, 14.5 games behind the Brooklyn Superbas. The team would remain around the .500 mark, as they were 40–41, before going on a franchise record fourteen-game winning streak. Cincinnati's record improved to 54–41, however, they still remained in fifth place, eight games behind Brooklyn. The Reds then lost six of their next seven games to fall into sixth place, 12.5 games out. At the end of the season, Cincinnati was a sixth place team with an 83–67 record, 19 games behind Brooklyn.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster 1899 Cincinnati Reds Roster Pitchers Catchers

Infielders Outfielders Manager

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI C 94 293 79 .270 1 43 1B 135 517 172 .333 3 99 2B 112 377 105 .279 1 65 SS 138 540 150 .278 0 81 3B 90 314 73 .232 1 52 OF 141 525 156 .297 3 87 OF 81 327 83 .254 0 37 OF 88 343 101 .294 1 24

Other batters Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI 108 390 96 .246 0 43 64 251 87 .347 1 23 63 195 61 .313 0 24 41 138 36 .261 0 22 31 127 39 .307 1 20 31 108 19 .176 0 2 26 92 34 .370 0 10 22 85 19 .224 0 8 14 42 7 .167 0 4 9 29 9 .310 0 3 5 17 4 .235 0 0

Pitching

Starting pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Player G IP W L ERA SO 38 309.0 23 8 2.68 145 34 250.1 14 17 4.24 46 33 227.2 17 9 3.32 43 26 210.2 13 9 3.59 59 25 180.1 9 10 4.09 35 9 68.1 3 6 3.95 17 5 41.0 2 2 5.49 9 5 32.2 0 5 5.51 2

Other pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Player G IP W L ERA SO 9 48.0 2 1 4.88 2

Relief pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Player G W L SV ERA SO 1 0 0 0 5.40 3

References

External links 1899 Cincinnati Reds season at Baseball Reference