Moe Berg

Morris Berg

Positions: Catcher and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: March 2, 1902 in New York, NY
High School: Barringer HS (Newark, NJ)
School: Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
Signed by the Brooklyn Robins as an amateur free agent in 1923. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 27, 1923
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Senators/RedSox/Robins/Indians 1923-1939

Final Game: September 1, 1939
Died: May 29, 1972 in Belleville, NJ
Cremated
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1923	BRO	NL	21	SS	47	38	30		234	86	126	22	20	.906		4.51	.939		5.80
1923	BRO	NL	21	2B	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			5.90
1926	CHW	AL	24	SS	31	30	23		153	59	86	8	21	.948		4.68	.944		5.01
1926	CHW	AL	24	2B	2	1	1		4	1	3	0	0	1.000		2.00	.968		5.65
1926	CHW	AL	24	3B	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			3.40
1927	CHW	AL	25	2B	11	4	3		21	4	16	1	2	.952		1.82	.961		5.69
1927	CHW	AL	25	C	10	5	5		29	23	5	1	0	.966		2.80	.974		4.63	0		2	1	33%	39%
1927	CHW	AL	25	SS	6	4	2		29	10	13	6	2	.793		3.83	.945		5.28
1927	CHW	AL	25	3B	3	0	0		6	2	3	1	0	.833		1.67	.952		3.33
1928	CHW	AL	26	C	73	69	55		311	256	52	3	8	.990		4.22	.976		4.71	5		21	31	60%	41%
1929	CHW	AL	27	C	106	103	86		383	290	86	7	12	.982		3.55	.976		4.69	6		47	39	45%	44%
1930	CHW	AL	28	C	20	18	10		70	55	14	1	1	.986		3.45	.984		4.88	2		12	5	29%	41%
1931	CLE	AL	29	C	8	3	2		18	12	4	2	0	.889		2.00	.981		4.92	1		4	3	43%	42%
1932	WSH	AL	30	C	75	60	37		264	229	35	0	9	1.000		3.52	.982		4.90	2		16	18	53%	43%
1933	WSH	AL	31	C	35	13	8		86	76	10	0	3	1.000		2.46	.988		4.88	3		1	2	67%	45%
1934	TOT	AL	32	C	59	51	37		239	214	21	4	2	.983		3.98	.981		4.99	3		19	8	30%	37%
1934	WSH	AL	32	C	31	26	15		86	77	8	1	1	.988		2.74	.981		4.99	0		12	3	20%	37%
1934	CLE	AL	32	C	28	25	22		153	137	13	3	1	.980		5.36	.981		4.99	3		7	5	42%	36%
1935	BOS	AL	33	C	37	25	19		115	99	15	1	2	.991		3.08	.984		4.75	1		11	5	31%	41%
1936	BOS	AL	34	C	39	31	26		207	175	29	3	3	.986		5.23	.979		4.78	4		24	12	33%	36%
1937	BOS	AL	35	C	47	36	33		237	208	24	5	2	.979		4.94	.980		5.04	5		17	7	29%	38%
1938	BOS	AL	36	C	7	3	1		12	11	1	0	1	1.000		1.71	.983		4.89	0		2	1	33%	37%
1938	BOS	AL	36	1B	1	0	0		3	3	0	0	1	1.000		3.00	.990		9.80
1939	BOS	AL	37	C	13	11	6		57	45	10	2	1	.965		4.23	.981		4.92	1		8	2	20%	37%
	13 Seasons			C	529	428	325		2028	1693	306	29	44	.986		3.78	.980		4.83	33		184	134	42%	41%
	3 Seasons			SS	84	72	55		416	155	225	36	43	.913		4.52	.941		5.47
	3 Seasons			2B	14	5	4		25	5	19	1	2	.960		1.71	.962		5.70
	2 Seasons			3B	4	0	0		6	2	3	1	0	.833		1.25	.952		3.35
	1 Season			1B	1	0	0		3	3	0	0	1	1.000		3.00	.990		9.80
	15 Seasons			TOT	632	505	384		2478	1858	553	67	90	.973		3.81	.973		4.93	33		184	134	42%	41%
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1923	BRO	NL	21	49	38	49	48	0	0	1	0	47	0	1
1926	CHW	AL	24	41	31	41	34	0	0	2	1	31	7	0
1927	CHW	AL	25	35	13	35	29	10	0	11	3	6	6	0
1928	CHW	AL	26	76	69	76	73	73	0	0	0	0	3	0
1929	CHW	AL	27	107	103	107	106	106	0	0	0	0	1	0
1930	CHW	AL	28	20	18	20	20	20	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931	CLE	AL	29	10	3	10	8	8	0	0	0	0	2	0
1932	WSH	AL	30	75	60	75	75	75	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933	WSH	AL	31	40	13	40	35	35	0	0	0	0	5	1
1934	WSH	AL	32	33	26	33	31	31	0	0	0	0	2	0
1934	CLE	AL	32	29	25	29	28	28	0	0	0	0	1	0
1935	BOS	AL	33	38	25	38	37	37	0	0	0	0	1	0
1936	BOS	AL	34	39	31	39	39	39	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937	BOS	AL	35	47	36	47	47	47	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938	BOS	AL	36	10	3	10	8	7	1	0	0	0	3	0
1939	BOS	AL	37	14	11	14	13	13	0	0	0	0	1	0
	15 Seasons			663	505	663	631	529	1	14	4	84	32	2

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame 1958 BBWAA ( 1.5%) 1960 BBWAA ( 1.9%)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1929 AL 106 (4th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1929 AL 290 (5th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1928 AL 52 (5th) 1929 AL 86 (2nd)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1928 AL 5 (5th) 1929 AL 6 (3rd) 1937 AL 5 (5th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1929 AL 47 (4th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1928 AL 31 (3rd) 1929 AL 39 (3rd)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1928 AL 59.6 (1st) 1929 AL 45.3 (5th) 1932 AL 52.9 (2nd)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1929 AL 3.55 (5th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1929 AL .982 (3rd)	Youngest s c a p y 1923 NL born 1902-03-02 (10th)

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