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Buddy Blattner

Robert Garnett Blattner

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: February 8, 1920 in St. Louis, MO
High School: Beaumont HS (St. Louis, MO) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1942
Teams (by GP): Giants/Phillies/Cardinals 1942-1949

Final Game: October 2, 1949
Died: September 5, 2009 in Chesterfield, MO
Buried: Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Louis, MO
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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 Awards
1942 STL NL 22 SS 13 6 5 30 11 16 3 2 .900 2.08 .955 5.22
1942 STL NL 22 2B 3 0 0 5 3 2 0 1 1.000 1.67 .968 5.60
1946 NYG NL 26 2B 114 111 104 615 285 315 15 62 .976 5.26 .970 5.55
1946 NYG NL 26 1B 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .990 10.00
1947 NYG NL 27 2B 34 32 31 189 79 100 10 14 .947 5.26 .975 5.57
1947 NYG NL 27 3B 11 3 3 14 7 6 1 1 .929 1.18 .947 3.06
1948 NYG NL 28 2B 7 4 4 30 8 22 0 4 1.000 4.29 .971 5.40
1949 PHI NL 29 2B 15 11 10 52 24 27 1 5 .981 3.40 .976 5.57
1949 PHI NL 29 3B 12 9 9 23 11 11 1 2 .957 1.83 .952 3.18
1949 PHI NL 29 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.00
5 Seasons 2B 173 158 149 891 399 466 26 86 .971 5.00 .971 5.55
2 Seasons 3B 23 12 12 37 18 17 2 3 .946 1.52 .950 3.13
2 Seasons SS 14 6 5 30 11 16 3 2 .900 1.93 .955 5.21
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .990 10.00
5 Seasons TOT 211 176 166 959 429 499 31 91 .968 4.40 .970 5.28
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
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.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1942 STL NL 22 SS
1942 STL NL 22 2B
1946 NYG NL 26 2B
1946 NYG NL 26 1B
1947 NYG NL 27 2B
1947 NYG NL 27 3B
1948 NYG NL 28 2B
1949 PHI NL 29 2B
1949 PHI NL 29 3B
1949 PHI NL 29 SS
5 Seasons 2B
2 Seasons 3B
2 Seasons SS
1 Season 1B
5 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1942 STL NL 22 19 6 19 16 0 0 0 3 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1946 NYG NL 26 126 111 126 115 0 0 1 114 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 7
1947 NYG NL 27 55 35 55 44 0 0 0 34 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 8
1948 NYG NL 28 8 4 8 7 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1949 PHI NL 29 64 20 64 28 0 0 0 15 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 35 3
5 Seasons 272 176 272 210 0 0 1 173 23 14 0 0 0 0 0 44 20
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.

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1948 NYG NL 28 63 51% 73% 19% 3 100% 0 3 0 1 2 4 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1949 PHI NL 29 301 70% 85% 27% 23 96% 0 14 6 5 3 17 10 7 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 3 0 4 3 1 0 0 0
2 Seasons 364 66% 83% 26% 26 96% 0 17 6 6 5 21 13 8 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 5 2 0 3 0 5 3 2 0 0 0
MLB Averages 61% 82% 27% 93%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1949 PHI NL 29 366 62% 84% 24% 23 91% 0 11 10 1 0 11 6 5 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 3 33%
1 Season 366 62% 84% 24% 23 91% 0 11 10 1 0 11 6 5 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 3 33%
MLB Averages 61% 82% 27% 89% 69%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1949 PHI NL 29 4 50% 100% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 4 50% 100% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 61% 82% 27% 91%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1946 NL  114 (5th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1946 NL  285 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1946 NL  15 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1946 NL  5.26 (4th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1946 NL  .976 (4th)

                                         

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