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Ossie Bluege

Oswald Louis Bluege

Positions: Third Baseman, Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 162 lb.

Born: October 24, 1900 in Chicago, IL
High School: Schurz (Chicago, IL) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 24, 1922
Team: Senators 1922-1939

Final Game: July 13, 1939
Died: October 14, 1985 in Edina, MN
Buried: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN
Relatives: Brother of Otto Bluege
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 11:59PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #775. Roy Johnson… #776. Joe Start… #777. Claudell Washington… #778. OSSIE BLUEGE… #779. George McQuinn… #780. Joe Cunningham… #781. Carlos Pena… 

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1922 21 WSH AL 19 71 61 5 12 1 0 0 2 1 0 7 7 .197 .300 .213 .513 38 13 2 1 5/6
1923 22 WSH AL 109 456 379 48 93 15 7 2 42 5 3 48 53 .245 .343 .338 .680 83 128 8 21 *5/4
1924 23 WSH AL 117 465 402 59 113 15 4 2 49 7 5 39 36 .281 .358 .353 .711 85 142 9 15 54/6
1925 24 WSH AL 145 607 522 77 150 27 4 4 79 16 15 59 56 .287 .362 .377 .739 88 197 2 24 *5/6 MVP-10
1926 25 WSH AL 139 584 487 69 132 19 8 3 65 12 9 70 46 .271 .368 .361 .730 92 176 5 22 *5/6 MVP-16
1927 26 WSH AL 146 583 503 71 138 21 10 1 66 15 5 57 47 .274 .354 .362 .716 87 182 5 18 *5
1928 27 WSH AL 146 588 518 78 154 33 7 2 75 18 6 46 27 .297 .364 .400 .763 101 207 8 16 *5/4
1929 28 WSH AL 64 246 220 35 65 6 0 5 31 6 4 19 15 .295 .354 .391 .745 91 86 1 6 546
1930 29 WSH AL 134 562 476 64 138 27 7 3 69 15 8 51 40 .290 .368 .395 .763 93 188 8 27 *5
1931 30 WSH AL 152 634 570 82 155 25 7 8 98 16 10 50 39 .272 .336 .382 .718 88 218 5 9 *5/6
1932 31 WSH AL 149 614 507 64 131 22 4 5 64 9 7 83 41 .258 .367 .347 .714 87 176 4 20 *5
1933 32 WSH AL 140 580 501 63 131 14 0 6 71 6 7 55 34 .261 .338 .325 .663 77 163 3 21 *5
1934 33 WSH AL 99 314 285 39 70 9 2 0 11 2 1 23 15 .246 .306 .291 .598 57 83 2 4 56/4O
1935 34 WSH AL 100 363 320 44 84 14 3 0 34 2 2 37 21 .263 .341 .325 .666 75 104 1 5 65/4 AS
1936 35 WSH AL 90 368 319 43 92 12 1 1 55 5 3 38 16 .288 .375 .342 .716 83 109 6 5 465
1937 36 WSH AL 42 142 127 12 36 4 2 1 13 1 1 13 9 .283 .355 .370 .725 87 47 1 1 6/35
1938 37 WSH AL 58 209 184 25 48 12 1 0 21 3 1 21 11 .261 .340 .337 .677 75 62 1 3 46/35
1939 38 WSH AL 18 66 59 5 9 0 0 0 3 1 0 7 2 .153 .242 .153 .395 7 9 2 0 0 3/456
18 Seasons 1867 7452 6440 883 1751 276 67 43 848 140 87 723 515 .272 .352 .356 .707 85 2290 2 71 218
162 Game Avg. 162 647 559 77 152 24 6 4 74 12 8 63 45 .272 .352 .356 .707 85 199 6 19
G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1922 21 WSH AL 71 -5 0 0 0 0 1 2 -2 -0.2 -2 -0.2 0.0 $ 5/6
1923 22 WSH AL 456 -8 1 0 0 3 4 15 15 1.5 12 1.2 0.3 $ *5/4
1924 23 WSH AL 465 -9 0 0 0 1 4 15 11 1.1 10 1.0 0.1 $ 54/6
1925 24 WSH AL 607 -8 -2 0 0 7 5 19 21 2.2 14 1.4 0.8 $ *5/6 MVP-10
1926 25 WSH AL 584 -1 0 0 0 -3 5 19 20 2.0 23 2.3 -0.3 $ *5/6 MVP-16
1927 26 WSH AL 583 -8 2 0 0 14 5 19 32 3.2 18 1.8 1.4 $ *5
1928 27 WSH AL 588 -1 2 0 0 11 5 19 36 3.6 25 2.5 1.1 $ *5/4
1929 28 WSH AL 246 -2 0 0 0 4 2 8 12 1.2 8 0.8 0.4 $ 546
1930 29 WSH AL 562 -3 -1 0 0 9 3 18 26 2.6 17 1.6 1.0 $ *5
1931 30 WSH AL 634 -8 0 0 0 4 3 20 19 2.0 15 1.5 0.5 $ *5/6
1932 31 WSH AL 614 -5 -3 0 0 7 3 20 22 2.3 15 1.5 0.8 $ *5
1933 32 WSH AL 580 -14 -2 0 0 1 3 19 7 0.7 6 0.6 0.1 $8,500 *5
1934 33 WSH AL 314 -20 1 0 0 5 3 10 -1 0.0 -6 -0.6 0.6 $8,000 56/4O
1935 34 WSH AL 363 -10 0 0 0 1 4 12 7 0.8 6 0.6 0.2 $ 65/4 AS
1936 35 WSH AL 368 -6 -1 0 0 7 3 12 15 1.6 8 0.8 0.8 $ 465
1937 36 WSH AL 142 -3 -1 0 0 0 2 5 3 0.3 3 0.3 0.0 $ 6/35
1938 37 WSH AL 209 -8 0 0 0 3 2 7 4 0.5 1 0.1 0.4 $ 46/35
1939 38 WSH AL 66 -9 0 0 0 -1 0 2 -8 -0.7 -7 -0.7 0.0 $ 3/456
18 Seasons 7452 -128 -4 0 0 73 57 241 239 24.7 166 16.5 8.2 $16,500
Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1924 23 WSH AL WS NYG W 7 31 26 2 5 0 0 0 3 1 0 3 4 .192 .276 .192 .468 5 1 0 2 0 0
1925 24 WSH AL WS PIT L 5 19 18 2 5 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 .278 .316 .333 .649 6 0 1 0 0 0
1933 32 WSH AL WS NYG L 5 19 16 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 .125 .176 .188 .364 3 0 0 2 0 0
3 Seasons (3 Series) 17 69 60 5 12 2 0 0 5 1 0 4 14 .200 .262 .233 .495 14 1 1 4 0 0
3 WS 17 69 60 5 12 2 0 0 5 1 0 4 14 .200 .262 .233 .495 14 1 1 4 0 0

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1922 WSH AL 21 3B 17 53 17 32 4 3 .925 2.88 .950 3.45
1922 WSH AL 21 SS 2 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .945 5.20
1923 WSH AL 22 3B 106 393 125 243 25 29 .936 3.47 .945 3.45
1923 WSH AL 22 2B 4 14 6 8 0 2 1.000 3.50 .965 5.68
1924 WSH AL 23 3B 102 314 102 194 18 10 .943 2.90 .951 3.26
1924 WSH AL 23 2B 10 49 24 22 3 4 .939 4.60 .966 5.76
1924 WSH AL 23 SS 4 16 6 9 1 0 .938 3.75 .949 5.15
1925 WSH AL 24 3B 144 465 158 285 22 29 .953 3.08 .947 3.21 MVP-10
1925 WSH AL 24 SS 4 7 2 5 0 0 1.000 1.75 .944 5.20 MVP-10
1926 WSH AL 25 3B 134 415 139 256 20 15 .952 2.95 .951 3.37 MVP-16
1926 WSH AL 25 SS 8 23 7 14 2 3 .913 2.63 .944 5.01 MVP-16
1927 WSH AL 26 3B 146 543 185 337 21 20 .961 3.58 .952 3.33
1928 WSH AL 27 3B 144 500 150 330 20 34 .960 3.33 .951 3.27
1928 WSH AL 27 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.70
1929 WSH AL 28 3B 35 120 34 82 4 9 .967 3.31 .952 3.10
1929 WSH AL 28 2B 14 65 27 36 2 12 .969 4.50 .968 5.91
1929 WSH AL 28 SS 10 40 13 27 0 3 1.000 4.00 .937 5.21
1930 WSH AL 29 3B 134 411 138 258 15 20 .964 2.96 .945 3.04
1931 WSH AL 30 3B 152 455 151 286 18 24 .960 2.88 .944 3.08
1931 WSH AL 30 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.20
1932 WSH AL 31 3B 149 467 158 295 14 28 .970 3.04 .950 2.96
1933 WSH AL 32 3B 138 376 116 247 13 25 .965 2.63 .954 2.92
1934 WSH AL 33 3B 41 140 41 92 7 10 .950 3.24 .943 3.09
1934 WSH AL 33 SS 30 146 48 95 3 16 .979 4.77 .951 5.24
1934 WSH AL 33 2B 5 32 17 15 0 2 1.000 6.40 .969 5.88
1934 WSH AL 33 OF 5 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 1.60 .968 2.28
1934 WSH AL 33 LF 5 1 0 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 1.60 .968 2.16
1935 WSH AL 34 SS 58 304 117 177 10 32 .967 5.07 .957 5.35 AS
1935 WSH AL 34 3B 25 84 25 54 5 5 .940 3.16 .947 3.05 AS
1935 WSH AL 34 2B 4 15 6 7 2 2 .867 3.25 .969 5.85 AS
1936 WSH AL 35 2B 52 288 128 158 2 35 .993 5.50 .972 5.78
1936 WSH AL 35 SS 23 104 41 61 2 7 .981 4.43 .950 5.35
1936 WSH AL 35 3B 15 48 8 39 1 4 .979 3.13 .946 3.13
1937 WSH AL 36 SS 28 166 67 91 8 19 .952 5.64 .955 5.23
1937 WSH AL 36 1B 2 10 10 0 0 0 1.000 5.00 .991 9.85
1937 WSH AL 36 3B 2 5 1 4 0 0 1.000 2.50 .946 3.15
1938 WSH AL 37 2B 38 197 85 110 2 26 .990 5.13 .967 5.52
1938 WSH AL 37 SS 10 47 12 32 3 6 .936 4.40 .953 5.17
1938 WSH AL 37 1B 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .990 9.80
1938 WSH AL 37 3B 1 2 0 2 0 1 1.000 2.00 .940 3.10
1939 WSH AL 38 1B 11 94 86 7 1 9 .989 8.45 .990 9.64
1939 WSH AL 38 2B 2 12 7 5 0 0 1.000 6.00 .965 5.55
1939 WSH AL 38 3B 2 8 3 4 1 0 .875 3.50 .942 3.15
1939 WSH AL 38 SS 2 14 7 6 1 4 .929 6.50 .950 5.15
18 Seasons 3B 1487 4799 1551 3040 208 266 .957 3.09 .949 3.18
12 Seasons SS 180 869 321 518 30 90 .965 4.66 .953 5.27
9 Seasons 2B 130 672 300 361 11 83 .984 5.08 .969 5.72
3 Seasons 1B 14 106 98 7 1 9 .991 7.50 .990 9.68
1 Season LF 5 1 0 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 1.60 .968 2.16
1 Season OF 5 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 1.60 .968 2.28
18 Seasons TOT 1816 6454 2278 3926 250 448 .961 3.42 .952 3.61
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG 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.
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1948 BBWAA ( 1.7%)
1949 BBWAA ( 0.7%)
1954 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1956 BBWAA ( 1.0%)
1958 BBWAA ( 0.8%)
1960 BBWAA ( 1.1%)

All-Star Games
1935 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1925 AL (10, 12%)
1926 AL (16, 8%)
0.20 Career Shares (738th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1925 AL  0.8 (3rd)
1927 AL  1.4 (1st)
1928 AL  1.1 (1st)
1930 AL  1.0 (4th)
1932 AL  0.8 (4th)
1934 AL  0.6 (8th)
1936 AL  0.8 (7th)
1938 AL  0.4 (9th)
Career  8.2 (108th)

Games Played s c a p y
1931 AL  152 (6th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1932 AL  83 (8th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1923 AL  53 (6th)
1925 AL  56 (5th)
1926 AL  46 (9th)
1927 AL  47 (8th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1925 AL  16 (7th)
1928 AL  18 (4th)
1930 AL  15 (9th)
1931 AL  16 (8th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1923 AL  8 (6th)
1924 AL  9 (5th)
1927 AL  5 (9th)
1928 AL  8 (1st)
1930 AL  8 (2nd)
1931 AL  5 (8th)
1932 AL  4 (7th)
1933 AL  3 (6th)
1936 AL  6 (7th)
Career  71 (204th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1925 AL  24 (8th)
1930 AL  27 (2nd)
1932 AL  20 (3rd)
1933 AL  21 (2nd)
Career  218 (67th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1925 AL  15 (4th)
1931 AL  10 (10th)
Career  87 (182nd)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1931 AL  10.7 (10th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1923 AL  106 (5th)
1925 AL  144 (3rd)
1926 AL  134 (4th)
1927 AL  146 (1st)
1928 AL  144 (2nd)
1930 AL  134 (1st)
1931 AL  152 (1st)
1932 AL  149 (1st)
1933 AL  138 (3rd)
Career  1,487 (41st)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1923 AL  125 (4th)
1925 AL  158 (3rd)
1926 AL  139 (4th)
1927 AL  185 (2nd)
1928 AL  150 (2nd)
1930 AL  138 (3rd)
1931 AL  151 (2nd)
1932 AL  158 (2nd)
Career  1,551 (32nd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1923 AL  243 (4th)
1925 AL  285 (3rd)
1926 AL  256 (4th)
1927 AL  337 (1st)
1928 AL  330 (1st)
1930 AL  258 (1st)
1931 AL  286 (1st)
1932 AL  295 (2nd)
1933 AL  247 (3rd)
Career  3,040 (40th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1923 AL  25 (3rd)
1924 AL  18 (3rd)
1925 AL  22 (3rd)
1926 AL  20 (2nd)
1927 AL  21 (2nd)
1928 AL  20 (1st)
1930 AL  15 (4th)
1931 AL  18 (3rd)
1932 AL  14 (4th)
1933 AL  13 (5th)
Career  208 (80th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1923 AL  3.47 (3rd)
1924 AL  2.90 (3rd)
1925 AL  3.08 (4th)
1927 AL  3.58 (1st)
1928 AL  3.33 (3rd)
1930 AL  2.96 (4th)
1932 AL  3.04 (3rd)
Career  3.09 (68th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1925 AL  .953 (3rd)
1927 AL  .961 (3rd)
1928 AL  .960 (3rd)
1930 AL  .964 (2nd)
1931 AL  .960 (2nd)
1932 AL  .970 (3rd)
1933 AL  .965 (2nd)
Career  .957 (87th)

Oldest s c a p y
1938 AL  born 1900-10-24 (8th)
1939 AL  born 1900-10-24 (6th)

             

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 11 (1335), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 8 (1276), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 18 (865), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  3. Harry Steinfeldt (909)
  4. Mark McLemore (901)
  5. Willie Kamm (900)
  6. Larry Gardner (900)
  7. Heinie Groh (893)
  8. Joe Quinn (892)
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  10. Billy Nash (885)
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  3. Bill Coughlin (973)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Bill Coughlin (964)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Bernie Friberg (964)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Bernie Friberg (951)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Red Smith (953)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Willie Kamm (953)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Willie Kamm (944)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Bill Bradley (934)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  11. Harry Steinfeldt (936)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  12. Dots Miller (923)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  13. Willie Kamm (921)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  14. Pete Runnels (914)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  15. Larry Gardner (902)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  16. Larry Gardner (900)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Salaries

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Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
193332Washington Senators$8,5001/25/34 TSN
193433Washington Senators$8,0001/25/34 TSN
Career to date (may be incomplete)$16,500
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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