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Al Brancato

Albert Brancato (Bronk)

Positions: Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 188 lb.

Born: May 29, 1919 in Philadelphia, PA
High School: South HS (Philadelphia, PA) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 7, 1939
Team: Athletics 1939-1945

Final Game: September 19, 1945
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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
1939 PHA AL 20 3B 20 19 11 66 20 42 4 2 .939 3.10 .943 3.15
1939 PHA AL 20 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.20
1940 PHA AL 21 SS 80 60 52 333 136 180 17 35 .949 3.95 .949 4.85
1940 PHA AL 21 3B 25 21 17 81 24 51 6 4 .926 3.00 .937 3.21
1941 PHA AL 22 SS 139 133 123 719 263 395 61 80 .915 4.73 .948 4.96
1941 PHA AL 22 3B 7 4 4 12 4 8 0 2 1.000 1.71 .947 3.29
1945 PHA AL 26 SS 10 8 8 49 22 25 2 5 .959 4.70 .951 5.28
4 Seasons SS 230 201 183 1101 421 600 80 120 .927 4.44 .948 4.94
3 Seasons 3B 52 44 32 159 48 101 10 8 .937 2.87 .940 3.20
4 Seasons TOT 282 245 215 1260 469 701 90 128 .929 4.15 .947 4.62
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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1939 PHA AL 20 21 19 21 21 0 0 0 0 20 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1940 PHA AL 21 107 81 107 103 0 0 0 0 25 80 0 0 0 0 0 2 10
1941 PHA AL 22 144 137 144 143 0 0 0 0 7 139 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1945 PHA AL 26 10 8 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 282 245 282 277 0 0 0 0 52 230 0 0 0 0 0 3 10
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

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1941 AL  61 (1st)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1941 AL  139 (3rd)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1941 AL  263 (5th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1941 AL  395 (4th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1941 AL  61 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1941 AL  4.73 (5th)

Youngest s c a p y
1939 AL  born 1919-05-29 (6th)

             

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