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Marv Breeding

Marvin Eugene Breeding

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: March 8, 1934 in Decatur, AL
High School: Jesuit HS (New Orleans, LA)
School: Samford University (Birmingham, AL)
Signed by the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent in 1955. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1960
Teams (by GP): Orioles/Senators/Dodgers 1960-1963

Final Game: September 29, 1963
Died: December 31, 2006 in Decatur, AL
Buried: Roselawn Cemetery, Decatur, AL
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1960 BAL AL 26 2B 152 151 119 1276.0 799 359 422 18 116 .977 17 16 5.51 5.14 .979 5.46 5.45
1961 BAL AL 27 2B 80 62 49 593.2 369 179 179 11 53 .970 7 14 5.43 4.48 .978 5.24 5.18
1962 BAL AL 28 2B 73 56 47 548.0 350 146 196 8 47 .977 11 23 5.62 4.68 .980 5.25 5.24
1962 BAL AL 28 3B 1 0 0 1.0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 -0 -600 0.00 0.00 .950 2.70 3.10
1962 BAL AL 28 SS 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 4.50 4.80
1963 TOT MLB 29 2B 39 29 20 268.0 152 67 80 5 14 .967 0 2 4.94 3.77 .979 5.12 5.13
1963 TOT MLB 29 3B 30 25 21 222.0 81 24 50 7 1 .914 -1 -5 3.00 2.47 .947 3.02 3.02
1963 TOT MLB 29 SS 3 0 0 7.0 6 1 4 1 0 .833 -0 -34 6.43 1.67 .963 4.89 4.80
1963 WSA AL 29 3B 29 25 21 220.0 81 24 50 7 1 .914 -1 -4 3.03 2.55 .947 3.02 3.02
1963 WSA AL 29 2B 22 21 14 178.0 116 52 60 4 14 .966 2 11 5.66 5.09 .980 5.08 5.09
1963 WSA AL 29 SS 2 0 0 5.0 5 1 3 1 0 .800 -0 -72 7.20 2.00 .964 4.86 4.80
1963 LAD NL 29 2B 17 8 6 90.0 36 15 20 1 0 .972 -1 -16 3.50 2.06 .974 5.21 5.19
1963 LAD NL 29 3B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -60 0.00 0.00 3.15 2.90
1963 LAD NL 29 SS 1 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 60 4.50 1.00 .960 4.95 4.80
4 Seasons 2B 344 298 235 2685.2 1670 751 877 42 230 .975 35 16 5.46 4.73 .979 5.34 5.31
2 Seasons 3B 31 25 21 223.0 82 24 50 8 1 .902 -1 -8 2.99 2.39 .947 3.02 3.02
2 Seasons SS 4 0 0 8.0 6 1 4 1 0 .833 -0 -30 5.62 1.25 .963 4.84 4.80
4 Seasons TOT 379 323 256 2916.2 1758 776 931 51 231 .971 34 14 5.27 4.50 .977 5.16 5.11
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
1960 BAL AL 26 2B 17 16 14 5 9 3
1961 BAL AL 27 2B 7 14 6 1 5 1
1962 BAL AL 28 2B 11 23 9 7 2 2
1962 BAL AL 28 3B -0 -600 -0 -0 0 0
1962 BAL AL 28 SS 0 0 0 0 0
1963 WSA AL 29 3B -1 -4 -1 -0 -1 0
1963 WSA AL 29 2B 2 11 2 2 -1 0
1963 WSA AL 29 SS -0 -72 -0 -0 0 0
1963 LAD NL 29 2B -1 -16 -0 -1 0 -1
1963 LAD NL 29 3B -0 -60 -0 -0 0
1963 LAD NL 29 SS 0 60 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 2B 35 16 30 15 16 5
2 Seasons 3B -1 -8 -1 -1 -1 0
2 Seasons SS -0 -30 -0 -0 0 0
4 Seasons TOT 34 14 29 14 15 5

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1960 BAL AL 26 152 151 152 152 0 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1961 BAL AL 27 90 62 90 80 0 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 12
1962 BAL AL 28 96 56 96 77 0 0 0 75 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 19
1963 WSA AL 29 58 46 58 51 0 0 0 22 29 2 0 0 0 0 0 9 2
1963 LAD NL 29 20 8 20 19 0 0 0 17 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
4 Seasons 416 323 416 379 0 0 0 346 31 4 0 0 0 0 0 25 37
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
1960 BAL AL 26 5345 64% 79% 27% 499 95% 2 362 115 172 75 422 332 80 1 3 18 2 13 3 14 116 32 20 40 6 104 47 54 11 5 6
1961 BAL AL 27 2492 62% 76% 26% 240 93% 3 178 68 81 29 182 151 29 1 3 11 0 8 3 9 53 18 11 14 4 47 18 29 4 0 4
1962 BAL AL 28 2295 59% 81% 27% 245 95% 0 144 65 55 24 198 164 29 0 2 8 0 7 1 4 47 14 10 17 1 43 18 24 4 1 2
1963 WSA AL 29 737 68% 80% 29% 79 90% 0 53 24 19 10 58 48 8 0 1 4 0 3 1 4 14 7 1 3 1 12 4 8 1 1 0
1963 LAD NL 29 374 72% 76% 28% 29 86% 0 15 5 6 5 19 17 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 11243 63% 79% 27% 1092 94% 5 752 277 333 143 879 712 148 2 9 42 3 31 8 31 230 71 42 74 12 206 87 115 20 7 12
MLB Averages 63% 79% 28% 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%
1962 BAL AL 28 4 50% 75% 50% 1 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1963 WSA AL 29 981 58% 82% 28% 81 86% 0 22 19 0 3 52 41 10 0 2 7 0 5 2 7 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 6 67%
1963 LAD NL 29 7 57% 71% 43% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 992 58% 81% 28% 82 85% 0 22 19 0 3 52 41 10 0 2 8 0 6 2 8 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 6 67%
MLB Averages 63% 79% 28% 89% 59%

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
1962 BAL AL 28 3 33% 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
1963 WSA AL 29 21 67% 86% 33% 2 100% 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1963 LAD NL 29 11 82% 73% 9% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 35 69% 83% 23% 3 100% 0 1 0 0 1 3 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 79% 28% 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

Assists† s c a p y
1960 AL  422 (5th)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1960 AL  17 (4th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1960 AL  152 (1st)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1960 AL  359 (3rd)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1960 AL  422 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1960 AL  18 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1960 AL  17 (1st)
1961 AL  7 (5th)
1962 AL  11 (2nd)
Career  35 (35th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1960 AL  5.51 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1960 AL  5.14 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1960 AL  .977 (5th)

                           

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