Bobby Brown

Robert William Brown (Doc)

Positions: Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: October 25, 1924 in Seattle, WA
High School: Galileo HS (San Francisco, CA)
Schools: Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA), University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1946. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 22, 1946
Team: Yankees 1946-1954

Final Game: June 30, 1954
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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
1946	NYY	AL	21	SS	5	5	5		17	8	9	0	1	1.000				3.40	.954		4.96
1946	NYY	AL	21	3B	2	2	2		4	1	3	0	0	1.000				2.00	.948		3.05
1947	NYY	AL	22	3B	27	26	23		59	21	34	4	3	.932				2.04	.959		3.01
1947	NYY	AL	22	SS	11	4	4		36	13	20	3	5	.917				3.00	.964		5.13
1947	NYY	AL	22	OF	3	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000				0.33	.980		2.47
1947	NYY	AL	22	CF	2	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000				0.50	.980		2.95
1947	NYY	AL	22	RF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0					0.00			2.10
1948	NYY	AL	23	3B	41	38	36		111	43	62	6	7	.946				2.56	.958		3.04
1948	NYY	AL	23	SS	26	25	25		116	40	68	8	20	.931				4.15	.964		5.17
1948	NYY	AL	23	2B	17	14	13		89	42	43	4	6	.955				5.00	.976		5.62
1948	NYY	AL	23	OF	4	4	4		5	5	0	0	0	1.000				1.25	.976		2.50
1948	NYY	AL	23	LF	3	3	3		5	5	0	0	0	1.000				1.67	.976		2.33
1948	NYY	AL	23	RF	1	1	1		0	0	0	0	0					0.00			2.10
1949	NYY	AL	24	3B	86	84	71		255	84	158	13	17	.949				2.81	.960		3.15
1949	NYY	AL	24	OF	3	2	2		5	5	0	0	0	1.000				1.67	.980		2.43
1949	NYY	AL	24	RF	2	1	1		4	4	0	0	0	1.000				2.00	.978		2.10
1949	NYY	AL	24	LF	1	1	1		1	1	0	0	0	1.000				1.00	.980		2.40
1950	NYY	AL	25	3B	82	73	54	608.1	212	63	140	9	13	.958			3.00	2.48	.960	3.25	3.20
1951	NYY	AL	26	3B	90	85	58	720.1	242	80	151	11	14	.955			2.89	2.57	.950	3.17	3.15
1952	NYY	AL	27	3B	24	23	20	202.0	94	23	61	10	4	.894			3.74	3.50	.953	3.29	3.29
1954	NYY	AL	29	3B	17	14	3	104.0	46	15	31	0	2	1.000	2	24	3.98	2.71	.959	3.48	3.46
	8 Seasons			3B	369	345	267	1634.2	1023	330	640	53	60	.948	2	2	3.11	2.63	.957	3.23	3.16
	3 Seasons			SS	42	34	34		169	61	97	11	26	.935				3.76	.963		5.13
	1 Season			2B	17	14	13		89	42	43	4	6	.955				5.00	.976		5.62
	3 Seasons			OF	10	6	6		11	11	0	0	0	1.000				1.10	.978		2.47
	3 Seasons			RF	4	2	2		4	4	0	0	0	1.000				1.00	.978		2.10
	2 Seasons			LF	4	4	4		6	6	0	0	0	1.000				1.50	.977		2.35
	1 Season			CF	2	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000				0.50	.980		2.95
	8 Seasons			TOT	438	399	320	1634.2	1292	444	780	68	92	.947	2	2	3.11	2.79	.959	3.23	3.43
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	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.

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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.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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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
1946	NYY	AL	21	SS
1946	NYY	AL	21	3B
1947	NYY	AL	22	3B
1947	NYY	AL	22	SS
1947	NYY	AL	22	CF
1947	NYY	AL	22	RF
1948	NYY	AL	23	3B
1948	NYY	AL	23	SS
1948	NYY	AL	23	2B
1948	NYY	AL	23	LF
1948	NYY	AL	23	RF
1949	NYY	AL	24	3B
1949	NYY	AL	24	RF
1949	NYY	AL	24	LF
1950	NYY	AL	25	3B
1951	NYY	AL	26	3B
1952	NYY	AL	27	3B
1954	NYY	AL	29	3B	2	24	2	1	1	0
	8 Seasons			3B	2	2	2	1	1	0
	3 Seasons			SS
	1 Season			2B
	2 Seasons			LF
	3 Seasons			RF
	1 Season			CF
	8 Seasons			TOT	2	2	2	1	1	0
Lg				Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH
1946	NYY	AL	21	7	7	7	7	0	2	5	0	0	0	0	0
1947	NYY	AL	22	69	30	69	38	0	27	11	0	2	1	3	32
1948	NYY	AL	23	113	81	113	88	17	41	26	3	0	1	4	27
1949	NYY	AL	24	104	86	104	89	0	86	0	1	0	2	3	18
1950	NYY	AL	25	95	73	95	82	0	82	0	0	0	0	0	17
1951	NYY	AL	26	103	85	103	90	0	90	0	0	0	0	0	16
1952	NYY	AL	27	29	23	29	24	0	24	0	0	0	0	0	5
1954	NYY	AL	29	28	14	28	17	0	17	0	0	0	0	0	13
	8 Seasons			548	399	548	435	17	369	42	4	2	4	10	128

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 -- 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%
1948	NYY	AL	23	1121	57%	80%	21%	71	94%	0	33	29	2	2	38	31	6	0	0	3	0	3	0	3	5	4	0	4	1	1	0	3	100%
1949	NYY	AL	24	2664	61%	76%	24%	208	88%	3	75	61	7	7	126	87	30	0	2	10	0	5	5	8	16	11	0	11	3	1	0	8	50%
1950	NYY	AL	25	2291	66%	78%	23%	166	90%	1	51	35	9	7	116	84	24	2	9	9	0	8	1	7	10	7	0	7	3	3	0	11	82%
1951	NYY	AL	26	2869	61%	81%	25%	220	89%	1	70	54	5	11	143	111	29	0	6	11	0	10	1	9	14	8	0	10	2	2	0	8	75%
1952	NYY	AL	27	811	68%	81%	25%	82	80%	0	15	11	0	4	56	42	13	0	1	10	0	7	3	9	4	4	0	4	0	0	0	3	100%
1954	NYY	AL	29	435	61%	83%	31%	48	94%	0	15	14	0	1	31	28	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	6	50%
	6 Seasons			10191	62%	79%	24%	795	89%	5	259	204	23	32	510	383	105	2	19	43	0	33	10	36	51	36	0	38	9	7	0	39	72%
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		89%																								68%

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
1948	NYY	AL	23	328	67%	79%	21%	19	79%	0	10	2	7	1	16	12	4	0	0	3	0	3	0	2	6	3	0	3	0	0	6	3	3	0	0	0
	1 Season			328	67%	79%	21%	19	79%	0	10	2	7	1	16	12	4	0	0	3	0	3	0	2	6	3	0	3	0	0	6	3	3	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		90%

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	NYY	AL	23	246	60%	80%	24%	16	94%	0	17	4	9	4	14	10	4	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	4	2	1	1	0	4	1	3	0	0	0
	1 Season			246	60%	80%	24%	16	94%	0	17	4	9	4	14	10	4	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	4	2	1	1	0	4	1	3	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		93%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1949	NYY	AL	24	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		0	56	61%	64%	27%	4	100%
	1 Season			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		0	56	61%	64%	27%	4	100%
	MLB Averages																														43.7%			3.2%			62%	82%	31%		54%

* 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

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1949 AL 13 (5th)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1951 AL .955 (5th)	Youngest s c a p y 1946 AL born 1924-10-25 (10th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1949 AL 13 (5th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1951 AL .955 (5th)

Youngest s c a p y
1946 AL born 1924-10-25 (10th)

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