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Larry Brown

Larry Leslie Brown

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: March 1, 1940 in Shinnston, WV
High School: Holy Name HS (Lake Worth, FL)
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1958. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 6, 1963
Teams (by GP): Indians/Athletics/Rangers/Orioles 1963-1974

Final Game: September 29, 1974
Relatives: Brother of Dick Brown
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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
1963 CLE AL 23 SS 46 45 40 398.0 210 71 126 13 17 .938 0 0 4.45 4.28 .965 4.78 4.78
1963 CLE AL 23 2B 27 20 17 183.2 93 42 50 1 8 .989 -3 -18 4.51 3.41 .980 5.08 5.09
1964 CLE AL 24 2B 103 87 77 797.2 464 185 270 9 56 .981 9 13 5.13 4.42 .980 5.17 5.16
1964 CLE AL 24 SS 4 2 1 19.0 9 4 5 0 0 1.000 1 63 4.26 2.25 .968 4.78 4.78
1965 CLE AL 25 SS 95 92 88 838.1 439 167 262 10 55 .977 4 6 4.61 4.52 .962 4.74 4.73
1965 CLE AL 25 2B 26 20 17 175.1 81 28 48 5 11 .938 1 5 3.90 2.92 .978 5.07 5.06
1966 CLE AL 26 SS 90 88 76 782.1 384 131 238 15 45 .961 5 8 4.24 4.10 .960 4.79 4.78
1966 CLE AL 26 2B 10 8 5 68.2 52 22 26 4 7 .923 2 35 6.29 4.80 .975 5.10 5.09
1967 CLE AL 27 SS 150 150 141 1346.2 669 233 414 22 90 .967 0 0 4.32 4.31 .963 4.62 4.63
1968 CLE AL 28 SS 154 150 124 1300.0 648 255 371 22 70 .966 3 3 4.33 4.06 .962 4.79 4.77
1969 CLE AL 29 SS 101 93 91 843.1 467 172 276 19 59 .959 -6 -8 4.78 4.44 .966 4.96 4.96
1969 CLE AL 29 3B 29 21 16 191.2 56 22 33 1 4 .982 -4 -28 2.58 1.90 .955 3.16 3.15
1969 CLE AL 29 2B 5 3 1 22.1 12 6 6 0 0 1.000 0 27 4.84 2.40 .976 5.20 5.20
1970 CLE AL 30 SS 27 19 16 195.1 101 34 62 5 15 .950 0 2 4.42 3.56 .967 4.93 4.91
1970 CLE AL 30 3B 17 9 3 74.2 30 10 18 2 2 .933 -1 -14 3.38 1.65 .949 3.07 3.06
1970 CLE AL 30 2B 16 7 6 82.1 54 28 25 1 6 .981 -1 -17 5.79 3.31 .979 5.35 5.32
1971 TOT AL 31 SS 44 38 32 352.1 171 64 101 6 23 .965 0 1 4.21 3.75 .965 4.90 4.88
1971 CLE AL 31 SS 13 13 13 118.0 50 24 25 1 4 .980 -4 -38 3.74 3.77 .965 4.90 4.88
1971 OAK AL 31 SS 31 25 19 234.1 121 40 76 5 19 .959 4 20 4.46 3.74 .965 4.90 4.88
1971 OAK AL 31 2B 23 16 13 154.0 94 38 55 1 11 .989 2 17 5.44 4.04 .980 5.31 5.28
1971 OAK AL 31 3B 10 4 4 52.0 14 4 10 0 1 1.000 -1 -14 2.42 1.40 .956 3.05 3.03
1972 OAK AL 32 2B 46 44 35 388.2 227 110 111 6 30 .974 -3 -10 5.12 4.80 .977 5.17 5.14
1972 OAK AL 32 3B 1 0 0 1.0 1 0 1 0 1 1.000 0 360 9.00 1.00 .950 2.70 3.00
1973 BAL AL 33 3B 15 7 4 68.0 25 9 13 3 2 .880 0 4 2.91 1.47 .950 3.00 2.98
1973 BAL AL 33 2B 1 0 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -60 2.25 1.00 .980 5.40 5.40
1974 TEX AL 34 3B 47 11 9 191.2 72 14 53 5 8 .931 3 18 3.15 1.43 .954 3.12 3.10
1974 TEX AL 34 2B 8 3 3 45.2 26 15 11 0 4 1.000 -0 -13 5.12 3.25 .975 5.38 5.35
1974 TEX AL 34 SS 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.00
10 Seasons SS 712 677 609 6076.1 3098 1131 1855 112 374 .964 9 2 4.42 4.19 .963 4.78 4.78
10 Seasons 2B 265 208 174 1922.1 1104 475 602 27 133 .976 6 4 5.04 4.06 .979 5.17 5.16
6 Seasons 3B 119 52 36 579.0 198 59 128 11 18 .944 -2 -5 2.91 1.57 .953 3.11 3.08
12 Seasons TOT 1096 937 819 8577.2 4400 1665 2585 150 525 .966 13 2 4.46 3.88 .967 4.76 4.69
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.
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
1963 CLE AL 23 SS 0 0 1 -1 2 -1
1963 CLE AL 23 2B -3 -18 -3 0 -3 0
1964 CLE AL 24 2B 9 13 8 6 2 1
1964 CLE AL 24 SS 1 63 1 0 1 0
1965 CLE AL 25 SS 4 6 5 4 1 -1
1965 CLE AL 25 2B 1 5 1 1 0 0
1966 CLE AL 26 SS 5 8 4 2 2 1
1966 CLE AL 26 2B 2 35 1 0 1 1
1967 CLE AL 27 SS 0 0 -2 -2 0 2
1968 CLE AL 28 SS 3 3 6 7 -1 -3
1969 CLE AL 29 SS -6 -8 -6 1 -7 0
1969 CLE AL 29 3B -4 -28 -4 -1 -4 0
1969 CLE AL 29 2B 0 27 0 0 0 0
1970 CLE AL 30 SS 0 2 -1 1 -1 1
1970 CLE AL 30 3B -1 -14 -1 0 -1 0
1970 CLE AL 30 2B -1 -17 -0 -1 0 -1
1971 CLE AL 31 SS -4 -38 -3 -1 -1 -1
1971 OAK AL 31 SS 4 20 3 2 1 1
1971 OAK AL 31 2B 2 17 1 0 1 1
1971 OAK AL 31 3B -1 -14 -1 -1 0 0
1972 OAK AL 32 2B -3 -10 -3 -3 -1 0
1972 OAK AL 32 3B 0 360 0 0 0 0
1973 BAL AL 33 3B 0 4 0 0 0 0
1973 BAL AL 33 2B -0 -60 -0 0 -0 0
1974 TEX AL 34 3B 3 18 3 2 1 0
1974 TEX AL 34 2B -0 -13 -0 -1 0 0
1974 TEX AL 34 SS 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons SS 9 2 10 14 -4 -1
10 Seasons 2B 6 4 4 3 1 2
6 Seasons 3B -2 -5 -2 1 -3 0
12 Seasons TOT 13 2 12 18 -6 1
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 P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1963 CLE AL 23 74 65 74 71 0 0 0 27 0 46 0 0 0 0 0 5 3
1964 CLE AL 24 115 89 115 104 0 0 0 103 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 15 3
1965 CLE AL 25 124 112 124 120 0 0 0 25 0 95 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
1966 CLE AL 26 105 96 105 100 0 0 0 10 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1967 CLE AL 27 152 150 152 150 0 0 0 0 0 150 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1968 CLE AL 28 154 150 154 154 0 0 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1969 CLE AL 29 131 117 131 129 0 0 0 5 28 101 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1970 CLE AL 30 72 35 72 56 0 0 0 16 17 28 0 0 0 0 0 24 0
1971 OAK AL 31 70 45 70 62 0 0 0 23 11 31 0 0 0 0 0 9 1
1971 CLE AL 31 13 13 13 13 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1972 OAK AL 32 47 44 47 47 0 0 0 46 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1973 BAL AL 33 17 7 17 15 0 0 0 1 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1974 TEX AL 34 54 14 54 54 0 0 0 8 47 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 6
12 Seasons 1128 937 1128 1075 0 0 0 264 119 713 0 0 0 0 0 80 15
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 -- 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
1963 CLE AL 23 1658 60% 79% 26% 174 89% 1 71 38 29 4 125 105 17 0 1 13 0 13 0 10 17 4 2 8 1 0 16 6 9 0 0 0
1964 CLE AL 24 70 57% 60% 17% 9 89% 0 3 3 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1965 CLE AL 25 3468 60% 75% 23% 325 96% 0 166 89 57 21 262 193 58 4 7 10 1 9 0 8 55 21 2 18 4 2 50 23 26 2 1 1
1966 CLE AL 26 3178 65% 74% 24% 305 94% 1 132 74 41 17 236 181 44 1 4 15 0 15 0 10 45 19 2 10 1 2 37 21 15 7 4 3
1967 CLE AL 27 5626 62% 75% 24% 527 91% 5 227 106 90 31 419 333 71 3 5 22 1 21 0 19 90 38 9 19 13 2 82 47 35 4 0 3
1968 CLE AL 28 5305 59% 73% 23% 518 91% 3 252 136 87 29 369 301 61 0 1 22 0 22 0 17 70 19 5 19 14 1 61 24 35 4 1 2
1969 CLE AL 29 3664 66% 75% 24% 351 93% 2 174 88 63 23 271 210 52 1 3 19 0 16 3 14 57 19 3 20 7 0 49 22 27 2 0 2
1970 CLE AL 30 812 67% 75% 26% 71 89% 0 35 14 17 4 60 51 8 0 1 5 0 4 1 3 15 3 1 8 1 1 14 4 10 0 0 0
1971 OAK AL 31 931 56% 80% 25% 107 91% 0 43 22 17 4 78 58 19 0 0 5 0 5 0 5 19 9 2 3 0 1 16 11 4 2 1 1
1971 CLE AL 31 528 73% 72% 25% 36 94% 0 24 12 8 4 26 21 5 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 4 1 0 1 1 0 4 1 2 0 0 0
1974 TEX AL 34 3 67% 100% 67% 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
10 Seasons 25243 62% 75% 24% 2423 92% 12 1127 582 409 137 1851 1458 335 9 22 112 2 106 4 87 372 133 26 106 42 9 329 159 163 21 7 12
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 91%

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
1963 CLE AL 23 786 58% 77% 24% 58 97% 0 43 14 23 6 48 44 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 8 2 3 0 1 6 1 5 0 0 0
1964 CLE AL 24 3460 64% 75% 26% 335 92% 2 185 71 87 27 276 240 31 0 2 9 0 8 1 8 58 24 7 13 7 53 21 32 3 2 1
1965 CLE AL 25 740 64% 74% 24% 58 91% 0 28 11 14 3 49 40 8 0 0 5 0 4 1 4 11 3 2 3 1 11 4 7 0 0 0
1966 CLE AL 26 302 69% 79% 26% 36 89% 0 23 8 11 4 29 29 0 0 0 4 0 4 0 3 7 3 2 0 2 7 2 5 0 0 0
1969 CLE AL 29 103 62% 79% 27% 10 90% 0 6 2 3 1 8 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1970 CLE AL 30 357 69% 74% 26% 31 90% 0 28 10 14 4 22 21 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 5 2 1 0 2 5 2 3 0 0 0
1971 OAK AL 31 641 63% 76% 27% 56 95% 0 39 10 21 8 54 48 5 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 11 7 2 1 1 11 2 9 0 0 0
1972 OAK AL 32 1585 67% 82% 30% 137 95% 0 109 40 59 10 115 94 18 0 3 6 0 5 1 5 29 11 8 6 0 26 6 20 3 1 0
1973 BAL AL 33 17 65% 71% 18% 1 100% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1974 TEX AL 34 186 49% 84% 29% 17 94% 0 15 6 6 3 11 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 1 1 3 2 1 0 0 0
10 Seasons 8177 64% 77% 26% 739 93% 2 477 173 238 66 612 533 68 0 6 27 0 24 3 22 133 53 25 24 15 122 40 82 6 3 1
MLB Averages 64% 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%
1969 CLE AL 29 827 68% 77% 20% 47 94% 0 20 13 3 4 32 24 8 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 0
1970 CLE AL 30 353 64% 76% 25% 29 93% 0 10 8 1 1 18 13 5 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0
1971 OAK AL 31 221 66% 79% 24% 15 93% 0 4 4 0 0 12 8 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 100%
1972 OAK AL 32 3 100% 33% 33% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1973 BAL AL 33 291 56% 83% 24% 24 83% 0 9 7 1 1 14 9 4 0 0 3 0 2 1 2 3 1 0 1 2 1 1 0
1974 TEX AL 34 783 58% 79% 29% 75 87% 1 15 13 1 1 53 36 15 0 1 5 0 3 2 4 8 7 0 7 1 1 0 2 50%
6 Seasons 2478 63% 78% 24% 191 90% 1 58 45 6 7 130 90 35 0 4 11 0 8 3 9 18 14 0 14 4 3 1 4 75%
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 89% 67%

* 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

Hall of Fame
1980 BBWAA ()

Assists† s c a p y
1967 AL  414 (4th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1967 AL  150 (4th)
1968 AL  154 (3rd)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1967 AL  233 (4th)
1968 AL  255 (4th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1967 AL  414 (4th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1968 AL  22 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1964 AL  9 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1964 AL  5.13 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1964 AL  .981 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1967 AL  4.31 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1965 AL  .977 (1st)
1966 AL  .961 (5th)
1967 AL  .967 (4th)
1968 AL  .966 (5th)

             

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