Andy Carey

Andrew Arthur Carey
born Andrew Arthur Hexem

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: October 18, 1931 in Oakland, CA
High School: Alameda HS (Alameda, CA)
School: Saint Mary's College of California (Moraga, CA)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1950. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 2, 1952
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Athletics/WhiteSox/Dodgers 1952-1962

Final Game: October 2, 1962
Died: December 15, 2011 in Newport Beach, CA
About biographical information

View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error

Let people know you like this site. Sponsor this page for $50. Your message will replace this ad.

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
1952	NYY	AL	20	3B	14	11	11	100.0	36	11	21	4	4	.889			2.88	2.29	.953	3.29	3.29
1952	NYY	AL	20	SS	1	1	0	4.1	6	2	2	2	0	.667			8.31	4.00	.962	4.98	4.90
1953	NYY	AL	21	3B	40	13	12	199.2	85	29	55	1	8	.988	2	12	3.79	2.10	.957	3.38	3.36
1953	NYY	AL	21	SS	2	0	0	5.0	2	0	1	1	0	.500	-1	-240	1.80	0.50	.965	5.04	5.10
1953	NYY	AL	21	2B	1	0	0	1.0	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	45.00	5.00	.980	5.40	5.60
1954	NYY	AL	22	3B	120	115	108	1014.0	452	154	283	15	32	.967	6	8	3.88	3.64	.959	3.48	3.46
1955	NYY	AL	23	3B	135	133	129	1180.1	477	154	301	22	37	.954	8	8	3.47	3.37	.950	3.17	3.14
1956	NYY	AL	24	3B	131	128	103	1087.0	400	114	265	21	26	.948	2	3	3.14	2.89	.949	3.22	3.19
1957	NYY	AL	25	3B	81	69	56	617.0	218	66	147	5	9	.977	4	9	3.11	2.63	.951	3.23	3.24
1958	NYY	AL	26	3B	99	90	81	794.0	306	99	195	12	22	.961	5	7	3.33	2.97	.951	3.11	3.08
1959	NYY	AL	27	3B	34	23	22	239.2	95	39	48	8	10	.916	-1	-5	3.27	2.56	.952	3.21	3.19
1960	TOT	AL	28	3B	93	89	86	780.1	282	95	180	7	26	.975	1	1	3.17	2.96	.952	3.14	3.14
1960	NYY	AL	28	3B	2	1	0	3.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0	80	3.00	0.50	.950	3.00	3.15
1960	NYY	AL	28	LF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-120	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.10
1960	NYY	AL	28	OF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-120	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.20
1960	KCA	AL	28	3B	91	88	86	777.1	281	95	179	7	26	.975	0	1	3.17	3.01	.952	3.14	3.14
1961	TOT	AL	29	3B	93	73	67	669.0	211	58	143	10	16	.953	-3	-6	2.70	2.16	.950	3.18	3.15
1961	KCA	AL	29	3B	39	35	32	310.0	108	32	70	6	12	.944	2	6	2.96	2.62	.950	3.18	3.15
1961	CHW	AL	29	3B	54	38	35	359.0	103	26	73	4	4	.961	-5	-15	2.48	1.83	.950	3.18	3.15
1962	LAD	NL	30	3B	42	26	20	270.0	88	28	54	6	4	.932	-2	-9	2.73	1.95	.949	2.95	2.92
	11 Seasons			3B	882	770	695	6951.0	2650	847	1692	111	194	.958	22	4	3.29	2.88	.952	3.22	3.20
	2 Seasons			SS	3	1	0	9.1	8	2	3	3	0	.625	-1	-129	4.82	1.67	.962	5.01	5.03
	1 Season			LF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-120	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.10
	1 Season			OF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-120	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.20
	1 Season			2B	1	0	0	1.0	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	45.00	5.00	.980	5.40	5.60
	11 Seasons			TOT	887	771	695	6962.1	2663	854	1695	114	194	.957	21	4	3.30	2.87	.952	3.22	3.21
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
1952	NYY	AL	20	3B
1952	NYY	AL	20	SS
1953	NYY	AL	21	3B	2	12	2	-1	2	0
1953	NYY	AL	21	SS	-1	-240	-1	0	-1	0
1953	NYY	AL	21	2B	0	0	0	0	0
1954	NYY	AL	22	3B	6	8	6	5	1	0
1955	NYY	AL	23	3B	8	8	6	3	4	1
1956	NYY	AL	24	3B	2	3	2	-0	3	0
1957	NYY	AL	25	3B	4	9	6	1	5	-1
1958	NYY	AL	26	3B	5	7	4	-5	9	1
1959	NYY	AL	27	3B	-1	-5	-2	-1	-1	1
1960	NYY	AL	28	3B	0	80	0	0	0	0
1960	NYY	AL	28	LF	-0	-120	-0	-0	0		0
1960	KCA	AL	28	3B	0	1	0	2	-1	0
1961	KCA	AL	29	3B	2	6	0	0	0	1
1961	CHW	AL	29	3B	-5	-15	-5	-1	-4	0
1962	LAD	NL	30	3B	-2	-9	-2	-2	-0	0
	11 Seasons			3B	22	4	19	1	17	3
	2 Seasons			SS	-1	-129	-1	0	-1	0
	1 Season			2B	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			LF	-0	-120	-0	-0	0		0
	11 Seasons			TOT	21	4	18	1	16	3	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	OF	PH	PR
1952	NYY	AL	20	16	12	16	15	0	14	1	0	0	0	1
1953	NYY	AL	21	51	13	51	42	1	39	2	0	0	7	8
1954	NYY	AL	22	122	115	122	120	0	120	0	0	0	3	1
1955	NYY	AL	23	135	133	135	135	0	135	0	0	0	0	1
1956	NYY	AL	24	132	128	132	131	0	131	0	0	0	1	0
1957	NYY	AL	25	85	69	85	81	0	81	0	0	0	7	3
1958	NYY	AL	26	102	90	102	99	0	99	0	0	0	7	1
1959	NYY	AL	27	41	23	41	34	0	34	0	0	0	8	0
1960	KCA	AL	28	102	88	102	91	0	91	0	0	0	14	0
1960	NYY	AL	28	4	1	4	2	0	2	0	1	1	2	0
1961	CHW	AL	29	56	38	56	54	0	54	0	0	0	2	2
1961	KCA	AL	29	39	35	39	39	0	39	0	0	0	0	1
1962	LAD	NL	30	53	26	53	42	0	42	0	0	0	16	1
	11 Seasons			938	771	938	885	1	881	3	1	1	67	19

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%
1952	NYY	AL	20	340	65%	74%	29%	35	80%	0	7	5	0	2	23	18	5	0	0	4	0	4	0	2	4	3	0	4	0	0	0	3	33%
1953	NYY	AL	21	843	69%	80%	24%	81	94%	2	26	18	3	5	58	44	9	3	1	1	0	1	0	1	8	4	1	7	1	0	1	5	80%
1954	NYY	AL	22	4229	69%	81%	26%	459	88%	9	156	125	15	16	276	205	54	9	9	15	0	12	3	12	32	23	0	28	4	3	1	23	48%
1955	NYY	AL	23	5012	69%	77%	25%	444	91%	2	152	108	26	18	299	227	58	4	12	22	1	20	1	18	37	26	2	33	4	3	0	15	87%
1956	NYY	AL	24	4646	63%	78%	26%	395	89%	5	115	84	13	18	261	203	47	6	5	23	0	19	4	22	27	15	1	23	3	3	0	20	60%
1957	NYY	AL	25	2573	67%	78%	30%	224	91%	3	67	55	7	5	149	117	24	3	4	5	0	3	2	3	9	7	1	8	1	1	0	11	73%
1958	NYY	AL	26	3340	68%	79%	30%	313	88%	4	100	75	14	11	196	162	28	2	2	12	0	9	3	11	22	11	5	17	3	3	0	13	38%
1959	NYY	AL	27	1017	60%	78%	30%	91	85%	2	36	31	4	1	46	30	12	2	0	8	0	4	4	7	10	9	0	9	1	1	0	5	20%
1960	KCA	AL	28	3379	68%	83%	27%	265	93%	1	94	65	15	14	180	140	34	2	4	7	0	5	2	6	26	14	4	22	3	2	1	9	67%
1960	NYY	AL	28	14	57%	86%	14%	1	100%	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1961	CHW	AL	29	1543	70%	80%	22%	103	85%	2	24	18	2	4	73	57	10	2	2	4	1	3	0	3	4	2	1	3	1	1	0	5	60%
1961	KCA	AL	29	1378	65%	81%	27%	117	90%	0	32	26	4	2	77	57	19	1	1	6	1	5	0	5	12	10	0	12	0	0	0	3	33%
1962	LAD	NL	30	1142	68%	75%	30%	94	84%	1	31	23	1	7	57	46	9	0	5	6	1	3	2	4	4	2	0	2	1	0	1	6	50%
	11 Seasons			29456	67%	79%	27%	2622	89%	31	840	633	104	103	1696	1307	309	34	45	113	4	88	21	94	195	126	15	168	22	17	4	118	58%
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		89%																								61%

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
1952	NYY	AL	20	20	65%	75%	40%	5	60%	0	2	1	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953	NYY	AL	21	25	72%	92%	28%	3	33%	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			45	69%	84%	33%	8	50%	0	2	1	1	0	3	2	1	0	0	3	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		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
1953	NYY	AL	21	5	80%	80%	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
	1 Season			5	80%	80%	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
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		93%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				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%
1960	NYY	AL	28	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	7	43%	57%	29%	1	0%
	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	7	43%	57%	29%	1	0%
	MLB Averages																														58.2%			2.6%			63%	80%	30%		49%

* 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

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1954 AL 120 (4th) 1955 AL 135 (1st) 1956 AL 131 (2nd) 1958 AL 99 (5th)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1954 AL 154 (3rd) 1955 AL 154 (1st) 1956 AL 114 (5th) 1958 AL 99 (4th) 1960 AL 95 (5th)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1954 AL 283 (4th) 1955 AL 301 (1st) 1956 AL 265 (2nd) 1958 AL 195 (4th)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1954 AL 15 (4th) 1955 AL 22 (2nd) 1956 AL 21 (2nd) 1958 AL 12 (4th)
Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y 1953 AL 2 (4th) 1954 AL 6 (3rd) 1955 AL 8 (1st) 1957 AL 5 (5th) 1958 AL 5 (4th) Career 22 (55th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y 1954 AL 3.88 (1st) 1955 AL 3.47 (2nd) 1957 AL 3.11 (5th) 1958 AL 3.33 (3rd) 1960 AL 3.17 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1954 AL 3.64 (1st) 1955 AL 3.37 (2nd) 1956 AL 2.89 (5th) 1958 AL 2.97 (3rd) 1960 AL 2.96 (4th)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1954 AL .967 (3rd) 1955 AL .954 (4th) 1956 AL .948 (5th) 1957 AL .977 (2nd) 1958 AL .961 (2nd) 1960 AL .975 (2nd) Career .958 (70th)
Youngest s c a p y 1952 AL born 1931-10-18 (9th) 1953 AL born 1931-10-18 (9th)

Other Resources & Links

Error? Compare Search SABR's Baseball Index Other Links@google.com Baseball Library Baseball-Almanac.com Retrosheet The Baseball Cube The Baseball Page WhatIfSports: Andy Carey

Viewed 21,325 times through May 30, 2012.
Name and misspellings: Andrew andrew Andy Arthur Carey

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.

Automatic Player Linking / Statistical Sharing Tool / Basic Player Linking / Data Coverage

See Front Page for time of last update

Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.

Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.

Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

Play Index Loading Photos from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress.

A Sports Reference Site: About Baseball Reference | Found a bug or have a suggestion?
Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service | Use of Data

Part of the USA TODAY Sports Media Group.