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Wayne Causey

James Wayne Causey

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: December 26, 1936 in Ruston, LA
High School: Neville HS (Monroe, LA)
Signed by the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent (bonus baby) in 1955. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 5, 1955
Teams (by GP): Athletics/WhiteSox/Orioles/Braves/Angels 1955-1968

Final Game: September 20, 1968
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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
1955 BAL AL 18 3B 55 41 32 377.0 114 25 79 10 10 .912 -4 -14 2.48 1.89 .950 3.17 3.14
1955 BAL AL 18 2B 7 0 0 24.0 12 5 5 2 0 .833 -3 -130 3.75 1.43 .976 5.36 5.31
1955 BAL AL 18 SS 1 0 0 3.0 1 0 1 0 1 1.000 0 120 3.00 1.00 .960 4.80 4.90
1956 BAL AL 19 3B 30 13 7 145.1 50 13 36 1 4 .980 -2 -21 3.03 1.63 .949 3.22 3.19
1956 BAL AL 19 2B 7 4 4 46.0 30 13 16 1 0 .967 -0 -8 5.67 4.14 .973 5.44 5.40
1957 BAL AL 20 2B 6 2 2 30.0 25 12 12 1 2 .960 1 32 7.20 4.00 .980 5.40 5.42
1957 BAL AL 20 3B 5 0 0 7.0 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -69 3.86 0.60 .950 3.21 3.24
1961 KCA AL 24 3B 88 77 68 655.1 309 102 193 14 20 .955 1 3 4.05 3.35 .950 3.18 3.15
1961 KCA AL 24 SS 11 6 5 67.0 40 14 25 1 3 .975 1 18 5.24 3.55 .956 4.84 4.78
1961 KCA AL 24 2B 9 4 4 47.0 28 17 10 1 2 .964 -2 -54 5.17 3.00 .978 5.25 5.18
1962 KCA AL 25 SS 51 48 42 419.1 257 108 137 12 22 .953 -7 -19 5.26 4.80 .962 4.84 4.83
1962 KCA AL 25 3B 26 21 19 203.0 71 22 48 1 3 .986 3 17 3.10 2.69 .952 3.08 3.07
1962 KCA AL 25 2B 9 5 3 53.2 29 13 15 1 0 .966 0 2 4.70 3.11 .980 5.25 5.24
1963 KCA AL 26 SS 135 135 129 1189.0 683 266 402 15 81 .978 10 10 5.06 4.95 .965 4.78 4.78 MVP-21
1963 KCA AL 26 3B 2 2 2 18.0 4 1 3 0 0 1.000 0 7 2.00 2.00 .948 3.00 3.00 MVP-21
1964 KCA AL 27 SS 131 128 123 1125.2 639 266 352 21 75 .967 -1 -1 4.94 4.72 .968 4.78 4.77 MVP-25
1964 KCA AL 27 2B 17 16 14 156.0 108 48 58 2 13 .981 -1 -6 6.12 6.24 .980 5.17 5.16 MVP-25
1964 KCA AL 27 3B 9 8 7 68.0 24 9 13 2 3 .917 -2 -26 2.91 2.44 .955 3.03 3.02 MVP-25
1965 KCA AL 28 SS 62 59 52 533.2 281 111 162 8 34 .972 -2 -4 4.60 4.40 .962 4.74 4.73
1965 KCA AL 28 2B 45 40 36 339.0 165 75 89 1 21 .994 -4 -13 4.35 3.64 .978 5.07 5.06
1965 KCA AL 28 3B 35 33 32 292.2 103 35 62 6 5 .942 -2 -9 2.98 2.77 .960 3.13 3.12
1966 TOT AL 29 3B 16 13 13 123.0 33 15 14 4 3 .879 -4 -36 2.12 1.81 .954 3.03 3.02
1966 TOT AL 29 SS 11 8 7 72.0 43 14 26 3 3 .930 2 42 5.00 3.64 .960 4.80 4.78
1966 KCA AL 29 3B 15 13 13 120.0 31 15 12 4 3 .871 -4 -38 2.02 1.80 .954 3.03 3.03
1966 KCA AL 29 SS 10 8 7 70.0 41 14 25 2 3 .951 3 48 5.01 3.90 .960 4.80 4.78
1966 CHW AL 29 2B 60 43 13 356.1 200 86 110 4 15 .980 5 16 4.95 3.27 .975 5.09 5.09
1966 CHW AL 29 3B 1 0 0 3.0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0 40 6.00 2.00 .955 3.00 3.00
1966 CHW AL 29 SS 1 0 0 2.0 2 0 1 1 0 .500 -0 -180 4.50 1.00 .960 4.95 4.80
1967 CHW AL 30 2B 96 75 46 653.0 360 153 199 8 36 .978 6 11 4.85 3.67 .979 4.95 4.96
1967 CHW AL 30 SS 2 0 0 4.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -30 2.25 0.50 .960 4.73 4.65
1968 TOT MLB 31 2B 51 25 17 269.2 140 62 75 3 16 .979 -2 -9 4.57 2.69 .977 5.13 5.10
1968 TOT AL 31 2B 45 20 14 217.0 118 51 64 3 14 .975 -0 -2 4.77 2.56 .977 5.11 5.08
1968 CHW AL 31 2B 41 18 12 191.2 104 47 54 3 11 .971 -0 -3 4.74 2.46 .977 5.11 5.08
1968 CAL AL 31 2B 4 2 2 25.1 14 4 10 0 3 1.000 0 0 4.97 3.50 .977 5.12 5.08
1968 ATL NL 31 2B 6 5 3 52.2 22 11 11 0 2 1.000 -2 -36 3.76 3.67 .977 5.21 5.22
1968 ATL NL 31 3B 2 0 0 3.0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 -1 -240 0.00 0.00 .950 3.00 2.95
1968 ATL NL 31 SS 2 0 0 3.0 1 0 1 0 1 1.000 0 40 3.00 0.50 .960 5.10 5.00
9 Seasons SS 406 384 358 3416.2 1946 779 1107 60 220 .969 5 2 4.97 4.65 .965 4.78 4.78
10 Seasons 2B 307 214 139 1974.2 1097 484 589 24 105 .978 -0 -0 4.89 3.50 .978 5.08 5.08
10 Seasons 3B 268 208 180 1892.1 712 224 449 39 48 .945 -11 -7 3.20 2.51 .952 3.15 3.13
11 Seasons TOT 981 806 677 7283.2 3755 1487 2145 123 373 .967 -6 -1 4.49 3.70 .966 4.44 4.42
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
1955 BAL AL 18 3B -4 -14 -4 -3 -1 0
1955 BAL AL 18 2B -3 -130 -3 -2 -1 0
1955 BAL AL 18 SS 0 120 0 0 0 0
1956 BAL AL 19 3B -2 -21 -2 -2 0 -1
1956 BAL AL 19 2B -0 -8 1 0 1 -1
1957 BAL AL 20 2B 1 32 1 1 0 0
1957 BAL AL 20 3B -0 -69 -0 0 -1 0
1961 KCA AL 24 3B 1 3 2 3 -0 -1
1961 KCA AL 24 SS 1 18 1 1 -0 0
1961 KCA AL 24 2B -2 -54 -2 -0 -2 0
1962 KCA AL 25 SS -7 -19 -6 -3 -3 -1
1962 KCA AL 25 3B 3 17 3 3 0 0
1962 KCA AL 25 2B 0 2 0 0 -0 0
1963 KCA AL 26 SS 10 10 10 5 6 0
1963 KCA AL 26 3B 0 7 0 0 0 0
1964 KCA AL 27 SS -1 -1 -1 -6 5 0
1964 KCA AL 27 2B -1 -6 0 0 0 -1
1964 KCA AL 27 3B -2 -26 -2 -1 -1 0
1965 KCA AL 28 SS -2 -4 -3 -2 -0 1
1965 KCA AL 28 2B -4 -13 -3 -2 -1 -1
1965 KCA AL 28 3B -2 -9 -2 -2 0 0
1966 KCA AL 29 3B -4 -38 -4 -1 -3 0
1966 KCA AL 29 SS 3 48 3 0 2 0
1966 CHW AL 29 2B 5 16 6 5 1 -1
1966 CHW AL 29 3B 0 40 0 0 0 0
1966 CHW AL 29 SS -0 -180 -0 0 -0 0
1967 CHW AL 30 2B 6 11 7 2 4 -1
1967 CHW AL 30 SS -0 -30 -0 0 -0 0
1968 CHW AL 31 2B -0 -3 -0 -1 1 0
1968 CAL AL 31 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1968 ATL NL 31 2B -2 -36 -2 -1 -1 0
1968 ATL NL 31 3B -1 -240 -1 -0 -0 0
1968 ATL NL 31 SS 0 40 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons SS 5 2 5 -5 10 0
10 Seasons 2B -0 -0 5 2 3 -5
10 Seasons 3B -11 -7 -9 -4 -5 -2
11 Seasons TOT -6 -1 1 -7 7 -7
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
1955 BAL AL 18 68 41 68 60 0 0 0 7 55 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 3
1956 BAL AL 19 53 17 53 37 0 0 0 7 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 2
1957 BAL AL 20 15 2 15 12 0 0 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
1961 KCA AL 24 104 87 104 102 0 0 0 9 88 11 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
1962 KCA AL 25 117 74 117 81 0 0 0 10 26 50 0 0 0 0 0 37 0
1963 KCA AL 26 139 137 139 137 0 0 0 0 2 135 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1964 KCA AL 27 157 152 157 154 0 0 0 18 9 130 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1965 KCA AL 28 144 132 144 137 0 0 0 45 35 63 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1966 CHW AL 29 78 43 78 62 0 0 0 60 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 21 6
1966 KCA AL 29 28 21 28 25 0 0 0 0 15 10 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1967 CHW AL 30 124 75 124 97 0 0 0 96 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 39 0
1968 CHW AL 31 59 18 59 41 0 0 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 0
1968 ATL NL 31 16 5 16 10 0 0 0 6 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1968 CAL AL 31 4 2 4 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Seasons 1106 806 1106 959 0 0 0 309 269 405 0 0 0 0 0 192 16
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
1955 BAL AL 18 13 54% 92% 23% 2 100% 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1961 KCA AL 24 289 69% 79% 20% 29 93% 0 11 4 4 3 22 13 9 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
1962 KCA AL 25 1893 57% 80% 24% 189 91% 1 102 54 42 6 134 106 24 0 1 12 0 9 3 11 21 5 2 12 0 0 20 7 12 0 0 0
1963 KCA AL 26 5098 58% 80% 26% 543 95% 2 268 159 86 24 393 288 89 2 9 14 0 11 3 11 82 34 6 19 2 2 69 42 23 10 4 4
1964 KCA AL 27 4933 61% 78% 25% 511 93% 4 250 143 81 26 361 262 90 3 6 21 1 17 3 17 77 40 3 20 4 4 72 43 28 4 2 1
1965 KCA AL 28 2305 59% 80% 24% 217 94% 1 112 62 39 11 160 118 36 1 2 8 0 7 1 8 35 14 0 11 1 1 30 14 14 2 0 2
1966 KCA AL 29 284 51% 79% 32% 34 94% 0 15 9 4 2 27 22 4 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 3 1 0 2 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 0
1966 CHW AL 29 9 44% 89% 56% 2 50% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1967 CHW AL 30 21 57% 62% 33% 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 0 0 0 0
1968 ATL NL 31 11 64% 73% 36% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 14856 59% 79% 25% 1529 94% 8 758 431 256 72 1102 812 254 6 19 59 1 47 11 51 221 96 11 64 7 7 197 110 79 16 6 7
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 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
1955 BAL AL 18 128 66% 80% 25% 8 75% 0 7 3 2 2 3 3 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 BAL AL 19 201 66% 75% 31% 18 100% 0 12 4 7 1 16 13 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 BAL AL 20 130 65% 75% 23% 18 94% 1 13 6 4 3 12 11 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 1
1961 KCA AL 24 224 63% 82% 25% 19 84% 0 17 9 6 2 9 9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
1962 KCA AL 25 230 61% 85% 27% 25 100% 0 16 8 5 3 20 15 2 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1964 KCA AL 27 705 61% 79% 25% 68 97% 1 53 14 23 16 60 50 6 1 2 2 0 2 0 2 14 4 2 3 0 10 3 7 2 0 1
1965 KCA AL 28 1442 59% 81% 24% 109 96% 0 78 29 31 18 91 77 12 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 21 7 4 5 0 19 5 13 2 0 2
1966 CHW AL 29 1425 68% 81% 32% 131 95% 0 82 27 38 17 110 90 16 0 2 4 0 4 0 3 15 4 5 4 0 13 4 9 2 0 1
1967 CHW AL 30 2677 68% 80% 30% 247 95% 0 152 61 58 34 199 176 19 0 1 8 1 6 1 5 37 13 7 8 0 34 8 22 2 0 2
1968 CHW AL 31 808 65% 79% 28% 70 91% 0 50 17 21 12 58 51 4 1 1 3 0 3 0 3 12 5 2 1 0 12 2 9 0 0 0
1968 ATL NL 31 223 65% 83% 25% 17 88% 0 9 5 2 2 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0
1968 CAL AL 31 107 61% 82% 26% 9 100% 0 2 0 2 0 10 7 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 3 2 1 0 0 0
10 Seasons 8300 65% 80% 28% 739 95% 2 491 183 199 110 599 513 64 2 11 24 1 21 2 17 110 36 22 24 2 98 27 65 9 0 7
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 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%
1955 BAL AL 18 1616 67% 84% 26% 115 85% 0 25 17 2 6 84 62 17 1 2 9 0 9 0 9 11 6 0 9 1 1 0 8 38%
1956 BAL AL 19 641 69% 82% 28% 52 87% 0 13 10 2 1 36 26 9 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 80%
1957 BAL AL 20 33 79% 70% 18% 2 100% 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1961 KCA AL 24 2813 65% 80% 25% 257 89% 4 88 66 9 13 174 128 33 4 9 14 0 12 2 13 20 10 1 15 5 5 0 10 90%
1962 KCA AL 25 891 59% 79% 28% 66 95% 0 20 17 2 1 49 43 5 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 2 0 3 0 0 0 3 67%
1963 KCA AL 26 82 57% 85% 30% 6 67% 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0%
1964 KCA AL 27 299 50% 79% 25% 21 86% 0 8 6 1 1 12 5 7 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 1 100%
1965 KCA AL 28 1268 56% 79% 23% 96 91% 0 35 29 4 2 60 50 7 1 0 6 0 5 1 6 5 3 1 4 1 1 0 3 67%
1966 KCA AL 29 503 54% 81% 26% 26 85% 0 16 11 2 3 12 7 3 1 1 4 0 4 0 3 3 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0%
1966 CHW AL 29 13 92% 92% 23% 2 100% 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1968 ATL NL 31 12 58% 92% 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
10 Seasons 8171 63% 80% 26% 644 89% 4 207 158 22 27 433 327 81 8 13 38 0 35 3 35 49 27 3 39 8 8 0 32 66%
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 89% 63%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1963 AL (21, 2%)
1964 AL (25, 1%)
0.03 Career Shares (1251st)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1964 AL  25 (3rd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1961 AL  193 (5th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1963 AL  266 (4th)
1964 AL  266 (4th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1964 AL  21 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1967 AL  6 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1967 AL  4.85 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1967 AL  .978 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1961 AL  4.05 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1961 AL  3.35 (2nd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1961 AL  .955 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1955 AL  0 (5th)
1963 AL  10 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1963 AL  5.06 (2nd)
1964 AL  4.94 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1963 AL  4.95 (2nd)
1964 AL  4.72 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1963 AL  .978 (4th)

Youngest s c a p y
1955 AL  born 1936-12-26 (8th)
1956 AL  born 1936-12-26 (9th)

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