Mark Christman

Marquette Joseph Christman

Positions: Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: October 21, 1913 in Maplewood, MO (All Transactions)
Debut: April 20, 1938
Teams (by GP): Browns/Senators/Tigers 1938-1949

Final Game: September 23, 1949
Died: October 9, 1976 in St. Louis, MO
Buried: Resurrection Cemetery, St. Louis, MO
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1938	DET	AL	24	3B	69	65	62		230	86	140	4	14	.983		3.28	.941		3.14
1938	DET	AL	24	SS	21	22	21		118	46	66	6	17	.949		5.33	.953		5.17
1939	DET	AL	25	3B	5	3	3		10	4	5	1	1	.900		1.80	.943		3.16
1939	SLB	AL	25	SS	64	59	52		375	151	209	15	45	.960		5.63	.950		5.16
1939	SLB	AL	25	2B	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			5.60
1943	SLB	AL	29	3B	37	35	35		116	41	74	1	5	.991		3.11	.951		3.17
1943	SLB	AL	29	SS	24	21	20		101	48	52	1	15	.990		4.17	.953		5.13
1943	SLB	AL	29	1B	20	19	14		172	161	11	0	11	1.000		8.60	.991		10.05
1943	SLB	AL	29	2B	14	14	13		65	29	35	1	10	.985		4.57	.969		5.57
1944	SLB	AL	30	3B	145	145	143		502	172	316	14	34	.972		3.37	.954		3.34	MVP-11
1944	SLB	AL	30	1B	3	3	3		35	33	1	1	2	.971		11.33	.990		10.07	MVP-11
1945	SLB	AL	31	3B	77	76	72		222	79	137	6	12	.973		2.81	.948		3.16	MVP-26
1946	SLB	AL	32	3B	77	77	68		238	61	171	6	21	.975		3.01	.948		3.06
1946	SLB	AL	32	SS	47	43	43		221	77	137	7	23	.968		4.55	.954		4.97
1947	WSH	AL	33	SS	106	103	99		505	203	291	11	75	.978		4.66	.964		5.13	MVP-26
1947	WSH	AL	33	2B	1	0	0		4	2	2	0	0	1.000		4.00	.978		5.50	MVP-26
1948	WSH	AL	34	SS	102	98	87		481	207	259	15	59	.969		4.57	.964		5.17
1948	WSH	AL	34	3B	9	8	8		26	12	13	1	1	.962		2.78	.958		3.04
1948	WSH	AL	34	2B	3	2	2		12	6	5	1	0	.917		3.67	.976		5.63
1949	WSH	AL	35	3B	23	17	13		61	18	41	2	7	.967		2.57	.960		3.15
1949	WSH	AL	35	1B	6	3	3		48	42	5	1	2	.979		7.83	.989		9.77
1949	WSH	AL	35	SS	4	1	1		13	7	5	1	1	.923		3.00	.963		5.18
1949	WSH	AL	35	2B	1	1	0		4	2	2	0	0	1.000		4.00	.975		5.50
	8 Seasons			3B	442	426	404		1405	473	897	35	95	.975		3.10	.950		3.20
	7 Seasons			SS	368	347	323		1814	739	1019	56	235	.969		4.78	.959		5.13
	3 Seasons			1B	29	25	20		255	236	17	2	15	.992		8.72	.990		9.99
	5 Seasons			2B	20	17	15		85	39	44	2	10	.976		4.15	.971		5.58
	9 Seasons			TOT	859	815	762		3559	1487	1977	95	355	.973		4.03	.958		4.31
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	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
1938	DET	AL	24	3B
1938	DET	AL	24	SS
1939	DET	AL	25	3B
1939	SLB	AL	25	SS
1939	SLB	AL	25	2B
1943	SLB	AL	29	3B
1943	SLB	AL	29	SS
1943	SLB	AL	29	1B
1943	SLB	AL	29	2B
1944	SLB	AL	30	3B
1944	SLB	AL	30	1B
1945	SLB	AL	31	3B
1946	SLB	AL	32	3B
1946	SLB	AL	32	SS
1947	WSH	AL	33	SS
1947	WSH	AL	33	2B
1948	WSH	AL	34	SS
1948	WSH	AL	34	3B
1948	WSH	AL	34	2B
1949	WSH	AL	35	3B
1949	WSH	AL	35	1B
1949	WSH	AL	35	SS
1949	WSH	AL	35	2B
	8 Seasons			3B
	7 Seasons			SS
	3 Seasons			1B
	5 Seasons			2B
	9 Seasons			TOT
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	1B	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1938	DET	AL	24	95	87	95	88	0	0	67	23	0	8
1939	SLB	AL	25	79	59	79	65	0	1	0	64	12	3
1939	DET	AL	25	6	3	6	5	0	0	5	0	0	1
1943	SLB	AL	29	98	89	98	92	20	14	37	24	4	3
1944	SLB	AL	30	148	148	148	148	3	0	145	0	0	0
1945	SLB	AL	31	78	76	78	77	0	0	77	0	1	0
1946	SLB	AL	32	128	120	128	122	0	0	77	47	6	0
1947	WSH	AL	33	110	103	110	107	0	1	0	106	3	1
1948	WSH	AL	34	120	108	120	113	0	3	9	102	8	0
1949	WSH	AL	35	49	22	49	33	6	1	23	4	17	1
	9 Seasons			911	815	911	850	29	20	440	370	51	17

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
1948	WSH	AL	34	3312	55%	84%	25%	317	85%	4	178	71	81	26	236	176	48	1	4	15	0	13	2	14	51	16	2	16	4	8	50	20	29	1	1	0
1949	WSH	AL	35	99	48%	78%	21%	7	86%	0	8	3	5	0	5	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			3411	54%	84%	25%	324	85%	4	186	74	86	26	241	179	49	1	4	16	0	13	3	15	52	16	2	17	4	8	51	20	30	1	1	0
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		91%

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	WSH	AL	34	343	55%	81%	23%	26	88%	0	11	11	0	0	12	11	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	4	100%
1949	WSH	AL	35	644	61%	81%	25%	51	86%	0	16	12	2	2	35	23	8	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	6	3	0	4	2	2	0	4	75%
	2 Seasons			987	59%	81%	24%	77	87%	0	27	23	2	2	47	34	9	0	0	3	0	3	0	2	7	4	0	5	2	2	0	8	88%
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		89%																								69%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1949	WSH	AL	35	158	63%	80%	35%	12	83%	0	41	2	39	0	3	6	4	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	100%
	1 Season			158	63%	80%	35%	12	83%	0	41	2	39	0	3	6	4	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	100%
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		93%																											88%

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	WSH	AL	34	86	69%	84%	21%	10	90%	0	6	4	2	0	5	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949	WSH	AL	35	31	81%	100%	32%	2	100%	0	2	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			117	72%	88%	24%	12	92%	0	8	4	3	1	7	6	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		93%

* 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)) 1944 AL (11, 8%) 1945 AL (26, 1%) 1947 AL (26, 1%) 0.10 Career Shares (916th)	Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1944 AL 145 (3rd) 1946 AL 77 (4th)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1944 AL 172 (1st)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1944 AL 316 (2nd) 1946 AL 171 (3rd)
Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1944 AL 3.37 (4th) 1945 AL 2.81 (5th) 1946 AL 3.01 (2nd)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1944 AL .972 (1st) 1945 AL .973 (1st) 1946 AL .975 (3rd)	Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1947 AL .978 (2nd)

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