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Jerry Coleman

Gerald Francis Coleman

Positions: Second Baseman, Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: September 14, 1924 in San Jose, CA
High School: Lowell HS (San Francisco, CA)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1942. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 20, 1949
Team: Yankees 1949-1957

Final Game: September 29, 1957
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All-Star

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
1949 NYY AL 24 2B 122 122 103 625 298 315 12 102 .981 5.02 .974 5.49 RoY-3
1949 NYY AL 24 SS 4 3 3 23 6 16 1 4 .957 5.50 .963 5.18 RoY-3
1950 NYY AL 25 2B 152 152 129 1291.1 786 384 384 18 137 .977 5.35 5.05 .976 5.86 5.76 AS
1950 NYY AL 25 SS 6 0 0 21.0 11 4 6 1 1 .909 4.29 1.67 .961 5.06 4.97 AS
1951 NYY AL 26 2B 102 97 82 832.2 530 245 268 17 84 .968 5.54 5.03 .978 5.72 5.69
1951 NYY AL 26 SS 18 6 6 84.2 55 27 27 1 8 .982 5.74 3.00 .961 5.20 5.17
1952 NYY AL 27 2B 11 11 11 98.2 69 33 34 2 17 .971 6.11 6.09 .978 5.57 5.57
1953 NYY AL 28 2B 7 3 1 29.0 19 11 8 0 4 1.000 1 41 5.90 2.71 .979 5.59 5.57
1953 NYY AL 28 SS 1 0 0 5.0 2 0 1 1 0 .500 0 0 1.80 1.00 .965 5.04 5.10
1954 NYY AL 29 2B 79 70 57 620.1 390 183 198 9 62 .977 -0 -0 5.53 4.82 .976 5.37 5.33
1954 NYY AL 29 SS 30 16 10 148.2 85 26 54 5 9 .941 -0 -3 4.84 2.67 .960 5.00 4.97
1954 NYY AL 29 3B 1 0 0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 3.38 3.50
1955 NYY AL 30 SS 29 16 10 158.0 87 33 51 3 17 .966 -3 -20 4.78 2.90 .959 4.93 4.89
1955 NYY AL 30 2B 13 12 10 102.0 55 32 23 0 7 1.000 -1 -7 4.85 4.23 .976 5.37 5.32
1955 NYY AL 30 3B 1 0 0 1.0 2 1 0 1 0 .500 -1 -960 9.00 1.00 .950 3.60 3.10
1956 NYY AL 31 2B 41 27 20 264.1 187 89 94 4 32 .979 4 17 6.23 4.46 .973 5.44 5.40
1956 NYY AL 31 SS 24 18 11 159.1 91 40 48 3 14 .967 -3 -20 4.97 3.67 .960 4.98 4.94
1956 NYY AL 31 3B 18 6 3 76.1 21 9 10 2 0 .905 -3 -47 2.24 1.06 .949 3.22 3.19
1957 NYY AL 32 2B 45 28 19 286.2 163 74 84 5 32 .969 -2 -9 4.96 3.51 .980 5.39 5.41
1957 NYY AL 32 3B 21 12 11 129.1 48 15 31 2 1 .958 0 2 3.20 2.19 .951 3.23 3.24
1957 NYY AL 32 SS 4 2 1 17.0 8 1 5 2 1 .750 -1 -78 3.18 1.50 .962 5.14 5.12
9 Seasons 2B 572 522 432 3525.0 2824 1349 1408 67 477 .976 2 1 5.47 4.82 .976 5.65 5.56
8 Seasons SS 116 61 41 593.2 362 137 208 17 54 .953 -7 -14 4.90 2.97 .960 5.01 4.99
4 Seasons 3B 41 18 14 210.2 71 25 41 5 1 .930 -4 -21 2.82 1.61 .950 3.23 3.22
9 Seasons TOT 729 601 487 4329.1 3257 1511 1657 89 532 .973 -8 -2 5.27 4.35 .974 5.44 5.34
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
1949 NYY AL 24 2B
1949 NYY AL 24 SS
1950 NYY AL 25 2B
1950 NYY AL 25 SS
1951 NYY AL 26 2B
1951 NYY AL 26 SS
1952 NYY AL 27 2B
1953 NYY AL 28 2B 1 41 0 0 0 1
1953 NYY AL 28 SS 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 NYY AL 29 2B -0 -0 -1 -2 1 1
1954 NYY AL 29 SS -0 -3 -0 -0 -0 0
1954 NYY AL 29 3B
1955 NYY AL 30 SS -3 -20 -3 -1 -2 0
1955 NYY AL 30 2B -1 -7 -1 -1 0 0
1955 NYY AL 30 3B -1 -960 -1 -1 0
1956 NYY AL 31 2B 4 17 3 1 2 1
1956 NYY AL 31 SS -3 -20 -2 -1 -1 -1
1956 NYY AL 31 3B -3 -47 -3 -2 -1 0
1957 NYY AL 32 2B -2 -9 -3 -3 -0 1
1957 NYY AL 32 3B 0 2 0 0 -0 0
1957 NYY AL 32 SS -1 -78 -1 -0 -1 0
9 Seasons 2B 2 1 -2 -5 3 4
8 Seasons SS -7 -14 -6 -2 -4 -1
4 Seasons 3B -4 -21 -4 -2 -1 0
9 Seasons TOT -8 -2 -11 -9 -2 3
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
1949 NYY AL 24 128 125 128 126 0 0 0 123 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1950 NYY AL 25 153 152 153 152 0 0 0 152 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1951 NYY AL 26 121 103 121 118 0 0 0 103 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
1952 NYY AL 27 11 11 11 11 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 NYY AL 28 8 3 8 8 0 0 0 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 NYY AL 29 107 86 107 107 0 0 0 79 1 30 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
1955 NYY AL 30 43 28 43 42 0 0 0 13 1 29 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1956 NYY AL 31 80 51 80 80 0 0 0 42 18 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1957 NYY AL 32 72 42 72 69 0 0 0 45 21 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 2
9 Seasons 723 601 723 713 0 0 0 574 41 116 0 0 0 0 0 13 7
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 -- 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
1949 NYY AL 24 3357 58% 77% 24% 282 93% 1 220 91 99 30 234 187 28 0 2 10 1 7 2 5 76 22 18 14 2 61 16 43 10 10 0
1950 NYY AL 25 4862 65% 78% 23% 408 92% 4 317 122 141 55 337 260 53 3 9 17 2 13 2 12 118 35 20 34 0 99 35 60 15 9 3
1951 NYY AL 26 3337 58% 80% 25% 338 90% 1 231 99 91 41 257 204 43 1 2 16 0 15 1 14 81 25 16 24 0 69 24 42 6 6 0
1952 NYY AL 27 408 61% 78% 26% 35 94% 0 32 12 14 6 34 27 7 0 2 2 0 1 1 1 17 9 4 4 0 17 4 13 0 0 0
1953 NYY AL 28 114 67% 80% 16% 15 93% 0 11 7 1 3 8 6 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 0 4 2 1 0 0 0
1954 NYY AL 29 2556 65% 81% 27% 243 93% 2 181 74 77 30 194 154 29 1 3 9 3 4 2 5 62 22 7 19 1 52 20 29 6 4 2
1955 NYY AL 30 435 66% 76% 21% 34 97% 0 33 14 13 6 24 20 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 3 1 2 0 7 2 4 0 0 0
1956 NYY AL 31 1134 64% 76% 24% 120 93% 0 90 41 40 9 95 76 17 0 1 4 0 4 0 4 32 16 4 7 0 29 7 22 1 1 0
1957 NYY AL 32 1223 63% 75% 27% 101 89% 2 75 27 34 14 84 64 17 0 1 5 1 2 2 2 32 11 7 9 0 29 9 19 2 1 1
9 Seasons 17426 62% 78% 25% 1576 92% 10 1190 487 510 194 1267 998 199 5 22 63 7 46 10 43 429 143 78 115 3 367 119 233 40 31 6
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 93%

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
1949 NYY AL 24 173 64% 76% 27% 18 83% 0 6 3 3 0 15 12 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 1 1 1 4 1 3 0 0 0
1950 NYY AL 25 99 64% 77% 21% 11 82% 0 3 2 1 0 7 4 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1951 NYY AL 26 376 67% 82% 22% 38 89% 0 26 13 12 1 25 18 7 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 9 4 0 3 1 0 8 4 4 1 0 1
1953 NYY AL 28 19 74% 79% 21% 2 50% 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
1954 NYY AL 29 623 73% 82% 28% 75 92% 2 25 19 4 1 53 41 8 1 1 5 0 3 2 4 9 5 0 1 0 1 8 6 2 1 1 0
1955 NYY AL 30 684 68% 77% 26% 67 90% 0 33 22 11 0 51 38 10 0 0 3 0 3 0 2 17 4 0 7 2 0 14 4 9 3 2 1
1956 NYY AL 31 722 59% 76% 24% 68 87% 0 36 18 16 2 48 32 16 0 0 3 0 2 1 3 14 4 0 2 2 2 11 5 6 3 1 2
1957 NYY AL 32 79 68% 82% 32% 7 71% 0 1 0 1 0 5 3 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 2775 66% 79% 25% 286 88% 2 130 77 48 4 205 149 49 1 1 17 2 10 5 13 54 19 0 14 6 4 46 21 24 8 4 4
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 90%

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 NYY AL 30 11 73% 82% 0% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 NYY AL 31 338 65% 78% 24% 22 86% 0 10 9 1 0 11 6 3 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 100%
1957 NYY AL 32 570 63% 77% 29% 52 83% 0 15 13 1 1 30 24 6 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 6 17%
3 Seasons 919 64% 77% 27% 74 84% 0 26 22 3 1 41 30 9 0 0 5 0 4 1 4 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 8 38%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 89% 66%

* 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

All-Star Games
1950 *

Awards (yr lg award)
1950 AL Babe Ruth Award

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1949 AL  122 (5th)
1950 AL  152 (2nd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1949 AL  298 (4th)
1950 AL  384 (4th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1949 AL  315 (5th)
1950 AL  384 (4th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1950 AL  18 (5th)
1951 AL  17 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1956 AL  4 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1954 AL  5.53 (4th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1949 AL  .981 (2nd)
1950 AL  .977 (3rd)
1954 AL  .977 (3rd)

                                         

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