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Joe Cunningham

Joseph Robert Cunningham

Positions: First Baseman and Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: August 27, 1931 in Paterson, NJ
High School: Lodi HS (Lodi, NJ)
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1949. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 30, 1954
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/WhiteSox/Senators 1954-1966

Final Game: April 17, 1966
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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
1954 STL NL 22 1B 85 84 81 751.0 892 814 68 10 96 .989 6 9 10.57 10.38 .991 9.81 9.75
1956 STL NL 24 1B 1 0 0 2.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -120 9.00 2.00 .990 9.90 9.70
1957 STL NL 25 1B 57 22 20 270.0 296 279 17 0 17 1.000 5 24 9.87 5.19 .990 9.67 9.73
1957 STL NL 25 RF 47 42 23 344.0 81 78 1 2 0 .975 4 13 2.07 1.68 .972 1.98 1.99
1957 STL NL 25 OF 46 42 23 344.0 85 81 1 3 0 .965 4 13 2.15 1.78 .980 2.29 2.31
1958 STL NL 26 1B 67 31 30 343.2 352 328 23 1 19 .997 5 17 9.19 5.24 .990 9.54 9.49
1958 STL NL 26 OF 66 60 30 502.2 95 90 3 2 2 .979 -6 -15 1.67 1.41 .980 2.26 2.25
1958 STL NL 26 RF 42 40 21 326.2 58 54 2 2 1 .966 -6 -21 1.54 1.33 .978 2.02 2.01
1958 STL NL 26 LF 24 20 9 176.0 33 32 1 0 1 1.000 -1 -4 1.69 1.38 .975 2.01 2.00
1959 STL NL 27 OF 121 117 84 966.2 212 201 5 6 1 .972 -11 -14 1.92 1.70 .977 2.21 2.19 AS,MVP-13
1959 STL NL 27 RF 109 104 76 850.1 188 179 4 5 1 .973 -9 -12 1.94 1.68 .978 1.95 1.93 AS,MVP-13
1959 STL NL 27 1B 35 10 8 144.0 168 158 9 1 22 .994 1 9 10.44 4.77 .988 9.58 9.48 AS,MVP-13
1959 STL NL 27 LF 21 13 8 116.1 20 18 1 1 0 .950 -2 -26 1.47 0.90 .971 2.04 2.02 AS,MVP-13
1960 STL NL 28 OF 116 108 94 944.1 200 184 6 10 1 .950 -7 -9 1.81 1.64 .978 2.20 2.20
1960 STL NL 28 RF 116 108 94 944.1 198 182 6 10 1 .949 -7 -9 1.79 1.62 .979 1.99 1.99
1960 STL NL 28 1B 15 14 14 122.0 124 114 10 0 7 1.000 1 8 9.15 8.27 .990 9.57 9.55
1961 STL NL 29 OF 86 77 59 649.1 138 131 2 5 1 .964 -3 -5 1.84 1.55 .977 2.16 2.14
1961 STL NL 29 RF 85 76 58 640.2 139 132 2 5 1 .964 -3 -5 1.88 1.58 .974 1.93 1.91
1961 STL NL 29 1B 10 6 4 62.0 70 69 1 0 8 1.000 -2 -39 10.16 7.00 .990 9.81 9.72
1961 STL NL 29 LF 1 1 1 8.2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 28 2.08 2.00 .975 1.87 1.90
1962 CHW AL 30 1B 143 142 136 1259.2 1380 1282 90 8 118 .994 7 6 9.80 9.59 .990 9.44 9.41 MVP-18
1962 CHW AL 30 OF 5 3 1 22.0 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 0 27 2.05 1.00 .980 2.21 2.18 MVP-18
1962 CHW AL 30 RF 5 3 1 22.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 0 27 2.45 1.20 .978 2.00 2.00 MVP-18
1963 CHW AL 31 1B 58 57 48 492.1 565 535 24 6 39 .989 1 2 10.22 9.64 .990 9.48 9.49
1964 TOT AL 32 1B 74 63 54 569.1 611 580 29 2 53 .997 0 0 9.63 8.23 .991 9.43 9.41
1964 CHW AL 32 1B 33 30 23 259.0 281 264 16 1 25 .996 1 3 9.73 8.48 .991 9.43 9.41
1964 WSA AL 32 1B 41 33 31 310.1 330 316 13 1 28 .997 -0 -2 9.54 8.02 .991 9.43 9.41
1965 WSA AL 33 1B 59 43 41 412.2 423 393 24 6 44 .986 -0 -1 9.09 7.07 .991 9.56 9.53
1966 WSA AL 34 1B 3 3 1 21.0 14 10 4 0 1 1.000 -0 -29 6.00 4.67 .991 9.60 9.57
12 Seasons 1B 607 475 437 4449.2 4897 4564 299 34 424 .993 23 6 9.84 8.01 .990 9.55 9.53
6 Seasons OF 440 407 291 3429.0 735 692 17 26 5 .965 -23 -8 1.86 1.61 .978 2.21 2.20
6 Seasons RF 404 373 273 3128.0 670 631 15 24 4 .964 -20 -8 1.86 1.60 .977 1.97 1.96
3 Seasons LF 46 34 18 301.0 55 52 2 1 1 .982 -3 -12 1.61 1.17 .974 2.02 2.01
12 Seasons TOT 1047 882 728 7878.2 5632 5256 316 60 429 .989 -0 -0 6.37 5.32 .989 6.36 6.45
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
1954 STL NL 22 1B 6 9 6 2 3 0
1956 STL NL 24 1B -0 -120 -0 -0 0 0
1957 STL NL 25 1B 5 24 5 4 2 0
1957 STL NL 25 RF 4 13 5 3 2 -1
1958 STL NL 26 1B 5 17 5 4 1 0
1958 STL NL 26 RF -6 -21 -5 -3 -2 -1
1958 STL NL 26 LF -1 -4 -1 -0 -0 0
1959 STL NL 27 RF -9 -12 -4 -3 -1 -5
1959 STL NL 27 1B 1 9 1 1 0 0
1959 STL NL 27 LF -2 -26 -2 -1 -1 -1
1960 STL NL 28 RF -7 -9 -2 -3 1 -5
1960 STL NL 28 1B 1 8 1 0 0 0
1961 STL NL 29 RF -3 -5 0 1 -1 -3
1961 STL NL 29 1B -2 -39 -2 -1 -1 0
1961 STL NL 29 LF 0 28 0 0 0 0
1962 CHW AL 30 1B 7 6 8 2 6 -1
1962 CHW AL 30 RF 0 27 0 0 0 0
1963 CHW AL 31 1B 1 2 -0 -1 1 1
1964 CHW AL 32 1B 1 3 1 1 -0 0
1964 WSA AL 32 1B -0 -2 -2 -2 0 1
1965 WSA AL 33 1B -0 -1 -1 3 -4 1
1966 WSA AL 34 1B -0 -29 -0 -0 -0 0
12 Seasons 1B 23 6 21 13 8 2
6 Seasons RF -20 -8 -5 -5 0 -15
3 Seasons LF -3 -12 -2 -1 -1 -1
12 Seasons TOT -0 -0 14 6 8 2 -16
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
1954 STL NL 22 85 84 85 85 0 0 85 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 STL NL 24 4 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1957 STL NL 25 122 64 122 91 0 0 57 0 0 0 0 0 47 47 0 38 3
1958 STL NL 26 131 91 131 108 0 0 68 0 0 0 24 0 42 66 0 29 1
1959 STL NL 27 144 127 144 137 0 0 35 0 0 0 21 0 109 121 0 11 1
1960 STL NL 28 139 122 139 131 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 116 116 0 13 0
1961 STL NL 29 113 83 113 90 0 0 10 0 0 0 1 0 85 86 0 27 2
1962 CHW AL 30 149 145 149 145 0 0 143 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0 4 0
1963 CHW AL 31 67 57 67 58 0 0 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1964 WSA AL 32 49 33 49 41 0 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 2
1964 CHW AL 32 40 30 40 33 0 0 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1965 WSA AL 33 95 43 95 59 0 0 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 2
1966 WSA AL 34 3 3 3 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Seasons 1141 882 1141 982 0 0 608 0 0 0 46 0 404 441 0 187 12
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 -- 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%
1954 STL NL 22 2531 64% 80% 28% 159 93% 1 627 34 585 6 67 51 38 8 0 1 6 0 4 2 3 79 1 0 1 74 2 5 2 3 9 100%
1956 STL NL 24 12 58% 75% 8% 3 33% 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 STL NL 25 1145 59% 80% 28% 82 98% 0 279 28 249 2 35 17 14 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 19 0 0 0 16 1 3 1 2 0
1958 STL NL 26 1476 61% 79% 26% 104 95% 1 331 27 300 3 48 25 16 6 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 22 0 0 0 19 0 3 0 3 8 100%
1959 STL NL 27 616 52% 78% 30% 39 92% 0 158 12 146 1 16 9 5 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 22 2 0 0 21 2 1 1 0 1 100%
1960 STL NL 28 495 57% 79% 31% 29 97% 0 117 8 105 4 9 11 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 7 1 0 0 0 2 100%
1961 STL NL 29 279 60% 73% 28% 8 75% 0 69 4 63 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 9 0 2 0 2 1 0%
1962 CHW AL 30 5333 63% 80% 28% 304 95% 0 1284 61 1205 19 143 90 67 18 0 2 8 2 5 1 5 118 2 0 0 102 2 16 2 14 14 71%
1963 CHW AL 31 2000 66% 79% 29% 99 95% 0 537 26 504 7 44 25 18 5 1 1 6 1 5 0 4 39 2 1 0 36 3 3 0 3 4 75%
1964 WSA AL 32 1324 61% 80% 26% 69 97% 0 319 26 286 6 31 13 6 5 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 29 4 0 0 27 4 2 0 2 3 100%
1964 CHW AL 32 1055 65% 80% 28% 53 94% 0 261 12 246 3 25 15 10 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 25 0 2 0 25 2 0 0 0 1 100%
1965 WSA AL 33 1765 63% 79% 24% 115 91% 0 407 38 360 8 48 25 12 8 0 1 6 0 6 0 4 45 2 1 1 41 5 4 2 2 5 80%
1966 WSA AL 34 92 66% 75% 11% 1 100% 0 11 0 10 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
12 Seasons 18123 62% 79% 27% 1065 94% 2 4402 277 4060 62 469 281 196 59 3 7 31 4 24 3 19 417 13 4 3 378 22 39 8 31 48 85%
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 94% 86%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

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%
1957 STL NL 25 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 23 6 1 14 4 0 7 4 0 4 3 0 5 4 0 53 21 39.6% 31 1 1.9% 0 1465 62% 81% 29% 173 46%
1958 STL NL 26 2 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 19 7 0 9 1 0 5 2 0 3 1 1 6 5 0 42 16 38.1% 25 1 2.4% 1 1465 63% 80% 25% 135 41%
1959 STL NL 27 5 0 5 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 71 23 1 31 9 0 15 11 0 14 1 0 25 12 0 156 56 35.9% 99 1 0.6% 3 3770 59% 79% 28% 407 44%
1960 STL NL 28 10 0 7 3 2 6 0 1 1 2 59 18 2 33 7 0 22 11 1 10 1 0 17 12 0 141 49 34.8% 89 3 2.1% 3 4010 62% 77% 27% 404 46%
1961 STL NL 29 5 0 5 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 28 10 0 7 0 0 12 8 0 12 3 1 21 13 0 80 34 42.5% 45 1 1.3% 1 2771 62% 79% 28% 256 52%
1962 CHW AL 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 101 56% 78% 21% 10 60%
6 Seasons 24 0 20 4 5 15 0 4 2 5 201 64 4 94 21 0 61 36 1 43 9 2 74 46 0 473 176 37.2% 290 7 1.5% 8 13582 61% 79% 27% 1385 46%
MLB Averages 41.4% 3.2% 63% 80% 29% 54%

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%
1958 STL NL 26 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 13 10 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 6 6 0 26 16 61.5% 9 1 3.8% 0 767 58% 75% 26% 74 43%
1959 STL NL 27 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 13 10 1 7 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 24 11 45.8% 12 1 4.2% 0 516 60% 79% 29% 50 38%
1961 STL NL 29 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 38 87% 74% 32% 2 100%
3 Seasons 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 26 20 1 10 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 1 7 7 0 50 27 54.0% 21 2 4.0% 0 1321 60% 77% 28% 126 42%
MLB Averages 58.3% 2.5% 63% 80% 29% 48%

* 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
1959-1
1959-2 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1959 NL (13, 4%)
1962 AL (18, 3%)
0.07 Career Shares (1016th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1962 AL  1,287 (4th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1962 AL  1,282 (4th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1954 NL  10 (4th)

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1959 NL  109 (5th)
1961 NL  85 (5th)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1959 NL  5 (4th)
1960 NL  10 (1st)
1961 NL  5 (3rd)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1960 NL  10 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1954 NL  6 (3rd)
1957 NL  5 (2nd)
1958 NL  5 (1st)
1962 AL  7 (3rd)
Career  23 (38th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1954 NL  10.57 (1st)
1962 AL  9.80 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1954 NL  10.38 (1st)
1962 AL  9.59 (2nd)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1962 AL  .994 (2nd)
Career  .993 (70th)

Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1957 NL  4 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1961 NL  1.88 (5th)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1959 NL  .973 (4th)

             

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