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Sam Dente

Samuel Joseph Dente (Blackie)

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

Born: April 26, 1922 in Harrison, NJ
High School: Kearny HS (Kearny, NJ)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1941. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 10, 1947
Teams (by GP): Senators/Indians/Browns/WhiteSox/RedSox 1947-1955

Final Game: September 13, 1955
Died: April 21, 2002 in Montclair, NJ
Buried: Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington, NJ
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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
1947 BOS AL 25 3B 46 44 43 131 40 83 8 11 .939 2.67 .959 3.01
1948 SLB AL 26 SS 76 57 54 360 138 207 15 46 .958 4.54 .964 5.17
1948 SLB AL 26 3B 6 4 2 13 3 9 1 1 .923 2.00 .958 3.03
1949 WSH AL 27 SS 153 153 150 811 314 462 35 106 .957 5.07 .963 5.17
1950 WSH AL 28 SS 128 127 125 1117.2 663 225 406 32 88 .952 5.08 4.93 .961 5.05 4.96 MVP-30
1950 WSH AL 28 2B 29 28 27 245.0 184 91 91 2 23 .989 6.69 6.28 .976 5.86 5.76 MVP-30
1951 WSH AL 29 SS 65 55 54 514.0 313 128 173 12 43 .962 5.27 4.63 .961 5.20 5.17
1951 WSH AL 29 2B 10 9 8 79.0 64 32 30 2 9 .969 7.06 6.20 .978 5.72 5.69
1951 WSH AL 29 3B 5 4 3 30.2 8 1 7 0 0 1.000 2.35 1.60 .950 3.17 3.16
1952 CHW AL 30 SS 27 17 13 167.2 104 42 56 6 14 .942 5.26 3.63 .962 4.94 4.94
1952 CHW AL 30 3B 18 11 6 99.2 24 7 17 0 2 1.000 2.17 1.33 .953 3.29 3.29
1952 CHW AL 30 2B 6 4 3 45.0 44 24 20 0 6 1.000 8.80 7.33 .978 5.56 5.57
1952 CHW AL 30 OF 6 3 2 28.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1.29 0.67 .980 2.41 2.40
1952 CHW AL 30 LF 4 3 2 26.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 2.08 1.50 .978 2.28 2.28
1952 CHW AL 30 1B 2 0 0 10.0 10 8 2 0 1 1.000 9.00 5.00 .988 9.63 9.60
1952 CHW AL 30 RF 2 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 1.80 1.90
1953 CHW AL 31 SS 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.10
1954 CLE AL 32 SS 60 48 35 412.0 205 66 133 6 33 .971 7 20 4.35 3.32 .960 5.00 4.97
1954 CLE AL 32 2B 7 6 3 43.0 26 10 14 2 3 .923 -0 -3 5.02 3.43 .976 5.38 5.33
1955 CLE AL 33 SS 53 22 18 266.0 123 33 87 3 15 .976 -2 -9 4.06 2.26 .959 4.93 4.89
1955 CLE AL 33 3B 13 0 0 42.0 16 4 12 0 0 1.000 0 9 3.43 1.23 .950 3.17 3.14
1955 CLE AL 33 2B 4 1 1 14.0 11 5 6 0 2 1.000 0 9 7.07 2.75 .976 5.40 5.32
8 Seasons SS 563 479 449 2478.1 2579 946 1524 109 345 .958 5 2 4.90 4.39 .962 5.05 5.06
5 Seasons 3B 88 63 54 172.1 192 55 128 9 14 .953 0 2 2.51 2.08 .957 3.24 3.10
5 Seasons 2B 56 48 42 426.0 329 162 161 6 43 .982 0 0 6.82 5.77 .977 5.74 5.64
1 Season OF 6 3 2 28.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1.29 0.67 .980 2.41 2.40
1 Season LF 4 3 2 26.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 2.08 1.50 .978 2.28 2.28
1 Season 1B 2 0 0 10.0 10 8 2 0 1 1.000 9.00 5.00 .988 9.63 9.60
1 Season RF 2 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 1.80 1.90
9 Seasons TOT 715 593 547 3114.2 3114 1175 1815 124 403 .960 5 2 5.01 4.18 .963 5.04 4.86
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
1947 BOS AL 25 3B
1948 SLB AL 26 SS
1948 SLB AL 26 3B
1949 WSH AL 27 SS
1950 WSH AL 28 SS
1950 WSH AL 28 2B
1951 WSH AL 29 SS
1951 WSH AL 29 2B
1951 WSH AL 29 3B
1952 CHW AL 30 SS
1952 CHW AL 30 3B
1952 CHW AL 30 2B
1952 CHW AL 30 LF
1952 CHW AL 30 1B
1952 CHW AL 30 RF
1953 CHW AL 31 SS 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 CLE AL 32 SS 7 20 7 4 3 0
1954 CLE AL 32 2B -0 -3 -0 0 -0 0
1955 CLE AL 33 SS -2 -9 -2 -1 -2 0
1955 CLE AL 33 3B 0 9 0 0 0 0
1955 CLE AL 33 2B 0 9 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons SS 5 2 5 3 2 0
5 Seasons 3B 0 2 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 2B 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1 Season LF
1 Season 1B
1 Season RF
9 Seasons TOT 5 2 5 3 2 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 P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1947 BOS AL 25 46 44 46 46 0 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1948 SLB AL 26 98 61 98 81 0 0 0 0 6 77 0 0 0 0 0 23 1
1949 WSH AL 27 153 153 153 153 0 0 0 0 0 153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1950 WSH AL 28 155 155 155 155 0 0 0 29 0 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1951 WSH AL 29 88 68 88 78 0 0 0 10 5 65 0 0 0 0 0 13 0
1952 CHW AL 30 62 35 62 52 0 0 2 6 18 27 4 0 2 6 0 14 3
1953 CHW AL 31 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1954 CLE AL 32 68 54 68 66 0 0 0 7 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
1955 CLE AL 33 73 23 73 69 0 0 0 4 13 53 0 0 0 0 0 5 8
9 Seasons 745 593 745 701 0 0 2 56 88 564 4 0 2 6 0 56 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 SLB AL 26 696 57% 83% 24% 76 93% 0 37 15 17 5 56 37 19 0 1 4 0 3 1 3 15 8 1 2 0 0 13 9 2 1 0 1
1949 WSH AL 27 5591 58% 82% 28% 550 89% 11 274 118 124 31 429 312 90 4 7 33 0 23 10 27 99 27 15 27 5 6 86 42 40 12 7 5
1950 WSH AL 28 4855 63% 83% 26% 480 86% 6 214 90 111 13 384 275 84 0 9 32 1 26 5 25 83 27 6 25 8 8 77 33 43 4 3 1
1951 WSH AL 29 2298 57% 82% 23% 223 89% 0 127 61 54 12 172 126 36 0 6 12 0 9 3 9 42 15 0 16 4 4 40 15 25 2 2 0
1952 CHW AL 30 697 54% 80% 26% 76 84% 0 45 23 18 4 56 46 8 1 2 6 0 6 0 5 14 1 0 8 4 0 14 1 13 0 0 0
1953 CHW AL 31 5 60% 80% 20% 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
1954 CLE AL 32 1667 60% 82% 26% 173 90% 2 66 33 28 5 136 88 40 0 4 6 0 5 1 5 34 19 0 4 4 1 31 19 9 2 1 1
1955 CLE AL 33 1136 64% 76% 20% 110 92% 0 56 41 12 3 66 44 19 0 2 3 0 3 0 3 15 11 0 2 1 0 14 11 3 1 0 0
8 Seasons 16945 60% 82% 26% 1688 88% 19 819 381 364 73 1299 928 296 5 31 96 1 75 20 77 302 108 22 84 26 19 275 130 135 22 13 8
MLB Averages 63% 82% 26% 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
1950 WSH AL 28 1014 65% 84% 24% 122 97% 0 87 50 28 9 88 70 12 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 24 8 5 6 0 20 6 13 4 3 0
1951 WSH AL 29 318 56% 85% 26% 37 92% 0 28 12 10 6 28 21 5 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 7 2 2 1 0 5 1 4 2 2 0
1952 CHW AL 30 186 53% 84% 30% 28 93% 0 23 11 9 3 19 14 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0 0 1 4 2 2 2 1 0
1954 CLE AL 32 193 64% 76% 27% 21 81% 0 10 5 3 2 14 11 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 3 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1955 CLE AL 33 56 66% 80% 14% 7 100% 0 5 4 1 0 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0
5 Seasons 1767 62% 83% 25% 215 94% 0 153 82 51 20 154 120 21 0 3 6 0 6 0 4 42 12 9 8 1 32 10 21 9 6 0
MLB Averages 63% 82% 26% 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%
1948 SLB AL 26 141 55% 90% 32% 10 100% 0 2 1 0 1 9 5 4 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1951 WSH AL 29 139 55% 76% 25% 8 100% 0 1 1 0 0 8 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1952 CHW AL 30 423 70% 75% 25% 27 89% 0 7 7 0 0 17 12 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 3 33%
1955 CLE AL 33 170 66% 76% 16% 16 100% 0 8 8 0 0 8 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
4 Seasons 873 64% 78% 25% 61 95% 0 18 17 0 1 42 31 11 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 4 4 0 4 0 0 0 5 60%
MLB Averages 63% 82% 26% 89% 67%

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%
1952 CHW AL 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 3 75.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 105 54% 76% 24% 14 43%
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 3 75.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 105 54% 76% 24% 14 43%
MLB Averages 57.7% 2.6% 63% 82% 31% 51%

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%
1952 CHW AL 30 39 62% 82% 15% 4 75% 0 7 0 7 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 100%
1 Season 39 62% 82% 15% 4 75% 0 7 0 7 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 100%
MLB Averages 63% 82% 26% 93% 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%
1952 CHW AL 30 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 10 90% 70% 10% 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 10 90% 70% 10% 0
MLB Averages 43.7% 3.3% 63% 82% 31% 54%

* 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))
1950 AL (30, 0%)
0.00 Career Shares (1712th)

Assists† s c a p y
1949 AL  462 (3rd)
1950 AL  497 (2nd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1949 AL  35 (1st)
1950 AL  34 (1st)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1949 AL  153 (2nd)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1949 AL  314 (3rd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1949 AL  462 (2nd)
1950 AL  406 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1949 AL  35 (1st)
1950 AL  32 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1954 AL  7 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1950 AL  5.08 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1949 AL  5.07 (3rd)
1950 AL  4.93 (2nd)

                           

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