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Walt Dropo

Walter Dropo (Moose)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 5", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: January 30, 1923 in Moosup, CT
High School: Plainfield (Plainfield, CT)
School: University of Connecticut
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1947. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1949
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Tigers/RedSox/Orioles/Redlegs 1949-1961

Final Game: May 17, 1961
Died: December 17, 2010 in Peabody, MA
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Moosup, CT
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 12, 2012, 12:04AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1305. Brad Wilkerson… #1306. Cesar Geronimo… #1307. Heinie Wagner… #1308. WALT DROPO… #1309. Joe Hauser… #1310. Peanuts Lowrey… #1311. Martin Prado… 

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1949 26 BOS AL 11 44 41 3 6 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 7 .146 .205 .195 .400 3 8 2 0 0 3
1950 27 BOS AL 136 609 559 101 180 28 8 34 144 0 0 45 75 .322 .378 .583 .961 133 326 16 5 0 *3 AS,MVP-6,RoY-1
1951 28 BOS AL 99 398 360 37 86 14 0 11 57 0 0 38 52 .239 .312 .369 .681 76 133 16 0 0 3
1952 29 TOT AL 152 633 591 69 163 24 4 29 97 2 2 37 85 .276 .323 .477 .800 119 282 26 4 1 *3 MVP-26
1952 29 BOS AL 37 145 132 13 35 7 1 6 27 0 0 11 22 .265 .331 .470 .801 114 62 9 2 0 3
1952 29 DET AL 115 488 459 56 128 17 3 23 70 2 2 26 63 .279 .320 .479 .800 120 220 17 2 1 *3
1953 30 DET AL 152 645 606 61 150 30 3 13 96 2 0 29 69 .248 .289 .371 .660 78 225 22 6 4 *3
1954 31 DET AL 107 354 320 27 90 14 2 4 44 0 1 24 41 .281 .328 .375 .703 94 120 13 0 6 4 3
1955 32 CHW AL 141 502 453 55 127 15 2 19 79 0 1 42 71 .280 .343 .448 .791 109 203 15 2 3 2 8 *3
1956 33 CHW AL 125 412 361 42 96 13 1 8 52 1 0 37 51 .266 .334 .374 .708 87 135 15 3 5 6 2 *3
1957 34 CHW AL 93 244 223 24 57 2 0 13 49 0 1 16 40 .256 .300 .439 .740 99 98 10 0 1 4 2 3
1958 35 TOT MLB 91 238 214 21 57 8 2 9 39 0 0 17 42 .266 .319 .449 .768 99 96 10 2 0 5 0 3
1958 35 CHW AL 28 59 52 3 10 1 0 2 8 0 0 5 11 .192 .271 .327 .598 65 17 3 1 0 1 0 33
1958 35 CIN NL 63 179 162 18 47 7 2 7 31 0 0 12 31 .290 .335 .488 .823 110 79 7 1 0 4 0 33
1959 36 TOT MLB 88 210 190 21 46 10 0 7 23 0 0 16 27 .242 .303 .405 .708 93 77 9 1 2 1 0 3/5
1959 36 BAL AL 62 166 151 17 42 9 0 6 21 0 0 12 20 .278 .329 .457 .786 117 69 6 0 2 1 0 33/5
1959 36 CIN NL 26 44 39 4 4 1 0 1 2 0 0 4 7 .103 .205 .205 .410 8 8 3 1 0 0 0 33/5
1960 37 BAL AL 79 201 179 16 48 8 0 4 21 0 1 20 19 .268 .343 .380 .723 97 68 9 1 0 1 0 3/5
1961 38 BAL AL 14 31 27 1 7 0 0 1 2 0 0 4 3 .259 .355 .370 .725 98 10 3 0 0 0 0 3
13 Seasons 1288 4521 4124 478 1113 168 22 152 704 5 6 328 582 .270 .326 .432 .757 100 1781 166 24 22 23 12
162 Game Avg. 162 569 519 60 140 21 3 19 89 1 1 41 73 .270 .326 .432 .757 100 224 21 3 3
G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
BOS (4 yrs) 283 1196 1092 154 307 51 9 51 229 0 0 97 156 .281 .344 .484 .828 108 529 43 7 0
CHW (4 yrs) 387 1217 1089 124 290 31 3 42 188 1 2 100 173 .266 .328 .416 .744 98 453 43 6 9 13 12
BAL (3 yrs) 155 398 357 34 97 17 0 11 44 0 1 36 42 .272 .338 .412 .750 105 147 18 1 2 2 0
DET (3 yrs) 374 1487 1385 144 368 61 8 40 210 4 3 79 173 .266 .308 .408 .716 96 565 52 8 11 4
CIN (2 yrs) 89 223 201 22 51 8 2 8 33 0 0 16 38 .254 .309 .433 .742 90 87 10 2 0 4 0
AL (13 yrs) 1199 4298 3923 456 1062 160 20 144 671 5 6 312 544 .271 .326 .432 .758 101 1694 156 22 22 19 12
NL (2 yrs) 89 223 201 22 51 8 2 8 33 0 0 16 38 .254 .309 .433 .742 90 87 10 2 0 4 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1949 26 BOS AL 44 -6 0 0 0 0 0 1 -5 -0.5 -5 -0.5 0.0 $ 3
1950 27 BOS AL 609 26 1 0 0 -6 -6 16 31 3.0 37 3.6 -0.6 $ *3 AS,MVP-6,RoY-1
1951 28 BOS AL 398 -13 -1 0 0 -3 -4 11 -10 -1.0 -7 -0.7 -0.3 $ 3
1952 29 BOS AL 145 2 -1 0 0 -1 -2 4 2 0.2 3 0.3 -0.1 $ 3 MVP-26
1952 29 DET AL 488 6 -1 0 0 -4 -5 13 9 1.0 13 1.5 -0.5 $ *3 MVP-26
1953 30 DET AL 645 -21 0 0 0 0 -7 18 -12 -1.4 -10 -1.0 -0.4 $ *3
1954 31 DET AL 355 -3 -2 -2 -1 2 -4 10 0 -0.1 -2 -0.2 0.1 $ 3
1955 32 CHW AL 502 5 0 0 -2 -1 -6 14 10 1.1 11 1.1 0.0 $ *3
1956 33 CHW AL 412 -7 0 2 -1 -5 -6 12 -5 -0.6 0 0.0 -0.6 $ *3
1957 34 CHW AL 244 -2 0 0 -1 1 -3 7 2 0.2 1 0.1 0.1 $ 3
1958 35 CHW AL 59 -2 0 0 -1 2 -1 2 0 -0.1 -2 -0.2 0.1 $ 33
1958 35 CIN NL 179 4 -1 1 -1 3 -2 6 10 1.0 7 0.7 0.3 $ 33
1959 36 CIN NL 44 -5 0 -1 0 2 -1 2 -3 -0.4 -5 -0.5 0.1 $ 33/5
1959 36 BAL AL 166 2 0 -2 -1 0 -3 5 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $ 33/5
1960 37 BAL AL 201 0 0 0 -2 0 -3 6 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $ 3/5
1961 38 BAL AL 31 0 0 0 -1 0 -1 1 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $ 3
13 Seasons 4522 -14 -5 -2 -11 -8 -54 128 30 2.5 42 4.3 -1.8 $
BOS (4 yrs) 1196 9 -1 0 0 -10 -12 32 18 1.7 28 2.7 -1.0 $
CHW (4 yrs) 1217 -6 0 2 -5 -3 -16 35 7 0.6 10 1.0 -0.4 $
BAL (3 yrs) 398 2 0 -2 -4 1 -7 12 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $
DET (3 yrs) 1488 -18 -3 -2 -1 -2 -16 41 -3 -0.5 1 0.3 -0.8 $
CIN (2 yrs) 223 -1 -1 0 -1 5 -3 8 7 0.6 2 0.2 0.4 $

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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 BOS AL 26 1B 11 107 103 4 0 13 1.000 9.73 .989 9.77
1950 BOS AL 27 1B 134 1234 1142 77 15 147 .988 9.10 .989 9.37 AS,MVP-6,RoY-1
1951 BOS AL 28 1B 93 953 878 63 12 91 .987 10.12 .990 9.66
1952 TOT AL 29 1B 150 150 143 1319.4 1437 1324 99 14 135 .990 9.71 9.49 .988 69.03 9.62 MVP-26
1952 BOS AL 29 1B 35 35 30 305.2 342 319 21 2 31 .994 10.01 9.71 .988 69.04 9.62
1952 DET AL 29 1B 115 115 113 1013.2 1095 1005 78 12 104 .989 9.62 9.42 .988 69.03 9.62
1953 DET AL 30 1B 150 1401 1260 127 14 121 .990 9.25 .989 9.66
1954 DET AL 31 1B 95 738 681 54 3 60 .996 2 7.74 .990 9.53
1955 CHW AL 32 1B 140 1169 1101 62 6 104 .995 -1 8.31 .991 9.54
1956 CHW AL 33 1B 117 911 855 50 6 95 .993 -5 7.74 .990 9.35
1957 CHW AL 34 1B 69 529 483 39 7 49 .987 1 7.57 .992 9.70
1958 TOT MLB 35 1B 59 433 398 35 0 39 1.000 6 7.34 .990 9.49
1958 CIN NL 35 1B 43 327 300 27 0 31 1.000 3 7.60 .990 9.49
1958 CHW AL 35 1B 16 106 98 8 0 8 1.000 2 6.63 .991 9.50
1959 TOT MLB 36 1B 77 522 489 29 4 53 .992 2 6.73 .990 9.68
1959 BAL AL 36 1B 54 408 386 18 4 42 .990 0 7.48 .990 9.77
1959 CIN NL 36 1B 23 114 103 11 0 11 1.000 2 4.96 .988 9.48
1959 BAL AL 36 3B 2 2 0 2 0 1 1.000 0 1.00 .950 3.20
1960 BAL AL 37 1B 67 427 397 27 3 50 .993 0 6.33 .991 9.56
1960 BAL AL 37 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 3.10
1961 BAL AL 38 1B 12 68 62 6 0 11 1.000 0 5.67 .990 9.34
13 Seasons 1B 1174 150 143 1319.1 9929 9173 672 84 968 .992 5 5 9.71 8.39 .990 69.03 9.55
2 Seasons 3B 3 2 0 2 0 1 1.000 0 0.67 .950 3.17
13 Seasons TOT 1177 150 143 1319.1 9931 9173 674 84 969 .992 5 5 9.71 8.37 .990 69.03 9.54
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1967 BBWAA ( 0.3%)

All-Star Games
1950 (1B)

Awards (yr lg award)
1950 AL Rookie of the Year

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1950 AL (6, 22%)
1952 AL (26, 1%)
0.23 Career Shares (693rd)

Batting Average s c a p y
1950 AL  .322 (8th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1950 AL  .583 (2nd)
1952 AL  .477 (8th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1950 AL  .961 (3rd)

Games Played s c a p y
1952 AL  152 (4th)
1953 AL  152 (8th)

At Bats s c a p y
1952 AL  591 (4th)
1953 AL  606 (6th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1953 AL  645 (10th)

Hits s c a p y
1950 AL  180 (6th)
1952 AL  163 (9th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1950 AL  326 (1st)
1952 AL  282 (3rd)

Doubles s c a p y
1953 AL  30 (9th)

Triples s c a p y
1950 AL  8 (9th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1950 AL  34 (2nd)
1952 AL  29 (4th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1950 AL  144 (1st)
1952 AL  97 (6th)
1953 AL  96 (9th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1950 AL  75 (7th)
1952 AL  85 (6th)
1953 AL  69 (6th)
1955 AL  71 (7th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1950 AL  133 (7th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1950 AL  121 (2nd)
1952 AL  89 (7th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1950 AL  70 (2nd)
1952 AL  57 (4th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1950 AL  .711 (3rd)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1950 AL  5 (9th)
1953 AL  6 (5th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1956 AL  6 (8th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1955 AL  8 (5th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1951 AL  16 (6th)
1952 AL  26 (2nd)
1953 AL  22 (2nd)
Career  166 (194th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1950 AL  16.4 (3rd)
1952 AL  20.4 (7th)
1955 AL  23.8 (10th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1952 AL  457 (6th)
1953 AL  482 (2nd)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
1950 AL  40.48 (3rd)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1950 AL  3.0 (7th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1950 AL  3.1 (5th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1950 AL  3.6 (5th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1950 AL  1,142 (3rd)
1952 AL  1,324 (2nd)
1953 AL  1,260 (3rd)
1954 AL  681 (5th)
1955 AL  1,101 (4th)
1956 AL  855 (5th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1950 AL  134 (3rd)
1952 AL  150 (3rd)
1953 AL  150 (3rd)
1954 AL  95 (5th)
1955 AL  140 (3rd)
1956 AL  117 (3rd)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1950 AL  1,142 (3rd)
1952 AL  1,324 (2nd)
1953 AL  1,260 (3rd)
1954 AL  681 (4th)
1955 AL  1,101 (4th)
1956 AL  855 (4th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1952 AL  99 (3rd)
1953 AL  127 (1st)
1954 AL  54 (5th)
1955 AL  62 (5th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1950 AL  15 (2nd)
1951 AL  12 (3rd)
1952 AL  14 (3rd)
1953 AL  14 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1954 AL  2 (3rd)
1958 NL  3 (3rd)
1959 NL  2 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1951 AL  10.50 (1st)
1952 AL  9.71 (4th)
1955 AL  9.70 (5th)
1956 AL  9.37 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1950 AL  9.10 (5th)
1951 AL  10.12 (1st)
1952 AL  9.49 (3rd)
1953 AL  9.25 (5th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1952 AL  .990 (2nd)
1953 AL  .990 (4th)
1954 AL  .996 (2nd)
1955 AL  .995 (2nd)
1956 AL  .993 (2nd)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 4 (421), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 43 (583), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 18 (860), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 10 (1590), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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