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Frank Duffy

Frank Thomas Duffy

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: October 14, 1946 in Oakland, CA
School: Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 1st round (6th pick) of the 1967 amateur draft (June Secondary). (All Transactions)
Debut: September 4, 1970
Teams (by GP): Indians/RedSox/Giants/Reds 1970-1979

Final Game: May 11, 1979
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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
1970 CIN NL 23 SS 5 2 2 26.0 16 4 12 0 4 1.000 0 9 5.54 3.20 .965 5.05 5.04
1971 TOT NL 24 SS 16 7 5 88.1 67 23 41 3 10 .955 1 15 6.52 4.00 .968 5.14 5.13
1971 CIN NL 24 SS 10 4 3 44.1 36 10 24 2 5 .944 2 54 6.90 3.40 .968 5.14 5.13
1971 SFG NL 24 SS 6 3 2 44.0 31 13 17 1 5 .968 -1 -25 6.14 5.00 .968 5.13 5.13
1971 SFG NL 24 2B 1 0 0 1.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 18.00 2.00 .980 5.40 5.50
1971 SFG NL 24 3B 1 0 0 3.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 80 3.00 1.00 .950 2.70 2.80
1972 CLE AL 25 SS 126 117 99 1030.2 570 197 360 13 75 .977 10 11 4.86 4.42 .967 4.99 4.97
1973 CLE AL 26 SS 115 106 95 965.0 583 198 377 8 82 .986 12 14 5.36 5.00 .963 5.10 5.07
1974 CLE AL 27 SS 158 156 138 1356.0 748 242 491 15 83 .980 12 10 4.87 4.64 .965 4.98 4.96
1975 CLE AL 28 SS 145 137 129 1226.2 705 225 464 16 85 .977 18 18 5.06 4.75 .959 4.85 4.84
1976 CLE AL 29 SS 132 120 99 1065.1 576 222 344 10 83 .983 -0 -0 4.78 4.29 .967 4.99 5.01
1977 CLE AL 30 SS 121 104 82 930.1 461 145 301 15 62 .967 2 3 4.31 3.69 .963 4.82 4.79
1978 BOS AL 31 3B 22 3 3 71.0 25 10 14 1 1 .960 -1 -22 3.04 1.09 .954 3.00 2.98
1978 BOS AL 31 SS 21 19 17 172.2 98 36 55 7 13 .929 -4 -31 4.74 4.33 .964 4.92 4.87
1978 BOS AL 31 2B 12 7 7 71.0 46 17 29 0 5 1.000 1 10 5.83 3.83 .980 5.48 5.42
1978 BOS AL 31 DH 6 0
1979 BOS AL 32 2B 3 0 0 10.0 5 3 2 0 0 1.000 -0 -36 4.50 1.67 .978 5.49 5.43
1979 BOS AL 32 1B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 9.90 10.00
9 Seasons SS 839 768 666 6861.0 3824 1292 2445 87 497 .977 50 9 4.90 4.45 .964 4.96 4.94
2 Seasons 3B 23 3 3 74.0 26 10 15 1 1 .962 -1 -18 3.04 1.09 .954 2.99 2.97
3 Seasons 2B 16 7 7 82.0 53 21 32 0 5 1.000 0 4 5.82 3.31 .980 5.48 5.42
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 9.90 10.00
10 Seasons TOT 879 778 676 7018.0 3903 1323 2492 88 503 .977 49 8 4.89 4.34 .964 4.94 4.90
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
1970 CIN NL 23 SS 0 9 0 -1 1 0
1971 CIN NL 24 SS 2 54 2 1 1 0
1971 SFG NL 24 SS -1 -25 -1 -0 -1 0
1971 SFG NL 24 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1971 SFG NL 24 3B 0 80 0 0 0 0
1972 CLE AL 25 SS 10 11 8 4 4 2
1973 CLE AL 26 SS 12 14 11 1 10 1
1974 CLE AL 27 SS 12 10 13 7 6 -1
1975 CLE AL 28 SS 18 18 18 14 4 0
1976 CLE AL 29 SS -0 -0 -2 0 -3 2
1977 CLE AL 30 SS 2 3 1 0 1 1
1978 BOS AL 31 3B -1 -22 -1 -0 -1 0
1978 BOS AL 31 SS -4 -31 -4 -2 -3 0
1978 BOS AL 31 2B 1 10 1 1 -0 0
1979 BOS AL 32 2B -0 -36 -0 -0 -0 0
1979 BOS AL 32 1B 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons SS 50 9 45 25 20 5
2 Seasons 3B -1 -18 -1 -0 -1 0
3 Seasons 2B 0 4 0 1 -0 0
1 Season 1B 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons TOT 49 8 44 25 19 5

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1970 CIN NL 23 6 2 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1971 SFG NL 24 21 3 21 8 0 0 0 1 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 7 7
1971 CIN NL 24 13 4 13 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
1972 CLE AL 25 130 117 130 126 0 0 0 0 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 5 4
1973 CLE AL 26 116 106 116 115 0 0 0 0 0 115 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1974 CLE AL 27 158 156 158 158 0 0 0 0 0 158 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 CLE AL 28 146 137 146 145 0 0 0 0 0 145 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1976 CLE AL 29 133 120 133 132 0 0 0 0 0 132 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1977 CLE AL 30 122 104 122 121 0 0 0 0 0 121 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
1978 BOS AL 31 64 29 64 55 0 0 0 12 22 21 0 0 0 0 6 3 13
1979 BOS AL 32 6 0 6 4 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
10 Seasons 915 778 915 879 0 0 1 16 23 839 0 0 0 0 6 25 36
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
1970 CIN NL 23 118 72% 83% 25% 15 87% 0 4 1 3 0 14 10 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0
1971 CIN NL 24 190 66% 84% 35% 30 90% 0 10 4 6 0 25 19 6 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 5 2 0 2 1 0 5 2 3 0 0 0
1971 SFG NL 24 193 65% 84% 24% 25 96% 0 14 9 3 2 17 13 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 5 2 0 0 2 0 4 2 2 1 1 0
1972 CLE AL 25 4262 58% 80% 28% 443 96% 1 195 101 75 19 367 285 74 1 3 13 1 8 4 9 75 30 8 20 4 9 72 38 34 1 1 0
1973 CLE AL 26 4197 60% 81% 29% 444 96% 4 198 90 92 16 374 273 87 2 7 8 0 8 0 6 82 38 4 21 3 7 75 44 31 7 4 3
1974 CLE AL 27 5694 59% 84% 29% 590 94% 5 238 113 91 34 487 372 96 3 14 15 0 13 2 10 84 35 5 28 3 2 73 40 33 9 3 6
1975 CLE AL 28 5258 63% 81% 26% 570 96% 5 226 117 72 37 464 340 109 6 10 16 0 15 1 12 86 48 2 21 3 2 79 50 26 6 1 5
1976 CLE AL 29 4469 59% 81% 26% 426 96% 2 218 100 87 31 345 251 83 0 8 10 1 8 1 6 81 34 6 24 1 7 74 40 32 4 1 1
1977 CLE AL 30 3964 53% 81% 27% 350 95% 1 143 59 59 25 302 235 57 0 6 15 0 13 2 12 61 27 4 17 6 1 58 31 24 3 3 0
1978 BOS AL 31 768 55% 86% 26% 76 87% 1 36 18 14 5 54 37 14 0 2 7 1 4 2 5 13 7 0 5 0 0 12 7 5 1 1 0
9 Seasons 29113 59% 82% 27% 2969 95% 19 1282 612 502 169 2449 1835 533 12 51 87 3 70 14 62 495 223 30 139 23 28 454 255 191 33 15 15
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 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%
1971 SFG NL 24 10 60% 100% 20% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1978 BOS AL 31 305 55% 79% 22% 22 95% 0 10 8 0 2 13 10 3 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 315 55% 80% 22% 23 96% 0 10 8 0 2 14 11 3 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 89% 67%

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
1971 SFG NL 24 5 40% 120% 20% 2 100% 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1978 BOS AL 31 315 58% 82% 27% 27 96% 0 16 2 12 2 29 26 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 2 0 0 4 0 4 1 0 0
1979 BOS AL 32 39 41% 92% 18% 4 100% 0 3 2 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 359 56% 84% 26% 33 97% 0 20 5 13 2 32 29 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 2 0 0 4 0 4 1 0 0
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 94%

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%
1979 BOS AL 32 6 67% 67% 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
1 Season 6 67% 67% 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
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 94% 88%

* 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

Assists† s c a p y
1974 AL  491 (5th)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1975 AL  18 (5th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1974 AL  158 (1st)
1975 AL  145 (4th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1974 AL  242 (5th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1974 AL  491 (5th)
1975 AL  464 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1972 AL  10 (3rd)
1973 AL  12 (3rd)
1974 AL  12 (2nd)
1975 AL  18 (2nd)
Career  50 (34th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1973 AL  5.36 (2nd)
1975 AL  5.06 (4th)
Career  4.78 (35th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1973 AL  5.00 (3rd)
1975 AL  4.75 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1972 AL  .977 (3rd)
1973 AL  .986 (1st)
1974 AL  .980 (2nd)
1975 AL  .977 (3rd)
1976 AL  .983 (1st)
Career  .977 (19th)

                                         

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