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Leo Durocher    \du-RO-sher\

Leo Ernest Durocher (Leo The Lip)

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: July 27, 1905 in West Springfield, MA(All Transactions)
Debut: October 2, 1925 (Age 20)
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Reds/Dodgers/Yankees 1925-1945

Final Game: April 18, 1945 (Age 39)
Died: October 7, 1991 in Palm Springs, CA
Buried: Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, CA
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by Veteran's Committee as Manager in 1994.
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Hall of Fame

Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1928 NYY AL 22 2B 66 44 38 306 112 178 16 31 .948 4.39 .963 5.67
1928 NYY AL 22 SS 29 27 27 151 46 96 9 11 .940 4.90 .938 5.11
1929 NYY AL 23 SS 93 90 79 518 197 299 22 59 .958 5.33 .937 5.21
1929 NYY AL 23 2B 12 7 6 61 32 28 1 7 .984 5.00 .968 5.91
1930 CIN NL 24 SS 103 103 77 590 216 350 24 77 .959 5.50 .952 5.78
1930 CIN NL 24 2B 13 9 5 54 24 30 0 5 1.000 4.15 .963 5.94
1931 CIN NL 25 SS 120 114 75 576 212 344 20 86 .965 4.63 .954 5.53
1932 CIN NL 26 SS 142 140 110 742 283 429 30 76 .960 5.01 .946 5.50
1933 TOT NL 27 SS 139 137 111 726 275 422 29 74 .960 5.01 .949 5.40
1933 CIN NL 27 SS 16 16 16 106 37 64 5 10 .953 6.31 .949 5.40
1933 STL NL 27 SS 123 121 95 620 238 358 24 64 .961 4.85 .949 5.40
1934 STL NL 28 SS 146 146 124 760 320 407 33 86 .957 4.98 .951 5.34
1935 STL NL 29 SS 142 139 128 761 313 420 28 81 .963 5.16 .947 5.27
1936 STL NL 30 SS 136 135 123 713 300 392 21 80 .971 5.09 .945 5.43 AS,MVP-10
1937 STL NL 31 SS 134 132 121 688 279 381 28 72 .959 4.93 .951 5.29
1938 BRO NL 32 SS 141 138 118 710 287 399 24 90 .966 4.87 .943 5.34 AS,MVP-18
1939 BRO NL 33 SS 113 112 93 575 228 322 25 73 .957 4.87 .953 5.50 MVP-8
1939 BRO NL 33 3B 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 2.00 .940 3.00 MVP-8
1940 BRO NL 34 SS 53 49 36 243 102 131 10 22 .959 4.40 .950 5.50 AS
1940 BRO NL 34 2B 4 1 1 14 6 7 1 2 .929 3.25 .964 5.60 AS
1941 BRO NL 35 SS 12 9 6 48 16 28 4 3 .917 3.67 .951 5.17
1941 BRO NL 35 2B 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 5.60
1943 BRO NL 37 SS 6 6 4 34 23 11 0 5 1.000 5.67 .954 5.30
1945 BRO NL 39 2B 2 2 1 7 3 4 0 1 1.000 3.50 .967 5.60
15 Seasons SS 1509 1477 1232 7835 3097 4431 307 895 .961 4.99 .948 5.41
6 Seasons 2B 98 63 51 443 178 247 18 46 .959 4.34 .964 5.73
1 Season 3B 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 2.00 .940 3.00
17 Seasons TOT 1608 1540 1283 8280 3275 4680 325 941 .961 4.95 .949 5.42
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% 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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1928 NYY AL 22 2B
1928 NYY AL 22 SS
1929 NYY AL 23 SS
1929 NYY AL 23 2B
1930 CIN NL 24 SS
1930 CIN NL 24 2B
1931 CIN NL 25 SS
1932 CIN NL 26 SS
1933 CIN NL 27 SS
1933 STL NL 27 SS
1934 STL NL 28 SS
1935 STL NL 29 SS
1936 STL NL 30 SS
1937 STL NL 31 SS
1938 BRO NL 32 SS
1939 BRO NL 33 SS
1939 BRO NL 33 3B
1940 BRO NL 34 SS
1940 BRO NL 34 2B
1941 BRO NL 35 SS
1941 BRO NL 35 2B
1943 BRO NL 37 SS
1945 BRO NL 39 2B
15 Seasons SS
6 Seasons 2B
1 Season 3B
17 Seasons TOT
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
1925 NYY AL 19 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1928 NYY AL 22 102 71 102 95 0 0 0 66 0 29 0 0 0 0 0 4 3
1929 NYY AL 23 106 97 106 105 0 0 0 12 0 93 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1930 CIN NL 24 119 112 119 116 0 0 0 13 0 103 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
1931 CIN NL 25 121 115 121 120 0 0 0 0 1 119 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1932 CIN NL 26 143 140 143 142 0 0 0 0 0 142 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1933 STL NL 27 123 121 123 123 0 0 0 0 0 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1933 CIN NL 27 16 16 16 16 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1934 STL NL 28 146 146 146 146 0 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1935 STL NL 29 143 139 143 142 0 0 0 0 0 142 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1936 STL NL 30 136 135 136 136 0 0 0 0 0 136 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1937 STL NL 31 135 132 135 133 0 0 0 0 0 133 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1938 BRO NL 32 141 138 141 141 0 0 0 0 0 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1939 BRO NL 33 116 112 116 114 0 0 0 0 1 113 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1940 BRO NL 34 62 50 62 57 0 0 0 4 0 53 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
1941 BRO NL 35 18 9 18 13 0 0 0 1 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1943 BRO NL 37 6 6 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1945 BRO NL 39 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Seasons 1637 1541 1637 1607 0 0 0 98 2 1507 0 0 0 0 0 16 14
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 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
1945 BRO NL 39 62 60% 82% 19% 6 83% 0 3 1 2 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1 Season 62 60% 82% 19% 6 83% 0 3 1 2 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 61% 85% 26% 92%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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

Hall of Fame
1948 BBWAA ( 0.8%)
1949 BBWAA ( 0.7%)
1952 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1956 BBWAA ( 0.5%)
1958 BBWAA (10.5%)
1960 BBWAA ( 3.7%)
1962 BBWAA ( 0.6%)
1964 BBWAA ( 7.5%)
1964 Run Off ( 1.0%)
1994 Veterans (inducted)
Selected to HOF in 1994
by Veteran's Committee

All-Star Games
1936 (SS)
1938 (SS)
1940

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1936 NL (10, 10%)
1938 NL (18, 2%)
1939 NL (8, 15%)
0.27 Career Shares (647th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1929 AL  93 (5th)
1932 NL  142 (2nd)
1934 NL  146 (2nd)
1935 NL  142 (2nd)
1936 NL  136 (3rd)
1937 NL  134 (3rd)
1938 NL  141 (2nd)
1939 NL  113 (5th)
Career  1,509 (62nd)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1929 AL  197 (5th)
1932 NL  283 (3rd)
1934 NL  320 (3rd)
1935 NL  313 (3rd)
1936 NL  300 (4th)
1937 NL  279 (4th)
1938 NL  287 (3rd)
Career  3,097 (39th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1929 AL  299 (4th)
1932 NL  429 (3rd)
1934 NL  407 (5th)
1935 NL  420 (4th)
1936 NL  392 (3rd)
1937 NL  381 (4th)
1938 NL  399 (5th)
Career  4,431 (66th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1934 NL  33 (5th)
1937 NL  28 (5th)
Career  307 (66th)

Double Plays Turned as SS s c a p y
1929 AL  59 (5th)
1931 NL  86 (5th)
1932 NL  76 (4th)
1934 NL  86 (2nd)
1935 NL  81 (2nd)
1936 NL  80 (3rd)
1937 NL  72 (5th)
1938 NL  90 (2nd)
1939 NL  73 (5th)
Career  895 (52nd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1929 AL  5.33 (2nd)
1935 NL  5.16 (4th)
1937 NL  4.93 (5th)
Career  4.99 (69th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1930 NL  .959 (3rd)
1931 NL  .965 (2nd)
1932 NL  .960 (3rd)
1933 NL  .960 (1st)
1934 NL  .957 (2nd)
1935 NL  .963 (2nd)
1936 NL  .971 (1st)
1937 NL  .959 (2nd)
1938 NL  .966 (1st)
1939 NL  .957 (5th)

Youngest s c a p y
1925 AL  born 1905-07-27 (6th)

             

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