Lonny Frey

Linus Reinhard Frey (Junior)

Positions: Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Frey was a switch-hitter prior to 1939.
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: August 23, 1910 in St. Louis, MO(All Transactions)
Debut: August 29, 1933
Teams (by GP): Reds/Dodgers/Cubs/Giants/Yankees 1933-1948

Final Game: September 28, 1948
Died: September 13, 2009 in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Buried: Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Bellevue, WA
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All-Star

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
1933	BRO	NL	22	SS	34	34	33		173	66	89	18	11	.896		4.56	.949		5.40
1934	BRO	NL	23	SS	109	107	102		642	232	375	35	81	.945		5.57	.951		5.34
1934	BRO	NL	23	3B	13	12	10		43	13	25	5	1	.884		2.92	.945		2.96
1935	BRO	NL	24	SS	127	126	124		696	264	388	44	72	.937		5.13	.947		5.27
1935	BRO	NL	24	2B	4	4	4		23	10	13	0	3	1.000		5.75	.963		5.75
1936	BRO	NL	25	SS	117	116	111		620	238	331	51	52	.918		4.86	.945		5.43
1936	BRO	NL	25	2B	30	26	26		149	64	74	11	12	.926		4.60	.963		5.94
1936	BRO	NL	25	CF	1	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.980		2.80
1936	BRO	NL	25	OF	1	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.970		2.40
1937	CHC	NL	26	SS	30	27	26		128	53	67	8	11	.938		4.00	.951		5.29
1937	CHC	NL	26	2B	13	10	10		57	24	32	1	5	.982		4.31	.959		5.70
1937	CHC	NL	26	3B	9	4	4		9	6	2	1	2	.889		0.89	.954		2.87
1937	CHC	NL	26	OF	5	4	4		7	7	0	0	0	1.000		1.40	.974		2.24
1937	CHC	NL	26	LF	4	4	4		7	7	0	0	0	1.000		1.75	.973		2.10
1937	CHC	NL	26	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.60
1938	CIN	NL	27	2B	121	120	116		693	278	390	25	80	.964		5.52	.969		5.74
1938	CIN	NL	27	SS	3	2	2		16	3	11	2	1	.875		4.67	.943		5.33
1939	CIN	NL	28	2B	124	124	122		754	324	412	18	83	.976		5.94	.968		5.69	AS,MVP-19
1940	CIN	NL	29	2B	150	149	148		899	366	512	21	111	.977		5.85	.964		5.61
1941	CIN	NL	30	2B	145	144	141		796	340	432	24	93	.970		5.32	.962		5.60	AS
1942	CIN	NL	31	2B	140	136	136		782	340	424	18	95	.977		5.46	.968		5.61	MVP-27
1943	CIN	NL	32	2B	144	144	141		873	399	461	13	112	.985		5.97	.969		5.76	AS,MVP-32
1946	CIN	NL	35	2B	65	46	46		354	169	172	13	33	.963		5.25	.970		5.55
1946	CIN	NL	35	OF	28	37	35		47	41	4	2	0	.957		1.61	.977		2.38
1946	CIN	NL	35	RF	24	20	20		44	38	4	2	1	.955		1.75	.976		2.09
1946	CIN	NL	35	CF	14	14	13		34	31	1	2	0	.941		2.29	.979		2.85
1946	CIN	NL	35	LF	4	3	2		7	7	0	0	0	1.000		1.75	.974		2.25
1947	TOT	MLB	36	2B	17	14	13		76	31	42	3	11	.961		4.29	.977		5.52
1947	CHC	NL	36	2B	9	7	6		37	17	20	0	4	1.000		4.11	.975		5.57
1947	NYY	AL	36	2B	8	7	7		39	14	22	3	7	.923		4.50	.978		5.46
1948	NYG	NL	37	2B	13	8	7		50	24	22	4	4	.920		3.54	.971		5.40
	12 Seasons			2B	966	925	910		5506	2369	2986	151	642	.973		5.54	.967		5.66
	6 Seasons			SS	420	412	398		2275	856	1261	158	228	.931		5.04	.948		5.35
	3 Seasons			OF	34	41	39		55	49	4	2	0	.964		1.56	.977		2.36
	1 Season			RF	24	20	20		44	38	4	2	1	.955		1.75	.976		2.09
	2 Seasons			3B	22	16	14		52	19	27	6	3	.885		2.09	.947		2.92
	3 Seasons			CF	16	14	13		35	32	1	2	0	.943		2.06	.979		2.83
	2 Seasons			LF	8	7	6		14	14	0	0	0	1.000		1.75	.974		2.17
	14 Seasons			TOT	1442	1394	1361		7888	3293	4278	317	873	.960		5.25	.961		5.45
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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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
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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
1933	BRO	NL	22	SS
1934	BRO	NL	23	SS
1934	BRO	NL	23	3B
1935	BRO	NL	24	SS
1935	BRO	NL	24	2B
1936	BRO	NL	25	SS
1936	BRO	NL	25	2B
1936	BRO	NL	25	CF
1937	CHC	NL	26	SS
1937	CHC	NL	26	2B
1937	CHC	NL	26	3B
1937	CHC	NL	26	LF
1937	CHC	NL	26	CF
1938	CIN	NL	27	2B
1938	CIN	NL	27	SS
1939	CIN	NL	28	2B
1940	CIN	NL	29	2B
1941	CIN	NL	30	2B
1942	CIN	NL	31	2B
1943	CIN	NL	32	2B
1946	CIN	NL	35	2B
1946	CIN	NL	35	RF
1946	CIN	NL	35	CF
1946	CIN	NL	35	LF
1947	CHC	NL	36	2B
1947	NYY	AL	36	2B
1948	NYG	NL	37	2B
	12 Seasons			2B
	6 Seasons			SS
	1 Season			RF
	2 Seasons			3B
	3 Seasons			CF
	2 Seasons			LF
	14 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	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1933	BRO	NL	22	34	34	34	34	0	0	34	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934	BRO	NL	23	125	119	125	120	0	13	110	0	0	0	0	4	1
1935	BRO	NL	24	131	130	131	131	4	0	127	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936	BRO	NL	25	148	142	148	144	30	0	117	0	1	0	1	3	1
1937	CHC	NL	26	78	45	78	57	12	9	32	4	1	0	5	21	1
1938	CIN	NL	27	124	122	124	123	121	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0
1939	CIN	NL	28	125	124	125	124	124	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1940	CIN	NL	29	150	149	150	150	150	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941	CIN	NL	30	146	144	146	145	145	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1942	CIN	NL	31	141	136	141	140	140	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1943	CIN	NL	32	144	144	144	144	144	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946	CIN	NL	35	111	83	111	92	52	0	0	4	14	24	41	19	0
1947	CHC	NL	36	24	7	24	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	2
1947	NYY	AL	36	24	7	24	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	10
1948	NYG	NL	37	29	8	29	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	2
1948	NYY	AL	37	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	14 Seasons			1535	1394	1535	1434	952	22	423	8	16	24	47	87	18

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 -- 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
1948	NYG	NL	37	180	61%	84%	27%	23	87%	0	9	4	3	2	17	13	3	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	3	0	0	1	1	3	2	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			180	61%	84%	27%	23	87%	0	9	4	3	2	17	13	3	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	3	0	0	1	1	3	2	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		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 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 1939 (2B) 1941 (2B) 1943 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1939 NL (19, 2%) 1942 NL (27, 1%) 1943 NL (32, 0%) 0.03 Career Shares (1251st)	Assists† s c a p y 1940 NL 512 (2nd) 1943 NL 461 (4th)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1934 NL 40 (5th) 1935 NL 44 (1st) 1936 NL 62 (1st)
Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1938 NL 121 (5th) 1939 NL 124 (2nd) 1940 NL 150 (1st) 1941 NL 145 (1st) 1942 NL 140 (3rd) 1943 NL 144 (2nd)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1938 NL 278 (5th) 1939 NL 324 (2nd) 1940 NL 366 (1st) 1941 NL 340 (3rd) 1942 NL 340 (3rd) 1943 NL 399 (2nd)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1938 NL 390 (5th) 1939 NL 412 (2nd) 1940 NL 512 (1st) 1941 NL 432 (2nd) 1942 NL 424 (2nd) 1943 NL 461 (2nd)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1938 NL 25 (3rd) 1939 NL 18 (4th) 1940 NL 21 (5th)
Def. Games as SS s c a p y 1936 NL 117 (5th)	Putouts as SS s c a p y 1935 NL 264 (4th)	Assists as SS s c a p y 1935 NL 388 (5th)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1934 NL 35 (4th) 1935 NL 44 (1st) 1936 NL 51 (1st)
Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1938 NL 5.52 (4th) 1939 NL 5.94 (2nd) 1940 NL 5.85 (2nd) 1942 NL 5.46 (3rd) 1943 NL 5.97 (1st) Career 5.54 (48th)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1939 NL .976 (2nd) 1940 NL .977 (2nd) 1941 NL .970 (2nd) 1942 NL .977 (2nd) 1943 NL .985 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 1934 NL 5.57 (3rd) 1935 NL 5.13 (5th)	Oldest s c a p y 1948 AL born 1910-08-23 (9th)

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