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Owen Friend

Owen Lacey Friend (Red)

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: March 21, 1927 in Granite City, IL
High School: Granite City HS (Granite City, IL)
Signed by the St. Louis Browns as an amateur free agent in 1944. (All Transactions)
Debut: October 2, 1949
Teams (by GP): Browns/Indians/Tigers/RedSox/Cubs 1949-1956

Final Game: May 16, 1956
Died: October 14, 2007 in Wichita, KS
Cremated
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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
1949 SLB AL 22 2B 2 2 2 12 4 8 0 1 1.000 6.00 .974 5.50
1950 SLB AL 23 2B 93 86 76 740.1 568 244 302 22 62 .961 6.64 5.87 .976 5.86 5.76
1950 SLB AL 23 3B 24 25 21 218.0 63 24 32 7 4 .889 2.31 2.33 .960 3.25 3.20
1950 SLB AL 23 SS 3 1 1 10.2 10 3 6 1 2 .900 7.59 3.00 .961 5.06 4.97
1953 TOT AL 26 2B 45 40 32 354.0 225 106 111 8 36 .964 -8 -27 5.52 4.82 .979 5.60 5.57
1953 DET AL 26 2B 26 26 23 230.0 151 74 69 8 22 .947 -8 -42 5.60 5.50 .979 5.60 5.57
1953 CLE AL 26 2B 19 14 9 124.0 74 32 42 0 14 1.000 0 0 5.37 3.89 .979 5.60 5.57
1953 CLE AL 26 SS 8 3 3 34.0 21 6 15 0 2 1.000 2 71 5.56 2.63 .966 5.11 5.08
1953 CLE AL 26 3B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 3.60 3.40
1955 TOT MLB 28 SS 15 14 10 111.2 62 21 38 3 5 .952 -0 -1 4.76 3.93 .959 4.93 4.90
1955 BOS AL 28 SS 14 14 10 109.2 61 20 38 3 5 .951 -0 -1 4.76 4.14 .959 4.93 4.89
1955 BOS AL 28 2B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.30
1955 CHC NL 28 3B 2 2 2 16.0 4 2 2 0 0 1.000 0 38 2.25 2.00 .950 3.15 3.10
1955 CHC NL 28 SS 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 4.50 1.00 .960 4.95 5.00
4 Seasons 2B 141 128 110 1096.1 805 354 421 30 99 .963 -8 -9 6.26 5.50 .977 5.78 5.69
3 Seasons 3B 27 27 23 235.0 67 26 34 7 4 .896 0 3 2.30 2.22 .959 3.24 3.20
3 Seasons SS 26 18 14 156.1 93 30 59 4 9 .957 2 15 5.12 3.42 .961 4.98 4.96
5 Seasons TOT 194 173 147 1487.2 965 410 514 41 112 .958 -6 -5 5.52 4.76 .974 5.29 5.25
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
1949 SLB AL 22 2B
1950 SLB AL 23 2B
1950 SLB AL 23 3B
1950 SLB AL 23 SS
1953 DET AL 26 2B -8 -42 -8 -6 -2 0
1953 CLE AL 26 2B 0 0 -1 0 -1 1
1953 CLE AL 26 SS 2 71 2 2 0 0
1953 CLE AL 26 3B 0 0 0 0 0
1955 BOS AL 28 SS -0 -1 1 0 1 -1
1955 BOS AL 28 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 CHC NL 28 3B 0 38 0 0 0 0
1955 CHC NL 28 SS
4 Seasons 2B -8 -9 -9 -6 -3 1
3 Seasons 3B 0 3 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons SS 2 15 3 2 1 -1
5 Seasons TOT -6 -5 -6 -4 -2 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1949 SLB AL 22 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1950 SLB AL 23 119 112 119 118 0 0 0 88 29 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1953 CLE AL 26 34 17 34 28 0 0 0 19 1 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 6
1953 DET AL 26 31 26 31 26 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
1955 BOS AL 28 14 14 14 14 0 0 0 1 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 CHC NL 28 6 2 6 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1956 CHC NL 29 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
5 Seasons 208 173 208 191 0 0 0 136 32 26 0 0 0 0 0 9 9
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
1950 SLB AL 23 2272 57% 84% 25% 237 91% 2 155 57 78 20 194 168 20 0 3 13 1 10 2 7 42 15 12 7 3 40 10 30 2 1 0
1953 DET AL 26 1050 65% 84% 25% 85 91% 0 75 22 30 25 69 56 11 0 3 8 2 6 0 5 22 6 6 7 2 21 9 12 1 0 1
1953 CLE AL 26 543 59% 81% 29% 47 85% 0 33 10 17 6 41 34 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 8 2 3 1 14 4 10 0 0 0
1955 BOS AL 28 8 63% 100% 25% 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
3 Seasons 3873 59% 84% 26% 369 90% 2 263 89 125 51 304 258 37 0 7 21 3 16 2 12 78 29 20 17 6 75 23 52 3 1 1
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 93%

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
1950 SLB AL 23 9 56% 100% 33% 1 100% 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 CLE AL 26 140 71% 83% 30% 17 100% 0 6 4 1 1 14 11 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1955 BOS AL 28 468 69% 77% 25% 50 88% 0 19 12 5 2 38 27 9 0 0 3 0 3 0 3 5 1 0 1 2 0 5 1 4 0 0 0
1955 CHC NL 28 9 67% 100% 22% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 626 69% 79% 26% 69 91% 0 26 16 7 3 54 39 13 0 0 3 0 3 0 3 7 2 0 2 2 0 7 2 5 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 90%

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%
1950 SLB AL 23 711 63% 80% 19% 49 82% 0 21 15 4 2 27 19 6 0 1 7 0 7 0 5 3 2 1 3 0 0 0 3 33%
1953 CLE AL 26 5 60% 100% 40% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 CHC NL 28 32 59% 91% 41% 4 100% 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 748 63% 80% 20% 53 83% 0 23 17 4 2 29 19 8 0 1 7 0 7 0 5 3 2 1 3 0 0 0 3 33%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 89% 67%

* 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

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1950 AL  30 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1950 AL  22 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1950 AL  6.64 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1950 AL  5.87 (2nd)

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