Joe Gordon

Joseph Lowell Gordon (Flash)

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: February 18, 1915 in Los Angeles, CA
High School: Jefferson HS (Portland, OR)
School: University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1936. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1938 (Age 23)
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Indians 1938-1950

Final Game: September 30, 1950 (Age 35)
Died: April 14, 1978 in Sacramento, CA
Cremated
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by Veteran's Committee as Player in 2009.
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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
1938	NYY	AL	23	2B	126	126	123		771	290	450	31	98	.960		5.87	.967		5.52	MVP-12
1939	NYY	AL	24	2B	151	151	150		859	370	461	28	116	.967		5.50	.965		5.56	AS,MVP-9
1940	NYY	AL	25	2B	155	155	155		902	374	505	23	116	.975		5.67	.969		5.39	AS,MVP-23
1941	NYY	AL	26	2B	131	130	125		761	332	397	32	109	.958		5.56	.967		5.47	AS,MVP-7
1941	NYY	AL	26	1B	30	26	25		245	224	17	4	35	.984		8.03	.990		9.92	AS,MVP-7
1942	NYY	AL	27	2B	147	147	145		824	354	442	28	121	.966		5.41	.969		5.62	AS,MVP-1
1943	NYY	AL	28	2B	152	152	151		926	407	490	29	114	.969		5.90	.969		5.57	AS,MVP-25
1946	NYY	AL	31	2B	108	106	103		644	281	346	17	87	.974		5.81	.970		5.54	AS
1947	CLE	AL	32	2B	155	154	146		825	341	466	18	110	.978		5.21	.978		5.46	AS,MVP-7
1948	CLE	AL	33	2B	144	143	134		789	330	436	23	97	.971		5.32	.976		5.62	AS,MVP-6
1948	CLE	AL	33	SS	2	0	0		5	2	3	0	1	1.000		2.50	.964		5.15	AS,MVP-6
1949	CLE	AL	34	2B	145	145	140		742	297	430	15	123	.980		5.01	.974		5.49	AS
1950	CLE	AL	35	2B	105	102	92	884.2	523	224	283	16	69	.969	5.16	4.83	.976	5.86	5.76
	11 Seasons			2B	1519	1511	1464	884.2	8566	3600	4706	260	1160	.970	5.16	5.47	.971	5.86	5.54
	1 Season			1B	30	26	25		245	224	17	4	35	.984		8.03	.990		9.92
	1 Season			SS	2	0	0		5	2	3	0	1	1.000		2.50	.964		5.15
	11 Seasons			TOT	1551	1537	1489	884.2	8816	3826	4726	264	1196	.970	5.16	5.51	.971	5.86	5.62

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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-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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos
1938	NYY	AL	23	2B
1939	NYY	AL	24	2B
1940	NYY	AL	25	2B
1941	NYY	AL	26	2B
1941	NYY	AL	26	1B
1942	NYY	AL	27	2B
1943	NYY	AL	28	2B
1946	NYY	AL	31	2B
1947	CLE	AL	32	2B
1948	CLE	AL	33	2B
1948	CLE	AL	33	SS
1949	CLE	AL	34	2B
1950	CLE	AL	35	2B
	11 Seasons			2B
	1 Season			1B
	1 Season			SS
	11 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	2B	SS	PH	PR
1938	NYY	AL	23	127	126	127	126	0	126	0	1	0
1939	NYY	AL	24	151	151	151	151	0	151	0	0	0
1940	NYY	AL	25	155	155	155	155	0	155	0	0	0
1941	NYY	AL	26	156	156	156	156	30	131	0	0	0
1942	NYY	AL	27	147	147	147	147	0	147	0	0	0
1943	NYY	AL	28	152	152	152	152	0	152	0	0	0
1946	NYY	AL	31	112	107	112	108	0	107	1	4	0
1947	CLE	AL	32	155	154	155	155	0	155	0	0	0
1948	CLE	AL	33	144	143	144	144	0	144	2	1	0
1949	CLE	AL	34	148	145	148	145	0	145	0	3	0
1950	CLE	AL	35	119	102	119	105	0	105	0	14	1
	11 Seasons			1566	1538	1566	1544	30	1518	3	23	1

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
1946	NYY	AL	31	390	54%	81%	28%	41	95%	0	31	8	16	7	39	28	8	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	14	4	2	5	0	11	5	6	2	1	1
1947	CLE	AL	32	5731	54%	81%	27%	536	97%	3	344	134	138	72	456	378	64	4	4	18	0	18	0	17	112	40	16	38	5	103	43	57	8	4	3
1948	CLE	AL	33	5379	57%	81%	28%	507	95%	3	328	127	151	50	432	350	62	3	6	23	1	21	1	20	98	33	15	26	3	86	31	52	11	8	2
1949	CLE	AL	34	5476	53%	81%	28%	516	88%	2	303	108	129	66	432	347	72	2	3	15	0	15	0	14	123	45	20	34	3	107	38	67	13	7	6
1950	CLE	AL	35	3833	58%	80%	26%	359	90%	1	220	88	100	32	279	222	48	0	2	16	1	15	0	13	69	21	11	26	1	62	27	34	4	2	2
	5 Seasons			20809	55%	81%	27%	1959	93%	9	1226	465	534	227	1638	1325	254	9	16	73	2	69	2	64	416	143	64	129	12	369	144	216	38	22	14
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	27%		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
1948	CLE	AL	33	20	45%	80%	35%	3	100%	0	2	1	1	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	1 Season			20	45%	80%	35%	3	100%	0	2	1	1	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	27%		91%

* 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 1945 BBWAA ( 0.4%) 1955 BBWAA ( 0.4%) 1956 BBWAA ( 2.1%) 1958 BBWAA ( 4.1%) 1960 BBWAA ( 4.1%) 1962 BBWAA ( 2.5%) 1964 BBWAA (14.9%) 1964 Run Off ( 0.5%) 1966 BBWAA (10.3%) 1967 BBWAA (22.6%) 1967 Run Off ( 4.2%) 1968 BBWAA (27.2%) 1969 BBWAA (28.5%) 1970 BBWAA (26.3%) 2009 Veterans (inducted) Selected to HOF in 2009 by Veteran's Committee	All-Star Games 1939 (2B) 1940 (2B) 1941 * 1942 (2B) 1943 1946 * 1947 (2B) 1948 (2B) 1949 *	Awards (yr lg award) 1942 AL MVP	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1938 AL (12, 7%) 1939 AL (9, 13%) 1940 AL (23, 1%) 1941 AL (7, 18%) 1942 AL (1, 80%) 1943 AL (25, 1%) 1947 AL (7, 18%) 1948 AL (6, 19%) 1 MVP 1.57 Career Shares (139th)
Assists† s c a p y 1938 AL 450 (4th) 1939 AL 461 (1st) 1940 AL 505 (1st) 1942 AL 442 (5th) 1943 AL 490 (2nd) 1947 AL 466 (3rd)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1941 AL 36 (4th)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1938 AL 126 (5th) 1939 AL 151 (1st) 1940 AL 155 (1st) 1941 AL 131 (5th) 1942 AL 147 (1st) 1943 AL 152 (3rd) 1946 AL 108 (4th) 1947 AL 155 (1st) 1948 AL 144 (4th) 1949 AL 145 (2nd) Career 1,519 (32nd)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1939 AL 370 (1st) 1940 AL 374 (2nd) 1941 AL 332 (3rd) 1942 AL 354 (3rd) 1943 AL 407 (2nd) 1946 AL 281 (4th) 1947 AL 341 (3rd) 1949 AL 297 (5th) Career 3,600 (28th)
Assists as 2B s c a p y 1938 AL 450 (2nd) 1939 AL 461 (1st) 1940 AL 505 (1st) 1941 AL 397 (3rd) 1942 AL 442 (3rd) 1943 AL 490 (1st) 1946 AL 346 (4th) 1947 AL 466 (1st) 1948 AL 436 (4th) 1949 AL 430 (3rd) Career 4,706 (28th)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1938 AL 31 (1st) 1939 AL 28 (2nd) 1940 AL 23 (3rd) 1941 AL 32 (1st) 1942 AL 28 (1st) 1943 AL 29 (1st) 1946 AL 17 (3rd) 1947 AL 18 (2nd) 1948 AL 23 (3rd) 1949 AL 15 (5th) Career 260 (47th)	Double Plays Turned as 2B s c a p y 1938 AL 98 (4th) 1939 AL 116 (1st) 1940 AL 116 (2nd) 1941 AL 109 (1st) 1942 AL 121 (1st) 1943 AL 114 (3rd) 1946 AL 87 (4th) 1947 AL 110 (2nd) 1948 AL 97 (5th) 1949 AL 123 (3rd) Career 1,160 (17th)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1938 AL 5.87 (1st) 1939 AL 5.50 (3rd) 1940 AL 5.67 (3rd) 1941 AL 5.56 (2nd) 1942 AL 5.42 (5th) 1943 AL 5.90 (1st) 1946 AL 5.81 (3rd) 1947 AL 5.21 (5th) 1948 AL 5.32 (5th) Career 5.47 (56th)
Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1939 AL .967 (4th) 1940 AL .975 (4th) 1942 AL .966 (5th) 1943 AL .969 (5th) 1946 AL .974 (2nd) 1948 AL .971 (5th) 1949 AL .980 (4th)

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