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Oscar Grimes

Oscar Ray Grimes Jr.

Positions: Third Baseman, Second Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 178 lb.

Born: April 13, 1915 in Minerva, OH (All Transactions)
Debut: September 28, 1938
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Indians/Athletics 1938-1946

Final Game: September 25, 1946
Died: May 19, 1993 in Westlake, OH
Buried: Sunset Memorial Park, North Olmsted, OH
Relatives: Son of Ray Grimes and Nephew of Roy Grimes
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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
1938 CLE AL 23 2B 2 2 2 5 3 2 0 1 1.000 2.50 .968 5.50
1938 CLE AL 23 1B 1 1 1 7 7 0 0 1 1.000 7.00 .990 9.80
1939 CLE AL 24 2B 48 45 28 218 102 109 7 21 .968 4.40 .965 5.56
1939 CLE AL 24 1B 43 36 35 362 341 17 4 36 .989 8.33 .990 9.64
1939 CLE AL 24 SS 37 22 20 135 58 66 11 18 .919 3.35 .950 5.16
1939 CLE AL 24 3B 3 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 1.000 1.33 .942 3.13
1940 CLE AL 25 1B 4 2 1 24 21 2 1 2 .958 5.75 .989 9.80
1940 CLE AL 25 3B 1 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 1.000 4.00 .938 3.20
1941 CLE AL 26 1B 62 60 56 578 544 31 3 53 .995 9.27 .990 9.92
1941 CLE AL 26 2B 13 11 10 61 28 31 2 7 .967 4.54 .967 5.47
1941 CLE AL 26 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.30
1942 CLE AL 27 2B 24 15 12 90 46 39 5 10 .944 3.54 .969 5.62
1942 CLE AL 27 3B 8 5 4 18 5 12 1 1 .944 2.13 .939 3.16
1942 CLE AL 27 1B 1 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 4.00 .990 10.10
1942 CLE AL 27 SS 1 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 .333 1.00 .950 5.00
1943 NYY AL 28 SS 3 3 3 9 2 7 0 3 1.000 3.00 .953 5.13
1943 NYY AL 28 1B 1 1 1 9 8 1 0 3 1.000 9.00 .991 10.00
1944 NYY AL 29 3B 97 95 94 311 105 189 17 14 .945 3.03 .954 3.34
1944 NYY AL 29 SS 20 17 15 99 35 57 7 10 .929 4.60 .947 5.29
1945 NYY AL 30 3B 141 141 138 489 162 296 31 35 .937 3.25 .948 3.16
1945 NYY AL 30 1B 1 0 0 5 4 1 0 0 1.000 5.00 .988 10.10
1946 TOT AL 31 2B 48 45 44 235 109 116 10 32 .957 4.69 .970 5.54
1946 TOT AL 31 SS 11 11 11 55 27 20 8 4 .855 4.27 .954 4.97
1946 NYY AL 31 SS 7 7 7 38 20 14 4 3 .895 4.86 .954 4.97
1946 NYY AL 31 2B 5 4 4 23 11 11 1 2 .957 4.40 .970 5.54
1946 PHA AL 31 2B 43 41 40 212 98 105 9 30 .958 4.72 .970 5.54
1946 PHA AL 31 3B 6 6 6 27 6 19 2 0 .926 4.17 .948 3.07
1946 PHA AL 31 SS 4 4 4 17 7 6 4 1 .765 3.25 .954 4.97
7 Seasons 3B 257 247 242 853 281 521 51 50 .940 3.12 .950 3.23
5 Seasons 2B 135 118 96 609 288 297 24 71 .961 4.33 .968 5.55
7 Seasons 1B 113 100 94 989 929 52 8 95 .992 8.68 .990 9.81
5 Seasons SS 72 53 49 301 122 151 28 35 .907 3.79 .950 5.16
9 Seasons TOT 577 518 481 2752 1620 1021 111 251 .960 4.58 .968 5.30
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-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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1938 CLE AL 23 4 3 4 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1939 CLE AL 24 119 103 119 115 0 0 43 49 3 36 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1940 CLE AL 25 11 2 11 5 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5
1941 CLE AL 26 77 71 77 74 0 0 62 13 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1942 CLE AL 27 51 20 51 33 0 0 1 24 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 7
1943 NYY AL 28 9 4 9 4 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1944 NYY AL 29 116 112 116 115 0 0 0 0 97 20 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1945 NYY AL 30 142 141 142 141 0 0 1 0 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1946 PHA AL 31 59 51 59 53 0 0 0 43 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1946 NYY AL 31 14 11 14 12 0 0 0 5 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
9 Seasons 602 518 602 555 0 0 113 136 257 71 0 0 0 0 0 34 15
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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1945--not played

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1945 AL  31 (5th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1945 AL  141 (2nd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1945 AL  162 (2nd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1945 AL  296 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1945 AL  31 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1945 AL  3.25 (2nd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1945 AL  .937 (4th)

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