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Dick Groat

Richard Morrow Groat

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: November 4, 1930 in Wilkinsburg, PA
High School: Swissvale HS (Swissvale, PA)
School: Duke University (Durham, NC)
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1952. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 19, 1952 (Age 21)
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Cardinals/Phillies/Giants 1952-1967

Final Game: October 1, 1967 (Age 36)
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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
1952 PIT NL 21 SS 94 94 93 819.2 526 229 272 25 61 .952 5.50 5.33 .960 5.04 5.00 RoY-3
1955 PIT NL 24 SS 149 148 138 1288.0 812 330 450 32 107 .961 1 1 5.45 5.23 .964 5.02 4.98
1956 PIT NL 25 SS 141 136 129 1205.0 741 287 420 34 74 .954 -1 -1 5.28 5.01 .962 4.94 4.89
1956 PIT NL 25 3B 2 2 1 14.0 5 1 4 0 1 1.000 1 60 3.21 2.50 .956 3.02 3.00
1957 PIT NL 26 SS 123 122 117 1080.0 626 226 380 20 74 .968 6 7 5.05 4.93 .958 4.82 4.85 MVP-15
1957 PIT NL 26 3B 2 2 1 19.0 6 0 5 1 0 .833 -1 -69 2.37 2.50 .952 2.94 3.00 MVP-15
1958 PIT NL 27 SS 149 149 149 1322.0 788 307 461 20 127 .975 7 6 5.23 5.15 .964 5.11 5.08
1959 PIT NL 28 SS 145 145 145 1302.0 803 301 473 29 97 .964 -1 -1 5.35 5.34 .966 5.11 5.06 AS
1960 PIT NL 29 SS 136 136 132 1208.1 704 237 443 24 92 .966 16 16 5.06 5.00 .960 4.81 4.80 AS,MVP-1
1961 PIT NL 30 SS 144 143 142 1255.2 740 235 473 32 117 .957 1 1 5.07 4.92 .959 4.92 4.87
1961 PIT NL 30 3B 1 1 1 9.0 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 0 53 3.00 3.00 .947 2.90 2.90
1962 PIT NL 31 SS 161 161 160 1430.1 873 314 521 38 126 .956 5 4 5.25 5.19 .963 5.05 5.01 AS,MVP-16
1963 STL NL 32 SS 158 157 138 1366.1 731 257 448 26 91 .964 8 7 4.64 4.46 .961 4.83 4.82 AS,MVP-2
1964 STL NL 33 SS 160 160 130 1373.0 788 249 499 40 91 .949 -4 -4 4.90 4.68 .963 5.03 5.00 AS
1965 STL NL 34 SS 148 144 134 1281.0 719 242 450 27 86 .962 8 7 4.86 4.68 .964 4.92 4.93
1965 STL NL 34 3B 2 3 2 26.0 5 0 5 0 1 1.000 -0 -5 1.73 2.50 .952 2.80 2.80
1966 PHI NL 35 SS 139 133 114 1184.0 733 260 454 19 79 .974 6 6 5.43 5.14 .964 4.96 4.96
1966 PHI NL 35 3B 20 19 13 146.0 56 18 37 1 2 .982 1 11 3.39 2.75 .954 3.04 3.04
1966 PHI NL 35 1B 1 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 9.90
1967 TOT NL 36 SS 30 20 14 193.2 106 31 67 8 15 .925 -1 -4 4.55 3.27 .963 4.99 4.99
1967 PHI NL 36 SS 6 6 5 51.0 38 13 23 2 5 .947 2 35 6.35 6.00 .963 4.99 4.98
1967 SFG NL 36 SS 24 14 9 142.2 68 18 44 6 10 .912 -2 -19 3.91 2.58 .963 4.99 4.99
1967 SFG NL 36 2B 1 0 0 1.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -120 9.00 1.00 .980 5.40 5.30
14 Seasons SS 1877 1848 1735 16309.0 9690 3505 5811 374 1237 .961 51 4 5.14 4.96 .962 4.97 4.94
5 Seasons 3B 27 27 18 214.0 75 21 52 2 4 .973 1 7 3.07 2.70 .953 2.99 3.01
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 9.90
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 1.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -120 9.00 1.00 .980 5.40 5.30
14 Seasons TOT 1906 1875 1753 16524.0 9766 3526 5864 376 1241 .961 53 4 5.11 4.93 .962 4.94 4.92
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr 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
1952 PIT NL 21 SS
1955 PIT NL 24 SS 1 1 -0 -2 2 1
1956 PIT NL 25 SS -1 -1 0 1 -0 -1
1956 PIT NL 25 3B 1 60 1 0 1 0
1957 PIT NL 26 SS 6 7 5 8 -2 1
1957 PIT NL 26 3B -1 -69 -1 -1 0 0
1958 PIT NL 27 SS 7 6 5 4 1 2
1959 PIT NL 28 SS -1 -1 -3 -2 -1 2
1960 PIT NL 29 SS 16 16 15 7 8 1
1961 PIT NL 30 SS 1 1 -2 -3 1 3
1961 PIT NL 30 3B 0 53 0 0 0 0
1962 PIT NL 31 SS 5 4 3 8 -6 2
1963 STL NL 32 SS 8 7 8 -1 9 0
1964 STL NL 33 SS -4 -4 -4 -2 -1 -1
1965 STL NL 34 SS 8 7 8 -0 8 0
1965 STL NL 34 3B -0 -5 -0 -0 0 0
1966 PHI NL 35 SS 6 6 7 10 -3 -1
1966 PHI NL 35 3B 1 11 1 -0 2 0
1966 PHI NL 35 1B
1967 PHI NL 36 SS 2 35 2 1 0 0
1967 SFG NL 36 SS -2 -19 -2 -2 -0 0
1967 SFG NL 36 2B -0 -120 -0 0 -0 0
14 Seasons SS 51 4 42 26 17 9
5 Seasons 3B 1 7 1 -2 3 0
1 Season 1B
1 Season 2B -0 -120 -0 0 -0 0
14 Seasons TOT 53 4 44 24 19 9
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
1952 PIT NL 21 95 94 95 94 0 0 0 0 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1955 PIT NL 24 151 148 151 149 0 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1956 PIT NL 25 142 138 142 142 0 0 0 0 2 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 PIT NL 26 125 124 125 125 0 0 0 0 2 124 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1958 PIT NL 27 151 149 151 149 0 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1959 PIT NL 28 147 145 147 145 0 0 0 0 0 145 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1960 PIT NL 29 138 136 138 136 0 0 0 0 0 136 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1961 PIT NL 30 148 144 148 145 0 0 0 0 1 144 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1962 PIT NL 31 161 161 161 161 0 0 0 0 0 161 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1963 STL NL 32 158 157 158 158 0 0 0 0 0 158 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1964 STL NL 33 161 160 161 160 0 0 0 0 0 160 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1965 STL NL 34 153 147 153 150 0 0 0 0 3 147 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1966 PHI NL 35 155 152 155 155 0 0 1 0 20 139 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1967 SFG NL 36 34 14 34 24 0 0 0 1 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1967 PHI NL 36 10 6 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
14 Seasons 1929 1875 1929 1899 0 0 1 1 28 1877 0 0 0 0 0 37 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 -- 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
1952 PIT NL 21 2362 60% 84% 26% 251 90% 2 136 63 55 18 184 140 37 2 6 20 2 11 7 15 41 17 2 10 4 2 35 19 16 4 0 4
1955 PIT NL 24 4050 60% 82% 27% 392 91% 4 218 88 109 21 336 248 67 1 14 25 2 18 5 18 97 32 4 29 9 7 87 36 46 9 3 5
1956 PIT NL 25 3864 58% 83% 27% 428 91% 2 208 106 82 20 314 252 50 1 10 28 2 21 5 20 65 24 5 18 5 2 56 29 25 5 1 4
1957 PIT NL 26 4091 59% 83% 28% 438 91% 3 194 90 87 17 347 276 62 0 9 19 0 13 6 16 65 16 1 28 5 5 61 17 40 4 2 2
1958 PIT NL 27 5444 59% 82% 27% 553 93% 6 301 134 141 26 448 344 86 1 8 20 1 16 3 17 125 38 7 48 13 5 117 46 66 5 4 1
1959 PIT NL 28 5376 59% 83% 27% 583 92% 4 280 143 112 25 449 340 94 1 10 29 1 24 4 23 93 31 8 34 6 2 81 39 42 10 6 4
1960 PIT NL 29 5030 61% 81% 29% 597 90% 5 237 131 83 23 440 313 111 2 10 24 0 16 8 20 95 55 3 15 5 3 88 60 26 3 0 3
1961 PIT NL 30 5322 65% 82% 29% 595 88% 4 236 107 104 24 469 322 133 1 9 33 0 26 7 30 117 59 6 30 5 5 109 65 41 7 3 3
1962 PIT NL 31 6019 61% 80% 30% 671 90% 3 305 140 138 27 519 369 136 1 13 38 2 30 6 31 125 58 5 33 7 5 115 65 47 9 4 5
1963 STL NL 32 5718 63% 79% 26% 590 94% 10 260 140 95 25 455 350 90 3 5 26 2 19 5 22 90 41 11 22 6 3 84 52 32 2 1 1
1964 STL NL 33 5778 67% 81% 30% 634 90% 7 248 124 96 28 492 372 101 5 5 39 0 35 4 37 91 44 1 21 9 6 83 46 36 7 3 3
1965 STL NL 34 5407 62% 80% 27% 553 92% 4 236 96 118 22 460 356 87 0 7 27 1 22 4 20 87 36 4 28 5 5 80 41 38 6 3 3
1966 PHI NL 35 4976 64% 80% 32% 568 91% 3 260 104 121 35 452 367 67 2 3 19 0 17 2 13 80 27 9 27 4 2 71 37 33 6 3 3
1967 SFG NL 36 581 71% 75% 28% 55 84% 0 19 7 11 1 47 36 9 0 0 6 0 5 1 5 10 4 1 4 1 0 10 5 5 0 0 0
1967 PHI NL 36 205 69% 84% 33% 27 96% 0 13 5 5 3 22 20 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 5 1 3 1 0 0 5 4 1 0 0 0
14 Seasons 64223 62% 81% 28% 6935 91% 57 3151 1478 1357 315 5434 4105 1132 20 109 355 13 275 67 288 1186 483 70 348 84 52 1082 561 494 77 33 41
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 91%

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%
1956 PIT NL 25 56 52% 84% 30% 5 100% 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1957 PIT NL 26 92 76% 82% 20% 7 71% 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1961 PIT NL 30 36 50% 81% 25% 3 100% 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1965 STL NL 34 112 85% 76% 26% 8 75% 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1966 PHI NL 35 589 69% 80% 29% 56 89% 0 18 14 2 2 37 34 3 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 2 100%
5 Seasons 885 70% 80% 28% 79 87% 0 21 16 3 2 53 47 6 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 4 3 1 4 0 0 0 2 100%
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 89% 63%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1966 PHI NL 35 1 100% 100% 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 0
1 Season 1 100% 100% 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 0
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 93% 86%

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
1967 SFG NL 36 6 100% 67% 0% 1 100% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 6 100% 67% 0% 1 100% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 93%

* 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
1973 BBWAA ( 1.8%)
1974 BBWAA ( 1.1%)
1975 BBWAA ( 1.1%)
1976 BBWAA ( 1.8%)
1977 BBWAA ( 1.0%)
1978 BBWAA ( 0.8%)

All-Star Games
1959-1 *
1959-2 *
1960-1 *
1960-2 *
1962-1 (SS)
1962-2 (SS)
1963 (SS)
1964 (SS)

Awards (yr lg award)
1960 NL batting_title
1960 ML Lou Gehrig Memorial Award
1960 NL MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1957 NL (15, 4%)
1960 NL (1, 82%)
1962 NL (16, 3%)
1963 NL (2, 68%)
1 MVP
1.57 Career Shares (139th)

Assists† s c a p y
1955 NL  450 (4th)
1958 NL  461 (5th)
1959 NL  473 (2nd)
1960 NL  443 (3rd)
1961 NL  474 (4th)
1962 NL  521 (1st)
1963 NL  448 (4th)
1964 NL  499 (2nd)
1966 NL  491 (2nd)
Career  5,864 (50th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1952 NL  25 (4th)
1955 NL  32 (1st)
1956 NL  34 (1st)
1959 NL  29 (1st)
1960 NL  24 (5th)
1961 NL  32 (1st)
1962 NL  38 (1st)
1963 NL  26 (5th)
1964 NL  40 (2nd)
1965 NL  27 (4th)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1960 NL  16 (1st)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1955 NL  149 (4th)
1956 NL  141 (4th)
1957 NL  123 (5th)
1958 NL  149 (2nd)
1959 NL  145 (2nd)
1960 NL  136 (4th)
1961 NL  144 (3rd)
1962 NL  161 (3rd)
1963 NL  158 (1st)
1964 NL  160 (2nd)
1965 NL  148 (4th)
1966 NL  139 (5th)
Career  1,877 (27th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1955 NL  330 (1st)
1956 NL  287 (2nd)
1957 NL  226 (5th)
1958 NL  307 (1st)
1959 NL  301 (1st)
1960 NL  237 (3rd)
1961 NL  235 (4th)
1962 NL  314 (1st)
1963 NL  257 (4th)
1964 NL  249 (4th)
1965 NL  242 (4th)
1966 NL  260 (3rd)
Career  3,505 (26th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1955 NL  450 (4th)
1956 NL  420 (4th)
1957 NL  380 (4th)
1958 NL  461 (3rd)
1959 NL  473 (2nd)
1960 NL  443 (2nd)
1961 NL  473 (2nd)
1962 NL  521 (1st)
1963 NL  448 (2nd)
1964 NL  499 (1st)
1965 NL  450 (3rd)
1966 NL  454 (3rd)
Career  5,811 (29th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1952 NL  25 (4th)
1955 NL  32 (1st)
1956 NL  34 (1st)
1958 NL  20 (5th)
1959 NL  29 (1st)
1960 NL  24 (4th)
1961 NL  32 (1st)
1962 NL  38 (1st)
1963 NL  26 (3rd)
1964 NL  40 (1st)
1965 NL  27 (2nd)
Career  374 (46th)

Double Plays Turned as SS s c a p y
1955 NL  107 (2nd)
1957 NL  74 (5th)
1958 NL  127 (1st)
1959 NL  97 (1st)
1960 NL  92 (2nd)
1961 NL  117 (1st)
1962 NL  126 (1st)
1963 NL  91 (3rd)
1964 NL  91 (1st)
1965 NL  86 (3rd)
1966 NL  79 (4th)
Career  1,237 (13th)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1957 NL  6 (2nd)
1958 NL  7 (3rd)
1960 NL  16 (1st)
1962 NL  5 (5th)
1963 NL  8 (4th)
1965 NL  8 (3rd)
1966 NL  6 (3rd)
Career  51 (31st)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1952 NL  5.50 (1st)
1955 NL  5.45 (2nd)
1956 NL  5.28 (2nd)
1957 NL  5.05 (4th)
1958 NL  5.23 (4th)
1959 NL  5.35 (3rd)
1960 NL  5.06 (2nd)
1961 NL  5.07 (3rd)
1962 NL  5.25 (5th)
1966 NL  5.43 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1952 NL  5.33 (2nd)
1955 NL  5.23 (1st)
1956 NL  5.01 (2nd)
1957 NL  4.93 (4th)
1958 NL  5.15 (3rd)
1959 NL  5.34 (2nd)
1960 NL  5.00 (1st)
1961 NL  4.92 (2nd)
1962 NL  5.19 (1st)
1966 NL  5.14 (1st)
Career  4.96 (71st)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1957 NL  .968 (2nd)
1958 NL  .975 (3rd)
1959 NL  .964 (4th)
1960 NL  .966 (2nd)
1963 NL  .964 (5th)
1966 NL  .974 (3rd)

Oldest s c a p y
1967 NL  born 1930-11-04 (10th)

                                         

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