Buddy Hassett

John Aloysius Hassett

Positions: First Baseman and Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: September 5, 1911 in New York, NY
School: Manhattan College (New York, NY)(All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1936
Teams (by GP): Dodgers/Bees/Yankees/Braves 1936-1942

Final Game: September 27, 1942
Died: August 23, 1997 in Westwood, NJ
Buried: Garden of Memories, Washington, NJ
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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
1936	BRO	NL	24	1B	156	156	156		1548	1401	121	26	89	.983		9.76	.990		10.15
1937	BRO	NL	25	1B	131	128	123		1261	1125	116	20	96	.984		9.47	.989		10.31
1937	BRO	NL	25	OF	7	7	4		16	15	0	1	0	.938		2.14	.974		2.24
1937	BRO	NL	25	CF	6	6	3		15	15	0	0	0	1.000		2.50	.977		2.63
1937	BRO	NL	25	LF	1	1	1		1	0	0	1	0	.000		0.00	.970		2.10
1937	BRO	NL	25	RF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.00
1938	BRO	NL	26	LF	72	69	63		163	154	0	9	0	.945		2.14	.971		2.23
1938	BRO	NL	26	OF	71	69	63		163	154	0	9	0	.945		2.17	.976		2.34
1938	BRO	NL	26	1B	8	6	6		76	61	13	2	6	.974		9.25	.992		10.48
1938	BRO	NL	26	RF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.10
1939	BSN	NL	27	1B	123	121	119		1274	1143	112	19	127	.985		10.20	.989		10.24	MVP-25
1939	BSN	NL	27	OF	23	23	20		44	41	2	1	0	.977		1.87	.975		2.32	MVP-25
1939	BSN	NL	27	RF	23	23	20		44	41	2	1	1	.977		1.87	.973		2.12	MVP-25
1940	BSN	NL	28	1B	98	96	92		989	877	91	21	102	.979		9.88	.990		10.47
1940	BSN	NL	28	OF	13	13	5		22	22	0	0	0	1.000		1.69	.977		2.32
1940	BSN	NL	28	RF	13	13	5		22	22	0	0	0	1.000		1.69	.974		2.04
1941	BSN	NL	29	1B	99	95	89		982	895	78	9	92	.991		9.83	.989		10.16
1942	NYY	AL	30	1B	132	125	123		1257	1128	118	11	130	.991		9.44	.989		10.08
	7 Seasons			1B	747	727	708		7387	6630	649	108	642	.985		9.74	.989		10.23
	4 Seasons			OF	114	112	92		245	232	2	11	0	.955		2.05	.976		2.33
	2 Seasons			LF	73	70	64		164	154	0	10	0	.939		2.11	.971		2.23
	4 Seasons			RF	38	36	25		66	63	2	1	1	.985		1.71	.973		2.09
	1 Season			CF	6	6	3		15	15	0	0	0	1.000		2.50	.977		2.63
	7 Seasons			TOT	861	839	800		7632	6862	651	119	642	.984		8.73	.989		9.18
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.

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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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1936	BRO	NL	24	156	156	156	156	156	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937	BRO	NL	25	137	135	137	136	131	1	6	1	7	0	1
1938	BRO	NL	26	115	75	115	79	8	72	0	1	72	36	0
1939	BSN	NL	27	147	144	147	144	123	0	0	23	23	3	0
1940	BSN	NL	28	124	109	124	111	98	0	0	13	13	13	0
1941	BSN	NL	29	118	95	118	99	99	0	0	0	0	19	0
1942	NYY	AL	30	132	125	132	132	132	0	0	0	0	0	0
	7 Seasons			929	839	929	857	747	73	6	38	115	71	1

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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1939 NL (25, 1%) 0.01 Career Shares (1497th)	Putouts† s c a p y 1936 NL 1,401 (3rd) 1937 NL 1,140 (5th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1936 NL 156 (1st) 1937 NL 131 (4th)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1936 NL 1,401 (3rd) 1937 NL 1,125 (5th)
Assists as 1B s c a p y 1936 NL 121 (1st) 1937 NL 116 (1st) 1939 NL 112 (2nd) 1940 NL 91 (4th) 1942 AL 118 (2nd)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1936 NL 26 (1st) 1937 NL 20 (1st) 1939 NL 19 (1st) 1940 NL 21 (1st)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1938 NL 9 (2nd)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1938 NL 9 (5th)
Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1940 NL 9.88 (5th) Career 9.74 (85th)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1941 NL .991 (5th) 1942 AL .991 (4th)

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