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Frankie Hayes

Frank Witman Hayes (Blimp)

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: October 13, 1914 in Jamesburg, NJ
High School: Prep HS (Pennington, NJ) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 21, 1933
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Indians/Browns/WhiteSox/RedSox 1933-1947

Final Game: May 17, 1947
Died: June 22, 1955 in Point Pleasant, NJ
Buried: Fernwood Cemetery, Jamesburg, NJ
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1933 PHA AL 18 C 3 1 1 9 7 1 1 0 .889 2.67 .988 4.87 1 3 0 0% 45%
1934 PHA AL 19 C 89 59 54 330 279 36 15 4 .955 3.54 .981 4.99 7 26 14 35% 37%
1936 PHA AL 21 C 143 143 123 574 489 69 16 8 .972 3.90 .979 4.78 17 83 35 30% 36%
1937 PHA AL 22 C 56 51 49 238 208 23 7 4 .971 4.13 .980 5.04 9 18 11 38% 37%
1938 PHA AL 23 C 90 86 81 366 319 38 9 2 .975 3.97 .983 4.88 10 46 20 30% 37%
1939 PHA AL 24 C 114 108 100 450 380 60 10 12 .978 3.86 .981 4.92 12 71 26 27% 37% AS,MVP-22
1940 PHA AL 25 C 134 126 113 595 515 63 17 9 .971 4.31 .982 5.27 13 62 29 32% 41% AS,MVP-20
1940 PHA AL 25 1B 2 0 0 17 16 0 1 0 .941 8.00 .989 9.80 AS,MVP-20
1941 PHA AL 26 C 123 122 111 476 403 65 8 11 .983 3.80 .983 5.00 15 53 30 36% 41% AS,MVP-23
1942 TOT AL 27 C 71 65 51 283 241 36 6 2 .979 3.90 .979 4.93 14 36 12 25% 42%
1942 PHA AL 27 C 20 18 13 77 66 11 0 0 1.000 3.85 .979 4.93 4 9 5 36% 42%
1942 SLB AL 27 C 51 47 38 206 175 25 6 2 .971 3.92 .979 4.93 10 27 7 21% 42%
1943 SLB AL 28 C 76 70 66 347 301 40 6 8 .983 4.49 .981 5.23 4 58 25 30% 42%
1943 SLB AL 28 1B 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .990 10.00
1944 PHA AL 29 C 155 155 135 738 636 89 13 10 .982 4.68 .976 4.91 12 98 50 34% 39% AS,MVP-14
1944 PHA AL 29 1B 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1.000 1.00 .990 10.10 AS,MVP-14
1945 TOT AL 30 C 151 150 126 738 639 91 8 29 .989 4.83 .986 4.92 14 76 44 37% 45% MVP-26
1945 PHA AL 30 C 32 32 28 160 131 28 1 6 .994 4.97 .986 4.92 3 20 13 39% 45%
1945 CLE AL 30 C 119 118 98 578 508 63 7 23 .988 4.80 .986 4.92 11 56 31 36% 45%
1946 TOT AL 31 C 102 99 87 560 501 48 11 6 .980 5.38 .982 5.52 11 38 23 38% 46% AS
1946 CLE AL 31 C 50 47 40 324 302 16 6 2 .981 6.36 .982 5.52 4 15 7 32% 46%
1946 CHW AL 31 C 52 52 47 236 199 32 5 4 .979 4.44 .982 5.52 7 23 16 41% 46%
1947 BOS AL 32 C 4 3 3 24 20 2 2 1 .917 5.50 .985 5.03 0 4 1 20% 46%
14 Seasons C 1311 1238 1100 5728 4938 661 129 106 .977 4.27 .981 5.02 139 672 320 32% 40%
3 Seasons 1B 4 0 0 19 17 1 1 1 .947 4.50 .989 9.93
14 Seasons TOT 1315 1238 1100 5747 4955 662 130 107 .977 4.27 .981 5.03 139 672 320 32% 40%
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO 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
1933 PHA AL 18 3 1 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1934 PHA AL 19 92 59 92 89 0 89 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1936 PHA AL 21 144 143 144 143 0 143 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1937 PHA AL 22 60 51 60 56 0 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1938 PHA AL 23 99 86 99 90 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1
1939 PHA AL 24 124 108 124 114 0 114 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1940 PHA AL 25 136 126 136 135 0 134 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1941 PHA AL 26 126 122 126 123 0 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1942 SLB AL 27 56 47 56 51 0 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1942 PHA AL 27 21 18 21 20 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1943 SLB AL 28 88 70 88 76 0 76 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1944 PHA AL 29 155 155 155 155 0 155 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1945 CLE AL 30 119 118 119 119 0 119 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1945 PHA AL 30 32 32 32 32 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1946 CHW AL 31 53 52 53 52 0 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1946 CLE AL 31 51 47 51 50 0 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1947 BOS AL 32 5 3 5 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
14 Seasons 1364 1238 1364 1312 0 1311 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 56 1
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
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
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1940 *
1941 *
1944 *
1945--not played
1946 (C)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1939 AL (22, 2%)
1940 AL (20, 1%)
1941 AL (23, 1%)
1944 AL (14, 4%)
1945 AL (26, 1%)
0.09 Career Shares (940th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1936 AL  143 (1st)
1939 AL  114 (3rd)
1940 AL  134 (2nd)
1941 AL  123 (1st)
1944 AL  155 (1st)
1945 AL  151 (1st)
1946 AL  102 (3rd)
Career  1,311 (51st)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1936 AL  489 (3rd)
1939 AL  380 (5th)
1940 AL  515 (4th)
1944 AL  636 (1st)
1945 AL  639 (1st)
1946 AL  501 (3rd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1936 AL  69 (2nd)
1939 AL  60 (2nd)
1940 AL  63 (5th)
1941 AL  65 (3rd)
1944 AL  89 (1st)
1945 AL  91 (2nd)
1946 AL  48 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1934 AL  15 (2nd)
1936 AL  16 (1st)
1938 AL  9 (2nd)
1939 AL  10 (3rd)
1940 AL  17 (1st)
1944 AL  13 (2nd)
1945 AL  8 (2nd)
1946 AL  11 (3rd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1934 AL  7 (3rd)
1936 AL  17 (1st)
1937 AL  9 (2nd)
1938 AL  10 (1st)
1939 AL  12 (2nd)
1940 AL  13 (2nd)
1941 AL  15 (2nd)
1942 AL  14 (2nd)
1944 AL  12 (2nd)
1945 AL  14 (2nd)
1946 AL  11 (3rd)
Career  139 (77th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1936 AL  83 (1st)
1938 AL  46 (3rd)
1939 AL  71 (1st)
1940 AL  62 (1st)
1941 AL  53 (1st)
1942 AL  36 (5th)
1943 AL  58 (1st)
1944 AL  98 (1st)
1945 AL  76 (1st)
1946 AL  38 (2nd)
Career  672 (90th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1936 AL  35 (1st)
1939 AL  26 (4th)
1940 AL  29 (4th)
1941 AL  30 (3rd)
1944 AL  50 (1st)
1945 AL  44 (2nd)
1946 AL  23 (5th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1934 AL  35.0 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1944 AL  4.68 (5th)
1945 AL  4.83 (2nd)
1946 AL  5.38 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1939 AL  .978 (4th)
1941 AL  .983 (4th)
1944 AL  .982 (4th)
1945 AL  .989 (3rd)

Youngest s c a p y
1933 AL  born 1914-10-13 (1st)
1934 AL  born 1914-10-13 (3rd)

                                         

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