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Don Hoak

Donald Albert Hoak (Tiger)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: February 5, 1928 in Roulette, PA
High School: Roullette (Roullette, PA)
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1947. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1954
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Redlegs/Dodgers/Phillies/Cubs 1954-1964

Final Game: May 12, 1964
Died: October 9, 1969 in Pittsburgh, PA
Buried: Fishing Creek Cemetery, Roulette, PA
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:09AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #830. Floyd Robinson… #831. Burt Shotton… #832. Germany Smith… #833. DON HOAK… #834. Butch Wynegar… #835. Eric Young… #836. Mark McLemore… 

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1954 26 BRO NL 88 296 261 41 64 9 5 7 26 8 3 25 39 .245 .318 .398 .717 83 104 7 4 4 2 5
1955 27 BRO NL 94 332 279 50 67 13 3 5 19 9 5 46 50 .240 .350 .362 .712 87 101 9 1 6 0 0 5
1956 28 CHC NL 121 478 424 51 91 18 4 5 37 8 3 41 46 .215 .283 .311 .594 61 132 4 1 8 4 0 *5
1957 29 CIN NL 149 616 529 78 155 39 2 19 89 8 15 74 54 .293 .381 .482 .863 125 255 13 4 5 4 5 *5/4 AS,MVP-11
1958 30 CIN NL 114 466 417 51 109 30 0 6 50 6 8 43 36 .261 .333 .376 .709 83 157 11 2 3 1 4 *5/6
1959 31 PIT NL 155 651 564 60 166 29 3 8 65 9 2 71 75 .294 .374 .399 .773 107 225 18 4 6 6 4 *5 MVP-17
1960 32 PIT NL 155 636 553 97 156 24 9 16 79 3 2 74 74 .282 .366 .445 .810 120 246 17 1 4 4 9 *5 MVP-2
1961 33 PIT NL 145 586 503 72 150 27 7 12 61 4 2 73 53 .298 .388 .451 .839 122 227 14 3 3 4 8 *5
1962 34 PIT NL 121 467 411 63 99 14 8 5 48 4 2 49 49 .241 .320 .350 .670 80 144 18 1 1 5 5 *5
1963 35 PHI NL 115 411 377 35 87 11 3 6 24 5 5 27 52 .231 .282 .324 .605 75 122 11 1 3 3 1 5
1964 36 PHI NL 6 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 2 0 0
11 Seasons 1263 4945 4322 598 1144 214 44 89 498 64 47 523 530 .265 .345 .396 .741 98 1713 122 22 45 33 36
162 Game Avg. 162 634 554 77 147 27 6 11 64 8 6 67 68 .265 .345 .396 .741 98 220 16 3 6 4
PIT (4 yrs) 576 2340 2031 292 571 94 27 41 253 20 8 267 251 .281 .364 .415 .779 109 842 67 9 14 19 26
PHI (2 yrs) 121 417 381 35 87 11 3 6 24 5 5 27 54 .228 .279 .320 .599 73 122 11 1 5 3 1
BRO (2 yrs) 182 628 540 91 131 22 8 12 45 17 8 71 89 .243 .335 .380 .715 85 205 16 5 10 2 0
CIN (2 yrs) 263 1082 946 129 264 69 2 25 139 14 23 117 90 .279 .360 .436 .796 107 412 24 6 8 5 9
CHC (1 yr) 121 478 424 51 91 18 4 5 37 8 3 41 46 .215 .283 .311 .594 61 132 4 1 8 4 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1954 26 BRO NL 296 -8 2 0 0 -4 0 10 0 0.0 4 0.4 -0.4 $ 5
1955 27 BRO NL 332 -3 -1 1 0 15 0 11 23 2.3 8 0.8 1.5 $ 5
1956 28 CHC NL 479 -21 0 -2 1 -4 1 16 -9 -1.0 -5 -0.5 -0.5 $ *5
1957 29 CIN NL 616 19 -4 -2 0 -0 2 21 35 3.6 36 3.7 -0.1 $ *5/4 AS,MVP-11
1958 30 CIN NL 466 -6 -2 0 1 1 1 16 11 1.1 10 1.0 0.1 $ *5/6
1959 31 PIT NL 651 11 0 -1 -2 -1 2 22 31 3.1 32 3.3 -0.2 $20,000 *5 MVP-17
1960 32 PIT NL 636 17 -1 5 -2 7 4 22 52 5.3 45 4.7 0.6 $27,500 *5 MVP-2
1961 33 PIT NL 586 18 3 0 -1 -10 4 20 34 3.5 44 4.4 -0.9 $ *5
1962 34 PIT NL 467 -12 1 1 -2 2 3 16 9 0.9 7 0.7 0.2 $ *5
1963 35 PHI NL 411 -11 -2 2 -1 6 3 14 11 0.9 5 0.5 0.4 $ 5
1964 36 PHI NL 6 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $
11 Seasons 4946 3 -4 4 -6 12 20 168 196 19.6 185 18.9 0.7 $47,500
PIT (4 yrs) 2340 34 3 5 -7 -2 13 80 126 12.8 128 13.1 -0.3 $47,500
PHI (2 yrs) 417 -12 -2 2 -1 6 3 14 10 0.8 4 0.4 0.4 $
BRO (2 yrs) 628 -11 1 1 0 11 0 21 23 2.3 12 1.2 1.1 $
CIN (2 yrs) 1082 13 -6 -2 1 1 3 37 46 4.7 46 4.7 -0.0 $
CHC (1 yr) 479 -21 0 -2 1 -4 1 16 -9 -1.0 -5 -0.5 -0.5 $

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1955 27 BRO NL WS NYY W 3 5 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 .333 .600 .333 .933 1 0 0 0 0 0
1960 32 PIT NL WS NYY W 7 27 23 3 5 2 0 0 3 0 1 4 1 .217 .333 .304 .638 7 1 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons (2 Series) 10 32 26 3 6 2 0 0 3 0 1 6 1 .231 .375 .308 .683 8 1 0 0 0 0
2 WS 10 32 26 3 6 2 0 0 3 0 1 6 1 .231 .375 .308 .683 8 1 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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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
1954 BRO NL 26 3B 75 221 71 139 11 12 .950 -4 2.80 .952 3.15
1955 BRO NL 27 3B 78 276 82 183 11 15 .960 15 3.40 .951 3.10
1956 CHC NL 28 3B 110 295 122 158 15 16 .949 -4 2.55 .956 3.02
1957 CIN NL 29 3B 149 476 193 269 14 29 .971 -0 3.10 .952 2.98 AS,MVP-11
1957 CIN NL 29 2B 1 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0 2.00 .975 5.40 AS,MVP-11
1958 CIN NL 30 3B 112 390 132 244 14 29 .964 1 3.36 .952 3.16
1958 CIN NL 30 SS 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 1.00 .960 5.10
1959 PIT NL 31 3B 155 511 169 322 20 31 .961 -1 3.17 .950 2.94 MVP-17
1960 PIT NL 32 3B 155 481 132 324 25 34 .948 7 2.94 .952 2.96 MVP-2
1961 PIT NL 33 3B 143 424 137 267 20 29 .953 -10 2.83 .948 2.89
1962 PIT NL 34 3B 116 323 93 220 10 19 .969 2 2.70 .949 2.92
1963 PHI NL 35 3B 106 306 88 205 13 13 .958 6 2.76 .941 2.92
10 Seasons 3B 1199 3703 1219 2331 153 227 .959 12 2.96 .950 2.99
1 Season 2B 1 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0 2.00 .975 5.40
1 Season SS 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 1.00 .960 5.10
11 Seasons TOT 1201 3706 1221 2332 153 227 .959 12 2.96 .950 2.99
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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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1957 (3B)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1957 NL (11, 9%)
1959 NL (17, 2%)
1960 NL (2, 48%)
0.59 Career Shares (391st)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1960 NL  5.3 (8th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1957 NL  3.7 (10th)
1960 NL  4.7 (8th)
1961 NL  4.4 (10th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1955 NL  1.5 (2nd)

On-Base% s c a p y
1957 NL  .381 (7th)
1960 NL  .366 (9th)
1961 NL  .388 (7th)

Games Played s c a p y
1959 NL  155 (1st)
1960 NL  155 (2nd)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1960 NL  97 (7th)

Doubles s c a p y
1957 NL  39 (1st)
1958 NL  30 (9th)

Triples s c a p y
1960 NL  9 (8th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1957 NL  89 (10th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1957 NL  74 (7th)
1959 NL  71 (7th)
1960 NL  74 (6th)
1961 NL  73 (5th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1954 NL  8 (8th)
1955 NL  9 (10th)

Singles s c a p y
1959 NL  126 (9th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1960 NL  90 (10th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1960 NL  17 (10th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1957 NL  2.2 (10th)
1960 NL  1.7 (10th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1957 NL  60 (9th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1960 NL  231 (8th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1959 NL  6 (8th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1960 NL  9 (10th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1959 NL  18 (6th)
1960 NL  17 (5th)
1962 NL  18 (4th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1957 NL  15 (2nd)
1958 NL  8 (5th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1957 NL  11.3 (8th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1960 NL  424 (10th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
1960 NL  26.19 (10th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1960 NL  2.9 (8th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1960 NL  2.4 (10th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1960 NL  2.6 (10th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1960 NL  25 (4th)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1955 NL  15 (2nd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1957 NL  149 (1st)
1959 NL  155 (1st)
1960 NL  155 (1st)
1961 NL  143 (5th)
Career  1,199 (68th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1956 NL  122 (4th)
1957 NL  193 (1st)
1958 NL  132 (3rd)
1959 NL  169 (1st)
1960 NL  132 (3rd)
1961 NL  137 (3rd)
Career  1,219 (69th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1957 NL  269 (2nd)
1958 NL  244 (3rd)
1959 NL  322 (1st)
1960 NL  324 (1st)
1961 NL  267 (4th)
Career  2,331 (72nd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1956 NL  15 (5th)
1957 NL  14 (3rd)
1959 NL  20 (2nd)
1960 NL  25 (1st)
1961 NL  20 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1955 NL  15 (1st)
1960 NL  7 (3rd)
1962 NL  2 (4th)
1963 NL  6 (3rd)
Career  12 (89th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1955 NL  3.69 (1st)
1957 NL  3.12 (1st)
1958 NL  3.43 (2nd)
1959 NL  3.21 (1st)
1960 NL  3.04 (4th)
1961 NL  2.95 (5th)
1963 NL  3.09 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1955 NL  3.40 (1st)
1957 NL  3.10 (1st)
1958 NL  3.36 (2nd)
1959 NL  3.17 (1st)
1960 NL  2.94 (3rd)
1961 NL  2.83 (4th)
1962 NL  2.70 (5th)
1963 NL  2.76 (4th)
Career  2.96 (94th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1955 NL  .960 (3rd)
1956 NL  .949 (5th)
1957 NL  .971 (1st)
1958 NL  .964 (2nd)
1959 NL  .961 (4th)
1961 NL  .953 (3rd)
1962 NL  .969 (1st)
1963 NL  .958 (3rd)
Career  .959 (68th)

             

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 3 (523), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 26 (872), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 8 (1276), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 15 (1089), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  3. Ben Zobrist (965)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Geoff Blum (950)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Billy Johnson (956)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Billy Johnson (958)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Rance Mulliniks (945)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Don Buford (930)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Grady Hatton (933)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Grady Hatton (934)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
195931Pittsburgh Pirates$20,0001/27/60 TSN
196032Pittsburgh Pirates$27,5001/27/60 TSN
Career to date (may be incomplete)$47,500
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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