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Marty Kavanagh

Martin Joseph Kavanagh

Positions: Second Baseman, First Baseman and Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 187 lb.

Born: June 13, 1891 in Harrison, NJ (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1914
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Indians/Cardinals 1914-1918

Final Game: August 8, 1918
Died: July 28, 1960 in Taylor, MI
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, MI
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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
1914 23 DET AL 128 500 439 60 109 21 6 4 35 16 14 41 42 .248 .318 .351 .669 98 154 4 16 *4/3
1915 24 DET AL 113 386 332 55 98 14 13 4 49 8 8 42 44 .295 .378 .452 .829 143 150 2 10 34/O65
1916 25 TOT AL 77 136 122 10 22 6 1 1 15 0 0 11 20 .180 .254 .270 .524 54 33 1 2 4O/53
1916 25 DET AL 58 90 78 6 11 4 0 0 5 0 0 9 15 .141 .239 .192 .431 27 15 1 2 O/45
1916 25 CLE AL 19 46 44 4 11 2 1 1 10 0 0 2 5 .250 .283 .409 .692 102 18 0 0 /435
1917 26 CLE AL 14 17 14 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 .000 .176 .000 .176 -47 0 0 0 /O
1918 27 TOT MLB 38 153 126 12 28 6 0 1 23 2 21 14 .222 .338 .294 .631 91 37 1 5 3/O4
1918 27 TOT AL 26 103 82 6 20 5 0 0 15 1 18 13 .244 .386 .305 .691 106 25 1 2 3
1918 27 CLE AL 13 48 38 4 8 2 0 0 6 1 7 7 .211 .348 .263 .611 77 10 1 2 3
1918 27 STL NL 12 50 44 6 8 1 0 1 8 1 3 1 .182 .234 .273 .507 56 12 0 3 /O4
1918 27 DET AL 13 55 44 2 12 3 0 0 9 0 11 6 .273 .418 .341 .759 133 15 0 0 3
5 Seasons 370 1192 1033 138 257 47 20 10 122 26 22 118 122 .249 .330 .362 .693 105 374 8 33
162 Game Avg. 162 522 452 60 113 21 9 4 53 11 52 53 .249 .330 .362 .693 105 164 4 14
DET (4 yrs) 312 1031 893 123 230 42 19 8 98 24 22 103 107 .258 .339 .374 .713 111 334 7 28
CLE (3 yrs) 46 111 96 9 19 4 1 1 16 1 0 12 14 .198 .294 .292 .585 71 28 1 2
STL (1 yr) 12 50 44 6 8 1 0 1 8 1 3 1 .182 .234 .273 .507 56 12 0 3
AL (5 yrs) 358 1142 989 132 249 46 20 9 114 25 22 115 121 .252 .335 .366 .701 107 362 8 30
NL (1 yr) 12 50 44 6 8 1 0 1 8 1 3 1 .182 .234 .273 .507 56 12 0 3

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
1914 23 DET AL 500 -3 1 0 0 -8 0 17 7 0.7 15 1.6 -0.9 $ *4/3
1915 24 DET AL 386 17 1 0 0 0 -1 13 30 3.3 30 3.2 0.1 $ 34/O65
1916 25 DET AL 90 -7 0 0 0 0 -1 3 -5 -0.6 -5 -0.5 -0.1 $ O/45
1916 25 CLE AL 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 2 0.2 0.0 $ /435
1917 26 CLE AL 17 -2 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 -0.2 -1 -0.1 -0.1 $ /O
1918 27 CLE AL 48 -1 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 -0.1 1 0.1 -0.2 $ 3
1918 27 STL NL 50 -2 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $ /O4
1918 27 DET AL 55 2 -1 0 0 -1 0 2 2 0.2 3 0.4 -0.2 $ 3
5 Seasons 1192 4 1 0 0 -10 -2 41 34 3.4 44 4.8 -1.4 $
DET (4 yrs) 1031 9 1 0 0 -9 -2 35 34 3.6 43 4.7 -1.1 $
CLE (3 yrs) 111 -3 0 0 0 -1 0 5 1 -0.1 2 0.2 -0.3 $
STL (1 yr) 50 -2 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
1914 DET AL 23 2B 115 604 228 333 43 30 .929 4.88 .953 4.93
1914 DET AL 23 1B 4 39 36 1 2 0 .949 9.25 .985 10.58
1915 DET AL 24 1B 44 531 500 24 7 16 .987 11.91 .987 10.78
1915 DET AL 24 2B 42 166 59 95 12 7 .928 3.67 .956 5.14
1915 DET AL 24 OF 2 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .958 2.05 2-0-0
1915 DET AL 24 SS 2 2 0 2 0 1 1.000 1.00 .935 5.15
1915 DET AL 24 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.20
1916 TOT AL 25 2B 11 48 11 32 5 2 .896 3.91 .964 5.05
1916 TOT AL 25 3B 2 5 1 2 2 1 .600 1.50 .940 3.40
1916 DET AL 25 OF 11 20 19 1 0 0 1.000 1.82 .963 2.12 1-0-10
1916 DET AL 25 2B 2 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0.50 .960 5.05
1916 DET AL 25 3B 1 1 1 0 0 1 1.000 1.00 .940 3.40
1916 CLE AL 25 2B 9 47 11 31 5 2 .894 4.67 .964 5.06
1916 CLE AL 25 1B 1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 3.00 .987 11.00
1916 CLE AL 25 3B 1 4 0 2 2 0 .500 2.00 .940 3.40
1917 CLE AL 26 OF 2 3 2 1 0 1 1.000 1.50 .967 2.20 0-2-0
1918 TOT AL 27 1B 24 262 242 11 9 15 .966 10.54 .986 11.14
1918 CLE AL 27 1B 12 122 113 5 4 6 .967 9.83 .986 11.14
1918 STL NL 27 OF 8 14 14 0 0 0 1.000 1.75 .962 2.26 0-0-8
1918 STL NL 27 2B 4 25 11 12 2 0 .920 5.75 .957 5.45
1918 DET AL 27 1B 12 140 129 6 5 9 .964 11.25 .986 11.14
4 Seasons 2B 172 843 309 472 62 39 .926 4.54 .954 5.00
4 Seasons 1B 73 835 781 36 18 31 .978 11.19 .987 10.89
4 Seasons OF 23 41 39 2 0 1 1.000 1.78 .962 2.17 3-2-18
2 Seasons 3B 3 5 1 2 2 1 .600 1.00 .940 3.33
1 Season SS 2 2 0 2 0 1 1.000 1.00 .935 5.15
5 Seasons TOT 273 1726 1130 514 82 73 .952 6.02 .970 6.32 3-2-18
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G 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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Batting Average s c a p y
1915 AL  .295 (10th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1915 AL  .378 (9th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1915 AL  .452 (3rd)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1915 AL  .829 (5th)

Triples s c a p y
1915 AL  13 (9th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1914 AL  4 (7th)
1915 AL  4 (9th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1915 AL  143 (6th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1915 AL  17 (10th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1915 AL  1.9 (10th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1915 AL  .720 (5th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1914 AL  6.4 (10th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1914 AL  109.8 (9th)
1915 AL  83.0 (4th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1914 AL  45 (4th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1914 AL  115 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1914 AL  333 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1914 AL  43 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1914 AL  4.88 (4th)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 16 (1148), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 4 (2356), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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