Ted Kazanski

Theodore Stanley Kazanski

Positions: Second Baseman, Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: January 25, 1934 in Hamtramck, MI
High School: St. Ladislaus HS (Hamtramck, MI)
Signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent in 1951. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 25, 1953
Team: Phillies 1953-1958

Final Game: September 28, 1958
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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
1953	PHI	NL	19	SS	95	95	84	813.2	447	185	239	23	53	.949	-5	-8	4.69	4.46	.958	5.04	4.94
1954	PHI	NL	20	SS	38	30	23	257.1	127	43	77	7	18	.945	-4	-19	4.20	3.16	.959	5.15	5.12
1955	PHI	NL	21	3B	4	1	1	14.2	4	1	3	0	0	1.000	0	8	2.45	1.00	.950	3.13	3.10
1955	PHI	NL	21	SS	4	1	1	17.0	10	4	6	0	1	1.000	0	28	5.29	2.50	.964	5.03	4.97
1956	PHI	NL	22	2B	116	107	90	944.2	518	246	261	11	68	.979	-2	-2	4.83	4.37	.980	5.34	5.28
1956	PHI	NL	22	SS	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0				0.00	0.00		4.50	4.90
1957	PHI	NL	23	3B	36	30	25	261.2	95	35	57	3	11	.968	2	11	3.16	2.56	.952	2.96	2.98
1957	PHI	NL	23	2B	22	16	15	172.1	68	28	38	2	10	.971	-5	-33	3.45	3.00	.977	5.37	5.41
1957	PHI	NL	23	SS	3	0	0	4.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-60	2.25	0.33	.960	4.73	4.87
1958	PHI	NL	24	2B	59	54	45	479.1	250	117	130	3	37	.988	-6	-15	4.64	4.19	.975	5.33	5.30
1958	PHI	NL	24	SS	22	6	5	89.2	37	8	27	2	3	.946	-2	-21	3.51	1.59	.964	5.11	5.08
1958	PHI	NL	24	3B	16	12	10	116.2	36	15	18	3	1	.917	-1	-12	2.55	2.06	.952	3.18	3.16
	3 Seasons			2B	197	177	150	1596.1	836	391	429	16	115	.981	-12	-9	4.62	4.16	.978	5.34	5.30
	6 Seasons			SS	163	132	113	1182.2	622	241	349	32	75	.949	-10	-11	4.49	3.62	.959	5.07	5.00
	3 Seasons			3B	56	43	36	393.0	135	51	78	6	12	.956	1	4	2.95	2.30	.952	3.03	3.04
	6 Seasons			TOT	416	352	299	3172.0	1593	683	856	54	202	.966	-22	-8	4.37	3.70	.968	4.95	4.88

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.
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp
1953	PHI	NL	19	SS	-5	-8	-6	-1	-5	1
1954	PHI	NL	20	SS	-4	-19	-4	-1	-3	0
1955	PHI	NL	21	3B	0	8	0	0	0	0
1955	PHI	NL	21	SS	0	28	0	0	0	0
1956	PHI	NL	22	2B	-2	-2	-4	-3	-0	2
1956	PHI	NL	22	SS
1957	PHI	NL	23	3B	2	11	1	1	0	1
1957	PHI	NL	23	2B	-5	-33	-5	-4	-1	0
1957	PHI	NL	23	SS	-0	-60	-0	0	-0	0
1958	PHI	NL	24	2B	-6	-15	-6	-4	-2	0
1958	PHI	NL	24	SS	-2	-21	-2	-0	-1	0
1958	PHI	NL	24	3B	-1	-12	-1	-0	-1	0
	3 Seasons			2B	-12	-9	-14	-12	-3	2
	6 Seasons			SS	-10	-11	-11	-2	-9	1
	3 Seasons			3B	1	4	0	1	-0	1
	6 Seasons			TOT	-22	-8	-26	-13	-13	4

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1953	PHI	NL	19	95	95	95	95	0	0	95	0	0
1954	PHI	NL	20	39	30	39	38	0	0	38	1	1
1955	PHI	NL	21	9	2	9	8	0	4	4	1	0
1956	PHI	NL	22	117	107	117	116	116	0	1	1	0
1957	PHI	NL	23	62	46	62	58	23	35	3	5	1
1958	PHI	NL	24	95	72	95	91	59	16	22	5	0
	6 Seasons			417	352	417	406	198	55	163	13	2

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.

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
1956	PHI	NL	22	4036	66%	81%	23%	332	94%	1	244	95	95	54	263	232	27	0	4	11	0	11	0	10	71	31	11	19	2	69	24	43	2	0	1
1957	PHI	NL	23	744	63%	79%	26%	47	89%	0	29	9	14	6	41	36	4	0	1	2	0	2	0	2	12	3	3	3	0	10	3	7	2	1	1
1958	PHI	NL	24	2108	64%	81%	26%	167	92%	0	122	51	48	23	130	105	19	0	2	3	0	3	0	3	39	11	10	11	0	33	11	22	5	4	1
	3 Seasons			6888	65%	80%	24%	546	93%	1	395	155	157	83	434	373	50	0	7	16	0	16	0	15	122	45	24	33	2	112	38	72	9	5	3
	MLB Averages				64%	81%	26%		93%

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
1953	PHI	NL	19	2905	58%	84%	26%	281	87%	2	154	82	63	9	200	163	32	0	4	14	0	13	1	11	52	11	2	19	7	6	48	14	33	4	1	3
1954	PHI	NL	20	957	62%	83%	26%	91	84%	2	40	20	19	2	66	48	14	0	0	7	0	6	1	7	16	7	0	5	2	1	15	7	8	1	1	0
1955	PHI	NL	21	68	59%	79%	26%	11	91%	0	5	5	0	0	6	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
1956	PHI	NL	22	4	75%	75%	25%	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
1957	PHI	NL	23	19	58%	89%	11%	0		0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1958	PHI	NL	24	418	61%	81%	26%	38	84%	0	11	6	4	1	28	20	7	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	3	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	1	1	0
	6 Seasons			4371	59%	83%	26%	421	86%	4	211	113	86	13	300	235	54	0	4	23	0	21	2	20	72	20	2	25	9	7	66	23	42	6	3	3
	MLB Averages				64%	81%	26%		90%

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%
1955	PHI	NL	21	62	53%	81%	16%	6	67%	0	1	1	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	50%
1957	PHI	NL	23	1078	67%	80%	27%	99	86%	0	34	33	0	1	55	41	9	2	2	3	0	3	0	0	9	5	0	6	3	2	1	5	80%
1958	PHI	NL	24	482	59%	82%	26%	33	94%	0	15	13	0	2	19	17	1	0	2	3	1	2	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	100%
	3 Seasons			1622	64%	81%	26%	138	87%	0	50	47	0	3	77	61	10	2	4	6	1	5	0	1	10	6	0	7	3	2	1	8	75%
	MLB Averages				64%	81%	26%		89%																								63%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 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

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1956 NL 116 (5th)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1956 NL 11 (3rd)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1953 NL 23 (3rd)	Youngest s c a p y 1953 NL born 1934-01-25 (5th) 1954 NL born 1934-01-25 (5th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1956 NL 116 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1956 NL 11 (3rd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1953 NL 23 (3rd)

Youngest s c a p y
1953 NL born 1934-01-25 (5th)
1954 NL born 1934-01-25 (5th)

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