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Buddy Kerr

John Joseph Kerr

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: November 6, 1922 in Astoria, NY
High School: George Washington (New York, NY)
Signed by the New York Giants as an amateur free agent in 1941. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 8, 1943
Teams (by GP): Giants/Braves 1943-1951

Final Game: September 30, 1951
Died: November 7, 2006 in New York, NY
Cremated
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:11AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1547. Gene Hermanski… #1548. Ron Karkovice… #1549. Harry Wolter… #1550. BUDDY KERR… #1551. Joey Cora… #1552. Mickey Owen… #1553. Jiggs Donahue… 

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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
1943 20 NYG NL 27 110 98 14 28 3 0 2 12 1 8 5 .286 .352 .378 .729 111 37 2 2 2 6
1944 21 NYG NL 150 598 548 68 146 31 4 9 63 14 37 32 .266 .316 .387 .703 98 212 14 3 10 *6
1945 22 NYG NL 149 605 546 53 136 20 3 4 40 5 41 34 .249 .304 .319 .623 72 174 11 2 16 *6 MVP-21
1946 23 NYG NL 145 571 497 50 124 20 3 6 40 7 53 31 .249 .324 .338 .662 88 168 10 2 19 *65 MVP-11
1947 24 NYG NL 138 596 547 73 157 23 5 7 49 2 36 49 .287 .331 .386 .717 89 211 12 0 13 *6
1948 25 NYG NL 144 555 496 41 119 16 4 0 46 9 56 36 .240 .317 .288 .605 64 143 7 0 3 *6 AS
1949 26 NYG NL 90 250 220 16 46 4 0 0 19 0 21 23 .209 .284 .227 .511 38 50 1 2 7 6
1950 27 BSN NL 155 571 507 45 115 24 6 2 46 0 50 50 .227 .296 .310 .606 64 157 21 0 14 *6
1951 28 BSN NL 69 200 172 18 32 4 0 1 18 0 0 22 20 .186 .282 .227 .509 43 39 2 1 5 6/4
9 Seasons 1067 4056 3631 378 903 145 25 31 333 38 0 324 280 .249 .312 .328 .640 76 1191 80 12 89
162 Game Avg. 162 616 551 57 137 22 4 5 51 6 49 43 .249 .312 .328 .640 76 181 12 2 14
NYG (7 yrs) 843 3285 2952 315 756 117 19 28 269 38 252 210 .256 .317 .337 .654 80 995 57 11 70
BSN (2 yrs) 224 771 679 63 147 28 6 3 64 0 0 72 70 .216 .293 .289 .581 59 196 23 1 19

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
1943 20 NYG NL 110 1 0 0 0 -2 2 3 4 0.5 6 0.7 -0.2 $ 6
1944 21 NYG NL 598 -3 1 0 0 2 10 19 29 2.9 27 2.9 0.0 $ *6
1945 22 NYG NL 605 -24 -1 0 0 4 10 19 8 0.7 4 0.4 0.3 $ *6 MVP-21
1946 23 NYG NL 571 -9 -1 0 0 5 8 20 23 2.2 18 1.9 0.3 $ *65 MVP-11
1947 24 NYG NL 596 -6 1 0 0 4 9 20 28 2.8 24 2.5 0.3 $ *6
1948 25 NYG NL 555 -19 -1 0 0 1 9 20 10 0.9 9 0.9 0.0 $ *6 AS
1949 26 NYG NL 250 -18 -1 0 0 2 6 9 -2 -0.3 -4 -0.4 0.1 $ 6
1950 27 BSN NL 571 -24 -1 0 0 1 10 20 6 0.5 5 0.5 0.0 $ *6
1951 28 BSN NL 200 -13 0 0 0 0 4 7 -2 -0.3 -2 -0.2 -0.1 $ 6/4
9 Seasons 4056 -115 -3 0 0 17 68 137 104 9.9 87 9.2 0.7 $
NYG (7 yrs) 3285 -78 -2 0 0 16 54 110 100 9.7 84 8.9 0.8 $
BSN (2 yrs) 771 -37 -1 0 0 1 14 27 4 0.2 3 0.3 -0.1 $

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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 Awards
1943 NYG NL 20 SS 27 157 60 90 7 10 .955 5.56 .954 5.30
1944 NYG NL 21 SS 149 875 328 507 40 81 .954 5.60 .954 5.41
1945 NYG NL 22 SS 148 880 333 515 32 81 .964 5.73 .947 5.26 MVP-21
1946 NYG NL 23 SS 126 652 240 400 12 66 .982 5.08 .957 5.15 MVP-11
1946 NYG NL 23 3B 18 54 24 28 2 2 .963 2.89 .952 3.08 MVP-11
1947 NYG NL 24 SS 138 748 270 461 17 77 .977 5.30 .963 5.11
1948 NYG NL 25 SS 143 750 269 456 25 72 .967 5.07 .959 4.98 AS
1949 NYG NL 26 SS 89 364 125 224 15 33 .959 3.92 .961 5.04
1950 BSN NL 27 SS 155 809 310 471 28 97 .965 5.04 .961 5.16
1951 BSN NL 28 SS 63 292 110 173 9 31 .969 4.49 .955 4.87
1951 BSN NL 28 2B 5 9 5 4 0 3 1.000 1.80 .976 5.68
9 Seasons SS 1038 5527 2045 3297 185 548 .967 5.15 .957 5.15
1 Season 3B 18 54 24 28 2 2 .963 2.89 .952 3.08
1 Season 2B 5 9 5 4 0 3 1.000 1.80 .976 5.68
9 Seasons TOT 1061 5590 2074 3329 187 553 .967 5.09 .957 5.12
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-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
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1948 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1945 NL (21, 2%)
1946 NL (11, 11%)
0.13 Career Shares (851st)

Games Played s c a p y
1946 NL  145 (9th)
1950 NL  155 (4th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1944 NL  14 (5th)
1948 NL  9 (9th)

Singles s c a p y
1947 NL  122 (8th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1945 NL  16 (7th)
1946 NL  19 (2nd)
1947 NL  13 (3rd)
1950 NL  14 (2nd)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1944 NL  14 (9th)
1950 NL  21 (3rd)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1944 NL  11.0 (3rd)

Outs Made s c a p y
1945 NL  437 (7th)

Assists† s c a p y
1944 NL  507 (3rd)
1945 NL  515 (1st)
1946 NL  428 (3rd)
1947 NL  461 (1st)
1948 NL  456 (2nd)
1950 NL  471 (3rd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1944 NL  40 (2nd)
1945 NL  32 (5th)
1950 NL  28 (4th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1944 NL  149 (2nd)
1945 NL  148 (1st)
1946 NL  126 (4th)
1947 NL  138 (4th)
1948 NL  143 (4th)
1950 NL  155 (2nd)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1944 NL  328 (2nd)
1945 NL  333 (1st)
1946 NL  240 (4th)
1947 NL  270 (3rd)
1948 NL  269 (2nd)
1950 NL  310 (2nd)
Career  2,045 (99th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1944 NL  507 (2nd)
1945 NL  515 (1st)
1946 NL  400 (3rd)
1947 NL  461 (1st)
1948 NL  456 (2nd)
1950 NL  471 (3rd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1944 NL  40 (1st)
1945 NL  32 (3rd)
1947 NL  17 (5th)
1948 NL  25 (5th)
1950 NL  28 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1950 NL  5.33 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1944 NL  5.60 (2nd)
1945 NL  5.73 (1st)
1946 NL  5.08 (3rd)
1947 NL  5.30 (2nd)
1948 NL  5.07 (2nd)
1950 NL  5.04 (4th)
Career  5.15 (49th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1944 NL  .954 (4th)
1945 NL  .964 (3rd)
1946 NL  .982 (1st)
1947 NL  .977 (2nd)
1948 NL  .967 (2nd)
1950 NL  .965 (3rd)

Youngest s c a p y
1943 NL  born 1922-11-06 (8th)

             

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 6 (1684), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 3 (1771), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 16 (1025), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  5. Ozzie Guillen (953)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Roy McMillan (966)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Roy McMillan (978)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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