Dick Kokos

Richard Jerome Kokos
born Richard Jerome Kokoszka

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: February 28, 1928 in Chicago, IL
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1945. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 8, 1948
Teams (by GP): Browns/Orioles 1948-1954

Final Game: May 10, 1954
Died: April 9, 1986 in Chicago, IL
Buried: St. Adalbert Cemetery, Niles, IL
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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
1948	SLB	AL	20	OF	71	67	59		139	126	8	5	2	.964				1.89	.975		2.51
1948	SLB	AL	20	RF	71	67	59		139	127	7	5	2	.964				1.89	.971		2.14
1949	SLB	AL	21	OF	138	135	130		312	290	16	6	5	.981				2.22	.980		2.44
1949	SLB	AL	21	RF	138	135	130		305	282	17	6	5	.980				2.17	.978		2.09
1950	SLB	AL	22	OF	127	127	118	1128.0	361	342	8	11	2	.970			2.79	2.76	.979	2.51	2.47
1950	SLB	AL	22	LF	81	80	75	707.2	240	230	3	7	0	.971			2.96	2.88	.977	2.41	2.37
1950	SLB	AL	22	RF	50	47	43	420.1	124	115	5	4	2	.968			2.57	2.40	.975	2.12	2.09
1953	SLB	AL	25	OF	83	74	64	642.0	163	152	5	6	1	.963	-2	-4	2.20	1.89	.981	2.43	2.41
1953	SLB	AL	25	LF	62	56	46	484.1	119	112	1	6	0	.950	-6	-15	2.10	1.82	.973	2.22	2.21
1953	SLB	AL	25	RF	20	18	18	157.2	43	40	3	0	1	1.000	2	15	2.45	2.15	.984	2.09	2.08
1954	BAL	AL	26	LF	1	1	1	8.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-120	3.38	3.00	.977	2.25	2.20
1954	BAL	AL	26	OF	1	1	1	8.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-120	3.38	3.00	.980	2.36	2.40
	5 Seasons			OF	420	404	372	1778.0	978	913	37	28	10	.971	-3	-2	2.58	2.26	.979	2.48	2.45
	4 Seasons			RF	279	267	250	578.0	611	564	32	15	10	.975	2	4	2.54	2.14	.976	2.11	2.10
	3 Seasons			LF	144	137	122	1200.0	362	345	4	13	0	.964	-7	-7	2.62	2.42	.976	2.33	2.30
	5 Seasons			TOT	420	404	372	1778.0	978	913	37	28	10	.971	-3	-2	2.58	2.26	.979	2.48	2.45

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-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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rof
1948	SLB	AL	20	RF
1949	SLB	AL	21	RF
1950	SLB	AL	22	LF
1950	SLB	AL	22	RF
1953	SLB	AL	25	LF	-6	-15	-3	-4	0	-3
1953	SLB	AL	25	RF	2	15	1	0	2	1
1954	BAL	AL	26	LF	-1	-120	-1	0	-1	0
	4 Seasons			RF	2	4	1	0	2	1
	3 Seasons			LF	-7	-7	-4	-4	-1	-3
	5 Seasons			TOT	-3	-2	-3	-4	1	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	RF	OF	PH
1948	SLB	AL	20	71	67	71	71	0	71	71	3
1949	SLB	AL	21	143	135	143	138	0	138	138	6
1950	SLB	AL	22	143	127	143	127	81	50	127	16
1953	SLB	AL	25	107	74	107	82	62	20	82	32
1954	BAL	AL	26	11	1	11	1	1	0	1	10
	5 Seasons			475	404	475	419	144	279	419	67

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 -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1948	SLB	AL	20	4	0	4	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	19	8	0	17	4	0	9	5	0	8	0	1	4	3	0	57	20	35.1%	36	1	1.8%	1	1364	59%	81%	27%	137	43%
1949	SLB	AL	21	5	0	5	0	1	8	0	0	4	2	56	24	3	25	3	0	10	8	0	19	4	2	23	16	0	133	55	41.4%	73	5	3.8%	3	3125	54%	84%	31%	334	53%
1950	SLB	AL	22	3	0	3	0	1	5	0	0	3	0	23	12	3	15	1	0	7	4	0	10	2	0	13	9	1	68	28	41.2%	36	4	5.9%	1	1127	62%	85%	31%	148	53%
1953	SLB	AL	25	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	1	13	7	0	4	3	0	9	6	1	4	0	0	5	4	0	35	20	57.1%	14	1	2.9%	2	650	59%	80%	28%	77	52%
	4 Seasons			12	0	12	0	2	18	0	1	8	4	111	51	6	61	11	0	35	23	1	41	6	3	45	32	1	293	123	42.0%	159	11	3.8%	7	6266	57%	83%	30%	696	51%
	MLB Averages																														43.7%			3.2%			62%	82%	31%		54%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1950	SLB	AL	22	5	0	5	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	22	14	0	14	0	0	7	4	0	10	3	0	11	9	0	64	30	46.9%	34	0	0.0%	2	1917	57%	84%	31%	241	56%
1953	SLB	AL	25	6	0	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	24	16	1	17	0	1	8	3	0	4	1	0	11	10	0	64	30	46.9%	32	2	3.1%	-1	1910	66%	81%	30%	196	53%
1954	BAL	AL	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	40.0%	3	0	0.0%	0	44	43%	73%	27%	8	38%
	3 Seasons			11	0	11	0	1	3	0	1	1	0	47	30	1	33	0	1	17	9	0	14	4	0	22	19	0	133	62	46.6%	69	2	1.5%	1	3871	61%	82%	31%	445	54%
	MLB Averages																														57.5%			2.6%			62%	82%	31%		51%

* 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

Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1950 AL 230 (4th)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1950 AL 7 (3rd) 1953 AL 6 (4th)	Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1949 AL 138 (3rd)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1949 AL 282 (2nd)
Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1948 AL 7 (2nd) 1949 AL 17 (1st)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1948 AL 5 (5th) 1949 AL 6 (2nd) 1950 AL 4 (5th)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1949 AL 16 (1st)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1950 AL 11 (1st)
Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1950 AL 2.96 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1950 AL 2.88 (1st)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1950 AL .971 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1953 AL 2 (5th)
Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1949 AL 2.17 (1st)	Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1949 AL .980 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1950 AL 2.76 (5th)	Youngest s c a p y 1948 AL born 1928-02-28 (4th) 1949 AL born 1928-02-28 (8th)

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