Hank Majeski

Henry Majeski (Heeney)

Positions: Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 174 lb.

Born: December 13, 1916 in Staten Island, NY
High School: Curtis HS (Staten Island, NY) (All Transactions)
Debut: May 17, 1939
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Indians/WhiteSox/Bees/Braves/... 1939-1955

Final Game: July 26, 1955
Died: August 9, 1991 in Staten Island, NY
Cremated
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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	Awards
1939	BSN	NL	22	3B	99	97	73		325	111	196	18	19	.945				3.10	.942		3.00
1941	BSN	NL	24	3B	11	11	11		45	15	26	4	2	.911				3.73	.949		3.33
1946	TOT	AL	29	3B	74	74	72		249	79	161	9	22	.964				3.24	.948		3.06
1946	NYY	AL	29	3B	2	2	2		4	1	2	1	0	.750				1.50	.948		3.05
1946	PHA	AL	29	3B	72	72	70		245	78	159	8	22	.967				3.29	.948		3.06
1947	PHA	AL	30	3B	134	132	129		428	160	263	5	28	.988				3.16	.959		3.01
1947	PHA	AL	30	SS	4	4	4		30	10	20	0	4	1.000				7.50	.964		5.12
1947	PHA	AL	30	2B	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0					0.00			5.50
1948	PHA	AL	31	3B	142	142	136		442	163	268	11	19	.975				3.04	.958		3.04	MVP-11
1948	PHA	AL	31	SS	8	6	6		38	13	24	1	4	.974				4.63	.964		5.18	MVP-11
1949	PHA	AL	32	3B	113	113	109		351	117	219	15	37	.957				2.97	.960		3.15
1950	CHW	AL	33	3B	112	112	101	953.1	372	115	246	11	31	.970			3.41	3.22	.960	3.25	3.20
1951	TOT	AL	34	3B	97	94	85	812.0	327	86	232	9	19	.972			3.52	3.28	.950	3.17	3.15
1951	CHW	AL	34	3B	9	8	1	59.0	20	4	15	1	2	.950			2.90	2.11	.950	3.17	3.16
1951	PHA	AL	34	3B	88	86	84	753.0	307	82	217	8	17	.974			3.57	3.40	.950	3.17	3.15
1952	TOT	AL	35	3B	45	38	33	347.0	146	42	99	5	12	.966			3.66	3.13	.953	3.29	3.29
1952	PHA	AL	35	3B	34	33	29	292.0	123	33	87	3	9	.976			3.70	3.53	.953	3.29	3.29
1952	CLE	AL	35	3B	11	5	4	55.0	23	9	12	2	3	.913			3.44	1.91	.953	3.29	3.29
1952	CLE	AL	35	2B	3	1	1	18.0	12	6	6	0	4	1.000			6.00	4.00	.978	5.55	5.57
1953	CLE	AL	36	2B	10	2	2	35.0	16	8	8	0	2	1.000	0	0	4.11	1.60	.979	5.61	5.57
1953	CLE	AL	36	3B	7	1	1	19.0	4	1	3	0	0	1.000	0	0	1.89	0.57	.958	3.36	3.36
1953	CLE	AL	36	OF	1				0	0	0	0	0					0.00			2.40
1954	CLE	AL	37	2B	25	11	8	146.0	99	54	44	1	10	.990	0	4	6.04	3.92	.976	5.37	5.33
1954	CLE	AL	37	3B	10	8	7	81.2	35	13	20	2	1	.943	-0	-1	3.64	3.30	.959	3.48	3.46
1955	TOT	AL	38	3B	17	13	6	110.0	26	9	17	0	2	1.000	-1	-10	2.13	1.53	.950	3.17	3.14
1955	TOT	AL	38	2B	9	4	4	49.0	25	13	12	0	2	1.000	-2	-39	4.59	2.78	.976	5.36	5.32
1955	CLE	AL	38	3B	9	7	2	53.0	10	4	6	0	1	1.000	-2	-45	1.70	1.11	.950	3.18	3.14
1955	CLE	AL	38	2B	4	2	2	26.0	15	7	8	0	1	1.000	-1	-28	5.19	3.75	.976	5.37	5.32
1955	BAL	AL	38	3B	8	6	4	57.0	16	5	11	0	1	1.000	1	23	2.53	2.00	.950	3.17	3.14
1955	BAL	AL	38	2B	5	2	2	23.0	10	6	4	0	1	1.000	-1	-52	3.91	2.00	.976	5.36	5.32
	12 Seasons			3B	861	835	763	2323.0	2750	911	1750	89	192	.968	-1	-1	3.42	3.09	.954	3.23	3.11
	5 Seasons			2B	48	18	15	248.0	152	81	70	1	18	.993	-1	-5	5.48	3.15	.976	5.41	5.40
	2 Seasons			SS	12	10	10		68	23	44	1	8	.985				5.58	.964		5.16
	1 Season			OF	1				0	0	0	0	0					0.00			2.40
	13 Seasons			TOT	922	863	788	2571.0	2970	1015	1864	91	218	.969	-2	-1	3.62	3.12	.956	3.44	3.25
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	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-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	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP
1939	BSN	NL	22	3B
1941	BSN	NL	24	3B
1946	NYY	AL	29	3B
1946	PHA	AL	29	3B
1947	PHA	AL	30	3B
1947	PHA	AL	30	SS
1947	PHA	AL	30	2B
1948	PHA	AL	31	3B
1948	PHA	AL	31	SS
1949	PHA	AL	32	3B
1950	CHW	AL	33	3B
1951	CHW	AL	34	3B
1951	PHA	AL	34	3B
1952	PHA	AL	35	3B
1952	CLE	AL	35	3B
1952	CLE	AL	35	2B
1953	CLE	AL	36	2B	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953	CLE	AL	36	3B	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954	CLE	AL	37	2B	0	4	0	0	0	0
1954	CLE	AL	37	3B	-0	-1	-0	0	-0	0
1955	CLE	AL	38	3B	-2	-45	-2	-2	0	0
1955	CLE	AL	38	2B	-1	-28	-1	0	-1	0
1955	BAL	AL	38	3B	1	23	1	1	0	0
1955	BAL	AL	38	2B	-1	-52	-1	-0	-1	0
	12 Seasons			3B	-1	-1	-1	-1	-0	0
	5 Seasons			2B	-1	-5	-1	0	-1	0
	2 Seasons			SS
	13 Seasons			TOT	-2	-1	-2	-1	-1	0
Lg				Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR
1939	BSN	NL	22	106	97	106	99	0	0	0	0	99	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0
1940	BSN	NL	23	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
1941	BSN	NL	24	19	11	19	11	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0
1946	PHA	AL	29	78	72	78	72	0	0	0	0	72	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
1946	NYY	AL	29	8	2	8	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
1947	PHA	AL	30	141	136	141	138	0	0	0	1	134	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
1948	PHA	AL	31	148	148	148	148	0	0	0	0	142	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949	PHA	AL	32	114	113	114	113	0	0	0	0	113	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1950	CHW	AL	33	122	112	122	112	0	0	0	0	112	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0
1951	PHA	AL	34	89	86	89	88	0	0	0	0	88	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1951	CHW	AL	34	12	8	12	9	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
1952	CLE	AL	35	36	6	36	14	0	0	0	3	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	0
1952	PHA	AL	35	34	33	34	34	0	0	0	0	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953	CLE	AL	36	50	3	50	16	0	0	0	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	36	1
1954	CLE	AL	37	57	19	57	35	0	0	0	25	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	28	1
1955	CLE	AL	38	36	9	36	13	0	0	0	4	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	0
1955	BAL	AL	38	16	8	16	13	0	0	0	5	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
	13 Seasons			1069	863	1069	917	0	0	0	48	861	12	0	0	0	0	0	171	2
Lg				G	GS	Batting	Defense	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR

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 -- 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%
1948	PHA	AL	31	3539	53%	83%	25%	275	91%	4	102	88	5	9	163	126	30	4	4	7	0	5	2	6	10	8	0	8	2	1	1	19	74%
1949	PHA	AL	32	3354	61%	81%	25%	260	90%	0	93	65	13	15	167	123	37	2	6	11	1	9	1	8	30	21	1	26	4	2	2	17	65%
1950	CHW	AL	33	3263	64%	80%	25%	279	91%	2	88	69	9	9	188	140	38	3	5	8	0	6	2	8	25	15	0	20	5	1	2	8	75%
1951	PHA	AL	34	2679	61%	86%	27%	261	90%	2	65	51	7	7	186	146	34	2	5	8	0	8	0	8	16	14	1	16	0	0	0	18	72%
1951	CHW	AL	34	265	70%	80%	26%	23	83%	1	4	2	0	2	16	15	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
1952	PHA	AL	35	1187	66%	82%	26%	115	93%	0	32	25	4	3	81	61	17	0	2	3	0	3	0	2	9	7	0	8	1	1	0	4	50%
1952	CLE	AL	35	246	61%	86%	30%	25	92%	0	9	7	2	0	15	10	4	1	0	2	0	2	0	2	3	2	0	3	0	0	0	1	100%
1953	CLE	AL	36	85	58%	82%	33%	3	100%	0	1	0	0	1	3	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954	CLE	AL	37	339	59%	83%	24%	33	91%	3	14	12	0	2	18	11	3	2	2	2	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0%
1955	CLE	AL	38	214	70%	75%	10%	11	82%	0	8	7	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
1955	BAL	AL	38	226	49%	79%	23%	16	81%	0	6	5	1	0	9	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	8 Seasons			15397	60%	82%	25%	1301	90%	12	422	331	42	48	848	639	169	14	25	42	1	36	5	36	98	70	2	85	12	5	5	68	69%
	MLB Averages				63%	82%	26%		89%																								67%

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
1952	CLE	AL	35	76	70%	79%	21%	5	80%	0	6	1	4	1	7	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	2	1	0	4	1	3	0	0	0
1953	CLE	AL	36	150	65%	84%	30%	14	93%	0	8	4	3	1	8	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0
1954	CLE	AL	37	611	67%	81%	26%	69	93%	1	52	28	15	9	44	32	10	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	10	4	2	2	0	9	2	7	1	1	0
1955	BAL	AL	38	102	63%	84%	20%	7	86%	0	6	3	1	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
1955	CLE	AL	38	108	56%	81%	14%	11	100%	0	10	7	2	1	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			1047	65%	82%	25%	106	92%	1	82	43	25	14	68	51	14	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	18	6	5	5	0	17	5	12	1	1	0
	MLB Averages				63%	82%	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
1948	PHA	AL	31	283	54%	85%	25%	30	90%	1	13	4	9	0	25	18	5	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	4	1	1	2	0	0	4	2	2	0	0	0
	1 Season			283	54%	85%	25%	30	90%	1	13	4	9	0	25	18	5	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	4	1	1	2	0	0	4	2	2	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				63%	82%	26%		90%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1948 AL (11, 7%) 0.07 Career Shares (1016th)	Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1947 AL 134 (4th) 1948 AL 142 (4th) 1950 AL 112 (5th) 1951 AL 97 (5th)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1946 AL 79 (3rd) 1947 AL 160 (3rd) 1948 AL 163 (3rd) 1949 AL 117 (5th) 1950 AL 115 (5th)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1946 AL 161 (5th) 1947 AL 263 (4th) 1948 AL 268 (3rd) 1949 AL 219 (5th) 1950 AL 246 (5th) 1951 AL 232 (4th)
Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1949 AL 15 (4th) 1950 AL 11 (5th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y 1950 AL 3.41 (2nd) 1951 AL 3.52 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1939 NL 3.10 (3rd) 1947 AL 3.16 (4th) 1948 AL 3.04 (2nd) 1949 AL 2.97 (5th) 1950 AL 3.22 (3rd) 1951 AL 3.28 (3rd) Career 3.09 (66th)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1939 NL .945 (4th) 1947 AL .988 (1st) 1948 AL .975 (1st) 1949 AL .957 (4th) 1950 AL .970 (3rd) 1951 AL .972 (2nd) Career .968 (15th)
Oldest s c a p y 1955 AL born 1916-12-13 (6th)

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