Bobby Malkmus

Robert Edward Malkmus

Positions: Second Baseman, Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: July 4, 1931 in Newark, NJ
Signed by the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent in 1951. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 1, 1957
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Senators/Braves 1957-1962

Final Game: May 15, 1962
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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
1957	MLN	NL	25	2B	7	5	4	47.0	36	16	19	1	4	.972	-1	-15	6.70	5.00	.977	5.36	5.41
1958	WSH	AL	26	2B	26	17	12	165.0	112	55	53	4	14	.964	1	6	5.89	4.15	.978	5.26	5.21
1958	WSH	AL	26	3B	2	0	0	2.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	-0	-60	4.50	0.50	.950	3.15	3.10
1958	WSH	AL	26	SS	1	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-180	0.00	0.00		4.95	4.90
1960	PHI	NL	28	SS	29	7	3	101.1	55	18	37	0	11	1.000	0	4	4.88	1.90	.960	4.80	4.80
1960	PHI	NL	28	2B	23	17	13	151.1	93	43	49	1	9	.989	0	2	5.47	4.00	.974	5.20	5.19
1960	PHI	NL	28	3B	12	8	7	78.0	23	7	15	1	0	.957	-0	-8	2.54	1.83	.952	2.97	2.96
1961	PHI	NL	29	2B	58	55	48	481.2	330	146	180	4	52	.988	8	19	6.09	5.62	.976	5.51	5.45	MVP-22
1961	PHI	NL	29	SS	34	16	12	178.1	136	48	81	7	12	.949	1	8	6.51	3.79	.959	4.92	4.87	MVP-22
1961	PHI	NL	29	3B	25	10	8	121.0	55	16	38	1	3	.982	3	31	4.02	2.16	.948	2.92	2.89	MVP-22
1962	PHI	NL	30	SS	1	1	0	5.0	5	1	4	0	1	1.000	1	144	9.00	5.00	.964	5.04	5.00
	4 Seasons			2B	114	94	77	845.0	571	260	301	10	79	.982	8	12	5.98	4.92	.976	5.40	5.34
	4 Seasons			SS	65	24	15	286.2	196	67	122	7	24	.964	2	8	5.93	2.91	.959	4.88	4.84
	3 Seasons			3B	39	18	15	201.0	79	23	54	2	3	.975	2	15	3.45	1.97	.949	2.94	2.92
	6 Seasons			TOT	218	136	107	1332.2	846	350	477	19	106	.978	12	11	5.59	3.79	.970	4.92	4.76

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.
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	Rdp
1957	MLN	NL	25	2B	-1	-15	0	-0	1	-1
1958	WSH	AL	26	2B	1	6	1	1	-0	0
1958	WSH	AL	26	3B	-0	-60	-0	-0	0
1958	WSH	AL	26	SS	-0	-180	-0	0	-0	0
1960	PHI	NL	28	SS	0	4	0	1	-1	0
1960	PHI	NL	28	2B	0	2	1	0	1	-1
1960	PHI	NL	28	3B	-0	-8	-0	-1	1	0
1961	PHI	NL	29	2B	8	19	6	0	5	2
1961	PHI	NL	29	SS	1	8	2	-0	2	-1
1961	PHI	NL	29	3B	3	31	3	1	2	0
1962	PHI	NL	30	SS	1	144	1	0	1	0
	4 Seasons			2B	8	12	8	2	6	0
	4 Seasons			SS	2	8	3	1	2	-1
	3 Seasons			3B	2	15	2	-1	3	0
	6 Seasons			TOT	12	11	13	2	11	-1

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1957	MLN	NL	25	13	5	13	7	7	0	0	3	4
1958	WSH	AL	26	41	17	41	29	26	2	1	11	3
1959	WSH	AL	27	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	6
1960	PHI	NL	28	79	32	79	63	23	12	29	5	18
1961	PHI	NL	29	121	81	121	112	58	25	34	8	12
1962	PHI	NL	30	8	1	8	1	0	0	1	3	4
	6 Seasons			268	136	268	212	114	39	65	30	47

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
1957	MLN	NL	25	217	62%	80%	30%	24	88%	0	16	5	9	2	18	10	7	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	5	1	0	3	0	4	3	1	0	0	0
1958	WSH	AL	26	716	69%	78%	27%	72	94%	0	53	25	21	7	53	48	5	0	0	4	0	3	1	3	14	7	4	2	0	13	2	11	0	0	0
1960	PHI	NL	28	616	54%	83%	29%	63	92%	0	42	14	13	15	50	43	4	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	8	2	1	2	1	6	3	3	1	1	0
1961	PHI	NL	29	2062	60%	82%	28%	210	95%	1	149	50	62	37	183	148	28	1	4	4	1	3	0	3	52	17	8	14	2	43	16	26	5	5	0
	4 Seasons			3611	61%	81%	28%	369	94%	1	260	94	105	61	304	249	44	1	6	10	1	7	2	7	79	27	13	21	3	66	24	41	6	6	0
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		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
1958	WSH	AL	26	11	73%	82%	9%	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
1960	PHI	NL	28	425	59%	80%	27%	42	86%	1	18	5	11	2	37	25	10	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	11	4	0	2	2	1	10	4	5	1	0	1
1961	PHI	NL	29	797	67%	81%	29%	110	87%	2	50	22	23	5	81	60	15	1	2	7	0	5	2	5	12	4	1	4	1	1	12	5	7	0	0	0
1962	PHI	NL	30	25	64%	84%	36%	4	75%	0	1	0	1	0	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			1258	64%	81%	28%	156	87%	3	69	27	35	7	122	87	27	1	5	7	0	5	2	5	24	8	1	7	3	2	23	9	13	1	0	1
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		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%
1958	WSH	AL	26	7	57%	100%	57%	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1960	PHI	NL	28	326	55%	85%	29%	25	84%	0	7	5	0	2	15	12	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1961	PHI	NL	29	520	59%	81%	32%	51	94%	1	16	12	0	4	37	29	5	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	3	2	0	2	1	1	0	2	100%
	3 Seasons			853	57%	82%	31%	76	91%	1	23	17	0	6	52	41	8	1	2	2	0	1	1	2	3	2	0	2	1	1	0	2	100%
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		89%																								58%

* 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)) 1961 NL (22, 0%) 0.00 Career Shares (1712th)	Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y 1961 NL 8 (2nd)	Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y 1961 NL 3 (3rd)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1961 NL (22, 0%)
0.00 Career Shares (1712th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1961 NL 8 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1961 NL 3 (3rd)

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