Frank Malzone

Frank James Malzone

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: February 28, 1930 in Bronx, NY
High School: Samuel Gompers HS (Bronx, NY)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1947. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 17, 1955
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Angels 1955-1966

Final Game: October 1, 1966
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All-Star

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
1955	BOS	AL	25	3B	4	4	4	41.0	17	2	15	0	1	1.000	0	6	3.73	4.25	.950	3.16	3.15
1956	BOS	AL	26	3B	26	25	25	220.2	87	24	57	6	4	.931	-2	-10	3.30	3.12	.949	3.22	3.19
1957	BOS	AL	27	3B	153	153	152	1364.0	546	151	370	25	31	.954	10	9	3.44	3.41	.951	3.23	3.24	AS,MVP-7,RoY-2,GG
1958	BOS	AL	28	3B	155	155	154	1380.1	544	139	378	27	36	.950	10	8	3.37	3.34	.951	3.11	3.08	AS,MVP-25,GG
1959	BOS	AL	29	3B	154	154	154	1364.0	515	134	357	24	40	.953	1	1	3.24	3.19	.952	3.21	3.19	AS,MVP-14,GG
1960	BOS	AL	30	3B	151	150	150	1326.0	503	159	318	26	36	.948	-3	-3	3.24	3.16	.952	3.14	3.14	AS
1961	BOS	AL	31	3B	149	148	148	1312.2	463	136	304	23	45	.950	3	3	3.02	2.95	.950	3.18	3.15
1962	BOS	AL	32	3B	156	156	153	1389.1	483	154	313	16	32	.967	8	7	3.03	2.99	.952	3.08	3.07	MVP-31
1963	BOS	AL	33	3B	148	148	143	1324.2	450	151	283	16	18	.964	6	6	2.95	2.93	.947	3.02	3.02	AS
1964	BOS	AL	34	3B	143	143	131	1225.0	417	141	259	17	24	.959	0	0	2.94	2.80	.955	3.03	3.02	AS
1965	BOS	AL	35	3B	96	85	80	765.2	257	79	170	8	19	.969	1	2	2.93	2.59	.960	3.13	3.12
1966	CAL	AL	36	3B	35	32	18	256.0	106	38	60	8	3	.925	-1	-5	3.45	2.80	.954	3.03	3.03
	12 Seasons			3B	1370	1353	1312	11969.1	4388	1308	2884	196	289	.955	34	3	3.15	3.06	.952	3.13	3.11
	12 Seasons			TOT	1370	1353	1312	11969.1	4388	1308	2884	196	289	.955	34	3	3.15	3.06	.952	3.13	3.11

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	Rdp
1955	BOS	AL	25	3B	0	6	0	0	0	0
1956	BOS	AL	26	3B	-2	-10	-2	-1	-1	0
1957	BOS	AL	27	3B	10	9	9	5	4	1
1958	BOS	AL	28	3B	10	8	8	0	8	1
1959	BOS	AL	29	3B	1	1	0	0	0	1
1960	BOS	AL	30	3B	-3	-3	-3	1	-4	0
1961	BOS	AL	31	3B	3	3	1	1	1	2
1962	BOS	AL	32	3B	8	7	8	3	5	0
1963	BOS	AL	33	3B	6	6	6	1	5	0
1964	BOS	AL	34	3B	0	0	0	0	-0	0
1965	BOS	AL	35	3B	1	2	1	0	1	0
1966	CAL	AL	36	3B	-1	-5	-1	0	-2	0
	12 Seasons			3B	34	3	29	12	17	5
	12 Seasons			TOT	34	3	29	12	17	5

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	3B	PH	PR
1955	BOS	AL	25	6	4	6	4	4	1	1
1956	BOS	AL	26	27	25	27	26	26	0	1
1957	BOS	AL	27	153	153	153	153	153	0	0
1958	BOS	AL	28	155	155	155	155	155	0	0
1959	BOS	AL	29	154	154	154	154	154	0	0
1960	BOS	AL	30	152	150	152	151	151	1	0
1961	BOS	AL	31	151	148	151	149	149	2	1
1962	BOS	AL	32	156	156	156	156	156	0	0
1963	BOS	AL	33	151	148	151	148	148	3	0
1964	BOS	AL	34	148	143	148	143	143	5	0
1965	BOS	AL	35	106	85	106	96	96	19	0
1966	CAL	AL	36	82	32	82	35	35	48	0
	12 Seasons			1441	1353	1441	1370	1370	79	3

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%
1955	BOS	AL	25	190	70%	75%	22%	17	94%	0	2	1	0	1	15	12	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	100%
1956	BOS	AL	26	992	64%	77%	28%	88	86%	1	26	18	5	3	57	48	8	1	1	6	0	6	0	5	4	3	1	4	0	0	0	3	67%
1957	BOS	AL	27	5663	63%	81%	30%	513	89%	3	146	112	16	19	355	279	62	4	7	25	2	17	6	19	30	19	3	26	2	2	0	16	50%
1958	BOS	AL	28	5840	67%	81%	29%	540	89%	4	135	99	19	17	378	309	60	2	4	26	0	20	6	20	36	28	2	33	1	1	0	23	65%
1959	BOS	AL	29	5896	67%	80%	28%	486	89%	5	132	95	16	21	342	272	57	3	6	23	1	11	11	17	40	23	3	29	5	5	0	17	65%
1960	BOS	AL	30	5835	68%	79%	26%	496	89%	8	162	114	23	26	321	239	67	7	11	26	1	17	8	20	36	25	4	31	2	0	2	17	59%
1961	BOS	AL	31	5783	63%	78%	26%	441	90%	4	131	100	12	19	299	229	59	1	12	23	0	12	11	20	45	34	1	38	5	3	2	13	31%
1962	BOS	AL	32	6028	58%	77%	25%	456	93%	5	152	123	13	16	309	239	51	8	7	16	0	14	2	14	31	23	4	30	1	1	0	22	55%
1963	BOS	AL	33	5654	57%	77%	24%	436	93%	3	150	130	4	16	279	235	36	2	10	16	0	15	1	14	17	12	0	13	3	2	1	19	79%
1964	BOS	AL	34	5329	58%	76%	23%	392	91%	5	136	111	8	17	255	196	44	3	12	17	0	12	5	11	24	16	1	21	3	2	1	13	69%
1965	BOS	AL	35	3317	59%	78%	24%	240	93%	0	82	61	7	14	170	124	36	1	4	8	0	8	0	6	19	10	2	14	5	4	1	8	88%
1966	CAL	AL	36	1078	65%	81%	28%	97	88%	0	40	25	7	8	59	47	10	2	3	8	0	7	1	7	4	4	0	4	0	0	0	0
	12 Seasons			51605	63%	79%	26%	4202	90%	38	1294	989	130	177	2839	2229	493	34	78	194	4	139	51	153	287	198	21	244	27	20	7	152	62%
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		89%																								62%

* 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

All-Star Games 1957 * 1958 (3B) 1959-1 * 1959-2 (3B) 1960-1 (3B) 1960-2 (3B) 1963 (3B) 1964	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1957 AL (7, 17%) 1958 AL (25, 0%) 1959 AL (14, 7%) 1962 AL (31, 1%) 0.25 Career Shares (673rd)	Gold Gloves 1957 ML (3B) 1958 AL (3B) 1959 AL (3B) All multiple winners	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1957 AL 25 (3rd) 1958 AL 27 (3rd) 1959 AL 24 (4th) 1960 AL 26 (4th)
Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1957 AL 153 (1st) 1958 AL 155 (1st) 1959 AL 154 (1st) 1960 AL 151 (2nd) 1961 AL 149 (2nd) 1962 AL 156 (4th) 1963 AL 148 (5th) 1964 AL 143 (4th) Career 1,370 (51st)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1957 AL 151 (1st) 1958 AL 139 (2nd) 1959 AL 134 (2nd) 1960 AL 159 (2nd) 1961 AL 136 (4th) 1962 AL 154 (4th) 1964 AL 141 (2nd) Career 1,308 (55th)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1957 AL 370 (1st) 1958 AL 378 (1st) 1959 AL 357 (1st) 1960 AL 318 (2nd) 1961 AL 304 (3rd) 1962 AL 313 (4th) Career 2,884 (47th)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1957 AL 25 (1st) 1958 AL 27 (1st) 1959 AL 24 (2nd) 1960 AL 26 (1st) 1961 AL 23 (1st) 1964 AL 17 (5th) Career 196 (86th)
Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y 1957 AL 10 (2nd) 1958 AL 10 (1st) 1962 AL 8 (3rd) 1963 AL 6 (3rd) Career 34 (40th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y 1957 AL 3.44 (3rd) 1958 AL 3.37 (2nd) 1959 AL 3.24 (5th) 1960 AL 3.24 (4th) 1961 AL 3.02 (5th) 1962 AL 3.03 (5th) 1963 AL 2.95 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1957 AL 3.41 (1st) 1958 AL 3.34 (1st) 1959 AL 3.19 (2nd) 1960 AL 3.16 (3rd) 1961 AL 2.95 (5th) 1962 AL 2.99 (4th) 1963 AL 2.93 (4th) Career 3.06 (75th)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1957 AL .954 (4th) 1958 AL .950 (5th) 1959 AL .953 (5th) 1962 AL .967 (3rd) 1963 AL .964 (2nd) 1964 AL .959 (4th) 1965 AL .969 (4th)

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