Fred Marsh

Fred Francis Marsh

Positions: Third Baseman, Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: January 5, 1924 in Valley Falls, KS
High School: Steinmetz HS (Chicago, IL)
Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in 1942. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1949
Teams (by GP): Browns/WhiteSox/Orioles/Senators/Indians 1949-1956

Final Game: May 29, 1956
Died: October 26, 2006 in Corry, PA
Buried: Pine Grove Cemetery, Corry, PA
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Standard Batting

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
1942	18	CHC-min	C,D	124	440	440		85	14	4	1						.193	.193	.250	.443		110							ZAN,SVL,ELZ · MATL,NCSL,APPY
1944	20	KNX	A1	6	25	25		4									.160	.160											KNX · SOUA
1946	22	CHC-min	B	131	491	491		127	22	7	4						.259	.259	.356	.615		175							TAC · WINT
1947	23	CLE-min	C	89	320	320		84	15	5	1						.263	.263	.350	.613		112							BUR · CENA
1948	24	CLE-min	AA	115	430	430		131	20	4	11						.305	.305	.447	.751		192							OKC · TL
1949	25	SAC	AAA	101	310	280	36	59	11	1	3	22	8		27	43	.211	.285	.289	.574		81		2	1				SAC · PCL
1949	25	CLE	AL	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0

1950	26	CLE-min	AA	141	564	564		169	34	3	10						.300	.300	.424	.723		239							OKC · TL
1951	27	SLB	AL	130	483	445	44	108	21	4	4	43	4	4	36	56	.243	.299	.335	.634	69	149	9	0	2			*5/64
1952	28	TOT	AL	96	303	271	29	70	9	1	2	28	3	3	28	37	.258	.328	.321	.649	80	87	6	0	4			654/7
1952	28	SLB	AL	11	29	24	3	5	1	0	0	1	0	1	5	4	.208	.345	.250	.595	66	6	0	0	0			/46
1952	28	WSH	AL	9	25	24	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.042	.080	.042	.122	-65	1	2	0	0			/47O
1952	28	SLB	AL	76	249	223	25	64	8	1	2	26	3	2	22	29	.287	.351	.359	.710	96	80	4	0	4			65
1953	29	CHW	AL	67	111	95	22	19	1	0	2	2	0	3	13	26	.200	.303	.274	.576	55	26	2	1	2			56/34
1954	30	CHW	AL	62	109	98	21	30	5	2	0	4	4	2	9	16	.306	.364	.398	.762	106	39	2	0	2	0		5/639
1955	31	BAL	AL	89	344	303	30	66	7	1	2	19	1	2	35	33	.218	.300	.267	.567	60	81	8	1	4	1	1	456
1956	32	BAL-min	Opn	97	433	370	64	89	15	0	3	27	7		51	57	.241	.333	.305	.638		113	12	2	6	4			VAN · PCL
1956	32	BAL	AL	20	28	24	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	3	.125	.250	.125	.375	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	/564
1957	33	BAL-STL-min	AA,AAA	145	558	489	58	121	21	3	6	41	3	2	58	53	.247	.332	.339	.671		166		4	6	1	2		SAN,OMA · TL,AA
1958	34	ATL-min	AA	100	336	310	42	82	14	1	4	34	1	0	17	37	.265	.308	.355	.663		110		3	5	1			AUS · TL
7 Yrs				465	1378	1236	148	296	43	8	10	96	13	14	125	171	.239	.310	.311	.622	70	385	27	2	14	1	1
162 Game Avg.				162	480	431	52	103	15	3	3	33	5	5	44	60	.239	.310	.311	.622	70	134	9	1	5

BAL (4 yrs)				326	1133	1019	104	246	37	6	8	89	9	9	102	125	.241	.311	.313	.624	71	319	21	1	10	1	1
CHW (2 yrs)				129	220	193	43	49	6	2	2	6	4	5	22	42	.254	.333	.337	.670	80	65	4	1	4	0
WSH (1 yr)				9	25	24	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.042	.080	.042	.122	-65	1	2	0	0
CLE (1 yr)				1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos
1949	25	CLE	AL	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.500	.500	0.0	0.0	0	$

1951	27	SLB	AL	130	483	-20	-0	1	-9	0	-29	-2.9	13	-16	-1.7	.477	.482	-0.8	-0.9	-7	$	*5/64
1952	28	SLB	AL	87	278	-2	-2	-0	0	4	-0	-0.0	8	7	0.7	.500	.500	0.7	0.5	7	$	/46
1952	28	WSH	AL	9	25	-5	0	-0	-1	0	-6	-0.7	1	-5	-0.6	.423	.496	-0.5	-0.1	-4	$	/47O
1953	29	CHW	AL	67	111	-5	-2	-0	3	1	-3	-0.4	3	-0	0.0	.495	.498	-0.4	0.4	-3	$	56/34
1954	30	CHW	AL	62	109	1	-1	-0	8	0	8	0.8	3	11	1.1	.514	.505	0.2	0.9	2	$	5/639
1955	31	BAL	AL	89	344	-14	-1	-1	-5	4	-18	-1.9	9	-9	-0.9	.479	.488	-0.4	-0.1	-4	$	456
1956	32	BAL	AL	20	28	-3	-1	0	-4	1	-7	-0.7	1	-6	-0.6	.465	.496	-0.3	-0.3	-3	$	/564
7 Seasons				465	1378	-50	-7	-2	-8	10	-56	-5.8	37	-19	-2.0	.488	.496	-1.5	0.5	-11	$

BAL (4 yrs)				326	1133	-40	-4	-1	-18	9	-54	-5.5	30	-23	-2.5	.483	.491	-0.8	-0.8	-6	$
CHW (2 yrs)				129	220	-5	-3	-1	11	1	4	0.5	6	10	1.1	.504	.502	-0.2	1.3	-1	$
WSH (1 yr)				9	25	-5	0	-0	-1	0	-6	-0.7	1	-5	-0.6	.423	.496	-0.5	-0.1	-4	$
CLE (1 yr)				1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.500	.500	0.0	0.0	0	$

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1951	27	SLB	AL	483	352	44	3.4	105	.270	.243	.271	.299	.353	.335	.398	.634	.750	69	.368	-20.8	-2.1	.529	.173	.092	4.0
1952	28	TOT	AL	303	214	30	3.8	98	.293	.258	.262	.328	.342	.321	.382	.649	.724	80	.459	-7.3	-0.8	.548	.166	.063	2.4
1952	28	SLB	AL	29	20	2	2.7	98	.250	.208	.262	.345	.343	.250	.383	.595	.726	66	.313	-0.9	-0.1	.500	.208	.042
1952	28	WSH	AL	25	25	0	0.0	94	.050	.042	.257	.080	.336	.042	.375	.122	.710	-65	.000	-5.4	-0.6	.080	.042	.000
1952	28	SLB	AL	249	169	28	4.5	98	.323	.287	.263	.351	.343	.359	.383	.710	.726	96	.534	-1.0	-0.1	.624	.175	.072	2.4
1953	29	CHW	AL	111	83	7	2.3	105	.254	.200	.273	.303	.350	.274	.402	.576	.752	55	.224	-6.2	-0.6	.457	.179	.074	.0
1954	30	CHW	AL	109	74	14	5.1	102	.366	.306	.270	.364	.346	.398	.395	.762	.741	106	.579	0.7	0.1	.694	.204	.092	.0
1955	31	BAL	AL	344	252	25	2.6	96	.238	.218	.257	.300	.335	.267	.383	.567	.717	60	.270	-16.1	-1.6	.470	.162	.050	1.3
1956	32	BAL	AL	28	21	1	1.3	98	.143	.125	.256	.250	.336	.125	.391	.375	.728	6	.082	-3.1	-0.3	.381	.208	.000	.0
7 Yrs				1378	996	121	3.3	101	.271	.239	.265	.310	.345	.311	.391	.622	.735	70	.363	-52.8	-5.3	.521	.172	.072	11.3
162 Game Avg.				480	347	42	3.3	101	.271	.239	.265	.310	.345	.311	.391	.622	.735	70	.363	-52.8	-5.3	.521	.172	.072	4

BAL (4 yrs)				1133	814	100	3.3	100	.268	.241	.264	.311	.344	.313	.389	.624	.734	71	.367	-42.0	-4.2	.526	.172	.072	8.5
CHW (2 yrs)				220	157	21	3.6	104	.315	.254	.272	.333	.348	.337	.398	.670	.747	80	.412	-5.5	-0.6	.569	.192	.083	2.7
WSH (1 yr)				25	25	0	0.0	94	.050	.042	.257	.080	.336	.042	.375	.122	.710	-65	.000	-5.4	-0.6	.080	.042	.000

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1951	27	SLB	AL	483	0.8%	11.6%	7.5%	6.0%	27%	1.56	7.9	111.3	10.3	1.09	80%
1952	28	TOT	AL	303	0.7%	12.2%	9.2%	4.0%	17%	1.32	7.3	135.5	9.7	1.20	77%
1952	28	SLB	AL	278	0.7%	11.9%	9.7%	4.3%	17%	1.22	7.5	123.5	9.1	1.02	76%
1952	28	WSH	AL	25	0.0%	16.0%	4.0%	0.0%	0%	4.00	6.0		24.0	3.20	80%
1953	29	CHW	AL	111	1.8%	23.4%	11.7%	2.7%	16%	2.00	3.7	47.5	47.5	0.96	60%
1954	30	CHW	AL	109	0.0%	14.7%	8.3%	6.4%	23%	1.78	6.1		24.5	0.97	75%
1955	31	BAL	AL	344	0.6%	9.6%	10.2%	2.9%	15%	0.94	9.2	151.5	15.9	0.97	78%
1956	32	BAL	AL	28	0.0%	10.7%	14.3%	0.0%	0%	0.75	8.0			1.25	75%
7 Yrs				1378	0.7%	12.4%	9.1%	4.4%	21%	1.37	7.2	123.6	12.9	1.05	77%
MLB Averages					2.1%	10.6%	9.6%	6.5%	28%	1.10	8.3	42.5	8.1	0.97	76%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1949	25	CLE	AL	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0

1951	27	SLB	AL	-20.8	-2.1	334	-0.5	5.5	-5.9	1.03	-0.3	-0.1	-7.7	-0.8	0.94	-7.1	1.21	9
1952	28	TOT	AL	-7.6	-0.8	230	-1.5	3.1	-4.6	1.04	-1.0	-0.5	-6.9	-0.8	0.98	-7.9	1.30	3
1952	28	SLB	AL	-2.2	-0.2	205	-0.8	3.0	-3.8	1.03	-0.4	-0.3	-0.8	-0.1	0.98	-2.0	1.74	2
1952	28	WSH	AL	-5.4	-0.6	25	-0.7	0.0	-0.7	1.09	-0.5	-0.1	-6.1	-0.7	0.95	-5.9	0.43	1
1953	29	CHW	AL	-6.2	-0.6	115	-0.8	1.3	-2.1	.90	-0.5	-0.5	-10.0	-1.0	0.92	-5.1	1.41	11
1954	30	CHW	AL	0.8	0.1	117	-0.0	1.8	-1.9	.96	-0.0	-0.0	-3.5	-0.3	0.97	-1.1	0.39	2
1955	31	BAL	AL	-16.1	-1.6	351	-1.1	5.1	-6.2	.99	-1.7	0.7	-15.0	-1.6	0.93	-18.4	1.46	1
1956	32	BAL	AL	-3.1	-0.3	29	-0.4	0.2	-0.6	.86	-0.4	-0.1	-4.4	-0.5	0.96	-4.3		0
7 Yrs				-53.0	-5.4	1176	-4.3	17.0	-21.3	.99	-3.9	-0.4	-47.6	-4.9	0.95	-43.9	1.25	26

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1951	27	SLB	AL	5	29%	118	4	4	50%	2	2	2	1	0	0	2	6	2	36%	12	6	4	1	1	0	9	5	4
1952	28	TOT	AL	2	28%	75	3	3	50%	3	3	0	0	0	0	2	6	1	58%	15	8	5	2	1	1	9	0	9
1952	28	SLB	AL	2	28%	71	3	3	50%	3	3	0	0	0	0	2	6	1	56%	14	8	4	2	1	1	9	0	9
1952	28	WSH	AL	0	50%	4	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100%	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953	29	CHW	AL	2	65%	78	0	3	0%	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	35%	11	11	0	4	1	3	8	3	5
1954	30	CHW	AL	1	54%	102	4	2	67%	2	2	1	0	1	0	1	3	3	35%	12	9	3	1	1	0	10	4	5
1955	31	BAL	AL	5	28%	128	1	2	33%	1	2	0	1	0	1	1	3	1	35%	24	15	8	6	4	2	7	4	3
1956	32	BAL	AL	0	29%	12	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0%	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
7 Yrs				15	33%	513	13	14	48%	9	12	3	2	1	1	7	20	8	39%	75	50	20	14	8	6	44	17	26

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1951	27	SLB	AL	483	30%	108			9	2	0	2	1.21	4	0	9	3	0	1	3	0	2	2	100%	62	9	15%	24	10	42%	205	31	15%	14	8	57%	7	5	71%	0
1952	28	TOT	AL	303	36%	70			3	1	0	1	1.30	2	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	2	4	200%	39	6	15%	20	9	45%	123	21	17%	9	4	44%	11	6	55%	0
1952	28	SLB	AL	278	37%	69			2	1	0	1	1.74	2	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	2	4	200%	34	4	12%	14	6	43%	109	20	18%	6	3	50%	8	5	63%	0
1952	28	WSH	AL	25	28%	1			1	0	0	0	0.43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		5	2	40%	6	3	50%	14	1	7%	3	1	33%	3	1	33%	0
1953	29	CHW	AL	111	42%	19			11	1	0	0	1.41	2	0	2	2	0	0	2	0	2	2	100%	24	2	8%	12	2	17%	56	0	0%	4	0	0%	3	0	0%	0
1954	30	CHW	AL	109	41%	30			2	0	0	0	0.39	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	100%	17	2	12%	6	1	17%	62	4	6%	5	2	40%	4	1	25%	0
1955	31	BAL	AL	344	47%	66			1	0	0	0	1.46	2	0	7	1	1	1	1	0	6	4	67%	57	8	14%	20	7	35%	173	18	10%	11	4	36%	6	5	83%	0
1956	32	BAL	AL	28	43%	3			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0%	5	0	0%	2	0	0%	16	0	0%	3	0	0%	1	1	100%	0
7 Yrs				1378	39%	296			26	4	0	3	1.25	10	0	24	7	1	4	6	0	15	14	93%	204	27	13%	84	29	35%	635	74	12%	46	18	39%	32	18	56%	0
MLB Averages					50%																			89%			12%			32%			14%			50%			55%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1951	27	131	483	445	44	108	21	4	4	43	4	4	36	56	.243	.299	.335	.634	69	149	9	0	2
1952	28	227	786	716	73	178	30	5	6	71	7	7	64	93	.249	.310	.330	.640	73	236	15	0	6
1953	29	294	897	811	95	197	31	5	8	73	7	10	77	119	.243	.309	.323	.632	71	262	17	1	8
1954	30	356	1006	909	116	227	36	7	8	77	11	12	86	135	.250	.315	.331	.646	75	301	19	1	10	0
1955	31	445	1350	1212	146	293	43	8	10	96	12	14	121	168	.242	.311	.315	.627	71	382	27	2	14	1	1
1956	32	465	1378	1236	148	296	43	8	10	96	13	14	125	171	.239	.310	.311	.622	70	385	27	2	14	1	1

Neutralized Batting

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All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1951	27	137	501	463	43	108	21	4	4	42	4	36	59	.233	.289	.322	.610	43	130
1952	28	100	322	287	31	77	10	1	2	30	3	31	39	.268	.340	.331	.671	32	96
1953	29	70	114	98	21	19	1	0	2	2	0	13	27	.194	.295	.265	.560	7	67
1954	30	65	113	102	22	31	5	2	0	4	4	9	17	.304	.360	.392	.753	15	62
1955	31	93	364	320	34	72	8	1	2	21	1	38	34	.225	.308	.275	.583	27	89
1956	32	21	31	26	3	4	0	0	0	0	1	5	3	.154	.290	.154	.444	1	20
6 Yrs		486	1445	1296	154	311	45	8	10	99	13	132	179	.240	.311	.310	.621	125	464
162 Game Avg.		162	482	432	51	104	15	3	3	33	4	44	60	.240	.311	.310	.621	42	464

* 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.

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Jeff Reboulet (968) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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