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Babe Martin

Boris Michael Martin
born Boris Michael Martinovich

Positions: Leftfielder, First Baseman and Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 194 lb.

Born: March 28, 1920 in Seattle, WA
Signed by the St. Louis Browns as an amateur free agent in 1940. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 25, 1944
Teams (by GP): Browns/RedSox 1944-1953

Final Game: July 1, 1953
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1944 SLB AL 24 LF 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.40
1944 SLB AL 24 OF 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.50
1945 SLB AL 25 OF 48 45 37 124 116 7 1 2 .992 2.56 .978 2.40
1945 SLB AL 25 LF 42 38 32 110 102 7 1 2 .991 2.60 .976 2.26
1945 SLB AL 25 RF 8 7 5 14 14 0 0 0 1.000 1.75 .974 2.15
1945 SLB AL 25 1B 6 5 2 42 36 4 2 1 .952 6.67 .989 10.10
1946 SLB AL 26 C 2 2 1 18 18 0 0 0 1.000 9.00 .982 5.50 1 0 0
1948 BOS AL 28 C 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.70 0 0 0 0 0
1949 BOS AL 29 C 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.80 0 0 0
1953 SLB AL 33 C 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.20 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons OF 49 46 37 125 117 7 1 2 .992 2.53 .978 2.40
2 Seasons LF 43 39 32 111 103 7 1 2 .991 2.56 .976 2.26
1 Season RF 8 7 5 14 14 0 0 0 1.000 1.75 .974 2.15
1 Season 1B 6 5 2 42 36 4 2 1 .952 6.67 .989 10.10
4 Seasons C 5 2 1 1.0 18 18 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0.00 3.60 .982 5.40 5.14 1 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons TOT 60 53 40 1.0 185 171 11 3 3 .984 0 0 0.00 3.03 .981 5.40 3.40 1 0 0 0 0
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
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

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
1944 SLB AL 24 LF
1945 SLB AL 25 LF
1945 SLB AL 25 RF
1945 SLB AL 25 1B
1946 SLB AL 26 C
1948 BOS AL 28 C
1949 BOS AL 29 C
1953 SLB AL 33 C 0 0 0
2 Seasons LF
1 Season RF
1 Season 1B
4 Seasons C 0 0 0
6 Seasons TOT 0 0 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1944 SLB AL 24 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
1945 SLB AL 25 54 50 54 54 0 0 6 0 0 0 42 0 8 49 0 1 0
1946 SLB AL 26 3 2 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1948 BOS AL 28 4 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1949 BOS AL 29 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1953 SLB AL 33 4 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
6 Seasons 69 53 69 60 0 5 6 0 0 0 43 0 8 50 0 10 0
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 -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1948 BOS AL 28 15 9.00 9.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 SLB AL 33 3 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 18 6.75 6.75 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 4.13 4.66 95% 83%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1948 BOS AL 28 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 SLB AL 33 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 45% 1.21 1.18

* 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

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1945 AL  7 (5th)

                                         

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