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Billy Martin

Alfred Manuel Martin

Positions: Second Baseman, Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: May 16, 1928 in Berkeley, CA
High School: Berkeley HS (Berkeley, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1950
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Tigers/Twins/Reds/Indians/... 1950-1961
Agents: Eddie Sapir [*]
Final Game: October 1, 1961
Died: December 25, 1989 in Johnson City, NY
Buried: Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY
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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
1950 NYY AL 22 2B 22 3 3 75.1 41 24 16 1 5 .976 4.78 1.82 .976 5.85 5.76
1950 NYY AL 22 3B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 3.60 3.20
1951 NYY AL 23 2B 23 8 8 97.1 86 36 49 1 15 .988 7.86 3.70 .978 5.71 5.69
1951 NYY AL 23 SS 6 2 2 28.0 19 7 10 2 2 .895 5.46 2.83 .961 5.21 5.17
1951 NYY AL 23 3B 2 1 1 10.0 6 2 3 1 0 .833 4.50 2.50 .950 3.15 3.15
1951 NYY AL 23 CF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.80
1951 NYY AL 23 OF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.40
1952 NYY AL 24 2B 107 102 91 900.0 576 244 323 9 92 .984 5.67 5.30 .978 5.57 5.57
1953 NYY AL 25 2B 146 144 118 1219.1 778 376 390 12 121 .985 0 0 5.65 5.25 .979 5.60 5.57 MVP-25
1953 NYY AL 25 SS 18 2 1 69.1 34 13 19 2 5 .941 -2 -35 4.15 1.78 .966 5.10 5.08 MVP-25
1955 NYY AL 27 2B 17 17 16 147.0 88 42 44 2 19 .977 4 29 5.27 5.06 .976 5.37 5.32
1955 NYY AL 27 SS 3 3 3 27.0 11 4 6 1 1 .909 -2 -67 3.33 3.33 .959 4.93 4.90
1956 NYY AL 28 2B 105 101 83 876.0 511 241 260 10 84 .980 -5 -7 5.15 4.77 .973 5.44 5.40 AS
1956 NYY AL 28 3B 16 11 11 102.1 45 12 28 5 3 .889 2 18 3.52 2.50 .949 3.22 3.19 AS
1957 TOT AL 29 2B 78 73 66 633.0 367 179 178 10 46 .973 -8 -15 5.08 4.58 .980 5.39 5.41
1957 TOT AL 29 3B 33 31 19 260.1 92 40 49 3 6 .967 -2 -7 3.08 2.70 .951 3.23 3.24
1957 NYY AL 29 2B 26 25 21 215.2 132 58 67 7 18 .947 -0 -3 5.22 4.81 .980 5.39 5.41
1957 NYY AL 29 3B 13 12 7 96.1 37 11 25 1 2 .973 0 5 3.36 2.77 .951 3.23 3.24
1957 KCA AL 29 2B 52 48 45 417.1 235 121 111 3 28 .987 -8 -22 5.00 4.46 .980 5.39 5.41
1957 KCA AL 29 3B 20 19 12 164.0 55 29 24 2 4 .964 -2 -15 2.91 2.65 .951 3.23 3.24
1957 KCA AL 29 SS 2 1 1 13.0 6 1 5 0 1 1.000 -0 -28 4.15 3.00 .963 5.12 5.15
1958 DET AL 30 SS 88 88 81 757.2 405 159 229 17 58 .958 -10 -16 4.61 4.41 .964 4.96 4.91
1958 DET AL 30 3B 41 39 38 342.0 109 47 59 3 5 .972 0 0 2.79 2.59 .951 3.11 3.08
1959 CLE AL 31 2B 67 65 54 565.0 297 147 149 1 37 .997 4 9 4.72 4.42 .976 5.29 5.25
1959 CLE AL 31 3B 4 1 1 22.0 8 3 4 1 0 .875 -0 -16 2.86 1.75 .952 3.19 3.20
1960 CIN NL 32 2B 97 88 74 766.2 446 228 207 11 52 .975 -11 -18 5.11 4.48 .974 5.20 5.19
1961 MIN AL 33 2B 105 91 85 810.0 458 217 224 17 61 .963 -7 -10 4.90 4.20 .978 5.24 5.18
1961 MIN AL 33 SS 1 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 4.80
10 Seasons 2B 767 692 598 6089.2 3648 1734 1840 74 532 .980 -23 -5 5.28 4.66 .977 5.42 5.40
6 Seasons SS 118 96 88 895.2 475 184 269 22 67 .954 -14 -18 4.55 3.84 .964 4.98 4.95
6 Seasons 3B 97 83 70 737.2 260 104 143 13 14 .950 -0 -1 3.01 2.55 .951 3.17 3.16
1 Season CF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.80
1 Season OF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.40
11 Seasons TOT 983 871 756 7724.0 4383 2022 2252 109 613 .975 -37 -6 4.98 4.35 .974 5.16 5.13
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.
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
  • 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
1950 NYY AL 22 2B
1950 NYY AL 22 3B
1951 NYY AL 23 2B
1951 NYY AL 23 SS
1951 NYY AL 23 3B
1951 NYY AL 23 CF
1952 NYY AL 24 2B
1953 NYY AL 25 2B 0 0 -3 -1 -2 3
1953 NYY AL 25 SS -2 -35 -2 -2 0 0
1955 NYY AL 27 2B 4 29 2 1 1 1
1955 NYY AL 27 SS -2 -67 -2 -2 0 0
1956 NYY AL 28 2B -5 -7 -5 -7 2 0
1956 NYY AL 28 3B 2 18 2 1 0 0
1957 NYY AL 29 2B -0 -3 0 2 -1 -1
1957 NYY AL 29 3B 0 5 0 -0 0 0
1957 KCA AL 29 2B -8 -22 -6 0 -7 -1
1957 KCA AL 29 3B -2 -15 -2 -1 -1 0
1957 KCA AL 29 SS -0 -28 -0 0 -0 0
1958 DET AL 30 SS -10 -16 -10 -8 -2 0
1958 DET AL 30 3B 0 0 -1 -1 0 1
1959 CLE AL 31 2B 4 9 3 1 2 1
1959 CLE AL 31 3B -0 -16 -0 -0 0 0
1960 CIN NL 32 2B -11 -18 -11 -1 -10 0
1961 MIN AL 33 2B -7 -10 -6 -3 -3 -1
1961 MIN AL 33 SS 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons 2B -23 -5 -25 -8 -18 2
6 Seasons SS -14 -18 -14 -11 -3 0
6 Seasons 3B -0 -1 -1 -2 0 1
1 Season CF
11 Seasons TOT -37 -6 -40 -20 -20 3
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
1950 NYY AL 22 34 3 34 23 0 0 0 22 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 7
1951 NYY AL 23 52 11 52 32 0 0 0 24 2 6 0 1 0 1 0 10 13
1952 NYY AL 24 109 102 109 107 0 0 0 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1953 NYY AL 25 149 146 149 148 0 0 0 146 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1955 NYY AL 27 20 20 20 20 0 0 0 17 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 NYY AL 28 121 112 121 117 0 0 0 105 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6
1957 KCA AL 29 73 68 73 70 0 0 0 52 20 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
1957 NYY AL 29 43 37 43 39 0 0 0 26 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1958 DET AL 30 131 127 131 129 0 0 0 0 41 88 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1959 CLE AL 31 73 66 73 71 0 0 0 67 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1960 CIN NL 32 103 88 103 97 0 0 0 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
1961 MIN AL 33 108 91 108 106 0 0 0 105 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1961 MLN NL 33 6 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
11 Seasons 1022 871 1022 959 0 0 0 768 97 118 0 1 0 1 0 44 36
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
1950 NYY AL 22 310 61% 76% 19% 25 96% 0 25 12 12 1 16 13 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 2 1 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 0
1951 NYY AL 23 330 61% 74% 24% 48 90% 0 29 15 8 7 34 24 9 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 13 2 2 8 0 12 8 4 1 1 0
1952 NYY AL 24 3295 57% 80% 29% 339 91% 0 224 74 111 39 294 250 37 0 8 6 1 3 2 4 84 21 25 20 7 77 28 48 7 2 4
1953 NYY AL 25 4828 67% 83% 27% 431 94% 0 359 132 178 49 364 299 52 0 7 12 1 10 1 9 117 44 27 33 0 107 33 73 7 5 2
1955 NYY AL 27 618 63% 75% 24% 59 95% 0 42 19 19 4 46 34 10 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 19 5 3 7 0 16 7 8 2 0 1
1956 NYY AL 28 3790 62% 78% 26% 294 93% 0 247 72 135 41 253 203 42 0 6 10 2 5 3 6 85 27 14 24 4 77 28 45 5 2 3
1957 KCA AL 29 1703 62% 83% 27% 136 95% 0 116 48 52 16 102 83 15 0 2 3 0 3 0 2 27 8 6 8 0 24 8 15 2 1 1
1957 NYY AL 29 913 64% 76% 32% 85 88% 0 57 18 29 10 66 53 12 0 1 7 0 5 2 6 18 6 1 6 0 14 6 8 1 1 0
1959 CLE AL 31 2409 61% 77% 27% 194 95% 0 146 53 70 23 152 136 14 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 37 17 4 9 2 35 12 22 2 1 1
1960 CIN NL 32 3249 64% 82% 28% 290 92% 0 232 91 94 47 215 192 19 0 6 11 0 10 1 9 53 21 14 9 1 48 10 35 3 1 2
1961 MIN AL 33 3544 68% 78% 25% 283 93% 1 216 85 105 26 220 187 26 0 3 17 5 8 4 8 61 22 14 13 5 55 18 37 3 1 2
10 Seasons 24989 63% 80% 27% 2184 93% 1 1693 619 813 263 1762 1474 238 0 36 71 9 47 15 48 519 175 111 137 19 469 158 299 33 15 16
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 93%

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%
1950 NYY AL 22 4 25% 100% 25% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1951 NYY AL 23 33 58% 82% 45% 5 80% 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 NYY AL 28 431 68% 77% 29% 46 85% 0 12 9 2 1 28 24 3 1 0 5 0 4 1 4 3 2 0 3 0 0 0 3 33%
1957 KCA AL 29 627 55% 85% 25% 47 91% 0 24 20 1 3 22 17 5 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 4 3 0 3 1 0 1 0
1957 NYY AL 29 412 68% 81% 30% 37 86% 1 12 7 3 2 25 22 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 100%
1958 DET AL 30 1385 58% 81% 27% 106 92% 0 46 41 3 2 57 49 6 1 0 3 0 3 0 2 5 4 1 5 0 0 0 2 50%
1959 CLE AL 31 93 66% 70% 22% 9 78% 0 3 3 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 50%
6 Seasons 2985 60% 81% 27% 250 89% 1 98 81 9 8 139 116 18 2 1 13 0 11 2 10 14 9 2 12 2 0 2 9 56%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 89% 63%

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
1951 NYY AL 23 121 69% 83% 31% 14 93% 0 7 4 2 1 10 9 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1953 NYY AL 25 290 63% 81% 23% 29 86% 2 16 11 5 0 17 12 3 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 4 1 0 1 0 1 3 1 2 1 0 0
1955 NYY AL 27 124 60% 75% 27% 13 54% 1 4 2 2 0 6 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1957 KCA AL 29 60 73% 97% 33% 8 88% 0 3 2 1 0 4 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1958 DET AL 30 3239 60% 79% 27% 303 86% 4 151 67 70 14 224 158 56 1 7 17 0 10 7 13 57 21 8 22 1 1 55 29 25 0 0 0
1961 MIN AL 33 3 67% 100% 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 0
6 Seasons 3837 61% 80% 27% 367 86% 7 181 86 80 15 261 184 64 1 9 22 0 14 8 16 65 24 8 25 1 2 62 32 29 1 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 90%

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1951 NYY AL 23 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 0 0 5 60% 60% 20% 0
1 Season 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 0 0 5 60% 60% 20% 0
MLB Averages 44.2% 2.5% 63% 81% 30% 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

Hall of Fame
1967 BBWAA ( 0.3%)

All-Star Games
1956 *

Awards (yr lg award)
1953 AL Babe Ruth Award

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1953 AL (25, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1497th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1952 AL  107 (4th)
1953 AL  146 (3rd)
1956 AL  105 (4th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1952 AL  244 (5th)
1953 AL  376 (3rd)
1956 AL  241 (4th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1952 AL  323 (5th)
1953 AL  390 (4th)
1956 AL  260 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1957 AL  10 (5th)
1961 AL  17 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1958 AL  17 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1955 AL  4 (3rd)
1959 AL  4 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1952 AL  5.67 (2nd)
1953 AL  5.65 (4th)
1956 AL  5.15 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1952 AL  5.30 (3rd)
1953 AL  5.25 (5th)
1956 AL  4.77 (4th)
1960 NL  4.48 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1952 AL  .984 (3rd)
1953 AL  .985 (2nd)
1956 AL  .980 (2nd)
1960 NL  .975 (4th)

                                         

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