Eddie Mayo

Edward Joseph Mayo (Hotshot)

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 178 lb.

Born: April 15, 1910 in Holyoke, MA (All Transactions)
Debut: May 22, 1936
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Athletics/Bees/Giants 1936-1948

Final Game: October 3, 1948
Died: November 27, 2006 in Banning, CA
Cremated
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	Awards
1936	NYG	NL	26	3B	40	34	32	103	32	69	2	8	.981	2.53	.947	2.67
1937	BSN	NL	27	3B	50	44	40	136	57	73	6	2	.956	2.60	.954	2.87
1938	BSN	NL	28	3B	6	3	1	13	4	8	1	2	.923	2.00	.945	3.03
1938	BSN	NL	28	SS	2	0	0	4	2	2	0	1	1.000	2.00	.942	5.35
1943	PHA	AL	33	3B	123	120	120	409	176	223	10	18	.976	3.24	.951	3.17
1944	DET	AL	34	2B	143	143	139	861	384	458	19	120	.978	5.89	.967	5.61	MVP-29
1944	DET	AL	34	SS	11	11	11	59	17	40	2	5	.966	5.18	.947	5.29	MVP-29
1945	DET	AL	35	2B	124	124	117	734	326	393	15	91	.980	5.80	.970	5.62	MVP-2
1946	DET	AL	36	2B	49	49	45	229	96	125	8	28	.965	4.51	.970	5.54
1947	DET	AL	37	2B	142	137	128	703	326	365	12	80	.983	4.87	.978	5.46
1948	DET	AL	38	2B	86	81	80	436	202	223	11	48	.975	4.94	.976	5.62
1948	DET	AL	38	3B	10	8	7	28	9	19	0	1	1.000	2.80	.958	3.04
	5 Seasons			2B	544	534	509	2963	1334	1564	65	367	.978	5.33	.972	5.57
	5 Seasons			3B	229	209	200	689	278	392	19	31	.972	2.93	.951	3.01
	2 Seasons			SS	13	11	11	63	19	42	2	6	.968	4.69	.947	5.30
	9 Seasons			TOT	786	754	720	3715	1631	1998	86	404	.977	4.62	.968	4.82

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
1936	NYG	NL	26	3B
1937	BSN	NL	27	3B
1938	BSN	NL	28	3B
1938	BSN	NL	28	SS
1943	PHA	AL	33	3B
1944	DET	AL	34	2B
1944	DET	AL	34	SS
1945	DET	AL	35	2B
1946	DET	AL	36	2B
1947	DET	AL	37	2B
1948	DET	AL	38	2B
1948	DET	AL	38	3B
	5 Seasons			2B
	5 Seasons			3B
	2 Seasons			SS
	9 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1936	NYG	NL	26	46	34	46	40	0	40	0	3	3
1937	BSN	NL	27	65	44	65	50	0	50	0	15	0
1938	BSN	NL	28	8	3	8	8	0	6	2	0	0
1943	PHA	AL	33	128	120	128	123	0	123	0	5	0
1944	DET	AL	34	154	154	154	154	143	0	11	0	0
1945	DET	AL	35	134	124	134	124	124	0	0	10	0
1946	DET	AL	36	51	49	51	49	49	0	0	2	0
1947	DET	AL	37	142	137	142	142	142	0	0	2	0
1948	DET	AL	38	106	89	106	96	86	10	0	11	0
	9 Seasons			834	754	834	786	544	229	13	48	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 -- 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
1948	DET	AL	38	1402	62%	80%	26%	135	91%	2	87	38	32	17	100	84	12	1	3	3	0	3	0	3	23	8	5	7	0	21	7	14	1	0	1
	1 Season			1402	62%	80%	26%	135	91%	2	87	38	32	17	100	84	12	1	3	3	0	3	0	3	23	8	5	7	0	21	7	14	1	0	1
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		92%

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%
1948	DET	AL	38	148	56%	80%	28%	10	90%	0	1	1	0	0	8	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	100%
	1 Season			148	56%	80%	28%	10	90%	0	1	1	0	0	8	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	100%
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		89%																								68%

* 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 1945--not played	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1944 AL (29, 1%) 1945 AL (2, 49%) 0.50 Career Shares (447th)	Assists† s c a p y 1944 AL 498 (2nd)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1944 AL 143 (3rd) 1947 AL 142 (5th)
Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1944 AL 384 (2nd) 1945 AL 326 (5th) 1947 AL 326 (5th)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1944 AL 458 (2nd) 1945 AL 393 (3rd)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1944 AL 19 (5th) 1948 AL 11 (5th)	Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1943 AL 123 (4th)
Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1943 AL 176 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1944 AL 5.89 (2nd) 1945 AL 5.80 (3rd) Career 5.33 (85th)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1944 AL .978 (3rd) 1945 AL .980 (1st) 1947 AL .983 (2nd) 1948 AL .975 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1943 AL 3.24 (3rd)
Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1943 AL .976 (1st)	Oldest s c a p y 1948 AL born 1910-04-15 (7th)

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