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Joe Medwick

Joseph Michael Medwick (Ducky or Muscles)

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 187 lb.

Born: November 24, 1911 in Carteret, NJ
High School: Carteret HS (Carteret, NJ) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 2, 1932
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Dodgers/Giants/Braves 1932-1948

Final Game: July 25, 1948
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by BBWAA as Player in 1968 (240/283 ballots).
   View Joe Medwick Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).
Died: March 21, 1975 in St. Petersburg, FL
Buried: St. Lucas Cemetery, Sunset Hills, MO
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1932 STL NL 20 OF 26 26 26 67 63 2 2 1 .970 2.50 .976 2.52
1932 STL NL 20 CF 19 19 19 55 51 2 2 1 .964 2.79 .982 2.97
1932 STL NL 20 LF 7 7 7 12 12 0 0 0 1.000 1.71 .975 2.29
1933 STL NL 21 LF 147 147 146 342 318 17 7 2 .980 2.28 .976 2.29 MVP-18
1933 STL NL 21 OF 147 147 146 342 318 17 7 2 .980 2.28 .977 2.43 MVP-18
1934 STL NL 22 OF 149 149 145 346 322 10 14 1 .960 2.23 .973 2.37 AS
1934 STL NL 22 LF 144 144 141 335 311 10 14 1 .958 2.23 .969 2.19 AS
1934 STL NL 22 RF 5 5 4 11 11 0 0 0 1.000 2.20 .970 2.22 AS
1935 STL NL 23 LF 154 153 146 373 352 8 13 0 .965 2.34 .970 2.25 AS,MVP-5
1935 STL NL 23 OF 154 153 146 373 352 8 13 0 .965 2.34 .971 2.42 AS,MVP-5
1936 STL NL 24 LF 155 154 145 389 367 16 6 4 .985 2.47 .972 2.18 AS,MVP-4
1936 STL NL 24 OF 155 154 145 389 367 16 6 4 .985 2.47 .973 2.38 AS,MVP-4
1937 STL NL 25 LF 156 156 152 342 329 9 4 1 .988 2.17 .973 2.10 AS,MVP-1
1937 STL NL 25 OF 156 156 152 342 329 9 4 1 .988 2.17 .974 2.24 AS,MVP-1
1938 STL NL 26 LF 144 144 142 351 330 12 9 6 .974 2.38 .971 2.23 AS,MVP-11
1938 STL NL 26 OF 144 144 142 351 330 12 9 6 .974 2.38 .976 2.34 AS,MVP-11
1939 STL NL 27 LF 149 149 130 331 313 10 8 1 .976 2.17 .974 2.16 AS,MVP-7
1939 STL NL 27 OF 149 149 130 331 313 10 8 1 .976 2.17 .975 2.32 AS,MVP-7
1940 TOT NL 28 LF 140 139 131 335 321 8 6 0 .982 2.35 .974 2.25 AS
1940 TOT NL 28 OF 140 139 131 335 321 8 6 0 .982 2.35 .977 2.32 AS
1940 STL NL 28 LF 37 37 31 83 81 1 1 0 .988 2.22 .974 2.25
1940 STL NL 28 OF 37 37 31 83 81 1 1 0 .988 2.22 .977 2.32
1940 BRO NL 28 LF 103 102 100 252 240 7 5 0 .980 2.40 .974 2.25
1940 BRO NL 28 OF 103 102 100 252 240 7 5 0 .980 2.40 .977 2.32
1941 BRO NL 29 LF 131 130 128 286 270 11 5 2 .983 2.15 .976 2.34 AS
1941 BRO NL 29 OF 131 130 128 286 270 11 5 2 .983 2.15 .975 2.31 AS
1942 BRO NL 30 LF 140 136 129 295 287 5 3 1 .990 2.09 .983 2.32 AS,MVP-17
1942 BRO NL 30 OF 140 136 129 295 287 5 3 1 .990 2.09 .981 2.34 AS,MVP-17
1943 TOT NL 31 LF 117 114 111 211 193 11 7 2 .967 1.74 .977 2.26
1943 TOT NL 31 OF 116 114 111 238 222 12 4 2 .983 2.02 .977 2.41
1943 BRO NL 31 LF 42 39 37 67 63 2 2 0 .970 1.55 .977 2.26
1943 BRO NL 31 OF 42 39 37 69 65 2 2 0 .971 1.60 .977 2.41
1943 NYG NL 31 LF 75 75 74 144 130 9 5 2 .965 1.85 .977 2.26
1943 NYG NL 31 OF 74 75 74 169 157 10 2 2 .988 2.26 .977 2.41
1943 NYG NL 31 1B 3 2 2 27 26 1 0 1 1.000 9.00 .992 10.47
1944 NYG NL 32 LF 122 121 120 300 290 8 2 2 .993 2.44 .981 2.35 AS,MVP-20
1944 NYG NL 32 OF 122 121 120 300 290 8 2 2 .993 2.44 .980 2.47 AS,MVP-20
1945 TOT NL 33 LF 61 59 49 133 124 8 1 2 .992 2.16 .970 2.34
1945 TOT NL 33 OF 61 59 49 133 124 8 1 2 .992 2.16 .978 2.45
1945 NYG NL 33 LF 23 21 21 48 46 1 1 0 .979 2.04 .970 2.34
1945 NYG NL 33 OF 23 21 21 48 46 1 1 0 .979 2.04 .978 2.45
1945 BSN NL 33 LF 38 38 28 85 78 7 0 2 1.000 2.24 .970 2.34
1945 BSN NL 33 OF 38 38 28 85 78 7 0 2 1.000 2.24 .978 2.45
1945 BSN NL 33 1B 15 14 7 127 124 3 0 6 1.000 8.47 .990 10.17
1946 BRO NL 34 LF 18 14 2 30 30 0 0 0 1.000 1.67 .975 2.26
1946 BRO NL 34 OF 18 14 2 30 30 0 0 0 1.000 1.67 .977 2.38
1946 BRO NL 34 1B 1 1 0 10 8 0 2 2 .800 8.00 .991 10.00
1947 STL NL 35 OF 43 36 14 59 56 3 0 2 1.000 1.37 .977 2.42
1947 STL NL 35 RF 38 31 13 55 52 3 0 2 1.000 1.45 .978 2.14
1947 STL NL 35 LF 5 5 1 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0.80 .975 2.32
1948 STL NL 36 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.40
17 Seasons OF 1852 1827 1716 4217 3994 139 84 27 .980 2.23 .976 2.37
16 Seasons LF 1790 1772 1680 4069 3851 133 85 24 .979 2.23 .974 2.24
2 Seasons RF 43 36 17 66 63 3 0 2 1.000 1.53 .977 2.15
3 Seasons 1B 19 17 9 164 158 4 2 9 .988 8.53 .990 10.21
1 Season CF 19 19 19 55 51 2 2 1 .964 2.79 .982 2.97
17 Seasons TOT 1871 1844 1725 4381 4152 143 86 36 .980 2.30 .976 2.45
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% 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
1932 STL NL 20 CF
1932 STL NL 20 LF
1933 STL NL 21 LF
1934 STL NL 22 LF
1934 STL NL 22 RF
1935 STL NL 23 LF
1936 STL NL 24 LF
1937 STL NL 25 LF
1938 STL NL 26 LF
1939 STL NL 27 LF
1940 STL NL 28 LF
1940 BRO NL 28 LF
1941 BRO NL 29 LF
1942 BRO NL 30 LF
1943 BRO NL 31 LF
1943 NYG NL 31 LF
1943 NYG NL 31 1B
1944 NYG NL 32 LF
1945 NYG NL 33 LF
1945 BSN NL 33 LF
1945 BSN NL 33 1B
1946 BRO NL 34 LF
1946 BRO NL 34 1B
1947 STL NL 35 RF
1947 STL NL 35 LF
16 Seasons LF
2 Seasons RF
3 Seasons 1B
1 Season CF
17 Seasons TOT
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
1932 STL NL 20 26 26 26 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 19 0 26 0 0 0
1933 STL NL 21 148 147 148 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 147 0 0 147 0 1 0
1934 STL NL 22 149 149 149 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 0 5 149 0 0 0
1935 STL NL 23 154 153 154 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 154 0 0 154 0 0 0
1936 STL NL 24 155 154 155 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 155 0 0 155 0 0 0
1937 STL NL 25 156 156 156 156 0 0 0 0 0 0 156 0 0 156 0 0 0
1938 STL NL 26 146 144 146 144 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 0 0 144 0 2 0
1939 STL NL 27 150 149 150 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 149 0 1 0
1940 BRO NL 28 106 102 106 103 0 0 0 0 0 0 103 0 0 103 0 3 0
1940 STL NL 28 37 37 37 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 0 0 37 0 0 0
1941 BRO NL 29 133 130 133 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 131 0 0 131 0 2 0
1942 BRO NL 30 142 136 142 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 140 0 0 140 0 2 0
1943 NYG NL 31 78 77 78 77 0 0 3 0 0 0 75 0 0 75 0 1 0
1943 BRO NL 31 48 39 48 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 0 0 42 0 6 0
1944 NYG NL 32 128 121 128 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 122 0 0 122 0 6 0
1945 BSN NL 33 66 52 66 52 0 0 15 0 0 0 38 0 0 38 0 14 0
1945 NYG NL 33 26 21 26 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 0 0 23 0 3 0
1946 BRO NL 34 41 15 41 19 0 0 1 0 0 0 18 0 0 18 0 22 0
1947 STL NL 35 75 36 75 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 38 43 0 32 0
1948 STL NL 36 20 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0
17 Seasons 1984 1844 1984 1869 0 0 19 0 0 0 1790 19 43 1852 0 115 0
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1948 BBWAA ( 0.8%)
1956 BBWAA (16.1%)
1958 BBWAA (18.8%)
1960 BBWAA (14.1%)
1962 BBWAA (21.2%)
1964 BBWAA (53.7%)
1964 Run Off (64.7%)
1966 BBWAA (61.9%)
1967 BBWAA (72.6%)
1967 Run Off (81.0%)
1968 BBWAA (84.8%)
Selected to HOF in 1968 by BBWAA

All-Star Games
1934 (LF)
1935 (LF)
1936 (LF)
1937 (LF)
1938 (LF)
1939 (LF)
1940 (LF)
1941 *
1942 (LF)
1944 *

Awards (yr lg award)
1937 NL MVP
1937 NL Triple Crown

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1933 NL (18, 6%)
1935 NL (5, 46%)
1936 NL (4, 38%)
1937 NL (1, 88%)
1938 NL (11, 16%)
1939 NL (7, 24%)
1942 NL (17, 6%)
1944 NL (20, 3%)
1 MVP
2.27 Career Shares (73rd)

Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1933 NL  147 (1st)
1934 NL  144 (1st)
1935 NL  154 (2nd)
1936 NL  155 (1st)
1937 NL  156 (1st)
1938 NL  144 (1st)
1939 NL  149 (1st)
1940 NL  140 (2nd)
1941 NL  131 (2nd)
1942 NL  140 (1st)
1943 NL  117 (3rd)
1944 NL  122 (5th)
Career  1,790 (9th)

Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1933 NL  318 (1st)
1934 NL  311 (2nd)
1935 NL  352 (1st)
1936 NL  367 (1st)
1937 NL  329 (1st)
1938 NL  330 (1st)
1939 NL  313 (2nd)
1940 NL  321 (2nd)
1941 NL  270 (4th)
1942 NL  287 (2nd)
1943 NL  193 (4th)
1944 NL  290 (4th)
Career  3,851 (5th)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1933 NL  17 (1st)
1934 NL  10 (2nd)
1935 NL  8 (4th)
1936 NL  16 (2nd)
1937 NL  9 (3rd)
1938 NL  12 (2nd)
1939 NL  10 (2nd)
1940 NL  8 (5th)
1941 NL  11 (2nd)
1943 NL  11 (3rd)
1944 NL  8 (2nd)
1945 NL  8 (4th)
Career  133 (7th)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1933 NL  7 (1st)
1934 NL  14 (1st)
1935 NL  13 (1st)
1936 NL  6 (5th)
1938 NL  9 (2nd)
1939 NL  8 (3rd)
1940 NL  6 (4th)
1941 NL  5 (4th)
1942 NL  3 (4th)
1943 NL  7 (1st)
Career  85 (12th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1933 NL  147 (5th)
1934 NL  149 (4th)
1935 NL  154 (3rd)
1936 NL  155 (1st)
1937 NL  156 (1st)
1938 NL  144 (4th)
1939 NL  149 (2nd)
1940 NL  140 (4th)
1942 NL  140 (5th)
Career  1,852 (73rd)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1935 NL  352 (5th)
1936 NL  367 (4th)
1937 NL  329 (4th)
1938 NL  330 (4th)
1939 NL  313 (4th)
1940 NL  321 (4th)
Career  3,994 (70th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1933 NL  17 (3rd)
1936 NL  16 (4th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1934 NL  14 (1st)
1935 NL  13 (4th)
1938 NL  9 (5th)
1939 NL  8 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1933 NL  2.28 (2nd)
1934 NL  2.23 (3rd)
1935 NL  2.34 (3rd)
1936 NL  2.47 (1st)
1937 NL  2.17 (3rd)
1938 NL  2.38 (2nd)
1939 NL  2.17 (4th)
1940 NL  2.35 (3rd)
1941 NL  2.15 (5th)
1942 NL  2.09 (4th)
1943 NL  1.74 (5th)
1944 NL  2.44 (2nd)
Career  2.23 (22nd)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1933 NL  .980 (2nd)
1936 NL  .985 (1st)
1937 NL  .988 (1st)
1938 NL  .974 (4th)
1939 NL  .976 (4th)
1940 NL  .982 (2nd)
1941 NL  .983 (2nd)
1942 NL  .990 (2nd)
1943 NL  .967 (5th)
1944 NL  .993 (1st)
Career  .979 (85th)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1936 NL  .985 (5th)
1937 NL  .988 (2nd)
1941 NL  .983 (5th)
1942 NL  .990 (2nd)
1944 NL  .993 (2nd)

Youngest s c a p y
1932 NL  born 1911-11-24 (4th)
1933 NL  born 1911-11-24 (5th)

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