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Ski Melillo

Oscar Donald Melillo (Spinach)

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 150 lb.

Born: August 4, 1899 in Chicago, IL (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1926
Teams (by GP): Browns/RedSox 1926-1937

Final Game: September 18, 1937
Died: November 14, 1963 in Chicago, IL
Buried: Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery, Worth, IL
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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
1926 SLB AL 26 2B 88 88 87 541 225 297 19 65 .965 5.93 .967 5.63 MVP-12
1926 SLB AL 26 3B 11 9 9 43 13 27 3 6 .930 3.64 .951 3.37 MVP-12
1927 SLB AL 27 2B 101 96 85 558 229 293 36 72 .935 5.17 .961 5.69
1928 SLB AL 28 2B 28 22 19 154 66 82 6 15 .961 5.29 .963 5.67
1928 SLB AL 28 3B 19 15 9 35 13 22 0 0 1.000 1.84 .951 3.27
1929 SLB AL 29 2B 141 140 126 885 342 519 24 98 .973 6.11 .968 5.91
1930 SLB AL 30 2B 148 148 148 977 384 572 21 107 .979 6.46 .969 5.95
1931 SLB AL 31 2B 151 151 142 1003 428 543 32 118 .968 6.43 .965 5.84 MVP-8
1932 SLB AL 32 2B 153 153 149 937 393 526 18 110 .981 6.01 .968 5.92
1933 SLB AL 33 2B 130 129 126 820 362 451 7 110 .991 6.25 .971 5.99 MVP-10
1934 SLB AL 34 2B 141 140 140 891 412 462 17 110 .981 6.20 .969 5.87
1935 TOT AL 35 2B 123 121 112 777 324 432 21 94 .973 6.15 .969 5.86
1935 SLB AL 35 2B 18 17 17 101 38 60 3 9 .970 5.44 .969 5.86
1935 BOS AL 35 2B 105 104 95 676 286 372 18 85 .973 6.27 .969 5.86
1936 BOS AL 36 2B 93 87 81 491 239 242 10 59 .980 5.17 .972 5.78
1937 BOS AL 37 2B 19 12 8 66 33 29 4 7 .939 3.26 .972 5.64
1937 BOS AL 37 3B 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0.50 .950 3.15
1937 BOS AL 37 SS 2 0 0 5 0 5 0 1 1.000 2.50 .956 5.25
12 Seasons 2B 1316 1287 1223 8100 3437 4448 215 965 .973 5.99 .968 5.85
3 Seasons 3B 32 24 18 79 26 50 3 6 .962 2.38 .951 3.30
1 Season SS 2 0 0 5 0 5 0 1 1.000 2.50 .956 5.25
12 Seasons TOT 1350 1311 1241 8184 3463 4503 218 972 .973 5.90 .968 5.79
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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1926 SLB AL 26 99 97 99 99 0 0 0 88 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1927 SLB AL 27 107 96 107 101 0 0 0 101 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1928 SLB AL 28 51 37 51 47 0 0 0 28 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
1929 SLB AL 29 141 140 141 141 0 0 0 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1930 SLB AL 30 149 148 149 148 0 0 0 148 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1931 SLB AL 31 151 151 151 151 0 0 0 151 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1932 SLB AL 32 154 153 154 153 0 0 0 153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1933 SLB AL 33 132 129 132 130 0 0 0 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1934 SLB AL 34 144 140 144 141 0 0 0 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1935 BOS AL 35 106 104 106 105 0 0 0 105 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1935 SLB AL 35 19 17 19 18 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1936 BOS AL 36 99 87 99 94 0 0 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3
1937 BOS AL 37 26 12 26 22 0 0 0 19 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
12 Seasons 1378 1311 1378 1350 0 0 0 1317 32 2 0 0 0 0 0 22 9
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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1926 AL (12, 9%)
1931 AL (8, 21%)
1933 AL (10, 15%)
0.45 Career Shares (472nd)

Assists† s c a p y
1929 AL  519 (1st)
1930 AL  572 (1st)
1931 AL  543 (1st)
1932 AL  526 (1st)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1927 AL  36 (5th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1929 AL  141 (3rd)
1930 AL  148 (3rd)
1931 AL  151 (1st)
1932 AL  153 (1st)
1933 AL  130 (4th)
1934 AL  141 (2nd)
1935 AL  123 (4th)
1936 AL  93 (5th)
Career  1,316 (56th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1927 AL  229 (5th)
1929 AL  342 (3rd)
1930 AL  384 (3rd)
1931 AL  428 (1st)
1932 AL  393 (2nd)
1933 AL  362 (1st)
1934 AL  412 (1st)
1935 AL  324 (3rd)
1936 AL  239 (5th)
Career  3,437 (37th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1929 AL  519 (1st)
1930 AL  572 (1st)
1931 AL  543 (1st)
1932 AL  526 (1st)
1933 AL  451 (3rd)
1934 AL  462 (3rd)
1935 AL  432 (4th)
Career  4,448 (38th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1926 AL  19 (5th)
1927 AL  36 (1st)
1929 AL  24 (2nd)
1930 AL  21 (5th)
1931 AL  32 (1st)
1935 AL  21 (3rd)
Career  215 (59th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1926 AL  5.93 (2nd)
1929 AL  6.11 (2nd)
1930 AL  6.46 (1st)
1931 AL  6.43 (1st)
1932 AL  6.01 (3rd)
1933 AL  6.25 (1st)
1934 AL  6.20 (2nd)
1935 AL  6.15 (2nd)
1936 AL  5.17 (5th)
Career  5.99 (10th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1926 AL  .965 (4th)
1929 AL  .973 (2nd)
1930 AL  .979 (2nd)
1931 AL  .968 (5th)
1932 AL  .981 (2nd)
1933 AL  .991 (1st)
1934 AL  .981 (1st)
1935 AL  .973 (3rd)
1936 AL  .980 (1st)

Oldest s c a p y
1937 AL  born 1899-08-04 (6th)

                           

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