Lennie Merullo

Leonard Richard Merullo

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 166 lb.

Born: May 5, 1917 in Boston, MA
High School: East Boston HS (East Boston, MA)
Schools: Villanova University (Villanova, PA), Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 12, 1941
Team: Cubs 1941-1947

Final Game: August 22, 1947
Relatives: Grandfather of Matt Merullo
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
1941	CHC	NL	24	SS	7	6	4	31	12	18	1	5	.968	4.29	.951	5.17
1942	CHC	NL	25	SS	143	138	125	779	299	438	42	80	.946	5.15	.955	5.22
1943	CHC	NL	26	SS	125	121	115	653	218	396	39	68	.940	4.91	.954	5.30
1944	CHC	NL	27	SS	56	50	47	301	115	167	19	26	.937	5.04	.954	5.41
1944	CHC	NL	27	1B	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.990	10.00
1945	CHC	NL	28	SS	118	111	99	575	209	336	30	49	.948	4.62	.947	5.26
1946	CHC	NL	29	SS	44	33	26	221	78	131	12	23	.946	4.75	.957	5.15
1947	CHC	NL	30	SS	108	107	94	570	219	322	29	77	.949	5.01	.963	5.11
	7 Seasons			SS	601	566	510	3130	1150	1808	172	328	.945	4.92	.955	5.24
	1 Season			1B	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.990	10.00
	7 Seasons			TOT	602	566	510	3131	1151	1808	172	328	.945	4.92	.955	5.24

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1941	CHC	NL	24	7	6	7	7	0	0	0	7	0	0
1942	CHC	NL	25	143	138	143	143	0	0	0	143	0	0
1943	CHC	NL	26	129	122	129	128	0	1	2	125	0	1
1944	CHC	NL	27	66	50	66	57	1	0	0	56	7	3
1945	CHC	NL	28	121	111	121	118	0	0	0	118	0	5
1946	CHC	NL	29	65	33	65	44	0	0	0	44	2	19
1947	CHC	NL	30	108	107	108	108	0	0	0	108	0	0
	7 Seasons			639	567	639	605	1	1	2	601	9	28

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

Assists† s c a p y 1942 NL 438 (5th)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1942 NL 42 (3rd) 1943 NL 39 (2nd) 1947 NL 29 (2nd)	Def. Games as SS s c a p y 1942 NL 143 (3rd) 1943 NL 125 (4th) 1945 NL 118 (4th)	Putouts as SS s c a p y 1942 NL 299 (2nd) 1943 NL 218 (4th) 1945 NL 209 (5th)
Assists as SS s c a p y 1942 NL 438 (4th) 1943 NL 396 (4th) 1945 NL 336 (5th)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1942 NL 42 (2nd) 1943 NL 39 (2nd) 1945 NL 30 (5th) 1947 NL 29 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 1942 NL 5.15 (4th) 1943 NL 4.91 (5th) 1945 NL 4.62 (5th) 1947 NL 5.01 (3rd) Career 4.92 (77th)	Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1945 NL .948 (5th)

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