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Cass Michaels

Casimir Eugene Michaels
Played In 1943 Under Real Name Of Casimir Eugene Kwietniewski

Positions: Second Baseman, Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: March 4, 1926 in Detroit, MI
High School: Hamtramck HS (Hamtramck, MI)
Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent in 1943. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 19, 1943
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Senators/Athletics/Browns 1943-1954

Final Game: August 27, 1954
Died: November 12, 1982 in Grosse Pointe, MI
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, MI
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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
1943 CHW AL 17 3B 2 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 3.15
1944 CHW AL 18 SS 21 16 15 114 36 70 8 12 .930 5.05 .947 5.29
1944 CHW AL 18 3B 3 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0.67 .955 3.33
1945 CHW AL 19 SS 126 124 124 732 259 426 47 74 .936 5.44 .951 5.28
1945 CHW AL 19 2B 1 1 1 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 3.00 .970 5.60
1946 CHW AL 20 2B 66 64 64 397 185 195 17 51 .957 5.76 .970 5.54
1946 CHW AL 20 3B 13 12 11 41 14 24 3 3 .927 2.92 .948 3.06
1946 CHW AL 20 SS 6 4 4 32 14 16 2 8 .938 5.00 .954 4.97
1947 CHW AL 21 2B 60 59 55 341 160 175 6 52 .982 5.58 .978 5.46
1947 CHW AL 21 3B 44 43 41 146 48 89 9 9 .938 3.11 .959 3.01
1947 CHW AL 21 SS 2 1 0 5 2 3 0 0 1.000 2.50 .964 5.15
1948 CHW AL 22 SS 85 85 83 469 164 285 20 65 .957 5.28 .964 5.17
1948 CHW AL 22 2B 55 54 53 327 148 171 8 50 .976 5.80 .976 5.62
1948 CHW AL 22 CF 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 3.00
1948 CHW AL 22 OF 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 2.50
1949 CHW AL 23 2B 154 154 153 898 392 484 22 135 .976 5.69 .974 5.49 AS
1950 TOT AL 24 2B 139 139 136 1205.2 833 409 401 23 127 .972 6.05 5.83 .976 5.86 5.76 AS
1950 CHW AL 24 2B 35 35 35 301.0 196 111 78 7 36 .964 5.65 5.40 .976 5.86 5.76
1950 WSH AL 24 2B 104 104 101 904.2 637 298 323 16 91 .975 6.18 5.97 .976 5.86 5.76
1951 WSH AL 25 2B 128 126 125 1119.1 673 258 391 24 86 .964 5.22 5.07 .978 5.72 5.69
1952 TOT AL 26 2B 85 80 78 729.0 440 215 220 5 50 .989 5.37 5.12 .978 5.57 5.57
1952 WSH AL 26 2B 22 21 21 200.0 128 50 75 3 16 .977 5.62 5.68 .978 5.57 5.57
1952 SLB AL 26 3B 42 38 32 345.0 143 43 88 12 12 .916 3.42 3.12 .953 3.29 3.29
1952 SLB AL 26 2B 8 4 3 39.0 26 14 12 0 4 1.000 6.00 3.25 .978 5.56 5.58
1952 PHA AL 26 2B 55 55 54 490.0 286 151 133 2 30 .993 5.22 5.16 .978 5.57 5.57
1953 PHA AL 27 2B 110 109 108 978.1 625 304 302 19 81 .970 -6 -7 5.57 5.51 .979 5.60 5.57
1954 CHW AL 28 3B 91 80 67 710.0 287 95 180 12 10 .958 5 8 3.49 3.02 .959 3.48 3.46
1954 CHW AL 28 2B 2 0 0 10.0 3 1 2 0 1 1.000 -0 -12 2.70 1.50 .977 5.40 5.35
10 Seasons 2B 800 786 773 4042.1 4540 2073 2343 124 633 .973 -6 -2 5.57 5.52 .976 5.71 5.60
5 Seasons SS 240 230 226 1352 475 800 77 159 .943 5.31 .955 5.23
6 Seasons 3B 195 176 153 1055.0 621 202 383 36 34 .942 5 6 3.46 3.00 .957 3.42 3.29
1 Season OF 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 2.50
1 Season CF 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 3.00
12 Seasons TOT 1236 1193 1153 5097.1 6514 2751 3526 237 826 .964 -1 -0 5.14 5.08 .970 5.23 5.16
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
1943 CHW AL 17 3B
1944 CHW AL 18 SS
1944 CHW AL 18 3B
1945 CHW AL 19 SS
1945 CHW AL 19 2B
1946 CHW AL 20 2B
1946 CHW AL 20 3B
1946 CHW AL 20 SS
1947 CHW AL 21 2B
1947 CHW AL 21 3B
1947 CHW AL 21 SS
1948 CHW AL 22 SS
1948 CHW AL 22 2B
1948 CHW AL 22 CF
1949 CHW AL 23 2B
1950 CHW AL 24 2B
1950 WSH AL 24 2B
1951 WSH AL 25 2B
1952 WSH AL 26 2B
1952 SLB AL 26 3B
1952 SLB AL 26 2B
1952 PHA AL 26 2B
1953 PHA AL 27 2B -6 -7 -4 -3 -1 -2
1954 CHW AL 28 3B 5 8 5 5 -0 0
1954 CHW AL 28 2B -0 -12 -0 0 -0 0
10 Seasons 2B -6 -2 -4 -3 -1 -2
5 Seasons SS
6 Seasons 3B 5 6 5 5 -0 0
1 Season CF
12 Seasons TOT -1 -0 1 2 -1 -2
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
1943 CHW AL 17 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1944 CHW AL 18 27 17 27 24 0 0 0 0 2 22 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
1945 CHW AL 19 129 125 129 127 0 0 0 1 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1946 CHW AL 20 91 80 91 84 0 0 0 66 13 6 0 0 0 0 0 3 4
1947 CHW AL 21 110 103 110 104 0 0 0 60 44 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
1948 CHW AL 22 145 140 145 140 0 0 0 55 0 85 0 1 0 1 0 5 0
1949 CHW AL 23 154 154 154 154 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1950 WSH AL 24 106 104 106 104 0 0 0 104 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1950 CHW AL 24 36 35 36 35 0 0 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1951 WSH AL 25 138 126 138 128 0 0 0 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1952 PHA AL 26 55 55 55 55 0 0 0 55 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 SLB AL 26 55 42 55 49 0 0 0 8 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1952 WSH AL 26 22 21 22 22 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1953 PHA AL 27 117 109 117 110 0 0 0 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1954 CHW AL 28 101 80 101 91 0 0 0 2 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 3
12 Seasons 1288 1193 1288 1229 0 0 0 800 194 241 0 1 0 1 0 58 12
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 CHW AL 22 873 58% 83% 29% 80 94% 0 56 20 26 10 66 48 15 0 3 5 2 2 1 1 20 7 2 8 0 18 8 9 1 0 0
1949 CHW AL 23 3526 60% 82% 27% 306 93% 2 212 62 102 48 276 218 48 0 9 11 3 7 1 3 75 25 15 17 6 70 25 45 4 2 2
1950 WSH AL 24 3879 64% 83% 26% 349 92% 3 278 82 126 70 298 238 49 2 6 14 2 11 1 11 86 21 25 22 2 75 24 50 5 3 1
1950 CHW AL 24 1232 66% 80% 24% 87 92% 0 96 32 41 23 73 57 13 0 5 6 2 3 1 2 34 11 10 6 0 28 6 22 4 2 1
1951 WSH AL 25 4664 53% 84% 23% 450 92% 2 242 107 95 40 364 287 59 3 11 22 0 21 1 16 82 27 12 33 3 77 36 40 5 5 0
1952 PHA AL 26 2061 63% 83% 25% 166 95% 1 154 49 74 31 128 121 5 0 2 2 0 2 0 1 28 11 8 1 1 23 2 19 2 1 1
1952 WSH AL 26 850 57% 83% 27% 93 92% 1 49 22 19 8 75 55 16 0 0 3 0 1 2 1 16 5 1 8 0 14 8 6 2 1 1
1952 SLB AL 26 120 54% 93% 27% 11 91% 0 9 1 3 5 10 9 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1953 PHA AL 27 4092 66% 83% 24% 376 91% 3 298 112 126 61 289 235 37 1 7 19 1 14 4 11 81 22 21 17 3 66 20 45 8 5 3
1954 CHW AL 28 38 68% 68% 13% 1 100% 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
7 Seasons 21335 61% 83% 25% 1919 92% 12 1395 487 613 296 1581 1270 243 6 44 82 10 61 11 46 426 130 95 113 15 374 130 238 31 19 9
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 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%
1952 SLB AL 26 1109 62% 82% 26% 105 86% 2 30 22 2 6 68 46 18 2 4 11 1 10 0 8 9 8 0 8 1 0 1 4 50%
1954 CHW AL 28 2956 67% 80% 26% 289 88% 2 95 77 7 11 180 148 27 1 4 12 0 9 3 9 10 4 3 8 1 1 0 17 47%
2 Seasons 4065 65% 80% 26% 394 87% 4 125 99 9 17 248 194 45 3 8 23 1 19 3 17 19 12 3 16 2 1 1 21 48%
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 89% 68%

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
1948 CHW AL 22 1549 59% 85% 28% 169 89% 0 85 37 34 15 130 85 40 0 3 11 0 11 0 7 32 12 2 8 3 1 29 15 12 3 1 2
1 Season 1549 59% 85% 28% 169 89% 0 85 37 34 15 130 85 40 0 3 11 0 11 0 7 32 12 2 8 3 1 29 15 12 3 1 2
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 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%
1948 CHW AL 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.0% 2 0 0.0% 0 46 67% 76% 20% 5 20%
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.0% 2 0 0.0% 0 46 67% 76% 20% 5 20%
MLB Averages 45.2% 2.9% 62% 82% 31% 60%

* 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
1949 (2B)
1950 *

Assists† s c a p y
1948 AL  456 (5th)
1949 AL  484 (2nd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1945 AL  47 (1st)
1948 AL  28 (3rd)
1951 AL  24 (5th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1949 AL  154 (1st)
1950 AL  139 (4th)
1951 AL  128 (5th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1949 AL  392 (3rd)
1950 AL  409 (3rd)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1949 AL  484 (1st)
1950 AL  401 (3rd)
1951 AL  391 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1946 AL  17 (3rd)
1949 AL  22 (2nd)
1950 AL  23 (1st)
1951 AL  24 (1st)
1953 AL  19 (1st)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1945 AL  126 (4th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1945 AL  259 (4th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1945 AL  426 (4th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1945 AL  47 (1st)
1948 AL  20 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1950 AL  6.05 (3rd)
1953 AL  5.57 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1949 AL  5.69 (2nd)
1950 AL  5.83 (4th)
1953 AL  5.51 (3rd)
Career  5.52 (52nd)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1950 AL  .972 (5th)
1952 AL  .989 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1954 AL  5 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1954 AL  3.49 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1954 AL  3.02 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1945 AL  5.44 (2nd)
1948 AL  5.28 (2nd)

Youngest s c a p y
1943 AL  born 1926-03-04 (2nd)
1944 AL  born 1926-03-04 (3rd)
1945 AL  born 1926-03-04 (5th)
1946 AL  born 1926-03-04 (4th)

             

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