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Danny Murtaugh

Daniel Edward Murtaugh

Positions: Second Baseman, Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: October 8, 1917 in Chester, PA
High School: Chester HS (Chester, PA)
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1937. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 6, 1941
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Phillies/Braves 1941-1951

Final Game: September 6, 1951
Died: December 2, 1976 in Chester, PA
Buried: SS. Peter & Paul Cemetery, Springfield, PA
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Standard Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	Pos	Awards
1937	19	STL-min	D	94	377	377		112	18	4	2						.297	.297	.382	.679		144					CMG · ESHL
1938	20	STL-min	D	112	429	429		134	21	5	3						.312	.312	.406	.718		174					CMG · ESHL
1939	21	STL-min	AA	133	504	504		135	19	3	2						.268	.268	.329	.597		166					CLB,ROC · AA,IL
1940	22	STL-min	A1	155	623	623		186	24	8	0						.299	.299	.363	.661		226					HSN · TL
1941	23	STL-min	A1	69	278	278		88	16	6	0						.317	.317	.417	.734		116					HSN · TL
1941	23	PHI	NL	85	375	347	34	76	8	1	0	11	18		26	31	.219	.275	.248	.523	51	86	3	1	1	4/6
1942	24	PHI	NL	144	580	506	48	122	16	4	0	27	13		49	39	.241	.311	.289	.599	80	146	13	2	21	654
1943	25	PHI	NL	113	521	451	65	123	17	4	1	35	4		57	23	.273	.357	.335	.692	105	151	9	2	10	*4
1944		Did not play in major leagues (Military Service)
1945		Did not play in major leagues (Military Service)
1946	28	STL-min	AAA	139	606	541	73	174	23	4	0	62	11	7	53	46	.322	.384	.379	.763		205	5	2	10		ROC · IL
1946	28	PHI	NL	6	21	19	1	4	1	0	1	3	0		2	2	.211	.286	.421	.707	103	8	0	0	0	/4
1947	29	ATL-min	AAA	119	531	444	96	134	15	5	7	49	2		76	48	.302	.406	.405	.812		180	9	2	9		MLW · AA
1947	29	BSN	NL	3	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		1	2	.125	.222	.125	.347	-5	1	0	0	0	/45
1948	30	PIT	NL	146	579	514	56	149	21	5	1	71	10		60	40	.290	.365	.356	.721	94	183	8	1	4	*4	MVP-9
1949	31	PIT	NL	75	269	236	16	48	7	2	2	24	2		29	17	.203	.291	.275	.566	51	65	2	0	3	4
1950	32	PIT	NL	118	417	367	34	108	20	5	2	37	2		47	42	.294	.376	.392	.768	100	144	8	1	1	*4
1951	33	PIT	NL	77	171	151	9	30	7	0	1	11	0	0	16	19	.199	.284	.265	.549	47	40	6	2	2	4/5
1952	34	PIT-min	AA	57	156	156		33	2	3	2						.212	.212	.301	.513		47					NOR · SOUA
1953	35	PIT-min	AA	3	4	4		0	0	0	0						.000	.000	.000	.000		0					NOR · SOUA
9 Yrs				767	2942	2599	263	661	97	21	8	219	49	0	287	215	.254	.331	.317	.648	82	824	49	9	42
162 Game Avg.				162	621	549	56	140	20	4	2	46	10		61	45	.254	.331	.317	.648	82	174	10	2	9

PIT (4 yrs)				416	1436	1268	115	335	55	12	6	143	14	0	152	118	.264	.345	.341	.685	82	432	24	4	10
PHI (4 yrs)				348	1497	1323	148	325	42	9	2	76	35		134	95	.246	.317	.296	.613	81	391	25	5	32
BSN (1 yr)				3	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		1	2	.125	.222	.125	.347	-5	1	0	0	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
1941	23	PHI	NL	85	375	-20	2	0	-3	4	-18	-2.0	13	-4	-0.7	.477	.488	-0.4	0.1	-2	$	4/6
1942	24	PHI	NL	144	580	-10	-0	0	-5	6	-10	-1.3	18	8	0.5	.492	.493	1.1	0.0	13	$	654
1943	25	PHI	NL	113	521	5	-0	0	-4	5	6	0.6	16	22	2.2	.506	.504	2.7	0.1	26	$	*4

1946	28	PHI	NL	6	21	0	0	0	-1	0	-1	-0.1	1	-0	0.0	.485	.499	0.1	-0.1	1	$	/4
1947	29	BSN	NL	3	9	-1	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	0	-1	-0.1	.462	.499	-0.1	0.0	-1	$	/45
1948	30	PIT	NL	146	579	-2	1	1	5	7	11	1.1	20	32	3.1	.508	.507	2.7	1.2	27	$	*4	MVP-9
1949	31	PIT	NL	75	269	-16	1	1	-3	3	-14	-1.5	9	-5	-0.6	.481	.491	-0.2	0.0	-2	$	4
1950	32	PIT	NL	118	417	1	-0	-0	-2	5	4	0.3	14	18	1.7	.503	.502	1.9	0.2	19	$	*4
1951	33	PIT	NL	77	171	-11	-0	-1	-3	2	-13	-1.4	6	-7	-0.8	.482	.492	-0.5	-0.1	-4	$	4/5
9 Seasons				767	2942	-54	2	1	-16	32	-36	-4.3	97	61	5.3	.495	.497	7.3	1.5	77	$

PIT (4 yrs)				416	1436	-27	1	1	-3	17	-12	-1.5	49	37	3.4	.497	.498	3.9	1.4	40	$
PHI (4 yrs)				348	1497	-26	1	0	-13	15	-23	-2.7	47	25	2.0	.493	.496	3.5	0.1	38	$
BSN (1 yr)				3	9	-1	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	0	-1	-0.1	.462	.499	-0.1	0.0	-1	$

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1941	23	PHI	NL	375	275	24	2.3	90	.241	.219	.260	.275	.329	.248	.366	.523	.696	51	.260	-22.0	-2.3	.478	.156	.029	.0
1942	24	PHI	NL	580	418	45	2.9	82	.261	.241	.249	.311	.320	.289	.346	.599	.666	80	.378	-11.3	-1.2	.529	.170	.047	.0
1943	25	PHI	NL	521	347	54	4.2	85	.286	.273	.259	.357	.326	.335	.351	.692	.678	105	.528	5.0	0.5	.635	.197	.062	1.6

1946	28	PHI	NL	21	15	2	3.6	89	.188	.211	.258	.286	.332	.421	.361	.707	.693	103	.444	-0.0	0.0	.667	.316	.211	.0
1947	29	BSN	NL	9	7	0	0.0	104	.167	.125	.272	.222	.347	.125	.403	.347	.749	-5	.000	-1.2	-0.1	.286	.125	.000
1948	30	PIT	NL	579	377	67	4.7	104	.313	.290	.271	.365	.346	.356	.402	.721	.748	94	.527	-2.5	-0.2	.681	.202	.066	1.8
1949	31	PIT	NL	269	193	19	2.6	106	.212	.203	.273	.291	.347	.275	.408	.566	.755	51	.266	-16.6	-1.6	.505	.203	.072	2.0
1950	32	PIT	NL	417	268	54	5.4	111	.328	.294	.273	.376	.351	.392	.423	.768	.774	100	.559	1.4	0.1	.727	.232	.098	2.0
1951	33	PIT	NL	171	129	11	2.3	105	.221	.199	.270	.284	.344	.265	.409	.549	.753	47	.224	-11.1	-1.1	.457	.172	.066	.0
9 Yrs				2942	2029	276	3.6	96	.275	.254	.264	.331	.336	.317	.381	.648	.717	82	.431	-58.4	-6.0	.588	.192	.063	13.8
162 Game Avg.				621	429	58	3.6	96	.275	.254	.264	.331	.336	.317	.381	.648	.717	82	.431	-58.4	-6.0	.588	.192	.063	3

PIT (4 yrs)				1436	967	151	4.2	106	.288	.264	.272	.345	.347	.341	.410	.685	.757	82	.458	-28.8	-2.9	.629	.207	.076	8.4
PHI (4 yrs)				1497	1055	125	3.2	85	.263	.246	.255	.317	.325	.296	.353	.613	.678	81	.404	-28.4	-3.0	.552	.178	.050	3.8
BSN (1 yr)				9	7	0	0.0	104	.167	.125	.272	.222	.347	.125	.403	.347	.749	-5	.000	-1.2	-0.1	.286	.125	.000

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1941	23	PHI	NL	375	0.0%	8.3%	6.9%	2.4%	12%	1.19	11.2		31.5		84%
1942	24	PHI	NL	580	0.0%	6.7%	8.5%	3.5%	16%	0.80	13.0		18.7		81%
1943	25	PHI	NL	521	0.2%	4.4%	10.9%	4.2%	18%	0.40	19.6	451.0	12.9		82%

1946	28	PHI	NL	21	4.8%	9.5%	9.5%	9.5%	50%	1.00	9.5	19.0	6.3		76%
1947	29	BSN	NL	9	0.0%	22.2%	11.1%	0.0%	0%	2.00	4.0				67%
1948	30	PIT	NL	579	0.2%	6.9%	10.4%	4.7%	18%	0.67	12.9	514.0	7.2	0.64	82%
1949	31	PIT	NL	269	0.7%	6.3%	10.8%	4.1%	23%	0.59	13.9	118.0	9.8	0.91	81%
1950	32	PIT	NL	417	0.5%	10.1%	11.3%	6.5%	25%	0.89	8.7	183.5	9.9	0.93	77%
1951	33	PIT	NL	171	0.6%	11.1%	9.4%	4.7%	27%	1.19	7.9	151.0	13.7	1.17	77%
9 Yrs				2942	0.3%	7.3%	9.8%	4.3%	19%	0.75	12.1	324.9	11.9	0.87	81%
MLB Averages					1.5%	9.3%	9.4%	6.1%	26%	0.99	9.5	60.8	8.5	0.97	78%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1941	23	PHI	NL	-22.0	-2.3	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0
1942	24	PHI	NL	-11.3	-1.2	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0
1943	25	PHI	NL	5.0	0.5	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0

1946	28	PHI	NL	-0.1	-0.0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0
1947	29	BSN	NL	-1.2	-0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0
1948	30	PIT	NL	-2.5	-0.2	238	1.0	4.4	-3.5	.99	0.3	0.7	6.9	0.7	0.97	5.1		0
1949	31	PIT	NL	-16.6	-1.6	172	0.6	3.4	-2.8	1.01	-0.7	1.3	-6.0	-0.6	0.94	-9.3	1.50	1
1950	32	PIT	NL	1.4	0.1	308	0.2	5.7	-5.5	1.03	0.5	-0.3	7.9	0.8	0.93	3.9	1.30	7
1951	33	PIT	NL	-11.1	-1.1	118	-1.7	1.3	-3.0	1.17	-1.0	-0.4	-13.3	-1.3	1.01	-11.2	0.99	11
9 Yrs				-58.4	-6.0	836	0.0	14.8	-14.7	1.03	-0.9	1.0	-4.5	-0.5	0.96	-11.4	1.13	19

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	PO	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1948	30	PIT	NL	3	26%	94	10		4	5	1	1	1	1	2	4	50%	15	9	5	1	0	1	8	2	6
1949	31	PIT	NL	4	19%	52	2		1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	21%	8	6	2	3	3	0	3	2	1
1950	32	PIT	NL	3	21%	129	2		2	3	0	0	0	0	6	2	32%	13	11	1	6	2	3	12	6	6
1951	33	PIT	NL	2	17%	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	20%	2	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	1
9 Yrs				12	27%	311	49	0	7	9	1	1	1	1	11	9	35%	38	28	8	11	6	4	25	10	14

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1948	30	PIT	NL	579	14%	149			0	0	0	0		1	1	6	1	0	1	0	0	1	4	400%	47	8	17%	23	9	39%	135	24	18%	15	7	47%	8	6	75%	0
1949	31	PIT	NL	269	11%	48			1	1	0	0	1.50	2	0	7	0	0	1	1	0	0	3		28	2	7%	9	3	33%	110	14	13%	7	4	57%	2	0	0%	0
1950	32	PIT	NL	417	15%	108			7	3	0	0	1.30	2	0	6	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	100%	63	8	13%	25	7	28%	187	28	15%	21	9	43%	13	7	54%	0
1951	33	PIT	NL	171	18%	30			11	2	0	1	0.99	1	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	2	2	100%	28	6	21%	11	6	55%	81	6	7%	6	4	67%	4	2	50%	0
9 Yrs				1436	14%	661			19	6	0	1	1.13	8	1	21	2	1	3	3	0	4	42	1050%	166	49	30%	68	25	37%	513	72	14%	49	24	49%	27	15	56%	0
MLB Averages					51%																			328%			35%			33%			15%			51%			55%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH
1941	23	85	375	347	34	76	8	1	0	11	18		26	31	.219	.275	.248	.523	51	86	3	1	1
1942	24	229	955	853	82	198	24	5	0	38	31		75	70	.232	.296	.272	.568	68	232	16	3	22
1943	25	342	1476	1304	147	321	41	9	1	73	35		132	93	.246	.318	.294	.612	81	383	25	5	32
1944	26	342	1476	1304	147	321	41	9	1	73	35		132	93	.246	.318	.294	.612	81	383	25	5	32
1945	27	342	1476	1304	147	321	41	9	1	73	35		132	93	.246	.318	.294	.612	81	383	25	5	32
1946	28	348	1497	1323	148	325	42	9	2	76	35		134	95	.246	.317	.296	.613	81	391	25	5	32
1947	29	351	1506	1331	148	326	42	9	2	76	35		135	97	.245	.317	.295	.611	81	392	25	5	32
1948	30	497	2085	1845	204	475	63	14	3	147	45		195	137	.257	.330	.312	.642	85	575	33	6	36
1949	31	572	2354	2081	220	523	70	16	5	171	47		224	154	.251	.326	.308	.633	81	640	35	6	39
1950	32	690	2771	2448	254	631	90	21	7	208	49		271	196	.258	.333	.320	.654	84	784	43	7	40
1951	33	767	2942	2599	263	661	97	21	8	219	49	0	287	215	.254	.331	.317	.648	82	824	49	9	42

Neutralized Batting

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All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1941	23	88	396	365	39	84	9	1	0	13	20	29	32	.230	.289	.260	.549	27	85
1942	24	152	633	551	61	144	19	5	0	34	15	58	41	.261	.334	.314	.648	57	144
1943	25	118	563	485	80	142	20	5	1	43	5	66	24	.293	.380	.361	.741	66	113

1946	28	6	23	21	1	5	1	0	1	4	0	2	2	.238	.304	.429	.733	3	6
1947	29	3	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	3
1948	30	153	601	534	57	153	22	5	1	72	10	62	42	.287	.362	.352	.714	68	146
1949	31	78	275	243	16	48	7	2	2	24	2	29	18	.198	.283	.267	.551	19	75
1950	32	123	428	379	33	108	20	5	2	36	2	47	44	.285	.365	.380	.745	52	118
1951	33	80	178	157	9	31	7	0	1	11	0	17	20	.197	.284	.261	.545	11	77
9 Yrs		801	3106	2743	296	715	105	23	8	237	54	311	225	.261	.338	.324	.662	303	767
162 Game Avg.		162	628	555	60	145	21	5	2	48	11	63	46	.261	.338	.324	.662	61	767

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1948 NL (9, 15%) 0.15 Career Shares (809th)	Defensive WAR† s c a p y 1948 NL 1.2 (4th)	Games Played s c a p y 1948 NL 146 (10th)	Stolen Bases s c a p y 1941 NL 18 (1st) 1942 NL 13 (6th) 1948 NL 10 (8th)
Singles s c a p y 1948 NL 122 (7th)	Sacrifice Hits s c a p y 1942 NL 21 (2nd)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black Ink	Batting - 2 (608), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray Ink	Batting - 7 (1627), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 2 (2147), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 2 (2725), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.

Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

Play Index Loading Photos from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress.

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