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Danny O'Connell

Daniel Francis O'Connell

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 168 lb.

Born: January 21, 1927 in Paterson, NJ
High School: St. Bonaventure HS (Paterson, NJ)
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1946. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 14, 1950
Teams (by GP): Braves/Giants/Pirates/Senators 1950-1962

Final Game: September 26, 1962
Died: October 2, 1969 in Clifton, NJ
Buried: Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair, NJ
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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
1950 PIT NL 23 SS 65 65 64 582.2 384 147 228 9 47 .977 5.79 5.77 .961 5.22 5.16 RoY-3
1950 PIT NL 23 3B 12 12 12 108.2 56 15 39 2 2 .964 4.47 4.50 .948 3.31 3.27 RoY-3
1953 PIT NL 26 3B 104 104 101 922.0 355 119 221 15 16 .958 -3 -4 3.32 3.27 .951 3.04 2.98 MVP-16
1953 PIT NL 26 2B 47 45 42 389.0 264 107 149 8 27 .970 1 2 5.92 5.45 .972 5.44 5.33 MVP-16
1954 MLN NL 27 2B 103 100 96 905.2 570 244 314 12 83 .979 8 11 5.55 5.42 .976 5.57 5.54
1954 MLN NL 27 3B 35 28 27 277.1 111 44 67 0 7 1.000 4 17 3.60 3.17 .952 3.17 3.15
1954 MLN NL 27 1B 8 8 6 65.0 68 63 5 0 7 1.000 0 0 9.42 8.50 .991 9.80 9.75
1954 MLN NL 27 SS 1 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.10 5.10
1955 MLN NL 28 2B 114 111 100 981.0 679 309 357 13 76 .981 8 10 6.11 5.84 .974 5.48 5.43
1955 MLN NL 28 3B 7 6 5 49.2 13 8 4 1 2 .923 -1 -34 2.17 1.71 .951 3.13 3.10
1955 MLN NL 28 SS 1 0 0 6.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -40 1.50 1.00 .960 4.95 5.00
1956 MLN NL 29 2B 138 132 113 1146.1 686 295 381 10 98 .985 3 3 5.31 4.90 .980 5.34 5.28
1956 MLN NL 29 3B 4 1 0 25.0 6 3 2 1 0 .833 -1 -29 1.80 1.25 .957 3.06 3.02
1956 MLN NL 29 SS 1 0 0 1.0 2 1 1 0 1 1.000 0 120 18.00 2.00 .960 4.50 4.90
1957 TOT NL 30 2B 116 110 102 996.2 635 284 339 12 93 .981 10 13 5.63 5.37 .977 5.37 5.41
1957 MLN NL 30 2B 48 47 41 420.0 278 128 145 5 43 .982 8 21 5.85 5.69 .977 5.37 5.41
1957 NYG NL 30 2B 68 63 61 576.2 357 156 194 7 50 .980 3 6 5.46 5.15 .977 5.37 5.41
1957 NYG NL 30 3B 30 26 22 229.2 106 33 69 4 6 .962 2 10 4.00 3.40 .952 2.96 2.98
1958 SFG NL 31 2B 104 99 65 823.0 507 222 278 7 70 .986 3 4 5.47 4.81 .975 5.33 5.30
1958 SFG NL 31 3B 3 0 0 4.1 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -138 0.00 0.00 3.12 3.17
1959 SFG NL 32 3B 26 14 5 120.0 55 15 36 4 3 .927 0 2 3.82 1.96 .950 2.97 2.94
1959 SFG NL 32 2B 8 4 3 49.1 25 16 9 0 1 1.000 -0 -7 4.56 3.13 .976 5.27 5.22
1961 WSA AL 34 3B 73 74 70 642.2 264 75 173 16 14 .939 4 8 3.47 3.40 .950 3.18 3.15
1961 WSA AL 34 2B 61 58 57 513.2 321 144 170 7 52 .978 4 8 5.50 5.15 .978 5.24 5.18
1962 WSA AL 35 3B 41 35 35 319.0 128 34 89 5 13 .961 6 21 3.47 3.00 .952 3.08 3.07
1962 WSA AL 35 2B 22 19 15 167.0 93 36 52 5 8 .946 -2 -11 4.74 4.00 .980 5.25 5.24
9 Seasons 2B 713 678 593 5971.2 3780 1657 2049 74 508 .980 35 7 5.59 5.20 .976 5.40 5.36
10 Seasons 3B 335 300 277 2698.1 1094 346 700 48 63 .956 11 5 3.49 3.12 .951 3.09 3.06
4 Seasons SS 68 65 64 592.2 387 148 230 9 48 .977 -0 -0 5.74 5.56 .961 5.22 5.15
1 Season 1B 8 8 6 65.0 68 63 5 0 7 1.000 0 0 9.42 8.50 .991 9.80 9.75
10 Seasons TOT 1124 1051 940 9327.2 5329 2214 2984 131 626 .975 46 6 5.02 4.62 .970 4.75 4.69
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
1950 PIT NL 23 SS
1950 PIT NL 23 3B
1953 PIT NL 26 3B -3 -4 -3 -4 2 0
1953 PIT NL 26 2B 1 2 1 1 -0 0
1954 MLN NL 27 2B 8 11 6 6 0 2
1954 MLN NL 27 3B 4 17 4 3 1 0
1954 MLN NL 27 1B 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1954 MLN NL 27 SS 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 MLN NL 28 2B 8 10 10 6 5 -2
1955 MLN NL 28 3B -1 -34 -1 -0 -1 0
1955 MLN NL 28 SS -0 -40 -0 -0 0 0
1956 MLN NL 29 2B 3 3 2 7 -5 1
1956 MLN NL 29 3B -1 -29 -1 -0 -0 0
1956 MLN NL 29 SS 0 120 0 0 0 0
1957 MLN NL 30 2B 8 21 6 5 2 1
1957 NYG NL 30 2B 3 6 2 2 0 1
1957 NYG NL 30 3B 2 10 2 4 -2 0
1958 SFG NL 31 2B 3 4 3 5 -2 0
1958 SFG NL 31 3B -0 -138 -0 -0 -0 0
1959 SFG NL 32 3B 0 2 0 2 -2 0
1959 SFG NL 32 2B -0 -7 -0 0 -0 0
1961 WSA AL 34 3B 4 8 5 6 -1 -1
1961 WSA AL 34 2B 4 8 3 2 1 1
1962 WSA AL 35 3B 6 21 5 4 1 1
1962 WSA AL 35 2B -2 -11 -1 -1 1 -1
9 Seasons 2B 35 7 32 31 2 3
10 Seasons 3B 11 5 11 13 -3 0
4 Seasons SS -0 -0 -0 -0 0 0
1 Season 1B 0 0 0 0 -0 0
10 Seasons TOT 46 6 43 44 -1 3
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
1950 PIT NL 23 79 77 79 77 0 0 0 0 12 65 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1953 PIT NL 26 149 149 149 149 0 0 0 47 104 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 MLN NL 27 146 136 146 142 0 0 8 102 36 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
1955 MLN NL 28 124 117 124 120 0 0 0 114 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1956 MLN NL 29 139 133 139 139 0 0 0 138 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1957 NYG NL 30 95 89 95 94 0 0 0 68 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1957 MLN NL 30 48 47 48 48 0 0 0 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1958 SFG NL 31 107 99 107 106 0 0 0 104 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1959 SFG NL 32 34 18 34 34 0 0 0 9 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1961 WSA AL 34 138 132 138 133 0 0 0 60 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1962 WSA AL 35 84 54 84 63 0 0 0 23 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
10 Seasons 1143 1051 1143 1105 0 0 8 713 336 68 0 0 0 0 0 44 4
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
1953 PIT NL 26 1212 62% 82% 27% 112 90% 0 74 22 37 15 97 79 13 0 5 6 1 5 0 5 22 9 4 6 0 20 7 13 2 0 2
1954 MLN NL 27 3259 63% 79% 27% 301 96% 1 212 77 97 37 270 225 29 1 7 11 0 8 3 7 73 25 15 15 1 63 17 42 10 8 2
1955 MLN NL 28 3552 64% 79% 28% 344 94% 0 240 82 122 36 290 256 26 0 6 12 1 10 1 11 66 24 13 15 2 60 17 42 5 2 1
1956 MLN NL 29 4289 61% 83% 29% 415 96% 1 250 104 113 33 349 298 45 0 3 8 0 6 2 6 89 25 15 32 6 85 39 43 2 2 0
1957 NYG NL 30 2265 63% 81% 30% 222 93% 0 140 49 65 26 188 160 25 0 3 7 1 4 2 5 47 16 9 15 0 43 15 27 4 3 1
1957 MLN NL 30 1768 65% 81% 30% 179 95% 2 125 38 65 22 153 127 22 2 1 5 0 5 0 4 43 15 3 14 3 40 17 22 1 0 0
1958 SFG NL 31 3531 65% 80% 28% 319 96% 2 216 81 114 21 276 229 35 0 6 7 0 7 0 6 72 32 6 22 1 64 23 41 6 4 1
1959 SFG NL 32 209 56% 77% 31% 18 100% 0 20 8 9 3 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0
1961 WSA AL 34 2206 67% 82% 27% 199 94% 1 145 51 69 25 170 129 34 1 3 7 0 4 3 3 52 17 8 20 0 46 20 26 4 1 2
1962 WSA AL 35 749 67% 79% 25% 59 93% 0 37 10 19 8 55 48 4 0 0 5 0 5 0 4 9 3 2 1 1 7 2 5 2 2 0
9 Seasons 23040 64% 81% 28% 2168 95% 7 1459 522 710 226 1859 1562 233 4 34 68 3 54 11 51 475 167 75 140 14 429 157 262 37 23 9
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 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%
1950 PIT NL 23 316 65% 82% 26% 31 97% 0 8 6 1 1 25 17 7 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0
1953 PIT NL 26 2609 63% 84% 27% 210 90% 5 69 50 9 10 140 114 21 2 4 10 1 9 0 8 14 9 3 13 1 0 1 10 80%
1954 MLN NL 27 1132 62% 82% 27% 103 91% 0 43 31 5 7 64 52 10 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 4 0 6 1 1 0 6 83%
1955 MLN NL 28 200 64% 76% 20% 11 82% 0 7 5 1 1 4 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0%
1956 MLN NL 29 110 68% 75% 26% 6 67% 0 4 2 0 2 2 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 NYG NL 30 766 57% 84% 29% 71 87% 0 22 19 2 1 47 37 6 1 1 4 0 3 1 3 6 3 0 3 2 2 0 2 100%
1958 SFG NL 31 24 63% 92% 25% 1 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1959 SFG NL 32 519 62% 79% 28% 48 90% 0 13 9 3 1 34 29 5 0 1 4 0 3 1 3 3 2 1 3 0 0 0 0
1961 WSA AL 34 2776 60% 83% 28% 244 88% 1 67 50 7 10 168 135 25 2 6 16 0 11 5 12 14 9 0 9 5 3 1 12 42%
1962 WSA AL 35 1393 64% 82% 29% 132 86% 1 32 24 6 2 88 66 19 0 1 5 0 3 2 3 12 10 1 12 0 0 0 5 40%
10 Seasons 9845 62% 82% 28% 857 89% 7 265 196 34 35 572 454 95 5 19 42 1 30 11 31 59 40 5 49 9 6 2 36 61%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 89% 62%

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
1950 PIT NL 23 1597 69% 83% 28% 184 95% 4 94 39 46 9 155 111 40 1 5 5 1 4 0 3 36 13 0 12 5 2 33 14 19 3 0 3
1954 MLN NL 27 14 50% 57% 21% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 MLN NL 28 28 71% 86% 25% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 MLN NL 29 4 75% 100% 25% 1 100% 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 1643 69% 83% 28% 187 95% 4 95 39 47 9 158 112 42 1 5 5 1 4 0 3 37 14 0 12 5 2 34 15 19 3 0 3
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 90%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1954 MLN NL 27 182 59% 88% 24% 12 100% 0 42 8 34 0 1 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0
1 Season 182 59% 88% 24% 12 100% 0 42 8 34 0 1 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 93% 86%

* 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))
1953 NL (16, 3%)
0.03 Career Shares (1251st)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1954 NL  12 (5th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1955 NL  114 (4th)
1956 NL  138 (3rd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1955 NL  309 (3rd)
1956 NL  295 (4th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1955 NL  357 (4th)
1956 NL  381 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1955 NL  13 (5th)
1956 NL  10 (5th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1953 NL  119 (5th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1953 NL  15 (5th)
1961 AL  16 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1954 NL  8 (3rd)
1955 NL  9 (3rd)
1956 NL  3 (5th)
1957 NL  11 (3rd)
1958 NL  3 (4th)
Career  35 (35th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1954 NL  5.55 (5th)
1955 NL  6.11 (2nd)
1957 NL  5.63 (2nd)
1958 NL  5.47 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1954 NL  5.42 (5th)
1955 NL  5.84 (1st)
1957 NL  5.37 (4th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1954 NL  .979 (3rd)
1955 NL  .981 (3rd)
1956 NL  .985 (3rd)
1957 NL  .981 (4th)
1958 NL  .986 (2nd)
Career  .980 (91st)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1954 NL  4 (1st)
1962 AL  6 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1953 NL  3.32 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1953 NL  3.27 (1st)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1953 NL  .958 (4th)

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