Johnny Ostrowski

John Thaddeus Ostrowski

Positions: Leftfielder and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: October 17, 1917 in Chicago, IL
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1939. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 24, 1943
Teams (by GP): Cubs/WhiteSox/Senators/RedSox 1943-1950

Final Game: October 1, 1950
Died: November 13, 1992 in Chicago, IL
Buried: Resurrection Cemetery, Justice, 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
1943	CHC	NL	25	LF	5	5	3		8	8	0	0	0	1.000		1.60	.978		2.26
1943	CHC	NL	25	OF	5	5	3		8	8	0	0	1	1.000		1.60	.978		2.40
1943	CHC	NL	25	3B	4	4	4		10	3	5	2	1	.800		2.00	.948		3.18
1944	CHC	NL	26	LF	2	2	2		2	1	0	1	0	.500		0.50	.980		2.35
1944	CHC	NL	26	OF	2	2	2		2	1	0	1	0	.500		0.50	.980		2.45
1945	CHC	NL	27	3B	4	2	1		4	1	2	1	0	.750		0.75	.940		3.20
1946	CHC	NL	28	3B	50	34	33		121	33	80	8	5	.934		2.26	.952		3.08
1946	CHC	NL	28	2B	1				4	2	2	0	0	1.000		4.00	.970		5.60
1946	CHC	NL	28	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.80
1949	CHW	AL	31	OF	41	35	30		89	81	3	5	0	.944		2.05	.980		2.44
1949	CHW	AL	31	LF	40	34	29		87	80	2	5	0	.943		2.05	.982		2.36
1949	CHW	AL	31	3B	8	3	3		14	4	9	1	0	.929		1.63	.960		3.15
1949	CHW	AL	31	RF	3	1	1		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		0.67	.980		2.10
1950	TOT	AL	32	OF	60	50	40	431.0	142	132	4	6	1	.958	2.84	2.27	.979	2.51	2.47
1950	TOT	AL	32	LF	41	33	24	273.0	88	81	2	5	0	.943	2.74	2.02	.977	2.41	2.37
1950	TOT	AL	32	RF	12	10	9	88.0	27	24	2	1	1	.963	2.66	2.17	.975	2.12	2.09
1950	TOT	AL	32	CF	8	7	7	70.0	25	25	0	0	0	1.000	3.21	3.13	.981	2.96	2.89
1950	CHW	AL	32	OF	14	11	10	106.0	27	26	1	0	0	1.000	2.29	1.93	.979	2.51	2.47
1950	CHW	AL	32	RF	8	6	5	53.0	17	17	0	0	0	1.000	2.89	2.13	.975	2.12	2.09
1950	CHW	AL	32	LF	7	5	5	46.0	10	9	1	0	0	1.000	1.96	1.43	.977	2.41	2.37
1950	CHW	AL	32	CF	1	0	0	7.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.29	1.00	.980	2.96	2.90
1950	WSH	AL	32	OF	45	39	30	325.0	114	105	3	6	1	.947	2.99	2.40	.979	2.51	2.47
1950	WSH	AL	32	LF	34	28	19	227.0	78	72	1	5	0	.936	2.89	2.15	.977	2.41	2.37
1950	WSH	AL	32	CF	7	7	7	63.0	24	24	0	0	0	1.000	3.43	3.43	.981	2.96	2.89
1950	WSH	AL	32	RF	4	4	4	35.0	10	7	2	1	1	.900	2.31	2.25	.975	2.11	2.10
1950	CHW	AL	32	OF	1				1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.980		2.50
	4 Seasons			OF	108	92	75	431.0	241	222	7	12	2	.950	2.84	2.12	.979	2.51	2.46
	4 Seasons			LF	88	74	58	273.0	185	170	4	11	0	.941	2.74	1.98	.979	2.41	2.36
	4 Seasons			3B	66	43	41		149	41	96	12	6	.919		2.08	.952		3.10
	2 Seasons			RF	15	11	10	88.0	29	26	2	1	1	.966	2.66	1.87	.976	2.12	2.09
	2 Seasons			CF	9	7	7	70.0	25	25	0	0	0	1.000	3.21	2.78	.981	2.96	2.88
	1 Season			2B	1				4	2	2	0	0	1.000		4.00	.970		5.60
	7 Seasons			TOT	175	135	116	431.0	394	265	105	24	8	.939	2.84	2.11	.969	2.51	2.72
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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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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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos
1943	CHC	NL	25	LF
1943	CHC	NL	25	3B
1944	CHC	NL	26	LF
1945	CHC	NL	27	3B
1946	CHC	NL	28	3B
1946	CHC	NL	28	2B
1946	CHC	NL	28	CF
1949	CHW	AL	31	LF
1949	CHW	AL	31	3B
1949	CHW	AL	31	RF
1950	CHW	AL	32	RF
1950	CHW	AL	32	LF
1950	CHW	AL	32	CF
1950	WSH	AL	32	LF
1950	WSH	AL	32	CF
1950	WSH	AL	32	RF
	4 Seasons			LF
	4 Seasons			3B
	2 Seasons			RF
	2 Seasons			CF
	1 Season			2B
	7 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1943	CHC	NL	25	10	9	10	9	4	5	0	0	5	1	0
1944	CHC	NL	26	8	2	8	2	0	2	0	0	2	6	0
1945	CHC	NL	27	7	2	7	4	4	0	0	0	0	2	2
1946	CHC	NL	28	64	34	64	52	51	0	1	0	1	12	0
1948	BOS	AL	30	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1949	CHW	AL	31	49	38	49	45	8	40	0	3	41	5	0
1950	WSH	AL	32	55	39	55	45	0	34	7	4	45	13	2
1950	CHW	AL	32	22	11	22	15	0	7	1	8	15	9	0
	7 Seasons			216	135	216	172	67	88	9	15	109	49	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 -- LF*

				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%
1949	CHW	AL	31	3	0	3	0	1	2	0	1	0	1	13	9	0	9	2	1	6	5	0	5	1	0	3	3	0	36	20	55.6%	15	1	2.8%	1	794	61%	82%	25%	114	47%
1950	WSH	AL	32	5	0	5	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	12	8	0	16	4	0	5	3	1	5	1	0	9	8	0	47	24	51.1%	22	1	2.1%	0	974	59%	83%	31%	136	54%
1950	CHW	AL	32	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	3	37.5%	4	1	12.5%	0	189	66%	81%	30%	25	40%
	2 Seasons			8	0	8	0	2	4	0	2	0	1	28	19	1	30	7	1	11	8	1	10	2	0	12	11	0	91	47	51.6%	41	3	3.3%	1	1957	61%	83%	28%	275	50%
	MLB Averages																														56.8%			2.8%			62%	82%	31%		52%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				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%
1949	CHW	AL	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	32	53%	63%	13%	2	50%
1950	CHW	AL	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	9	1	11.1%	6	2	22.2%	-2	239	61%	82%	31%	33	55%
1950	WSH	AL	32	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	4	1	0	6	2	0	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	13	5	38.5%	7	1	7.7%	1	162	59%	89%	26%	25	32%
	2 Seasons			1	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	9	1	1	7	2	1	3	3	0	3	1	1	1	0	0	23	7	30.4%	13	3	13.0%	-1	433	60%	83%	28%	60	45%
	MLB Averages																														43.2%			3.0%			62%	82%	31%		53%

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%
1950	WSH	AL	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	3	0	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	14	5	35.7%	9	0	0.0%	0	299	66%	79%	28%	44	55%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	3	0	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	14	5	35.7%	9	0	0.0%	0	299	66%	79%	28%	44	55%
	MLB Averages																														45.5%			2.6%			62%	82%	31%		59%

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%
1949	CHW	AL	31	18	67%	89%	33%	2	100%	0	1	0	0	1	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			18	67%	89%	33%	2	100%	0	1	0	0	1	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		89%																								72%

* 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

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1949 AL 5 (3rd)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1949 AL 5 (3rd)

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