Mickey Owen

Arnold Malcolm Owen

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: April 4, 1916 in Nixa, MO
High School: Washington HS (Los Angeles, CA)
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1935. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 2, 1937
Teams (by GP): Dodgers/Cardinals/Cubs/RedSox 1937-1954

Final Game: September 11, 1954
Died: July 13, 2005 in Mount Vernon, MO
Buried: Patterson Cemetery, Springfield, MO
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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	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1937	STL	NL	21	C	78	66	59		345	287	49	9	6	.974				4.31	.980		5.25	4		21	22	51%	46%
1938	STL	NL	22	C	116	106	102		541	463	67	11	8	.980				4.57	.979		4.85	7		27	28	51%	45%
1939	STL	NL	23	C	126	96	76		513	452	52	9	8	.982				4.00	.982		4.81	9		13	22	63%	46%
1940	STL	NL	24	C	113	88	75		443	378	56	9	8	.980				3.84	.978		5.00	5		22	29	57%	45%
1941	BRO	NL	25	C	128	113	89		597	530	64	3	7	.995				4.64	.983		5.04	2		27	29	52%	46%		AS
1942	BRO	NL	26	C	133	122	110		670	595	66	9	12	.987				4.97	.979		4.95	5		24	31	56%	46%		AS,MVP-4
1943	BRO	NL	27	C	100	92	84		467	414	47	6	11	.987				4.61	.981		4.70	9		25	20	44%	44%		AS
1943	BRO	NL	27	3B	3	3	1		12	3	8	1	0	.917				3.67	.948		3.17								AS
1943	BRO	NL	27	SS	1	1	0		6	4	2	0	0	1.000				6.00	.953		5.30								AS
1944	BRO	NL	28	C	125	122	111		575	506	57	12	8	.979				4.50	.979		4.56	11		37	26	41%	43%		AS
1944	BRO	NL	28	2B	1	1	1		1	1	0	0	0	1.000				1.00	.960		5.60								AS
1945	BRO	NL	29	C	24	23	23		109	92	13	4	2	.963				4.38	.978		4.57	2		4	6	60%	40%
1949	CHC	NL	33	C	59	55	48		262	219	35	8	5	.969				4.31	.982		4.98	7	10	24	17	41%	43%	1
1950	CHC	NL	34	C	86	74	60	658.1	365	318	39	8	8	.978			4.88	4.15	.982	5.38	5.33	6	12	23	16	41%	38%	1
1951	CHC	NL	35	C	57	40	23	360.2	223	188	28	7	6	.969			5.39	3.79	.981	5.18	5.16	5	8	14	13	48%	41%	0
1954	BOS	AL	38	C	30	16	10	173.1	94	85	8	1	4	.989	0	0	4.83	3.10	.986	5.40	5.36	1	3	5	5	50%	48%	1
	13 Seasons			C	1175	1013	870	1192.1	5204	4527	581	96	93	.982	0	0	5.03	4.35	.980	5.32	4.94	73	33	266	264	50%	44%	3
	1 Season			3B	3	3	1		12	3	8	1	0	.917				3.67	.948		3.17
	1 Season			2B	1	1	1		1	1	0	0	0	1.000				1.00	.960		5.60
	1 Season			SS	1	1	0		6	4	2	0	0	1.000				6.00	.953		5.30
	13 Seasons			TOT	1180	1018	872	1192.1	5223	4535	591	97	93	.981	0	0	5.03	4.34	.980	5.32	4.94	73	33	266	264	50%	44%	3

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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rctch
1937	STL	NL	21	C
1938	STL	NL	22	C
1939	STL	NL	23	C
1940	STL	NL	24	C
1941	BRO	NL	25	C
1942	BRO	NL	26	C
1943	BRO	NL	27	C
1943	BRO	NL	27	3B
1943	BRO	NL	27	SS
1944	BRO	NL	28	C
1944	BRO	NL	28	2B
1945	BRO	NL	29	C
1949	CHC	NL	33	C
1950	CHC	NL	34	C
1951	CHC	NL	35	C
1954	BOS	AL	38	C	0	0	0
	13 Seasons			C	0	0	0
	1 Season			3B
	1 Season			2B
	1 Season			SS
	13 Seasons			TOT	0	0	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1937	STL	NL	21	80	66	80	78	78	0	0	0	2	0
1938	STL	NL	22	122	106	122	116	116	0	0	0	6	0
1939	STL	NL	23	131	96	131	126	126	0	0	0	5	0
1940	STL	NL	24	117	88	117	113	113	0	0	0	4	0
1941	BRO	NL	25	128	113	128	128	128	0	0	0	0	0
1942	BRO	NL	26	133	122	133	133	133	0	0	0	0	0
1943	BRO	NL	27	106	96	106	101	100	0	3	1	5	0
1944	BRO	NL	28	130	123	130	126	125	1	0	0	4	0
1945	BRO	NL	29	24	23	24	24	24	0	0	0	0	0
1949	CHC	NL	33	62	55	62	59	59	0	0	0	4	0
1950	CHC	NL	34	86	74	86	86	86	0	0	0	1	0
1951	CHC	NL	35	58	40	58	57	57	0	0	0	2	0
1954	BOS	AL	38	32	16	32	30	30	0	0	0	2	2
	13 Seasons			1209	1018	1209	1177	1175	1	3	1	35	2

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 -- C*

					Pitching Stats						Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	ERA	RAvg	Fld	F2O%	XI	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	SO	Tot	1B	2B	3B	K23	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	263	n23	GB	bFld	bF2O%
1949	CHC	NL	33	1546	4.63	5.24	32	100%	0	0	164	24	2	5	133	24	5	0	0	0	8	0	4	4	0	3	0	0	0	1	100%
1950	CHC	NL	34	2510	4.52	5.28	41	88%	1	1	277	30	4	17	226	32	3	1	0	7	8	0	4	4	2	7	0	2	3	3	33%
1951	CHC	NL	35	1185	4.11	4.70	20	95%	0	0	146	14	2	7	123	22	5	0	0	1	7	0	4	3	0	6	0	2	2	1	100%
1954	BOS	AL	38	768	4.41	4.93	8	100%	1	0	86	7	2	7	70	8	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	0	1	2	1	100%
	4 Seasons			6009	4.45	5.10	101	94%	2	1	673	75	10	36	552	86	15	1	0	8	24	0	13	11	2	20	0	5	7	6	67%
	MLB Averages				4.10	4.62		95%																							84%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PB	WP	SBO	SB	CS	CSctch	CS%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	RBA	RK	SBlev	CSlev
1949	CHC	NL	33	4	10	622	22	17	17	44%	16	16	2	1	4	0	1	0	49	18	1.32	0.96
1950	CHC	NL	34	6	12	1006	21	16	15	43%	20	13	1	0	0	3	1	0	53	23	1.21	1.12
1951	CHC	NL	35	5	8	472	12	12	12	50%	11	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	38	13	1.00	0.97
1954	BOS	AL	38	1	3	308	5	5	5	50%	5	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	9	9	1.58	0.79
	4 Seasons			16	33	2408	60	50	49	45%	52	45	4	2	4	3	3	0	149	63	1.24	1.00
	MLB Averages									45%											1.20	1.17

* 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 1941 (C) 1942 * 1943 1944	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1942 NL (4, 31%) 0.31 Career Shares (598th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1938 NL 116 (3rd) 1939 NL 126 (3rd) 1940 NL 113 (2nd) 1941 NL 128 (1st) 1942 NL 133 (1st) 1943 NL 100 (5th) 1944 NL 125 (2nd) Career 1,175 (76th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1938 NL 463 (3rd) 1939 NL 452 (3rd) 1940 NL 378 (5th) 1941 NL 530 (1st) 1942 NL 595 (1st) 1943 NL 414 (3rd) 1944 NL 506 (1st)
Assists as C s c a p y 1938 NL 67 (3rd) 1939 NL 52 (4th) 1941 NL 64 (4th) 1942 NL 66 (1st) 1943 NL 47 (5th) 1944 NL 57 (2nd)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1937 NL 9 (5th) 1938 NL 11 (2nd) 1939 NL 9 (3rd) 1942 NL 9 (5th) 1944 NL 12 (2nd) 1949 NL 8 (4th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1938 NL 7 (3rd) 1939 NL 9 (2nd) 1940 NL 5 (4th) 1942 NL 5 (4th) 1943 NL 9 (1st) 1944 NL 11 (1st) 1949 NL 7 (3rd) 1950 NL 6 (4th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1938 NL 27 (4th) 1943 NL 25 (5th) 1944 NL 37 (2nd) 1949 NL 24 (4th)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1938 NL 28 (3rd) 1939 NL 22 (4th) 1941 NL 29 (5th) 1942 NL 31 (1st) 1943 NL 20 (5th) 1944 NL 26 (1st) 1949 NL 17 (4th) 1950 NL 16 (5th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1937 NL 51.2 (5th) 1938 NL 50.9 (3rd) 1939 NL 62.9 (1st) 1940 NL 56.9 (1st) 1941 NL 51.8 (3rd) 1942 NL 56.4 (4th) 1943 NL 44.4 (5th) 1950 NL 41.0 (5th) Career 49.8 (13th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1938 NL 4.57 (4th) 1939 NL 4.00 (5th) 1941 NL 4.64 (4th) 1942 NL 4.97 (2nd) 1943 NL 4.61 (4th) 1944 NL 4.50 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1938 NL .980 (5th) 1941 NL .995 (2nd) 1942 NL .987 (3rd) 1943 NL .987 (4th) 1944 NL .979 (5th)
Oldest s c a p y 1954 AL born 1916-04-04 (5th)	Youngest s c a p y 1937 NL born 1916-04-04 (6th)

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