Whitey Platt

Mizell George Platt

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: August 21, 1920 in West Palm Beach, FL
High School: Palm Beach HS (West Palm Beach, FL) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1942
Teams (by GP): Browns/WhiteSox/Cubs 1942-1949

Final Game: October 2, 1949
Died: July 27, 1970 in West Palm Beach, FL
Buried: Hillcrest Memorial Park, West Palm Beach, FL
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
1942	CHC	NL	21	OF	4	4	4	8	7	1	0	0	1.000	2.00	.981	2.35
1942	CHC	NL	21	CF	2	2	2	7	6	1	0	0	1.000	3.50	.979	2.60
1942	CHC	NL	21	LF	2	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0.50	.980	2.30
1943	CHC	NL	22	OF	14	8	7	21	20	0	1	0	.952	1.43	.977	2.41
1943	CHC	NL	22	CF	7	6	5	15	14	0	1	0	.933	2.00	.978	2.74
1943	CHC	NL	22	LF	7	2	2	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	0.86	.977	2.26
1946	CHW	AL	25	OF	61	53	52	138	130	4	4	1	.971	2.20	.977	2.36
1946	CHW	AL	25	LF	25	24	23	56	53	1	2	0	.964	2.16	.974	2.24
1946	CHW	AL	25	CF	24	18	18	52	48	2	2	1	.962	2.08	.984	2.74
1946	CHW	AL	25	RF	13	11	11	30	29	1	0	0	1.000	2.31	.972	2.10
1948	SLB	AL	27	LF	114	112	107	245	227	5	13	2	.947	2.04	.975	2.34
1948	SLB	AL	27	OF	114	112	107	248	230	5	13	2	.948	2.06	.975	2.51
1949	SLB	AL	28	LF	59	55	41	143	138	3	2	0	.986	2.39	.982	2.36
1949	SLB	AL	28	OF	59	56	41	140	135	3	2	0	.986	2.34	.980	2.44
1949	SLB	AL	28	1B	2	2	2	24	21	2	1	1	.958	11.50	.989	9.75
1949	SLB	AL	28	RF	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.980	2.10
	5 Seasons			OF	252	233	211	555	522	13	20	3	.964	2.12	.977	2.45
	5 Seasons			LF	207	195	175	451	425	9	17	2	.962	2.10	.977	2.33
	3 Seasons			CF	33	26	25	74	68	3	3	1	.959	2.15	.982	2.73
	2 Seasons			RF	14	12	11	31	30	1	0	0	1.000	2.21	.972	2.10
	1 Season			1B	2	2	2	24	21	2	1	1	.958	11.50	.989	9.75
	5 Seasons			TOT	254	235	213	579	543	15	21	4	.964	2.20	.977	2.51

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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.
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
1942	CHC	NL	21	CF
1942	CHC	NL	21	LF
1943	CHC	NL	22	CF
1943	CHC	NL	22	LF
1946	CHW	AL	25	LF
1946	CHW	AL	25	CF
1946	CHW	AL	25	RF
1948	SLB	AL	27	LF
1949	SLB	AL	28	LF
1949	SLB	AL	28	1B
1949	SLB	AL	28	RF
	5 Seasons			LF
	3 Seasons			CF
	2 Seasons			RF
	1 Season			1B
	5 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1942	CHC	NL	21	4	4	4	4	0	2	2	0	4	0	0
1943	CHC	NL	22	20	8	20	14	0	7	7	0	14	4	2
1946	CHW	AL	25	84	53	84	61	0	25	24	13	61	26	0
1948	SLB	AL	27	123	112	123	114	0	114	0	0	114	10	0
1949	SLB	AL	28	102	58	102	61	2	59	0	1	59	41	1
	5 Seasons			333	235	333	254	2	207	33	14	252	81	3

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%
1948	SLB	AL	27	4	0	4	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	31	23	0	18	3	0	13	5	0	5	2	0	9	9	0	76	42	55.3%	34	0	0.0%	1	1449	60%	82%	29%	184	40%
1949	SLB	AL	28	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	24	20	0	11	1	0	8	4	0	5	1	0	7	7	0	55	33	60.0%	22	0	0.0%	2	1086	55%	83%	31%	136	53%
	2 Seasons			6	0	6	0	2	3	0	0	0	1	55	43	0	29	4	0	21	9	0	10	3	0	16	16	0	131	75	57.3%	56	0	0.0%	3	2535	58%	83%	30%	320	46%
	MLB Averages																														57.5%			2.7%			61%	82%	31%		51%

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%
1949	SLB	AL	28	85	45%	89%	29%	6	100%	0	21	0	22	0	4	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
	1 Season			85	45%	89%	29%	6	100%	0	21	0	22	0	4	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		93%																											88%

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	SLB	AL	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	50.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	29	45%	72%	24%	5	20%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	50.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	29	45%	72%	24%	5	20%
	MLB Averages																														43.5%			2.9%			61%	82%	31%		52%

* 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

Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1948 AL 114 (5th)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1948 AL 227 (5th)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1948 AL 13 (1st)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1948 AL 13 (2nd)

Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1948 AL 114 (5th)

Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1948 AL 227 (5th)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1948 AL 13 (1st)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1948 AL 13 (2nd)

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