Stan Rojek

Stanley Andrew Rojek (Happy Rabbit)

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: April 21, 1919 in North Tonawanda, NY
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1939. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 22, 1942
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Dodgers/Cardinals/Browns 1942-1952

Final Game: May 13, 1952
Died: July 9, 1997 in North Tonawanda, NY
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Buffalo, NY
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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
1946	BRO	NL	27	SS	15	6	5		38	14	23	1	4	.974		2.47	.957		5.15
1946	BRO	NL	27	2B	6	0	0		11	3	8	0	0	1.000		1.83	.970		5.55
1946	BRO	NL	27	3B	4	2	2		4	3	1	0	0	1.000		1.00	.952		3.08
1947	BRO	NL	28	SS	17	12	11		69	23	44	2	10	.971		3.94	.963		5.11
1947	BRO	NL	28	3B	9	5	3		15	4	11	0	3	1.000		1.67	.947		3.06
1947	BRO	NL	28	2B	7	3	2		32	14	18	0	4	1.000		4.57	.975		5.57
1948	PIT	NL	29	SS	156	156	148		766	262	475	29	91	.962		4.72	.959		4.98	MVP-10
1949	PIT	NL	30	SS	144	144	137		726	240	461	25	92	.966		4.87	.961		5.04
1950	PIT	NL	31	SS	68	60	41	504.2	271	102	160	9	39	.967	4.67	3.85	.961	5.22	5.16
1950	PIT	NL	31	2B	3	2	1	19.0	9	8	1	0	0	1.000	4.26	3.00	.974	5.64	5.60
1951	TOT	NL	32	SS	59	49	44	454.2	252	100	144	8	36	.968	4.83	4.14	.955	4.89	4.87
1951	PIT	NL	32	SS	8	4	2	42.2	20	5	13	2	0	.900	3.80	2.25	.955	4.89	4.88
1951	STL	NL	32	SS	51	45	42	412.0	232	95	131	6	36	.974	4.94	4.43	.955	4.89	4.87
1952	SLB	AL	33	SS	4	1	0	16.0	12	4	8	0	1	1.000	6.75	3.00	.962	4.95	4.95
1952	SLB	AL	33	2B	1	0	0	1.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.00	1.00	.980	5.40	5.60
	7 Seasons			SS	463	428	386	975.1	2134	745	1315	74	273	.965	4.78	4.45	.960	5.06	5.02
	4 Seasons			2B	17	5	3	20.0	53	26	27	0	4	1.000	4.50	3.12	.974	5.62	5.57
	2 Seasons			3B	13	7	5		19	7	12	0	3	1.000		1.46	.948		3.06
	8 Seasons			TOT	493	440	394	995.1	2206	778	1354	74	280	.966	4.77	4.32	.960	5.07	4.99

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
1946	BRO	NL	27	SS
1946	BRO	NL	27	2B
1946	BRO	NL	27	3B
1947	BRO	NL	28	SS
1947	BRO	NL	28	3B
1947	BRO	NL	28	2B
1948	PIT	NL	29	SS
1949	PIT	NL	30	SS
1950	PIT	NL	31	SS
1950	PIT	NL	31	2B
1951	PIT	NL	32	SS
1951	STL	NL	32	SS
1952	SLB	AL	33	SS
1952	SLB	AL	33	2B
	7 Seasons			SS
	4 Seasons			2B
	2 Seasons			3B
	8 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1942	BRO	NL	23	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
1946	BRO	NL	27	45	8	45	25	5	5	15	13	7
1947	BRO	NL	28	32	20	32	31	7	9	17	1	0
1948	PIT	NL	29	156	156	156	156	0	0	156	0	0
1949	PIT	NL	30	144	144	144	144	0	0	144	0	0
1950	PIT	NL	31	77	62	77	71	3	0	68	5	4
1951	STL	NL	32	51	45	51	51	0	0	51	1	0
1951	PIT	NL	32	8	4	8	8	0	0	8	0	0
1952	SLB	AL	33	9	1	9	5	1	0	4	3	1
	8 Seasons			523	440	523	491	16	14	463	23	13

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 -- 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
1948	PIT	NL	29	2244	61%	83%	29%	220	92%	4	96	41	47	8	188	144	32	1	1	8	0	5	3	4	37	8	1	14	2	3	29	9	19	7	5	2
1949	PIT	NL	30	3342	67%	83%	27%	330	93%	2	149	72	63	14	263	197	52	1	4	16	1	12	3	14	48	18	1	10	4	5	43	21	19	4	4	0
1950	PIT	NL	31	1805	63%	82%	26%	163	94%	3	84	42	35	7	123	87	32	0	0	6	0	6	0	5	33	19	0	9	2	1	31	19	12	2	0	2
1951	STL	NL	32	1355	68%	83%	27%	143	92%	0	71	37	29	5	107	86	19	0	1	5	0	4	1	3	26	11	2	7	2	2	26	14	11	0	0	0
1951	PIT	NL	32	162	63%	82%	34%	13	92%	0	5	2	3	0	10	7	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952	SLB	AL	33	78	72%	83%	24%	8	100%	0	4	2	2	0	8	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	5 Seasons			8986	65%	83%	27%	877	93%	9	409	196	179	34	699	525	141	2	7	36	1	28	7	27	145	56	4	41	10	11	130	63	62	13	9	4
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		90%

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
1950	PIT	NL	31	44	77%	73%	18%	4	100%	0	5	3	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952	SLB	AL	33	4	75%	50%	0%	1	100%	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			48	77%	71%	17%	5	100%	0	6	4	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		93%

* 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 (10, 15%) 0.15 Career Shares (809th)	Assists† s c a p y 1948 NL 475 (1st) 1949 NL 461 (3rd)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1948 NL 29 (4th)	Def. Games as SS s c a p y 1948 NL 156 (1st) 1949 NL 144 (3rd)
Putouts as SS s c a p y 1948 NL 262 (5th)	Assists as SS s c a p y 1948 NL 475 (1st) 1949 NL 461 (2nd)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1948 NL 29 (4th) 1949 NL 25 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 1948 NL 4.72 (5th)
Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1949 NL .966 (3rd)

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