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Al Rosen

Albert Leonard Rosen (Flip)

Positions: Third Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: February 29, 1924 in Spartanburg, SC
School: University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1942. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 10, 1947
Team: Indians 1947-1956

Final Game: September 30, 1956
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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
1947 CLE AL 23 3B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.00
1947 CLE AL 23 LF 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 1.000 2.00 .975 2.40
1947 CLE AL 23 OF 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 1.000 2.00 .980 2.50
1948 CLE AL 24 3B 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 3.05
1949 CLE AL 25 3B 10 9 9 26 10 16 0 1 1.000 2.60 .960 3.15
1950 CLE AL 26 3B 154 154 152 1363.2 488 151 322 15 24 .969 3.12 3.07 .960 3.25 3.20 MVP-17
1951 CLE AL 27 3B 154 154 153 1378.2 453 157 277 19 20 .958 2.83 2.82 .950 3.17 3.15
1952 CLE AL 28 3B 147 146 135 1299.1 433 159 256 18 25 .958 2.87 2.82 .953 3.29 3.29 AS,MVP-10
1952 CLE AL 28 1B 4 2 1 20.2 25 17 6 2 3 .920 10.02 5.75 .988 9.62 9.62 AS,MVP-10
1952 CLE AL 28 SS 3 0 0 6.0 4 1 3 0 1 1.000 6.00 1.33 .962 4.95 4.93 AS,MVP-10
1953 CLE AL 29 3B 154 154 146 1350.0 531 174 338 19 38 .964 10 9 3.41 3.32 .957 3.38 3.36 AS,MVP-1
1953 CLE AL 29 1B 1 0 0 3.0 4 4 0 0 1 1.000 0 0 12.00 4.00 .990 9.60 9.70 AS,MVP-1
1953 CLE AL 29 SS 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1200 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.10 AS,MVP-1
1954 CLE AL 30 3B 87 85 80 753.2 270 110 149 11 14 .959 -1 -1 3.09 2.98 .959 3.48 3.46 AS,MVP-15
1954 CLE AL 30 1B 46 43 37 385.2 437 391 39 7 34 .984 -4 -11 10.03 9.35 .990 9.60 9.53 AS,MVP-15
1954 CLE AL 30 2B 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -60 4.50 1.00 .980 5.40 5.30 AS,MVP-15
1954 CLE AL 30 SS 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -360 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.00 AS,MVP-15
1955 CLE AL 31 3B 106 99 90 884.0 326 119 195 12 17 .963 -2 -3 3.20 2.96 .950 3.17 3.14 AS
1955 CLE AL 31 1B 41 37 27 315.1 309 277 26 6 31 .981 -3 -12 8.65 7.39 .991 9.63 9.54 AS
1956 CLE AL 32 3B 116 114 99 966.0 326 89 219 18 20 .945 4 5 2.87 2.66 .949 3.22 3.19
10 Seasons 3B 932 915 864 7995.1 2855 970 1773 112 159 .961 11 2 3.06 2.94 .954 3.27 3.25
4 Seasons 1B 92 82 65 724.2 775 689 71 15 69 .981 -7 -11 9.44 8.26 .990 9.61 9.54
3 Seasons SS 5 0 0 8.0 4 1 3 0 1 1.000 -1 -195 4.50 0.80 .962 5.06 4.98
1 Season OF 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 1.000 2.00 .980 2.50
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -60 4.50 1.00 .980 5.40 5.30
1 Season LF 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 1.000 2.00 .975 2.40
10 Seasons TOT 1031 998 929 8730.0 3637 1662 1848 127 230 .965 3 0 3.59 3.40 .962 3.80 3.82
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
1947 CLE AL 23 3B
1947 CLE AL 23 LF
1948 CLE AL 24 3B
1949 CLE AL 25 3B
1950 CLE AL 26 3B
1951 CLE AL 27 3B
1952 CLE AL 28 3B
1952 CLE AL 28 1B
1952 CLE AL 28 SS
1953 CLE AL 29 3B 10 9 9 5 5 1
1953 CLE AL 29 1B 0 0 0 0 0
1953 CLE AL 29 SS -1 -1200 -1 0 -1 0
1954 CLE AL 30 3B -1 -1 -2 -3 1 1
1954 CLE AL 30 1B -4 -11 -4 -4 0 0
1954 CLE AL 30 2B -0 -60 -0 -0 0 0
1954 CLE AL 30 SS -0 -360 -0 0 -0 0
1955 CLE AL 31 3B -2 -3 -2 -2 -0 0
1955 CLE AL 31 1B -3 -12 -3 -1 -2 0
1956 CLE AL 32 3B 4 5 3 8 -5 1
10 Seasons 3B 11 2 8 8 1 3
4 Seasons 1B -7 -11 -7 -5 -2 0
3 Seasons SS -1 -195 -1 0 -1 0
1 Season 2B -0 -60 -0 -0 0 0
1 Season LF
10 Seasons TOT 3 0 -0 3 -2 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
1947 CLE AL 23 7 1 7 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 0
1948 CLE AL 24 5 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1949 CLE AL 25 23 9 23 10 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0
1950 CLE AL 26 155 154 155 154 0 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1951 CLE AL 27 154 154 154 154 0 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 CLE AL 28 148 148 148 148 0 0 4 0 147 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 CLE AL 29 155 154 155 154 0 0 1 0 154 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1954 CLE AL 30 137 128 137 132 0 0 46 1 87 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1955 CLE AL 31 139 136 139 137 0 0 40 0 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1956 CLE AL 32 121 114 121 116 0 0 0 0 116 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
10 Seasons 1044 998 1044 1010 0 0 91 1 933 5 1 0 0 1 0 39 0
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 -- 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%
1948 CLE AL 24 7 43% 71% 43% 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
1949 CLE AL 25 341 53% 83% 28% 26 88% 0 10 7 2 1 15 14 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 100%
1950 CLE AL 26 5885 58% 79% 25% 481 92% 0 151 123 18 10 319 246 60 5 6 15 1 13 1 9 25 16 0 23 2 1 1 28 96%
1951 CLE AL 27 5871 53% 81% 26% 460 88% 6 160 133 9 18 274 207 52 6 6 19 0 18 1 16 20 16 0 18 2 2 0 23 65%
1952 CLE AL 28 5482 54% 81% 27% 419 89% 1 155 120 13 22 255 189 58 1 10 18 0 16 2 16 25 18 1 21 3 0 3 25 68%
1953 CLE AL 29 5703 59% 82% 28% 527 88% 9 173 139 10 24 332 256 57 3 8 19 0 17 2 14 38 29 0 33 4 4 0 19 79%
1954 CLE AL 30 3070 61% 82% 26% 275 86% 2 110 94 5 11 143 120 20 0 7 11 0 10 1 10 14 11 0 12 1 0 1 13 38%
1955 CLE AL 31 3796 63% 77% 22% 320 91% 0 139 119 9 11 175 128 39 2 4 13 0 10 3 11 17 14 0 14 1 1 0 4 50%
1956 CLE AL 32 4135 64% 78% 25% 323 88% 3 86 70 8 8 216 161 49 1 5 18 1 15 2 14 20 17 1 18 1 0 0 15 73%
9 Seasons 34290 58% 80% 26% 2832 89% 21 984 805 74 105 1730 1321 337 18 46 113 2 99 12 90 160 121 2 139 15 9 5 129 73%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 89% 67%

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%
1952 CLE AL 28 92 48% 80% 23% 10 90% 0 17 2 16 0 2 5 5 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 3 100%
1953 CLE AL 29 15 73% 73% 27% 0 0 4 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1954 CLE AL 30 1621 59% 81% 26% 118 91% 3 391 45 341 4 26 40 31 4 1 0 7 0 6 1 6 34 1 0 1 30 1 4 2 2 13 85%
1955 CLE AL 31 1321 61% 78% 22% 68 91% 0 242 14 223 6 24 24 16 6 0 2 5 0 5 0 4 31 0 0 0 28 0 3 0 3 7 100%
4 Seasons 3049 59% 80% 24% 196 91% 3 654 61 583 11 52 69 52 10 1 3 14 1 12 1 11 69 1 0 1 61 1 8 2 6 23 91%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 93% 86%

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
1952 CLE AL 28 23 70% 83% 30% 2 100% 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1953 CLE AL 29 7 86% 86% 0% 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 0 0 0 0
1954 CLE AL 30 7 43% 86% 29% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 37 68% 84% 24% 3 67% 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 81% 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
1954 CLE AL 30 7 71% 114% 29% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 7 71% 114% 29% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 81% 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

All-Star Games
1952 (3B)
1953 (3B)
1954 (1B)
1955 *

Awards (yr lg award)
1953 ML Major League Player of the Year
1953 AL MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1950 AL (17, 3%)
1952 AL (10, 15%)
1953 AL (1, 100%)
1954 AL (15, 5%)
1 MVP
1.23 Career Shares (185th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1950 AL  154 (3rd)
1951 AL  154 (1st)
1952 AL  147 (2nd)
1953 AL  154 (1st)
1955 AL  106 (5th)
1956 AL  116 (5th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1950 AL  151 (4th)
1951 AL  157 (3rd)
1952 AL  159 (2nd)
1953 AL  174 (2nd)
1954 AL  110 (5th)
1955 AL  119 (3rd)
Career  970 (92nd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1950 AL  322 (1st)
1951 AL  277 (2nd)
1952 AL  256 (3rd)
1953 AL  338 (1st)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1950 AL  15 (2nd)
1951 AL  19 (4th)
1952 AL  18 (2nd)
1953 AL  19 (2nd)
1955 AL  12 (5th)
1956 AL  18 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1953 AL  10 (1st)
1956 AL  4 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1953 AL  3.41 (4th)
1955 AL  3.20 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1953 AL  3.32 (2nd)
1955 AL  2.96 (5th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1950 AL  .969 (4th)
1951 AL  .958 (4th)
1953 AL  .964 (4th)
1955 AL  .963 (3rd)
Career  .961 (55th)

             

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