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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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All-Time Rank (among batters): #345. Felipe Alou… #346. Bill Nicholson… #347. George Kell… #348. AL ROSEN… #349. Mike Smith… #350. Tim Wallach… #351. Herman Long… 

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1947 23 CLE AL 7 9 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .111 .111 .111 .222 -37 1 0 0 0 /57O
1948 24 CLE AL 5 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .200 .200 .200 .400 8 1 1 0 0 /5
1949 25 CLE AL 23 51 44 3 7 2 0 0 5 0 1 7 4 .159 .275 .205 .479 29 9 1 0 0 5
1950 26 CLE AL 155 668 554 100 159 23 4 37 116 5 7 100 72 .287 .405 .543 .948 145 301 27 10 4 *5 MVP-17
1951 27 CLE AL 154 661 573 82 152 30 1 24 102 7 5 85 71 .265 .362 .447 .809 123 256 14 2 1 *5
1952 28 CLE AL 148 649 567 101 171 32 5 28 105 8 6 75 54 .302 .387 .524 .911 160 297 18 4 3 *5/36 AS,MVP-10
1953 29 CLE AL 155 688 599 115 201 27 5 43 145 8 7 85 48 .336 .422 .613 1.034 180 367 19 4 0 *5/36 AS,MVP-1
1954 30 CLE AL 137 566 466 76 140 20 2 24 102 6 2 85 43 .300 .404 .506 .910 147 236 14 3 1 11 53/46 AS,MVP-15
1955 31 CLE AL 139 596 492 61 120 13 1 21 81 4 2 92 44 .244 .362 .402 .765 103 198 14 4 0 8 5 *53 AS
1956 32 CLE AL 121 481 416 64 111 18 2 15 61 1 3 58 44 .267 .351 .428 .779 104 178 13 0 0 7 4 *5
10 Yrs 1044 4374 3725 603 1063 165 20 192 717 39 33 587 385 .285 .384 .495 .879 137 1844 121 27 9 26 9
162 Game Avg. 162 679 578 94 165 26 3 30 111 6 5 91 60 .285 .384 .495 .879 137 286 19 4 1

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
1947 23 CLE AL 7 9 -2 0 0 0 0 -2 -0.2 0 -1 -0.2 .475 .499 -0.2 0.0 -1 $ /57O
1948 24 CLE AL 5 5 -1 0 -0 0 0 -1 -0.1 0 -1 -0.1 .484 .500 -0.1 0.0 -1 $ /5
1949 25 CLE AL 23 51 -4 -1 -0 0 0 -6 -0.6 1 -5 -0.5 .474 .496 -0.5 0.0 -5 $ 5
1950 26 CLE AL 155 668 38 -2 -4 8 0 41 3.9 18 58 5.6 .525 .524 4.8 0.8 50 $ *5 MVP-17
1951 27 CLE AL 154 661 19 0 -1 -3 0 15 1.5 18 33 3.3 .510 .509 3.5 -0.3 36 $ *5
1952 28 CLE AL 148 649 44 -0 -2 -3 0 38 4.0 18 55 5.8 .527 .525 6.0 -0.3 58 $ *5/36 AS,MVP-10
1953 29 CLE AL 155 688 69 2 -2 9 0 79 8.0 19 97 9.8 .551 .549 8.8 1.0 88 $ *5/36 AS,MVP-1
1954 30 CLE AL 137 566 33 1 -1 -5 -2 26 2.8 15 42 4.3 .521 .517 4.8 -0.8 47 $ 53/46 AS,MVP-15
1955 31 CLE AL 139 596 4 0 -2 -6 -2 -5 -0.5 16 11 1.1 .496 .497 1.6 -0.7 17 $ *53 AS
1956 32 CLE AL 121 481 1 -0 -1 4 1 4 0.4 13 17 1.7 .503 .503 1.2 0.6 13 $ *5
10 Seasons 1044 4374 201 -0 -13 5 -2 189 19.3 117 307 30.8 .518 .512 29.9 0.4 302 $

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1948 24 CLE AL WS BSN W 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 30 CLE AL WS NYG L 3 13 12 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .250 .308 .250 .558 3 0 0 0 0 0
2 Yrs (2 Series) 4 14 13 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .231 .286 .231 .516 3 0 0 0 0 0
2 WS 4 14 13 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .231 .286 .231 .516 3 0 0 0 0 0

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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

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 (190th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1950 AL  5.6 (4th)
1952 AL  5.8 (5th)
1953 AL  9.8 (1st)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1950 AL  5.6 (3rd)
1952 AL  5.8 (3rd)
1953 AL  9.8 (1st)
1954 AL  4.3 (9th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1950 AL  4.8 (6th)
1952 AL  6.0 (3rd)
1953 AL  8.8 (1st)
1954 AL  4.8 (6th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1950 AL  0.8 (7th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1952 AL  .302 (7th)
1953 AL  .336 (2nd)

On-Base% s c a p y
1952 AL  .387 (6th)
1953 AL  .422 (2nd)
1954 AL  .404 (5th)
Career  .384 (141st)

Slugging % s c a p y
1950 AL  .543 (5th)
1952 AL  .524 (3rd)
1953 AL  .613 (1st)
1954 AL  .506 (4th)
Career  .495 (122nd)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1950 AL  .948 (5th)
1952 AL  .911 (3rd)
1953 AL  1.034 (1st)
1954 AL  .910 (4th)
Career  .879 (96th)

Games Played s c a p y
1950 AL  155 (5th)
1951 AL  154 (1st)
1953 AL  155 (4th)

At Bats s c a p y
1951 AL  573 (6th)
1953 AL  599 (7th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1950 AL  668 (10th)
1951 AL  661 (9th)
1953 AL  688 (4th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1952 AL  101 (3rd)
1953 AL  115 (1st)

Hits s c a p y
1952 AL  171 (5th)
1953 AL  201 (3rd)

Total Bases s c a p y
1950 AL  301 (7th)
1951 AL  256 (8th)
1952 AL  297 (1st)
1953 AL  367 (1st)

Doubles s c a p y
1951 AL  30 (9th)
1952 AL  32 (5th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1950 AL  37 (1st)
1951 AL  24 (7th)
1952 AL  28 (6th)
1953 AL  43 (1st)
1954 AL  24 (5th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1950 AL  116 (7th)
1951 AL  102 (5th)
1952 AL  105 (1st)
1953 AL  145 (1st)
1954 AL  102 (5th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1950 AL  100 (5th)
1951 AL  85 (5th)
1952 AL  75 (7th)
1953 AL  85 (5th)
1954 AL  85 (5th)
1955 AL  92 (6th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1950 AL  72 (9th)
1951 AL  71 (6th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1952 AL  8 (10th)
1953 AL  8 (8th)

Singles s c a p y
1953 AL  126 (8th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1950 AL  145 (3rd)
1952 AL  160 (3rd)
1953 AL  180 (1st)
1954 AL  147 (4th)
Career  137 (94th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1950 AL  117 (7th)
1951 AL  92 (10th)
1952 AL  113 (2nd)
1953 AL  151 (1st)
1954 AL  97 (9th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1950 AL  39 (2nd)
1952 AL  45 (2nd)
1953 AL  66 (1st)
1954 AL  34 (4th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1950 AL  3.6 (2nd)
1952 AL  4.6 (2nd)
1953 AL  6.5 (1st)
1954 AL  3.4 (4th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1950 AL  64 (8th)
1951 AL  55 (5th)
1952 AL  65 (3rd)
1953 AL  75 (1st)
1954 AL  46 (9th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1950 AL  269 (7th)
1951 AL  239 (9th)
1952 AL  250 (5th)
1953 AL  290 (1st)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1950 AL  .663 (9th)
1952 AL  .733 (3rd)
1953 AL  .801 (1st)
1954 AL  .731 (4th)
Career  .670 (133rd)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1950 AL  10 (1st)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1954 AL  11 (1st)
1955 AL  8 (2nd)
1956 AL  7 (4th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1950 AL  27 (2nd)
1952 AL  18 (4th)
1953 AL  19 (4th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1950 AL  7 (4th)
1953 AL  7 (6th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1950 AL  8.8 (7th)
1951 AL  10.8 (5th)
1952 AL  12.4 (3rd)
1953 AL  13.5 (3rd)
1954 AL  9.6 (6th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1950 AL  15.0 (1st)
1951 AL  23.9 (10th)
1952 AL  20.3 (6th)
1953 AL  13.9 (2nd)
1954 AL  19.4 (3rd)
1955 AL  23.4 (9th)
Career  19.4 (102nd)

Outs Made s c a p y
1950 AL  433 (9th)
1951 AL  441 (5th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
1950 AL  31.99 (9th)
1951 AL  32.52 (6th)
1952 AL  43.78 (3rd)
1953 AL  82.39 (1st)
1954 AL  43.54 (6th)
Career  240.76 (167th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1950 AL  2.8 (6th)
1952 AL  3.7 (5th)
1953 AL  6.5 (1st)
1954 AL  4.7 (6th)
Career  19.8 (179th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1950 AL  3.6 (3rd)
1951 AL  2.5 (8th)
1952 AL  3.5 (3rd)
1953 AL  7.0 (1st)
1954 AL  4.1 (4th)
Career  22.4 (166th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1950 AL  3.1 (10th)
1951 AL  3.3 (5th)
1952 AL  4.6 (3rd)
1953 AL  8.1 (1st)
1954 AL  4.3 (7th)
Career  24.1 (161st)

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 (94th)

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 (54th)

                           

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 23 (86), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 97 (231), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 82 (226), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 28 (365), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Third Base (41st), 30.8 career WAR/31.6 7yr-peak WAR/31.2 JAWS
Average HOF 3B (out of 12) = 64.9 career WAR/41.8 7yr-peak WAR/53.4 JAWS

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