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Bud Souchock

Stephen Souchock (Bud)

Positions: Outfielder, Pinch Hitter and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 203 lb.

Born: March 3, 1919 in Yatesboro, PA
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1939. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 25, 1946
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Yankees/WhiteSox 1946-1955

Final Game: April 15, 1955
Died: July 28, 2002 in Westland, MI
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Standard Batting

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
1939	20	NYY-MIN-min	D	104	377	377		101	19	9	12						.268	.268	.462	.729		174							EAS,GBG · ESHL,PASA
1940	21	NYY-min	C	128	496	496		154	23	8	24						.310	.310	.534	.845		265							AKR · MATL
1941	22	NYY-min	B,A	129	490	490		135	18	16	8						.276	.276	.427	.702		209							NFK,BNG · PIED,EL
1942	23	NYY-min	A,AA	137	504	504	4	156	30	15	15	5	0				.310	.310	.518	.827		261							BNG,KCY · EL,AA
1946	27	NYY	AL	47	94	86	15	26	3	3	2	10	0	3	7	13	.302	.362	.477	.838	132	41	0	1	0			3

1947	28	NYY-min	AAA	136	569	528	86	155	25	11	17	99	19		39	67	.294	.343	.479	.822		253	15	1	1				KCY · AA
1948	29	NYY	AL	44	126	118	11	24	3	1	3	11	3	0	7	13	.203	.248	.322	.570	51	38	4	0	1			3
1949	30	CHW	AL	84	277	252	29	59	13	5	7	37	5	2	25	38	.234	.303	.409	.712	91	103	5	0	0			7O3

1950	31	CHW-min	AAA	174	681	625	104	182	27	6	30	99	12		49	97	.291	.346	.498	.843		311		3	4				SAC · PCL
1951	32	DET	AL	91	211	188	33	46	10	3	11	28	0	2	18	27	.245	.314	.505	.819	119	95	8	1	2			O79/534
1952	33	DET	AL	92	286	265	40	66	16	4	13	45	1	0	21	28	.249	.304	.487	.791	118	129	17	0	0			O975/38
1953	34	DET	AL	89	290	278	29	84	13	3	11	46	5	1	8	35	.302	.326	.489	.816	119	136	10	2	2			O97/3
1954	35	DET	AL	25	41	39	6	7	0	1	3	8	1	1	2	10	.179	.220	.462	.681	84	18	1	0	0	0		/75
1955	36	DET-min	AA,AAA	78	238	227	9	57	15	0	8	11	0		8	9	.251	.274	.423	.697		96		0	1	2			LRK,BFL · SOUA,IL
1955	36	DET	AL	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	446	1	0	0	0	0	0
1956	37	LRK	AA	59	138	138		25	3	1	1						.181	.181	.239	.420		33							LRK · SOUA
8 Yrs				473	1326	1227	163	313	58	20	50	186	15	9	88	164	.255	.307	.457	.764	106	561	45	4	5	0	0
162 Game Avg.				162	454	420	56	107	20	7	17	64	5	3	30	56	.255	.307	.457	.764	106	192	15	1	2

DET (5 yrs)				298	829	771	108	204	39	11	38	128	7	4	49	100	.265	.311	.492	.803	117	379	36	3	4	0	0
NYY (2 yrs)				91	220	204	26	50	6	4	5	21	3	3	14	26	.245	.297	.387	.684	85	79	4	1	1
CHW (1 yr)				84	277	252	29	59	13	5	7	37	5	2	25	38	.234	.303	.409	.712	91	103	5	0	0

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
1946	27	NYY	AL	47	94	3	-1	0	-3	-1	-2	-0.2	2	1	0.1	.496	.499	0.4	-0.4	4	$	3

1948	29	NYY	AL	44	126	-9	1	-0	0	-2	-10	-1.0	3	-6	-0.6	.478	.494	-0.7	-0.2	-6	$	3
1949	30	CHW	AL	84	277	-5	1	0	3	-3	-5	-0.5	7	2	0.2	.494	.497	-0.1	-0.0	-1	$	7O3

1951	32	DET	AL	91	211	3	-1	-1	-3	-3	-5	-0.5	6	1	0.1	.495	.497	0.4	-0.6	4	$	O79/534
1952	33	DET	AL	92	286	5	2	-2	1	-3	2	0.2	8	10	1.0	.503	.502	0.9	-0.2	9	$	O975/38
1953	34	DET	AL	89	290	4	1	-1	-3	-4	-3	-0.3	8	5	0.5	.496	.498	0.8	-0.7	8	$	O97/3
1954	35	DET	AL	25	41	-1	-0	-0	-0	-0	-2	-0.2	1	-1	-0.1	.492	.499	0.0	-0.1	-0	$	/75
1955	36	DET	AL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	0	0	0.1	.550	.500	0.1	0.0	0	$
8 Seasons				473	1326	1	2	-5	-5	-16	-23	-2.4	35	12	1.3	.495	.498	1.8	-2.2	17	$

DET (5 yrs)				298	829	12	1	-4	-5	-10	-7	-0.7	22	15	1.6	.498	.499	2.2	-1.6	21	$
NYY (2 yrs)				91	220	-5	-0	-0	-3	-2	-11	-1.2	6	-6	-0.5	.487	.496	-0.3	-0.6	-3	$
CHW (1 yr)				84	277	-5	1	0	3	-3	-5	-0.5	7	2	0.2	.494	.497	-0.1	-0.0	-1	$

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1946	27	NYY	AL	94	63	13	5.5	97	.338	.302	.265	.362	.339	.477	.381	.838	.720	132	.626	3.2	0.3	.730	.221	.174	.0

1948	29	NYY	AL	126	99	10	2.7	105	.206	.203	.272	.248	.357	.322	.393	.570	.750	51	.272	-9.2	-0.9	.490	.203	.119	3.0
1949	30	CHW	AL	277	200	31	4.1	103	.251	.234	.266	.303	.357	.409	.386	.712	.743	91	.453	-5.4	-0.5	.655	.286	.175	5.8

1951	32	DET	AL	211	154	29	5.1	102	.233	.245	.268	.314	.349	.505	.392	.819	.741	119	.552	3.2	0.3	.737	.346	.261	.0
1952	33	DET	AL	286	216	39	4.9	96	.237	.249	.260	.304	.340	.487	.380	.791	.720	118	.574	4.1	0.4	.699	.321	.238	1.9
1953	34	DET	AL	290	207	44	5.7	101	.315	.302	.267	.326	.343	.489	.393	.816	.736	119	.611	5.2	0.5	.732	.230	.187	6.9
1954	35	DET	AL	41	34	4	3.2	98	.154	.179	.264	.220	.340	.462	.386	.681	.726	84	.367	-1.6	-0.2	.588	.333	.282	1.5
1955	36	DET	AL	1	0	1		101	1.000	1.000	.264	1.000	.343	1.000	.393	2.000	.736	446	.000	0.5	0.0		.000	.000
8 Yrs				1326	973	171	4.7	101	.260	.255	.266	.307	.347	.457	.388	.764	.735	106	.530	0.0	0.0	.681	.279	.202	23.1
162 Game Avg.				454	333	59	4.7	101	.260	.255	.266	.307	.347	.457	.388	.764	.735	106	.530	0	0	.681	.279	.202	8

DET (5 yrs)				829	611	117	5.2	99	.262	.265	.265	.311	.343	.492	.388	.803	.731	117	.576	11.5	1.2	.715	.294	.227	11.8
NYY (2 yrs)				220	162	23	3.8	101	.260	.245	.269	.297	.349	.387	.388	.684	.737	85	.430	-6.1	-0.6	.584	.211	.142	3.8
CHW (1 yr)				277	200	31	4.1	103	.251	.234	.266	.303	.357	.409	.386	.712	.743	91	.452	-5.4	-0.5	.655	.286	.175	5.8

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1946	27	NYY	AL	94	2.1%	13.8%	7.5%	8.5%	31%	1.86	6.6	43.0	8.6		76%

1948	29	NYY	AL	126	2.4%	10.3%	5.6%	5.6%	29%	1.86	9.1	39.3	10.7	1.21	81%
1949	30	CHW	AL	277	2.5%	13.7%	9.0%	9.0%	42%	1.52	6.6	36.0	6.8	0.89	75%

1951	32	DET	AL	211	5.2%	12.8%	8.5%	11.4%	52%	1.50	7.0	17.1	6.7	0.82	71%
1952	33	DET	AL	286	4.6%	9.8%	7.3%	11.5%	50%	1.33	9.5	20.4	5.9	0.78	78%
1953	34	DET	AL	290	3.8%	12.1%	2.8%	9.3%	32%	4.38	7.9	25.3	6.0	0.85	80%
1954	35	DET	AL	41	7.3%	24.4%	4.9%	9.8%	57%	5.00	3.9	13.0	4.9	0.47	63%
1955	36	DET	AL	1	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0%				1.0		100%
8 Yrs				1326	3.8%	12.4%	6.6%	9.7%	41%	1.86	7.5	24.5	6.6	0.83	76%
MLB Averages					1.9%	10.2%	9.7%	6.4%	28%	1.05	8.7	47.1	8.2	0.97	76%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1946	27	NYY	AL	3.2	0.3	0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0

1948	29	NYY	AL	-9.2	-0.9	44	-0.2	0.6	-0.8	.88	-0.1	-0.2	-1.0	-0.1	0.94	-0.3	1.25	5
1949	30	CHW	AL	-5.4	-0.5	162	-0.3	3.3	-3.6	1.26	-0.5	0.3	-7.1	-0.7	1.11	-5.3	2.03	12

1951	32	DET	AL	3.2	0.3	164	0.2	3.5	-3.3	1.21	0.6	-0.5	1.0	0.1	1.01	4.6	1.40	28
1952	33	DET	AL	4.1	0.4	247	0.2	5.8	-5.5	1.22	-0.2	0.4	0.2	0.0	1.00	0.1	1.59	19
1953	34	DET	AL	5.2	0.5	298	0.1	5.5	-5.4	.99	1.1	-0.9	5.7	0.6	0.98	9.6	2.10	10
1954	35	DET	AL	-1.6	-0.2	43	-0.3	0.4	-0.6	.73	-0.1	-0.3	-0.4	-0.0	1.11	-1.2	0.76	14
1955	36	DET	AL	0.5	0.0	1	0.0	0.0	0.0	.44	0.0	-0.0	1.0	0.1	1.47	0.7	0.44	1
8 Yrs				0.0	0.0	959	-0.2	19.0	-19.2	1.11	0.9	-1.1	-0.6	-0.1	1.02	8.2	1.49	89

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1948	29	NYY	AL	0	0	29%	9	3	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	25%	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	1
1949	30	CHW	AL	2	0	29%	55	5	2	71%	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	57%	2	2	0	2	0	2	3	1	2

1951	32	DET	AL	3	0	41%	43	0	2	0%	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	3	46%	11	7	4	3	1	2	10	4	5
1952	33	DET	AL	3	0	37%	79	1	0	100%	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	46%	15	9	6	5	3	2	4	1	3
1953	34	DET	AL	1	0	22%	93	5	1	83%	3	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	4	1	44%	15	10	4	3	2	1	5	0	5
1954	35	DET	AL	1	0	50%	14	1	1	50%	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	40%	2	2	0	0	0	0	3	1	2
1955	36	DET	AL	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
8 Yrs				10	0	32%	293	15	9	63%	10	3	2	1	0	1	4	0	7	8	45%	47	32	14	13	6	7	27	8	18

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1948	29	NYY	AL	126	78%	24			5	1	0	0	1.25	3	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	1		5	4	80%	5	2	40%	24	3	13%	2	1	50%	1	1	100%	0
1949	30	CHW	AL	277	52%	59			12	5	0	3	2.03	7	0	12	0	1	3	4	0	0	0		36	5	14%	26	2	8%	145	21	14%	14	2	14%	9	4	44%	0

1951	32	DET	AL	211	73%	46			28	7	0	5	1.40	11	0	6	2	8	4	7	0	2	2	100%	36	8	22%	20	8	40%	121	17	14%	10	5	50%	9	6	67%	0
1952	33	DET	AL	286	59%	66			19	5	1	4	1.59	13	1	9	4	4	10	3	0	0	0		51	17	33%	24	4	17%	165	30	18%	15	6	40%	6	4	67%	0
1953	34	DET	AL	290	33%	84			10	3	0	0	2.10	11	0	8	9	2	5	6	0	2	2	100%	56	10	18%	30	9	30%	199	37	19%	17	10	59%	6	4	67%	0
1954	35	DET	AL	41	27%	7			14	2	0	0	0.76	3	0	0	1	2	2	1	0	0	0		13	1	8%	5	0	0%	33	5	15%	3	1	33%	2	1	50%	0
1955	36	DET	AL	1	100%	1			1	1	0	1	0.44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	0		2	1	50%	0	0		0	0		0
8 Yrs				1232	51%	313			89	24	1	13	1.49	50	1	35	16	19	25	23	0	4	5	125%	197	45	23%	110	25	23%	689	114	17%	61	25	41%	33	20	61%	0
MLB Averages					50%																			122%			15%			32%			15%			51%			55%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1946	27	47	94	86	15	26	3	3	2	10	0	3	7	13	.302	.362	.477	.838	132	41	0	1	0
1947	28	47	94	86	15	26	3	3	2	10	0	3	7	13	.302	.362	.477	.838	132	41	0	1	0
1948	29	91	220	204	26	50	6	4	5	21	3	3	14	26	.245	.297	.387	.684	85	79	4	1	1
1949	30	175	497	456	55	109	19	9	12	58	8	5	39	64	.239	.300	.399	.700	88	182	9	1	1
1950	31	175	497	456	55	109	19	9	12	58	8	5	39	64	.239	.300	.399	.700	88	182	9	1	1
1951	32	266	708	644	88	155	29	12	23	86	8	7	57	91	.241	.304	.430	.735	97	277	17	2	3
1952	33	358	994	909	128	221	45	16	36	131	9	7	78	119	.243	.304	.447	.751	103	406	34	2	3
1953	34	447	1284	1187	157	305	58	19	47	177	14	8	86	154	.257	.309	.457	.766	107	542	44	4	5
1954	35	472	1325	1226	163	312	58	20	50	185	15	9	88	164	.254	.307	.457	.763	106	560	45	4	5	0
1955	36	473	1326	1227	163	313	58	20	50	186	15	9	88	164	.255	.307	.457	.764	106	561	45	4	5	0	0

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1946	27	49	101	92	17	29	3	3	2	11	0	8	14	.315	.376	.478	.854	17	47

1948	29	46	130	122	11	24	3	1	3	11	3	7	14	.197	.240	.311	.552	9	44
1949	30	88	289	263	30	61	13	5	7	38	5	26	40	.232	.301	.399	.700	32	84

1951	32	96	217	196	33	47	10	3	11	28	0	18	28	.240	.307	.490	.797	29	91
1952	33	96	302	279	44	71	17	4	14	49	1	23	29	.254	.311	.495	.806	43	92
1953	34	93	303	291	30	88	14	3	12	48	5	8	37	.302	.326	.495	.820	46	89
1954	35	26	42	40	6	7	0	1	3	8	1	2	10	.175	.214	.450	.664	4	25
1955	36	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	1
8 Yrs		495	1385	1284	171	328	60	20	52	194	15	92	172	.255	.307	.455	.762	181	473
162 Game Avg.		162	453	420	56	107	20	7	17	63	5	30	56	.255	.307	.455	.762	59	473

* 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

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y 1952 AL 17 (7th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1952 AL 17 (7th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Hall of Fame Standards

Batting - 7 (1934), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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