Snuffy Stirnweiss

George Henry Stirnweiss

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: October 26, 1918 in New York, NY
High School: Fordham Prep (Bronx, NY)
School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1940. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 22, 1943
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Browns/Indians 1943-1952

Final Game: May 3, 1952
Died: September 15, 1958 in Newark Bay, NJ
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Middletown, NJ
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All-Star

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
1943	NYY	AL	24	SS	68	65	62		322	110	192	20	50	.938		4.44	.953		5.13
1943	NYY	AL	24	2B	4	3	3		22	14	8	0	5	1.000		5.50	.969		5.58
1944	NYY	AL	25	2B	154	154	154		931	433	481	17	113	.982		5.94	.967		5.61	MVP-4
1945	NYY	AL	26	2B	152	152	151		953	432	492	29	119	.970		6.08	.970		5.62	MVP-3
1946	NYY	AL	27	3B	79	76	72		220	66	152	2	18	.991		2.76	.948		3.06	AS
1946	NYY	AL	27	2B	46	44	43		234	88	141	5	30	.979		4.98	.970		5.54	AS
1946	NYY	AL	27	SS	4	1	1		12	5	6	1	1	.917		2.75	.954		4.97	AS
1947	NYY	AL	28	2B	148	148	141		752	337	402	13	107	.983		4.99	.978		5.46
1948	NYY	AL	29	2B	141	140	131		715	346	364	5	103	.993		5.04	.976		5.62
1949	NYY	AL	30	2B	51	33	32		233	121	106	6	34	.974		4.45	.974		5.49
1949	NYY	AL	30	3B	4	3	3		6	3	3	0	0	1.000		1.50	.960		3.15
1950	TOT	AL	31	2B	66	60	53	525.1	324	160	156	8	44	.975	5.41	4.79	.976	5.86	5.76
1950	NYY	AL	31	2B	4	0	0	6.0	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	4.50	0.75	.977	5.85	5.75
1950	SLB	AL	31	2B	62	60	53	519.1	321	159	154	8	44	.975	5.42	5.05	.976	5.86	5.76
1950	SLB	AL	31	3B	31	30	25	258.2	88	32	52	4	7	.955	2.92	2.71	.960	3.25	3.20
1950	SLB	AL	31	SS	5	0	0	7.2	8	4	3	1	0	.875	8.22	1.40	.961	5.05	4.96
1951	CLE	AL	32	2B	25	20	19	189.0	122	47	74	1	17	.992	5.76	4.84	.978	5.72	5.69
1951	CLE	AL	32	3B	2	1	1	12.2	5	2	3	0	1	1.000	3.55	2.50	.950	3.20	3.15
1952	CLE	AL	33	3B	1	0	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	0		0.00	0.00		4.05	3.30
	9 Seasons			2B	787	754	727	714.1	4286	1978	2224	84	572	.980	5.51	5.34	.973	5.82	5.59
	5 Seasons			3B	117	110	101	272.0	319	103	210	6	26	.981	2.94	2.68	.952	3.25	3.10
	3 Seasons			SS	77	66	63	7.2	342	119	201	22	51	.936	8.22	4.16	.953	5.05	5.11
	10 Seasons			TOT	981	930	891	994.0	4947	2200	2635	112	649	.977	4.83	4.93	.970	5.11	5.25
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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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	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP
1943	NYY	AL	24	SS
1943	NYY	AL	24	2B
1944	NYY	AL	25	2B
1945	NYY	AL	26	2B
1946	NYY	AL	27	3B
1946	NYY	AL	27	2B
1946	NYY	AL	27	SS
1947	NYY	AL	28	2B
1948	NYY	AL	29	2B
1949	NYY	AL	30	2B
1949	NYY	AL	30	3B
1950	NYY	AL	31	2B
1950	SLB	AL	31	2B
1950	SLB	AL	31	3B
1950	SLB	AL	31	SS
1951	CLE	AL	32	2B
1951	CLE	AL	32	3B
1952	CLE	AL	33	3B
	9 Seasons			2B
	5 Seasons			3B
	3 Seasons			SS
	10 Seasons			TOT
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	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1943	NYY	AL	24	83	68	83	72	4	0	68	3	8
1944	NYY	AL	25	154	154	154	154	154	0	0	0	0
1945	NYY	AL	26	152	152	152	152	152	0	0	0	0
1946	NYY	AL	27	129	121	129	125	46	78	5	3	1
1947	NYY	AL	28	148	148	148	148	148	0	0	0	0
1948	NYY	AL	29	141	140	141	141	141	0	0	0	0
1949	NYY	AL	30	70	36	70	55	51	4	0	5	17
1950	SLB	AL	31	93	90	93	92	63	31	5	1	0
1950	NYY	AL	31	7	0	7	4	4	0	0	1	2
1951	CLE	AL	32	50	21	50	27	25	2	0	14	10
1952	CLE	AL	33	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
	10 Seasons			1028	930	1028	971	788	116	78	27	38

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 -- 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
1948	NYY	AL	29	2724	58%	80%	22%	217	94%	1	181	75	79	27	170	146	15	0	6	4	0	3	1	2	51	23	8	8	1	43	10	32	5	3	1
1949	NYY	AL	30	1280	61%	76%	23%	109	95%	0	100	39	48	13	83	67	11	0	2	4	0	2	2	2	27	10	3	7	2	22	9	13	4	2	1
1950	SLB	AL	31	1359	64%	81%	21%	110	93%	1	86	30	31	24	84	66	15	1	2	4	0	3	1	4	23	5	4	10	0	20	10	10	2	1	1
1950	NYY	AL	31	11	55%	82%	18%	1	100%	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951	CLE	AL	32	814	52%	83%	28%	87	95%	0	46	18	20	8	73	58	13	0	3	1	0	1	0	1	17	4	2	10	0	16	10	6	1	0	1
	4 Seasons			6188	59%	80%	23%	524	94%	2	413	162	178	72	411	338	54	1	13	13	0	9	4	9	118	42	17	35	3	101	39	61	12	6	4
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		93%

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%
1949	NYY	AL	30	96	48%	83%	22%	6	100%	0	3	3	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950	SLB	AL	31	737	53%	85%	23%	55	80%	1	17	13	1	3	34	20	11	0	1	3	0	3	0	2	5	4	0	4	0	0	0	1	0%
1951	CLE	AL	32	69	62%	75%	26%	2	100%	0	2	0	2	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
1952	CLE	AL	33	5	20%	60%	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
	4 Seasons			907	53%	84%	23%	63	83%	1	22	16	3	3	40	25	12	0	1	3	0	3	0	2	6	4	0	5	0	0	0	1	0%
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		89%																								69%

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
1950	SLB	AL	31	34	56%	88%	21%	6	100%	0	4	3	1	0	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	1 Season			34	56%	88%	21%	6	100%	0	4	3	1	0	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		90%

* 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 1945--not played 1946 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1944 AL (4, 38%) 1945 AL (3, 48%) 0.86 Career Shares (290th)	Assists† s c a p y 1944 AL 481 (3rd) 1945 AL 492 (2nd)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1944 AL 154 (1st) 1945 AL 152 (1st) 1947 AL 148 (2nd) 1948 AL 141 (5th)
Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1944 AL 433 (1st) 1945 AL 432 (1st) 1947 AL 337 (4th) 1948 AL 346 (4th)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1944 AL 481 (1st) 1945 AL 492 (2nd) 1947 AL 402 (5th)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1945 AL 29 (1st) 1947 AL 13 (5th)	Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1946 AL 79 (3rd)
Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1946 AL 66 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1944 AL 5.94 (1st) 1945 AL 6.08 (2nd) Career 5.34 (82nd)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1944 AL .982 (1st) 1947 AL .983 (3rd) 1948 AL .993 (1st) Career .980 (92nd)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1946 AL 2.76 (3rd)
Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1946 AL .991 (1st)

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