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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 (Age 24)
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Browns/Indians 1943-1952

Final Game: May 3, 1952 (Age 33)
Died: September 15, 1958 in Newark Bay, NJ
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Middletown, NJ
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Fine Details  · Last updated Feb 13, 2013 1:17AM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #602. Carlos Guillen… #603. Al Bumbry… #604. George Selkirk… #605. SNUFFY STIRNWEISS… #606. Arlie Latham… #607. Charlie Bennett… #608. Jeff Conine… 

Standard Batting

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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
1943 24 NYY AL 83 325 274 34 60 8 4 1 25 11 9 47 37 .219 .333 .288 .622 82 79 9 0 4 6/4
1944 25 NYY AL 154 723 643 125 205 35 16 8 43 55 11 73 87 .319 .389 .460 .849 139 296 6 1 6 *4 MVP-4
1945 26 NYY AL 152 718 632 107 195 32 22 10 64 33 17 78 62 .309 .385 .476 .862 145 301 9 1 6 *4 MVP-3
1946 27 NYY AL 129 560 487 75 122 19 7 0 37 18 6 66 58 .251 .340 .318 .658 84 155 12 0 7 54/6 AS
1947 28 NYY AL 148 673 571 102 146 18 8 5 41 5 3 89 47 .256 .358 .342 .700 96 195 13 2 11 *4
1948 29 NYY AL 141 609 515 90 130 20 7 3 32 5 4 86 62 .252 .360 .336 .696 86 173 13 1 8 *4
1949 30 NYY AL 70 190 157 29 41 8 2 0 11 3 2 29 20 .261 .380 .338 .717 90 53 2 1 3 4/5
1950 31 TOT AL 100 383 328 32 71 16 2 1 24 3 3 51 49 .216 .322 .287 .608 54 94 7 0 4 45/6
1950 31 NYY AL 7 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 /4
1950 31 SLB AL 93 381 326 32 71 16 2 1 24 3 3 51 49 .218 .324 .288 .612 55 94 7 0 4 45/6
1951 32 CLE AL 50 111 88 10 19 1 0 1 4 1 0 22 25 .216 .373 .261 .634 78 23 2 0 1 4/5
1952 33 CLE AL 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /5
10 Yrs 1028 4292 3695 604 989 157 68 29 281 134 55 541 447 .268 .362 .371 .733 103 1369 73 6 50
162 Game Avg. 162 676 582 95 156 25 11 5 44 21 9 85 70 .268 .362 .371 .733 103 216 12 1 8
NYY (8 yrs) 884 3800 3281 562 899 140 66 27 253 130 52 468 373 .274 .366 .382 .747 108 1252 64 6 45
CLE (2 yrs) 51 111 88 10 19 1 0 1 4 1 0 22 25 .216 .373 .261 .634 78 23 2 0 1
SLB (1 yr) 93 381 326 32 71 16 2 1 24 3 3 51 49 .218 .324 .288 .612 55 94 7 0 4

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
1943 24 NYY AL 83 325 -5 -1 0 4 5 3 0.3 7 10 1.0 .504 .502 0.5 1.0 6 6/4
1944 25 NYY AL 154 723 30 7 0 15 7 60 6.6 15 75 8.1 .543 .541 6.3 2.5 60 *4 MVP-4
1945 26 NYY AL 152 718 34 1 0 18 7 60 6.7 15 75 8.2 .545 .542 6.1 2.8 57 *4 MVP-3
1946 27 NYY AL 129 560 -9 2 0 14 2 10 1.0 14 24 2.5 .508 .507 0.9 1.9 10 54/6 AS
1947 28 NYY AL 148 673 -0 0 0 7 7 14 1.4 17 31 3.1 .510 .510 2.4 1.5 24 *4
1948 29 NYY AL 141 609 -8 1 -0 8 7 8 0.8 15 23 2.3 .505 .505 1.4 1.4 15 *4
1949 30 NYY AL 70 190 -1 -2 0 1 2 1 0.1 5 6 0.6 .501 .501 0.5 0.3 5 4/5
1950 31 NYY AL 7 2 -1 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 0 -0 -0.1 .492 .500 -0.1 0.0 -1 /4
1950 31 SLB AL 93 381 -22 -0 -0 -12 3 -32 -3.0 10 -22 -2.0 .467 .481 -0.9 -0.8 -10 45/6
1951 32 CLE AL 50 111 -2 0 0 3 1 3 0.3 3 6 0.6 .505 .502 0.3 0.4 3 4/5
1952 33 CLE AL 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 /5
10 Seasons 1028 4292 16 9 -0 58 42 125 14.1 102 226 24.3 .514 .508 17.4 11.1 169
NYY (8 yrs) 884 3800 40 9 0 67 37 154 16.9 89 243 25.7 .519 .513 18.0 11.4 176
CLE (2 yrs) 51 111 -2 0 0 3 1 3 0.3 3 6 0.6 .505 .501 0.3 0.4 3
SLB (1 yr) 93 381 -22 -0 -0 -12 3 -32 -3.0 10 -22 -2.0 .467 .481 -0.9 -0.8 -10

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
1943 24 NYY AL WS STL W 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
1947 28 NYY AL WS BRO W 7 35 27 3 7 0 1 0 3 0 0 8 8 .259 .429 .333 .762 9 0 0 0 0 0
1949 30 NYY AL WS BRO W 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Yrs (3 Series) 9 36 28 4 7 0 1 0 3 0 0 8 8 .250 .417 .321 .738 9 0 0 0 0 0
3 WS 9 36 28 4 7 0 1 0 3 0 0 8 8 .250 .417 .321 .738 9 0 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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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 34 33 233 121 106 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 787 755 728 714.1 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 981 931 892 994.0 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
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1945--not played
1946 *

Awards (yr lg award)
1945 AL batting_title

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1944 AL (4, 38%)
1945 AL (3, 48%)
0.86 Career Shares (292nd)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1944 AL  8.1 (2nd)
1945 AL  8.2 (2nd)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1944 AL  8.1 (1st)
1945 AL  8.2 (1st)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1944 AL  6.3 (2nd)
1945 AL  6.1 (1st)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1943 AL  1.0 (8th)
1944 AL  2.5 (1st)
1945 AL  2.8 (1st)
1946 AL  1.9 (4th)
1947 AL  1.5 (5th)
1948 AL  1.4 (4th)
Career  11.1 (170th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1944 AL  .319 (4th)
1945 AL  .309 (1st)

On-Base% s c a p y
1944 AL  .389 (8th)
1945 AL  .385 (6th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1944 AL  .460 (8th)
1945 AL  .476 (1st)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1944 AL  .849 (6th)
1945 AL  .862 (1st)

Games Played s c a p y
1944 AL  154 (3rd)
1945 AL  152 (3rd)

At Bats s c a p y
1944 AL  643 (2nd)
1945 AL  632 (1st)
1947 AL  571 (7th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1944 AL  723 (1st)
1945 AL  718 (1st)
1947 AL  673 (5th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1944 AL  125 (1st)
1945 AL  107 (1st)
1947 AL  102 (4th)

Hits s c a p y
1944 AL  205 (1st)
1945 AL  195 (1st)

Total Bases s c a p y
1944 AL  296 (2nd)
1945 AL  301 (1st)

Doubles s c a p y
1944 AL  35 (5th)
1945 AL  32 (2nd)

Triples s c a p y
1944 AL  16 (1st)
1945 AL  22 (1st)
1947 AL  8 (10th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1945 AL  64 (9th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1944 AL  73 (6th)
1945 AL  78 (6th)
1947 AL  89 (6th)
1948 AL  86 (9th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1944 AL  87 (2nd)
1945 AL  62 (9th)
1948 AL  62 (9th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1944 AL  55 (1st)
1945 AL  33 (1st)
1946 AL  18 (2nd)

Singles s c a p y
1944 AL  146 (1st)
1945 AL  131 (2nd)
1947 AL  115 (9th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1944 AL  139 (7th)
1945 AL  145 (1st)

Runs Created s c a p y
1944 AL  122 (1st)
1945 AL  115 (1st)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1944 AL  33 (7th)
1945 AL  36 (1st)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1944 AL  3.5 (7th)
1945 AL  3.8 (1st)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1944 AL  59 (4th)
1945 AL  64 (1st)

Times On Base s c a p y
1944 AL  279 (1st)
1945 AL  274 (1st)
1947 AL  237 (7th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1944 AL  .740 (3rd)
1945 AL  .725 (1st)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1947 AL  11 (10th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1943 AL  9 (6th)
1944 AL  11 (4th)
1945 AL  17 (1st)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1944 AL  14.0 (1st)
1945 AL  15.3 (1st)

Outs Made s c a p y
1944 AL  461 (6th)
1945 AL  469 (2nd)
1947 AL  452 (7th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1945 AL  1.4 (4th)

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)

Double Plays Turned as 2B s c a p y
1944 AL  113 (2nd)
1945 AL  119 (1st)
1947 AL  107 (3rd)
1948 AL  103 (4th)

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)

Double Plays Turned as 3B s c a p y
1946 AL  18 (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 (93rd)

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)

                                         

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1945-1973, 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 - 26 (72), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 59 (428), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 53 (374), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 22 (658), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Second Base (65th), 24.3 career WAR/25.8 7yr-peak WAR/25.1 JAWS
Average HOF 2B (out of 19) = 66.0 career WAR/42.8 7yr-peak WAR/54.4 JAWS

Similarity Scores

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  7. Bill Doran (938)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Mickey Morandini (959)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

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Salaries

 Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
194324New York Yankees$5,500Michael Haupert research of HOF contracts
194728New York Yankees$16,000Michael Haupert research of HOF contracts
194829New York Yankees$16,000Michael Haupert research of HOF contracts
194930New York Yankees$17,500Michael Haupert research of HOF contracts
195031New York Yankees$17,500Michael Haupert research of HOF contractsNYY/SLB
195132Cleveland Indians$15,500Michael Haupert research of HOF contracts
195233Cleveland Indians$13,000Michael Haupert research of HOF contracts
Career to date (may be incomplete)$101,000
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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