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Frank Sullivan

Franklin Leal Sullivan

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 6", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: January 23, 1930 in Hollywood, CA
High School: Burbank HS (Burbank, CA)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1948. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 31, 1953 (Age 23)
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Phillies/Twins 1953-1963

Final Game: June 12, 1963 (Age 33)
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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 SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1953 BOS AL 23 P 14 0 0 25.2 6 4 2 0 0 1.000 2.10 0.43 .957 1.96 1.93 0 0 0
1954 BOS AL 24 P 36 26 11 206.1 50 12 36 2 5 .960 2.09 1.33 .959 2.01 1.99 14 7 33% 48% 0
1955 BOS AL 25 P 35 35 16 260.0 64 22 41 1 5 .984 2.18 1.80 .956 1.99 1.97 6 8 57% 47% 0 AS,MVP-24
1956 BOS AL 26 P 34 33 12 242.0 54 16 37 1 5 .981 1.97 1.56 .950 1.92 1.91 7 4 36% 44% 0 AS
1957 BOS AL 27 P 31 30 14 240.2 66 17 48 1 5 .985 2.43 2.10 .963 1.99 2.00 2 3 60% 47% 0
1958 BOS AL 28 P 32 29 10 199.1 39 13 26 0 5 1.000 1.76 1.22 .963 1.95 1.93 6 6 50% 47% 0
1959 BOS AL 29 P 30 26 5 177.2 37 15 20 2 4 .946 1.77 1.17 .955 2.05 2.03 7 6 46% 40% 0
1960 BOS AL 30 P 40 22 4 153.2 23 6 17 0 1 1.000 1.35 0.58 .967 1.96 1.95 13 2 13% 40% 0
1961 PHI NL 31 P 49 18 1 159.1 46 10 34 2 0 .957 2.49 0.90 .959 2.18 2.15 12 6 33% 38% 0
1962 TOT MLB 32 P 40 0 0 56.1 16 6 10 0 0 1.000 2.56 0.40 .954 2.08 2.06 3 0 0% 35% 0
1962 PHI NL 32 P 19 0 0 23.0 7 2 5 0 0 1.000 2.74 0.37 .949 2.07 2.05 2 0 0% 34% 0
1962 MIN AL 32 P 21 0 0 33.1 9 4 5 0 0 1.000 2.43 0.43 .958 2.08 2.07 1 0 0% 36% 0
1963 MIN AL 33 P 10 0 0 11.0 4 0 4 0 0 1.000 3.27 0.40 .955 1.96 2.00 0 0 0
11 Seasons P 351 219 73 1732.0 405 121 275 9 30 .978 2.06 1.13 .958 2.00 2.00 70 42 38% 43% 0
11 Seasons TOT 351 219 73 1732.0 405 121 275 9 30 .978 2.06 1.13 .958 2.00 2.00 70 42 38% 43% 0
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

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
1953 BOS AL 23 P
1954 BOS AL 24 P
1955 BOS AL 25 P
1956 BOS AL 26 P
1957 BOS AL 27 P
1958 BOS AL 28 P
1959 BOS AL 29 P
1960 BOS AL 30 P
1961 PHI NL 31 P
1962 PHI NL 32 P
1962 MIN AL 32 P
1963 MIN AL 33 P
11 Seasons P
11 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1953 BOS AL 23 14 0 14 14 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 BOS AL 24 36 26 36 36 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 BOS AL 25 35 35 35 35 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 BOS AL 26 34 33 34 34 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 BOS AL 27 31 30 31 31 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1958 BOS AL 28 32 29 32 32 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1959 BOS AL 29 30 26 30 30 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 BOS AL 30 40 22 40 40 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1961 PHI NL 31 49 18 49 49 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1962 MIN AL 32 21 0 21 21 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1962 PHI NL 32 19 0 19 19 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1963 MIN AL 33 10 0 10 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Seasons 351 219 351 351 351 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- P*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt 31 Tot 1B 2B Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 163 GB LD bFld bF2O%
1953 BOS AL 23 105 73% 27% 5 80% 0 4 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 100%
1954 BOS AL 24 857 80% 30% 42 90% 2 12 3 9 35 27 4 2 0 1 1 1 5 2 5 0 3 67%
1955 BOS AL 25 1101 80% 29% 46 93% 0 22 1 16 38 27 8 1 0 1 0 1 5 4 4 1 4 100%
1956 BOS AL 26 1047 82% 29% 44 91% 0 16 2 12 38 27 8 1 1 0 0 0 5 5 5 0 8 75%
1957 BOS AL 27 927 82% 34% 49 96% 2 16 1 12 46 37 5 1 0 1 0 0 4 2 4 0 5 100%
1958 BOS AL 28 837 84% 29% 29 90% 1 13 1 11 26 20 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 4 1 3 33%
1959 BOS AL 29 749 78% 27% 24 92% 0 16 2 9 19 14 2 2 1 1 0 1 4 2 4 0 4 75%
1960 BOS AL 30 672 80% 26% 21 86% 2 5 1 4 17 13 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 5 60%
1961 PHI NL 31 687 78% 33% 40 88% 0 10 2 7 32 25 4 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 4 75%
1962 MIN AL 32 145 86% 28% 5 80% 0 4 0 4 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 50%
1962 PHI NL 32 115 81% 28% 5 100% 0 2 0 2 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 100%
1963 MIN AL 33 49 88% 31% 3 100% 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
11 Seasons 7291 81% 30% 313 91% 7 120 14 88 265 200 38 9 2 4 3 4 29 19 27 2 43 77%
MLB Averages 80% 27% 89% 81%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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
1955 *
1956

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1955 AL (24, 0%)
0.00 Career Shares (1736th)

Putouts as P s c a p y
1955 AL  22 (1st)
1956 AL  16 (5th)
1957 AL  17 (4th)

Assists as P s c a p y
1957 AL  48 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as P† s c a p y
1957 AL  2.43 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as P s c a p y
1955 AL  1.80 (3rd)
1957 AL  2.10 (3rd)

Fielding % as P s c a p y
1958 AL  1.000 (1st)

             

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