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Pie Traynor

Harold Joseph Traynor

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: November 11, 1898 in Framingham, MA
High School: Somerville HS (Somerville, MA) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 15, 1920
Team: Pirates 1920-1937

Final Game: August 14, 1937
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by BBWAA as Player in 1948 (93/121 ballots).
   View Pie Traynor Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).
Died: March 16, 1972 in Pittsburgh, PA
Buried: Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
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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
1920 PIT NL 21 SS 17 15 14 86 35 39 12 4 .860 4.35 .941 5.73
1921 PIT NL 22 3B 3 3 3 12 3 8 1 0 .917 3.67 .941 3.07
1921 PIT NL 22 SS 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .950 5.90
1922 PIT NL 23 3B 124 124 121 384 147 216 21 21 .945 2.93 .948 3.05
1922 PIT NL 23 SS 18 17 17 111 39 62 10 7 .910 5.61 .945 5.78
1923 PIT NL 24 3B 152 152 151 521 189 306 26 30 .950 3.26 .947 3.09
1923 PIT NL 24 SS 1 1 1 6 2 4 0 0 1.000 6.00 .938 5.80
1924 PIT NL 25 3B 141 140 140 462 179 268 15 31 .968 3.17 .956 2.93
1925 PIT NL 26 3B 150 150 149 553 226 303 24 41 .957 3.53 .939 2.98 MVP-8
1925 PIT NL 26 SS 1 0 0 4 2 2 0 1 1.000 4.00 .942 5.70 MVP-8
1926 PIT NL 27 3B 148 148 147 484 182 279 23 32 .952 3.11 .953 2.99 MVP-13
1926 PIT NL 27 SS 3 3 3 25 9 15 1 1 .960 8.00 .948 5.83 MVP-13
1927 PIT NL 28 3B 143 142 135 496 212 265 19 23 .962 3.34 .945 2.96 MVP-7
1927 PIT NL 28 SS 9 5 5 42 13 28 1 2 .976 4.56 .944 5.50 MVP-7
1928 PIT NL 29 3B 144 144 143 498 175 296 27 15 .946 3.27 .943 3.06 MVP-6
1929 PIT NL 30 3B 130 130 127 406 148 238 20 23 .951 2.97 .953 2.88 MVP-7
1930 PIT NL 31 3B 130 130 130 423 130 268 25 18 .941 3.06 .950 2.85
1931 PIT NL 32 3B 155 155 153 493 172 284 37 21 .925 2.94 .944 2.85 MVP-13
1932 PIT NL 33 3B 127 127 125 422 173 222 27 14 .936 3.11 .945 2.88 MVP-8
1933 PIT NL 34 3B 154 154 151 503 176 300 27 16 .946 3.09 .949 3.00 AS,MVP-8
1934 PIT NL 35 3B 110 109 103 306 116 176 14 16 .954 2.65 .945 2.96 AS
1935 PIT NL 36 3B 49 49 45 161 59 84 18 2 .888 2.92 .941 2.86
1935 PIT NL 36 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 9.90
1937 PIT NL 38 3B 3 3 3 10 2 8 0 0 1.000 3.33 .954 2.87
16 Seasons 3B 1863 1860 1826 6134 2289 3521 324 303 .947 3.12 .947 2.96
7 Seasons SS 50 41 40 276 101 151 24 15 .913 5.04 .944 5.72
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 9.90
17 Seasons TOT 1914 1901 1866 6410 2390 3672 348 318 .946 3.17 .947 3.03
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-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

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1920 PIT NL 21 17 15 17 17 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1921 PIT NL 22 7 3 7 4 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1922 PIT NL 23 142 141 142 141 0 0 0 0 124 18 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1923 PIT NL 24 153 153 153 153 0 0 0 0 152 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1924 PIT NL 25 142 140 142 141 0 0 0 0 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1925 PIT NL 26 150 150 150 150 0 0 0 0 150 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1926 PIT NL 27 152 151 152 151 0 0 0 0 148 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1927 PIT NL 28 149 147 149 148 0 0 0 0 143 9 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1928 PIT NL 29 144 144 144 144 0 0 0 0 144 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1929 PIT NL 30 130 130 130 130 0 0 0 0 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1930 PIT NL 31 130 130 130 130 0 0 0 0 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1931 PIT NL 32 155 155 155 155 0 0 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1932 PIT NL 33 135 127 135 127 0 0 0 0 127 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1933 PIT NL 34 154 154 154 154 0 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1934 PIT NL 35 119 109 119 110 0 0 0 0 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2
1935 PIT NL 36 57 49 57 50 0 0 1 0 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1937 PIT NL 38 5 3 5 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
17 Seasons 1941 1901 1941 1908 0 0 1 0 1863 50 0 0 0 0 0 30 4
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1936 BBWAA ( 7.1%)
1938 BBWAA ( 1.1%)
1939 BBWAA ( 3.6%)
1942 BBWAA (19.3%)
1945 BBWAA (32.8%)
1946 Final Ballot (20.2%)
1946 Nominating Vote (32.2%)
1947 BBWAA (73.9%)
1948 BBWAA (76.9%)
Selected to HOF in 1948 by BBWAA

All-Star Games
1933 *
1934 (3B)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1925 NL (8, 34%)
1926 NL (13, 18%)
1927 NL (7, 22%)
1928 NL (6, 35%)
1929 NL (7, 34%)
1931 NL (13, 15%)
1932 NL (8, 21%)
1933 NL (8, 25%)
2.04 Career Shares (86th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1931 NL  37 (3rd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1922 NL  124 (4th)
1923 NL  152 (1st)
1924 NL  141 (5th)
1925 NL  150 (2nd)
1926 NL  148 (2nd)
1927 NL  143 (1st)
1928 NL  144 (4th)
1929 NL  130 (3rd)
1930 NL  130 (4th)
1931 NL  155 (1st)
1932 NL  127 (2nd)
1933 NL  154 (1st)
1934 NL  110 (2nd)
Career  1,863 (18th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1922 NL  147 (3rd)
1923 NL  189 (1st)
1924 NL  179 (2nd)
1925 NL  226 (1st)
1926 NL  182 (1st)
1927 NL  212 (1st)
1928 NL  175 (2nd)
1929 NL  148 (2nd)
1930 NL  130 (3rd)
1931 NL  172 (1st)
1932 NL  173 (2nd)
1933 NL  176 (1st)
1934 NL  116 (1st)
Career  2,289 (5th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1922 NL  216 (5th)
1923 NL  306 (1st)
1924 NL  268 (3rd)
1925 NL  303 (1st)
1926 NL  279 (2nd)
1927 NL  265 (2nd)
1928 NL  296 (3rd)
1929 NL  238 (4th)
1930 NL  268 (4th)
1931 NL  284 (2nd)
1932 NL  222 (2nd)
1933 NL  300 (1st)
1934 NL  176 (5th)
Career  3,521 (23rd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1922 NL  21 (3rd)
1923 NL  26 (2nd)
1924 NL  15 (5th)
1925 NL  24 (3rd)
1926 NL  23 (1st)
1927 NL  19 (4th)
1928 NL  27 (1st)
1929 NL  20 (2nd)
1930 NL  25 (2nd)
1931 NL  37 (1st)
1932 NL  27 (1st)
1933 NL  27 (1st)
1934 NL  14 (5th)
Career  324 (27th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1922 NL  2.93 (5th)
1923 NL  3.26 (2nd)
1924 NL  3.17 (2nd)
1925 NL  3.53 (1st)
1926 NL  3.11 (3rd)
1927 NL  3.34 (2nd)
1928 NL  3.27 (1st)
1929 NL  2.97 (4th)
1930 NL  3.06 (2nd)
1931 NL  2.94 (2nd)
1932 NL  3.11 (2nd)
1933 NL  3.09 (2nd)
1934 NL  2.65 (4th)
Career  3.12 (59th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1923 NL  .950 (5th)
1924 NL  .968 (2nd)
1925 NL  .957 (2nd)
1927 NL  .962 (3rd)
1928 NL  .946 (5th)
1932 NL  .936 (5th)
1933 NL  .946 (5th)
1934 NL  .954 (2nd)

Oldest s c a p y
1937 NL  born 1898-11-11 (6th)

             

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