Mike Tresh

Michael Tresh

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: February 23, 1914 in Hazleton, PA
High School: Southwestern HS (Detroit, MI) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 4, 1938
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Indians 1938-1949

Final Game: September 25, 1949
Died: October 4, 1966 in Detroit, MI
Buried: Michigan Memorial Park, Flat Rock, MI
Relatives: Father of Tom Tresh
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1938	CHW	AL	24	C	10	10	10	46	37	8	1	1	.978	4.50	.983	4.88	1		2	3	60%	37%
1939	CHW	AL	25	C	119	116	94	547	480	59	8	7	.985	4.53	.981	4.92	9		57	27	32%	37%
1940	CHW	AL	26	C	135	135	125	700	619	69	12	7	.983	5.10	.982	5.27	13		43	25	37%	41%		MVP-20
1941	CHW	AL	27	C	115	115	105	580	488	81	11	12	.981	4.95	.983	5.00	13		40	34	46%	41%
1942	CHW	AL	28	C	72	72	66	302	258	37	7	2	.977	4.10	.979	4.93	7		22	10	31%	42%
1943	CHW	AL	29	C	85	81	77	390	321	62	7	4	.982	4.51	.981	5.23	7		24	28	54%	42%
1944	CHW	AL	30	C	93	89	82	425	370	47	8	5	.981	4.48	.976	4.91	10		28	29	51%	39%
1945	CHW	AL	31	C	150	149	125	688	575	102	11	7	.984	4.51	.986	4.92	6		35	50	59%	45%		MVP-11
1946	CHW	AL	32	C	79	72	61	380	330	48	2	13	.995	4.78	.982	5.52	6		18	21	54%	46%
1947	CHW	AL	33	C	89	87	67	360	313	38	9	10	.975	3.94	.985	5.02	4		29	16	36%	46%
1948	CHW	AL	34	C	34	29	27	117	99	16	2	1	.983	3.38	.986	4.74	4	3	10	3	23%	44%	0
1949	CLE	AL	35	C	38	8	2	79	71	8	0	3	1.000	2.08	.985	4.76	1	4	2	3	60%	45%	0
	12 Seasons			C	1019	963	841	4614	3961	575	78	72	.983	4.45	.982	5.04	81	7	310	249	45%	42%	0
	12 Seasons			TOT	1019	963	841	4614	3961	575	78	72	.983	4.45	.982	5.04	81	7	310	249	45%	42%	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.

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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
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
1938	CHW	AL	24	C
1939	CHW	AL	25	C
1940	CHW	AL	26	C
1941	CHW	AL	27	C
1942	CHW	AL	28	C
1943	CHW	AL	29	C
1944	CHW	AL	30	C
1945	CHW	AL	31	C
1946	CHW	AL	32	C
1947	CHW	AL	33	C
1948	CHW	AL	34	C
1949	CLE	AL	35	C
	12 Seasons			C
	12 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1938	CHW	AL	24	10	10	10	10	10	0	0
1939	CHW	AL	25	119	116	119	119	119	0	0
1940	CHW	AL	26	135	135	135	135	135	0	0
1941	CHW	AL	27	115	115	115	115	115	0	0
1942	CHW	AL	28	72	72	72	72	72	0	0
1943	CHW	AL	29	86	81	86	85	85	0	1
1944	CHW	AL	30	93	89	93	93	93	0	0
1945	CHW	AL	31	150	149	150	150	150	0	0
1946	CHW	AL	32	80	72	80	79	79	1	0
1947	CHW	AL	33	90	87	90	89	89	1	0
1948	CHW	AL	34	39	29	39	34	34	5	0
1949	CLE	AL	35	38	8	38	38	38	3	0
	12 Seasons			1027	963	1027	1019	1019	10	1

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 -- C*

					Pitching Stats						Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	ERA	RAvg	Fld	F2O%	XI	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	SO	Tot	1B	2B	3B	K23	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	263	n23	GB	bFld	bF2O%
1948	CHW	AL	34	351	5.73	6.93	5	100%	0	0	26	4	1	1	20	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	100%
1949	CLE	AL	35	519	3.51	3.73	4	100%	0	0	65	3	3	1	58	9	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	0
	2 Seasons			870	4.36	4.95	9	100%	0	0	91	7	4	2	78	13	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	1	1	100%
	MLB Averages				4.18	4.71		95%																							83%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PB	WP	SBO	SB	CS	CSctch	CS%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	RBA	RK	SBlev	CSlev
1948	CHW	AL	34	2	3	160	3	1	1	25%	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	4	2.08	0.89
1949	CLE	AL	35	1	4	189	4	5	5	56%	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	7	2.32	1.10
	2 Seasons			3	7	349	7	6	6	46%	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	11	2.22	1.07
	MLB Averages									44%											1.20	1.18

* 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	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1940 AL (20, 1%) 1945 AL (11, 10%) 0.11 Career Shares (885th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1939 AL 119 (2nd) 1940 AL 135 (1st) 1941 AL 115 (3rd) 1944 AL 93 (4th) 1945 AL 150 (2nd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1939 AL 480 (3rd) 1940 AL 619 (1st) 1941 AL 488 (1st) 1945 AL 575 (2nd)
Assists as C s c a p y 1939 AL 59 (3rd) 1940 AL 69 (2nd) 1941 AL 81 (2nd) 1943 AL 62 (4th) 1945 AL 102 (1st) 1946 AL 48 (5th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1940 AL 12 (3rd) 1941 AL 11 (3rd) 1945 AL 11 (1st) 1947 AL 9 (2nd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1939 AL 9 (3rd) 1940 AL 13 (2nd) 1941 AL 13 (3rd) 1943 AL 7 (5th) 1944 AL 10 (4th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1939 AL 57 (2nd) 1940 AL 43 (3rd) 1941 AL 40 (3rd) 1945 AL 35 (3rd) 1947 AL 29 (2nd)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1939 AL 27 (3rd) 1941 AL 34 (1st) 1944 AL 29 (3rd) 1945 AL 50 (1st)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1941 AL 45.9 (3rd) 1943 AL 53.8 (4th) 1944 AL 50.9 (4th) 1945 AL 58.8 (1st) 1946 AL 53.8 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1939 AL 4.53 (4th) 1940 AL 5.10 (3rd) 1941 AL 4.95 (3rd) 1943 AL 4.51 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1939 AL .985 (2nd) 1940 AL .983 (3rd) 1941 AL .981 (5th) 1943 AL .982 (4th) 1946 AL .995 (2nd)

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