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Ossie Vitt

Oscar Joseph Vitt

Positions: Third Baseman, Second Baseman and Leftfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 150 lb.

Born: January 4, 1890 in San Francisco, CA (All Transactions)
Debut: April 11, 1912
Teams (by GP): Tigers/RedSox 1912-1921

Final Game: October 1, 1921
Died: January 31, 1963 in Oakland, CA
Buried: Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
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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 G Awards
1912 DET AL 22 OF 28 56 50 2 4 1 .929 1.86 .951 2.04 26-1-1
1912 DET AL 22 3B 24 88 30 55 3 4 .966 3.54 .920 3.37
1912 DET AL 22 2B 15 75 29 42 4 3 .947 4.73 .945 4.91
1913 DET AL 23 2B 78 401 151 234 16 24 .960 4.94 .954 4.98
1913 DET AL 23 3B 17 75 19 49 7 1 .907 4.00 .934 3.15
1913 DET AL 23 OF 2 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .952 2.00 0-2-0
1914 DET AL 24 2B 36 166 48 112 6 10 .964 4.44 .953 4.93
1914 DET AL 24 3B 16 60 15 42 3 3 .950 3.56 .936 3.26
1914 DET AL 24 OF 2 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 2.50 .956 2.00 2-0-0
1914 DET AL 24 SS 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .940 5.40
1915 DET AL 25 3B 151 534 191 324 19 19 .964 3.41 .925 3.16
1915 DET AL 25 2B 2 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0.50 .960 5.15
1916 DET AL 26 3B 151 615 208 385 22 32 .964 3.93 .939 3.40
1916 DET AL 26 SS 2 6 2 4 0 0 1.000 3.00 .938 5.20
1917 DET AL 27 3B 140 451 164 260 27 18 .940 3.03 .941 3.36
1918 DET AL 28 3B 66 66 66 255 106 137 12 17 .953 3.68 .948 3.37
1918 DET AL 28 2B 9 7 7 44 20 22 2 2 .955 4.67 .958 5.48
1918 DET AL 28 CF 3 3 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0.67 .965 2.63
1918 DET AL 28 OF 3 3 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0.67 .960 2.27 0-3-0
1919 BOS AL 29 3B 133 133 127 492 169 308 15 23 .970 3.59 .950 3.34
1920 BOS AL 30 3B 64 62 61 212 61 148 3 13 .986 3.27 .946 3.59
1920 BOS AL 30 2B 21 16 16 103 38 60 5 9 .951 4.67 .962 5.70
1921 BOS AL 31 3B 71 66 56 209 63 138 8 15 .962 2.83 .952 3.41
1921 BOS AL 31 LF 3 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0.67 .960 2.37
1921 BOS AL 31 OF 3 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0.67 .960 2.33
1921 BOS AL 31 1B 2 0 0 11 10 0 1 2 .909 5.00 .991 10.65
10 Seasons 3B 833 327 310 2991 1026 1846 119 145 .960 3.45 .940 3.34
6 Seasons 2B 161 23 23 790 286 471 33 48 .958 4.70 .954 5.09
5 Seasons OF 38 3 1 69 63 2 4 1 .942 1.71 .952 2.08 31-9-1
1 Season (incomplete) LF 3 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0.67 .960 2.37
2 Seasons SS 3 7 2 5 0 0 1.000 2.33 .939 5.27
1 Season (incomplete) CF 3 3 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0.67 .965 2.63
1 Season 1B 2 0 0 11 10 0 1 2 .909 5.00 .991 10.65
10 Seasons TOT 1037 353 334 3868 1387 2324 157 196 .959 3.58 .943 3.59 31-9-1
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G 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
1912 DET AL 22 76 76 0 0 0 15 24 0 26 1 1 28 0
1913 DET AL 23 99 99 0 0 0 78 17 0 0 2 0 2 0
1914 DET AL 24 66 66 0 0 0 36 16 1 2 0 0 2 0
1915 DET AL 25 152 152 0 0 0 2 151 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 DET AL 26 153 153 0 0 0 0 151 2 0 0 0 0 0
1917 DET AL 27 140 140 0 0 0 0 140 0 0 0 0 0 0
1918 DET AL 28 81 81 0 0 0 9 66 0 0 3 0 3 0
1919 BOS AL 29 133 133 133 133 0 0 0 0 133 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1920 BOS AL 30 87 78 87 85 0 0 0 21 64 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1921 BOS AL 31 78 66 78 76 0 0 2 0 71 0 3 0 0 3 0 2 0
10 Seasons 1065 277 1065 294 0 0 2 161 833 3 31 6 1 38 0 4 0
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

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1915 AL  151 (1st)
1916 AL  151 (1st)
1917 AL  140 (3rd)
1919 AL  133 (3rd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1915 AL  191 (1st)
1916 AL  208 (1st)
1917 AL  164 (3rd)
1918 AL  106 (5th)
1919 AL  169 (2nd)
Career  1,026 (83rd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1915 AL  324 (1st)
1916 AL  385 (1st)
1917 AL  260 (5th)
1919 AL  308 (1st)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1915 AL  19 (5th)
1916 AL  22 (3rd)
1917 AL  27 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1913 AL  4.94 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1913 AL  .960 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1915 AL  3.41 (1st)
1916 AL  3.93 (1st)
1918 AL  3.68 (1st)
1919 AL  3.59 (2nd)
Career  3.45 (16th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1915 AL  .964 (1st)
1916 AL  .964 (1st)
1917 AL  .940 (4th)
1918 AL  .953 (3rd)
1919 AL  .970 (1st)
Career  .960 (59th)

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