Joe Vosmik

Joseph Franklin Vosmik

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: April 4, 1910 in Cleveland, OH
High School: East Tech HS (Cleveland, OH) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 13, 1930
Teams (by GP): Indians/RedSox/Browns/Dodgers/Senators 1930-1944

Final Game: July 23, 1944
Died: January 27, 1962 in Cleveland, OH
Buried: Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
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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	Awards
1930	CLE	AL	20	OF	5	5	5		15	13	1	1	1	.933		2.80	.965		2.32
1930	CLE	AL	20	CF	4	4	4		14	13	1	0	1	1.000		3.50	.966		2.85
1930	CLE	AL	20	LF	1	1	1		1	0	0	1	0	.000		0.00	.970		2.10
1931	CLE	AL	21	LF	147	147	144		337	315	12	10	2	.970		2.22	.966		2.20
1931	CLE	AL	21	OF	147	147	144		337	315	12	10	2	.970		2.22	.969		2.38
1931	CLE	AL	21	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.80
1932	CLE	AL	22	LF	153	153	152		449	432	12	5	4	.989		2.90	.964		2.21
1932	CLE	AL	22	OF	153	153	152		449	432	12	5	4	.989		2.90	.967		2.42
1933	CLE	AL	23	LF	113	112	106		261	242	15	4	3	.985		2.27	.971		2.27
1933	CLE	AL	23	OF	113	112	106		261	242	15	4	3	.985		2.27	.970		2.37
1933	CLE	AL	23	RF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.10
1934	CLE	AL	24	LF	104	103	96		211	199	7	5	2	.976		1.98	.968		2.17
1934	CLE	AL	24	OF	104	103	96		211	199	7	5	2	.976		1.98	.968		2.29
1935	CLE	AL	25	OF	150	149	144		357	347	5	5	3	.986		2.35	.970		2.39	AS,MVP-3
1935	CLE	AL	25	LF	147	146	141		350	340	5	5	3	.986		2.35	.968		2.24	AS,MVP-3
1935	CLE	AL	25	CF	3	3	3		7	7	0	0	0	1.000		2.33	.974		2.83	AS,MVP-3
1936	CLE	AL	26	LF	136	134	127		275	258	11	6	1	.978		1.98	.963		2.12
1936	CLE	AL	26	OF	136	134	127		275	258	11	6	1	.978		1.98	.968		2.38
1936	CLE	AL	26	RF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.20
1937	SLB	AL	27	LF	143	142	141		355	333	12	10	4	.972		2.41	.966		2.16
1937	SLB	AL	27	OF	143	142	141		355	333	12	10	4	.972		2.41	.969		2.35
1938	BOS	AL	28	LF	146	146	143		323	302	14	7	4	.978		2.16	.972		2.17	MVP-21
1938	BOS	AL	28	OF	146	146	143		323	302	14	7	4	.978		2.16	.972		2.35	MVP-21
1938	BOS	AL	28	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.80	MVP-21
1939	BOS	AL	29	LF	144	144	142		313	296	9	8	0	.974		2.12	.966		2.38
1939	BOS	AL	29	OF	144	144	142		313	296	9	8	0	.974		2.12	.969		2.44
1940	BRO	NL	30	OF	99	97	79		207	193	9	5	1	.976		2.04	.977		2.32
1940	BRO	NL	30	RF	53	52	45		98	87	8	3	1	.969		1.79	.974		2.04
1940	BRO	NL	30	LF	38	37	29		88	85	1	2	0	.977		2.26	.974		2.25
1940	BRO	NL	30	CF	9	8	5		21	21	0	0	0	1.000		2.33	.981		2.66
1941	BRO	NL	31	OF	18	17	5		12	12	0	0	0	1.000		0.67	.975		2.31
1941	BRO	NL	31	RF	16	15	4		10	10	0	0	0	1.000		0.63	.968		1.95
1941	BRO	NL	31	LF	2	2	1		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.975		2.35
1944	WSH	AL	34	OF	12	8	7		16	16	0	0	0	1.000		1.33	.974		2.47
1944	WSH	AL	34	RF	7	4	4		6	6	0	0	0	1.000		0.86	.972		2.09
1944	WSH	AL	34	LF	5	4	3		10	10	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.972		2.36
	13 Seasons			OF	1370	1357	1291		3131	2958	107	66	25	.979		2.24	.970		2.37
	13 Seasons			LF	1279	1271	1226		2975	2814	98	63	23	.979		2.28	.967		2.22
	5 Seasons			RF	78	71	53		114	103	8	3	1	.974		1.42	.973		2.03
	5 Seasons			CF	18	15	12		42	41	1	0	1	1.000		2.33	.975		2.74
	13 Seasons			TOT	1370	1357	1291		3131	2958	107	66	25	.979		2.24	.970		2.37
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.

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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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1930	CLE	AL	20	9	5	9	5	1	4	0	5	2	2
1931	CLE	AL	21	149	147	149	147	147	1	0	147	2	0
1932	CLE	AL	22	153	153	153	153	153	0	0	153	0	0
1933	CLE	AL	23	119	112	119	113	113	0	1	113	6	0
1934	CLE	AL	24	104	103	104	104	104	0	0	104	1	0
1935	CLE	AL	25	152	149	152	150	147	3	0	150	2	0
1936	CLE	AL	26	138	134	138	136	136	0	1	136	2	0
1937	SLB	AL	27	144	142	144	143	143	0	0	143	1	0
1938	BOS	AL	28	146	146	146	146	146	1	0	146	0	0
1939	BOS	AL	29	145	144	145	144	144	0	0	144	1	0
1940	BRO	NL	30	116	97	116	99	38	9	53	99	17	0
1941	BRO	NL	31	25	17	25	18	2	0	16	18	7	0
1944	WSH	AL	34	14	8	14	12	5	0	7	12	2	0
	13 Seasons			1414	1357	1414	1370	1279	18	78	1370	43	2

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

All-Star Games 1935 (RF)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1935 AL (3, 49%) 1938 AL (21, 2%) 0.51 Career Shares (438th)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 AL 147 (2nd) 1932 AL 153 (2nd) 1933 AL 113 (5th) 1935 AL 147 (1st) 1936 AL 136 (3rd) 1937 AL 143 (2nd) 1938 AL 146 (1st) 1939 AL 144 (2nd) Career 1,279 (28th)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 AL 315 (2nd) 1932 AL 432 (1st) 1933 AL 242 (5th) 1935 AL 340 (1st) 1936 AL 258 (4th) 1937 AL 333 (1st) 1938 AL 302 (1st) 1939 AL 296 (3rd) Career 2,814 (19th)
Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 AL 12 (2nd) 1932 AL 12 (2nd) 1933 AL 15 (2nd) 1936 AL 11 (5th) 1937 AL 12 (3rd) 1938 AL 14 (1st) 1939 AL 9 (3rd) Career 98 (27th)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 AL 10 (3rd) 1937 AL 10 (2nd) 1938 AL 7 (3rd) 1939 AL 8 (4th) Career 63 (31st)	Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1940 NL 8 (5th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1932 AL 153 (2nd) 1935 AL 150 (1st) 1938 AL 146 (5th)
Putouts as OF s c a p y 1932 AL 432 (2nd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1933 AL 15 (5th) 1938 AL 14 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 AL 2.22 (3rd) 1932 AL 2.90 (1st) 1933 AL 2.27 (3rd) 1935 AL 2.35 (3rd) 1936 AL 1.98 (4th) 1937 AL 2.41 (1st) 1938 AL 2.16 (3rd) 1939 AL 2.12 (5th) Career 2.28 (15th)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1931 AL .970 (4th) 1932 AL .989 (1st) 1933 AL .985 (2nd) 1934 AL .976 (3rd) 1935 AL .986 (1st) 1936 AL .978 (1st) 1937 AL .972 (4th) 1938 AL .978 (4th) 1939 AL .974 (2nd) Career .979 (89th)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1932 AL 2.90 (3rd)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1932 AL .989 (1st) 1933 AL .985 (5th) 1935 AL .986 (4th)	Youngest s c a p y 1930 AL born 1910-04-04 (4th)

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