Rudy York

Rudolph Preston York

Positions: First Baseman and Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 209 lb.

Born: August 17, 1913 in Ragland, AL (All Transactions)
Debut: August 22, 1934
Teams (by GP): Tigers/RedSox/WhiteSox/Athletics 1934-1948

Final Game: September 20, 1948
Died: February 5, 1970 in Rome, GA
Buried: Sunset Memorial Gardens, Cartersville, GA
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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	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1934	DET	AL	20	C	2	1	1		6	4	2	0	0	1.000		3.00	.982		5.00	2		0	0
1937	DET	AL	23	C	54	54	50		226	190	27	9	6	.960		4.02	.980		5.04	12		29	11	28%	38%		MVP-23
1937	DET	AL	23	3B	41	40	37		120	45	66	9	5	.925		2.71	.946		3.15								MVP-23
1937	DET	AL	23	1B	2	0	0		13	11	2	0	0	1.000		6.50	.991		9.85								MVP-23
1938	DET	AL	24	C	116	114	106		481	406	70	5	10	.990		4.10	.983		4.88	10		39	28	42%	37%		AS
1938	DET	AL	24	LF	14	14	6		27	21	1	5	0	.815		1.57	.972		2.17								AS
1938	DET	AL	24	OF	14	14	6		27	21	1	5	0	.815		1.57	.972		2.35								AS
1938	DET	AL	24	1B	1	0	0		4	4	0	0	1	1.000		4.00	.990		9.80								AS
1939	DET	AL	25	C	67	61	55		326	283	38	5	5	.985		4.79	.981		4.92	6		27	20	43%	37%		MVP-33
1939	DET	AL	25	1B	19	18	17		152	151	1	0	17	1.000		8.00	.990		9.64								MVP-33
1940	DET	AL	26	1B	155	155	155		1512	1390	107	15	101	.990		9.66	.989		9.80								MVP-8
1941	DET	AL	27	1B	155	155	155		1524	1393	110	21	111	.986		9.70	.990		9.92								AS,MVP-23
1942	DET	AL	28	1B	152	152	152		1578	1413	146	19	117	.988		10.26	.989		10.08								AS,MVP-27
1943	DET	AL	29	1B	155	155	154		1513	1349	149	15	105	.990		9.66	.991		10.05								AS,MVP-3
1944	DET	AL	30	1B	151	150	150		1577	1453	107	17	163	.989		10.33	.990		10.07								AS,MVP-23
1945	DET	AL	31	1B	155	155	152		1596	1464	113	19	142	.988		10.17	.989		10.10								MVP-32
1946	BOS	AL	32	1B	154	154	151		1451	1327	116	8	154	.994		9.37	.989		9.58								AS,MVP-11
1947	TOT	AL	33	1B	150	150	149		1441	1327	107	7	151	.995		9.56	.990		9.64								AS
1947	BOS	AL	33	1B	48	48	48		433	395	36	2	45	.995		8.98	.990		9.64
1947	CHW	AL	33	1B	102	102	101		1008	932	71	5	106	.995		9.83	.990		9.64
1948	PHA	AL	34	1B	14	7	7		83	77	5	1	10	.988		5.86	.991		9.69
	12 Seasons			1B	1263	1251	1242		12444	11359	963	122	1072	.990		9.76	.990		9.90
	4 Seasons			C	239	230	212		1039	883	137	19	21	.982		4.27	.982		4.93	30		95	59	38%	37%
	1 Season			3B	41	40	37		120	45	66	9	5	.925		2.71	.946		3.15
	1 Season			LF	14	14	6		27	21	1	5	0	.815		1.57	.972		2.17
	1 Season			OF	14	14	6		27	21	1	5	0	.815		1.57	.972		2.35
	13 Seasons			TOT	1557	1535	1497		13630	12308	1167	155	1098	.989		8.65	.989		8.89	30		95	59	38%	37%
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	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.
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	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP
1934	DET	AL	20	C
1937	DET	AL	23	C
1937	DET	AL	23	3B
1937	DET	AL	23	1B
1938	DET	AL	24	C
1938	DET	AL	24	LF
1938	DET	AL	24	1B
1939	DET	AL	25	C
1939	DET	AL	25	1B
1940	DET	AL	26	1B
1941	DET	AL	27	1B
1942	DET	AL	28	1B
1943	DET	AL	29	1B
1944	DET	AL	30	1B
1945	DET	AL	31	1B
1946	BOS	AL	32	1B
1947	BOS	AL	33	1B
1947	CHW	AL	33	1B
1948	PHA	AL	34	1B
	12 Seasons			1B
	4 Seasons			C
	1 Season			3B
	1 Season			LF
	13 Seasons			TOT
Lg				Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	1B	3B	LF	OF	PH
1934	DET	AL	20	3	1	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	2
1937	DET	AL	23	104	94	104	97	54	2	41	0	0	8
1938	DET	AL	24	135	128	135	129	116	1	0	14	14	6
1939	DET	AL	25	102	79	102	85	66	20	0	0	0	19
1940	DET	AL	26	155	155	155	155	0	155	0	0	0	0
1941	DET	AL	27	155	155	155	155	0	155	0	0	0	0
1942	DET	AL	28	153	152	153	152	0	152	0	0	0	1
1943	DET	AL	29	155	155	155	155	0	155	0	0	0	0
1944	DET	AL	30	151	150	151	151	0	151	0	0	0	1
1945	DET	AL	31	155	155	155	155	0	155	0	0	0	0
1946	BOS	AL	32	154	154	154	154	0	154	0	0	0	0
1947	CHW	AL	33	102	102	102	102	0	102	0	0	0	0
1947	BOS	AL	33	48	48	48	48	0	48	0	0	0	0
1948	PHA	AL	34	31	7	31	14	0	14	0	0	0	19
	13 Seasons			1603	1535	1603	1554	238	1264	41	14	14	56

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 -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1948	PHA	AL	34	302	51%	86%	26%	15	93%	0	65	5	60	0	5	4	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	10	0	0	0	9	0	1	0	1	0
	1 Season			302	51%	86%	26%	15	93%	0	65	5	60	0	5	4	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	10	0	0	0	9	0	1	0	1	0
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		94%																											90%

* 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

Hall of Fame 1962 BBWAA ( 0.6%) 1964 BBWAA ( 5.0%)	All-Star Games 1938 * 1941 (1B) 1942 (1B) 1943 * 1944 1946 * 1947	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1937 AL (23, 1%) 1939 AL (33, 0%) 1940 AL (8, 18%) 1941 AL (23, 1%) 1942 AL (27, 1%) 1943 AL (3, 45%) 1944 AL (23, 1%) 1945 AL (32, 0%) 1946 AL (11, 8%) 0.75 Career Shares (321st)	Putouts† s c a p y 1940 AL 1,390 (4th) 1941 AL 1,393 (2nd) 1942 AL 1,413 (2nd) 1943 AL 1,349 (5th) 1944 AL 1,453 (2nd) 1945 AL 1,464 (1st) 1946 AL 1,327 (1st) 1947 AL 1,327 (2nd) Career 12,308 (86th)
Def. Games as C s c a p y 1938 AL 116 (3rd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1938 AL 70 (2nd)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1937 AL 9 (3rd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1937 AL 12 (1st) 1938 AL 10 (1st)
Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1938 AL 39 (5th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1938 AL 28 (5th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1938 AL 41.8 (5th) 1939 AL 42.6 (5th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1940 AL 155 (1st) 1941 AL 155 (1st) 1942 AL 152 (2nd) 1943 AL 155 (1st) 1944 AL 151 (3rd) 1945 AL 155 (1st) 1946 AL 154 (1st) 1947 AL 150 (3rd) Career 1,263 (88th)
Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1940 AL 1,390 (4th) 1941 AL 1,393 (2nd) 1942 AL 1,413 (2nd) 1943 AL 1,349 (5th) 1944 AL 1,453 (2nd) 1945 AL 1,464 (1st) 1946 AL 1,327 (1st) 1947 AL 1,327 (2nd) Career 11,359 (87th)	Assists as 1B s c a p y 1940 AL 107 (3rd) 1941 AL 110 (2nd) 1942 AL 146 (1st) 1943 AL 149 (1st) 1944 AL 107 (2nd) 1945 AL 113 (3rd) 1946 AL 116 (1st) 1947 AL 107 (2nd) Career 963 (56th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1940 AL 15 (3rd) 1941 AL 21 (1st) 1942 AL 19 (2nd) 1943 AL 15 (2nd) 1944 AL 17 (1st) 1945 AL 19 (1st) 1946 AL 8 (5th) Career 122 (83rd)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1938 AL 5 (5th)
Fielding % as C s c a p y 1938 AL .990 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1940 AL 9.66 (4th) 1941 AL 9.70 (5th) 1942 AL 10.26 (3rd) 1944 AL 10.33 (3rd) 1945 AL 10.17 (4th) 1946 AL 9.37 (4th) 1947 AL 9.56 (4th) Career 9.76 (82nd)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1940 AL .990 (5th) 1944 AL .989 (5th) 1946 AL .994 (2nd) 1947 AL .995 (1st)	Youngest s c a p y 1934 AL born 1913-08-17 (5th)

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