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Norm Zauchin

Norbert Henry Zauchin

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: November 17, 1929 in Royal Oak, MI
High School: Kimball HS (Royal Oak, MI)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1948. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 23, 1951
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Senators 1951-1959

Final Game: May 2, 1959
Died: January 31, 1999 in Birmingham, AL
Buried: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Bessemer, AL
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1951 BOS AL 21 1B 4 3 3 26.0 23 20 2 1 8 .957 7.62 5.50 .990 9.69 9.65
1955 BOS AL 25 1B 126 125 124 1120.1 1227 1137 84 6 106 .995 10 10 9.81 9.69 .991 9.63 9.54 RoY-3
1956 BOS AL 26 1B 31 18 15 186.0 201 189 10 2 18 .990 -2 -10 9.63 6.42 .990 9.43 9.35
1957 BOS AL 27 1B 36 18 16 187.1 215 194 15 6 28 .972 1 4 10.04 5.81 .992 9.67 9.70
1958 WSH AL 28 1B 91 90 78 756.0 809 749 56 4 74 .995 0 1 9.58 8.85 .991 9.60 9.50
1959 WSH AL 29 1B 19 19 17 168.0 210 203 6 1 17 .995 0 1 11.20 11.00 .990 9.84 9.77
6 Seasons 1B 307 273 253 2443.2 2685 2492 173 20 251 .993 9 5 9.82 8.68 .991 9.62 9.54
6 Seasons TOT 307 273 253 2443.2 2685 2492 173 20 251 .993 9 5 9.82 8.68 .991 9.62 9.54
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

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
1951 BOS AL 21 1B
1955 BOS AL 25 1B 10 10 10 6 4 0
1956 BOS AL 26 1B -2 -10 -2 -1 -1 0
1957 BOS AL 27 1B 1 4 1 0 0 0
1958 WSH AL 28 1B 0 1 1 2 -1 -1
1959 WSH AL 29 1B 0 1 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 1B 9 5 10 7 3 -1
6 Seasons TOT 9 5 10 7 3 -1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1951 BOS AL 21 5 3 5 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1955 BOS AL 25 130 125 130 126 0 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1956 BOS AL 26 44 18 44 31 0 0 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 4
1957 BOS AL 27 53 18 53 37 0 0 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 4
1958 WSH AL 28 96 90 96 91 0 0 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1959 WSH AL 29 19 19 19 19 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 347 273 347 308 0 0 308 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47 9
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%
1951 BOS AL 21 115 67% 82% 20% 2 50% 0 20 0 18 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 7 0 0 0 6 0 1 0 1 0
1955 BOS AL 25 4817 65% 81% 25% 278 96% 0 1080 62 1009 11 123 85 65 18 2 4 6 2 4 0 3 108 5 0 0 95 6 13 3 10 17 100%
1956 BOS AL 26 827 60% 80% 26% 45 91% 0 187 10 175 2 23 10 7 1 0 3 2 0 2 0 2 17 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 5 60%
1957 BOS AL 27 635 65% 84% 31% 39 90% 0 157 9 149 1 12 13 10 2 1 0 6 2 3 1 4 21 2 0 0 21 2 0 0 0 2 0%
1958 WSH AL 28 3311 63% 79% 27% 177 97% 4 743 55 680 7 67 56 36 11 2 1 4 1 2 1 1 74 0 0 0 67 0 6 1 5 8 75%
1959 WSH AL 29 733 62% 83% 30% 40 93% 1 204 15 188 1 17 5 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 17 1 0 0 15 1 2 1 1 0
6 Seasons 10438 64% 81% 27% 581 95% 5 2391 151 2219 23 243 171 121 33 5 9 20 5 13 2 12 244 8 0 0 221 9 22 5 17 32 81%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 93% 86%

* 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

Putouts† s c a p y
1955 AL  1,137 (3rd)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1955 AL  126 (4th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1955 AL  1,137 (3rd)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1955 AL  84 (2nd)
1958 AL  56 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1955 AL  10 (1st)
Career  9 (80th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1955 AL  9.81 (3rd)
1958 AL  9.58 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1955 AL  9.69 (2nd)
1958 AL  8.85 (3rd)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1955 AL  .995 (1st)
1958 AL  .995 (1st)

Youngest s c a p y
1951 AL  born 1929-11-17 (10th)

                                         

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