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Ty Cobb, the all-time leader in games played as an outfielder. Games played (most often abbreviated as G or GP) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated (in any capacity); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.
The top 15 leaders in career assists at third base all reached the major leagues after 1950, and all but nine of the top 62 single-season totals have been recorded since 1957. Brooks Robinson is the all-time leader in career assists as a third baseman with 6,205, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] which was 1,624 more than any other player at the time of his ...
Greg Maddux is the all-time leader in career putouts by a pitcher with 546; [9] [10] [11] he is the only pitcher to record more than 400 career putouts. Zack Greinke, the active leader in putouts by a pitcher and 7th all-time. Jack Morris holds the American League record. Tony Mullane held the major league record for 87 years.
In 1894, Thompson was part of the only all-.400-hitting outfield of all-time. All four Philadelphia outfielders ended the season with a batting average better than .400 (Tuck Turner at .416, Thompson and Ed Delahanty at .407, and Billy Hamilton at .404). Thompson missed a month from the 1894 season with an injury to the little finger on his ...
Pages in category "Major League Baseball outfielders" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,837 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Right fielders tend to have the best throwing arms of the outfield so they can make the long throw to third base, but often are not as fast as left fielders. Center fielders are generally the fastest and most athletic of the three, because they have to run the farthest in order to field balls in the gaps and back up the other outfielders when ...
[28] [29] [30] There have been eight 5-time winners and nine 4-time winners as well. [4] [5] Darin Erstad won a Gold Glove as a first baseman in 2004 after winning two awards in the outfield (2000, 2002), making him the only player to win the award as an infielder and an outfielder. [31] Eighteen outfielders have posted errorless Gold Glove
The Tigers' 1915 outfield, with Veach in left, Cobb in center, and Crawford in right, was ranked by baseball historian Bill James as the greatest outfield of all time. [8] During the 1915 season, Baseball Magazine published a five-page feature story on Veach, concluding that "with his advent the Detroit outfield is one of the most powerful, if ...