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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.
Willie Mays, the all-time leader in putouts by an outfielder. In baseball statistics, a putout (denoted by PO or fly out when appropriate) is given to a defensive player who records an out by tagging a runner with the ball when he is not touching a base, catching a batted or thrown ball and tagging a base to put out a batter or runner (a force out), catching a thrown ball and tagging a base to ...
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 .
Pages in category "Baseball outfielders" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 859 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
Yan Gomes, the active leader and is tied for 266th all-time in fielding errors as a catcher. Silver Flint holds the National League record of 436 errors as a catcher, but also held the league record for career assists for 15 years. King Kelly, 10th all-time in fielding errors by a catcher despite playing over 60% of his career at other positions.
[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]
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 ...