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Omar Vizquel is the all-time leader in games played as a shortstop, [2] [3] having played 2,709 games at the position in his career. 19 players in major league history have played over 2,000 career games at shortstop, the second most of all positions behind only first basemen.
Brooks Robinson is the all-time leader in career putouts as a third baseman with 2,697; [30] [31] [32] he is the only third baseman with more than 2,500 career putouts. Nolan Arenaldo, the active leader in putouts as a third baseman and tied for 77th all-time. Jimmy Collins held the major league record for 65 years.
Widely considered one of baseball's all-time best fielding shortstops, Vizquel won 11 Gold Glove Awards, including nine consecutive from 1993 to 2001. Among shortstops, his .9847 fielding percentage is the highest all-time, he is the all-time leader in games played, and the all-time leader in double plays turned.
At the time of his retirement, Aparicio was the all-time leader for games played, assists and double plays by a shortstop and the all-time leader for putouts and total chances by an American League shortstop. [1] His nine Gold Glove Awards set an AL record for shortstops that was tied by Omar Vizquel in 2001. [48]
He is widely regarded as the greatest shortstop of all time. In 1936, the Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Wagner as one of the first five members. At the age of 15, Wagner began his professional baseball career in the minor leagues in 1889. After being noticed by a talent scout, he made his MLB debut in 1897 with the Louisville Colonels. Wagner ...
They also set the major league record by turning more double plays than any other shortstop-second baseman combination in the long history of professional baseball. The Trammell–Whitaker duo twice won Gold Gloves together, joining a list of eight shortstop-second baseman duos who have won the honor in the same season while playing together ...
Ty Cobb is second all-time with a career batting average of .367. [1] He won a record 11 batting titles in the American League from 1907–1909, 1911–1915 and 1917–1919. Oscar Charleston is third with a career batting average of .363. [1] He is the only player to have won consecutive Triple Crowns, having done so in 1924 and 1925.
Through 2021, 21 players had appeared in over 2,000 games as first basemen, more than at any other position; [2] at least one of the 21 has been active in every major league season, except the last two years of World War II. Eddie Murray [3] [4] [5] is the all-time leader in career games as a first baseman, playing 2,413 games at the position. [6]