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When Eddie Yost became the first player to play 2,000 major league games at third base in 1962, it was nearly forty years after most other non-pitching positions had seen a player reach that milestone; the only position that took longer was catcher. Only 13 players have played 2,000 major league games at third base, tied for the fewest among ...
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, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] which was 1,624 more than any other player at the time of his ...
Brooks Robinson won 16 Gold Gloves, leading all third basemen, and is tied for the second-highest win total in the history of the award. The Gold Glove Award is the award given annually to the Major League Baseball players judged to have exhibited superior individual fielding performances at each fielding position in both the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), as voted by the ...
Of the 162 Major League Baseball players who have hit 100 or more triples, 69 are members of Baseball's Hall of Fame. [7] Hall of Famer Sam Crawford of the Detroit Tigers holds the Major League Baseball triples record, with 309. [8] [9] Second to him is his Tigers teammate, [10] Ty Cobb, with 295, the American League record. [11]
As with middle infielders, right-handed throwing players are standard at the position because they do not need to turn their body before throwing across the infield to first base. Mike Squires , who played fourteen games at third base in 1982 and 1983, is a very rare example of a third baseman who threw lefty.
Top 5 prospects: Junior Caminero (3B/SS) Carson Williams (SS) ... Chicago's seven top-100 prospects is the most of any team in Major League Baseball. With that said, you would expect them to have ...
Number of hits the player was credited with 2B: Number of hits that were doubles: 3B: Number of hits that were triples: HR: Number of hits that were home runs: Career hits: The number of hits the player had in his MLB career Box: Box score with play by play (if available) ^ Indicates the player hit for the cycle † Elected to the Baseball Hall ...
We did our best to count them down in order, 25th best on down to No. 1 -- based solely on players' bodies of work since 1990. Ranking the top 25 MLB players of the last 25 years Skip to main content