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Career Summary

Years	PA	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	WARP
19	8364	.285	.348	.482	115	62.1

Birth Date	5-12-1925
Height	5' 8"
Weight	194 lbs

Age	98 years, 11 months, 12 days
Bats	L
Throws	R

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MLB Statistics

YEAR	TEAM	AGE	G	PA	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	HBP	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	DRAA	BRR	FRAA	BWARP
1946	NYA	21	7	23	8	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	.364	.391	.682	97	0.0	-0.4	0.0	0.0
1947	NYA	22	83	306	82	15	3	11	13	12	0	0	1	.280	.310	.464	101	1.8	2.4	0.0	1.6
1948	NYA	23	125	497	143	24	10	14	25	24	1	3	3	.305	.341	.488	111	8.6	-2.2	0.0	2.3
1949	NYA	24	116	443	115	20	2	20	22	25	6	2	1	.277	.323	.480	101	2.7	-0.3	0.0	2.2
1950	NYA	25	151	656	192	30	6	28	55	12	4	4	2	.322	.383	.533	119	24.3	4.2	3.7	6.0
1951	NYA	26	141	594	161	19	4	27	44	20	3	5	4	.294	.350	.492	112	12.7	-0.2	7.5	4.7
1952	NYA	27	142	605	146	17	1	30	66	24	4	2	3	.273	.358	.478	125	21.4	1.3	4.4	5.4
1953	NYA	28	137	557	149	23	5	27	50	32	3	0	3	.296	.363	.523	123	19.4	0.5	10.6	5.6
1954	NYA	29	151	652	179	28	6	22	56	29	4	0	1	.307	.367	.488	119	18.7	-2.1	0.1	4.7
1955	NYA	30	147	615	147	20	3	27	60	20	7	1	0	.272	.349	.470	113	14.0	1.9	4.8	5.0
1956	NYA	31	140	597	155	29	2	30	65	29	5	3	2	.298	.378	.534	132	27.3	-0.2	7.3	6.3
1957	NYA	32	134	545	121	14	2	24	57	24	1	1	2	.251	.329	.438	110	10.1	0.8	-0.6	3.5
1958	NYA	33	122	476	115	17	3	22	35	35	2	3	0	.266	.319	.471	113	9.9	-2.1	-2.4	2.5
1959	NYA	34	131	521	134	25	1	19	43	38	4	1	2	.284	.347	.462	114	14.7	-0.7	7.1	4.5
1960	NYA	35	120	404	99	14	1	15	38	23	3	2	1	.276	.347	.446	114	10.1	-1.4	-1.8	2.1
1961	NYA	36	119	437	107	11	0	22	35	28	2	2	0	.271	.330	.466	117	12.5	-1.1	8.5	3.2
1962	NYA	37	86	263	52	8	0	10	24	18	2	0	1	.224	.297	.388	87	-2.0	-0.3	5.2	1.2
1963	NYA	38	64	164	43	6	0	8	15	17	1	1	0	.293	.360	.497	120	4.9	2.2	-0.5	1.4
1965	NYN	40	4	9	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	.222	.222	.222	80	-0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Career			2120	8364	2150	321	49	358	704	414	52	30	26	.285	.348	.482	115	210.9	2.5	53.9	62.1

Statistics for All Levels

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YEAR	Team	Lg	LG	G	PA	oppAVG	oppOBP	oppSLG	BABIP	BPF	BRAA	repLVL	POS_ADJ	DRC+	DRC+ SD	FRAA	BRR	DRAA	BWARP
1946	NYA	MLB	AL	7	23	.245	.319	.335	.000	115	1.2	0.5	0.3	97	20	0.0	-0.4	0.0	0.0
1947	NYA	MLB	AL	83	306	.258	.326	.372	.000	86	13.9	8.1	2.5	101	14	0.0	2.4	1.8	1.6
1948	NYA	MLB	AL	125	497	.269	.344	.389	.000	106	17.9	13.5	2.5	111	12	0.0	-2.2	8.6	2.3
1949	NYA	MLB	AL	116	443	.271	.349	.388	.000	103	15.9	12.0	7.2	101	10	0.0	-0.3	2.7	2.2
1950	NYA	MLB	AL	151	656	.271	.350	.409	.000	104	29	18.4	11.1	119	11	3.7	4.2	24.3	6.0
1951	NYA	MLB	AL	141	594	.261	.339	.383	.000	91	36.7	16.1	9.7	112	14	7.5	-0.2	12.7	4.7
1952	NYA	MLB	AL	142	605	.253	.322	.366	.000	102	29.5	14.3	8.6	125	9	4.4	1.3	21.4	5.4
1953	NYA	MLB	AL	137	557	.264	.332	.388	.000	95	37.4	15.5	9.2	123	14	10.6	0.5	19.4	5.6
1954	NYA	MLB	AL	151	652	.256	.326	.376	.291	84	48.5	17.5	10.5	119	12	0.1	-2.1	18.7	4.7
1955	NYA	MLB	AL	147	615	.262	.330	.383	.240	98	21.8	17.2	10.3	113	8	4.8	1.9	14.0	5.0
1956	NYA	MLB	AL	140	597	.260	.333	.394	.268	117	22.8	16.6	9.9	132	9	7.3	-0.2	27.3	6.3
1957	NYA	MLB	AL	134	545	.258	.323	.387	.221	95	12.8	14.6	7.9	110	9	-0.6	0.8	10.1	3.5
1958	NYA	MLB	AL	122	476	.258	.319	.394	.243	88	19.3	12.8	5.1	113	12	-2.4	-2.1	9.9	2.5
1959	NYA	MLB	AL	131	521	.254	.317	.386	.276	94	23.1	14.3	7.8	114	7	7.1	-0.7	14.7	4.5
1960	NYA	MLB	AL	120	404	.255	.323	.385	.258	109	6.6	10.9	2.4	114	16	-1.8	-1.4	10.1	2.1
1961	NYA	MLB	AL	119	437	.253	.323	.392	.243	97	13.6	12.4	-1.5	117	16	8.5	-1.1	12.5	3.2
1962	NYA	MLB	AL	86	263	.258	.325	.404	.201	97	-3.2	7.3	1.4	87	14	5.2	-0.3	-2.0	1.2
1963	NYA	MLB	AL	64	164	.242	.304	.371	.285	96	7.6	4.1	2	120	19	-0.5	2.2	4.9	1.4
1965	NYN	MLB	NL	4	9	.247	.311	.358	.333	100	-0.7	0.2	0.1	80	12	0.0	0.0	-0.2	0.0

Statistics For All Levels

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Year	Team	lvl	LG	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	TB	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	ISO	SF	SH
1946	NYA	MLB	AL	23	22	3	8	1	0	2	15	4	1	1	0	0	.364	.391	.682	.318		0
1947	NYA	MLB	AL	306	293	41	82	15	3	11	136	54	13	12	0	1	.280	.310	.464	.184		0
1948	NYA	MLB	AL	497	469	70	143	24	10	14	229	98	25	24	3	3	.305	.341	.488	.183		2
1949	NYA	MLB	AL	443	415	59	115	20	2	20	199	91	22	25	2	1	.277	.323	.480	.202		0
1950	NYA	MLB	AL	656	597	116	192	30	6	28	318	124	55	12	4	2	.322	.383	.533	.211		0
1951	NYA	MLB	AL	594	547	92	161	19	4	27	269	88	44	20	5	4	.294	.350	.492	.197		0
1952	NYA	MLB	AL	605	534	97	146	17	1	30	255	98	66	24	2	3	.273	.358	.478	.204		1
1953	NYA	MLB	AL	557	503	80	149	23	5	27	263	108	50	32	0	3	.296	.363	.523	.227		1
1954	NYA	MLB	AL	652	584	88	179	28	6	22	285	125	56	29	0	1	.307	.367	.488	.182	7	1
1955	NYA	MLB	AL	615	541	84	147	20	3	27	254	108	60	20	1	0	.272	.349	.470	.198	5	2
1956	NYA	MLB	AL	597	521	93	155	29	2	30	278	105	65	29	3	2	.298	.378	.534	.236	5	1
1957	NYA	MLB	AL	545	482	74	121	14	2	24	211	82	57	24	1	2	.251	.329	.438	.187	4	1
1958	NYA	MLB	AL	476	433	60	115	17	3	22	204	90	35	35	3	0	.266	.319	.471	.206	6	0
1959	NYA	MLB	AL	521	472	64	134	25	1	19	218	69	43	38	1	2	.284	.347	.462	.178	2	0
1960	NYA	MLB	AL	404	359	46	99	14	1	15	160	62	38	23	2	1	.276	.347	.446	.170	4	0
1961	NYA	MLB	AL	437	395	62	107	11	0	22	184	61	35	28	2	0	.271	.330	.466	.195	5	0
1962	NYA	MLB	AL	263	232	25	52	8	0	10	90	35	24	18	0	1	.224	.297	.388	.164	5	0
1963	NYA	MLB	AL	164	147	20	43	6	0	8	73	28	15	17	1	0	.293	.360	.497	.204	1	0
1965	NYN	MLB	NL	9	9	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	.222	.222	.222	.000	0	0

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%	CSAA

Injury History — No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Date On	Date Off	Transaction	Days	Games	Side	Body Part	Injury	Severity	Surgery Date	Reaggravation

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2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	VORP	FRAA	WARP
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	0	0	?	?	.000	.000	.000	0	0.0	?	0.0

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BP Chats

Date	Question	Answer
2016-07-19 14:00:00 (link to chat)	Did you agree with Melania Trump when she said "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical?" (alexohconnor from Chicago)	I can't believe she stole that quote from me, Yogi Berra. Sad! (Nicolas Stellini)
2011-04-05 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Best movie with worst sequel? Yogi Berra / Dale Berra. (Ken from The Sconnie Office)	Win! (Steven Goldman)
2010-03-08 13:00:00 (link to chat)	How much does the type of workouts players do during the off season matter? For example, Evan Longoria concentrated on his hamstrings/glutes during the winter. Is this more of an overreaction to the previous year or something likely to prevent recurrences in the future? (or, more likely, depends on the individual and workouts in question?) (Stephanie from DC)	Great question. Bypassing the easy joke about Longoria, it's an interesting point that we know so little about the off-season workouts. They're actually a new innovation. Players used to WORK during the offseason. Yogi Berra was a maitre d' early in his career. Mickey Mantle I think sold cars. Since so many are done ad hoc and followed only "light touch" by the teams, there's very little data. Mostly we get people following on someone's success. Lots of Red Sox go to API in Arizona because Dustin Pedroia was an advocate and won an MVP. (Will Carroll)
2009-09-29 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Hi Steve, what do you think the Yankees should do for DH next year? Lots of folks are saying they need to keep it open as a revolving door for the older players (specifically Posada), but isn't that a dangerous thing to do? Don't they need to acquire an actual hitter for that spot? If those older players are really going to play so much DH, that means lots of plate appearances will go to inferior bench players. I don't like that at all. Maybe a trade for Adam Dunn makes sense? If not, how about Matsui or Thome on a one-year deal? (Ralphus from Connecticut)	Keeping it open for Posada would be a swell idea if they had an equivalent bat to put behind the plate. If you're just opening up a spot for someone like Cervelli to be a regular, you're just hurting yourself. Now, say the Yankees traded for a youngish catcher with pop, someone like Chris Ianetta (alright, Ianetta hit .166 on the road this year, but bear with me) who, IIRC, will be arb-eligible this year. Then it makes sense to do that with Jorge, along the lines of the Yankees pushing Yogi Berra to LF from time to time to make room for Ellie Howard. I'd love to see Dunn as a Yankee, but don't think it will happen. In any case, my preference would be a solution along the lines I just suggested -- a DH rotation is fine provided you're not using it as a way to get an inferior bat in the lineup. If it gets a kid catcher in (one who will develop offensively) great. If it gets Austin Jackson in the lineup and Austin can contribute more than his translations suggest, great. If it gives Montero a place to play, great. Those things would all be better than giving another contract to a 35-40 year-old. (Steven Goldman)
2009-05-18 14:00:00 (link to chat)	Prioritize for me Allan Barra's Yogi Berra or American Icon by the Newsday reporters, or should I have bought Forever Blue by Michael D'Antonio. (nstampe from madison)	I'm hopelessly biased because Allan's a friend, but we've been overdue for a quality biography of Yogi Berra for a long, long time. (Christina Kahrl)
2009-03-13 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Hi Steven. I'm looking for a good book on the 1918 World Series, any sugestions? Also, any good Honus Wagner bios out there you'd recommend? Thanks. (mhixpgh from Pittsburgh)	There have been a few Wagner bios, but if a definitive one exists I haven't yet found it. BTW, I'm currently enjoying (full disclosure: my good friend) Allen Barra's new biography of Yogi Berra. I know there are books out there on the 1918 Red Sox, but no single volume is leaping to mind right now. Perhaps a reader will suggest one. (Steven Goldman)
2009-03-13 13:00:00 (link to chat)	I need a good baseball read in addition to BP '09. Any suggestions beyond the Yogi Berra book? Maybe some suggestions from others on board this afternoon's chat wagon... (mhixpgh from Pittsburgh)	Shameless plug department: Have you read BP's Mind Game? BP's It Ain't Over? BP's Baseball Between the Numbers? How about my own Forging Genius, on Casey Stengel? (Steven Goldman)
2008-12-23 14:00:00 (link to chat)	hypothetical: say the yankees start off the season 15-20. Which of the following will happen first: girardi gets fired, hank punches a the first hole in the wall at yankees stadium, or he orders a hole dug in the yankees dugout to re-plant that redsox jersey they dug up? (kevin from boston)	After this spending spree, I think that, yes, the dangers that Joe Girardi's in waters Yogi Berra once swam are very real. Nothing like that much money getting spent to make a statement that nothing short of success right now this very instant is acceptable. (Christina Kahrl)
2008-11-14 13:00:00 (link to chat)	What are the Red Sox plans at the catcher position. The more time that passes, the more I believe Varitek will make a push to re-sign with the Red Sox at a hometown discount. As frustrating as it was to watch him attempt to tread water at the dish, wouldn't it serve the Sox well if they could lock up Tek to provide tutelage to his successor? Is Kottaras a legitimate candidate or is it worth it to trade Bowden/Buchholz to aquire Teagarden/Salty? (nmhesketh from Cambridge)	Having watched Joe Girardi "tutor" Jorge Posada right out of his prime while hitting into a double play roughly every other at bat, I'm pretty down on the idea of tutelage. When in sports did anyone learn by watching? Let's let the coaches be coaches and the players be players. When the Yankees wanted to make Yogi Berra into a better catcher, they hired Bill Dickey to (as Yogi put it) "learn me everything he knows." They didn't play Dickey in front of him... I think the Sox will need Bowden and Buchholz too much to deal them off for catching help. (Steven Goldman)
2008-09-16 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Regarding Yost and your YCLIU article, so if you discount Williams/Expos1981 'cuz of the strike, there's then not a single really good parallel to what the Brewers did here? And some BP writer made a remark about Yost's "Queeg-like" lockerroom persona. Any idea what that references? (Richie from Washington)	Before writing the YCLIU article, I looked at every managerial record from 1900 on. There are a several examples of the opposite kind of firing, a manager getting canned just a few games into the season, like Yogi Berra in 1985 or Nick Leyva in 1991, and a couple of managers, like Eddie Stanky and Eddie Sawyer, who decided after one game that this managing thing wasn't for them, but the Dick Williams thing was as close as I think we can get to the Yost situation. As I tried to imply, well, not imply - I came out and said it, maybe this is because other organizations were more vigilant than the Brewers have been. It's a bit late for the Brewers to be all, "We're shocked, SHOCKED, that Ned Yost sucks." That, by the way (shocked, SHOCKED) is a reference to a Humphrey Bogart film, "Casablanca." "Queeg" also references a Bogart movie, "The Caine Mutiny," based on Herman Wouk's novel, in which Bogie played the WW II Captain Queeg, a paranoid, frightened martinet. Just a B/B- film. Same for the novel. Bogie is great, though. (Steven Goldman)
2008-09-16 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Was their ever a player with more of a stocky build than Hack Wilson? He looks ridiculous! (Rob from Bloomington, IL)	In my book "Forging Genius," I said that Hack looked like Popeye or an inverted bowling pin. I don't think Yogi Berra was too different, maybe even Kirby Puckett. Ever see the pictures of Wilson standing next to Ruth and Gehrig? Looks like they're hanging out with someone from a circus sideshow. They tower over him. (Steven Goldman)

BP Roundtables

Date	Roundtable Name	Comment
2010-04-05 09:30:00	Season Opener Roundtable	Jquinton82 (NY): Heres a few topics: 1) Madison Bumgarner's missing velocity 2) First top 25 prospect to get called up, who & when? 3) The next Jimmy Rollins is...? 4) Word association - Yogi Berra ...discuss amongst yourselves 1) Either he's hurt, or he left it in his other pants. Like lost car keys, missing velocity is always in the last place you look. 2) Well, with Jason Heyward, Neftali Feliz, Brian Matusz and Alcides Escobar breaking camp, this doesn't seem like that big a deal, but I'll go with Buster Posey, May 9, after Bengie Molina sprains some fat. 3) ...taller than Rollins and hopefully blessed with a better OBP. 4) Provider of great book titles by cool people, including our own It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over and friend Emma Span's 90% of The Game Is Half Mental, which is one of this spring's funniest baseball books. Speaking of Yogi, I read a quote the other day that was attributed to him: "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." Alas, that quote has also been attributed to one Johannes "Jan" L. A. van de Snepscheut, a Dutch computer scientist who taught at Caltech before bludgeoning his wife to death with an axe in 1994. So there's a happy tale. (Jay Jaffe)
2010-04-05 09:30:00	Season Opener Roundtable	Wow, that was unexpected. I had an answer to a question about Yogi Berra and instead my Padilla answer comes through. (Jay Jaffe)
2008-10-22 16:30:00	World Series Game One	Chiming in a bit late on the whole leaving yourself w/o a backup catcher thing, Casey Stengel did that frequently. Sometimes it worked. There was at least one occasion he wound up with Hank Bauer at catcher and lost a game on a PB. Not, however in the WS. ...There was a famous occasion late in the 1949 season when both Yogi Berra and Charlie Silvera were hurt and Ralph Houk started. The umpire made a controversial call and Houk basically assaulted him, but the umpire didn't run him, knowing that it could quite possibly affect the outcome of a close pennant race. I don't think that's actually the correct call, but it's what happened. (Steven Goldman)

Advanced Catching Metrics

Year	lvl	CSAA	Blocking Chances	EPAA	Blocking Runs	SB Attempts	SRAA	TRAA	Throwing Runs	FRAA Adj.	FRAA
1950	mlb	.000	4943	.000	0.0	46	-.032	.000	1.1	1.1	3.7
1951	mlb	.000	5019	-.001	0.9	70	-.079	.000	3.1	3.9	7.5
1952	mlb	.000	4693	.000	0.5	58	-.028	.000	1.0	1.5	4.4
1953	mlb	.000	4425	-.001	1.0	44	.000	-.003	0.6	1.6	10.6
1954	mlb	.000	5251	.000	0.3	51	-.015	-.004	1.8	2.0	0.1
1955	mlb	.000	5444	-.002	3.1	47	-.004	-.002	0.6	3.7	4.8
1956	mlb	.000	5261	-.001	1.6	43	-.054	-.005	2.6	4.2	7.3
1957	mlb	.000	4570	.000	0.3	62	-.038	.001	1.4	1.6	-0.6
1958	mlb	.000	3349	-.001	0.8	47	-.002	.000	0.1	0.9	-2.4
1959	mlb	.000	4533	-.001	1.5	53	-.005	-.002	0.6	2.0	7.1
1960	mlb	.000	2050	-.001	0.3	25	-.026	-.001	0.4	0.7	-1.8
1961	mlb	.000	554	.000	0.0	10	-.027	.001	0.2	0.2	8.5
1962	mlb	.000	1168	.000	0.1	12	.000	.000	0.0	0.1	5.2
1963	mlb	.000	1320	-.001	0.3	16	.058	.000	-0.6	-0.3	-0.5
1965	mlb	.000	82	.000	0.0	2	.018	.002	0.0	0.0	0.0

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