Lou Boudreau

Louis Boudreau
Born:
July 17, 1917 in Harvey, IL
Died:
August 10, 2001 - 84 years old
Bats:
R Throws:
R
Ht:
5'11" Wt:
185
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- Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1970
- Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an Amateur Free Agent in 1938
- High School: Thornton (Harvey, IL)
- College/Univ: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1937)
- Visit Boudreau's Manager Page
Compared to Top 50 Contemporary Shortstops
bWAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com
Rk | Players | Pos | Yrs | Career | HOF | WAR | Off | Fld | Pit | Adj | Peak | JAWS | Compare |
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1 | Luke Appling | SS | 20 | 1930-1950 | ✔ | 74.5 | 55.5 | 3.8 | 0.0 | 15.2 | 43.9 | 59.2 | |
2 | Arky Vaughan | SS | 14 | 1932-1948 | ✔ | 72.9 | 60.9 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 10.1 | 50.6 | 61.8 | |
3 | Joe Cronin | SS | 20 | 1926-1945 | ✔ | 66.4 | 52.2 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 11.7 | 43.9 | 55.2 | |
4 | Pee Wee Reese | SS | 16 | 1940-1958 | ✔ | 66.3 | 40.7 | 10.6 | 0.0 | 15.0 | 40.9 | 53.6 | |
5 | Lou Boudreau | SS | 15 | 1938-1952 | ✔ | 63.0 | 39.6 | 12.6 | 0.0 | 10.8 | 48.7 | 55.8 | |
6 | Vern Stephens | SS | 15 | 1941-1955 | 45.5 | 36.4 | -0.2 | 0.0 | 9.3 | 33.6 | 39.6 | ||
7 | Al Dark | SS | 14 | 1946-1960 | 43.1 | 31.0 | 1.5 | -0.1 | 10.7 | 32.9 | 38.0 | ||
8 | Phil Rizzuto | SS | 13 | 1941-1956 | ✔ | 40.8 | 17.9 | 12.3 | 0.0 | 10.6 | 33.8 | 37.3 | |
9 | Dick Bartell | SS | 18 | 1927-1946 | 40.2 | 24.6 | 3.8 | 0.0 | 11.8 | 29.7 | 35.0 | ||
10 | Johnny Pesky | SS | 10 | 1942-1954 | 31.9 | 25.3 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 4.7 | 31.1 | 31.5 | ||
11 | Marty Marion | SS | 13 | 1940-1953 | 31.6 | 6.6 | 13.9 | 0.0 | 11.1 | 26.2 | 28.9 | ||
12 | Billy Jurges | SS | 17 | 1931-1947 | 30.8 | 8.2 | 11.6 | 0.0 | 11.0 | 22.8 | 26.8 | ||
13 | Eddie Joost | SS | 17 | 1936-1955 | 30.7 | 20.5 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 9.6 | 27.2 | 29.0 | ||
14 | Cecil Travis | SS | 12 | 1933-1947 | 29.6 | 24.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 5.1 | 28.3 | 28.9 | ||
15 | Solly Hemus | SS | 11 | 1949-1959 | 25.5 | 20.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 4.2 | 25.4 | 25.4 | ||
16 | Frankie Crosetti | SS | 17 | 1932-1948 | 23.9 | 9.8 | 3.9 | 0.0 | 10.2 | 19.1 | 21.5 | ||
17 | Eddie Miller | SS | 14 | 1936-1950 | 23.7 | 4.8 | 8.5 | 0.0 | 10.5 | 20.1 | 21.9 | ||
18 | Chico Carrasquel | SS | 10 | 1950-1959 | 21.2 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 0.0 | 7.8 | 22.4 | 21.8 | ||
19 | Granny Hamner | SS | 17 | 1944-1962 | 18.7 | 9.9 | -0.4 | -0.3 | 9.5 | 19.9 | 19.3 | ||
20 | Billy Myers | SS | 7 | 1935-1941 | 13.6 | 6.2 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 4.7 | 13.6 | 13.6 | ||
21 | Buddy Kerr | SS | 9 | 1943-1951 | 11.6 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 12.0 | 11.8 | ||
22 | Eddie Lake | SS | 11 | 1939-1950 | 10.6 | 7.3 | -1.4 | -0.2 | 4.9 | 11.7 | 11.2 | ||
23 | Bobby Morgan | SS | 8 | 1950-1958 | 9.7 | 5.2 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 9.8 | 9.7 | ||
24 | George Strickland | SS | 10 | 1950-1960 | 6.6 | -0.4 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 5.1 | 7.2 | 6.9 | ||
25 | Johnny Lipon | SS | 9 | 1942-1954 | 5.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 4.6 | 7.2 | 6.4 | ||
26 | Bill Knickerbocker | SS | 10 | 1933-1942 | 5.4 | 1.1 | -0.9 | 0.0 | 5.2 | 7.2 | 6.3 | ||
27 | Stan Rojek | SS | 8 | 1942-1952 | 5.3 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 3.4 | 5.4 | 5.4 | ||
28 | Eric McNair | SS | 14 | 1929-1942 | 5.1 | 2.3 | -3.1 | 0.0 | 5.8 | 9.2 | 7.2 | ||
29 | Rabbit Warstler | SS | 11 | 1930-1940 | 3.4 | -6.3 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 6.2 | 5.5 | 4.5 | ||
30 | Roy Smalley | SS | 11 | 1948-1958 | 2.6 | 0.5 | -3.2 | 0.0 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 3.1 | ||
31 | Dick Culler | SS | 8 | 1936-1949 | 2.4 | -0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.6 | ||
32 | Milt Bolling | SS | 7 | 1952-1958 | 2.2 | -0.5 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.2 | ||
33 | Glenn Crawford | SS | 2 | 1945-1946 | 1.6 | 1.5 | -0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 1.6 | ||
34 | Ed Busch | SS | 3 | 1943-1945 | 1.6 | 0.3 | -0.6 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.6 | ||
35 | Lennie Merullo | SS | 7 | 1941-1947 | 1.5 | -1.2 | -1.5 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
36 | Bobby Sturgeon | SS | 6 | 1940-1948 | 1.3 | -0.8 | -0.4 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 1.3 | ||
37 | Claude Corbitt | SS | 4 | 1945-1949 | 1.3 | -0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.3 | ||
38 | Mike Milosevich | SS | 2 | 1944-1945 | 1.0 | -0.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
39 | Bobby Bragan | SS | 7 | 1940-1948 | 0.8 | -0.7 | -2.0 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | ||
40 | Clem Koshorek | SS | 2 | 1952-1953 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.7 | ||
41 | Ralph LaPointe | SS | 2 | 1947-1948 | 0.6 | 0.0 | -0.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||
42 | Skeeter Newsome | SS | 12 | 1935-1947 | 0.6 | -5.9 | -0.3 | 0.0 | 6.8 | 5.5 | 3.0 | ||
43 | Frankie Zak | SS | 3 | 1944-1946 | 0.5 | 0.3 | -0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||
44 | George Fallon | SS | 4 | 1937-1945 | 0.5 | -0.9 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||
45 | Whitey Wietelmann | SS | 9 | 1939-1947 | 0.3 | -2.6 | -0.1 | -0.7 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 0.9 | ||
46 | Dick Kimble | SS | 1 | 1945 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||
47 | Bubba Floyd | SS | 1 | 1944 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||
48 | Bill Schuster | SS | 5 | 1937-1945 | 0.3 | -0.1 | -0.2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||
49 | Bud Thomas | SS | 1 | 1951 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||
50 | Joe Hoover | SS | 3 | 1943-1945 | 0.2 | -1.3 | -0.9 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
bWAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com