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Hall-of-Famers as Seen Through Player Won-Lost Records: Duke Snider

Duke Snider was elected to the Hall of Fame in his 11th year of eligibility, 1980, with 86.5% of the vote.

The first table below presents Duke Snider's career as measured by Player won-lost records.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Duke Snider Basic Player Won-Lost Records
												Value Decomposition
1947	BRO	20	40	1.9	2.5	0.431	-0.3	-0.1	2.1	2.3	0.466	-0.2	0.0
1948	BRO	21	53	4.6	5.0	0.481	-0.3	0.1	4.8	4.8	0.495	-0.2	0.2
1949	BRO	22	146	21.0	12.9	0.619	3.6	4.9	19.0	14.9	0.560	1.6	2.9
1950	BRO	23	152	20.8	17.3	0.546	1.3	2.8	20.8	17.3	0.545	1.2	2.7
1951	BRO	24	150	20.2	16.0	0.558	1.7	3.1	20.1	16.1	0.555	1.6	3.0
1952	BRO	25	144	19.9	15.1	0.569	2.1	3.5	19.9	15.1	0.568	2.0	3.4
1953	BRO	26	153	23.3	13.3	0.637	4.4	5.9	22.7	14.0	0.620	3.8	5.3
1954	BRO	27	149	23.6	15.2	0.609	3.3	4.9	23.3	15.5	0.600	3.0	4.6
1955	BRO	28	148	23.9	14.6	0.622	3.9	5.5	22.9	15.6	0.596	2.9	4.5
1956	BRO	29	151	22.7	15.3	0.597	3.0	4.6	22.2	15.8	0.585	2.6	4.1
1957	BRO	30	139	18.7	15.4	0.549	1.0	2.4	19.0	15.1	0.557	1.3	2.7
1958	LAN	31	106	9.9	10.6	0.483	-0.7	0.1	10.8	9.6	0.529	0.3	1.1
1959	LAN	32	126	15.4	11.1	0.581	1.6	2.7	14.6	11.8	0.552	0.9	1.9
1960	LAN	33	100	8.9	7.6	0.538	0.4	1.1	9.1	7.3	0.554	0.6	1.3
1961	LAN	34	83	9.8	6.7	0.596	1.2	2.0	9.4	7.0	0.573	0.8	1.6
1962	LAN	35	80	6.3	4.7	0.574	0.6	1.1	5.8	5.1	0.531	0.1	0.6
1963	NYN	36	129	13.0	12.4	0.512	-0.2	0.8	13.3	12.1	0.523	0.1	1.1
1964	SFN	37	89	4.8	5.5	0.469	-0.4	0.1	4.9	5.4	0.475	-0.3	0.2
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CAREER (reg. season)			2,138	268.7	201.0	0.572	26.1	45.4	264.7	205.1	0.563	22.1	41.3
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PostSeason (career)			36	5.5	4.1	0.575		1.0	5.3	4.2	0.557		0.8
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COMBINED			2,174	274.2	205.1	0.572		46.3	270.0	209.3	0.563		42.1

Duke Snider's primary Hall-of-Fame credentials are on offense. He had a career batting line of .295/.380/.540, leading his league in runs scored and total bases three times apiece, in slugging percentage and OPS twice, and in hits, home runs, RBI, walks, and on-base percentage once each. And, indeed, Duke Snider's batting Player won-lost record is impressive. But, at least as measured by Player won-lost records, Duke Snider was also an excellent defensive center fielder.

I calculate Player won-lost records across nine components, four of which apply to fielding. Snider was particularly good at the most important of these, Component 5, the ability to convert balls-in-play into outs. The top 10 players in net Component 5 center field wins, for whom I have calculated Player won-lost records, are presented in the next table.

		eWins	eLosses	eWinPct	Net eWins
1	Duke Snider	30.6	22.8	0.574	7.9
2	Amos Otis	42.9	35.1	0.550	7.8
3	Willie Davis	46.4	38.7	0.545	7.7
4	Curt Flood	34.7	29.6	0.539	5.1
5	Andruw Jones	39.7	34.8	0.533	5.0
6	Taylor Douthit	28.5	24.0	0.543	4.5
7	Mike Cameron	41.1	37.0	0.526	4.0
8	Johnny Mostil	24.6	20.7	0.542	3.8
9	Mickey Mantle	34.7	31.1	0.528	3.7
10	Max Carey	24.9	21.6	0.536	3.4

All articles are written so that they pull data directly from the most recent version of the Player won-lost database. Hence, any numbers cited within these articles should automatically incorporate the most recent update to Player won-lost records. In some cases, however, the accompanying text may have been written based on previous versions of Player won-lost records. I apologize if this results in non-sensical text in any cases.

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