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Hall-of-Famers as Seen Through Player Won-Lost Records: Bill Mazeroski

Bill Mazeroski was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans' Committee in 2001.

Five highlights of Bill Mazeroski's career:

Bill Mazeroski was named an All-Star seven times.

Mazeroski won eight Gold Gloves

Mazeroski led the NL in games played at second base six times and is 11th in major-league history in games played at second base (2,094). He led NL second basemen in putouts 5 times and is 7th in major-league history career putouts (4,974). He led NL second basemen in assists 9 times and is 5th in MLB history in career assists (6,685). He led NL second basemen eight times and holds the major-league record for most career double plays turned by a second baseman with 1,706.

In 1960, Bill Mazeroski was named Major League Player of the Year by the Sporting News and won the Babe Ruth Award, awarded annually by the New York chapter of the BBWAA for the best postseason performance.

In addition to hitting the World Series winning home run, Mazeroski batted .320/.320/.640 in the 1960 World Series with two home runs and 5 RBI. In his career, Mazeroski batted .323/.364/.581 in 34 postseason plate appearances.

The first two tables below present Bill Mazeroski's career as measured by Player won-lost records, in and out of context.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWORL	pWOPA

Basic Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1956	PIT	19	81	7.4	9.7	-1.2	-2.1
1957	PIT	20	148	15.1	16.9	0.2	-1.4
1958	PIT	21	152	19.1	17.8	3.7	1.8
1959	PIT	22	135	16.1	16.9	1.4	-0.2
1960	PIT	23	151	18.4	14.8	5.9	4.2
1961	PIT	24	152	16.1	18.4	0.2	-1.6
1962	PIT	25	159	20.1	19.3	3.5	1.6
1963	PIT	26	142	17.6	17.8	2.1	0.4
1964	PIT	27	162	20.1	19.5	3.3	1.3
1965	PIT	28	130	17.1	15.0	4.1	2.5
1966	PIT	29	162	19.7	18.7	3.6	1.8
1967	PIT	30	163	18.8	19.6	1.6	-0.3
1968	PIT	31	143	15.0	17.5	-0.3	-1.9
1969	PIT	32	67	6.3	7.2	-0.0	-0.7
1970	PIT	33	112	10.7	11.9	0.4	-0.7
1971	PIT	34	70	5.6	5.6	0.7	0.1
1972	PIT	35	34	1.1	2.3	-1.0	-1.1
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,163	244.1	248.9	28.3	3.6
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			12	1.3	1.1	0.4	0.2
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,175	245.3	250.0	28.6	3.8

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1956	PIT	19	81	8.1	9.0	0.2	-0.7
1957	PIT	20	148	15.8	16.2	1.5	-0.1
1958	PIT	21	152	18.9	18.0	3.4	1.6
1959	PIT	22	135	15.4	17.6	-0.0	-1.6
1960	PIT	23	151	17.0	16.2	3.1	1.4
1961	PIT	24	152	16.4	18.1	0.9	-0.8
1962	PIT	25	159	19.5	19.9	2.4	0.5
1963	PIT	26	142	18.1	17.3	3.1	1.3
1964	PIT	27	162	19.3	20.3	1.8	-0.2
1965	PIT	28	130	16.4	15.7	2.9	1.3
1966	PIT	29	162	19.7	18.7	3.8	1.9
1967	PIT	30	163	18.7	19.6	1.5	-0.4
1968	PIT	31	143	15.9	16.7	1.3	-0.3
1969	PIT	32	67	6.4	7.0	0.2	-0.5
1970	PIT	33	112	10.7	11.8	0.5	-0.6
1971	PIT	34	70	4.9	6.3	-0.6	-1.2
1972	PIT	35	34	1.3	2.1	-0.5	-0.7
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,163	242.7	250.3	25.5	0.8
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			12	1.3	1.1	0.4	0.2
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,175	244.0	251.3	25.9	1.1

Bill Mazeroski is considered by some to be the best defensive second baseman in major-league history. Player won-lost records agree that Mazeroski was an outstanding fielder although he does not rate as the absolute best fielding second baseman. The next two tables show the top 10 second basemen as measured by Player won-lost records against two baselines, average and replacement level.

		Top 10 Career Second Basemen (ranked by net Fielding eWins)
		eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
1	Willie Randolph	81.5	75.0	6.5
2	Dustin Pedroia	51.0	44.8	6.2
3	Frank White	80.6	74.5	6.0
4	Lonny Frey	42.2	36.8	5.4
5	Nellie Fox	85.1	79.7	5.4
6	Ski Melillo	56.8	52.0	4.8
7	Mark Ellis	49.4	44.7	4.7
8	Frankie Frisch	80.4	75.8	4.7
9	Bill Mazeroski	85.5	80.9	4.6
10	Joe Gordon	60.7	56.1	4.6

		Top 10 Career Second Basemen (ranked by Fielding eWins over Replacement Level)
		eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
1	Nellie Fox	85.1	79.7	26.0
2	Willie Randolph	81.5	75.0	23.7
3	Lou Whitaker	82.1	78.1	22.8
4	Joe L. Morgan	94.6	94.7	22.6
5	Ryne Sandberg	78.8	74.6	21.1
6	Frank White	80.6	74.5	21.0
7	Bill Mazeroski	85.5	80.9	20.7
8	Red Schoendienst	69.8	65.3	20.7
9	Frankie Frisch	80.4	75.8	20.5
10	Roberto Alomar	84.8	84.8	20.4

Mazeroski was considered especially adept at turning double plays. Baseball Player won-lost records are divided into nine components. Double plays are Component 7.

The next table shows the top 10 players in net Component 7 fielding wins, across all positions.

		Top 10 Players, net Component 7 Fielding eWins
		eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
1	Bill Mazeroski	17.0	12.8	4.1
2	Willie Randolph	16.0	12.2	3.9
3	Fernando Vina	7.9	4.8	3.1
4	Cal Ripken	13.2	10.1	3.1
5	Mark Grudzielanek	10.1	7.2	3.0
6	Tim Foli	11.5	8.6	2.9
7	Phil Rizzuto	12.1	9.3	2.8
8	Robby Thompson	8.7	6.0	2.7
9	Ozzie Smith	14.7	12.1	2.7
10	Red Schoendienst	14.3	11.8	2.5

Article last updated: April 1, 2019

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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