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	Pos					Pct. of			3rd Base Fielding Statistics								Batting Statistics as Third Baseman																							Win Shares
Year	Rank	WSQ Leader	Tm	Age	WSQ	Total			Games	PO	Assts	Err	DP	F Pct.			At Bats	Hits	2B	3B	HR	Runs	RBI	BB	IBB	SO	HP	SH	SF	SB	CS	GDP	BA	OBA	SA	OPS	RC			B WS	F WS	T WS	BWS/G	FWS/G	TWS/G
1901	2	Lave Cross	PHI	35	21.66	9.7%			100	140	236	33	7	.919			424	139	28	12	2	82	73	19			1	6		23			.328	.358	.465	.823	84			14.1	4.4	18.5	.141	.044	.185
1902	1	Lave Cross	PHI	36	30.34	13.4%			137	185	306	30	18	.942			559	191	39	8	0	90	108	27			2	7		25			.342	.374	.440	.814	107			18.5	7.6	26.1	.135	.055	.191
1903	5	Lave Cross	PHI	37	15.27	13.1%			136	152	228	20	14	.950			555	162	22	4	2	60	89	10			0	8		14			.292	.304	.357	.661	64			9.5	6.7	16.2	.070	.049	.119
1904	3	Lave Cross	PHI	38	24.31	11.9%			155	164	247	28	15	.936			607	176	31	10	1	73	71	13			5	14		10			.290	.310	.379	.689	72			15.0	6.4	21.4	.097	.041	.138
1905	1	Jimmy Collins	BOS	35	28.89	25.1%			300	341	553	69	19	.928			1165	310	58	11	4	142	145	68			7	28		27			.266	.310	.345	.655	138			26.5	12.4	38.9	.088	.041	.130
1906	1	Lave Cross	WAS	40	18.25	13.8%			162	200	312	31	11	.943			636	169	22	10	2	72	62	32			0	18		20			.266	.301	.341	.642	71			14.6	4.8	19.4	.090	.030	.120
1907	1	Jimmy Collins	BOS/PHI	37	18.78	15.3%			180	181	355	50	15	.915			683	177	37	0	0	64	55	44			8	20		11			.259	.312	.313	.625	74			12.7	5.7	18.4	.071	.032	.102
1908	8	Jimmy Collins	PHI	38	5.33	9.3%			115	117	216	26	14	.928			433	94	14	3	0	34	30	20			4	13		5			.217	.258	.263	.521	32			1.9	4.7	6.6	.017	.041	.057
1909	11	Bobby Wallace	STL	35	3.25	2.5%			29	49	57	5	5	.955			101	24	3	1	0	9	9	10			1	2		2			.238	.313	.287	.600	10			2.1	1.1	3.2	.072	.038	.110
1910	5	Kid Elberfeld	WAS	35	9.93	12.9%			152	197	323	32	21	.942			552	139	13	4	2	61	48	45			12	14		20			.252	.322	.301	.623	60			11.4	4.4	15.8	.075	.029	.104
1911	6	Kid Elberfeld	WAS	36	8.22	5.2%			52	87	116	16	11	.927			175	48	8	2	0	25	20	28			11	6		10			.274	.407	.343	.750	30			5.9	1.7	7.6	.113	.033	.146
1912						0.0%
1913						0.0%
1914						0.0%
1915	3	Jimmy Austin	STL	35	15.26	12.7%			141	188	264	41	32	.917			477	127	6	6	1	61	30	64		60	2	35		18	15		.266	.355	.310	.665	57			10.9	4.3	15.2	.077	.030	.108
1916	4	Jimmy Austin	STL	36	9.52	17.0%			201	215	447	36	31	.948			688	157	25	8	1	89	53	100		78	4	36		29			.228	.330	.292	.622	78			12.7	6.3	19.0	.063	.031	.095
1917	5	Jimmy Austin	STL	37	13.10	13.3%			161	200	306	25	25	.953			547	127	21	8	0	68	27	57		56	3	30		15			.232	.308	.300	.608	55			8.9	5.2	14.1	.055	.032	.088
1918	10	Jimmy Austin	STL	38	4.36	9.1%			94	89	176	16	7	.943			317	81	10	3	0	34	24	38		25	1	18		12			.256	.337	.306	.643	35			5.7	2.7	8.4	.061	.029	.089
1919	6	Jimmy Austin	STL	39	7.58	9.8%			98	161	207	24	15	.939			396	94	9	9	1	54	21	42		31	2	10		8			.237	.314	.313	.627	39			4.4	3.8	8.2	.045	.039	.084
1920	T8	Jimmy Austin	STL	40	4.76	6.5%			75	108	171	17	14	.943			280	76	11	3	1	38	32	31		15	4	15		2	4		.271	.352	.343	.695	35			3.3	2.2	5.5	.044	.029	.073
1921	1	Larry Gardner	CLE	35	29.98	19.6%			235	263	508	38	39	.953			916	284	48	16	12	147	191	91		28	8	40		11	8		.310	.377	.437	.814	156			23.7	11.8	35.5	.101	.050	.151
1922	2	Larry Gardner	CLE	36	15.11	20.0%			253	263	487	46	45	.942			949	264	50	6	9	143	119	92		52	6	32		14	13		.278	.346	.372	.718	122			15.9	9.0	24.9	.063	.036	.098
1923						0.0%
1924						0.0%
1925	12	Bob Jones	DET	35	1.33	3.4%			46	43	91	2	5	.985			148	35	6	0	0	18	15	9		5	0	7		1	1		.236	.280	.277	.557	12			-	2.0	2.0	.000	.043	.043
1926						0.0%
1927						0.0%
1928						0.0%
1929						0.0%
1930	10	Frank O'Rourke	STL	35	3.40	7.1%			84	116	150	14	16	.950			305	82	11	3	1	40	31	27		23	0	11		8	7		.269	.328	.334	.662	36			2.1	2.5	4.6	.025	.030	.055
1931						0.0%
1932	4	Jimmy Dykes	PHI	35	12.89	12.1%			141	142	251	8	20	.980			518	137	27	5	6	66	83	71		60	4	7		7	2		.264	.358	.371	.729	77			9.0	4.1	13.1	.064	.029	.093
1933	3	Jimmy Dykes	CHI	36	14.89	12.4%			151	132	296	21	22	.953			554	144	22	6	1	49	68	69		37	12	6		3	7		.260	.354	.327	.681	69			8.2	6.4	14.6	.054	.042	.097
1934	8	Jimmy Dykes	CHI	37	6.08	6.3%			74	74	160	14	9	.944			264	71	10	2	4	30	47	37		16	2	7		1	1		.269	.363	.367	.730	39			4.7	2.1	6.8	.064	.028	.092
1935	7	Jimmy Dykes	CHI	38	9.26	8.0%			98	100	166	13	12	.953			338	97	20	2	3	38	51	49		23	2	8		3	3		.287	.380	.385	.765	53			6.8	3.0	9.8	.069	.031	.100
1936	8	Jimmy Dykes	CHI	39	7.54	10.0%			125	108	240	18	14	.951			435	116	16	3	7	62	60	61		36	4	11		1	3		.267	.362	.366	.728	67			6.8	2.6	9.4	.054	.021	.075
1937						0.0%
1938						0.0%
1939						0.0%
1940						0.0%
1941						0.0%
1942						0.0%
1943	9	Tony Cuccinello	CHI	35	5.51	2.3%			30	33	50	3	5	.965			103	28	5	0	2	5	11	13		13	0	2		3	1	2	.272	.353	.379	.732	15			3.7	0.9	4.6	.123	.030	.153
1944	1	Mike Higgins	DET	35	24.35	14.7%			176	179	361	25	26	.956			651	189	35	4	7	83	90	88		47	4	13		4	4	19	.290	.378	.389	.767	105			21.0	2.9	23.9	.119	.016	.136
1945	2	Tony Cuccinello	CHI	37	24.46	9.0%			112	73	221	20	22	.936			402	124	25	3	2	50	49	45		19	1	2		6	2	9	.308	.379	.400	.779	66			16.6	2.5	19.1	.148	.022	.171
1946	5	Mike Higgins	DET/BOS	37	6.90	6.1%			76	64	134	11	16	.947			260	68	14	2	2	20	36	29		30	1	3		0	3	9	.262	.338	.354	.692	30			4.6	2.2	6.8	.061	.029	.089
1947						0.0%
1948	8	Luke Appling	CHI	41	8.78	10.3%			119	123	250	26	21	.935			418	127	17	1	0	59	45	74		31	1	3		5	3	15	.304	.410	.349	.759	61			10.3	2.6	12.9	.087	.022	.108
1949	15	Mark Christman	WAS	35	0.15	1.8%			23	18	41	2	7	.967			76	16	1	0	2	5	12	5		5	1	1		0	0	3	.211	.268	.303	.571	5			-	0.4	0.4	.000	.017	.017
1950						0.0%
1951						0.0%
1952	7	Billy Hitchcock	PHI	35	4.79	12.1%			149	147	321	25	38	.949			522	132	11	6	3	60	77	59		56	5	12		1	2	17	.253	.334	.314	.648	56			7.0	3.9	10.9	.047	.026	.073
1953	6	Bob Elliott	STL/CHI	36	9.62	16.5%			213	216	428	24	46	.964			766	205	28	5	11	84	99	88		67	2	5		3	5	17	.268	.345	.360	.705	97			12.2	5.2	17.4	.057	.024	.082
1954	16	Pete Suder	PHI	38	0.16	1.8%			20	26	59	2	2	.977			72	14	4	0	0	3	6	2	1	6	0	1	0	0	0	2	.194	.216	.250	.466	4			-	0.4	0.4	.000	.020	.020
1955	15	Billy Cox	BAL	35	0.50	2.8%			37	28	67	3	5	.969			118	25	4	1	2	15	8	10	0	10	0	1	0	1	1	3	.212	.273	.314	.587	10			0.5	0.5	1.0	.014	.014	.027
1956	15	Bob Kennedy	CHI/DET	35	0.55	2.4%			33	39	41	8	5	.909			93	18	2	0	2	4	10	15	1	15	0	1	0	1	1	5	.194	.306	.280	.586	8			0.5	0.5	1.0	.015	.015	.030
1957						0.0%
1958						0.0%
1959						0.0%
1960						0.0%
1961						0.0%
1962	12	Eddie Yost	LA	35	2.92	4.2%			69	63	136	9	15	.957			221	57	14	1	2	32	18	37	0	27	1	4	1	5	3	7	.258	.365	.357	.722	30			4.0	1.4	5.4	.058	.020	.078
1963	10	Bubba Phillips	DET	35	3.83	7.7%			117	116	226	14	26	.961			446	110	11	2	4	41	44	17	1	40	3	5	10	6	2	15	.247	.273	.307	.580	36			1.7	4.0	5.7	.015	.034	.049
1964	15	Bubba Phillips	DET	36	1.92	2.8%			50	38	89	4	7	.969			156	42	5	0	5	17	12	11	2	9	1	3	3	1	2	2	.269	.316	.397	.713	19			1.9	1.3	3.2	.038	.026	.064
1965	14	Frank Malzone	BOS	35	1.85	5.7%			96	79	170	8	19	.969			348	84	18	0	3	37	30	26	0	36	1	4	2	1	1	18	.241	.294	.319	.613	28			0.9	2.4	3.3	.009	.025	.034
1966	17	Frank Malzone	CAL	36	0.29	2.1%			35	38	60	8	3	.925			112	22	3	0	2	5	11	6	1	9	0	0	1	0	0	4	.196	.235	.277	.512	7			0.2	0.5	0.7	.006	.014	.020
1967	14	Ken Boyer	CHI	36	2.98	4.2%			78	47	135	9	7	.953			245	58	7	1	8	26	28	21	0	43	1	2	1	0	3	7	.237	.299	.371	.670	26			4.9	1.8	6.7	.063	.023	.086
1968						0.0%
1969						0.0%
1970						0.0%
1971	9	Harmon Killebrew	MIN	35	9.43	3.1%			64	42	93	11	3	.925			212	52	8	1	9	29	41	44	6	43	0	0	3	1	1	9	.245	.371	.420	.791	34			7.7	1.3	9.0	.120	.020	.141
1972	5	Brooks Robinson	BAL	35	16.04	8.5%			152	129	333	11	27	.977			553	139	23	2	8	48	64	43	4	45	2	4	7	1	0	11	.251	.304	.344	.648	57			10.6	5.1	15.7	.070	.034	.103
1973	10	Brooks Robinson	BAL	36	10.42	8.3%			154	129	354	15	25	.970			548	141	17	2	9	53	72	55	5	50	3	8	4	2	0	19	.257	.326	.345	.671	60			7.7	4.7	12.4	.050	.031	.081
1974	2	Brooks Robinson	BAL	37	27.15	9.7%			174	132	445	18	45	.970			612	177	29	0	7	51	65	58	14	56	3	5	5	3	0	15	.289	.351	.371	.722	78			17.2	6.6	23.8	.099	.038	.137
1975	14	Brooks Robinson	BAL	38	3.83	9.2%			186	128	402	14	39	.974			566	120	17	1	7	63	58	56	10	40	1	11	4	0	0	6	.212	.282	.283	.565	46			3.0	5.3	8.3	.016	.028	.045
1976	21	Brooks Robinson	BAL	39	0.70	3.3%			71	59	126	6	11	.969			215	46	8	2	3	15	10	7	0	23	1	3	2	0	0	5	.214	.240	.312	.552	14			0.4	1.1	1.5	.006	.015	.021
1977	20	Cookie Rojas	KC	38	0.80	1.3%			31	23	62	5	6	.944			103	24	7	1	0	6	5	5	1	12	0	1	0	1	1	4	.233	.269	.320	.589	8			0.2	1.1	1.3	.006	.035	.042
1978						0.0%
1979	12	Sal Bando	MIL	35	7.55	4.9%			109	87	222	12	16	.963			396	93	12	3	8	50	38	49	2	36	2	6	1	2	0	11	.235	.321	.341	.662	45			5.4	2.9	8.3	.050	.027	.076
1980	10	Graig Nettles	NY	35	10.99	7.5%			182	123	339	26	32	.947			620	147	28	1	24	87	84	71	8	76	2	3	7	3	3	15	.237	.314	.402	.716	79			10.5	3.4	13.9	.058	.019	.076
1981	6	Graig Nettles	NY	36	13.35	8.6%			142	73	258	14	19	.959			405	96	9	2	15	49	52	52	4	55	1	3	3	1	4	5	.237	.323	.380	.703	51			9.0	4.2	13.2	.063	.030	.093
1982	10	Graig Nettles	NY	37	9.18	5.9%			141	86	310	24	28	.943			462	111	15	2	18	53	60	54	4	52	3	2	4	1	5	11	.240	.321	.398	.719	56			7.7	3.5	11.2	.055	.025	.079
1983	4	Graig Nettles	NY	38	18.38	9.1%			248	131	423	28	34	.952			689	179	20	3	20	72	85	62	2	87	4	3	5	6	6	13	.260	.322	.385	.707	89			15.9	4.7	20.6	.064	.019	.083
1984	13	Toby Harrah	NY	35	4.38	3.7%			95	60	151	7	18	.968			273	59	9	4	5	40	29	45	0	35	2	0	3	3	0	12	.216	.328	.333	.661	31			4.0	2.8	6.8	.042	.029	.072
1985	28	Greg Pryor	KC	35	0.22	0.7%			26	5	30	2	2	.946			37	9	1	0	1	4	1	3	0	3	0	3	0	0	1	4	.243	.300	.351	.651	2			-	0.5	0.5	.000	.019	.019
1986	7	Doug DeCinces	CAL	35	15.38	8.8%			213	158	347	28	30	.947			691	170	22	3	27	85	109	65	4	103	4	4	7	3	4	24	.246	.312	.404	.716	85			13.9	4.6	18.5	.065	.022	.087
1987	7	Doug DeCinces	CAL	36	11.68	6.3%			148	98	266	17	27	.955			495	117	26	1	16	71	67	70	6	90	2	3	3	3	5	12	.236	.332	.390	.722	65			8.6	4.0	12.6	.058	.027	.085
1988						0.0%
1989	28	Tom Brookens	NY	35	0.16	1.9%			51	17	70	7	4	.926			132	31	3	0	4	12	12	5	0	20	0	3	1	1	2	3	.235	.261	.348	.609	11			-	0.5	0.5	.000	.010	.010
1990	19	Tom Brookens	CLE	36	2.06	1.2%			35	9	51	5	4	.923			71	22	3	0	0	11	10	9	1	6	0	0	1	0	0	2	.310	.383	.352	.735	10			1.6	0.8	2.4	.046	.023	.069
1991	15	Jim Gantner	MIL	38	4.96	3.7%			90	51	155	5	15	.976			335	95	15	3	2	34	34	12	2	20	0	3	3	1	3	12	.284	.306	.364	.670	33			3.5	2.3	5.8	.039	.026	.064
1992	8	Carney Lansford	OAK	35	13.30	7.4%			189	137	258	19	20	.954			593	155	30	1	9	74	83	46	0	48	6	8	9	11	2	15	.261	.317	.361	.678	70			13.0	3.9	16.9	.069	.021	.089
1993	2	Wade Boggs	NY	35	22.79	10.0%			194	166	522	16	55	.977			700	206	34	0	4	101	74	87	4	68	1	2	8	7	3	11	.294	.369	.360	.729	99			17.8	6.3	24.1	.092	.032	.124
1994	1	Wade Boggs	NY	36	24.92	11.8%			178	101	376	14	34	.971			654	207	32	3	22	107	106	76	5	88	2	3	6	1	3	17	.317	.386	.476	.862	118			20.0	6.3	26.3	.112	.035	.148
1995	3	Wade Boggs	NY	37	21.43	19.3%			396	254	702	45	61	.955			1423	393	71	5	58	243	198	186	14	268	11	4	15	11	10	31	.276	.361	.455	.816	237			37.1	10.7	47.8	.094	.027	.121
1996	7	Wade Boggs	NY	38	15.25	7.5%			169	89	286	14	28	.964			638	184	32	2	8	98	55	81	8	68	0	1	5	2	2	13	.288	.366	.382	.748	92			11.5	4.6	16.1	.068	.027	.095
1997	3	Cal Ripken	BAL	36	19.45	11.7%			262	154	481	27	44	.959			950	255	50	1	24	135	120	100	4	109	5	1	14	2	0	22	.268	.337	.399	.736	130			18.9	8.5	27.4	.072	.032	.105
1998	5	Cal Ripken	BAL	37	12.89	16.2%			394	227	591	27	47	.968			1328	381	67	6	24	154	150	125	9	156	8	3	6	9	11	30	.287	.350	.401	.751	184			23.7	9.6	33.3	.060	.024	.085
1999	1	Tony Fernandez	TOR	37	26.90	13.9%			347	165	510	41	50	.943			1107	356	80	0	26	171	157	132	12	113	14	3	10	8	8	36	.322	.397	.464	.861	199			31.1	6.3	37.4	.090	.018	.108
2000	9	Cal Ripken	BAL	39	8.29	3.4%			73	56	134	5	17	.974			271	68	13	0	15	42	50	21	0	33	3	0	4	0	0	8	.251	.308	.465	.773	38			4.5	3.2	7.7	.062	.044	.105
2001	11	Cal Ripken	BAL	40	7.14	9.2%			200	164	356	30	36	.945			715	173	27	4	25	84	104	65	3	117	4	3	11	10	6	20	.242	.304	.396	.700	86			12.3	5.0	17.3	.062	.025	.087
2002	24	Ron Coomer	NY	35	0.53	1.0%			26	12	33	6	2	.882			83	27	4	0	2	7	9	2	0	12	0	1	0	0	0	5	.325	.341	.446	.787	11			0.4	0.5	0.9	.015	.019	.035
2003	8	Robin Ventura	NY	35	10.01	7.0%			161	98	275	14	29	.964			516	125	27	2	16	60	78	66	1	108	0	3	3	2	1	14	.242	.326	.395	.721	67			8.3	5.8	14.1	.052	.036	.088
2004	22	Mark McLemore	OAK	39	1.31	1.2%			27	17	46	1	2	.984			84	23	5	0	0	15	5	16	3	12	0	0	0	0	1	2	.274	.390	.333	.723	11			1.0	0.7	1.7	.037	.026	.063
2005	24	Jose Hernandez	CLE	35	0.49	0.8%			21	16	35	0	2	1.000			60	6	0	0	0	3	4	5	0	22	0	2	0	0	1	0	.100	.169	.100	.269	1			-	0.8	0.8	.000	.038	.038
2006						0.0%
2007	8	Melvin Mora	BAL	35	10.19	7.3%			151	98	318	13	30	.970			558	158	31	1	14	76	64	49	3	91	3	7	7	9	4	21	.283	.340	.418	.758	76			8.4	4.0	12.4	.056	.026	.082
2008	3	Melvin Mora	BAL	36	19.31	6.0%			124	85	252	14	28	.960			485	138	27	2	22	75	100	35	3	67	11	3	6	3	6	14	.285	.343	.485	.828	77			13.7	3.2	16.9	.110	.026	.136
2009	7	Mike Lowell	BOS	35	13.12	12.1%			274	211	487	22	44	.969			968	261	51	1	25	113	124	72	5	138	9	2	7	6	4	37	.270	.324	.402	.726	119			13.8	7.9	21.7	.050	.029	.079
2010	11	Miguel Tejada	BAL	36	5.77	7.8%			176	99	307	18	37	.958			623	174	24	0	8	68	61	43	2	69	11	5	5	10	5	19	.279	.334	.356	.690	73			6.8	4.3	11.1	.039	.024	.063
		Copyright © 2009-10 by Andre Lower
		Sources:
		All-Time Major League Handbook
		Win Shares Digital Update
		baseball-reference.com
		ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia