Monday, December 1, 2025

Players who led their league in a fielding stat at 3 or more positions

I looked that the AL/NL since 1901. 

I came across something about Gil McDougald awhile back. He led the AL in DPs at 3 positions: 2B, SS, 3B (some websites mention this and you can see this on his BB Ref page). See my post Gil McDougald's unique "triple double" from this past October. He was the only one to do this at those 3 positions.

I wondered if any other player led his league at 3 different positions in any of the following stats: Assists, Putouts, Fielding%, DPs & Range Factor per 9 innings. 

I put the league leaders from BB Ref in these stats into Excel files and did lots of combining (when I get a chance I will explain more about that process). I did 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, C and OF (not any individual OF positions, OF in general, so not RF for example-a guy had to lead all OFers). 

I found only the following guys who led at 3+ positions in any of these stats (so putouts at one position and assists at another and DPs at another would count)

Pete Rose (4 positions)
Gil McDougald
Joe Torre+
Pete Runnels
Tony Fernández
 
If you can think of any guys I might have missed, let me know. I also added catcher's CS% to the mix but that did not yield any more players (Torre did lead in CS% one year).
 
The tables below show the years and stats they led the league. 
 

Rose

Pos

PO

A

DP

Fld%

RF/9

1980

1B

 

123

 

0.997

 

1965

2B

382

 

 

 

 

1976

3B

 

 

 

0.969

 

1968

OF

 

20

 

 

 

1970

OF

 

 

 

0.997

 

1972

OF

 

15

 

 

 

1974

OF

 

 

 

0.997

 

 

McDougald

Pos

PO

A

DP

Fld%

RF/9

1955

2B

 

 

119

0.985

5.9

1952

3B

 

 

38

 

 

1953

3B

 

 

 

 

3.61

1957

SS

 

 

104

 

 

 

Runnels

Pos

PO

A

DP

Fld%

RF/9

1961

  1B


0.995


1960

2B




0.986


1952

SS

314





 

Torre

Pos

PO

A

DP

Fld%

RF/9

1974

1B

 

102

144

 

 

1971

3B

136

 

 

 

 

1964

C

 

 

 

0.995

 

1967

C

 

 

12

 

 

1968

C

 

 

 

0.996

 

 

Fernandez

Pos

PO

A

DP

Fld%

RF/9

1997

2B

 

 

 

 

5.38

1994

3B

 

 

 

0.991

 

1985

SS

 

478

 

 

 

1986

SS

294

 

 

0.983

 

1987

SS

270

 

 

 

 

1989

SS

 

 

 

0.992

5.32

1990

SS

297

480

 

 

 

1993

SS

 

 

 

 

4.99

 
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