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In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the second baseman is assigned the number 4. The second baseman is frequently the smallest player on the team, and the ability of such smaller players to absorb the impact of play has contributed to many long careers at the position throughout major league history; three-quarters of the ...
Fred Pfeffer, who retired in 1897 after having set National League (NL) records for career games, putouts and assists as a second baseman, is the all-time leader in career errors as a second baseman with 857 – nearly twice as many as any player whose career began after 1900, and over three times as many as any player who reached the major ...
At the time of his retirement, he ranked first in Major League Baseball (MLB) history with 1,444 double plays turned at second base (now seventh in MLB history). [1] He remains among MLB's all-time leaders with 7,068 assists at second base (second in MLB history) and 5,369 putouts (sixth in MLB history). [2] [3]
Rank amongst leaders in career assists. A blank field indicates a tie. Player (2025 As) Number of recorded assists during the 2025 Major League Baseball season: MLB: Total career assists as a second baseman in Major League Baseball * Denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame: Bold: Denotes active player [a]
List of Major League Baseball career double plays as a first baseman leaders; List of Major League Baseball career double plays as a second baseman leaders; List of Major League Baseball career double plays as a third baseman leaders; List of Major League Baseball career double plays as a shortstop leaders
Frederick C. "Sure Shot" Dunlap (May 21, 1859 – December 1, 1902) was a second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball from 1880 to 1891. He was the highest paid player in Major League Baseball from 1884 to 1889. He has also been rated by some contemporary and modern sources as the greatest overall second baseman of the 19th century.
Fox was one of the best second basemen in the major leagues. [1] He played next to a pair of slick-fielding White Sox shortstops from Venezuela, Chico Carrasquel (1950–55) and Luis Aparicio (1956–62). He was the first major league Gold Glove Award winner for a second baseman in 1957, and he received two more Gold Glove awards, in 1959 and ...
Bid McPhee, [25] [26] [27] who retired in 1899 and is the only second baseman ever to record 500 putouts in a season, is the all-time leader in career putouts as a second baseman with 6,552. Eddie Collins [28] (6,526) and Nellie Fox [29] (6,090) are the only other second basemen with over 6,000 career putouts.