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Roberto Alomar leads all second basemen with 10 Gold Glove Award wins. The Gold Glove Award is the award given annually to the Major League Baseball players judged to have exhibited superior individual fielding performances at each fielding position in both the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), as voted by the managers and coaches in each league. [1]
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 ...
Marcus Semien hit 45 home runs in 2021, the most ever by a second baseman in a winning season, [16] while Sandberg set the National League mark with 40 in 1990. [4] Jose Altuve collected 225 hits in 2014, the most in a season for a second baseman in the post-integration era. [17]
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).
The Yankees finished the season with a 110–44 win–loss record, and defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1927 World Series. [2] [4] Baseball experts solicited by Billy Evans named Lazzeri the consensus best second baseman in the AL. [5] He incurred a muscle injury that threatened to end his season. [6]
Joe Leonard Morgan (September 19, 1943 – October 11, 2020) was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Colt .45s / Astros, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, and Oakland Athletics from 1963 to 1984.
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.
Napoléon "Nap" Lajoie (/ ˈ l æ ʒ ə w eɪ /; September 5, 1874 – February 7, 1959), also known as Larry Lajoie, was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).