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You’ll also see him referred to as “Ollie” and as “Marcelle.”

Marcell was an excellent 3B, although overshadowed by some of his peers. He was excellent defensively, and offered a nice offensive profile: very few strikeouts, some power, a few walks. Just an all-around contributor who easily could have been on championship teams and seen a few all star games himself.

Especially in his prime–1920 through 1927–Marcell was consistent year over year with only 1923 being a truly outstanding season. We have him eclipsing double digits in HRs once and in triples twice, and likely to be on the league leaderboards for hits a couple of times in that span.

His decline hit pretty hard, going from a very high level of performance in 1927 to barely replacement level for the next three years.

Marcell was almost exclusively a 3B, playing SS only a small handful of times early in his career and, while not the fielder that, say, Dave Malarcher was, could still flash the leather to good effect.

This projection of Marcell feels a little rough. I think the overall career numbers are quite solid, but I wonder about both whether his peak years (1920 and 1923) are a little too strong and his decline a little too steep.

Name	Oliver Marcell (Ghost)
ID / Status	marce01oli / Draft
Pos	3B
DOB / i9s Career	06/21/1895 / 1918 - 1930
Birthplace	Thibodaux, LA (USA)
Height / Weight	5'10" / 160
B / T	R / R

 

Batting Projections

Year	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1918	454	116	6	2	0	40	36	8	6	0.256	0.316	0.278	0.593
1919	516	136	10	5	1	36	31	15	6	0.264	0.312	0.308	0.620
1920	546	194	23	7	4	49	30	56	27	0.355	0.408	0.445	0.853
1921	583	201	20	10	2	45	33	20	10	0.345	0.392	0.424	0.815
1922	575	181	16	8	5	51	31	17	8	0.315	0.371	0.397	0.767
1923	611	209	34	9	10	72	35	48	17	0.342	0.411	0.476	0.888
1924	596	187	32	8	4	70	25	19	9	0.314	0.386	0.414	0.800
1925	630	188	28	11	8	49	25	16	6	0.298	0.349	0.416	0.765
1926	538	155	26	7	5	74	27	13	4	0.288	0.374	0.390	0.765
1927	484	162	19	6	3	43	23	14	2	0.335	0.389	0.417	0.806
1928	515	133	20	8	3	35	30	8	5	0.258	0.305	0.346	0.651
1929	487	112	23	3	1	43	27	8	4	0.230	0.292	0.296	0.588
1930	387	94	16	2	2	30	30	3	3	0.243	0.297	0.310	0.607

 

Pitching Projections