Woody Abernathy Fielding Statistics and History

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Woody Abernathy

Virgil Woodrow Abernathy

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: February 1, 1915 in Forest City, NC
Signed by the Boston Bees as an amateur free agent in 1938. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 28, 1946 (Age 31)
Team: Giants 1946-1947

Final Game: April 17, 1947 (Age 32)
Died: December 5, 1994 in Louisville, KY
Buried: Resthaven Memorial Park, Louisville, KY
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	SB	CS	CS%	PO
1946	NYG	NL	31	P	15	1	40.0	7	1	6	1.000	1.58	0.47	.960	2.25	2.22	1	0	0%	0
1947	NYG	NL	32	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0		0.00	0.00		2.25	2.10
	2 Seasons			P	16	1	42.0	7	1	6	1.000	1.50	0.44	.960	2.25	2.21	1	0	0%	0
	2 Seasons			TOT	16	1	42.0	7	1	6	1.000	1.50	0.44	.960	2.25	2.21	1	0	0%	0

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

View Complete Notes on Fielding Data

Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos
1946	NYG	NL	31	P
1947	NYG	NL	32	P
	2 Seasons			P
	2 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	P
1946	NYG	NL	31	15	1	15	15	15
1947	NYG	NL	32	1	0	1	1	1
	2 Seasons			16	1	16	16	16

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- P*

										Putouts			Assists			Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	31	Tot	1B	2B	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	163	GB	LD	bFld	bF2O%
1946	NYG	NL	31	51	94%	29%	6	83%	0	0	0	0	5	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	100%
	1 Season			51	94%	29%	6	83%	0	0	0	0	5	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	100%
	MLB Averages				83%	27%		90%																		86%

* - Disclaimer & Completeness Note

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1945 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary of data completeness) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

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