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Spencer Adams

Spencer Dewey Adams

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 158 lb.

Born: June 21, 1898 in Layton, UT(All Transactions)
Debut: April 22, 1923
Teams (by GP): Browns/Senators/Yankees/Pirates 1923-1927

Final Game: October 2, 1927
Died: November 24, 1970 in Salt Lake City, UT
Buried: Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, UT
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1923 PIT NL 25 2B 11 6 6 33 11 18 4 4 .879 2.64 .959 5.90
1923 PIT NL 25 SS 6 6 6 32 14 15 3 1 .906 4.83 .939 5.80
1925 WSH AL 27 2B 15 8 8 51 25 23 3 4 .941 3.20 .962 5.76
1925 WSH AL 27 SS 8 1 0 11 3 6 2 0 .818 1.13 .944 5.20
1925 WSH AL 27 3B 3 1 1 4 2 1 1 0 .750 1.00 .948 3.20
1926 NYY AL 28 2B 4 4 3 18 10 8 0 2 1.000 4.50 .967 5.62
1926 NYY AL 28 3B 1 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 3.00 .950 3.40
1927 SLB AL 29 2B 54 43 38 291 129 147 15 30 .948 5.11 .961 5.69
1927 SLB AL 29 3B 28 23 22 79 30 43 6 5 .924 2.61 .952 3.33
4 Seasons 2B 84 61 55 393 175 196 22 40 .944 4.42 .961 5.73
3 Seasons 3B 32 24 23 86 33 46 7 5 .919 2.47 .952 3.32
2 Seasons SS 14 7 6 43 17 21 5 1 .884 2.71 .940 5.46
4 Seasons TOT 130 92 84 522 225 263 34 46 .935 3.75 .958 5.11
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-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 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 1948 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 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) 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 1948 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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1923 PIT NL 25 25 12 25 17 0 0 0 11 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 7
1925 WSH AL 27 40 10 40 26 0 0 0 16 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 2 12
1926 NYY AL 28 28 4 28 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 10
1927 SLB AL 29 88 66 88 80 0 0 0 54 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2
4 Seasons 181 92 181 128 0 0 0 86 31 14 0 0 0 0 0 22 31
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

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