Sam Agnew

Samuel Lester Agnew (Slam)

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: April 12, 1887 in Farmington, MO(All Transactions)
Debut: April 10, 1913
Teams (by GP): Browns/RedSox/Senators 1913-1919

Final Game: September 28, 1919
Died: July 19, 1951 in Sonoma, CA
Buried: Chapel of the Chimes, Santa Rosa, CA
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	Awards
1913	SLB	AL	26	C	103			581	383	170	28	17	.952	5.37	.967	6.56	11	118	113	49%	45%
1914	SLB	AL	27	C	115			639	451	163	25	10	.961	5.34	.967	6.69	18	129	114	47%	45%	MVP-23
1915	SLB	AL	28	C	102			590	398	153	39	16	.934	5.40	.965	6.46	17	107	94	47%	43%
1916	BOS	AL	29	C	38			165	110	47	8	4	.952	4.13	.974	6.33	2	18	31	63%	43%
1917	BOS	AL	30	C	85			399	297	88	14	5	.965	4.53	.971	5.71	6	68	58	46%	45%
1918	BOS	AL	31	C	72	70	49	371	254	104	13	11	.965	4.97	.970	5.51	6	53	55	51%	44%
1919	WSH	AL	32	C	36	31	21	194	141	48	5	5	.974	5.25	.974	5.57	2	16	24	60%	45%
	7 Seasons			C	551	101	70	2939	2034	773	132	68	.955	5.09	.968	6.22	62	509	489	49%	44%
	7 Seasons			TOT	551	101	70	2939	2034	773	132	68	.955	5.09	.968	6.22	62	509	489	49%	44%

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

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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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1913	SLB	AL	26	105		105		103
1914	SLB	AL	27	115		115		115
1915	SLB	AL	28	104		104		102
1916	BOS	AL	29	40		40		38
1917	BOS	AL	30	85		85		85
1918	BOS	AL	31	72		72		72
1919	WSH	AL	32	42	31	42	36	36	6	0
	7 Seasons			563	31	563	36	551	6	0

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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1914 AL (23, 3%) 0.03 Career Shares (1251st)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1913 AL 103 (3rd) 1914 AL 115 (3rd) 1915 AL 102 (3rd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1914 AL 451 (5th) 1915 AL 398 (4th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1913 AL 170 (2nd) 1914 AL 163 (3rd) 1915 AL 153 (3rd) Career 773 (80th)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1913 AL 28 (1st) 1914 AL 25 (3rd) 1915 AL 39 (1st) 1917 AL 14 (5th) 1918 AL 13 (4th) Career 132 (99th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1913 AL 11 (4th) 1914 AL 18 (1st) 1915 AL 17 (1st)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1913 AL 118 (3rd) 1914 AL 129 (3rd) 1915 AL 107 (3rd)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1913 AL 113 (2nd) 1914 AL 114 (3rd) 1915 AL 94 (2nd) Career 489 (67th)
Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1913 AL 48.9 (4th) 1915 AL 46.8 (5th) 1916 AL 63.3 (1st) 1918 AL 50.9 (1st) 1919 AL 60.0 (1st) Career 49.0 (21st)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1914 AL .961 (5th)

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