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Bill Baker

William Presley Baker

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: February 22, 1911 in Paw Creek, NC
High School: Boyden HS (Salisbury, NC)(All Transactions)
Debut: May 4, 1940
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Cardinals/Reds 1940-1949

Final Game: August 1, 1949
Died: April 13, 2006 in Myrtle Beach, SC
Buried: Unity Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodleaf, NC
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1940 CIN NL 29 C 24 16 12 96 87 9 0 1 1.000 4.00 .978 5.00 2 15 3 17% 45%
1941 TOT NL 30 C 34 22 15 92 75 14 3 1 .967 2.62 .983 5.04 0 15 6 29% 46%
1941 CIN NL 30 C 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .985 5.00 0 0 0
1941 PIT NL 30 C 33 22 15 90 73 14 3 1 .967 2.64 .983 5.04 0 15 6 29% 46%
1942 PIT NL 31 C 11 1 1 20 19 1 0 0 1.000 1.82 .979 4.95 0 0 0
1943 PIT NL 32 C 56 50 40 190 157 29 4 3 .979 3.32 .981 4.70 2 20 11 35% 44%
1946 PIT NL 35 C 41 26 22 113 95 14 4 2 .965 2.66 .980 5.01 4 12 8 40% 43%
1946 PIT NL 35 1B 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 1.000 2.00 .990 10.00
1948 STL NL 37 C 36 33 27 168 152 15 1 2 .994 4.64 .980 5.15 3 2 4 6 60% 40% 1
1949 STL NL 38 C 10 3 3 17 16 1 0 1 1.000 1.70 .982 4.98 0 0 1 0 0% 43% 0
7 Seasons C 212 151 120 696 601 83 12 10 .983 3.23 .980 4.95 11 2 67 34 34% 44% 1
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 1.000 2.00 .990 10.00
7 Seasons TOT 213 151 120 698 603 83 12 11 .983 3.22 .980 4.97 11 2 67 34 34% 44% 1
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

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1940 CIN NL 29 C
1941 CIN NL 30 C
1941 PIT NL 30 C
1942 PIT NL 31 C
1943 PIT NL 32 C
1946 PIT NL 35 C
1946 PIT NL 35 1B
1948 STL NL 37 C
1949 STL NL 38 C
7 Seasons C
1 Season 1B
7 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1940 CIN NL 29 27 16 27 24 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1941 PIT NL 30 35 22 35 33 0 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1941 CIN NL 30 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1942 PIT NL 31 18 1 18 11 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1943 PIT NL 32 63 50 63 56 0 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1946 PIT NL 35 53 26 53 43 0 42 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1948 STL NL 37 45 33 45 36 0 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1949 STL NL 38 20 3 20 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
7 Seasons 263 151 263 214 0 213 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50 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.

Advanced Fielding -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1948 STL NL 37 452 5.35 5.78 8 88% 0 0 65 7 1 1 56 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0
1949 STL NL 38 124 2.63 2.96 2 100% 0 0 14 1 0 0 13 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
2 Seasons 576 4.78 5.19 10 90% 0 0 79 8 1 1 69 6 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 100%
MLB Averages 4.18 4.71 95% 83%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1948 STL NL 37 0 2 183 2 4 4 67% 2 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 5 2.11 0.50
1949 STL NL 38 0 0 51 1 0 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.79
2 Seasons 0 2 234 3 4 4 57% 3 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 5 1.67 0.50
MLB Averages 44% 1.20 1.18

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Oldest s c a p y
1949 NL  born 1911-02-22 (6th)

                                         

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