George Binks

George Alvin Binks (Bingo)

Positions: Outfielder and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: July 11, 1914 in Chicago, IL (All Transactions)
Debut: September 23, 1944
Teams (by GP): Senators/Athletics/Browns 1944-1948

Final Game: July 3, 1948
Died: November 13, 2010 in Woodbury, TN
Buried: Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, IL
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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
1944	WSH	AL	29	OF	3	3	3		4	4	0	0	0	1.000		1.33	.975		2.47
1944	WSH	AL	29	RF	3	3	3		4	4	0	0	0	1.000		1.33	.970		2.07
1945	WSH	AL	30	OF	128	127	111		342	321	13	8	4	.977		2.61	.978		2.40	MVP-21
1945	WSH	AL	30	CF	79	75	65		200	190	7	3	2	.985		2.49	.982		2.80	MVP-21
1945	WSH	AL	30	RF	28	26	25		76	72	3	1	1	.987		2.68	.974		2.15	MVP-21
1945	WSH	AL	30	LF	26	26	21		60	53	3	4	1	.933		2.15	.976		2.26	MVP-21
1945	WSH	AL	30	1B	20	15	15		177	164	12	1	13	.994		8.80	.989		10.10	MVP-21
1946	WSH	AL	31	OF	28	22	21		69	68	1	0	0	1.000		2.46	.977		2.36
1946	WSH	AL	31	LF	15	13	13		31	30	1	0	0	1.000		2.07	.974		2.24
1946	WSH	AL	31	CF	9	6	5		27	27	0	0	0	1.000		3.00	.984		2.74
1946	WSH	AL	31	RF	5	3	3		11	11	0	0	0	1.000		2.20	.972		2.10
1947	PHA	AL	32	OF	75	69	64		171	157	8	6	1	.965		2.20	.979		2.47
1947	PHA	AL	32	RF	51	45	43		116	105	7	4	1	.966		2.20	.977		2.11
1947	PHA	AL	32	LF	25	24	21		54	51	1	2	0	.963		2.08	.976		2.36
1947	PHA	AL	32	1B	13	8	7		90	82	7	1	4	.989		6.85	.990		9.64
1948	TOT	AL	33	OF	19	14	11		26	25	1	0	0	1.000		1.37	.975		2.51
1948	TOT	AL	33	RF	15	11	9		21	20	1	0	0	1.000		1.40	.971		2.14
1948	TOT	AL	33	LF	4	3	2		6	6	0	0	0	1.000		1.50	.975		2.35
1948	PHA	AL	33	OF	14	10	9		19	18	1	0	0	1.000		1.36	.975		2.51
1948	PHA	AL	33	RF	12	9	8		18	17	1	0	0	1.000		1.50	.971		2.14
1948	PHA	AL	33	LF	2	1	1		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.975		2.35
1948	SLB	AL	33	OF	5	4	2		7	7	0	0	0	1.000		1.40	.974		2.50
1948	SLB	AL	33	1B	4	0	0		10	10	0	0	1	1.000		2.50	.991		9.70
1948	SLB	AL	33	RF	3	2	1		3	3	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.970		2.13
1948	SLB	AL	33	LF	2	2	1		4	4	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.975		2.35
	5 Seasons			OF	253	235	210		612	575	23	14	5	.977		2.36	.978		2.42
	5 Seasons			RF	102	88	83		228	212	11	5	2	.978		2.19	.975		2.12
	2 Seasons			CF	88	81	70		227	217	7	3	2	.987		2.55	.982		2.79
	4 Seasons			LF	70	66	57		151	140	5	6	1	.960		2.07	.975		2.30
	3 Seasons			1B	37	23	22		277	256	19	2	18	.993		7.43	.989		9.89
	5 Seasons			TOT	290	258	232		889	831	42	16	23	.982		3.01	.982		3.38
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos
1944	WSH	AL	29	RF
1945	WSH	AL	30	CF
1945	WSH	AL	30	RF
1945	WSH	AL	30	LF
1945	WSH	AL	30	1B
1946	WSH	AL	31	LF
1946	WSH	AL	31	CF
1946	WSH	AL	31	RF
1947	PHA	AL	32	RF
1947	PHA	AL	32	LF
1947	PHA	AL	32	1B
1948	PHA	AL	33	RF
1948	PHA	AL	33	LF
1948	SLB	AL	33	1B
1948	SLB	AL	33	RF
1948	SLB	AL	33	LF
	5 Seasons			RF
	2 Seasons			CF
	4 Seasons			LF
	3 Seasons			1B
	5 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1944	WSH	AL	29	5	3	5	3	0	0	0	3	3	1	1
1945	WSH	AL	30	145	142	145	144	20	26	79	28	128	1	0
1946	WSH	AL	31	65	22	65	28	0	15	9	5	28	37	0
1947	PHA	AL	32	104	77	104	87	13	25	0	51	75	16	1
1948	PHA	AL	33	17	10	17	14	0	2	0	12	14	3	1
1948	SLB	AL	33	15	4	15	8	4	2	0	3	5	8	0
	5 Seasons			351	258	351	284	37	70	88	102	253	66	3

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 -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1948	PHA	AL	33	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	75.0%	1	0	0.0%	1	266	58%	77%	24%	31	48%
1948	SLB	AL	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	36	61%	89%	31%	4	25%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	75.0%	1	0	0.0%	1	302	59%	78%	25%	35	46%
	MLB Averages																														43.0%			2.5%			61%	82%	31%		52%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1948	SLB	AL	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	55	62%	91%	38%	5	80%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	55	62%	91%	38%	5	80%
	MLB Averages																														57.0%			2.6%			61%	82%	31%		50%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1948	SLB	AL	33	29	66%	79%	28%	1	100%	0	7	0	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			29	66%	79%	28%	1	100%	0	7	0	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		94%																											90%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1945 AL (21, 3%) 0.03 Career Shares (1251st)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1947 AL 4 (5th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1945 AL 128 (5th)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1945 AL 321 (4th)
Assists as OF s c a p y 1945 AL 13 (5th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1945 AL 8 (2nd)	Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1945 AL .985 (5th)

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