Jud Birchall

Adoniram Judson Birchall

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Unknown, Throws: Unknown

Born: September 12, 1855 in Philadelphia, PA
High School: Rittenhouse (Philadelphia, PA) (All Transactions)
Debut: May 2, 1882
Team: Athletics 1882-1884

Final Game: October 10, 1884
Died: December 22, 1887 in Philadelphia, PA
Buried: Milestown Baptist Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
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Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	HBP	Pos
1880	24	-min	N/A	14	62	62	17	16	2	0	0			.258	.258	.290	.548		18		BLT · NA
1882	26	PHA	AA	75	346	338	65	89	12	1	0	27	8	.263	.280	.305	.585	89	103	0	*O/4
1883	27	PHA	AA	96	*468*	*448*	95	108	10	1	1	24	20	.241	.274	.275	.548	71	123	0	*O
1884	28	PHA	AA	54	230	221	36	57	2	2	0	0	4	.258	.287	.285	.572	82	63	5	O/5
3 Seasons				225	1044	1007	196	254	24	4	1	51	32	.252	.279	.287	.566	79	289	5
162 Game Avg.				162	752	725	141	183	17	3	1	37	23	.252	.279	.287	.566	79	208	4

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos
1882	26	PHA	AA	346	-1	2	-2	-5	5	-1	-0.1	1	0.1	-0.2	$	*O/4
1883	27	PHA	AA	468	-7	3	0	-6	7	-3	-0.3	-3	-0.3	0.0	$	*O
1884	28	PHA	AA	230	-4	0	3	-3	4	0	0.0	-3	-0.3	0.3	$	O/5
3 Seasons				1044	-12	5	1	-14	16	-4	-0.4	-5	-0.5	0.1	$

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Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G
1882	PHA	AA	26	OF	74	172	134	14	24	0	.860	2.00	.848	1.83	74-0-0
1882	PHA	AA	26	2B	1	8	4	4	0	0	1.000	8.00	.883	6.00
1883	PHA	AA	27	OF	96	235	168	22	45	0	.809	1.98	.851	1.80	96-0-0
1884	PHA	AA	28	OF	52	105	81	7	17	1	.838	1.69	.847	1.64	51-0-1
1884	PHA	AA	28	3B	2	9	1	8	0	0	1.000	4.50	.848	3.00
	3 Seasons			OF	222	512	383	43	86	1	.832	1.92	.849	1.77	221-0-1
	1 Season			3B	2	9	1	8	0	0	1.000	4.50	.848	3.00
	1 Season			2B	1	8	4	4	0	0	1.000	8.00	.883	6.00
	3 Seasons			TOT	225	529	388	55	86	1	.837	1.97	.850	1.80	221-0-1

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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

At Bats s c a p y 1882 AA 338 (7th) 1883 AA 448 (1st)	Plate Appearances s c a p y 1882 AA 346 (7th) 1883 AA 468 (1st)	Runs Scored s c a p y 1882 AA 65 (5th) 1883 AA 95 (5th)	Singles s c a p y 1882 AA 76 (7th) 1883 AA 96 (8th)
Outs Made s c a p y 1882 AA 249 (4th) 1883 AA 340 (1st)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1883 AA 96 (1st)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1883 AA 168 (5th)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1883 AA 22 (4th)
Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1883 AA 45 (1st)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Black Ink	Batting - 1 (733), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray Ink	Batting - 8 (1522), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 1 (2218), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

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