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Fritz Buelow

Frederick William Alexander Buelow

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: February 13, 1876 in Berlin, Germany (All Transactions)
Debut: September 28, 1899
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Naps/Browns/Perfectos/Cardinals 1899-1907

Final Game: July 13, 1907
Died: December 27, 1933 in Detroit, MI
Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, MI
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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 G PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1899 STL NL 23 C 4 12 11 1 0 0 1.000 3.00 .952 4.60 0 3 1 25% 44%
1899 STL NL 23 OF 2 2 1 0 1 0 .500 0.50 .945 2.15 2-0-0
1900 STL NL 24 C 4 22 13 6 3 0 .864 4.75 .949 4.97 2 6 5 45% 44%
1900 STL NL 24 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.20 1-0-0
1901 DET AL 25 C 69 307 213 84 10 4 .967 4.30 .950 4.97 11 70 71 50% 44%
1902 DET AL 26 C 63 275 174 81 20 5 .927 4.05 .957 4.90 4 88 70 44% 44%
1902 DET AL 26 1B 2 16 16 0 0 2 1.000 8.00 .980 10.95
1903 DET AL 27 C 60 333 254 66 13 6 .961 5.33 .971 6.07 5 69 49 42% 44%
1903 DET AL 27 1B 2 25 24 1 0 1 1.000 12.50 .981 10.80
1904 TOT AL 28 C 84 477 378 88 11 5 .977 5.55 .969 6.15 14 76 59 44% 44%
1904 DET AL 28 C 42 237 179 52 6 1 .975 5.50 .969 6.15 9 46 35 43% 44%
1904 CLE AL 28 C 42 240 199 36 5 4 .979 5.60 .969 6.15 5 30 24 44% 44%
1905 CLE AL 29 C 60 350 263 73 14 4 .960 5.60 .971 6.40 8 62 53 46% 45%
1905 CLE AL 29 OF 8 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 0.63 .952 1.86 0-0-8
1905 CLE AL 29 1B 3 27 26 1 0 1 1.000 9.00 .982 10.77
1905 CLE AL 29 3B 2 4 1 3 0 0 1.000 2.00 .922 3.15
1906 CLE AL 30 C 33 161 112 39 10 5 .938 4.58 .961 5.98 9 27 32 54% 45%
1906 CLE AL 30 1B 1 10 10 0 0 0 1.000 10.00 .982 10.80
1907 SLB AL 31 C 25 115 77 36 2 4 .983 4.52 .968 6.11 1 28 25 47% 44%
9 Seasons C 402 2052 1495 474 83 33 .960 4.90 .964 5.73 54 429 365 46% 44%
3 Seasons OF 11 7 6 0 1 0 .857 0.55 .950 1.95 3-0-8
4 Seasons 1B 8 78 76 2 0 4 1.000 9.75 .981 10.82
1 Season 3B 2 4 1 3 0 0 1.000 2.00 .922 3.15
9 Seasons TOT 423 2141 1578 479 84 37 .961 4.86 .965 5.72 3-0-8 54 429 365 46% 44%
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO 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.
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
1899 STL NL 23 7 7 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0
1900 STL NL 24 6 6 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
1901 DET AL 25 70 70 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1902 DET AL 26 66 66 0 63 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1903 DET AL 27 63 63 0 60 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1904 DET AL 28 42 42 0 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1904 CLE AL 28 42 42 0 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1905 CLE AL 29 75 75 0 60 3 0 2 0 0 0 8 8 0
1906 CLE AL 30 34 34 0 33 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1907 SLB AL 31 26 26 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 431 431 0 402 8 0 2 0 3 0 8 11 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1904 AL  84 (4th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1902 AL  20 (1st)
1905 AL  14 (4th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1904 AL  14 (1st)
1906 AL  9 (4th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1902 AL  88 (5th)
1904 AL  76 (5th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1901 AL  50.4 (2nd)
1906 AL  54.2 (1st)
1907 AL  47.2 (5th)
Career  46.0 (70th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1901 AL  .967 (1st)
1904 AL  .977 (5th)

                           

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