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Al Burch

Albert William Burch

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: October 7, 1883 in Albany, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: June 19, 1906
Teams (by GP): Superbas/Cardinals/Dodgers 1906-1911

Final Game: July 30, 1911
Died: October 5, 1926 in Brooklyn, NY
Buried: St. John Cemetery, Middle Village, NY
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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 Awards
1906 STL NL 22 OF 91 182 155 15 12 6 .934 1.87 .959 1.89 0-58-33
1907 TOT NL 23 OF 84 185 149 19 17 4 .908 2.00 .960 1.98 27-53-5
1907 STL NL 23 OF 48 103 85 10 8 4 .922 1.98 .960 1.98 0-48-0
1907 BRO NL 23 OF 36 82 64 9 9 0 .890 2.03 .960 1.98 27-5-5
1907 BRO NL 23 2B 1 6 1 5 0 0 1.000 6.00 .952 5.20
1908 BRO NL 24 OF 116 274 242 24 8 6 .971 2.29 .960 2.04 47-44-28
1909 BRO NL 25 OF 151 359 320 23 16 4 .955 2.27 .961 2.07 41-102-9
1909 BRO NL 25 1B 1 15 15 0 0 1 1.000 15.00 .985 10.80
1910 BRO NL 26 OF 70 141 124 11 6 6 .957 1.93 .959 2.17 0-26-45
1910 BRO NL 26 1B 13 133 122 7 4 9 .970 9.92 .984 10.40
1911 BRO NL 27 OF 43 107 98 6 3 3 .972 2.42 .960 2.15 0-41-3
1911 BRO NL 27 2B 3 14 6 8 0 0 1.000 4.67 .952 5.20
6 Seasons OF 555 1248 1088 98 62 29 .950 2.14 .960 2.04 115-324-123
2 Seasons 1B 14 148 137 7 4 10 .973 10.29 .984 10.43
2 Seasons 2B 4 20 7 13 0 0 1.000 5.00 .952 5.20
6 Seasons TOT 573 1416 1232 118 66 39 .953 2.36 .962 2.27 115-324-123
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
1906 STL NL 22 91 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 33 91 0
1907 STL NL 23 48 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48 0 48 0
1907 BRO NL 23 40 40 0 0 0 1 0 0 27 5 5 36 0
1908 BRO NL 24 123 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 47 44 28 116 0
1909 BRO NL 25 152 152 0 0 1 0 0 0 41 102 9 151 0
1910 BRO NL 26 103 103 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 26 45 70 0
1911 BRO NL 27 54 54 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 41 3 43 0
6 Seasons 611 611 0 0 14 4 0 0 115 324 123 555 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 OF s c a p y
1909 NL  151 (5th)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1909 NL  320 (5th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1907 NL  19 (5th)
1908 NL  24 (2nd)
1909 NL  23 (5th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1907 NL  17 (2nd)
1909 NL  16 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1909 NL  2.27 (5th)

                                         

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