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Art Butler

Arthur Edward Butler
born Arthur Edward Bouthillier

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: December 19, 1887 in Fall River, MA (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1911
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Pirates/Rustlers 1911-1916

Final Game: October 1, 1916
Died: October 7, 1984 in Fall River, MA
Buried: Notre Dame Cemetery, Fall River, MA
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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
1911 BSN NL 23 3B 14 43 14 26 3 1 .930 2.86 .936 3.14
1911 BSN NL 23 2B 4 13 5 5 3 0 .769 2.50 .952 5.20
1911 BSN NL 23 SS 1 2 0 1 1 0 .500 1.00 .925 5.10
1912 PIT NL 24 2B 43 177 71 99 7 12 .960 3.95 .955 5.33
1913 PIT NL 25 2B 28 148 62 74 12 9 .919 4.86 .955 5.27
1913 PIT NL 25 SS 26 147 64 70 13 5 .912 5.15 .937 5.33
1913 PIT NL 25 3B 2 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .940 3.10
1913 PIT NL 25 OF 2 1 0 0 1 0 .000 0.00 .960 2.20 0-0-2
1914 STL NL 26 SS 83 413 155 228 30 24 .927 4.61 .925 5.38
1914 STL NL 26 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.10 0-1-0
1915 STL NL 27 SS 125 631 232 346 53 43 .916 4.62 .931 5.44
1915 STL NL 27 2B 2 8 3 5 0 0 1.000 4.00 .955 5.05
1916 STL NL 28 OF 15 17 15 0 2 0 .882 1.00 .967 2.15 2-9-4
1916 STL NL 28 2B 8 19 8 10 1 3 .947 2.25 .951 5.12
1916 STL NL 28 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.20
1916 STL NL 28 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.50
5 Seasons SS 236 1193 451 645 97 72 .919 4.64 .930 5.41
5 Seasons 2B 85 365 149 193 23 24 .937 4.02 .955 5.28
3 Seasons OF 18 18 15 0 3 0 .833 0.83 .967 2.15 2-10-6
3 Seasons 3B 17 44 15 26 3 1 .932 2.41 .936 3.14
6 Seasons TOT 356 1620 630 864 126 97 .922 4.20 .936 5.10 2-10-6
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
1911 BSN NL 23 27 27 0 0 0 4 14 1 0 0 0 0 0
1912 PIT NL 24 43 43 0 0 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1913 PIT NL 25 82 82 0 0 0 28 2 26 0 0 2 2 0
1914 STL NL 26 86 86 0 0 0 0 0 83 0 1 0 1 0
1915 STL NL 27 130 130 0 0 0 2 0 125 0 0 0 0 0
1916 STL NL 28 86 86 0 0 0 8 1 1 2 9 4 15 0
6 Seasons 454 454 0 0 0 85 17 236 2 10 6 18 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

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1915 NL  53 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1915 NL  53 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1914 NL  .927 (5th)

             

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