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Putsy Caballero

Ralph Joseph Caballero

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Pinch Runner
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: November 5, 1927 in New Orleans, LA
High School: Jesuit HS (New Orleans, LA)
Signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent in 1944. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 14, 1944
Team: Phillies 1944-1952

Final Game: September 27, 1952
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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 PHI NL 16 3B 2 0 0 9 4 4 1 0 .889 4.00 .948 3.30
1945 PHI NL 17 3B 5 0 0 7 4 2 1 1 .857 1.20 .941 3.20
1947 PHI NL 19 2B 2 2 0 8 3 5 0 1 1.000 4.00 .975 5.55
1947 PHI NL 19 3B 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 3.10
1948 PHI NL 20 3B 79 73 64 262 105 147 10 14 .962 3.19 .941 3.10
1948 PHI NL 20 2B 23 19 18 101 40 53 8 9 .921 4.04 .971 5.40
1949 PHI NL 21 2B 21 15 13 104 58 44 2 12 .981 4.86 .976 5.57
1949 PHI NL 21 SS 1 0 0 6 2 4 0 1 1.000 6.00 .962 5.00
1950 PHI NL 22 2B 5 3 3 27.0 20 12 7 1 2 .950 6.33 3.80 .974 5.67 5.60
1950 PHI NL 22 3B 4 0 0 12.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 1.50 0.50 .950 3.30 3.28
1950 PHI NL 22 SS 2 0 0 3.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 3.00 0.50 .960 5.10 5.15
1951 PHI NL 23 2B 54 43 35 399.1 261 133 124 4 37 .985 5.79 4.76 .976 5.70 5.68
1951 PHI NL 23 3B 3 0 0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 3.38 3.37
1951 PHI NL 23 SS 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 4.95 4.90
1952 PHI NL 24 SS 8 3 1 46.0 21 7 11 3 3 .857 3.52 2.25 .960 5.05 5.00
1952 PHI NL 24 2B 7 0 0 19.2 13 9 3 1 2 .923 5.49 1.71 .975 5.49 5.43
1952 PHI NL 24 3B 7 4 4 48.0 17 8 9 0 0 1.000 3.19 2.43 .954 3.15 3.11
6 Seasons 2B 112 82 69 446.0 507 255 236 16 63 .968 5.81 4.38 .975 5.69 5.58
7 Seasons 3B 101 77 68 64.0 298 122 164 12 15 .960 2.67 2.83 .942 3.19 3.12
4 Seasons SS 12 3 1 51.0 28 10 15 3 4 .893 3.35 2.08 .960 5.05 5.02
8 Seasons TOT 225 162 138 561.0 833 387 415 31 82 .963 5.23 3.56 .963 5.35 4.45
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.
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

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1944 PHI NL 16 3B
1945 PHI NL 17 3B
1947 PHI NL 19 2B
1947 PHI NL 19 3B
1948 PHI NL 20 3B
1948 PHI NL 20 2B
1949 PHI NL 21 2B
1949 PHI NL 21 SS
1950 PHI NL 22 2B
1950 PHI NL 22 3B
1950 PHI NL 22 SS
1951 PHI NL 23 2B
1951 PHI NL 23 3B
1951 PHI NL 23 SS
1952 PHI NL 24 SS
1952 PHI NL 24 2B
1952 PHI NL 24 3B
6 Seasons 2B
7 Seasons 3B
4 Seasons SS
8 Seasons TOT
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1944 PHI NL 16 4 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1945 PHI NL 17 9 0 9 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
1947 PHI NL 19 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1948 PHI NL 20 113 92 113 102 0 0 0 23 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 1
1949 PHI NL 21 29 15 29 22 0 0 0 21 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 6
1950 PHI NL 22 46 3 46 10 0 0 0 4 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 30
1951 PHI NL 23 83 43 83 57 0 0 0 54 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 26
1952 PHI NL 24 35 7 35 22 0 0 0 7 7 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 13
8 Seasons 321 162 321 222 0 0 0 111 101 12 0 0 0 0 0 27 82
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 -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1948 PHI NL 20 588 62% 84% 27% 64 88% 0 31 11 12 8 47 40 7 0 1 8 0 5 3 5 9 3 0 3 1 7 4 3 0 0 0
1949 PHI NL 21 492 70% 84% 25% 46 96% 1 43 20 19 4 32 27 4 1 1 2 0 2 0 2 11 7 1 3 0 11 3 8 0 0 0
1950 PHI NL 22 124 69% 84% 24% 10 90% 0 12 4 6 2 7 7 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
1951 PHI NL 23 1396 66% 81% 24% 150 94% 0 108 45 35 28 113 97 13 0 1 4 0 4 0 3 31 11 2 10 2 27 12 14 2 1 1
1952 PHI NL 24 76 62% 82% 18% 8 88% 0 9 4 2 3 4 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1
5 Seasons 2676 66% 82% 25% 278 92% 1 203 84 74 45 203 174 24 1 4 16 0 12 4 12 55 21 5 16 3 48 19 27 3 1 2
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 93%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1948 PHI NL 20 1070 62% 83% 26% 101 90% 1 53 34 8 11 56 45 8 0 8 6 1 4 1 4 4 2 1 4 0 0 0 5 60%
1950 PHI NL 22 26 62% 62% 31% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1951 PHI NL 23 16 44% 88% 31% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 PHI NL 24 200 59% 87% 31% 19 89% 0 9 5 2 2 11 9 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 1312 61% 83% 27% 121 90% 1 62 39 10 13 68 55 10 0 9 6 1 4 1 4 4 2 1 4 0 0 0 5 60%
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 89% 69%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1949 PHI NL 21 34 59% 91% 18% 4 100% 0 2 1 1 0 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1950 PHI NL 22 10 100% 60% 20% 1 100% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1951 PHI NL 23 7 71% 43% 14% 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
1952 PHI NL 24 184 59% 84% 29% 18 78% 1 6 2 3 1 13 10 1 0 0 3 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 235 61% 83% 27% 23 83% 1 9 4 4 1 17 12 3 0 0 3 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 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

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1948 NL  3.19 (1st)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1948 NL  .962 (2nd)

Youngest s c a p y
1944 NL  born 1927-11-05 (3rd)
1945 NL  born 1927-11-05 (3rd)
1947 NL  born 1927-11-05 (4th)
1948 NL  born 1927-11-05 (8th)
1949 NL  born 1927-11-05 (9th)

             

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