Tom Carey

Thomas Francis Aloysius Carey (Scoops)

Positions: Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: October 11, 1906 in Hoboken, NJ(All Transactions)
Debut: July 19, 1935
Teams (by GP): Browns/RedSox 1935-1946

Final Game: July 7, 1946
Died: February 21, 1970 in Rochester, NY
Buried: Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, NY
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
1935	SLB	AL	28	2B	76	76	76	460	189	253	18	52	.961	5.82	.969	5.86
1936	SLB	AL	29	2B	128	126	123	767	308	434	25	82	.967	5.80	.972	5.78
1936	SLB	AL	29	SS	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.00	.950	5.40
1937	SLB	AL	30	2B	87	86	79	463	202	253	8	58	.983	5.23	.972	5.64
1937	SLB	AL	30	SS	44	41	41	242	91	144	7	25	.971	5.34	.955	5.23
1937	SLB	AL	30	3B	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		3.20
1939	BOS	AL	32	2B	35	27	24	162	75	87	0	19	1.000	4.63	.965	5.56
1939	BOS	AL	32	SS	10	7	7	49	18	29	2	3	.959	4.70	.950	5.16
1940	BOS	AL	33	SS	20	8	7	64	21	40	3	12	.953	3.05	.949	4.85
1940	BOS	AL	33	2B	4	3	3	11	3	8	0	2	1.000	2.75	.969	5.40
1940	BOS	AL	33	3B	4	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.25	.940	3.20
1941	BOS	AL	34	2B	9	2	1	18	10	8	0	3	1.000	2.00	.967	5.47
1941	BOS	AL	34	SS	8	1	0	10	4	6	0	0	1.000	1.25	.948	4.96
1941	BOS	AL	34	3B	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.00	.945	3.30
1942	BOS	AL	35	2B	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.970	5.60
1946	BOS	AL	39	2B	3	1	0	10	3	6	1	2	.900	3.00	.970	5.53
	8 Seasons			2B	343	321	306	1892	791	1049	52	218	.973	5.36	.971	5.72
	5 Seasons			SS	83	57	55	366	134	220	12	40	.967	4.27	.953	5.11
	3 Seasons			3B	6	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	0.50	.943	3.22
	8 Seasons			TOT	432	378	361	2261	926	1271	64	258	.972	5.09	.968	5.57

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1935	SLB	AL	28	76	76	76	76	76	0	0	0	0
1936	SLB	AL	29	134	126	134	128	128	0	1	6	0
1937	SLB	AL	30	130	127	130	129	87	1	44	1	0
1939	BOS	AL	32	54	34	54	45	35	0	10	9	1
1940	BOS	AL	33	43	11	43	28	4	4	20	11	6
1941	BOS	AL	34	25	3	25	18	9	1	8	3	6
1942	BOS	AL	35	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
1946	BOS	AL	39	3	1	3	3	3	0	0	0	0
	8 Seasons			466	378	466	428	343	6	83	30	13

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 2B s c a p y 1936 AL 128 (4th)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1936 AL 308 (4th)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1936 AL 434 (3rd)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1936 AL 25 (1st)
Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1936 AL 5.80 (4th) 1937 AL 5.23 (5th)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1937 AL .983 (3rd)	Oldest s c a p y 1946 AL born 1906-10-11 (10th)

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