Bill Carrigan

William Francis Carrigan (Rough)

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: October 22, 1883 in Lewiston, ME
School: College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
Signed by the Boston Americans as an amateur free agent in 1906. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 7, 1906
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Americans 1906-1916

Final Game: September 30, 1916
Died: July 8, 1969 in Lewiston, ME
Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Lewiston, ME
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	Awards
1906	BOS	AL	22	C	35	199	139	48	12	2	.940	5.34	.961	5.98	7	50	35	41%	45%
1908	BOS	AL	24	C	47	290	203	74	13	5	.955	5.89	.969	6.28	6	45	45	50%	45%
1908	BOS	AL	24	1B	3	21	20	1	0	1	1.000	7.00	.984	11.37
1909	BOS	AL	25	C	77	470	347	110	13	9	.972	5.94	.969	6.46	9	82	80	49%	45%
1909	BOS	AL	25	1B	8	72	64	8	0	5	1.000	9.00	.985	11.12
1910	BOS	AL	26	C	110	654	495	134	25	12	.962	5.72	.968	6.88	15	133	90	40%	45%
1911	BOS	AL	27	C	62	432	326	94	12	11	.972	6.77	.965	6.80	6	88	73	45%	45%
1911	BOS	AL	27	1B	6	49	48	0	1	2	.980	8.00	.978	10.33
1912	BOS	AL	28	C	87	531	413	102	16	7	.970	5.92	.961	6.78	10	106	83	44%	42%	MVP-18
1913	BOS	AL	29	C	82	521	383	127	11	8	.979	6.22	.967	6.56	7	118	90	43%	45%
1914	BOS	AL	30	C	78	441	350	84	7	8	.984	5.56	.967	6.69	4	70	60	46%	45%
1915	BOS	AL	31	C	44	243	183	54	6	3	.975	5.39	.965	6.46	7	32	31	49%	43%
1916	BOS	AL	32	C	27	149	122	27	0	1	1.000	5.52	.974	6.33	3	17	11	39%	43%
	10 Seasons			C	649	3930	2961	854	115	66	.971	5.88	.966	6.60	74	741	598	45%	44%
	3 Seasons			1B	17	142	132	9	1	8	.993	8.29	.982	10.89
	10 Seasons			TOT	666	4072	3093	863	116	74	.972	5.94	.967	6.71	74	741	598	45%	44%

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	C	1B
1906	BOS	AL	22	37	37	35	0
1908	BOS	AL	24	57	57	47	3
1909	BOS	AL	25	94	94	77	8
1910	BOS	AL	26	114	114	110	0
1911	BOS	AL	27	72	72	62	6
1912	BOS	AL	28	87	87	87	0
1913	BOS	AL	29	87	87	82	0
1914	BOS	AL	30	82	82	78	0
1915	BOS	AL	31	46	46	44	0
1916	BOS	AL	32	33	33	27	0
	10 Seasons			709	709	649	17

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

Hall of Fame 1937 BBWAA ( 2.5%) 1938 BBWAA ( 1.5%) 1939 BBWAA ( 0.7%) 1945 BBWAA ( 1.2%)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1912 AL (18, 5%) 0.05 Career Shares (1113th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1909 AL 77 (5th) 1910 AL 110 (1st) 1912 AL 87 (3rd) 1913 AL 82 (5th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1909 AL 347 (5th) 1910 AL 495 (1st) 1912 AL 413 (4th)
Assists as C s c a p y 1909 AL 110 (4th) 1910 AL 134 (4th) 1913 AL 127 (4th) Career 854 (67th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1910 AL 25 (2nd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1910 AL 15 (1st) 1912 AL 10 (3rd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1910 AL 133 (2nd) 1912 AL 106 (3rd) 1913 AL 118 (3rd) Career 741 (73rd)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1909 AL 80 (5th) 1910 AL 90 (4th) 1912 AL 83 (3rd) 1913 AL 90 (4th) Career 598 (47th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1908 AL 50.0 (3rd) 1909 AL 49.4 (4th) 1915 AL 49.2 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1909 AL 5.94 (3rd) 1912 AL 5.92 (2nd) 1913 AL 6.22 (4th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1909 AL .972 (4th) 1910 AL .962 (5th) 1912 AL .970 (1st) 1913 AL .979 (3rd) 1914 AL .984 (1st)

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