Doc Casey

James Patrick Casey

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 6", Weight: 157 lb.

Born: March 15, 1870 in Lawrence, MA
School: University of Maryland (College Park, MD) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 14, 1898
Teams (by GP): Superbas/Cubs/Tigers/Senators 1898-1907

Final Game: October 5, 1907
Died: December 31, 1936 in Detroit, MI
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, MI
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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%
1898	WHS	NL	28	3B	22	75	22	45	8	4	.893	3.05	.902	3.48
1898	WHS	NL	28	SS	4	25	7	13	5	1	.800	5.00	.913	5.65
1898	WHS	NL	28	C	3	14	9	4	1	0	.929	4.33	.953	4.83	0	5	4	44%	44%
1899	TOT	NL	29	3B	143	505	174	275	56	23	.889	3.14	.902	3.59
1899	WHS	NL	29	3B	9	34	12	17	5	3	.853	3.22	.902	3.59
1899	BRO	NL	29	3B	134	471	162	258	51	20	.892	3.13	.902	3.59
1900	BRO	NL	30	3B	1	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.00	.893	3.80
1901	DET	AL	31	3B	127	515	133	324	58	25	.887	3.60	.899	3.59
1902	DET	AL	32	3B	132	534	174	309	51	17	.904	3.66	.912	3.57
1903	CHC	NL	33	3B	112	364	143	190	31	5	.915	2.97	.913	3.44
1904	CHC	NL	34	3B	134	437	157	241	39	11	.911	2.97	.899	3.24
1904	CHC	NL	34	C	2	9	6	3	0	0	1.000	4.50	.964	6.00	1	2	2	50%	46%
1905	CHC	NL	35	3B	142	434	160	252	22	7	.949	2.90	.921	3.20
1905	CHC	NL	35	SS	1	4	2	2	0	0	1.000	4.00	.930	5.60
1906	BRO	NL	36	3B	149	483	172	272	39	11	.919	2.98	.931	3.23
1907	BRO	NL	37	3B	138	471	176	274	21	16	.955	3.26	.928	3.36
	10 Seasons			3B	1100	3821	1312	2184	325	119	.915	3.18	.913	3.40
	2 Seasons			C	5	23	15	7	1	0	.957	4.40	.957	5.30	1	7	6	46%	45%
	2 Seasons			SS	5	29	9	15	5	1	.828	4.80	.916	5.64
	10 Seasons			TOT	1110	3873	1336	2206	331	120	.915	3.19	.913	3.42	1	7	6	46%	45%

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
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	C	3B	SS
1898	WHS	NL	28	28	28	3	22	4
1899	BRO	NL	29	134	134	0	134	0
1899	WHS	NL	29	9	9	0	9	0
1900	BRO	NL	30	1	1	0	1	0
1901	DET	AL	31	128	128	0	127	0
1902	DET	AL	32	132	132	0	132	0
1903	CHC	NL	33	112	112	0	112	0
1904	CHC	NL	34	136	136	2	134	0
1905	CHC	NL	35	144	144	0	142	1
1906	BRO	NL	36	149	149	0	149	0
1907	BRO	NL	37	141	141	0	138	0
	10 Seasons			1114	1114	5	1100	5

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 3B s c a p y 1899 NL 143 (4th) 1901 AL 127 (4th) 1902 AL 132 (4th) 1903 NL 112 (5th) 1904 NL 134 (2nd) 1905 NL 142 (4th) 1906 NL 149 (2nd) 1907 NL 138 (4th) Career 1,100 (83rd)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1899 NL 174 (5th) 1902 AL 174 (3rd) 1904 NL 157 (3rd) 1905 NL 160 (4th) 1906 NL 172 (2nd) 1907 NL 176 (3rd) Career 1,312 (54th)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1899 NL 275 (5th) 1901 AL 324 (2nd) 1902 AL 309 (3rd) 1904 NL 241 (3rd) 1905 NL 252 (3rd) 1906 NL 272 (3rd) 1907 NL 274 (5th) Career 2,184 (76th)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1899 NL 56 (4th) 1901 AL 58 (1st) 1902 AL 51 (2nd) 1906 NL 39 (2nd) Career 325 (26th)
Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1901 AL 3.60 (5th) 1902 AL 3.66 (4th) 1906 NL 2.98 (4th) 1907 NL 3.26 (3rd) Career 3.18 (52nd)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1902 AL .904 (5th) 1903 NL .915 (4th) 1904 NL .911 (3rd) 1905 NL .949 (1st) 1906 NL .919 (5th) 1907 NL .955 (2nd)	Oldest s c a p y 1907 NL born 1870-03-15 (8th)

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