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Dick Cole

Richard Roy Cole

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: May 6, 1926 in Long Beach, CA
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1943. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 27, 1951
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Cardinals/Braves 1951-1957

Final Game: July 21, 1957
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1951 TOT NL 25 2B 48 42 31 352.2 226 106 115 5 28 .978 5.64 4.60 .976 5.70 5.68
1951 STL NL 25 2B 14 11 9 98.2 64 21 41 2 10 .969 5.66 4.43 .976 5.70 5.68
1951 PIT NL 25 2B 34 31 22 254.0 162 85 74 3 18 .981 5.63 4.68 .976 5.70 5.68
1951 PIT NL 25 SS 8 8 5 76.0 26 12 14 0 1 1.000 3.08 3.25 .955 4.89 4.88
1953 PIT NL 27 SS 77 65 57 579.2 343 139 192 12 40 .965 -2 -5 5.14 4.30 .958 5.04 4.94
1953 PIT NL 27 2B 7 4 4 37.1 27 16 11 0 2 1.000 0 3 6.51 3.86 .972 5.42 5.33
1953 PIT NL 27 1B 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 9.00 1.00 .990 9.90 9.70
1954 PIT NL 28 SS 66 62 58 544.1 294 101 178 15 29 .949 -4 -8 4.61 4.23 .959 5.15 5.12
1954 PIT NL 28 3B 55 50 47 434.0 170 48 112 10 7 .941 -4 -10 3.32 2.91 .952 3.17 3.15
1954 PIT NL 28 2B 17 18 18 160.0 92 43 46 3 5 .967 -1 -6 5.01 5.24 .976 5.57 5.54
1955 PIT NL 29 3B 33 29 28 261.2 92 25 61 6 7 .935 -1 -6 2.96 2.61 .951 3.13 3.10
1955 PIT NL 29 2B 24 22 18 190.0 131 60 67 4 13 .969 0 1 6.02 5.29 .974 5.48 5.43
1955 PIT NL 29 SS 12 4 3 58.1 48 18 30 0 5 1.000 1 23 7.41 4.00 .964 5.01 4.98
1956 PIT NL 30 3B 18 7 2 70.0 19 4 14 1 2 .947 0 9 2.31 1.00 .956 3.05 3.02
1956 PIT NL 30 2B 12 5 3 52.0 31 14 17 0 3 1.000 -2 -44 5.37 2.58 .980 5.35 5.28
1956 PIT NL 30 SS 6 4 1 23.0 10 2 7 1 4 .900 -0 -10 3.52 1.50 .962 4.93 4.88
1957 MLN NL 31 2B 10 3 0 34.2 21 11 9 1 5 .952 -2 -69 5.19 2.00 .977 5.37 5.41
1957 MLN NL 31 1B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 9.90 9.70
1957 MLN NL 31 3B 1 0 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -180 2.25 1.00 .950 2.92 3.00
5 Seasons SS 169 143 124 1281.1 721 272 421 28 79 .961 -5 -5 4.87 4.10 .959 5.07 5.01
6 Seasons 2B 118 94 74 826.2 528 250 265 13 56 .975 -4 -7 5.61 4.36 .976 5.58 5.52
4 Seasons 3B 107 86 77 769.2 282 78 187 17 16 .940 -5 -8 3.10 2.48 .952 3.14 3.11
2 Seasons 1B 2 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -60 4.50 0.50 .990 9.90 9.70
6 Seasons TOT 396 323 275 2879.2 1532 601 873 58 151 .962 -15 -6 4.61 3.72 .963 4.71 4.67
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr 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
1951 STL NL 25 2B
1951 PIT NL 25 2B
1951 PIT NL 25 SS
1953 PIT NL 27 SS -2 -5 -1 0 -2 -1
1953 PIT NL 27 2B 0 3 0 0 0 0
1953 PIT NL 27 1B
1954 PIT NL 28 SS -4 -8 -4 -4 0 0
1954 PIT NL 28 3B -4 -10 -4 -1 -2 0
1954 PIT NL 28 2B -1 -6 0 1 -0 -1
1955 PIT NL 29 3B -1 -6 -1 -2 0 0
1955 PIT NL 29 2B 0 1 0 -1 1 0
1955 PIT NL 29 SS 1 23 1 0 1 0
1956 PIT NL 30 3B 0 9 0 0 0 0
1956 PIT NL 30 2B -2 -44 -1 -1 0 -1
1956 PIT NL 30 SS -0 -10 -0 -1 0 0
1957 MLN NL 31 2B -2 -69 -2 -1 -1 0
1957 MLN NL 31 1B -0 -120 -0 -0 0
1957 MLN NL 31 3B -1 -180 -1 0 -1 0
5 Seasons SS -5 -5 -4 -4 -0 -1
6 Seasons 2B -4 -7 -2 -2 -1 -2
4 Seasons 3B -5 -8 -5 -3 -2 0
2 Seasons 1B -0 -60 -0 -0 0
6 Seasons TOT -15 -6 -12 -9 -3 -3
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
1951 PIT NL 25 42 39 42 42 0 0 0 31 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1951 STL NL 25 15 11 15 14 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1953 PIT NL 27 97 69 97 85 0 0 1 7 0 77 0 0 0 0 0 15 1
1954 PIT NL 28 138 130 138 134 0 0 0 19 51 68 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1955 PIT NL 29 77 55 77 66 0 0 0 24 34 12 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1956 PIT NL 30 72 16 72 31 0 0 0 12 17 6 0 0 0 0 0 48 0
1957 MLN NL 31 15 3 15 12 0 0 1 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2
6 Seasons 456 323 456 384 0 0 2 117 103 174 0 0 0 0 0 86 4
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 -- 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
1951 PIT NL 25 110 66% 78% 27% 14 93% 0 6 5 1 0 8 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1953 PIT NL 27 1779 63% 82% 27% 188 86% 1 95 49 38 8 131 94 30 1 5 11 1 8 2 9 28 11 1 7 4 2 26 12 13 1 1 0
1954 PIT NL 28 1631 63% 83% 24% 157 85% 1 63 32 20 10 109 80 24 0 2 13 1 9 3 12 19 7 1 4 0 1 15 10 5 3 1 2
1955 PIT NL 29 218 67% 81% 28% 23 100% 0 16 6 10 0 21 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 3 1 0 4 0 4 1 0 1
1956 PIT NL 30 103 54% 73% 22% 8 88% 0 3 1 2 0 6 3 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 3841 63% 82% 26% 390 87% 2 183 93 71 18 275 204 57 1 7 25 2 18 5 22 56 20 3 14 5 3 49 25 22 5 2 3
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 90%

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
1951 PIT NL 25 679 68% 82% 27% 57 95% 0 46 16 20 10 42 39 2 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 7 3 1 0 1 6 2 4 1 0 1
1951 STL NL 25 450 62% 82% 30% 42 95% 0 22 6 13 3 41 34 4 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 10 3 1 3 0 8 3 4 2 2 0
1953 PIT NL 27 127 66% 88% 21% 9 100% 0 12 2 6 4 9 8 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
1954 PIT NL 28 511 63% 84% 21% 41 93% 0 26 10 12 4 32 26 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 4 1 1 1 0 3 1 2 1 1 0
1955 PIT NL 29 550 55% 83% 26% 49 92% 0 33 8 18 7 40 29 9 0 1 4 0 2 2 2 11 1 1 5 1 8 6 2 3 2 1
1956 PIT NL 30 216 55% 83% 25% 21 86% 0 11 5 6 0 15 12 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
1957 MLN NL 31 163 68% 76% 21% 6 83% 0 11 2 6 3 8 5 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 1 1
6 Seasons 2696 62% 83% 25% 225 93% 0 161 49 81 31 187 153 23 0 6 10 0 7 3 7 41 13 4 9 2 31 12 18 9 6 3
MLB Averages 63% 81% 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%
1954 PIT NL 28 1395 63% 85% 26% 110 87% 0 29 23 4 2 72 58 12 0 2 9 1 6 2 7 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 4 50%
1955 PIT NL 29 836 62% 81% 26% 57 88% 0 16 12 2 2 41 29 9 0 3 5 0 5 0 5 5 3 1 5 0 0 0 5 80%
1956 PIT NL 30 238 64% 84% 36% 19 95% 0 4 4 0 0 15 9 5 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 0
1957 MLN NL 31 25 80% 64% 16% 2 50% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 2494 63% 84% 27% 188 88% 0 50 40 6 4 128 96 26 0 6 15 1 11 3 13 13 11 1 13 0 0 0 9 67%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 89% 64%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1957 MLN NL 31 4 50% 75% 25% 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
1 Season 4 50% 75% 25% 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
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 93% 85%

* 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/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1953 NL  5.14 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1953 NL  .965 (5th)

                           

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