Bill Coughlin

William Paul Coughlin (Scranton Bill)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 140 lb.

Born: July 12, 1878 in Scranton, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: August 9, 1899
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Senators 1899-1908

Final Game: September 23, 1908
Died: May 7, 1943 in Scranton, PA
Buried: Cathedral Cemetery, Scranton, PA
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
1899	WHS	NL	20	3B	6	22	7	11	4	0	.818	3.00	.902	3.58
1901	WSH	AL	22	3B	137	550	232	275	43	16	.922	3.70	.899	3.59
1902	WSH	AL	23	3B	66	282	104	157	21	6	.926	3.95	.912	3.57
1902	WSH	AL	23	SS	31	204	75	114	15	7	.926	6.10	.928	5.74
1902	WSH	AL	23	2B	26	147	67	73	7	8	.952	5.38	.948	5.36
1903	WSH	AL	24	3B	119	414	170	224	20	13	.952	3.31	.922	3.15
1903	WSH	AL	24	SS	4	28	12	14	2	1	.929	6.50	.913	5.28
1903	WSH	AL	24	2B	2	6	5	1	0	0	1.000	3.00	.943	5.10
1904	TOT	AL	25	3B	120	399	148	225	26	9	.935	3.11	.931	3.13
1904	WSH	AL	25	3B	64	230	95	121	14	7	.939	3.38	.931	3.13
1904	DET	AL	25	3B	56	169	53	104	12	2	.929	2.80	.931	3.13
1905	DET	AL	26	3B	136	429	137	255	37	12	.914	2.88	.923	3.14
1906	DET	AL	27	3B	147	482	188	265	29	16	.940	3.08	.920	3.22
1907	DET	AL	28	3B	133	426	163	233	30	9	.930	2.98	.913	3.14
1908	DET	AL	29	3B	119	355	120	214	21	12	.941	2.81	.932	3.28
	9 Seasons			3B	983	3359	1269	1859	231	93	.931	3.18	.918	3.26
	2 Seasons			SS	35	232	87	128	17	8	.927	6.14	.926	5.69
	2 Seasons			2B	28	153	72	74	7	8	.954	5.21	.948	5.34
	9 Seasons			TOT	1046	3744	1428	2061	255	109	.932	3.34	.920	3.40

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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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.
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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	2B	3B	SS
1899	WHS	NL	20	6	6	0	6	0
1901	WSH	AL	22	137	137	0	137	0
1902	WSH	AL	23	123	123	26	66	31
1903	WSH	AL	24	125	125	2	119	4
1904	WSH	AL	25	65	65	0	64	0
1904	DET	AL	25	56	56	0	56	0
1905	DET	AL	26	137	137	0	136	0
1906	DET	AL	27	147	147	0	147	0
1907	DET	AL	28	134	134	0	133	0
1908	DET	AL	29	119	119	0	119	0
	9 Seasons			1049	1049	28	983	35

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 1901 AL 137 (2nd) 1903 AL 119 (5th) 1905 AL 136 (5th) 1906 AL 147 (1st) 1907 AL 133 (3rd) 1908 AL 119 (4th)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1901 AL 232 (1st) 1903 AL 170 (2nd) 1905 AL 137 (5th) 1906 AL 188 (1st) 1907 AL 163 (3rd) Career 1,269 (60th)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1901 AL 275 (4th) 1903 AL 224 (5th) 1905 AL 255 (5th) 1906 AL 265 (2nd) 1907 AL 233 (4th)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1901 AL 43 (4th) 1904 AL 26 (5th) 1905 AL 37 (3rd) 1906 AL 29 (4th) 1907 AL 30 (4th) Career 231 (59th)
Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1901 AL 3.70 (3rd) 1903 AL 3.31 (2nd) 1904 AL 3.11 (5th) 1906 AL 3.08 (4th) 1907 AL 2.98 (5th) Career 3.18 (51st)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1901 AL .922 (2nd) 1903 AL .952 (2nd) 1906 AL .940 (4th) 1907 AL .930 (3rd) 1908 AL .941 (2nd)	Youngest s c a p y 1899 NL born 1878-07-12 (10th)

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