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Gavvy Cravath

Clifford Carlton Cravath (Cactus Gavvy)

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 186 lb.

Born: March 23, 1881 in Poway, CA
High School: Escondido (Escondido, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1908
Teams (by GP): Phillies/RedSox/WhiteSox/Senators 1908-1920

Final Game: October 2, 1920
Died: May 23, 1963 in Laguna Beach, CA
Buried: Melrose Abbey Cemetery, Anaheim, CA
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 11, 2012, 8:02PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #367. Bill White… #368. Mike Griffin… #369. Carl Furillo… #370. GAVVY CRAVATH… #371. Ron Gant… #372. George Gore… #373. Mike Cameron… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1908 27 BOS AL 94 327 277 43 71 10 11 1 34 6 38 52 .256 .354 .383 .737 136 106 4 8 O/3
1909 28 TOT AL 23 77 56 7 9 0 0 1 9 3 20 12 .161 .382 .214 .596 92 12 0 1 O
1909 28 CHW AL 19 70 50 7 9 0 0 1 8 3 19 8 .180 .406 .240 .646 108 12 0 1 O
1909 28 WSH AL 4 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 .000 .143 .000 .143 -53 0 0 0 /O
1912 31 PHI NL 130 502 436 63 124 30 9 11 70 15 47 77 .284 .358 .470 .828 120 205 3 16 *O
1913 32 PHI NL 147 594 525 78 179 34 14 19 128 10 11 55 63 .341 .407 .568 .974 172 298 3 11 *O MVP-2
1914 33 PHI NL 149 604 499 76 149 27 8 19 100 14 83 72 .299 .402 .499 .901 161 249 3 19 *O MVP-22
1915 34 PHI NL 150 621 522 89 149 31 7 24 115 11 9 86 77 .285 .393 .510 .902 171 266 6 7 *O
1916 35 PHI NL 137 532 448 70 127 21 8 11 70 9 0 64 89 .283 .379 .440 .819 147 197 5 15 *O
1917 36 PHI NL 140 590 503 70 141 29 16 12 83 6 70 57 .280 .369 .473 .842 153 238 1 16 *O
1918 37 PHI NL 121 489 426 43 99 27 5 8 54 7 54 46 .232 .320 .376 .696 107 160 1 8 *O
1919 38 PHI NL 83 255 214 34 73 18 5 12 45 8 35 21 .341 .438 .640 1.078 213 137 2 4 O
1920 39 PHI NL 46 54 45 2 13 5 0 1 11 0 0 9 12 .289 .407 .467 .874 146 21 0 0 /O
11 Seasons 1220 4645 3951 575 1134 232 83 119 719 89 20 561 578 .287 .380 .478 .858 151 1889 28 105
162 Game Avg. 162 617 525 76 151 31 11 16 95 12 74 77 .287 .380 .478 .858 151 251 4 14
PHI (9 yrs) 1103 4241 3618 525 1054 222 72 117 676 80 20 503 514 .291 .381 .489 .871 153 1771 24 96
WSH (1 yr) 4 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 .000 .143 .000 .143 -53 0 0 0
BOS (1 yr) 94 327 277 43 71 10 11 1 34 6 38 52 .256 .354 .383 .737 136 106 4 8
CHW (1 yr) 19 70 50 7 9 0 0 1 8 3 19 8 .180 .406 .240 .646 108 12 0 1
NL (9 yrs) 1103 4241 3618 525 1054 222 72 117 676 80 20 503 514 .291 .381 .489 .871 153 1771 24 96
AL (2 yrs) 117 404 333 50 80 10 11 2 43 9 58 64 .240 .359 .354 .714 129 118 4 9

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1908 27 BOS AL 327 12 0 0 0 -3 -4 11 16 1.9 19 2.0 -0.1 $ O/3
1909 28 CHW AL 70 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0.5 4 0.4 0.1 $2,400 O
1909 28 WSH AL 7 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $ /O
1912 31 PHI NL 502 9 -1 0 0 2 -6 14 18 1.8 16 1.7 0.1 $ *O
1913 32 PHI NL 594 45 -3 0 0 -4 -7 17 48 5.2 52 5.7 -0.5 $ *O MVP-2
1914 33 PHI NL 604 35 -3 0 0 -10 -7 17 32 3.7 42 4.9 -1.2 $ *O MVP-22
1915 34 PHI NL 621 47 0 0 0 6 -8 17 62 7.2 56 6.0 1.2 $ *O
1916 35 PHI NL 532 29 1 0 0 -2 -7 15 36 4.4 38 4.1 0.3 $ *O
1917 36 PHI NL 590 30 -1 0 0 -2 -7 16 36 4.3 38 4.3 0.0 $ *O
1918 37 PHI NL 489 3 -2 0 0 -3 -6 14 6 0.6 9 1.0 -0.4 $ *O
1919 38 PHI NL 255 27 -1 0 0 -4 -3 7 26 3.2 30 3.8 -0.6 $ O
1920 39 PHI NL 54 2 -1 0 0 -1 0 2 2 0.2 3 0.3 -0.1 $ /O
11 Seasons 4645 240 -11 0 0 -21 -55 132 285 32.9 306 34.1 -1.2 $2,400
PHI (9 yrs) 4241 227 -11 0 0 -18 -51 119 266 30.6 284 31.8 -1.2 $
WSH (1 yr) 7 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $
BOS (1 yr) 327 12 0 0 0 -3 -4 11 16 1.9 19 2.0 -0.1 $
CHW (1 yr) 70 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0.5 4 0.4 0.1 $2,400

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1915 34 PHI NL WS BOS L 5 19 16 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 6 .125 .222 .313 .535 5 1 0 1 0 0
1 WS 5 19 16 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 6 .125 .222 .313 .535 5 1 0 1 0 0

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
1908 BOS AL 27 OF 77 146 128 7 11 3 .925 1.75 .954 1.84 62-0-15
1908 BOS AL 27 1B 5 8 6 0 2 0 .750 1.20 .984 11.36
1909 TOT AL 28 OF 19 38 35 1 2 0 .947 1.89 .951 1.85 0-18-1
1909 CHW AL 28 OF 18 36 34 0 2 0 .944 1.89 .951 1.85 0-18-0
1909 WSH AL 28 OF 1 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 2.00 .950 1.80 0-0-1
1912 PHI NL 31 OF 113 234 200 26 8 5 .966 2.00 .956 2.24 30-14-73
1913 PHI NL 32 OF 141 238 208 20 10 1 .958 1.62 .960 2.21 3-7-133 MVP-2
1914 PHI NL 33 OF 143 257 205 34 18 7 .930 1.67 .957 2.13 1-0-142 MVP-22
1915 PHI NL 34 OF 149 276 233 28 15 2 .946 1.75 .959 2.12 0-0-149
1916 PHI NL 35 OF 130 206 182 17 7 2 .966 1.53 .967 2.15 0-0-130
1917 PHI NL 36 OF 139 239 209 17 13 3 .946 1.63 .963 2.20 0-0-139
1918 PHI NL 37 OF 118 218 184 19 15 3 .931 1.72 .962 2.26 7-0-110
1919 PHI NL 38 OF 56 105 89 7 9 2 .914 1.71 .964 2.26
1919 PHI NL 38 RF 53 53 53 103 89 7 7 0 .932 1.81 .959 1.99
1919 PHI NL 38 LF 2 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 .000 0.00 .965 2.20
1919 PHI NL 38 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.60
1920 PHI NL 39 OF 5 3 2 0 1 0 .667 0.40 .963 2.34
1920 PHI NL 39 LF 3 2 1 2 1 0 1 0 .500 0.33 .965 2.17
1920 PHI NL 39 RF 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .960 2.10
11 Seasons OF 1090 1960 1675 176 109 28 .944 1.70 .960 2.16 108-40-947
2 Seasons (incomplete) RF 55 54 54 104 90 7 7 0 .933 1.76 .959 1.99
1 Season 1B 5 8 6 0 2 0 .750 1.20 .984 11.36
2 Seasons (incomplete) LF 5 3 2 4 1 0 3 0 .250 0.20 .965 2.18
1 Season (incomplete) CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.60
11 Seasons TOT 1095 1968 1681 176 111 28 .944 1.70 .960 2.20 108-40-947
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G 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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1937 BBWAA ( 1.0%)
1938 BBWAA ( 0.8%)
1939 BBWAA ( 0.7%)
1946 Nominating Vote ( 0.5%)
1947 BBWAA ( 1.2%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1913 NL (2, 62%)
1914 NL (22, 2%)
0.64 Career Shares (370th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1913 NL  5.2 (6th)
1915 NL  7.2 (2nd)
1916 NL  4.4 (9th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1913 NL  5.2 (1st)
1915 NL  7.2 (1st)
1916 NL  4.4 (5th)
1917 NL  4.3 (9th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1913 NL  5.7 (1st)
1914 NL  4.9 (3rd)
1915 NL  6.0 (2nd)
1916 NL  4.1 (5th)
1917 NL  4.3 (7th)
1919 NL  3.8 (6th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1915 NL  1.2 (3rd)

Batting Average s c a p y
1913 NL  .341 (2nd)
1914 NL  .299 (9th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1908 AL  .354 (9th)
1913 NL  .407 (2nd)
1914 NL  .402 (3rd)
1915 NL  .393 (1st)
1916 NL  .379 (1st)
1917 NL  .369 (7th)
Career  .380 (175th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1908 AL  .383 (6th)
1912 NL  .470 (6th)
1913 NL  .568 (1st)
1914 NL  .499 (2nd)
1915 NL  .510 (1st)
1916 NL  .440 (5th)
1917 NL  .473 (2nd)
Career  .478 (195th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1908 AL  .737 (6th)
1913 NL  .974 (1st)
1914 NL  .901 (1st)
1915 NL  .902 (1st)
1916 NL  .819 (4th)
1917 NL  .842 (2nd)
Career  .858 (141st)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1915 NL  89 (1st)

Hits s c a p y
1913 NL  179 (1st)

Total Bases s c a p y
1913 NL  298 (1st)
1914 NL  249 (2nd)
1915 NL  266 (1st)
1917 NL  238 (4th)

Doubles s c a p y
1913 NL  34 (4th)
1914 NL  27 (5th)
1915 NL  31 (9th)
1917 NL  29 (4th)
1918 NL  27 (2nd)

Triples s c a p y
1908 AL  11 (8th)
1913 NL  14 (4th)
1917 NL  16 (2nd)

Home Runs s c a p y
1912 NL  11 (3rd)
1913 NL  19 (1st)
1914 NL  19 (1st)
1915 NL  24 (1st)
1916 NL  11 (3rd)
1917 NL  12 (1st)
1918 NL  8 (1st)
1919 NL  12 (1st)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1913 NL  128 (1st)
1914 NL  100 (2nd)
1915 NL  115 (1st)
1916 NL  70 (6th)
1917 NL  83 (3rd)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1914 NL  83 (5th)
1915 NL  86 (1st)
1916 NL  64 (5th)
1917 NL  70 (3rd)
1918 NL  54 (3rd)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1912 NL  77 (4th)
1913 NL  63 (9th)
1914 NL  72 (5th)
1915 NL  77 (2nd)
1916 NL  89 (1st)
1918 NL  46 (4th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1908 AL  136 (7th)
1913 NL  172 (1st)
1914 NL  161 (1st)
1915 NL  171 (1st)
1916 NL  147 (4th)
1917 NL  153 (3rd)
Career  151 (30th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1913 NL  117 (1st)
1914 NL  99 (2nd)
1915 NL  101 (1st)
1916 NL  73 (10th)
1917 NL  88 (4th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1913 NL  49 (1st)
1914 NL  41 (1st)
1915 NL  48 (1st)
1916 NL  28 (5th)
1917 NL  33 (5th)
1919 NL  32 (2nd)
Career  263 (157th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1913 NL  5.2 (1st)
1914 NL  4.5 (1st)
1915 NL  5.5 (1st)
1916 NL  3.2 (5th)
1917 NL  3.8 (5th)
1919 NL  3.5 (3rd)
Career  29.3 (123rd)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1912 NL  50 (5th)
1913 NL  67 (1st)
1914 NL  54 (2nd)
1915 NL  62 (1st)
1916 NL  40 (10th)
1917 NL  57 (1st)
1918 NL  40 (1st)
1919 NL  35 (8th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1913 NL  237 (1st)
1914 NL  235 (3rd)
1915 NL  241 (1st)
1917 NL  212 (6th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1908 AL  .698 (7th)
1913 NL  .819 (1st)
1914 NL  .788 (2nd)
1915 NL  .799 (1st)
1916 NL  .741 (5th)
1917 NL  .761 (3rd)
Career  .758 (20th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1912 NL  12.7 (6th)
1913 NL  13.1 (3rd)
1914 NL  16.1 (3rd)
1915 NL  15.1 (2nd)
1916 NL  9.9 (10th)
1917 NL  8.0 (7th)
1918 NL  7.5 (4th)
1919 NL  9.6 (3rd)

AB per HR s c a p y
1912 NL  39.6 (1st)
1913 NL  27.6 (1st)
1914 NL  26.3 (1st)
1915 NL  21.8 (1st)
1916 NL  40.7 (2nd)
1917 NL  41.9 (1st)
1918 NL  53.3 (1st)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1912 NL  26 (1st)
1914 NL  34 (1st)
1915 NL  28 (1st)
1918 NL  19 (3rd)
Career  176 (74th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1914 NL  18 (3rd)
1915 NL  15 (3rd)
1918 NL  15 (3rd)

Oldest s c a p y
1917 NL  born 1881-03-23 (7th)
1918 NL  born 1881-03-23 (5th)
1919 NL  born 1881-03-23 (1st)
1920 NL  born 1881-03-23 (1st)

             

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 46 (31), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 110 (192), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 50 (392), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 23 (577), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Salaries

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Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
190928Chicago White Sox$2,4001910 National Commission report
Career to date (may be incomplete)$2,400
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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