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Bob Dillinger

Robert Bernard Dillinger (Duke)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: September 17, 1918 in Glendale, CA
High School: Glendale HS (Glendale, CA)
School: University of Idaho (Moscow, ID)
Signed by the St. Louis Browns as an amateur free agent in 1939. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1946
Teams (by GP): Browns/WhiteSox/Athletics/Pirates 1946-1951

Final Game: September 28, 1951
Died: November 7, 2009 in Santa Clarita, CA
Buried: Glen Haven Mamorial Park, Sylmar, CA
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1946 SLB AL 27 3B 54 50 45 167 56 98 13 11 .922 2.85 .948 3.06
1946 SLB AL 27 SS 1 1 1 6 1 5 0 0 1.000 6.00 .953 5.00
1947 SLB AL 28 3B 137 137 137 453 169 265 19 21 .958 3.17 .959 3.01 MVP-17
1948 SLB AL 29 3B 153 151 149 449 187 242 20 30 .955 2.80 .958 3.04 MVP-19
1949 SLB AL 30 3B 133 131 124 400 166 209 25 22 .938 2.82 .960 3.15 AS
1950 TOT MLB 31 3B 135 135 132 1173.0 461 152 289 20 31 .957 3.38 3.27 .955 3.27 3.23
1950 PHA AL 31 3B 84 84 83 734.1 277 92 173 12 18 .957 3.25 3.15 .960 3.25 3.20
1950 PIT NL 31 3B 51 51 49 438.2 184 60 116 8 13 .957 3.61 3.45 .948 3.31 3.27
1951 TOT MLB 32 3B 80 74 52 643.4 227 81 131 15 10 .934 2.97 2.65 .950 3.20 3.18
1951 PIT NL 32 3B 10 10 9 83.2 27 11 15 1 0 .963 2.80 2.60 .953 3.37 3.36
1951 CHW AL 32 3B 70 64 43 559.2 200 70 116 14 10 .930 2.99 2.66 .950 3.17 3.15
6 Seasons 3B 692 678 639 1816.1 2157 811 1234 112 125 .948 3.24 2.96 .956 3.25 3.11
1 Season SS 1 1 1 6 1 5 0 0 1.000 6.00 .953 5.00
6 Seasons TOT 693 679 640 1816.1 2163 812 1239 112 125 .948 3.24 2.96 .956 3.25 3.11
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
1946 SLB AL 27 3B
1946 SLB AL 27 SS
1947 SLB AL 28 3B
1948 SLB AL 29 3B
1949 SLB AL 30 3B
1950 PHA AL 31 3B
1950 PIT NL 31 3B
1951 PIT NL 32 3B
1951 CHW AL 32 3B
6 Seasons 3B
1 Season SS
6 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1946 SLB AL 27 83 51 83 55 0 0 0 0 54 1 0 0 0 0 0 19 9
1947 SLB AL 28 137 137 137 137 0 0 0 0 137 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1948 SLB AL 29 153 151 153 153 0 0 0 0 153 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1949 SLB AL 30 137 131 137 133 0 0 0 0 133 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1950 PHA AL 31 84 84 84 84 0 0 0 0 84 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1950 PIT NL 31 58 51 58 51 0 0 0 0 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1951 CHW AL 32 89 64 89 70 0 0 0 0 70 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 6
1951 PIT NL 32 12 10 12 10 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
6 Seasons 753 679 753 693 0 0 0 0 692 1 0 0 0 0 0 48 16
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 -- 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%
1948 SLB AL 29 2244 59% 82% 24% 169 89% 3 76 54 9 13 93 67 22 0 1 9 0 9 0 8 12 5 0 5 6 4 2 2 50%
1949 SLB AL 30 2865 54% 85% 23% 221 87% 4 98 75 9 14 122 95 20 1 6 15 0 8 7 11 14 6 0 10 3 3 0 3 67%
1950 PHA AL 31 2827 63% 81% 23% 212 91% 2 80 60 7 13 131 93 35 0 5 8 0 8 0 4 15 12 0 13 1 1 0 17 82%
1950 PIT NL 31 1263 67% 83% 28% 120 89% 2 43 32 4 7 79 59 15 1 3 5 0 4 1 4 7 4 0 6 1 1 0 6 83%
1951 CHW AL 32 2161 59% 83% 27% 176 85% 3 58 44 5 9 104 87 15 1 3 14 0 11 3 12 9 5 1 7 0 0 0 10 60%
1951 PIT NL 32 246 60% 77% 27% 17 88% 0 5 3 2 0 10 9 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 11606 60% 82% 25% 915 88% 14 360 268 36 56 539 410 108 3 18 52 0 41 11 40 57 32 1 41 11 9 2 38 74%
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 89% 70%

* 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

All-Star Games
1949 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1947 AL (17, 4%)
1948 AL (19, 3%)
0.07 Career Shares (1016th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1949 AL  25 (5th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1947 AL  137 (3rd)
1948 AL  153 (1st)
1949 AL  133 (3rd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1947 AL  169 (1st)
1948 AL  187 (2nd)
1949 AL  166 (2nd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1947 AL  265 (3rd)
1948 AL  242 (4th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1946 AL  13 (2nd)
1947 AL  19 (2nd)
1948 AL  20 (2nd)
1949 AL  25 (1st)
1950 AL  12 (3rd)
1951 AL  14 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1950 AL  3.25 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1947 AL  3.17 (3rd)
1950 AL  3.15 (5th)
Career  2.96 (96th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1948 AL  .955 (5th)

                           

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