Jake Early

Jacob Willard Early

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 168 lb.

Born: May 19, 1915 in Kings Mountain, NC(All Transactions)
Debut: May 4, 1939
Teams (by GP): Senators/Browns 1939-1949

Final Game: September 30, 1949
Died: May 31, 1985 in Melbourne, FL
Buried: Brevard Memorial Park, Cocoa, FL
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1939	WSH	AL	24	C	24	22	20	108	95	9	4	1	.963	4.33	.981	4.92	1		14	1	7%	37%
1940	WSH	AL	25	C	56	51	47	327	276	41	10	5	.969	5.66	.982	5.27	5		30	24	44%	41%
1941	WSH	AL	26	C	100	92	86	453	385	52	16	13	.965	4.37	.983	5.00	17		27	28	51%	41%
1942	WSH	AL	27	C	98	95	84	472	392	71	9	11	.981	4.72	.979	4.93	9		39	40	51%	42%
1943	WSH	AL	28	C	122	114	103	537	443	83	11	10	.980	4.31	.981	5.23	13		43	41	49%	42%		AS,MVP-23
1946	WSH	AL	31	C	64	56	53	303	246	45	12	7	.960	4.55	.982	5.52	15		19	24	56%	46%
1947	SLB	AL	32	C	85	70	58	348	301	43	4	5	.989	4.05	.985	5.02	5		26	22	46%	46%
1948	WSH	AL	33	C	92	76	57	322	268	51	3	7	.991	3.47	.986	4.74	8	9	17	29	63%	44%	3
1949	WSH	AL	34	C	53	41	34	187	160	22	5	6	.973	3.43	.985	4.76	3	10	21	14	40%	45%	1
	9 Seasons			C	694	617	542	3057	2566	417	74	65	.976	4.30	.982	5.05	76	19	236	223	49%	43%	4
	9 Seasons			TOT	694	617	542	3057	2566	417	74	65	.976	4.30	.982	5.05	76	19	236	223	49%	43%	4

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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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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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos
1939	WSH	AL	24	C
1940	WSH	AL	25	C
1941	WSH	AL	26	C
1942	WSH	AL	27	C
1943	WSH	AL	28	C
1946	WSH	AL	31	C
1947	SLB	AL	32	C
1948	WSH	AL	33	C
1949	WSH	AL	34	C
	9 Seasons			C
	9 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1939	WSH	AL	24	32	22	32	24	24	7	1
1940	WSH	AL	25	80	51	80	56	56	25	0
1941	WSH	AL	26	104	92	104	100	100	6	0
1942	WSH	AL	27	104	95	104	98	98	7	0
1943	WSH	AL	28	126	114	126	122	122	6	0
1946	WSH	AL	31	64	56	64	64	64	0	0
1947	SLB	AL	32	87	70	87	85	85	4	0
1948	WSH	AL	33	97	76	97	92	92	11	0
1949	WSH	AL	34	53	41	53	53	53	6	0
	9 Seasons			747	617	747	694	694	72	1

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 -- C*

					Pitching Stats						Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	ERA	RAvg	Fld	F2O%	XI	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	SO	Tot	1B	2B	3B	K23	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	263	n23	GB	bFld	bF2O%
1948	WSH	AL	33	2549	4.42	4.99	41	98%	0	0	222	33	5	5	179	47	11	0	0	3	3	0	1	2	0	5	0	3	3	5	100%
1949	WSH	AL	34	1561	5.18	6.35	17	88%	0	0	145	12	3	6	124	21	3	0	0	1	5	1	2	2	1	6	0	1	1	1	100%
	2 Seasons			4110	4.70	5.49	58	95%	0	0	367	45	8	11	303	68	14	0	0	4	8	1	3	4	1	11	0	4	4	6	100%
	MLB Averages				4.18	4.71		95%																							83%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PB	WP	SBO	SB	CS	CSctch	CS%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	RBA	RK	SBlev	CSlev
1948	WSH	AL	33	7	9	1037	16	27	27	63%	13	22	2	2	1	3	3	0	46	33	1.22	1.29
1949	WSH	AL	34	3	10	676	18	12	12	40%	14	11	2	1	2	0	2	0	48	17	1.57	0.80
	2 Seasons			10	19	1713	34	39	39	53%	27	33	4	3	3	3	5	0	94	50	1.41	1.14
	MLB Averages									44%											1.20	1.18

* 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 1943 (C)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1943 AL (23, 2%) 0.02 Career Shares (1361st)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1941 AL 100 (5th) 1942 AL 98 (1st) 1943 AL 122 (1st) 1948 AL 92 (5th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1942 AL 392 (2nd) 1943 AL 443 (3rd)
Assists as C s c a p y 1941 AL 52 (5th) 1942 AL 71 (1st) 1943 AL 83 (3rd) 1948 AL 51 (5th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1940 AL 10 (4th) 1941 AL 16 (1st) 1942 AL 9 (4th) 1943 AL 11 (1st) 1946 AL 12 (2nd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1941 AL 17 (1st) 1942 AL 9 (5th) 1943 AL 13 (1st) 1946 AL 15 (2nd) 1947 AL 5 (5th) 1948 AL 8 (2nd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1940 AL 30 (5th) 1942 AL 39 (4th) 1947 AL 26 (4th)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1941 AL 28 (5th) 1942 AL 40 (1st) 1943 AL 41 (3rd) 1946 AL 24 (4th) 1948 AL 29 (1st)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1941 AL 50.9 (2nd) 1942 AL 50.6 (3rd) 1943 AL 48.8 (5th) 1946 AL 55.8 (3rd) 1948 AL 63.0 (3rd) Career 48.6 (29th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1942 AL 4.72 (2nd) 1943 AL 4.31 (5th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1942 AL .981 (5th) 1947 AL .989 (5th) 1948 AL .991 (2nd)

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