Luke Easter

Luscious Luke Easter

Positions: First Baseman and Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: August 4, 1915 in Jonestown, MS
Signed as a Free Agent with the Cleveland Indians in 1949. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 11, 1949
Team: Indians 1949-1954

Final Game: May 4, 1954
Died: March 29, 1979 in Euclid, OH
Buried: Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
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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
1949	CLE	AL	33	OF	12	11	6		9	9	0	0	0	1.000				0.75	.980		2.44
1949	CLE	AL	33	RF	12	11	6		11	11	0	0	0	1.000				0.92	.978		2.09
1950	CLE	AL	34	1B	128	127	121	1125.2	1193	1100	82	11	114	.991			9.45	9.23	.989	9.54	9.37
1950	CLE	AL	34	OF	13	12	5	91.0	14	14	0	0	0	1.000			1.38	1.08	.979	2.51	2.47
1950	CLE	AL	34	RF	13	12	5	91.0	14	14	0	0	0	1.000			1.38	1.08	.975	2.12	2.09
1951	CLE	AL	35	1B	125	125	96	1052.1	1125	1043	68	14	108	.988			9.50	8.89	.990	9.70	9.66
1952	CLE	AL	36	1B	118	114	92	969.2	1048	940	90	18	87	.983			9.56	8.73	.988	9.63	9.62	MVP-13
1953	CLE	AL	37	1B	56	55	19	383.2	481	442	30	9	54	.981	-1	-3	11.07	8.43	.989	9.72	9.66
	4 Seasons			1B	427	421	328	3531.1	3847	3525	270	52	363	.986	-1	-0	9.67	8.89	.989	9.63	9.56
	2 Seasons			RF	25	23	11	91.0	25	25	0	0	0	1.000			1.38	1.00	.976	2.12	2.09
	2 Seasons			OF	25	23	11	91.0	23	23	0	0	0	1.000			1.38	0.92	.980	2.51	2.46
	6 Seasons			TOT	452	444	339	3622.1	3870	3548	270	52	363	.987	-1	-0	9.46	8.45	.989	9.45	9.17

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.
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp
1949	CLE	AL	33	RF
1950	CLE	AL	34	1B
1950	CLE	AL	34	RF
1951	CLE	AL	35	1B
1952	CLE	AL	36	1B
1953	CLE	AL	37	1B	-1	-3	-2	-1	-1	1
	4 Seasons			1B	-1	-0	-2	-1	-1	1
	2 Seasons			RF
	6 Seasons			TOT	-1	-0	-2	-1	-1	1

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	RF	OF	PH
1949	CLE	AL	33	21	11	21	12	0	12	12	9
1950	CLE	AL	34	141	139	141	140	128	13	13	2
1951	CLE	AL	35	128	125	128	125	125	0	0	3
1952	CLE	AL	36	127	114	127	118	118	0	0	11
1953	CLE	AL	37	68	55	68	56	56	0	0	12
1954	CLE	AL	38	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	6
	6 Seasons			491	444	491	451	427	25	25	43

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 -- 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%
1950	CLE	AL	34	4857	59%	79%	25%	291	93%	2	1099	62	1021	15	133	85	56	18	2	7	11	0	11	0	6	115	3	2	0	106	6	8	0	7	14	100%
1951	CLE	AL	35	4471	53%	81%	26%	258	91%	2	1042	50	980	13	123	67	44	15	2	2	14	1	12	1	10	108	3	1	2	101	7	7	3	4	15	87%
1952	CLE	AL	36	4086	56%	81%	27%	249	94%	2	939	48	885	9	100	90	58	23	2	6	18	4	12	2	10	86	4	4	0	76	8	9	2	6	20	85%
1953	CLE	AL	37	1667	59%	81%	28%	99	89%	2	440	31	401	8	27	34	19	10	0	2	9	0	8	1	8	54	2	3	1	45	6	9	1	8	8	63%
	4 Seasons			15081	56%	80%	26%	897	92%	8	3520	191	3287	45	383	276	177	66	6	17	52	5	43	4	34	363	12	10	3	328	27	33	6	25	57	86%
	MLB Averages				63%	82%	26%		93%																											85%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1949	CLE	AL	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	8	3	37.5%	5	0	0.0%	0	386	56%	77%	22%	26	42%
1950	CLE	AL	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	0	5	0	0	4	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	17	7	41.2%	10	0	0.0%	0	396	55%	79%	28%	42	33%
	2 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	6	0	8	0	0	4	3	0	2	0	0	3	1	0	25	10	40.0%	15	0	0.0%	0	782	55%	78%	25%	68	37%
	MLB Averages																														43.8%			3.3%			63%	82%	31%		55%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1952 AL (13, 12%) 0.12 Career Shares (859th)	Putouts† s c a p y 1950 AL 1,114 (4th) 1951 AL 1,043 (3rd)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1950 AL 128 (4th) 1951 AL 125 (3rd)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1950 AL 1,100 (4th) 1951 AL 1,043 (3rd)
Assists as 1B s c a p y 1950 AL 82 (3rd) 1952 AL 90 (4th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1950 AL 11 (5th) 1951 AL 14 (2nd) 1952 AL 18 (2nd)	Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 1950 AL 9.45 (5th) 1952 AL 9.56 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1950 AL 9.23 (4th)
Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1950 AL .991 (3rd)	Oldest s c a p y 1953 AL born 1915-08-04 (9th) 1954 AL born 1915-08-04 (4th)

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