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Bob Elliott

Robert Irving Elliott (Mr. Team)

Positions: Third Baseman and Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: November 26, 1916 in San Francisco, CA(All Transactions)
Debut: September 2, 1939 (Age 22)
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Braves/Giants/WhiteSox/Browns 1939-1953

Final Game: September 16, 1953 (Age 36)
Died: May 4, 1966 in San Diego, CA
Buried: Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, CA
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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
1939 PIT NL 22 CF 30 30 30 91 88 1 2 0 .978 2.97 .977 2.70
1939 PIT NL 22 OF 30 30 30 91 88 1 2 0 .978 2.97 .975 2.32
1940 PIT NL 23 OF 147 130 126 321 302 12 7 0 .978 2.14 .977 2.32
1940 PIT NL 23 RF 112 97 96 254 239 9 6 0 .976 2.21 .974 2.04
1940 PIT NL 23 CF 32 30 27 63 59 3 1 0 .984 1.94 .981 2.66
1940 PIT NL 23 LF 6 3 3 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0.67 .975 2.25
1941 PIT NL 24 OF 139 137 130 299 281 9 9 2 .970 2.09 .975 2.31 AS
1941 PIT NL 24 RF 134 134 129 292 274 9 9 3 .969 2.11 .968 1.95 AS
1941 PIT NL 24 LF 4 2 1 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 1.50 .977 2.35 AS
1941 PIT NL 24 CF 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .980 2.65 AS
1942 PIT NL 25 3B 142 142 137 494 173 285 36 22 .927 3.23 .940 3.19 AS,MVP-9
1942 PIT NL 25 LF 1 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 1.000 4.00 .982 2.30 AS,MVP-9
1942 PIT NL 25 OF 1 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 1.000 4.00 .980 2.30 AS,MVP-9
1943 PIT NL 26 3B 151 150 143 467 149 294 24 34 .949 2.93 .948 3.17 MVP-8
1943 PIT NL 26 2B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.75 MVP-8
1943 PIT NL 26 SS 1 1 1 4 1 2 1 0 .750 3.00 .955 5.30 MVP-8
1944 PIT NL 27 3B 140 140 129 481 169 285 27 22 .944 3.24 .948 3.29 AS,MVP-10
1944 PIT NL 27 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.40 AS,MVP-10
1945 PIT NL 28 3B 81 80 74 293 94 178 21 18 .928 3.36 .941 3.20 MVP-16
1945 PIT NL 28 OF 61 61 59 134 125 7 2 0 .985 2.16 .978 2.45 MVP-16
1945 PIT NL 28 RF 61 61 59 136 127 7 2 0 .985 2.20 .978 2.13 MVP-16
1946 PIT NL 29 OF 92 90 84 197 188 8 1 5 .995 2.13 .977 2.38
1946 PIT NL 29 RF 92 90 84 197 188 8 1 5 .995 2.13 .976 2.08
1946 PIT NL 29 3B 43 40 38 132 44 82 6 5 .955 2.93 .952 3.08
1947 BSN NL 30 3B 148 147 144 451 129 302 20 25 .956 2.91 .947 3.06 AS,MVP-1
1948 BSN NL 31 3B 150 150 146 470 146 298 26 18 .945 2.96 .941 3.10 AS,MVP-13
1949 BSN NL 32 3B 130 127 123 458 141 300 17 27 .963 3.39 .952 3.18
1950 BSN NL 33 3B 137 136 127 1183.2 417 141 256 20 26 .952 3.02 2.90 .948 3.31 3.27 MVP-24
1951 BSN NL 34 3B 127 126 113 1078.0 404 138 242 24 31 .941 3.17 2.99 .953 3.37 3.36 AS
1952 NYG NL 35 OF 65 64 33 495.1 91 83 6 2 0 .978 1.62 1.37 .981 2.31 2.29
1952 NYG NL 35 LF 52 51 24 390.0 77 69 6 2 0 .974 1.73 1.44 .979 2.02 2.00
1952 NYG NL 35 3B 13 10 8 92.0 46 19 25 2 3 .957 4.30 3.38 .954 3.15 3.12
1952 NYG NL 35 RF 13 13 9 105.1 17 16 1 0 0 1.000 1.45 1.31 .980 2.06 2.05
1953 TOT AL 36 3B 103 100 72 847.0 315 105 197 13 21 .959 -1 -1 3.21 2.93 .957 3.38 3.36
1953 SLB AL 36 3B 45 44 36 387.2 151 51 93 7 12 .954 -4 -12 3.34 3.20 .957 3.38 3.36
1953 CHW AL 36 3B 58 56 36 459.1 164 54 104 6 9 .963 3 8 3.10 2.72 .957 3.38 3.36
1953 CHW AL 36 LF 2 2 0 7.0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 -1 -171 0.00 0.00 .970 2.19 2.20
1953 CHW AL 36 OF 2 2 0 7.0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 -1 -171 0.00 0.00 .980 2.44 2.40
12 Seasons 3B 1365 1348 1254 3200.2 4428 1448 2744 236 252 .947 -1 -0 3.16 3.07 .947 3.34 3.21
8 Seasons OF 537 514 462 502.1 1138 1070 44 24 7 .979 -1 -2 1.59 2.07 .977 2.31 2.34
5 Seasons RF 412 395 377 105.1 896 844 34 18 8 .980 1.45 2.13 .973 2.06 2.03
5 Seasons LF 65 58 28 397.0 92 82 7 3 0 .967 -1 -3 1.70 1.37 .979 2.02 2.06
3 Seasons CF 64 61 57 155 148 4 3 0 .981 2.38 .979 2.68
2 Seasons SS 2 1 1 4 1 2 1 0 .750 1.50 .955 5.35
1 Season 2B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.75
15 Seasons TOT 1906 1863 1717 3703.0 5570 2519 2790 261 259 .953 -2 -1 2.95 2.79 .953 3.20 2.97
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG 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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1939 PIT NL 22 CF
1940 PIT NL 23 RF
1940 PIT NL 23 CF
1940 PIT NL 23 LF
1941 PIT NL 24 RF
1941 PIT NL 24 LF
1941 PIT NL 24 CF
1942 PIT NL 25 3B
1942 PIT NL 25 LF
1943 PIT NL 26 3B
1943 PIT NL 26 2B
1943 PIT NL 26 SS
1944 PIT NL 27 3B
1944 PIT NL 27 SS
1945 PIT NL 28 3B
1945 PIT NL 28 RF
1946 PIT NL 29 RF
1946 PIT NL 29 3B
1947 BSN NL 30 3B
1948 BSN NL 31 3B
1949 BSN NL 32 3B
1950 BSN NL 33 3B
1951 BSN NL 34 3B
1952 NYG NL 35 LF
1952 NYG NL 35 3B
1952 NYG NL 35 RF
1953 SLB AL 36 3B -4 -12 -4 -3 -1 0
1953 CHW AL 36 3B 3 8 4 -2 6 -1
1953 CHW AL 36 LF -1 -171 -1 0 -1 0
12 Seasons 3B -1 -0 0 -5 5 -1
5 Seasons RF
5 Seasons LF -1 -3 -1 0 -1 0
3 Seasons CF
1 Season 2B
2 Seasons SS
15 Seasons TOT -2 -1 -1 -5 4 -1
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1939 PIT NL 22 32 30 32 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 0 30 0 2 0
1940 PIT NL 23 148 130 148 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 32 112 147 0 1 0
1941 PIT NL 24 141 137 141 139 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 134 139 0 2 0
1942 PIT NL 25 143 142 143 142 0 0 0 0 142 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
1943 PIT NL 26 156 151 156 152 0 0 0 2 151 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1944 PIT NL 27 143 140 143 140 0 0 0 0 140 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1945 PIT NL 28 144 141 144 141 0 0 0 0 81 0 0 0 61 61 0 3 0
1946 PIT NL 29 140 130 140 134 0 0 0 0 43 0 0 0 92 92 0 6 0
1947 BSN NL 30 150 147 150 147 0 0 0 0 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1948 BSN NL 31 151 150 151 150 0 0 0 0 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1949 BSN NL 32 139 127 139 129 0 0 0 0 129 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1950 BSN NL 33 142 137 142 137 0 0 0 0 137 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1951 BSN NL 34 136 126 136 127 0 0 0 0 127 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1952 NYG NL 35 98 74 98 78 0 0 0 0 13 0 52 0 13 65 0 21 0
1953 CHW AL 36 67 58 67 60 0 0 0 0 58 0 2 0 0 2 0 7 0
1953 SLB AL 36 48 44 48 45 0 0 0 0 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
15 Seasons 1978 1864 1978 1898 0 0 0 2 1363 2 65 64 412 537 0 82 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 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%
1945 PIT NL 28 1092 63% 84% 27% 82 85% 1 28 21 4 4 49 39 8 0 2 8 1 6 1 5 6 3 0 6 0 0 0 5 80%
1946 PIT NL 29 438 60% 87% 30% 42 86% 0 13 8 3 2 27 24 3 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 67%
1947 BSN NL 30 3021 65% 85% 29% 264 91% 1 76 66 6 4 172 140 30 1 2 5 0 5 0 1 10 10 0 10 0 0 0 17 47%
1948 BSN NL 31 3842 65% 84% 28% 335 87% 1 99 85 7 7 212 178 26 2 3 18 0 15 3 16 12 6 1 8 4 3 1 21 43%
1949 BSN NL 32 4161 67% 84% 25% 384 90% 3 124 95 11 18 255 198 46 3 11 15 2 11 2 7 22 15 0 15 6 1 3 20 70%
1950 BSN NL 33 3924 67% 83% 26% 311 88% 5 109 78 11 20 195 152 33 3 11 10 0 10 0 7 19 10 4 14 5 1 4 19 79%
1951 BSN NL 34 4691 66% 82% 25% 400 86% 4 133 103 15 15 242 174 52 4 6 24 0 19 5 19 31 19 4 27 4 3 1 26 65%
1952 NYG NL 35 370 57% 82% 31% 38 92% 0 17 12 3 2 24 19 4 0 2 2 0 0 2 1 3 0 1 2 1 1 0 0
1953 CHW AL 36 1890 65% 80% 27% 164 88% 2 54 41 4 9 105 85 19 0 5 6 0 5 1 5 9 2 1 7 2 0 2 6 100%
1953 SLB AL 36 1632 66% 82% 23% 146 87% 1 47 38 5 4 88 65 20 0 4 6 1 4 1 4 11 8 1 9 2 2 0 17 71%
9 Seasons 25061 66% 83% 26% 2166 88% 18 700 547 69 85 1369 1074 241 13 47 96 4 76 16 67 124 73 12 98 25 11 12 134 65%
MLB Averages 62% 82% 27% 89% 69%

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%
1945 PIT NL 28 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 2 15 5 0 7 1 1 3 1 1 2 0 0 6 3 0 33 10 30.3% 21 2 6.1% 1 683 61% 85% 29% 74 62%
1946 PIT NL 29 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 1 14 3 0 8 2 0 4 3 0 9 3 1 9 4 1 44 15 34.1% 27 2 4.5% 2 1048 63% 84% 30% 115 59%
1952 NYG NL 35 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 6 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 11 3 27.3% 8 0 0.0% 1 340 61% 77% 23% 19 53%
3 Seasons 1 0 1 0 0 8 0 3 1 3 35 9 0 18 3 1 7 4 1 11 3 1 17 9 1 88 28 31.8% 56 4 4.5% 4 2071 62% 83% 28% 208 60%
MLB Averages 42.7% 3.3% 62% 82% 31% 55%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

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%
1952 NYG NL 35 2 0 2 0 1 4 0 2 1 0 13 7 2 7 0 0 5 4 0 3 0 0 3 2 0 31 13 41.9% 16 2 6.5% 2 1386 56% 81% 29% 112 54%
1953 CHW AL 36 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 70% 63% 41% 2 0%
2 Seasons 3 0 3 0 2 4 0 2 1 0 13 7 2 7 0 0 5 4 0 3 0 0 3 2 0 31 13 41.9% 16 2 6.5% 2 1413 56% 81% 29% 114 53%
MLB Averages 57.6% 2.7% 62% 82% 31% 52%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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

Hall of Fame
1960 BBWAA ( 0.7%)
1962 BBWAA ( 0.6%)
1964 BBWAA ( 2.0%)

All-Star Games
1941 *
1942 *
1944 (3B)
1945--not played
1947
1948 *
1951 (3B)

Awards (yr lg award)
1947 NL MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1942 NL (9, 12%)
1943 NL (8, 15%)
1944 NL (10, 17%)
1945 NL (16, 4%)
1947 NL (1, 61%)
1948 NL (13, 10%)
1950 NL (24, 2%)
1 MVP
1.21 Career Shares (197th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1942 NL  36 (4th)
1951 NL  24 (5th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1942 NL  142 (2nd)
1943 NL  151 (1st)
1944 NL  140 (2nd)
1947 NL  148 (2nd)
1948 NL  150 (1st)
1949 NL  130 (3rd)
1950 NL  137 (3rd)
1951 NL  127 (4th)
1953 AL  103 (5th)
Career  1,365 (52nd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1942 NL  173 (1st)
1943 NL  149 (2nd)
1944 NL  169 (2nd)
1947 NL  129 (4th)
1948 NL  146 (1st)
1949 NL  141 (3rd)
1950 NL  141 (3rd)
1951 NL  138 (4th)
Career  1,448 (44th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1942 NL  285 (1st)
1943 NL  294 (1st)
1944 NL  285 (1st)
1947 NL  302 (2nd)
1948 NL  298 (2nd)
1949 NL  300 (2nd)
1950 NL  256 (4th)
1951 NL  242 (5th)
Career  2,744 (50th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1942 NL  36 (1st)
1943 NL  24 (1st)
1944 NL  27 (1st)
1945 NL  21 (2nd)
1947 NL  20 (3rd)
1948 NL  26 (3rd)
1949 NL  17 (4th)
1950 NL  20 (5th)
1951 NL  24 (1st)
Career  236 (58th)

Double Plays Turned as 3B s c a p y
1942 NL  22 (3rd)
1943 NL  34 (1st)
1944 NL  22 (1st)
1945 NL  18 (5th)
1947 NL  25 (3rd)
1948 NL  18 (5th)
1949 NL  27 (3rd)
1950 NL  26 (4th)
1951 NL  31 (4th)
Career  252 (48th)

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1940 NL  112 (3rd)
1941 NL  134 (3rd)

Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1940 NL  239 (3rd)
1941 NL  274 (2nd)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1940 NL  9 (2nd)
1941 NL  9 (5th)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1940 NL  6 (3rd)
1941 NL  9 (2nd)

Double Plays Turned as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1941 NL  3 (2nd)
1946 NL  5 (3rd)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1940 NL  147 (2nd)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1940 NL  302 (5th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1940 NL  12 (4th)

Double Plays Turned as OF s c a p y
1946 NL  5 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1942 NL  3.23 (3rd)
1943 NL  2.93 (5th)
1944 NL  3.24 (1st)
1945 NL  3.36 (3rd)
1947 NL  2.91 (3rd)
1949 NL  3.39 (1st)
Career  3.07 (73rd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1942 NL  .927 (5th)
1943 NL  .949 (4th)
1944 NL  .944 (3rd)
1947 NL  .956 (1st)
1948 NL  .945 (3rd)
1949 NL  .963 (2nd)
1950 NL  .952 (4th)
1951 NL  .941 (5th)
1953 AL  .959 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1940 NL  2.21 (1st)
1941 NL  2.11 (2nd)
1946 NL  2.13 (2nd)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1940 NL  .976 (3rd)
1941 NL  .969 (2nd)

             

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