Hobe Ferris

Albert Samuel Ferris

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 162 lb.

Born: December 7, 1874 in Trowbridge, United Kingdom (All Transactions)
Debut: April 26, 1901
Teams (by GP): Americans/Browns 1901-1909

Final Game: October 1, 1909
Died: March 18, 1938 in Detroit, MI
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
1901	BOS	AL	26	2B	138	870	359	450	61	68	.930	5.86	.935	5.71
1901	BOS	AL	26	SS	1	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		5.30
1902	BOS	AL	27	2B	134	812	312	461	39	59	.952	5.77	.948	5.36
1903	BOS	AL	28	2B	139	786	313	434	39	50	.950	5.37	.943	5.11
1903	BOS	AL	28	SS	2	14	6	7	1	1	.929	6.50	.913	5.30
1904	BOS	AL	29	2B	156	859	366	460	33	42	.962	5.29	.954	5.11
1905	BOS	AL	30	2B	142	777	321	425	31	38	.960	5.25	.952	5.00
1906	BOS	AL	31	2B	126	720	316	375	29	41	.960	5.48	.954	5.30
1906	BOS	AL	31	3B	4	20	7	11	2	1	.900	4.50	.920	3.22
1907	BOS	AL	32	2B	143	913	424	459	30	42	.967	6.17	.954	5.43
1908	SLB	AL	33	3B	148	565	222	316	27	27	.952	3.64	.932	3.28
1909	SLB	AL	34	3B	114	426	157	242	27	15	.937	3.50	.931	3.41
1909	SLB	AL	34	2B	34	189	92	88	9	13	.952	5.29	.953	4.91
	8 Seasons			2B	1012	5926	2503	3152	271	353	.954	5.59	.949	5.27
	3 Seasons			3B	266	1011	386	569	56	43	.945	3.59	.931	3.33
	2 Seasons			SS	3	14	6	7	1	1	.929	4.33	.913	5.30
	9 Seasons			TOT	1281	6951	2895	3728	328	397	.953	5.17	.946	4.87

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.
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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

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	2B	3B	SS
1901	BOS	AL	26	138	138	138	0	1
1902	BOS	AL	27	134	134	134	0	0
1903	BOS	AL	28	141	141	139	0	2
1904	BOS	AL	29	156	156	156	0	0
1905	BOS	AL	30	142	142	142	0	0
1906	BOS	AL	31	130	130	126	4	0
1907	BOS	AL	32	143	143	143	0	0
1908	SLB	AL	33	148	148	0	148	0
1909	SLB	AL	34	148	148	34	114	0
	9 Seasons			1280	1280	1012	266	3

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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Assists† s c a p y 1901 AL 450 (3rd) 1902 AL 461 (4th) 1903 AL 441 (4th) 1904 AL 460 (5th) 1907 AL 459 (5th)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1901 AL 138 (1st) 1902 AL 134 (2nd) 1903 AL 139 (1st) 1904 AL 156 (1st) 1905 AL 142 (3rd) 1906 AL 126 (4th) 1907 AL 143 (1st)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1901 AL 359 (2nd) 1902 AL 312 (2nd) 1903 AL 313 (2nd) 1904 AL 366 (1st) 1905 AL 321 (3rd) 1906 AL 316 (5th) 1907 AL 424 (1st) Career 2,503 (93rd)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1901 AL 450 (2nd) 1902 AL 461 (1st) 1903 AL 434 (2nd) 1904 AL 460 (2nd) 1905 AL 425 (1st) 1906 AL 375 (3rd) 1907 AL 459 (2nd) Career 3,152 (96th)
Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1901 AL 61 (2nd) 1902 AL 39 (2nd) 1903 AL 39 (1st) 1904 AL 33 (4th) 1905 AL 31 (5th) 1906 AL 29 (5th) 1907 AL 30 (2nd) Career 271 (41st)	Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1908 AL 148 (1st) 1909 AL 114 (4th)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1908 AL 222 (1st) 1909 AL 157 (4th)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1908 AL 316 (2nd) 1909 AL 242 (4th)
Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1908 AL 27 (4th) 1909 AL 27 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1901 AL 5.86 (2nd) 1902 AL 5.77 (2nd) 1903 AL 5.37 (2nd) 1904 AL 5.29 (3rd) 1905 AL 5.25 (2nd) 1906 AL 5.48 (4th) 1907 AL 6.17 (1st) Career 5.59 (44th)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1901 AL .930 (5th) 1902 AL .952 (5th) 1903 AL .950 (4th) 1904 AL .962 (4th) 1905 AL .960 (3rd) 1906 AL .960 (3rd) 1907 AL .967 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1908 AL 3.64 (1st) 1909 AL 3.50 (2nd)
Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1908 AL .952 (1st) 1909 AL .937 (5th)

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