Jim Finigan

James Leroy Finigan

Positions: Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: August 19, 1928 in Quincy, IL
School: Saint Ambrose University (Davenport, IA)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1948. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 25, 1954
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Tigers/Orioles/Giants 1954-1959

Final Game: July 5, 1959
Died: May 16, 1981 in Quincy, IL
Buried: St. Peter Cemetery, Quincy, IL
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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
1954	PHA	AL	25	3B	136	133	130	1158.1	481	151	305	25	34	.948	-1	-1	3.54	3.35	.959	3.48	3.46	AS,MVP-12,RoY-2
1955	KCA	AL	26	2B	90	87	82	773.2	476	236	228	12	72	.975	-10	-15	5.40	5.16	.976	5.37	5.32	AS
1955	KCA	AL	26	3B	59	59	55	514.1	198	55	135	8	13	.960	1	3	3.32	3.22	.950	3.17	3.14	AS
1956	KCA	AL	27	2B	52	39	30	351.1	226	114	105	7	35	.969	-6	-19	5.61	4.21	.973	5.44	5.40
1956	KCA	AL	27	3B	32	29	24	254.0	108	29	70	9	7	.917	2	9	3.51	3.09	.949	3.22	3.19
1957	DET	AL	28	3B	59	46	37	440.2	174	58	108	8	9	.954	3	8	3.39	2.81	.951	3.23	3.24
1957	DET	AL	28	2B	3	2	2	21.0	13	8	4	1	2	.923	-1	-40	5.14	4.00	.980	5.40	5.40
1958	SFG	NL	29	2B	8	2	1	26.0	12	4	7	1	2	.917	-0	-18	3.81	1.38	.975	5.33	5.30
1958	SFG	NL	29	3B	4	1	0	14.0	4	0	3	1	0	.750	-0	-26	1.93	0.75	.952	3.15	3.15
1959	BAL	AL	30	3B	42	29	22	267.2	98	30	64	4	4	.959	-3	-14	3.16	2.24	.952	3.21	3.19
1959	BAL	AL	30	2B	6	0	0	14.0	17	6	11	0	2	1.000	2	189	10.93	2.83	.976	5.27	5.25
1959	BAL	AL	30	SS	2	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		4.95	4.85
	6 Seasons			3B	332	297	268	2649.0	1063	323	685	55	67	.948	1	1	3.42	3.04	.954	3.32	3.30
	5 Seasons			2B	159	130	115	1186.0	744	368	355	21	113	.972	-14	-14	5.49	4.55	.975	5.39	5.34
	1 Season			SS	2	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		4.95	4.85
	6 Seasons			TOT	493	427	383	3837.0	1807	691	1040	76	180	.958	-13	-4	4.06	3.51	.963	3.96	3.97

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	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp
1954	PHA	AL	25	3B	-1	-1	-1	-1	-0	0
1955	KCA	AL	26	2B	-10	-15	-10	-4	-6	0
1955	KCA	AL	26	3B	1	3	0	-3	3	1
1956	KCA	AL	27	2B	-6	-19	-6	-1	-4	0
1956	KCA	AL	27	3B	2	9	1	1	-0	1
1957	DET	AL	28	3B	3	8	3	2	0	0
1957	DET	AL	28	2B	-1	-40	-1	0	-1	0
1958	SFG	NL	29	2B	-0	-18	-0	-0	-0	0
1958	SFG	NL	29	3B	-0	-26	-0	-0	-0	0
1959	BAL	AL	30	3B	-3	-14	-3	-1	-2	0
1959	BAL	AL	30	2B	2	189	2	0	2	0
1959	BAL	AL	30	SS	0	0	0	0	0	0
	6 Seasons			3B	1	1	-1	-1	0	2
	5 Seasons			2B	-14	-14	-14	-5	-9	0
	1 Season			SS	0	0	0	0	0	0
	6 Seasons			TOT	-13	-4	-15	-6	-9	2

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1954	PHA	AL	25	136	133	136	136	0	136	0	1	0
1955	KCA	AL	26	150	146	150	148	90	59	0	2	1
1956	KCA	AL	27	91	68	91	80	52	32	0	12	1
1957	DET	AL	28	64	48	64	62	3	59	0	3	0
1958	SFG	NL	29	23	3	23	12	8	4	0	13	3
1959	BAL	AL	30	48	29	48	46	6	42	2	6	0
	6 Seasons			512	427	512	484	159	332	2	37	5

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%
1954	PHA	AL	25	5165	63%	82%	23%	457	87%	2	152	109	16	27	296	228	56	2	11	25	0	23	2	20	33	17	3	28	5	4	1	26	73%
1955	KCA	AL	26	2352	67%	78%	23%	199	86%	0	68	56	5	7	116	90	24	0	2	8	0	6	2	6	13	10	0	11	2	1	1	7	43%
1956	KCA	AL	27	1123	68%	80%	27%	96	88%	1	29	22	1	6	62	45	15	1	5	6	0	6	0	5	6	5	0	6	0	0	0	5	60%
1957	DET	AL	28	1822	67%	80%	25%	169	92%	1	57	48	4	5	108	89	15	0	2	8	0	8	0	8	9	7	0	8	1	0	1	10	60%
1958	SFG	NL	29	54	83%	89%	30%	4	75%	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959	BAL	AL	30	1164	65%	83%	28%	95	88%	0	30	22	2	6	63	53	9	0	2	4	0	4	0	3	4	3	0	3	1	0	1	6	83%
	6 Seasons			11680	65%	81%	24%	1020	88%	4	336	257	28	51	648	508	119	3	22	52	0	47	5	43	65	42	3	56	9	5	4	54	67%
	MLB Averages				64%	80%	27%		89%																								62%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

											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	643	543	463	43	GB	GBs	GBr	LD	LDs	LDf
1955	KCA	AL	26	3461	63%	83%	24%	281	91%	0	243	78	129	36	222	189	25	0	5	10	0	10	0	8	72	21	18	20	5	65	25	40	7	4	2
1956	KCA	AL	27	1570	65%	79%	27%	122	93%	0	112	28	59	24	108	95	7	1	2	7	0	6	1	5	35	14	5	5	1	27	7	20	4	1	3
1957	DET	AL	28	92	72%	75%	18%	6	83%	0	8	3	4	1	4	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0
1958	SFG	NL	29	110	71%	77%	25%	10	90%	1	4	2	2	0	7	5	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	0
1959	BAL	AL	30	55	65%	95%	44%	13	100%	0	6	2	3	1	11	9	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	0
	5 Seasons			5288	64%	82%	25%	432	91%	1	373	113	197	62	352	302	35	2	7	19	0	18	1	15	113	38	23	27	7	98	35	63	11	5	5
	MLB Averages				64%	80%	27%		93%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

											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	643	63	463	163	363	GB	GBs	GBr	LD	LDs	LDf
1959	BAL	AL	30	7	43%	57%	14%	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	0	0	0
	1 Season			7	43%	57%	14%	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	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				64%	80%	27%		90%

* 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 1954 1955 (3B)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1954 AL (12, 6%) 0.06 Career Shares (1057th)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1954 AL 25 (5th)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1955 AL 12 (5th)
Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1954 AL 136 (3rd)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1954 AL 151 (4th)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1954 AL 305 (3rd)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1954 AL 25 (1st)
Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y 1955 AL 5.40 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1955 AL 5.16 (4th)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1955 AL .975 (5th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y 1954 AL 3.54 (4th)
Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1954 AL 3.35 (3rd)

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