Carden Gillenwater

Carden Edison Gillenwater

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: May 13, 1917 in Riceville, TN (All Transactions)
Debut: September 22, 1940
Teams (by GP): Braves/Senators/Dodgers/Cardinals 1940-1948

Final Game: September 18, 1948
Died: May 10, 2000 in Largo, FL
Cremated
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1940	STL	NL	23	OF	7	5	5		12	12	0	0	0	1.000		1.71	.977		2.31
1940	STL	NL	23	LF	5	5	5		11	11	0	0	0	1.000		2.20	.974		2.24
1940	STL	NL	23	CF	2	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		0.50	.980		2.65
1943	BRO	NL	26	OF	4	4	4		6	5	1	0	0	1.000		1.50	.977		2.40
1943	BRO	NL	26	CF	2	2	2		3	2	1	0	0	1.000		1.50	.977		2.75
1943	BRO	NL	26	LF	2	1	1		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.975		2.25
1943	BRO	NL	26	RF	1	1	1		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.980		2.20
1945	BSN	NL	28	CF	140	138	137		485	451	24	10	5	.979		3.39	.983		2.87
1945	BSN	NL	28	OF	140	138	137		485	451	24	10	5	.979		3.39	.978		2.45
1946	BSN	NL	29	OF	78	58	45		190	180	6	4	2	.979		2.38	.977		2.38
1946	BSN	NL	29	CF	69	51	40		166	159	5	2	2	.988		2.38	.979		2.85
1946	BSN	NL	29	LF	10	7	5		24	21	1	2	0	.917		2.20	.975		2.26
1946	BSN	NL	29	RF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.10
1948	WSH	AL	31	OF	67	60	55		195	186	4	5	0	.974		2.84	.975		2.51
1948	WSH	AL	31	CF	65	59	54		197	188	4	5	0	.975		2.95	.978		3.01
1948	WSH	AL	31	LF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.30
1948	WSH	AL	31	RF	1	1	1		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.970		2.10
	5 Seasons			OF	296	265	246		888	834	35	19	7	.979		2.94	.977		2.44
	5 Seasons			CF	278	250	233		852	801	34	17	7	.980		3.00	.981		2.89
	4 Seasons			LF	18	13	11		37	34	1	2	0	.946		1.94	.975		2.26
	3 Seasons			RF	3	2	2		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		0.67	.975		2.13
	5 Seasons			TOT	296	265	246		888	834	35	19	7	.979		2.94	.977		2.44
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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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
1940	STL	NL	23	LF
1940	STL	NL	23	CF
1943	BRO	NL	26	CF
1943	BRO	NL	26	LF
1943	BRO	NL	26	RF
1945	BSN	NL	28	CF
1946	BSN	NL	29	CF
1946	BSN	NL	29	LF
1946	BSN	NL	29	RF
1948	WSH	AL	31	CF
1948	WSH	AL	31	LF
1948	WSH	AL	31	RF
	5 Seasons			CF
	4 Seasons			LF
	3 Seasons			RF
	5 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH
1940	STL	NL	23	7	5	7	7	5	2	0	7	0
1943	BRO	NL	26	8	4	8	5	2	2	1	5	3
1945	BSN	NL	28	144	138	144	140	0	140	0	140	4
1946	BSN	NL	29	99	58	99	78	10	69	1	78	21
1948	WSH	AL	31	77	60	77	67	1	65	1	67	14
	5 Seasons			335	265	335	297	18	278	3	297	42

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 -- CF*

				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%
1948	WSH	AL	31	5	0	5	0	1	4	0	0	2	0	44	23	3	26	2	0	4	3	0	18	3	0	20	14	0	112	45	40.2%	64	3	2.7%	1	2081	53%	83%	30%	306	55%
	1 Season			5	0	5	0	1	4	0	0	2	0	44	23	3	26	2	0	4	3	0	18	3	0	20	14	0	112	45	40.2%	64	3	2.7%	1	2081	53%	83%	30%	306	55%
	MLB Averages																														46.1%			2.6%			61%	82%	31%		58%

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%
1948	WSH	AL	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	38	42%	84%	24%	2	50%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	38	42%	84%	24%	2	50%
	MLB Averages																														43.0%			2.5%			61%	82%	31%		52%

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%
1948	WSH	AL	31	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	0		0	5	40%	80%	20%	0
	1 Season			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	0		0	5	40%	80%	20%	0
	MLB Averages																														57.0%			2.6%			61%	82%	31%		50%

* 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

Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1945 NL 140 (3rd)	Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1945 NL 451 (1st)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1945 NL 24 (1st)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1945 NL 10 (1st)
Putouts as OF s c a p y 1945 NL 451 (1st)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1945 NL 24 (1st)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1945 NL 10 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1945 NL 3.39 (1st)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1945 NL 3.39 (1st)

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