Bill Glynn

William Vincent Glynn

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: July 30, 1925 in Sussex, NJ
Signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent in 1946. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1949
Teams (by GP): Indians/Phillies 1949-1954

Final Game: September 26, 1954
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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
1949	PHI	NL	23	1B	1	1	1		11	10	1	0	0	1.000				11.00	.991		9.60
1952	CLE	AL	26	1B	32	17	16	185.1	188	167	16	5	18	.973			8.89	5.72	.988	9.63	9.62
1953	CLE	AL	27	1B	135	98	93	968.1	1125	1036	81	8	133	.993	7	9	10.38	8.27	.989	9.72	9.66
1953	CLE	AL	27	OF	2	2	1	14.0	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	3.86	3.00	.982	2.44	2.40
1953	CLE	AL	27	LF	1	1	1	8.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	4.50	4.00	.972	2.25	2.20
1953	CLE	AL	27	RF	1	1	0	6.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	3.00	2.00	.985	2.10	2.10
1954	CLE	AL	28	1B	96	34	28	431.0	465	424	35	6	38	.987	2	5	9.58	4.78	.990	9.60	9.53
1954	CLE	AL	28	OF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-240	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.40
1954	CLE	AL	28	RF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-240	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.00
	4 Seasons			1B	264	150	138	1584.2	1789	1637	133	19	189	.989	9	7	9.99	6.70	.989	9.68	9.61
	2 Seasons			OF	3	2	1	15.0	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-16	3.60	2.00	.982	2.46	2.40
	2 Seasons			RF	2	1	0	7.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-34	2.57	1.00	.985	2.06	2.05
	1 Season			LF	1	1	1	8.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	4.50	4.00	.972	2.25	2.20
	4 Seasons			TOT	267	152	139	1599.2	1795	1643	133	19	189	.989	9	6	9.93	6.65	.989	9.61	9.53

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
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
1949	PHI	NL	23	1B
1952	CLE	AL	26	1B
1953	CLE	AL	27	1B	7	9	6	5	0	1
1953	CLE	AL	27	LF	0	0	0	0	0		0
1953	CLE	AL	27	RF	0	0	0	0	0		0
1954	CLE	AL	28	1B	2	5	2	1	1	0
1954	CLE	AL	28	RF	-0	-240	-0	0	-0
	4 Seasons			1B	9	7	8	6	1	1
	2 Seasons			RF	-0	-34	-0	0	-0		0
	1 Season			LF	0	0	0	0	0		0
	4 Seasons			TOT	9	6	8	6	1	1

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1949	PHI	NL	23	8	1	8	1	1	0	0	0	6	1
1952	CLE	AL	26	44	17	44	32	32	0	0	0	13	3
1953	CLE	AL	27	147	100	147	136	135	1	1	2	11	21
1954	CLE	AL	28	111	34	111	97	96	0	1	1	16	18
	4 Seasons			310	152	310	266	264	1	2	3	46	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%
1952	CLE	AL	26	808	53%	83%	23%	50	90%	1	167	14	151	3	20	13	4	6	1	1	5	2	3	0	3	18	2	2	0	17	4	1	0	1	0
1953	CLE	AL	27	4046	60%	83%	28%	268	94%	1	1036	98	933	5	79	80	47	28	0	4	8	1	7	0	6	135	3	8	2	120	14	15	6	9	9	89%
1954	CLE	AL	28	1735	63%	82%	26%	126	93%	0	424	54	365	5	33	35	23	7	0	2	6	0	5	1	6	38	2	1	1	32	3	5	1	4	8	88%
	3 Seasons			6589	60%	83%	27%	444	93%	2	1627	166	1449	13	132	128	74	41	1	7	19	3	15	1	15	191	7	11	3	169	21	21	7	14	17	88%
	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%
1953	CLE	AL	27	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	26	65%	77%	31%	5	40%
1954	CLE	AL	28	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	8	75%	88%	25%	0
	2 Seasons			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	34	68%	79%	29%	5	40%
	MLB Averages																														43.8%			3.3%			63%	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%
1953	CLE	AL	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	4	3	75.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	41	63%	88%	22%	7	57%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	4	3	75.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	41	63%	88%	22%	7	57%
	MLB Averages																														57.5%			2.6%			63%	82%	31%		51%

* 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 1B s c a p y 1953 AL 135 (5th) 1954 AL 96 (4th)	Assists as 1B s c a p y 1953 AL 81 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y 1953 AL 7 (1st) 1954 AL 2 (5th) Career 9 (89th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 1953 AL 10.38 (1st) 1954 AL 9.58 (5th)
Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1953 AL .993 (1st)

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