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Bob Hale

Robert Houston Hale

Positions: Pinch Hitter and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: November 7, 1933 in Sarasota, FL
Signed by the St. Louis Browns as an amateur free agent in 1952. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 4, 1955
Teams (by GP): Orioles/Indians/Yankees 1955-1961

Final Game: October 1, 1961
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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
1955 BAL AL 21 1B 44 37 28 327.1 342 300 33 9 25 .974 -2 -7 9.16 7.57 .991 9.63 9.54
1956 BAL AL 22 1B 51 41 26 355.0 405 366 29 10 33 .975 -1 -4 10.01 7.75 .990 9.43 9.35
1957 BAL AL 23 1B 5 2 0 22.0 23 22 1 0 1 1.000 -0 -11 9.41 4.60 .992 9.65 9.70
1958 BAL AL 24 1B 2 1 1 9.0 14 11 3 0 3 1.000 1 80 14.00 7.00 .991 9.60 9.50
1959 BAL AL 25 1B 8 5 0 44.2 50 48 2 0 5 1.000 0 3 10.07 6.25 .990 9.85 9.78
1960 CLE AL 26 1B 5 0 0 14.0 18 14 3 1 1 .944 -0 -9 10.93 3.40 .991 9.58 9.56
1961 TOT AL 27 1B 7 1 1 17.0 16 15 1 0 1 1.000 -0 -7 8.47 2.29 .990 9.48 9.34
1961 CLE AL 27 1B 2 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 9.45 9.35
1961 NYY AL 27 1B 5 1 1 15.0 16 15 1 0 1 1.000 0 8 9.60 3.20 .990 9.48 9.34
7 Seasons 1B 122 87 56 789.0 868 776 72 20 69 .977 -3 -4 9.67 6.95 .990 9.55 9.47
7 Seasons TOT 122 87 56 789.0 868 776 72 20 69 .977 -3 -4 9.67 6.95 .990 9.55 9.47
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-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 Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1955 BAL AL 21 1B -2 -7 -2 -2 0 0
1956 BAL AL 22 1B -1 -4 -1 -3 2 0
1957 BAL AL 23 1B -0 -11 -0 0 -0 0
1958 BAL AL 24 1B 1 80 1 0 1 0
1959 BAL AL 25 1B 0 3 0 0 -0 0
1960 CLE AL 26 1B -0 -9 -0 1 -1 0
1961 CLE AL 27 1B -0 -120 -0 -0 0
1961 NYY AL 27 1B 0 8 0 0 -0 0
7 Seasons 1B -3 -4 -3 -4 2 0
7 Seasons TOT -3 -4 -3 -4 2 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1955 BAL AL 21 67 37 67 44 0 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 0
1956 BAL AL 22 85 41 85 51 0 0 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 0
1957 BAL AL 23 42 2 42 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 0
1958 BAL AL 24 19 1 19 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
1959 BAL AL 25 40 5 40 8 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0
1960 CLE AL 26 70 0 70 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 70 0
1961 CLE AL 27 42 0 42 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 0
1961 NYY AL 27 11 1 11 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
7 Seasons 376 87 376 120 0 0 120 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 278 0
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%
1955 BAL AL 21 1408 66% 84% 25% 84 90% 0 303 18 281 4 31 30 22 5 0 1 8 0 7 1 7 26 1 0 0 26 1 0 0 0 6 100%
1956 BAL AL 22 1499 66% 82% 27% 94 88% 0 362 19 338 5 37 29 19 5 1 2 10 0 10 0 8 33 0 1 0 30 2 3 0 3 5 60%
1957 BAL AL 23 91 85% 84% 23% 4 100% 0 22 2 20 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1958 BAL AL 24 39 62% 90% 38% 4 100% 0 11 0 11 0 1 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0
1959 BAL AL 25 181 77% 81% 28% 8 100% 0 47 5 41 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0
1960 CLE AL 26 55 60% 85% 33% 3 67% 0 14 0 14 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1961 NYY AL 27 59 66% 81% 31% 2 100% 0 15 0 15 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1961 CLE AL 27 10 70% 90% 20% 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
7 Seasons 3342 67% 83% 26% 199 90% 0 774 44 720 10 72 68 47 13 1 3 19 0 18 1 16 70 2 1 0 66 4 4 0 4 11 82%
MLB Averages 64% 80% 27% 94% 87%

* 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

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1955 AL  9 (3rd)
1956 AL  10 (2nd)

                                         

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