Pancho Herrera

Juan Francisco (Villavicencio) Herrera

Positions: First Baseman, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: June 16, 1934 in Santiago de las Vegas, La Habana, Cuba
High School: Santiago de las Vegas (Santiago de las Vegas, CU) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 15, 1958
Team: Phillies 1958-1961

Final Game: October 1, 1961
Died: April 28, 2005 in Miami, FL
Buried: Dade Memorial Park South, Miami, FL
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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
1958	PHI	NL	24	3B	16	15	12	136.0	49	21	27	1	3	.980	-0	-4	3.18	3.00	.952	3.18	3.16
1958	PHI	NL	24	1B	11	3	2	33.0	35	31	4	0	3	1.000	1	29	9.55	3.18	.990	9.55	9.49
1960	PHI	NL	26	1B	134	122	112	1083.2	1140	1017	109	14	88	.988	-2	-3	9.35	8.40	.990	9.57	9.55	MVP-23,RoY-2
1960	PHI	NL	26	2B	17	14	9	126.0	83	36	46	1	11	.988	-2	-22	5.86	4.82	.974	5.20	5.19	MVP-23,RoY-2
1961	PHI	NL	27	1B	115	110	100	964.2	1107	1003	96	8	104	.993	-2	-2	10.25	9.56	.990	9.82	9.72
	3 Seasons			1B	260	235	214	2081.1	2282	2051	209	22	195	.990	-4	-2	9.77	8.69	.990	9.69	9.62
	1 Season			2B	17	14	9	126.0	83	36	46	1	11	.988	-2	-22	5.86	4.82	.974	5.20	5.19
	1 Season			3B	16	15	12	136.0	49	21	27	1	3	.980	-0	-4	3.18	3.00	.952	3.18	3.16
	3 Seasons			TOT	293	264	235	2343.1	2414	2108	282	24	209	.990	-6	-3	9.18	8.16	.989	9.07	9.01

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.
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp
1958	PHI	NL	24	3B	-0	-4	-0	-2	1	0
1958	PHI	NL	24	1B	1	29	1	0	1	0
1960	PHI	NL	26	1B	-2	-3	-4	-4	1	1
1960	PHI	NL	26	2B	-2	-22	-2	-1	-2	0
1961	PHI	NL	27	1B	-2	-2	-1	-0	-1	-1
	3 Seasons			1B	-4	-2	-4	-4	0	0
	1 Season			2B	-2	-22	-2	-1	-2	0
	1 Season			3B	-0	-4	-0	-2	1	0
	3 Seasons			TOT	-6	-3	-6	-6	-0	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	2B	3B	PH
1958	PHI	NL	24	29	18	29	27	11	0	16	2
1960	PHI	NL	26	145	136	145	144	134	17	0	5
1961	PHI	NL	27	126	110	126	115	115	0	0	13
	3 Seasons			300	264	300	286	260	17	16	20

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%
1958	PHI	NL	24	149	70%	79%	23%	12	100%	0	31	2	29	0	7	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	100%
1960	PHI	NL	26	4591	55%	83%	29%	283	94%	3	1024	62	953	10	114	102	73	19	3	4	14	2	10	2	9	89	3	2	3	78	9	11	2	8	23	96%
1961	PHI	NL	27	4175	59%	81%	29%	229	94%	3	1001	64	924	13	67	91	66	17	2	6	8	2	5	1	4	105	3	0	1	94	4	11	2	9	25	92%
	3 Seasons			8915	57%	82%	29%	524	94%	6	2056	128	1906	23	188	197	142	36	6	10	22	4	15	3	13	197	6	2	4	175	13	22	4	17	49	94%
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		93%																											86%

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
1960	PHI	NL	26	578	55%	82%	27%	51	88%	0	37	8	23	6	44	38	5	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	11	4	3	1	0	9	1	8	0	0	0
	1 Season			578	55%	82%	27%	51	88%	0	37	8	23	6	44	38	5	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	11	4	3	1	0	9	1	8	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		93%

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%
1958	PHI	NL	24	568	62%	77%	26%	50	88%	0	23	19	1	3	25	21	4	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	3	2	0	2	1	1	0	2	0%
	1 Season			568	62%	77%	26%	50	88%	0	23	19	1	3	25	21	4	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	3	2	0	2	1	1	0	2	0%
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		89%																								58%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1960 NL (23, 0%) 0.00 Career Shares (1712th)	Putouts† s c a p y 1960 NL 1,053 (3rd) 1961 NL 1,003 (5th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1960 NL 134 (2nd) 1961 NL 115 (5th)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1960 NL 1,017 (2nd) 1961 NL 1,003 (5th)
Assists as 1B s c a p y 1960 NL 109 (1st) 1961 NL 96 (5th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1960 NL 14 (1st)	Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 1961 NL 10.25 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1961 NL 9.56 (3rd)
Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1961 NL .993 (5th)

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