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Bobby Hofman

Robert George Hofman

Positions: Pinch Hitter, Second Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: October 5, 1925 in St. Louis, MO
High School: Beaumont HS (St. Louis, MO)
Signed by the New York Giants as an amateur free agent in 1944. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1949
Team: Giants 1949-1957

Final Game: May 5, 1957
Died: April 5, 1994 in Chesterfield, MO
Buried: Bethlehem Cemetery, Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO
Relatives: Nephew of Solly Hofman
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1949 NYG NL 23 2B 16 10 10 66 23 39 4 8 .939 3.88 .976 5.57
1952 NYG NL 26 2B 21 14 11 140.0 83 37 43 3 9 .964 5.14 3.81 .975 5.48 5.43
1952 NYG NL 26 3B 2 1 0 9.0 7 2 3 2 0 .714 5.00 2.50 .954 3.20 3.10
1952 NYG NL 26 1B 1 0 0 1.2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 10.80 2.00 .990 10.26 9.80
1953 NYG NL 27 3B 23 17 14 160.2 61 21 35 5 5 .918 -1 -7 3.14 2.43 .951 3.04 2.98
1953 NYG NL 27 2B 17 16 15 141.0 84 34 48 2 13 .976 -0 -1 5.23 4.82 .972 5.44 5.33
1954 NYG NL 28 1B 21 16 9 150.0 167 160 6 1 20 .994 -1 -11 9.96 7.90 .991 9.81 9.75
1954 NYG NL 28 2B 10 6 5 61.0 46 23 22 1 5 .978 0 2 6.64 4.50 .976 5.58 5.54
1954 NYG NL 28 3B 8 5 1 32.0 15 9 4 2 0 .867 -1 -26 3.66 1.63 .952 3.18 3.15
1955 NYG NL 29 1B 24 21 15 184.0 193 183 10 0 19 1.000 1 5 9.44 8.04 .991 9.79 9.70
1955 NYG NL 29 2B 19 11 6 115.0 69 32 36 1 6 .986 -1 -8 5.32 3.58 .974 5.48 5.43
1955 NYG NL 29 C 19 7 3 77.0 46 40 6 0 1 1.000 -1 -16 5.38 2.42 .987 5.65 5.60 1 1 4 0 0% 46% 0
1955 NYG NL 29 3B 5 4 3 37.0 11 4 7 0 4 1.000 1 42 2.68 2.20 .951 3.14 3.10
1956 NYG NL 30 3B 7 4 0 37.0 15 4 9 2 0 .867 0 3 3.16 1.86 .956 3.04 3.01
1956 NYG NL 30 C 7 3 2 35.0 32 31 1 0 1 1.000 1 34 8.23 4.57 .985 5.84 5.77 0 0 3 1 25% 40% 0
1956 NYG NL 30 1B 3 0 0 8.0 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -15 9.00 2.67 .989 9.79 9.73
1956 NYG NL 30 2B 2 0 0 9.0 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 0 27 3.00 1.50 .980 5.30 5.30
6 Seasons 2B 85 57 47 466.0 351 151 189 11 41 .969 -1 -2 5.37 4.00 .974 5.48 5.45
4 Seasons 1B 49 37 24 343.2 370 352 17 1 39 .997 -1 -3 9.66 7.53 .991 9.80 9.73
5 Seasons 3B 45 31 18 275.2 109 40 58 11 9 .899 -0 -1 3.20 2.18 .952 3.08 3.03
2 Seasons C 26 10 5 112.0 78 71 7 0 2 1.000 0 0 6.27 3.00 .986 5.71 5.65 1 1 7 1 13% 43% 0
7 Seasons TOT 205 135 94 1197.1 908 614 271 23 91 .975 -2 -2 6.19 4.32 .979 6.19 5.96 1 1 7 1 13% 43% 0
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
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
1949 NYG NL 23 2B
1952 NYG NL 26 2B
1952 NYG NL 26 3B
1952 NYG NL 26 1B
1953 NYG NL 27 3B -1 -7 -1 -1 0 0
1953 NYG NL 27 2B -0 -1 -0 0 -0 0
1954 NYG NL 28 1B -1 -11 -1 -1 -1 0
1954 NYG NL 28 2B 0 2 0 1 -1 0
1954 NYG NL 28 3B -1 -26 -1 -0 -0 0
1955 NYG NL 29 1B 1 5 1 1 -0 0
1955 NYG NL 29 2B -1 -8 -1 0 -1 0
1955 NYG NL 29 C -1 -16 -1
1955 NYG NL 29 3B 1 42 1 1 1 0
1956 NYG NL 30 3B 0 3 0 -1 1 0
1956 NYG NL 30 C 1 34 1
1956 NYG NL 30 1B -0 -15 -0 0 -0
1956 NYG NL 30 2B 0 27 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 2B -1 -2 -1 1 -2 0
4 Seasons 1B -1 -3 -1 0 -1 0
5 Seasons 3B -0 -1 -0 -2 1 0
2 Seasons C 0 0 0
7 Seasons TOT -2 -2 -2 -0 -2 0 0
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1949 NYG NL 23 19 10 19 16 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1952 NYG NL 26 32 15 32 24 0 0 1 21 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1953 NYG NL 27 74 33 74 40 0 0 0 18 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 38 0
1954 NYG NL 28 71 27 71 36 0 0 21 10 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 41 0
1955 NYG NL 29 96 43 96 62 0 19 24 19 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 1
1956 NYG NL 30 47 7 47 20 0 7 3 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 0
1957 NYG NL 31 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
7 Seasons 341 135 341 198 0 26 49 86 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 167 2
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 -- 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
1949 NYG NL 23 197 70% 84% 27% 20 90% 0 10 4 4 2 15 12 3 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 4 0 1 3 0 4 3 1 0 0 0
1952 NYG NL 26 510 63% 80% 27% 47 98% 0 29 13 12 4 36 31 3 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 5 1 0 2 0 3 2 1 2 2 0
1953 NYG NL 27 565 60% 81% 25% 58 90% 0 33 14 12 7 47 41 2 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 12 4 1 1 0 7 1 5 3 2 1
1954 NYG NL 28 268 55% 81% 28% 27 93% 0 22 7 12 3 22 18 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 5 3 1 0 0 5 0 4 0 0 0
1955 NYG NL 29 450 58% 81% 25% 37 92% 0 25 6 12 7 32 26 6 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 6 3 1 0 0 4 0 4 1 0 1
1956 NYG NL 30 37 41% 84% 30% 5 100% 0 3 3 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 2027 60% 81% 26% 194 93% 0 122 47 52 23 154 130 18 0 2 9 0 7 2 5 32 11 4 6 0 23 6 15 6 4 2
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 93%

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 NYG NL 26 9 89% 100% 11% 1 100% 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1954 NYG NL 28 635 68% 81% 27% 31 94% 0 161 11 149 2 14 6 3 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 20 1 0 0 17 1 3 0 3 1 100%
1955 NYG NL 29 688 61% 79% 25% 33 100% 0 157 8 147 2 20 8 4 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 15 2 2 1 0 3 100%
1956 NYG NL 30 27 67% 78% 30% 0 0 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 1359 65% 80% 26% 65 97% 0 329 19 307 4 35 14 7 4 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 37 1 0 1 32 3 5 1 3 5 100%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 93% 86%

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%
1952 NYG NL 26 40 63% 90% 35% 8 75% 0 2 2 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 NYG NL 27 718 61% 81% 25% 54 80% 0 20 15 3 2 29 20 7 0 1 5 0 5 0 4 4 1 0 2 2 1 1 4 25%
1954 NYG NL 28 129 57% 82% 36% 13 92% 0 9 8 1 0 4 3 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 NYG NL 29 159 72% 76% 24% 11 100% 0 4 1 1 2 11 8 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 4 0 0 0 1 100%
1956 NYG NL 30 149 63% 75% 26% 14 79% 0 4 4 0 0 7 5 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
5 Seasons 1195 62% 80% 26% 100 83% 0 39 30 5 4 55 40 12 0 3 11 0 10 1 9 8 4 0 6 2 1 1 6 50%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 89% 66%

Advanced Fielding -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1955 NYG NL 29 225 5.01 5.54 2 100% 0 0 28 2 0 3 23 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1956 NYG NL 30 89 4.05 4.05 3 100% 0 0 22 3 0 0 19 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 314 4.73 5.12 5 100% 0 0 50 5 0 3 42 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 4.04 4.55 95% 85%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1955 NYG NL 29 0 1 94 4 0 0 0% 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0.57
1956 NYG NL 30 0 0 36 0 1 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.74
2 Seasons 0 1 130 4 1 1 20% 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 1 0.57 0.74
MLB Averages 45% 1.19 1.17

* 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.

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