Tommy Holmes

Thomas Francis Holmes (Kelly)

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: March 29, 1917 in Brooklyn, NY
High School: Brooklyn Technical HS (Brooklyn, NY)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1937. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1942
Teams (by GP): Braves/Dodgers 1942-1952

Final Game: September 28, 1952
Died: April 14, 2008 in Boca Raton, FL
Buried: Forest Lawn North Cemetery, Pompano Beach, FL
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Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1942	BSN	NL	25	OF	140	139	132		393	373	16	4	4	.990		2.78	.981		2.34
1942	BSN	NL	25	CF	137	136	129		384	365	15	4	3	.990		2.77	.978		2.62
1942	BSN	NL	25	RF	3	3	3		9	8	1	0	1	1.000		3.00	.981		2.07
1943	BSN	NL	26	OF	152	152	152		429	408	18	3	3	.993		2.80	.977		2.41	MVP-29
1943	BSN	NL	26	CF	149	149	149		422	402	17	3	3	.993		2.81	.978		2.75	MVP-29
1943	BSN	NL	26	LF	2	2	2		6	5	1	0	0	1.000		3.00	.977		2.25	MVP-29
1943	BSN	NL	26	RF	1	1	1		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.980		2.20	MVP-29
1944	BSN	NL	27	OF	155	155	154		444	426	14	4	7	.991		2.84	.980		2.47	MVP-23
1944	BSN	NL	27	CF	154	153	153		441	424	14	3	7	.993		2.84	.985		2.96	MVP-23
1944	BSN	NL	27	LF	2	2	1		3	2	0	1	0	.667		1.00	.980		2.35	MVP-23
1945	BSN	NL	28	OF	154	154	153		353	334	13	6	4	.983		2.25	.978		2.45	MVP-2
1945	BSN	NL	28	RF	122	122	121		280	261	13	6	4	.979		2.25	.978		2.15	MVP-2
1945	BSN	NL	28	LF	32	32	32		73	73	0	0	0	1.000		2.28	.970		2.34	MVP-2
1945	BSN	NL	28	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.90	MVP-2
1946	BSN	NL	29	OF	146	146	141		315	294	17	4	7	.987		2.13	.977		2.38	MVP-19
1946	BSN	NL	29	RF	144	144	139		313	292	17	4	7	.987		2.15	.976		2.09	MVP-19
1946	BSN	NL	29	CF	1	1	1		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.980		2.80	MVP-19
1946	BSN	NL	29	LF	1	1	1		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.975		2.30	MVP-19
1947	BSN	NL	30	RF	148	142	140		352	336	12	4	4	.989		2.35	.978		2.14
1947	BSN	NL	30	OF	147	142	140		352	336	12	4	4	.989		2.37	.977		2.42
1948	BSN	NL	31	OF	137	137	126		296	283	8	5	4	.983		2.12	.978		2.39	AS
1948	BSN	NL	31	RF	137	137	126		290	277	8	5	4	.983		2.08	.976		2.00	AS
1949	BSN	NL	32	OF	103	97	88		223	210	10	3	4	.987		2.14	.977		2.48
1949	BSN	NL	32	RF	103	97	88		215	203	9	3	4	.986		2.06	.977		2.08
1950	BSN	NL	33	OF	88	82	68	709.2	157	151	6	0	0	1.000	1.99	1.78	.978	2.34	2.31
1950	BSN	NL	33	RF	88	82	68	703.2	153	147	6	0	0	1.000	1.96	1.74	.976	1.87	1.85
1950	BSN	NL	33	LF	1	0	0	6.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.00	2.00	.975	2.25	2.30
1951	BSN	NL	34	OF	3	2	0	14.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.29	0.67	.980	2.44	2.40
1951	BSN	NL	34	LF	2	2	0	13.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.38	1.00	.975	2.35	2.30
1951	BSN	NL	34	RF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00	0.00		1.80	2.00
1952	BRO	NL	35	OF	6	1	0	32.0	7	6	1	0	0	1.000	1.97	1.17	.981	2.31	2.28
1952	BRO	NL	35	RF	6	1	0	32.0	6	5	1	0	0	1.000	1.69	1.00	.980	2.08	2.05
	11 Seasons			OF	1231	1207	1154	755.2	2971	2823	115	33	37	.989	1.98	2.39	.978	2.34	2.41
	10 Seasons			RF	753	729	686	736.2	1619	1530	67	22	24	.986	1.94	2.12	.977	1.88	2.06
	5 Seasons			CF	442	439	432		1249	1193	46	10	13	.992		2.80	.980		2.78
	6 Seasons			LF	40	39	36	19.0	88	86	1	1	0	.989	1.89	2.18	.971	2.32	2.33
	11 Seasons			TOT	1231	1207	1154	755.2	2971	2823	115	33	37	.989	1.98	2.39	.978	2.34	2.41
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	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.

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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
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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
1942	BSN	NL	25	CF
1942	BSN	NL	25	RF
1943	BSN	NL	26	CF
1943	BSN	NL	26	LF
1943	BSN	NL	26	RF
1944	BSN	NL	27	CF
1944	BSN	NL	27	LF
1945	BSN	NL	28	RF
1945	BSN	NL	28	LF
1945	BSN	NL	28	CF
1946	BSN	NL	29	RF
1946	BSN	NL	29	CF
1946	BSN	NL	29	LF
1947	BSN	NL	30	RF
1948	BSN	NL	31	RF
1949	BSN	NL	32	RF
1950	BSN	NL	33	RF
1950	BSN	NL	33	LF
1951	BSN	NL	34	LF
1951	BSN	NL	34	RF
1952	BRO	NL	35	RF
	10 Seasons			RF
	5 Seasons			CF
	6 Seasons			LF
	11 Seasons			TOT
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	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1942	BSN	NL	25	141	139	141	140	0	137	3	140	0	1
1943	BSN	NL	26	152	152	152	152	2	149	1	152	0	0
1944	BSN	NL	27	155	155	155	155	2	154	0	155	0	0
1945	BSN	NL	28	154	154	154	154	32	1	122	154	0	0
1946	BSN	NL	29	149	146	149	146	1	1	144	146	3	0
1947	BSN	NL	30	150	142	150	148	0	0	148	148	2	0
1948	BSN	NL	31	139	137	139	137	0	0	137	137	2	0
1949	BSN	NL	32	117	97	117	103	0	0	103	103	17	0
1950	BSN	NL	33	105	82	105	88	1	0	88	88	21	0
1951	BSN	NL	34	27	2	27	3	2	0	1	3	24	0
1952	BRO	NL	35	31	1	31	6	0	0	6	6	25	0
	11 Seasons			1320	1207	1320	1232	40	442	753	1232	94	1

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 -- 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	BSN	NL	31	2	0	2	0	0	5	0	0	2	2	43	22	1	25	2	1	10	3	1	12	3	0	25	13	1	115	43	37.4%	68	4	3.5%	1	3353	65%	84%	32%	328	54%
1949	BSN	NL	32	3	0	3	0	0	8	0	1	2	1	52	19	1	18	2	1	13	7	0	11	3	0	25	17	2	119	48	40.3%	67	4	3.4%	4	3168	67%	84%	33%	322	53%
1950	BSN	NL	33	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	2	29	14	0	19	3	0	9	5	2	7	3	0	10	6	0	74	31	41.9%	41	2	2.7%	1	2235	68%	82%	31%	205	57%
1951	BSN	NL	34	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	3	100%	67%	0%	0
1952	BRO	NL	35	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	6	2	0	5	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	13	4	30.8%	8	1	7.7%	0	149	49%	80%	45%	19	32%
	5 Seasons			5	0	5	0	0	17	0	2	4	6	130	57	2	67	9	3	33	15	3	31	9	0	60	36	3	321	126	39.3%	184	11	3.4%	6	8908	66%	84%	32%	874	54%
	MLB Averages																														43.3%			3.2%			62%	82%	31%		54%

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%
1950	BSN	NL	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	34	65%	76%	29%	3	67%
1951	BSN	NL	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	53	79%	83%	23%	4	50%
	2 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	3	2	66.7%	1	0	0.0%	0	87	74%	80%	25%	7	57%
	MLB Averages																														57.3%			2.7%			62%	82%	31%		52%

* 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

Hall of Fame 1958 BBWAA ( 0.8%) 1960 BBWAA ( 0.7%)	All-Star Games 1945--not played 1948 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1943 NL (29, 1%) 1944 NL (23, 2%) 1945 NL (2, 52%) 1946 NL (19, 3%) 0.58 Career Shares (398th)	Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL 137 (2nd) 1943 NL 149 (2nd) 1944 NL 154 (1st)
Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL 365 (2nd) 1943 NL 402 (2nd) 1944 NL 424 (2nd)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL 15 (2nd) 1943 NL 17 (1st) 1944 NL 14 (2nd)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL 4 (5th)	Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1945 NL 122 (3rd) 1946 NL 144 (3rd) 1947 NL 148 (2nd) 1948 NL 137 (3rd) 1949 NL 103 (4th)
Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1945 NL 261 (3rd) 1946 NL 292 (1st) 1947 NL 336 (1st) 1948 NL 277 (2nd) 1949 NL 203 (3rd) Career 1,530 (91st)	Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1945 NL 13 (2nd) 1946 NL 17 (2nd) 1947 NL 12 (2nd) 1948 NL 8 (5th) 1949 NL 9 (3rd) Career 67 (84th)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1945 NL 6 (1st) 1948 NL 5 (3rd)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1942 NL 140 (5th) 1943 NL 152 (4th) 1944 NL 155 (2nd) 1945 NL 154 (1st) 1946 NL 146 (3rd) 1947 NL 147 (4th)
Putouts as OF s c a p y 1942 NL 373 (2nd) 1943 NL 408 (2nd) 1944 NL 426 (2nd) 1947 NL 336 (4th)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1942 NL 16 (3rd) 1943 NL 18 (4th) 1945 NL 13 (5th) 1946 NL 17 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL 2.77 (2nd) 1943 NL 2.81 (4th) 1944 NL 2.84 (4th)	Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL .990 (1st) 1943 NL .993 (1st) 1944 NL .993 (2nd)
Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1950 NL 1.96 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1945 NL 2.25 (2nd) 1946 NL 2.15 (2nd) 1947 NL 2.35 (1st) 1948 NL 2.08 (1st) 1949 NL 2.06 (4th) 1950 NL 1.74 (3rd) Career 2.12 (25th)	Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1945 NL .979 (4th) 1946 NL .987 (2nd) 1947 NL .989 (3rd) 1948 NL .983 (1st) 1949 NL .986 (4th) 1950 NL 1.000 (1st) Career .986 (24th)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1942 NL 2.78 (2nd) 1943 NL 2.80 (4th) 1944 NL 2.84 (3rd)
Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1942 NL .990 (3rd) 1943 NL .993 (2nd) 1944 NL .991 (4th) 1947 NL .989 (2nd) 1950 NL 1.000 (1st) Career .989 (62nd)

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