Sam Jethroe

Samuel Jethroe (Jet)

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 178 lb.

Born: January 23, 1917 in Lowndes County, MS
High School: Lincoln HS (East St. Louis, IL)
Signed as a Free Agent with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1950
Teams (by GP): Braves/Pirates 1950-1954

Final Game: April 15, 1954
Died: June 16, 2001 in Erie, PA
Buried: Erie Cemetery, Erie, PA
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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
1950	BSN	NL	33	CF	141	140	132	1213.1	378	348	17	13	6	.966			2.71	2.59	.980	2.76	2.73	MVP-27,RoY-1
1950	BSN	NL	33	OF	141	140	132	1213.1	384	355	17	12	6	.969			2.76	2.64	.978	2.34	2.31	MVP-27,RoY-1
1951	BSN	NL	34	OF	140	139	131	1233.1	384	356	18	10	4	.974			2.73	2.67	.981	2.42	2.41
1951	BSN	NL	34	CF	126	125	118	1103.2	341	319	16	6	4	.982			2.73	2.66	.983	2.89	2.87
1951	BSN	NL	34	LF	13	11	10	104.2	37	33	0	4	0	.892			2.84	2.54	.977	2.32	2.32
1951	BSN	NL	34	RF	3	3	3	25.0	8	8	0	0	0	1.000			2.88	2.67	.981	2.05	2.03
1952	BSN	NL	35	CF	151	150	150	1353.0	432	409	10	13	3	.970			2.79	2.77	.983	2.75	2.73
1952	BSN	NL	35	OF	151	150	150	1353.0	436	413	10	13	3	.970			2.81	2.80	.981	2.31	2.29
1954	PIT	NL	37	OF	1	0	0	2.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-180	4.50	1.00	.980	2.25	2.30
1954	PIT	NL	37	RF	1	0	0	2.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-180	4.50	1.00	.970	1.80	1.90
	4 Seasons			OF	433	429	413	3801.2	1205	1125	45	35	13	.971	-0	-0	2.77	2.70	.980	2.36	2.34
	3 Seasons			CF	418	415	400	3670.0	1151	1076	43	32	13	.972			2.74	2.68	.982	2.80	2.77
	1 Season			LF	13	11	10	104.2	37	33	0	4	0	.892			2.84	2.54	.977	2.32	2.32
	2 Seasons			RF	4	3	3	27.0	9	9	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-13	3.00	2.25	.980	2.03	2.00
	4 Seasons			TOT	433	429	413	3801.2	1205	1125	45	35	13	.971	-0	-0	2.77	2.70	.980	2.36	2.34

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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rof
1950	BSN	NL	33	CF
1951	BSN	NL	34	CF
1951	BSN	NL	34	LF
1951	BSN	NL	34	RF
1952	BSN	NL	35	CF
1954	PIT	NL	37	RF	-0	-180	-0	-0	0	0
	3 Seasons			CF
	1 Season			LF
	2 Seasons			RF	-0	-13	-0	-0	0	0
	4 Seasons			TOT	-0	-0	-0	-0	0	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1950	BSN	NL	33	141	140	141	141	0	141	0	141	0	0
1951	BSN	NL	34	148	139	148	140	13	126	3	140	6	3
1952	BSN	NL	35	151	150	151	151	0	151	0	151	0	1
1954	PIT	NL	37	2	0	2	1	0	0	1	1	1	0
	4 Seasons			442	429	442	433	13	418	4	433	7	4

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 -- CF*

				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	9	0	9	0	2	13	0	5	7	1	58	31	2	34	5	0	8	1	1	13	4	1	27	22	3	140	63	45.0%	70	7	5.0%	6	4337	66%	82%	33%	475	60%
1951	BSN	NL	34	6	0	5	1	1	16	0	7	2	2	65	41	4	45	4	2	11	5	1	19	2	0	34	25	1	174	77	44.3%	89	8	4.6%	8	4754	67%	82%	33%	557	60%
1952	BSN	NL	35	13	0	9	4	2	10	0	3	4	2	59	30	4	43	1	0	6	3	0	9	0	2	30	27	0	147	61	41.5%	80	6	4.1%	4	5529	62%	82%	31%	586	68%
	3 Seasons			28	0	23	5	5	39	0	15	13	5	182	102	10	122	10	2	25	9	2	41	6	3	91	74	4	461	201	43.6%	239	21	4.6%	18	14620	65%	82%	32%	1618	62%
	MLB Averages																														44.8%			3.0%			63%	82%	31%		60%

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%
1951	BSN	NL	34	4	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	4	0	3	0	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	5	5	0	18	11	61.1%	7	0	0.0%	0	479	62%	87%	29%	65	51%
	1 Season			4	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	4	0	3	0	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	5	5	0	18	11	61.1%	7	0	0.0%	0	479	62%	87%	29%	65	51%
	MLB Averages																														57.5%			2.6%			63%	82%	31%		51%

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%
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	1	1	0	1	1	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	107	56%	81%	36%	10	80%
1954	PIT	NL	37	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	11	73%	64%	27%	1	100%
	2 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	118	58%	80%	36%	11	82%
	MLB Averages																														43.7%			3.4%			63%	82%	31%		55%

* 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

Awards (yr lg award) 1950 NL Rookie of the Year	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1950 NL (27, 2%) 0.02 Career Shares (1361st)	Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1950 NL 141 (4th) 1951 NL 126 (3rd) 1952 NL 151 (2nd)	Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1950 NL 348 (4th) 1951 NL 319 (4th) 1952 NL 409 (2nd)
Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1950 NL 17 (1st) 1951 NL 16 (1st) 1952 NL 10 (5th)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1950 NL 13 (1st) 1951 NL 6 (3rd) 1952 NL 13 (1st)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1951 NL 140 (5th) 1952 NL 151 (2nd)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1950 NL 355 (4th) 1951 NL 356 (3rd) 1952 NL 413 (2nd)
Assists as OF s c a p y 1950 NL 17 (2nd) 1951 NL 18 (3rd)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1950 NL 12 (1st) 1951 NL 10 (1st) 1952 NL 13 (1st)	Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1950 NL 2.71 (5th) 1951 NL 2.73 (5th) 1952 NL 2.79 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1950 NL 2.59 (5th) 1951 NL 2.66 (4th) 1952 NL 2.77 (2nd)
Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1951 NL .982 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y 1950 NL 2.76 (5th) 1952 NL 2.81 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1950 NL 2.64 (4th) 1951 NL 2.67 (4th) 1952 NL 2.80 (2nd)	Oldest s c a p y 1954 NL born 1917-01-23 (7th)

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