Nippy Jones

Vernal Leroy Jones

Positions: First Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: June 29, 1925 in Los Angeles, CA
High School: Fremont HS (Los Angeles, CA)
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1943. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 9, 1946
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Braves/Phillies 1946-1957

Final Game: September 29, 1957
Died: October 3, 1995 in Sacramento, CA
Buried: Southeast Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento, CA
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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
1946	STL	NL	21	2B	3	0	0		5	2	2	1	1	.800				1.33	.970		5.53
1947	STL	NL	22	2B	13	13	13		77	32	40	5	5	.935				5.54	.975		5.57
1947	STL	NL	22	OF	2	2	2		2	2	0	0	0	1.000				1.00	.975		2.40
1947	STL	NL	22	RF	2	2	2		2	2	0	0	0	1.000				1.00	.980		2.15
1948	STL	NL	23	1B	128	124	119		1228	1148	63	17	98	.986				9.46	.990		9.61
1949	STL	NL	24	1B	98	97	83		931	876	40	15	85	.984				9.35	.991		9.62
1950	STL	NL	25	1B	8	6	4	51.0	58	54	3	1	8	.983			10.06	7.13	.990	9.71	9.61
1951	STL	NL	26	1B	71	70	70	635.2	753	698	48	7	78	.991			10.56	10.51	.989	9.76	9.72
1952	PHI	NL	27	1B	8	8	5	65.2	82	73	7	2	8	.976			10.96	10.00	.990	9.90	9.81
1957	MLN	NL	32	1B	20	15	10	133.0	156	143	12	1	12	.994	4	33	10.49	7.75	.990	9.67	9.73
1957	MLN	NL	32	OF	1	1	1	8.2	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-14	1.04	1.00	.980	2.28	2.30
1957	MLN	NL	32	RF	1	1	1	8.2	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-14	1.04	1.00	.970	1.97	2.00
	6 Seasons			1B	333	320	291	885.1	3208	2992	173	43	289	.987	4	5	10.55	9.50	.990	9.75	9.65
	2 Seasons			2B	16	13	13		82	34	42	6	6	.927				4.75	.975		5.56
	2 Seasons			RF	3	3	3	8.2	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-14	1.04	1.00	.977	1.97	2.10
	2 Seasons			OF	3	3	3	8.2	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-14	1.04	1.00	.977	2.28	2.37
	8 Seasons			TOT	352	336	307	894.0	3293	3029	215	49	295	.985	4	5	10.46	9.22	.990	9.68	9.40

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
1946	STL	NL	21	2B
1947	STL	NL	22	2B
1947	STL	NL	22	RF
1948	STL	NL	23	1B
1949	STL	NL	24	1B
1950	STL	NL	25	1B
1951	STL	NL	26	1B
1952	PHI	NL	27	1B
1957	MLN	NL	32	1B	4	33	4	2	2	0
1957	MLN	NL	32	RF	-0	-14	-0	0	-0		0
	6 Seasons			1B	4	5	4	2	2	0
	2 Seasons			2B
	2 Seasons			RF	-0	-14	-0	0	-0		0
	8 Seasons			TOT	4	5	4	2	2	0	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	2B	RF	OF	PH	PR
1946	STL	NL	21	16	0	16	3	0	3	0	0	11	2
1947	STL	NL	22	23	15	23	15	0	13	2	2	8	0
1948	STL	NL	23	132	124	132	128	128	0	0	0	4	1
1949	STL	NL	24	110	97	110	98	98	0	0	0	13	0
1950	STL	NL	25	13	6	13	8	8	0	0	0	6	0
1951	STL	NL	26	80	70	80	71	71	0	0	0	9	0
1952	PHI	NL	27	8	8	8	8	8	0	0	0	0	0
1957	MLN	NL	32	30	16	30	21	20	0	1	1	12	0
	8 Seasons			412	336	412	352	333	16	3	3	63	3

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%
1948	STL	NL	23	1764	67%	82%	29%	83	89%	1	422	18	403	1	41	18	9	3	1	3	5	2	3	0	3	36	1	0	0	29	1	7	2	5	7	86%
1949	STL	NL	24	1879	68%	81%	27%	98	92%	0	442	23	415	5	47	25	16	3	1	4	10	3	7	0	4	44	2	0	0	40	2	4	0	4	6	83%
1950	STL	NL	25	148	70%	79%	30%	10	80%	0	31	1	30	0	5	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	3	67%
1951	STL	NL	26	1983	69%	83%	28%	108	94%	0	505	20	480	4	57	29	15	10	2	4	4	1	3	0	2	59	3	1	1	56	5	3	0	3	8	88%
1952	PHI	NL	27	204	53%	87%	28%	13	85%	0	53	6	47	0	3	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	7	0	0	0	6	0	1	1	0	0
1957	MLN	NL	32	543	62%	82%	32%	36	97%	0	143	6	137	0	19	11	6	5	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	12	0	0	1	10	1	2	0	2	0
	6 Seasons			6521	67%	82%	28%	348	92%	1	1596	74	1512	10	172	87	50	21	4	11	22	6	16	0	10	163	6	1	2	146	9	17	3	14	24	83%
	MLB Averages				63%	81%	26%		93%																											86%

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%
1957	MLN	NL	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	36	83%	83%	42%	3	33%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	36	83%	83%	42%	3	33%
	MLB Averages																														43.4%			3.2%			63%	81%	31%		54%

* 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

Putouts† s c a p y 1948 NL 1,148 (2nd) 1949 NL 876 (5th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1948 NL 128 (3rd) 1949 NL 98 (5th)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1948 NL 1,148 (2nd) 1949 NL 876 (5th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1948 NL 17 (2nd) 1949 NL 15 (1st)
Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y 1957 NL 4 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1948 NL 9.46 (3rd) 1949 NL 9.35 (3rd)

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