Bill Joyce

William Michael Joyce (Scrappy Bill)

Positions: Third Baseman, First Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: September 22, 1867 in St. Louis, MO (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1890
Teams (by GP): Senators/Giants/Ward'sWonders/Grooms/Reds 1890-1898

Final Game: October 12, 1898
Died: May 8, 1941 in St. Louis, MO
Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G
1890	BWW	PL	22	3B	133	567	176	284	107	22	.811	3.46	.853	3.54
1891	BOS	AA	23	3B	64	272	82	149	41	12	.849	3.61	.872	3.63
1891	BOS	AA	23	1B	1	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	8.00	.976	10.30
1892	BRO	NL	24	3B	94	354	141	164	49	8	.862	3.24	.879	3.58
1892	BRO	NL	24	OF	3	8	7	0	1	0	.875	2.33	.912	1.90	3-0-0
1894	WHS	NL	26	3B	99	387	152	183	52	20	.866	3.38	.878	3.48
1895	WHS	NL	27	3B	127	500	188	235	77	16	.846	3.33	.872	3.46
1896	TOT	NL	28	3B	97	375	121	211	43	10	.885	3.42	.892	3.46
1896	WHS	NL	28	3B	48	178	50	108	20	6	.888	3.29	.892	3.46
1896	WHS	NL	28	2B	33	188	84	85	19	12	.899	5.12	.940	5.53
1896	NYG	NL	28	3B	49	197	71	103	23	4	.883	3.55	.892	3.46
1897	NYG	NL	29	3B	107	429	166	199	64	17	.851	3.41	.892	3.35
1897	NYG	NL	29	1B	2	25	22	0	3	2	.880	11.00	.980	10.25
1898	NYG	NL	30	1B	130	1386	1252	87	47	73	.966	10.30	.977	10.33
1898	NYG	NL	30	3B	14	55	18	31	6	0	.891	3.50	.902	3.48
1898	NYG	NL	30	2B	2	5	1	3	1	0	.800	2.00	.944	5.60
	8 Seasons			3B	735	2939	1044	1456	439	105	.851	3.40	.876	3.49
	3 Seasons			1B	133	1419	1282	87	50	75	.965	10.29	.977	10.33
	2 Seasons			2B	35	193	85	88	20	12	.896	4.94	.940	5.53
	1 Season			OF	3	8	7	0	1	0	.875	2.33	.912	1.90	3-0-0
	8 Seasons			TOT	906	4559	2418	1631	510	192	.888	4.47	.910	4.57	3-0-0

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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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	1B	2B	3B	LF	OF
1890	BWW	PL	22	133	133	0	0	133	0	0
1891	BOS	AA	23	65	65	1	0	64	0	0
1892	BRO	NL	24	97	97	0	0	94	3	3
1894	WHS	NL	26	99	99	0	0	99	0	0
1895	WHS	NL	27	127	127	0	0	127	0	0
1896	WHS	NL	28	81	81	0	33	48	0	0
1896	NYG	NL	28	49	49	0	0	49	0	0
1897	NYG	NL	29	110	110	2	0	107	0	0
1898	NYG	NL	30	145	145	130	2	14	0	0
	8 Seasons			906	906	133	35	735	3	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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Putouts† s c a p y 1898 NL 1,271 (4th)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1890 PL 107 (2nd) 1895 NL 77 (3rd) 1897 NL 67 (4th) Career 510 (78th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1898 NL 130 (5th)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1898 NL 1,252 (4th)
Assists as 1B s c a p y 1898 NL 87 (1st)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1898 NL 47 (1st)	Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1890 PL 133 (1st) 1895 NL 127 (3rd)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1890 PL 176 (3rd) 1895 NL 188 (3rd) Career 1,044 (79th)
Assists as 3B s c a p y 1890 PL 284 (3rd)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1890 PL 107 (1st) 1894 NL 52 (2nd) 1895 NL 77 (1st) 1896 NL 43 (5th) 1897 NL 64 (1st) Career 439 (12th)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1890 PL 3.46 (4th) 1891 AA 3.61 (5th) 1894 NL 3.38 (5th) 1896 NL 3.42 (5th) 1897 NL 3.41 (4th) Career 3.40 (21st)

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