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Billy Klaus

William Joseph Klaus

Positions: Shortstop, Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: December 9, 1928 in Spring Grove, IL
High School: Grant HS (Fox Lake, IL)
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1946. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1952
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Orioles/Phillies/Senators/Braves 1952-1963

Final Game: May 17, 1963
Died: December 3, 2006 in Sarasota, FL
Cremated
Relatives: Brother of Bobby Klaus
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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
1952 BSN NL 23 SS 4 0 0 7.0 2 1 0 1 0 .500 1.29 0.25 .960 5.01 5.00
1955 BOS AL 26 SS 126 121 118 1099.2 626 207 391 28 55 .955 -9 -10 4.89 4.75 .959 4.93 4.89 MVP-13,RoY-2
1955 BOS AL 26 3B 8 8 5 68.0 30 7 20 3 0 .900 2 35 3.57 3.38 .950 3.18 3.14 MVP-13,RoY-2
1956 BOS AL 27 3B 106 105 100 944.0 383 120 242 21 18 .945 6 8 3.45 3.42 .949 3.22 3.19
1956 BOS AL 27 SS 26 25 25 228.2 105 35 64 6 8 .943 -1 -3 3.90 3.81 .960 4.98 4.94
1957 BOS AL 28 SS 118 116 112 1026.0 646 204 417 25 93 .961 13 15 5.45 5.26 .963 5.11 5.13
1958 BOS AL 29 SS 27 8 8 115.1 60 18 35 7 2 .883 -5 -56 4.14 1.96 .964 4.96 4.91
1959 BAL AL 30 SS 59 41 34 407.0 231 77 147 7 21 .970 5 15 4.95 3.80 .959 4.87 4.84
1959 BAL AL 30 3B 49 45 22 362.1 133 43 84 6 7 .955 -1 -2 3.15 2.59 .952 3.21 3.19
1959 BAL AL 30 2B 1 0 0 2.2 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -45 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.20
1960 BAL AL 31 2B 30 3 2 85.2 50 19 29 2 9 .960 1 11 5.04 1.60 .979 5.46 5.45
1960 BAL AL 31 SS 12 5 1 47.0 27 10 17 0 5 1.000 1 36 5.17 2.25 .960 5.11 5.10
1960 BAL AL 31 3B 2 2 1 15.0 6 0 6 0 0 1.000 0 16 3.60 3.00 .952 3.12 3.15
1961 WSA AL 32 3B 51 43 43 406.0 153 40 107 6 3 .961 2 6 3.26 2.88 .950 3.18 3.15
1961 WSA AL 32 SS 18 16 15 141.0 73 24 47 2 8 .973 1 5 4.53 3.94 .956 4.84 4.78
1961 WSA AL 32 2B 1 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 1 1.000 0 60 4.50 1.00 .980 5.40 5.20
1961 WSA AL 32 LF 1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.00
1961 WSA AL 32 OF 1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.20
1962 PHI NL 33 3B 53 39 25 345.1 117 43 72 2 4 .983 -1 -4 3.00 2.17 .949 2.95 2.92
1962 PHI NL 33 SS 30 8 8 131.0 85 29 49 7 11 .918 -1 -13 5.36 2.60 .963 5.05 5.01
1962 PHI NL 33 2B 11 7 5 67.0 42 21 21 0 6 1.000 -1 -14 5.64 3.82 .974 5.31 5.25
1963 PHI NL 34 SS 5 0 0 12.0 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 -0 -20 2.25 0.60 .960 4.80 4.82
1963 PHI NL 34 3B 3 2 1 17.0 5 0 5 0 1 1.000 0 14 2.65 1.67 .940 2.91 2.93
10 Seasons SS 425 340 321 3214.2 1858 606 1169 83 203 .955 3 1 4.97 4.18 .961 4.99 4.96
7 Seasons 3B 272 244 197 2157.2 827 253 536 38 33 .954 9 5 3.29 2.90 .950 3.16 3.12
4 Seasons 2B 43 10 7 157.1 93 40 51 2 16 .978 0 0 5.21 2.12 .977 5.39 5.39
1 Season OF 1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.20
1 Season LF 1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.00
11 Seasons TOT 741 594 525 5530.0 2778 899 1756 123 252 .956 12 3 4.32 3.58 .958 4.29 4.31
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr 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.
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
1952 BSN NL 23 SS
1955 BOS AL 26 SS -9 -10 -6 -6 0 -3
1955 BOS AL 26 3B 2 35 2 1 1 0
1956 BOS AL 27 3B 6 8 8 4 3 -1
1956 BOS AL 27 SS -1 -3 0 -1 2 -1
1957 BOS AL 28 SS 13 15 12 6 6 1
1958 BOS AL 29 SS -5 -56 -4 -2 -3 -1
1959 BAL AL 30 SS 5 15 5 3 2 0
1959 BAL AL 30 3B -1 -2 -1 -3 2 0
1959 BAL AL 30 2B -0 -45 -0 0 -0 0
1960 BAL AL 31 2B 1 11 -0 0 -0 1
1960 BAL AL 31 SS 1 36 0 -0 1 1
1960 BAL AL 31 3B 0 16 0 0 0 0
1961 WSA AL 32 3B 2 6 3 4 -1 -1
1961 WSA AL 32 SS 1 5 1 0 0 0
1961 WSA AL 32 2B 0 60 0 0 0 0
1961 WSA AL 32 LF
1962 PHI NL 33 3B -1 -4 -1 -1 -0 0
1962 PHI NL 33 SS -1 -13 -2 0 -2 1
1962 PHI NL 33 2B -1 -14 -1 -0 -0 0
1963 PHI NL 34 SS -0 -20 -0 -0 0 0
1963 PHI NL 34 3B 0 14 0 0 -0 0
10 Seasons SS 3 1 5 -1 7 -2
7 Seasons 3B 9 5 11 6 5 -2
4 Seasons 2B 0 0 -1 -0 -1 1
1 Season LF
11 Seasons TOT 12 3 15 5 11 -3
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
1952 BSN NL 23 7 0 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 3
1953 MLN NL 24 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1955 BOS AL 26 135 129 135 133 0 0 0 0 8 126 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1956 BOS AL 27 135 130 135 132 0 0 0 0 106 26 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1957 BOS AL 28 127 116 127 118 0 0 0 0 0 118 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1958 BOS AL 29 61 8 61 27 0 0 0 0 0 27 0 0 0 0 0 47 4
1959 BAL AL 30 104 86 104 101 0 0 0 1 49 59 0 0 0 0 0 7 1
1960 BAL AL 31 46 10 46 42 0 0 0 30 2 12 0 0 0 0 0 3 4
1961 WSA AL 32 91 59 91 70 0 0 0 1 51 18 1 0 0 1 0 23 5
1962 PHI NL 33 102 54 102 82 0 0 0 11 53 30 0 0 0 0 0 34 7
1963 PHI NL 34 11 2 11 7 0 0 0 0 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
11 Seasons 821 594 821 716 0 0 0 43 272 425 1 0 0 1 0 145 25
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 -- SS*

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 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1952 BSN NL 23 30 73% 87% 23% 3 67% 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 BOS AL 26 4758 66% 81% 26% 523 88% 7 226 121 93 12 374 275 88 0 1 27 0 25 2 23 54 17 5 19 6 3 50 22 28 3 3 0
1956 BOS AL 27 921 57% 76% 26% 84 89% 0 35 20 14 1 54 41 13 0 0 5 1 4 0 2 8 6 0 1 0 0 7 6 1 0 0 0
1957 BOS AL 28 4265 63% 81% 30% 465 91% 2 193 71 100 22 403 312 76 1 5 25 1 21 3 18 89 29 5 29 10 5 84 35 45 2 1 1
1958 BOS AL 29 513 69% 85% 28% 54 85% 0 17 12 4 1 37 33 3 0 0 7 0 6 1 6 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1959 BAL AL 30 1697 67% 82% 31% 183 92% 1 75 35 34 6 146 120 23 1 1 7 0 4 3 5 21 5 1 10 2 1 21 8 13 0 0 0
1960 BAL AL 31 195 66% 79% 23% 20 95% 0 11 4 7 0 17 12 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 0 1 1 0 5 3 2 0 0 0
1961 WSA AL 32 613 63% 85% 28% 64 94% 0 26 16 7 3 49 41 8 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 8 2 0 4 1 0 7 2 5 1 0 1
1962 PHI NL 33 591 60% 79% 34% 65 85% 0 30 9 18 3 52 38 13 0 0 7 0 3 4 5 11 5 1 3 1 1 11 6 5 0 0 0
1963 PHI NL 34 46 57% 89% 39% 2 100% 0 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons 13629 64% 81% 28% 1463 89% 10 615 289 277 49 1135 875 229 2 7 81 2 66 13 62 198 68 12 67 22 10 187 83 100 6 4 2
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 90%

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%
1955 BOS AL 26 306 67% 85% 29% 32 84% 0 7 4 2 1 22 22 0 0 1 3 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 BOS AL 27 4088 63% 79% 26% 366 90% 3 119 93 12 14 237 196 32 3 9 21 0 19 2 15 18 10 2 14 3 2 1 11 64%
1959 BAL AL 30 1499 70% 83% 28% 129 88% 1 43 35 1 7 84 70 8 0 2 6 0 5 1 3 7 2 0 2 4 3 0 5 80%
1960 BAL AL 31 58 79% 71% 29% 4 100% 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1961 WSA AL 32 1759 70% 81% 27% 158 91% 1 39 30 5 4 112 91 16 1 2 6 0 3 3 6 3 2 0 2 1 1 0 8 63%
1962 PHI NL 33 1477 66% 79% 28% 122 83% 2 42 33 3 6 68 57 8 1 2 2 0 1 1 1 4 1 1 2 2 1 1 4 75%
1963 PHI NL 34 70 50% 79% 26% 4 100% 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 9257 66% 80% 27% 815 89% 7 250 195 23 32 532 442 66 5 17 38 0 31 7 28 33 16 3 21 10 7 2 28 68%
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 89% 62%

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
1959 BAL AL 30 10 70% 70% 10% 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
1960 BAL AL 31 367 68% 78% 25% 32 94% 0 20 7 9 4 30 26 4 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 9 1 5 3 0 9 3 6 0 0 0
1961 WSA AL 32 7 57% 100% 43% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1962 PHI NL 33 293 65% 84% 27% 26 100% 0 21 8 12 2 22 21 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 2 0 0 4 0 3 1 0 1
4 Seasons 677 66% 81% 26% 59 97% 0 41 15 21 6 53 47 5 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 15 2 7 4 0 14 4 9 1 0 1
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 93%

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%
1961 WSA AL 32 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 2 50% 50% 0% 0
1 Season 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 2 50% 50% 0% 0
MLB Averages 58.2% 2.5% 63% 80% 30% 49%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1955 AL (13, 8%)
0.08 Career Shares (972nd)

Assists† s c a p y
1955 AL  411 (4th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1955 AL  31 (2nd)
1956 AL  27 (4th)
1957 AL  25 (3rd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1956 AL  120 (4th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1956 AL  242 (5th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1956 AL  21 (2nd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1955 AL  126 (5th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1955 AL  207 (5th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1955 AL  391 (3rd)
1957 AL  417 (2nd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1955 AL  28 (3rd)
1957 AL  25 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1956 AL  7 (1st)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1956 AL  3.45 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1956 AL  3.42 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1957 AL  13 (1st)
1959 AL  5 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1955 AL  4.89 (5th)
1957 AL  5.45 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1955 AL  4.75 (3rd)
1957 AL  5.26 (3rd)

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