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Tommy Leach

Thomas William Leach

Positions: Centerfielder and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 6", Weight: 150 lb.

Born: November 4, 1877 in French Creek, NY(All Transactions)
Debut: September 28, 1898
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Cubs/Colonels/Reds 1898-1918

Final Game: September 2, 1918
Died: September 29, 1969 in Haines City, FL
Buried: Forest Hill Cemetery, Haines City, FL
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
1898 LOU NL 20 3B 3 11 2 6 3 0 .727 2.67 .902 3.47
1898 LOU NL 20 2B 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .940 5.60
1899 LOU NL 21 3B 80 369 135 200 34 13 .908 4.19 .902 3.59
1899 LOU NL 21 SS 25 156 56 75 25 3 .840 5.24 .910 5.65
1899 LOU NL 21 2B 2 8 3 3 2 1 .750 3.00 .941 5.55
1900 PIT NL 22 3B 31 132 45 69 18 4 .864 3.68 .895 3.82
1900 PIT NL 22 SS 8 36 12 20 4 2 .889 4.00 .922 5.88
1900 PIT NL 22 2B 7 46 16 28 2 3 .957 6.29 .938 5.27
1900 PIT NL 22 OF 4 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.25 .940 2.17 2-0-2
1901 PIT NL 23 3B 92 352 122 196 34 9 .903 3.46 .888 3.21
1901 PIT NL 23 SS 4 21 8 12 1 2 .952 5.00 .925 5.72
1902 PIT NL 24 3B 134 525 170 316 39 10 .926 3.63 .913 3.50
1903 PIT NL 25 3B 127 535 178 292 65 16 .879 3.70 .913 3.44
1904 PIT NL 26 3B 146 643 212 371 60 18 .907 3.99 .899 3.24
1905 PIT NL 27 OF 71 171 158 11 2 2 .988 2.38 .955 1.97 16-51-6
1905 PIT NL 27 3B 58 217 80 123 14 13 .935 3.50 .921 3.20
1905 PIT NL 27 2B 2 5 2 3 0 0 1.000 2.50 .944 5.20
1905 PIT NL 27 SS 2 9 5 4 0 0 1.000 4.50 .931 5.60
1906 PIT NL 28 3B 65 224 73 135 16 4 .929 3.20 .931 3.23
1906 PIT NL 28 OF 60 141 131 6 4 0 .972 2.28 .959 1.89 15-44-1
1906 PIT NL 28 SS 1 7 5 2 0 0 1.000 7.00 .933 5.40
1907 PIT NL 29 OF 111 305 284 15 6 5 .980 2.69 .960 1.98 2-109-0
1907 PIT NL 29 3B 33 125 45 65 15 5 .880 3.33 .928 3.36
1907 PIT NL 29 SS 6 21 3 15 3 2 .857 3.00 .932 5.18
1907 PIT NL 29 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.20
1908 PIT NL 30 3B 150 525 199 293 33 19 .937 3.28 .932 3.31
1908 PIT NL 30 OF 2 8 6 2 0 0 1.000 4.00 .960 2.05 0-2-0
1909 PIT NL 31 OF 138 356 333 12 11 3 .969 2.50 .961 2.07 0-138-0
1909 PIT NL 31 3B 13 50 22 26 2 2 .960 3.69 .930 3.31
1910 PIT NL 32 OF 131 379 352 14 13 4 .966 2.79 .959 2.17 0-131-0
1910 PIT NL 32 SS 2 9 5 3 1 1 .889 4.00 .924 5.20
1910 PIT NL 32 2B 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 5.20
1911 PIT NL 33 OF 89 226 208 15 3 3 .987 2.51 .960 2.15 1-89-0
1911 PIT NL 33 SS 13 49 18 27 4 3 .918 3.46 .925 5.12
1911 PIT NL 33 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.10
1912 TOT NL 34 OF 97 267 246 15 6 7 .978 2.69 .956 2.24 0-97-0
1912 PIT NL 34 OF 24 70 65 4 1 3 .986 2.88 .956 2.24 0-24-0
1912 CHC NL 34 OF 73 197 181 11 5 4 .975 2.63 .956 2.24 0-73-0
1912 CHC NL 34 3B 4 17 9 7 1 0 .941 4.00 .935 3.15
1913 CHC NL 35 OF 121 289 271 15 3 5 .990 2.36 .960 2.21 3-118-0
1913 CHC NL 35 3B 2 11 6 2 3 0 .727 4.00 .935 3.10
1914 CHC NL 36 OF 136 348 321 16 11 5 .968 2.48 .957 2.13 0-136-0
1914 CHC NL 36 3B 16 58 25 26 7 0 .879 3.19 .931 3.20
1915 CIN NL 37 OF 96 218 200 9 9 2 .959 2.18 .959 2.12 17-81-0
1918 PIT NL 40 OF 23 17 17 42 37 3 2 1 .952 1.74 .962 2.26 18-0-4
1918 PIT NL 40 LF 18 15 15 35 31 2 2 1 .943 1.83 .965 2.22
1918 PIT NL 40 RF 4 2 2 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0.75 .963 1.85
1918 PIT NL 40 SS 3 2 2 13 3 7 3 1 .769 3.33 .934 5.80
13 Seasons OF 1079 17 17 2751 2548 133 70 37 .975 2.48 .959 2.11 92-996-17
16 Seasons 3B 955 3794 1323 2127 344 113 .909 3.61 .912 3.36
9 Seasons SS 64 2 2 321 115 165 41 14 .872 4.38 .919 5.52
1 Season (incomplete) LF 18 15 15 35 31 2 2 1 .943 1.83 .965 2.22
6 Seasons 2B 14 61 22 35 4 4 .934 4.07 .939 5.31
1 Season (incomplete) RF 4 2 2 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0.75 .963 1.85
19 Seasons TOT 2112 19 19 6927 4008 2460 459 168 .934 3.06 .931 2.80 92-996-17
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G 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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1898 LOU NL 20 3 3 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
1899 LOU NL 21 106 106 0 0 0 2 80 25 0 0 0 0 0
1900 PIT NL 22 51 51 0 0 0 7 31 8 2 0 2 4 0
1901 PIT NL 23 98 98 0 0 0 0 92 4 0 0 0 0 0
1902 PIT NL 24 135 135 0 0 0 0 134 0 0 0 0 0 0
1903 PIT NL 25 127 127 0 0 0 0 127 0 0 0 0 0 0
1904 PIT NL 26 146 146 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0
1905 PIT NL 27 131 131 0 0 0 2 58 2 16 51 6 71 0
1906 PIT NL 28 133 133 0 0 0 0 65 1 15 44 1 60 0
1907 PIT NL 29 149 149 0 0 0 1 33 6 2 109 0 111 0
1908 PIT NL 30 152 152 0 0 0 0 150 0 0 2 0 2 0
1909 PIT NL 31 151 151 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 138 0 138 0
1910 PIT NL 32 135 135 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 131 0 131 0
1911 PIT NL 33 108 108 0 0 0 0 1 13 1 89 0 89 0
1912 CHC NL 34 82 82 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 73 0 73 0
1912 PIT NL 34 28 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 0 24 0
1913 CHC NL 35 131 131 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 118 0 121 0
1914 CHC NL 36 153 153 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 136 0 136 0
1915 CIN NL 37 107 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 81 0 96 0
1918 PIT NL 40 30 30 0 0 0 0 0 3 18 0 4 23 0
19 Seasons 2156 2156 0 0 0 14 955 64 74 996 13 1079 0
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
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

Hall of Fame
1937 BBWAA ( 0.5%)
1939 BBWAA ( 0.4%)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1903 NL  65 (4th)
1904 NL  60 (5th)
Career  459 (95th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1901 NL  92 (5th)
1902 NL  134 (2nd)
1903 NL  127 (2nd)
1904 NL  146 (1st)
1908 NL  150 (2nd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1901 NL  122 (5th)
1902 NL  170 (5th)
1903 NL  178 (3rd)
1904 NL  212 (1st)
1908 NL  199 (2nd)
Career  1,323 (53rd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1901 NL  196 (3rd)
1902 NL  316 (1st)
1903 NL  292 (2nd)
1904 NL  371 (1st)
1908 NL  293 (2nd)
Career  2,127 (81st)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1901 NL  34 (4th)
1902 NL  39 (4th)
1903 NL  65 (1st)
1904 NL  60 (1st)
1908 NL  33 (5th)
Career  344 (22nd)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1909 NL  333 (3rd)
1910 NL  352 (4th)
1914 NL  321 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1899 NL  4.19 (1st)
1901 NL  3.46 (2nd)
1902 NL  3.63 (2nd)
1903 NL  3.70 (1st)
1904 NL  3.99 (1st)
1908 NL  3.28 (5th)
Career  3.61 (6th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1901 NL  .903 (4th)
1902 NL  .926 (4th)
1904 NL  .907 (5th)
1908 NL  .937 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1907 NL  2.69 (1st)
1909 NL  2.50 (1st)
1910 NL  2.79 (1st)
1911 NL  2.51 (4th)
1912 NL  2.69 (1st)
1914 NL  2.48 (2nd)
Career  2.48 (82nd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1907 NL  .980 (2nd)
1911 NL  .987 (1st)
1912 NL  .978 (1st)
1913 NL  .990 (1st)

Oldest s c a p y
1914 NL  born 1877-11-04 (6th)
1915 NL  born 1877-11-04 (3rd)
1918 NL  born 1877-11-04 (2nd)

Youngest s c a p y
1898 NL  born 1877-11-04 (8th)

                                         

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