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Alex McKinnon

Alexander J. McKinnon

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Unknown
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: August 14, 1856 in Boston, MA (All Transactions)
Debut: May 1, 1884
Teams (by GP): Maroons/Gothams/PittsburghAlleghenys 1884-1887

Final Game: July 4, 1887
Died: July 24, 1887 in Charlestown, MA
Buried: Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, MA
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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
1884 NYG NL 27 1B 116 1181 1097 31 53 57 .955 9.72 .962 10.47
1885 SLM NL 28 1B 100 1153 1102 26 25 50 .978 11.28 .970 10.85
1886 SLM NL 29 1B 119 1251 1170 35 46 61 .963 10.13 .968 10.35
1886 SLM NL 29 OF 3 6 5 0 1 0 .833 1.67 .890 1.73 0-3-0
1887 PIT NL 30 1B 48 520 483 25 12 27 .977 10.58 .974 10.53
4 Seasons 1B 383 4105 3852 117 136 195 .967 10.36 .968 10.54
1 Season OF 3 6 5 0 1 0 .833 1.67 .890 1.73 0-3-0
4 Seasons TOT 386 4111 3857 117 137 195 .967 10.30 .967 10.47 0-3-0
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
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
1884 NYG NL 27 116 116 0 0 116 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1885 SLM NL 28 100 100 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1886 SLM NL 29 122 122 0 0 119 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0
1887 PIT NL 30 48 48 0 0 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 386 386 0 0 383 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0
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
1884 NL  1,097 (5th)
1885 NL  1,102 (4th)
1886 NL  1,175 (5th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1884 NL  116 (1st)
1885 NL  100 (5th)
1886 NL  119 (4th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1884 NL  1,097 (5th)
1885 NL  1,102 (4th)
1886 NL  1,170 (5th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1884 NL  31 (4th)
1886 NL  35 (5th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1884 NL  53 (2nd)
1886 NL  46 (2nd)
Career  136 (68th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1885 NL  11.28 (2nd)
1886 NL  10.13 (5th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1885 NL  .978 (1st)
1886 NL  .963 (5th)

             

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