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Tom McLaughlin

Thomas McLaughlin

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right

Born: March 28, 1860 in Louisville, KY (All Transactions)
Debut: July 17, 1883
Teams (by GP): Eclipse/Colonels/Metropolitans/Statesmen 1883-1891

Final Game: October 3, 1891
Died: July 21, 1921 in Louisville, KY
Buried: St. Michael Cemetery, Louisville, KY
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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
1883 LOU AA 23 SS 19 90 17 59 14 5 .844 4.00 .836 3.94
1883 LOU AA 23 OF 17 40 30 3 7 0 .825 1.94 .851 1.80 8-9-1
1883 LOU AA 23 1B 5 54 51 2 1 3 .981 10.60 .951 10.68
1883 LOU AA 23 2B 2 11 5 4 2 0 .818 4.50 .878 6.10
1883 LOU AA 23 3B 2 9 2 4 3 0 .667 3.00 .840 3.35
1884 LOU AA 24 SS 94 508 122 331 55 34 .892 4.82 .862 4.28
1884 LOU AA 24 3B 4 16 4 10 2 2 .875 3.50 .848 2.98
1884 LOU AA 24 2B 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .900 6.00
1885 LOU AA 25 2B 93 664 320 266 78 43 .883 6.30 .901 6.10
1885 LOU AA 25 SS 19 105 31 64 10 7 .905 5.00 .879 4.69
1886 NYP AA 26 SS 63 334 93 203 38 11 .886 4.70 .854 4.56
1886 NYP AA 26 2B 10 65 32 29 4 6 .938 6.10 .908 6.07
1886 NYP AA 26 OF 1 3 1 1 1 0 .667 2.00 .877 1.80 1-0-0
1891 WAS AA 31 SS 14 70 25 36 9 6 .871 4.36 .879 5.14
5 Seasons SS 209 1107 288 693 126 63 .886 4.69 .860 4.43
4 Seasons 2B 106 741 357 300 84 49 .887 6.20 .901 6.10
2 Seasons OF 18 43 31 4 8 0 .814 1.94 .853 1.80 9-9-1
2 Seasons 3B 6 25 6 14 5 2 .800 3.33 .845 3.10
1 Season 1B 5 54 51 2 1 3 .981 10.60 .951 10.68
5 Seasons TOT 344 1970 733 1013 224 117 .886 5.08 .878 4.87 9-9-1
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
1883 LOU AA 23 42 42 0 0 5 2 2 19 8 9 1 17 0
1884 LOU AA 24 98 98 0 0 0 1 4 94 0 0 0 0 0
1885 LOU AA 25 112 112 0 0 0 93 0 19 0 0 0 0 0
1886 NYP AA 26 74 74 0 0 0 10 0 63 1 0 0 1 0
1891 WAS AA 31 14 14 0 0 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 340 340 0 0 5 106 6 209 9 9 1 18 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

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1885 AA  88 (1st)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1885 AA  93 (5th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1885 AA  320 (3rd)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1885 AA  266 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1885 AA  78 (2nd)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1884 AA  122 (3rd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1884 AA  331 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1885 AA  6.30 (3rd)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1885 AA  .883 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1884 AA  4.82 (2nd)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1884 AA  .892 (2nd)

             

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