Bid McPhee

John Alexander McPhee

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 152 lb.

Born: November 1, 1859 in Massena, NY
Signed as a Free Agent with the Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1882. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 2, 1882
Teams (by GP): Reds/RedStockings 1882-1899

Final Game: October 15, 1899
Died: January 3, 1943 in San Diego, CA
Buried: Cypress View Mausoleum, San Diego, CA
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by Veteran's Committee as Player in 2000.
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Hall of Fame

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
1882	CIN	AA	22	2B	78				523	274	207	42	36	.920		6.17	.882		5.96
1883	CIN	AA	23	2B	96				637	314	277	46	48	.928		6.16	.878		6.09
1884	CIN	AA	24	2B	112				844	415	365	64	74	.924		6.96	.902		5.99
1885	CIN	AA	25	2B	110				740	339	354	47	57	.936		6.30	.901		6.10
1886	CIN	AA	26	2B	140				1058	529	464	65	90	.939		7.09	.908		6.07
1887	CIN	AA	27	2B	129				948	442	434	72	76	.924		6.79	.906		6.04
1888	CIN	AA	28	2B	111				781	369	365	47	65	.940		6.61	.916		5.64
1889	CIN	AA	29	2B	135				925	429	446	50	85	.946		6.48	.917		5.65
1889	CIN	AA	29	3B	1				7	1	4	2	0	.714		5.00	.857		3.60
1890	CIN	NL	30	2B	132				886	404	431	51	62	.942		6.33	.925		5.48
1891	CIN	NL	31	2B	138				923	389	492	42	72	.954		6.38	.929		5.91
1892	CIN	NL	32	2B	144				973	451	471	51	86	.948		6.40	.928		5.63
1893	CIN	NL	33	2B	127				892	396	455	41	101	.954		6.70	.933		5.94
1894	CIN	NL	34	2B	128				892	392	451	49	72	.945		6.59	.928		5.79
1895	CIN	NL	35	2B	115				755	355	366	34	57	.955		6.27	.933		5.70
1896	CIN	NL	36	2B	117				669	297	357	15	56	.978		5.59	.940		5.53
1897	CIN	NL	37	2B	81				493	209	267	17	34	.966		5.88	.936		5.61
1898	CIN	NL	38	2B	130				727	299	396	32	74	.956		5.35	.943		5.62
1898	CIN	NL	38	OF	3				5	3	0	2	0	.600		1.00	.936		2.07	0-0-3
1899	CIN	NL	39	2B	106				597	249	321	27	43	.955		5.38	.941		5.55
1899	CIN	NL	39	OF	1				0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.20	0-1-0
	18 Seasons			2B	2129				14263	6552	6919	792	1188	.944		6.33	.919		5.79
	2 Seasons			OF	4				5	3	0	2	0	.600		0.75	.936		2.10	0-1-3
	1 Season			3B	1				7	1	4	2	0	.714		5.00	.857		3.60
	18 Seasons			TOT	2134				14275	6556	6923	796	1188	.944		6.32	.919		5.78	0-1-3
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.

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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.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR
1882	CIN	AA	22	78		78		0	0	0	78	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1883	CIN	AA	23	96		96		0	0	0	96	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1884	CIN	AA	24	112		112		0	0	0	112	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1885	CIN	AA	25	110		110		0	0	0	110	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1886	CIN	AA	26	140		140		0	0	0	140	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1887	CIN	AA	27	129		129		0	0	0	129	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1888	CIN	AA	28	111		111		0	0	0	111	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1889	CIN	AA	29	135		135		0	0	0	135	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1890	CIN	NL	30	132		132		0	0	0	132	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1891	CIN	NL	31	138		138		0	0	0	138	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1892	CIN	NL	32	144		144		0	0	0	144	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1893	CIN	NL	33	127		127		0	0	0	127	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1894	CIN	NL	34	128		128		0	0	0	128	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1895	CIN	NL	35	115		115		0	0	0	115	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1896	CIN	NL	36	117		117		0	0	0	117	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1897	CIN	NL	37	81		81		0	0	0	81	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1898	CIN	NL	38	133		133		0	0	0	130	0	0	0	0	3	3	0
1899	CIN	NL	39	112		112		0	0	0	106	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
	18 Seasons			2138		2138		0	0	0	2129	1	0	0	1	3	4	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 2000 Veterans (inducted) Selected to HOF in 2000 by Veteran's Committee	Assists† s c a p y 1883 AA 277 (3rd) 1884 AA 365 (4th) 1886 AA 464 (2nd) 1887 AA 434 (1st) 1891 NL 492 (2nd) 1893 NL 455 (5th) 1894 NL 451 (5th) Career 6,923 (15th)	Errors Committed† s c a p y Career 796 (18th)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1882 AA 78 (1st) 1883 AA 96 (1st) 1884 AA 112 (1st) 1885 AA 110 (1st) 1886 AA 140 (2nd) 1887 AA 129 (2nd) 1888 AA 111 (5th) 1889 AA 135 (2nd) 1890 NL 132 (2nd) 1891 NL 138 (2nd) 1892 NL 144 (4th) 1893 NL 127 (5th) 1894 NL 128 (4th) Career 2,129 (9th)
Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1882 AA 274 (1st) 1883 AA 314 (1st) 1884 AA 415 (1st) 1885 AA 339 (2nd) 1886 AA 529 (1st) 1887 AA 442 (2nd) 1888 AA 369 (2nd) 1889 AA 429 (2nd) 1890 NL 404 (1st) 1891 NL 389 (2nd) 1892 NL 451 (1st) 1893 NL 396 (1st) 1894 NL 392 (1st) 1895 NL 355 (2nd) 1896 NL 297 (4th) Career 6,552 (1st)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1882 AA 207 (3rd) 1883 AA 277 (1st) 1884 AA 365 (3rd) 1885 AA 354 (2nd) 1886 AA 464 (1st) 1887 AA 434 (1st) 1888 AA 365 (2nd) 1889 AA 446 (1st) 1890 NL 431 (1st) 1891 NL 492 (1st) 1892 NL 471 (3rd) 1893 NL 455 (2nd) 1894 NL 451 (3rd) 1896 NL 357 (5th) Career 6,919 (4th)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1882 AA 42 (4th) 1884 AA 64 (4th) 1885 AA 47 (5th) 1886 AA 65 (5th) 1887 AA 72 (5th) 1888 AA 47 (5th) 1890 NL 51 (2nd) 1891 NL 42 (5th) Career 792 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1882 AA 6.17 (3rd) 1883 AA 6.16 (5th) 1884 AA 6.96 (1st) 1885 AA 6.30 (4th) 1886 AA 7.09 (1st) 1887 AA 6.79 (1st) 1888 AA 6.61 (1st) 1889 AA 6.48 (2nd) 1890 NL 6.33 (1st) 1891 NL 6.38 (3rd) 1892 NL 6.40 (1st) 1893 NL 6.70 (2nd) 1894 NL 6.59 (1st) 1895 NL 6.27 (1st) 1896 NL 5.59 (5th) 1897 NL 5.88 (4th) Career 6.33 (4th)
Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1882 AA .920 (1st) 1883 AA .928 (1st) 1884 AA .924 (3rd) 1885 AA .936 (1st) 1886 AA .939 (1st) 1887 AA .924 (2nd) 1888 AA .940 (1st) 1889 AA .946 (1st) 1890 NL .942 (4th) 1891 NL .954 (1st) 1892 NL .948 (3rd) 1893 NL .954 (2nd) 1894 NL .945 (3rd) 1895 NL .955 (2nd) 1896 NL .978 (1st) 1897 NL .966 (1st) 1898 NL .956 (3rd) 1899 NL .955 (2nd)	Oldest s c a p y 1896 NL born 1859-11-01 (8th) 1897 NL born 1859-11-01 (6th) 1898 NL born 1859-11-01 (1st) 1899 NL born 1859-11-01 (1st)

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