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Bill Merritt

William Henry Merritt

Positions: Catcher and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 7", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: July 30, 1870 in Lowell, MA
School: College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) (All Transactions)
Debut: August 8, 1891
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Reds/Beaneaters/Colonels/Colts 1891-1899

Final Game: October 15, 1899
Died: November 17, 1937 in Lowell, MA
Buried: St. Patrick 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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1891 CHC NL 20 C 11 44 31 11 2 1 .955 3.82 .926 5.79 5 12 10 45% 37%
1891 CHC NL 20 1B 1 11 10 0 1 1 .909 10.00 .978 10.70
1892 LOU NL 21 C 46 248 175 58 15 6 .940 5.07 .936 5.87 24 87 48 36% 37%
1893 BSN NL 22 C 37 163 129 25 9 6 .945 4.16 .936 4.78 14 49 21 30% 37%
1893 BSN NL 22 OF 2 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .920 2.20 2-0-0
1894 TOT NL 23 C 61 259 175 69 15 6 .942 4.00 .924 4.60 14 108 77 42% 37%
1894 TOT NL 23 1B 5 26 25 0 1 0 .962 5.00 .976 9.80
1894 TOT NL 23 OF 4 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 1.25 .914 2.30 2-1-1
1894 BSN NL 23 C 8 42 30 7 5 1 .881 4.63 .924 4.60 1 13 8 38% 37%
1894 BSN NL 23 OF 1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 3.00 .913 2.30 0-1-0
1894 PIT NL 23 C 28 126 85 35 6 5 .952 4.29 .924 4.60 9 50 39 44% 37%
1894 PIT NL 23 1B 4 18 18 0 0 0 1.000 4.50 .976 9.80
1894 PIT NL 23 OF 2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .915 2.30 2-0-0
1894 CIN NL 23 C 25 91 60 27 4 0 .956 3.48 .924 4.60 4 45 30 40% 37%
1894 CIN NL 23 3B 3 13 2 10 1 2 .923 4.00 .878 3.47
1894 CIN NL 23 1B 1 8 7 0 1 0 .875 7.00 .976 9.80
1894 CIN NL 23 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.30 0-0-1
1895 TOT NL 24 C 83 412 310 77 25 10 .939 4.66 .938 4.63 26 160 81 34% 37%
1895 CIN NL 24 C 20 88 65 19 4 3 .955 4.20 .938 4.63 6 33 20 38% 37%
1895 CIN NL 24 2B 1 7 5 1 1 0 .857 6.00 .933 5.70
1895 PIT NL 24 C 63 324 245 58 21 7 .935 4.81 .938 4.63 20 127 61 32% 37%
1895 PIT NL 24 1B 2 29 27 1 1 2 .966 14.00 .978 10.10
1896 PIT NL 25 C 62 337 242 75 20 5 .941 5.11 .943 4.59 14 141 85 38% 37%
1896 PIT NL 25 3B 5 16 3 9 4 0 .750 2.40 .892 3.46
1896 PIT NL 25 1B 3 35 33 2 0 2 1.000 11.67 .980 10.47
1896 PIT NL 25 2B 3 12 4 8 0 1 1.000 4.00 .940 5.53
1896 PIT NL 25 SS 2 6 4 1 1 0 .833 2.50 .903 5.60
1897 PIT NL 26 C 53 259 202 43 14 6 .946 4.62 .948 4.73 8 102 39 28% 37%
1897 PIT NL 26 1B 7 73 68 4 1 4 .986 10.29 .980 10.23
1899 BSN NL 28 C 1 4 2 2 0 0 1.000 4.00 .952 4.60 1 1 2 67% 44%
8 Seasons C 354 1726 1266 360 100 40 .942 4.59 .938 4.85 106 660 363 35% 37%
5 Seasons 1B 18 174 163 7 4 9 .977 9.44 .979 10.16
2 Seasons 3B 8 29 5 19 5 2 .828 3.00 .886 3.46
2 Seasons OF 6 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .915 2.27 4-1-1
2 Seasons 2B 4 19 9 9 1 1 .947 4.50 .937 5.58
1 Season SS 2 6 4 1 1 0 .833 2.50 .903 5.60
8 Seasons TOT 392 1960 1453 396 111 52 .943 4.72 .940 5.03 4-1-1 106 660 363 35% 37%
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO 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
1891 CHC NL 20 11 11 0 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1892 LOU NL 21 46 46 0 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1893 BSN NL 22 39 39 0 37 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0
1894 PIT NL 23 36 36 0 28 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0
1894 CIN NL 23 30 30 0 25 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 1 0
1894 BSN NL 23 10 10 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
1895 PIT NL 24 67 67 0 63 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1895 CIN NL 24 22 22 0 20 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1896 PIT NL 25 77 77 0 62 3 3 5 2 0 0 0 0 0
1897 PIT NL 26 62 62 0 53 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1899 BSN NL 28 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 401 401 0 354 18 4 8 2 4 1 1 6 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1895 NL  83 (5th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1895 NL  310 (4th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1896 NL  75 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1895 NL  25 (4th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1895 NL  26 (3rd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1895 NL  160 (3rd)
1896 NL  141 (5th)
Career  660 (93rd)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1895 NL  81 (5th)
1896 NL  85 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1895 NL  4.66 (4th)

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