Lloyd Merriman

Lloyd Archer Merriman (Citation)

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: August 2, 1924 in Clovis, CA
School: Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
Signed by the Cincinnati Reds as an amateur free agent in 1948. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 24, 1949
Teams (by GP): Reds/Redlegs/Cubs/WhiteSox 1949-1955

Final Game: September 17, 1955
Died: January 20, 2004 in Fresno, CA
Cremated
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1949	CIN	NL	24	OF	86	60	58		228	214	7	7	1	.969				2.57	.977		2.48
1949	CIN	NL	24	CF	85	60	58		224	211	6	7	1	.969				2.55	.978		2.89
1949	CIN	NL	24	LF	1	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000				1.00	.970		2.40
1950	CIN	NL	25	OF	84	71	65	657.2	187	181	4	2	1	.989			2.53	2.20	.978	2.34	2.31
1950	CIN	NL	25	CF	81	69	63	635.2	177	171	4	2	1	.989			2.48	2.16	.980	2.76	2.73
1950	CIN	NL	25	LF	2	1	1	14.0	8	8	0	0	0	1.000			5.14	4.00	.978	2.31	2.25
1950	CIN	NL	25	RF	1	1	1	8.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000			3.38	3.00	.977	1.91	1.80
1951	CIN	NL	26	OF	102	89	78	822.2	315	309	5	1	2	.997			3.44	3.08	.981	2.42	2.41
1951	CIN	NL	26	CF	77	72	62	630.0	230	225	4	1	2	.996			3.27	2.97	.983	2.89	2.87
1951	CIN	NL	26	LF	31	17	16	192.2	87	86	1	0	0	1.000			4.06	2.81	.977	2.32	2.32
1954	CIN	NL	29	OF	25	22	17	192.0	52	51	0	1	0	.981	-2	-10	2.39	2.04	.975	2.36	2.34
1954	CIN	NL	29	RF	16	15	12	130.0	38	38	0	0	0	1.000	1	9	2.63	2.38	.970	1.95	1.94
1954	CIN	NL	29	LF	9	7	5	62.0	14	13	0	1	0	.929	-3	-50	1.89	1.44	.971	2.18	2.17
1955	CHC	NL	30	OF	47	32	31	311.0	86	82	2	2	2	.977	1	4	2.43	1.79	.977	2.30	2.28
1955	CHC	NL	30	CF	37	32	31	286.2	76	72	2	2	2	.974	-0	-2	2.32	2.00	.982	2.61	2.59
1955	CHC	NL	30	LF	9	0	0	16.1	7	7	0	0	0	1.000	1	81	3.86	0.78	.971	2.04	2.03
1955	CHC	NL	30	RF	3	0	0	8.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	60	2.25	0.67	.975	2.02	1.97
	5 Seasons			OF	344	274	249	1983.1	868	837	18	13	6	.985	-0	-0	2.88	2.49	.979	2.37	2.38
	4 Seasons			CF	280	233	214	1552.1	707	679	16	12	6	.983	-0	-0	2.77	2.48	.981	2.78	2.80
	5 Seasons			LF	52	25	22	285.0	117	115	1	1	0	.991	-1	-6	3.63	2.23	.976	2.27	2.24
	3 Seasons			RF	20	16	13	146.0	43	43	0	0	0	1.000	1	12	2.65	2.15	.971	1.95	1.93
	5 Seasons			TOT	344	274	249	1983.1	868	837	18	13	6	.985	-0	-0	2.88	2.49	.979	2.37	2.38
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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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
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rof
1949	CIN	NL	24	CF
1949	CIN	NL	24	LF
1950	CIN	NL	25	CF
1950	CIN	NL	25	LF
1950	CIN	NL	25	RF
1951	CIN	NL	26	CF
1951	CIN	NL	26	LF
1954	CIN	NL	29	RF	1	9	1	1	-0	0
1954	CIN	NL	29	LF	-3	-50	-2	-1	-1	-1
1955	CHC	NL	30	CF	-0	-2	1	1	-0	-1
1955	CHC	NL	30	LF	1	81	1	0	1	0
1955	CHC	NL	30	RF	0	60	0	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			CF	-0	-0	1	1	-0	-1
	5 Seasons			LF	-1	-6	-0	-1	0	-1
	3 Seasons			RF	1	12	1	1	0	0
	5 Seasons			TOT	-0	-0	1	1	0	-2

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1949	CIN	NL	24	103	60	103	86	1	85	0	86	15	9
1950	CIN	NL	25	92	71	92	84	2	81	1	84	8	6
1951	CIN	NL	26	114	89	114	102	31	77	0	102	15	2
1954	CIN	NL	29	73	22	73	25	9	0	16	25	49	0
1955	CHC	NL	30	72	32	72	49	9	37	3	49	22	6
1955	CHW	AL	30	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	5 Seasons			455	274	455	346	52	280	20	346	110	23

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.

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1949	CIN	NL	24	2	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	1	9	5	0	6	0	1	4	0	0	7	1	0	10	6	0	36	12	33.3%	23	1	2.8%	2	1433	72%	84%	33%	158	80%
1950	CIN	NL	25	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	25	17	0	11	0	0	3	1	0	16	1	0	21	17	0	76	36	47.4%	40	0	0.0%	2	2152	67%	81%	31%	194	64%
1951	CIN	NL	26	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	23	15	0	14	1	0	4	0	0	8	0	0	19	17	0	68	33	48.5%	35	0	0.0%	2	2106	64%	85%	32%	243	68%
1955	CHC	NL	30	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	7	4	0	6	2	0	4	1	0	3	0	1	3	2	0	23	9	39.1%	13	1	4.3%	1	1007	67%	80%	32%	99	64%
	4 Seasons			4	0	4	0	0	9	0	0	2	2	64	41	0	37	3	1	15	2	0	34	2	1	53	42	0	203	90	44.3%	111	2	1.0%	7	6698	67%	83%	32%	694	69%
	MLB Averages																														45.4%			2.9%			63%	82%	31%		60%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1949	CIN	NL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	19	79%	79%	21%	2	50%
1950	CIN	NL	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	22	64%	95%	41%	2	100%
1951	CIN	NL	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	5	5	0	13	9	69.2%	4	0	0.0%	0	527	72%	81%	38%	84	69%
1954	CIN	NL	29	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	11	4	36.4%	7	0	0.0%	0	265	68%	82%	38%	22	59%
1955	CHC	NL	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	3	3	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	62	58%	79%	44%	8	88%
	5 Seasons			1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	5	0	4	1	0	1	0	0	4	1	0	9	9	0	27	16	59.3%	11	0	0.0%	0	895	70%	81%	38%	118	69%
	MLB Averages																														57.8%			2.6%			63%	82%	31%		51%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1950	CIN	NL	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	3	2	66.7%	1	0	0.0%	0	41	66%	80%	32%	6	50%
1954	CIN	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	5	3	0	12	6	50.0%	6	0	0.0%	0	572	65%	84%	33%	54	70%
1955	CHC	NL	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	18	44%	89%	61%	3	67%
	3 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	6	4	0	15	8	53.3%	7	0	0.0%	0	631	64%	84%	34%	63	68%
	MLB Averages																														43.8%			3.4%			63%	82%	31%		55%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1949 NL 211 (5th) 1951 NL 225 (5th)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1949 NL 7 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1951 NL 3.27 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1949 NL 2.55 (3rd) 1951 NL 2.97 (3rd)
Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1950 NL .989 (3rd) 1951 NL .996 (1st)	Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1954 NL 1 (5th)	Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y 1951 NL 3.44 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1949 NL 2.57 (4th) 1951 NL 3.08 (2nd)
Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1950 NL .989 (5th) 1951 NL .997 (2nd)

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