Red Murray

John Joseph Murray

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: March 4, 1884 in Arnot, PA
High School: Arnot HS (Arnot, PA)
Schools: Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania (Lock Haven, PA), University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN) (All Transactions)
Debut: June 16, 1906
Teams (by GP): Giants/Cardinals/Cubs 1906-1917

Final Game: October 3, 1917
Died: December 4, 1958 in Sayre, PA
Buried: St. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Elmira, NY
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	Awards
1906	STL	NL	22	OF	34	52	43	7	2	0	.962	1.47	.959	1.89	4-11-20
1906	STL	NL	22	C	7	43	30	10	3	2	.930	5.71	.970	6.26		3	12	7	37%	45%
1907	STL	NL	23	OF	131	275	232	25	18	4	.935	1.96	.960	1.98	124-1-6
1908	STL	NL	24	OF	154	324	274	22	28	4	.914	1.92	.960	2.04	0-89-67
1909	NYG	NL	25	OF	149	266	222	30	14	1	.947	1.69	.961	2.07	29-0-120
1910	NYG	NL	26	OF	148	287	246	26	15	3	.948	1.84	.959	2.17	24-0-124
1911	NYG	NL	27	OF	131	218	196	12	10	4	.954	1.59	.960	2.15	50-2-83
1912	NYG	NL	28	OF	143	284	255	20	9	7	.968	1.92	.956	2.24	27-0-117						MVP-16
1913	NYG	NL	29	OF	147	314	279	24	11	3	.965	2.06	.960	2.21	32-1-116						MVP-19
1914	NYG	NL	30	OF	49	58	56	2	0	0	1.000	1.18	.957	2.13	16-0-34
1915	TOT	NL	31	OF	74	162	148	8	6	2	.963	2.11	.959	2.12	8-41-28
1915	NYG	NL	31	OF	34	73	66	4	3	1	.959	2.06	.959	2.12	1-30-3
1915	CHC	NL	31	OF	40	89	82	4	3	1	.966	2.15	.959	2.12	7-11-25
1915	CHC	NL	31	2B	1	4	0	4	0	0	1.000	4.00	.955	5.00
1917	NYG	NL	33	OF	11	11	11	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.963	2.20	4-4-3
1917	NYG	NL	33	C	1	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.00	.975	6.00		0	0	0
	11 Seasons			OF	1171	2251	1962	176	113	28	.950	1.83	.959	2.12	318-149-718
	2 Seasons			C	8	45	32	10	3	2	.933	5.25	.970	6.22		3	12	7	37%	45%
	1 Season			2B	1	4	0	4	0	0	1.000	4.00	.955	5.00
	11 Seasons			TOT	1180	2300	1994	190	116	30	.950	1.85	.960	2.15	318-149-718	3	12	7	37%	45%

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	C	2B	LF	CF	RF	OF
1906	STL	NL	22	46	46	7	0	4	11	20	34
1907	STL	NL	23	132	132	0	0	124	1	6	131
1908	STL	NL	24	154	154	0	0	0	89	67	154
1909	NYG	NL	25	149	149	0	0	29	0	120	149
1910	NYG	NL	26	149	149	0	0	24	0	124	148
1911	NYG	NL	27	140	140	0	0	50	2	83	131
1912	NYG	NL	28	143	143	0	0	27	0	117	143
1913	NYG	NL	29	147	147	0	0	32	1	116	147
1914	NYG	NL	30	86	86	0	0	16	0	34	49
1915	CHC	NL	31	51	51	0	1	7	11	25	40
1915	NYG	NL	31	45	45	0	0	1	30	3	34
1917	NYG	NL	33	22	22	1	0	4	4	3	11
	11 Seasons			1264	1264	8	1	318	149	718	1171

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 1937 BBWAA ( 0.5%) 1938 BBWAA ( 0.4%)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1912 NL (16, 8%) 1913 NL (19, 6%) 0.14 Career Shares (826th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1908 NL 154 (3rd) 1913 NL 147 (4th)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1907 NL 25 (3rd) 1908 NL 22 (4th) 1909 NL 30 (1st) 1910 NL 26 (1st) 1913 NL 24 (2nd) Career 176 (74th)
Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1907 NL 18 (1st) 1908 NL 28 (1st) 1909 NL 14 (4th)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1912 NL .968 (3rd)

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