Al Myers

James Albert Myers (Cod)

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: October 22, 1863 in Danville, IL (All Transactions)
Debut: September 27, 1884
Teams (by GP): Nationals/Phillies/Quakers/Cowboys/Brewers 1884-1891

Final Game: October 3, 1891
Died: December 24, 1927 in Marshall, IL
Buried: Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, IN
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
1884	MIL	UA	20	2B	12	66	26	30	10	1	.848	4.67	.869	5.47
1885	PHI	NL	21	2B	93	552	201	287	64	31	.884	5.25	.899	5.76
1886	KCN	NL	22	2B	118	747	298	384	65	50	.913	5.78	.908	5.54
1887	WHS	NL	23	2B	78	485	193	248	44	23	.909	5.65	.911	5.87
1887	WHS	NL	23	SS	27	177	51	93	33	6	.814	5.33	.890	5.01
1888	WHS	NL	24	2B	132	730	271	399	60	37	.918	5.08	.920	5.67
1889	TOT	NL	25	2B	121	844	339	409	96	59	.886	6.18	.925	6.15
1889	WHS	NL	25	2B	46	313	147	148	18	26	.942	6.41	.925	6.15
1889	PHI	NL	25	2B	75	531	192	261	78	33	.853	6.04	.925	6.15
1890	PHI	NL	26	2B	117	737	347	352	38	62	.948	5.97	.925	5.48
1891	PHI	NL	27	2B	135	845	354	438	53	67	.937	5.87	.929	5.91
	8 Seasons			2B	806	5006	2029	2547	430	330	.914	5.68	.917	5.76
	1 Season			SS	27	177	51	93	33	6	.814	5.33	.890	5.01
	8 Seasons			TOT	833	5183	2080	2640	463	336	.911	5.67	.917	5.74

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.
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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	2B	SS
1884	MIL	UA	20	12	12	12	0
1885	PHI	NL	21	93	93	93	0
1886	KCN	NL	22	118	118	118	0
1887	WHS	NL	23	105	105	78	27
1888	WHS	NL	24	132	132	132	0
1889	PHI	NL	25	75	75	75	0
1889	WHS	NL	25	46	46	46	0
1890	PHI	NL	26	117	117	117	0
1891	PHI	NL	27	135	135	135	0
	8 Seasons			833	833	806	27

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

Assists† s c a p y 1886 NL 384 (3rd) 1888 NL 399 (5th)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1887 NL 77 (2nd) 1889 NL 96 (1st) Career 463 (91st)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1885 NL 93 (4th) 1886 NL 118 (3rd) 1887 NL 78 (5th) 1888 NL 132 (3rd) 1889 NL 121 (5th) 1890 NL 117 (4th) 1891 NL 135 (4th)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1885 NL 201 (4th) 1886 NL 298 (4th) 1888 NL 271 (3rd) 1889 NL 339 (4th) 1890 NL 347 (2nd) 1891 NL 354 (4th)
Assists as 2B s c a p y 1885 NL 287 (4th) 1886 NL 384 (2nd) 1887 NL 248 (5th) 1888 NL 399 (4th) 1889 NL 409 (5th) 1890 NL 352 (4th) 1891 NL 438 (4th)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1885 NL 64 (3rd) 1886 NL 65 (2nd) 1887 NL 44 (5th) 1888 NL 60 (2nd) 1889 NL 96 (1st) 1890 NL 38 (5th) 1891 NL 53 (4th) Career 430 (16th)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1885 NL 5.25 (5th) 1886 NL 5.78 (4th) 1888 NL 5.08 (5th) 1889 NL 6.18 (4th) 1890 NL 5.97 (3rd) 1891 NL 5.87 (5th) Career 5.68 (35th)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1886 NL .913 (4th) 1888 NL .918 (5th) 1890 NL .948 (2nd) 1891 NL .937 (4th)

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