George Myers

George D. Myers

Positions: Catcher, Outfielder and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: November 13, 1860 in Buffalo, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: May 2, 1884
Teams (by GP): Hoosiers/Bisons/Maroons 1884-1889

Final Game: August 3, 1889
Died: December 14, 1926 in Buffalo, NY
Buried: Holy Cross Cemetery, Lackawanna, NY
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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
1884	BUF	NL	23	C	49				393	271	58	64	4	.837		6.71	.895		7.37		53
1884	BUF	NL	23	OF	34				66	49	3	14	1	.788		1.53	.867		1.79	16-18-0
1885	BUF	NL	24	C	69				445	305	95	45	4	.899		5.80	.893		6.63		57
1885	BUF	NL	24	OF	23				45	36	1	8	0	.822		1.61	.881		1.85	0-21-1
1886	SLM	NL	25	C	72				483	368	80	35	8	.928		6.22	.918		7.16		65
1886	SLM	NL	25	OF	6				8	7	0	1	0	.875		1.17	.890		1.75	0-5-1
1886	SLM	NL	25	3B	1				7	3	2	2	0	.714		5.00	.866		3.30
1887	IND	NL	26	C	50				252	176	58	18	8	.929		4.68	.906		6.12		43
1887	IND	NL	26	OF	15				23	21	1	1	1	.957		1.47	.883		1.97	3-7-5
1887	IND	NL	26	1B	6				41	38	3	0	4	1.000		6.83	.974		10.53
1887	IND	NL	26	3B	1				2	1	1	0	0	1.000		2.00	.870		3.40
1888	IND	NL	27	C	47				295	211	63	21	4	.929		5.83	.912		6.83		27
1888	IND	NL	27	3B	14				30	6	16	8	2	.733		1.57	.877		3.13
1888	IND	NL	27	OF	10				23	15	6	2	0	.913		2.10	.906		1.91	2-1-7
1888	IND	NL	27	1B	1				4	3	0	1	0	.750		3.00	.978		10.50
1889	IND	NL	28	OF	23				66	52	8	6	1	.909		2.61	.910		2.00	6-17-0
1889	IND	NL	28	C	18				94	54	28	12	0	.872		4.56	.910		6.00		11
1889	IND	NL	28	1B	1				1	0	1	0	0	1.000		1.00	.970		10.40
	6 Seasons			C	305				1962	1385	382	195	28	.901		5.79	.905		6.78		256
	6 Seasons			OF	111				231	180	19	32	3	.861		1.79	.888		1.88	27-69-14
	3 Seasons			3B	16				39	10	19	10	2	.744		1.81	.875		3.16
	3 Seasons			1B	8				46	41	4	1	4	.978		5.63	.974		10.51
	6 Seasons			TOT	440				2278	1616	424	238	37	.896		4.64	.904		5.48	27-69-14	256
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

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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	1B	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF
1884	BUF	NL	23	78	78	49	0	0	16	18	0	34
1885	BUF	NL	24	89	89	69	0	0	0	21	1	23
1886	SLM	NL	25	79	79	72	0	1	0	5	1	6
1887	IND	NL	26	69	69	50	6	1	3	7	5	15
1888	IND	NL	27	66	66	47	1	14	2	1	7	10
1889	IND	NL	28	43	43	18	1	0	6	17	0	23
	6 Seasons			424	424	305	8	16	27	69	14	111

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

Errors Committed† s c a p y 1884 NL 78 (5th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1885 NL 69 (1st) 1886 NL 72 (1st)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1885 NL 305 (4th) 1886 NL 368 (2nd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1885 NL 95 (3rd)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1884 NL 64 (1st) 1885 NL 45 (3rd) Career 195 (43rd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1884 NL 53 (4th) 1885 NL 57 (1st) 1886 NL 65 (3rd) Career 256 (30th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1885 NL 5.80 (5th) 1886 NL 6.22 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1885 NL .899 (4th) 1886 NL .928 (2nd)

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