Tex Nelson

Robert Sidney Nelson Sr. (Babe)

Positions: Pinch Hitter and Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: August 7, 1936 in Dallas, TX
High School: Adamson HS (Dallas, TX)
Signed by the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent (bonus baby) in 1955. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 22, 1955
Team: Orioles 1955-1957

Final Game: June 14, 1957
Died: July 22, 2011 in Mesquite, TX
Buried: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, TX
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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
1955	BAL	AL	18	LF	6	3	0	29.0	9	6	2	1	1	.889	-0	-8	2.48	1.33	.980	2.27	2.25
1955	BAL	AL	18	OF	6	3	0	29.0	9	6	2	1	1	.889	-0	-8	2.48	1.33	.982	2.39	2.38
1955	BAL	AL	18	1B	2	1	1	13.0	12	9	1	2	2	.833	-2	-138	6.92	5.00	.991	9.62	9.55
1956	BAL	AL	19	OF	24	14	6	135.0	33	28	3	2	0	.939	-2	-21	2.07	1.29	.979	2.34	2.32
1956	BAL	AL	19	RF	16	9	2	83.0	27	24	2	1	0	.963	0	6	2.82	1.63	.973	2.09	2.07
1956	BAL	AL	19	LF	10	5	4	52.0	6	5	1	0	0	1.000	-3	-65	1.04	0.60	.977	2.09	2.09
1957	BAL	AL	20	OF	8	4	0	37.2	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	1.43	0.75	.980	2.25	2.25
1957	BAL	AL	20	RF	6	4	0	35.2	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	1.51	1.00	.977	1.94	1.93
1957	BAL	AL	20	LF	2	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		2.25	2.10
	3 Seasons			OF	38	21	6	201.2	48	40	5	3	1	.938	-3	-15	2.01	1.18	.980	2.33	2.32
	2 Seasons			RF	22	13	2	118.2	33	30	2	1	0	.970	0	4	2.43	1.45	.974	2.05	2.03
	3 Seasons			LF	18	8	4	83.0	15	11	3	1	1	.933	-3	-43	1.52	0.78	.979	2.16	2.14
	1 Season			1B	2	1	1	13.0	12	9	1	2	2	.833	-2	-138	6.92	5.00	.991	9.62	9.55
	3 Seasons			TOT	40	22	7	214.2	60	49	6	5	3	.917	-4	-23	2.31	1.38	.982	2.77	2.68

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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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof
1955	BAL	AL	18	LF	-0	-8	-0	1	-1		0
1955	BAL	AL	18	1B	-2	-138	-2	-2	0	0
1956	BAL	AL	19	RF	0	6	0	-1	2		0
1956	BAL	AL	19	LF	-3	-65	-3	-0	-2		0
1957	BAL	AL	20	RF	0	0	0	0	-0		0
1957	BAL	AL	20	LF	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			RF	0	4	0	-1	2		0
	3 Seasons			LF	-3	-43	-3	0	-3		0
	1 Season			1B	-2	-138	-2	-2	0	0
	3 Seasons			TOT	-4	-23	-4	-2	-2	0	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	RF	OF	PH
1955	BAL	AL	18	25	4	25	8	2	6	0	6	18
1956	BAL	AL	19	39	14	39	24	0	10	16	24	15
1957	BAL	AL	20	15	4	15	8	0	2	6	8	7
	3 Seasons			79	22	79	40	2	18	22	38	40

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 -- 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%
1956	BAL	AL	19	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	3	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	6	4	0	15	4	26.7%	10	1	6.7%	1	343	69%	87%	31%	37	70%
1957	BAL	AL	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	33.3%	2	0	0.0%	0	144	65%	78%	27%	13	46%
	2 Seasons			1	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	6	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	6	4	0	18	5	27.8%	12	1	5.6%	1	487	68%	84%	30%	50	64%
	MLB Averages																														42.9%			3.2%			64%	80%	30%		54%

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%
1955	BAL	AL	18	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	1	25.0%	2	1	25.0%	1	128	56%	84%	23%	18	39%
1956	BAL	AL	19	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	2	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	9	5	55.6%	3	1	11.1%	0	236	65%	82%	23%	24	25%
1957	BAL	AL	20	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	6	83%	50%	33%	0
	3 Seasons			1	0	1	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	3	2	1	3	0	0	4	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	13	6	46.2%	5	2	15.4%	1	370	62%	82%	24%	42	31%
	MLB Averages																														58.3%			2.6%			64%	80%	30%		48%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1955	BAL	AL	18	50	62%	84%	24%	2	50%	0	9	1	9	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			50	62%	84%	24%	2	50%	0	9	1	9	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				64%	80%	26%		94%																											88%

* 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

Youngest s c a p y 1955 AL born 1936-08-07 (10th)

Youngest s c a p y
1955 AL born 1936-08-07 (10th)

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