Ron Northey

Ronald James Northey

Positions: Rightfielder and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: April 26, 1920 in Mahanoy City, PA
High School: Frackville HS (Frackville, PA)
Signed by the Philadelphia Athletics as an amateur free agent in 1939. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1942
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Cardinals/WhiteSox/Cubs/Reds 1942-1957

Final Game: September 28, 1957
Died: April 16, 1971 in Pittsburgh, PA
Buried: Fairfield Memorial Park, Stamford, CT
Relatives: Father of Scott Northey
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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
1942	PHI	NL	22	OF	109	98	90		229	206	12	11	2	.952				2.00	.981		2.34
1942	PHI	NL	22	RF	109	98	90		229	206	12	11	2	.952				2.00	.981		2.08
1943	PHI	NL	23	OF	145	145	144		318	292	19	7	6	.978				2.14	.977		2.41	MVP-29
1943	PHI	NL	23	RF	145	145	144		318	292	19	7	6	.978				2.14	.976		2.21	MVP-29
1944	PHI	NL	24	OF	151	151	147		316	286	24	6	7	.981				2.05	.980		2.47	MVP-18
1944	PHI	NL	24	RF	151	151	147		316	286	24	6	7	.981				2.05	.974		2.10	MVP-18
1946	PHI	NL	26	OF	111	109	102		207	194	7	6	3	.971				1.81	.977		2.38
1946	PHI	NL	26	RF	111	109	102		209	194	8	7	3	.967				1.82	.976		2.09
1947	TOT	NL	27	OF	107	88	51		157	141	9	7	2	.955				1.40	.977		2.42
1947	TOT	NL	27	RF	91	74	40		132	117	8	7	1	.947				1.37	.978		2.14
1947	PHI	NL	27	OF	13	13	11		20	19	1	0	1	1.000				1.54	.977		2.42
1947	PHI	NL	27	RF	13	13	11		20	19	1	0	1	1.000				1.54	.978		2.14
1947	STL	NL	27	OF	94	75	40		137	122	8	7	1	.949				1.38	.977		2.42
1947	STL	NL	27	RF	78	61	29		112	98	7	7	0	.938				1.35	.978		2.14
1947	STL	NL	27	LF	15	14	11		25	24	1	0	1	1.000				1.67	.976		2.31
1947	STL	NL	27	3B	2	2	2		10	2	7	1	0	.900				4.50	.947		3.05
1948	STL	NL	28	OF	67	64	25		88	85	2	1	0	.989				1.30	.978		2.39
1948	STL	NL	28	RF	67	64	25		85	81	2	2	0	.976				1.24	.976		2.00
1949	STL	NL	29	OF	73	70	27		99	93	4	2	2	.980				1.33	.977		2.48
1949	STL	NL	29	RF	73	70	27		99	93	4	2	2	.980				1.33	.977		2.08
1950	TOT	NL	30	OF	51	44	37	384.1	64	59	3	2	2	.969			1.45	1.22	.978	2.34	2.31
1950	TOT	NL	30	RF	51	44	37	384.1	64	59	3	2	2	.969			1.45	1.22	.976	1.87	1.85
1950	CIN	NL	30	OF	24	20	14	168.1	22	21	0	1	0	.955			1.12	0.88	.978	2.34	2.31
1950	CIN	NL	30	RF	24	20	14	168.1	20	19	0	1	0	.950			1.02	0.79	.976	1.87	1.85
1950	CHC	NL	30	OF	27	24	23	216.0	42	38	3	1	2	.976			1.71	1.52	.978	2.34	2.31
1950	CHC	NL	30	RF	27	24	23	216.0	44	40	3	1	2	.977			1.79	1.59	.976	1.87	1.85
1955	CHW	AL	35	OF	2	1	0	6.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-20	1.50	0.50	.980	2.40	2.40
1955	CHW	AL	35	RF	2	1	0	6.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-20	1.50	0.50	.980	2.10	2.05
1956	CHW	AL	36	OF	4	2	0	19.2	5	4	1	0	0	1.000	0	0	2.29	1.25	.980	2.33	2.33
1956	CHW	AL	36	LF	3	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-80	0.00	0.00		2.10	2.10
1956	CHW	AL	36	RF	3	2	0	16.2	4	3	1	0	0	1.000	0	14	2.16	1.33	.972	2.11	2.07
	10 Seasons			OF	820	772	623	410.0	1484	1361	81	42	24	.972	-0	-0	1.49	1.76	.978	2.34	2.41
	10 Seasons			RF	803	758	612	407.0	1457	1332	81	44	23	.970	0	0	1.48	1.76	.977	1.88	2.09
	2 Seasons			LF	18	14	11	3.0	25	24	1	0	1	1.000	-0	-80	0.00	1.39	.976	2.10	2.27
	1 Season			3B	2	2	2		10	2	7	1	0	.900				4.50	.947		3.05
	12 Seasons			TOT	822	774	625	410.0	1494	1363	88	43	24	.971	-0	-0	1.49	1.77	.978	2.34	2.41
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.
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rof
1942	PHI	NL	22	RF
1943	PHI	NL	23	RF
1944	PHI	NL	24	RF
1946	PHI	NL	26	RF
1947	PHI	NL	27	RF
1947	STL	NL	27	RF
1947	STL	NL	27	LF
1947	STL	NL	27	3B
1948	STL	NL	28	RF
1949	STL	NL	29	RF
1950	CIN	NL	30	RF
1950	CHC	NL	30	RF
1955	CHW	AL	35	RF	-0	-20	-0	0	-0	0
1956	CHW	AL	36	LF	-0	-80	-0	0	-0	0
1956	CHW	AL	36	RF	0	14	0	0	0	0
	10 Seasons			RF	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			LF	-0	-80	-0	0	-0	0
	1 Season			3B
	12 Seasons			TOT	-0	-0	-0	0	-0	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	3B	LF	RF	OF	PH
1942	PHI	NL	22	127	98	127	109	0	0	109	109	18
1943	PHI	NL	23	147	145	147	145	0	0	145	145	2
1944	PHI	NL	24	152	151	152	151	0	0	151	151	1
1946	PHI	NL	26	128	109	128	111	0	0	111	111	17
1947	STL	NL	27	110	77	110	95	2	15	78	93	16
1947	PHI	NL	27	13	13	13	13	0	0	13	13	0
1948	STL	NL	28	96	64	96	67	0	0	67	67	30
1949	STL	NL	29	90	70	90	73	0	0	73	73	18
1950	CHC	NL	30	53	24	53	27	0	0	27	27	27
1950	CIN	NL	30	27	20	27	24	0	0	24	24	5
1952	CHC	NL	32	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
1955	CHW	AL	35	14	1	14	2	0	0	2	2	13
1956	CHW	AL	36	53	2	53	4	0	3	3	4	51
1957	CHW	AL	37	40	0	40	0	0	0	0	0	40
1957	PHI	NL	37	33	0	33	0	0	0	0	0	33
	12 Seasons			1084	774	1084	821	2	18	803	819	272

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%
1948	STL	NL	28	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	10	7	0	4	2	1	8	7	0	1	0	0	3	3	0	26	19	73.1%	6	1	3.8%	0	626	72%	79%	30%	69	35%
1949	STL	NL	29	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	0	11	6	0	7	0	0	5	2	0	2	0	0	3	2	1	28	10	35.7%	17	1	3.6%	2	1220	74%	82%	29%	98	54%
1950	CHC	NL	30	1	0	1	0	1	3	0	1	0	1	10	3	0	7	1	0	4	3	0	5	1	1	3	2	0	29	10	34.5%	18	1	3.4%	2	877	64%	82%	26%	72	51%
1950	CIN	NL	30	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	1	0	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	13	3	23.1%	10	0	0.0%	0	617	61%	78%	24%	34	44%
1955	CHW	AL	35	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	24	67%	92%	29%	1	100%
1956	CHW	AL	36	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	1	66	77%	73%	35%	5	80%
	5 Seasons			4	0	3	1	1	8	0	3	2	2	38	17	0	23	3	1	18	13	0	8	1	1	10	8	1	97	42	43.3%	52	3	3.1%	5	3430	69%	81%	27%	279	48%
	MLB Averages																														43.4%			3.2%			63%	81%	31%		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%
1956	CHW	AL	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	15	60%	47%	13%	2	0%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	15	60%	47%	13%	2	0%
	MLB Averages																														57.8%			2.6%			63%	81%	31%		50%

* 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

Hall of Fame 1964 BBWAA ( 0.5%)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1943 NL (29, 1%) 1944 NL (18, 3%) 0.04 Career Shares (1177th)	Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL 109 (4th) 1943 NL 145 (2nd) 1944 NL 151 (2nd) 1946 NL 111 (5th) Career 803 (96th)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL 206 (4th) 1943 NL 292 (3rd) 1944 NL 286 (2nd) 1946 NL 194 (4th)
Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL 12 (4th) 1943 NL 19 (2nd) 1944 NL 24 (1st) 1946 NL 8 (5th) Career 81 (66th)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL 11 (1st) 1943 NL 7 (3rd) 1944 NL 6 (3rd) 1946 NL 7 (2nd) 1947 NL 7 (3rd) Career 44 (71st)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1944 NL 151 (3rd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1943 NL 19 (3rd) 1944 NL 24 (1st)
Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1942 NL 11 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1942 NL 2.00 (2nd) 1943 NL 2.14 (5th) 1944 NL 2.05 (3rd) 1946 NL 1.82 (5th)	Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1944 NL .981 (4th)	Oldest s c a p y 1957 NL born 1920-04-26 (10th)

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