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Tom O'Brien

Thomas J. O'Brien

Positions: Outfielder, First Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Unknown, Throws: Unknown
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: February 20, 1873 in Verona, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: May 10, 1897
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Giants/Orioles 1897-1900

Final Game: October 13, 1900
Died: February 3, 1901 in Phoenix, AZ
Buried: St. Mary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
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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 Awards
1897 BLN NL 24 1B 25 221 205 9 7 7 .968 8.56 .980 10.23
1897 BLN NL 24 OF 24 46 38 6 2 2 .957 1.83 .936 2.09 13-1-10
1898 TOT NL 25 OF 85 202 166 18 18 8 .911 2.16 .937 2.08 10-59-16
1898 BLN NL 25 OF 16 30 22 3 5 4 .833 1.56 .937 2.08 0-0-16
1898 PIT NL 25 OF 69 172 144 15 13 4 .924 2.30 .937 2.08 10-59-0
1898 PIT NL 25 1B 21 208 198 4 6 12 .971 9.62 .977 10.33
1898 PIT NL 25 3B 8 18 4 10 4 1 .778 1.75 .902 3.48
1898 PIT NL 25 2B 7 46 18 23 5 1 .891 5.86 .943 5.61
1898 PIT NL 25 SS 4 30 12 11 7 1 .767 5.75 .913 5.65
1899 NYG NL 26 OF 128 283 243 21 19 7 .933 2.06 .944 2.15 125-0-3
1899 NYG NL 26 3B 21 64 18 37 9 2 .859 2.62 .902 3.59
1899 NYG NL 26 SS 2 10 3 5 2 1 .800 4.00 .910 5.65
1899 NYG NL 26 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 10.50
1899 NYG NL 26 2B 1 7 4 3 0 2 1.000 7.00 .941 5.60
1900 PIT NL 27 1B 65 724 670 26 28 37 .961 10.71 .979 10.55
1900 PIT NL 27 OF 25 52 48 1 3 0 .942 1.96 .940 2.17 21-1-3
1900 PIT NL 27 2B 4 8 4 4 0 1 1.000 2.00 .938 5.28
1900 PIT NL 27 SS 2 11 4 5 2 1 .818 4.50 .922 5.85
4 Seasons OF 262 583 495 46 42 17 .928 2.06 .941 2.12 169-61-32
4 Seasons 1B 112 1153 1073 39 41 56 .964 9.93 .979 10.44
2 Seasons 3B 29 82 22 47 13 3 .841 2.38 .902 3.56
3 Seasons 2B 12 61 26 30 5 4 .918 4.67 .942 5.50
3 Seasons SS 8 51 19 21 11 3 .784 5.00 .914 5.70
4 Seasons TOT 423 1930 1635 183 112 83 .942 4.30 .961 4.59 169-61-32
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
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.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1897 BLN NL 24 50 50 0 0 25 0 0 0 13 1 10 24 0
1898 PIT NL 25 107 107 0 0 21 7 8 4 10 59 0 69 0
1898 BLN NL 25 18 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 16 0
1899 NYG NL 26 151 151 0 0 1 1 21 2 125 0 3 128 0
1900 PIT NL 27 102 102 0 0 65 4 0 2 21 1 3 25 0
4 Seasons 428 428 0 0 112 12 29 8 169 61 32 262 0
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 as 1B s c a p y
1900 NL  28 (3rd)

                                         

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