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Bob O'Farrell

Robert Arthur O'Farrell

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: October 19, 1896 in Waukegan, IL
High School: Waukegan HS (Waukegan, IL) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 5, 1915
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Giants/Cardinals/Reds 1915-1935

Final Game: September 23, 1935
Died: February 20, 1988 in Waukegan, IL
Buried: North Shore Garden of Memories, North Chicago, IL
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1915 CHC NL 18 C 2 3 1 1 1 0 .667 1.00 .973 6.20 0 1 1 50% 46%
1916 CHC NL 19 C 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 6.30 0 0 0
1917 CHC NL 20 C 3 10 9 1 0 1 1.000 3.33 .975 5.97 0 2 1 33% 44%
1918 CHC NL 21 C 45 25 23 155 115 36 4 4 .974 3.36 .974 5.25 4 29 24 45% 44%
1919 CHC NL 22 C 38 30 29 173 119 48 6 4 .965 4.39 .972 5.39 2 28 29 51% 44%
1920 CHC NL 23 C 86 75 70 436 317 100 19 6 .956 4.85 .968 5.31 6 64 51 44% 46%
1921 CHC NL 24 C 90 71 65 368 269 87 12 8 .967 3.96 .971 4.87 3 45 49 52% 49%
1922 CHC NL 25 C 125 119 106 603 446 143 14 22 .977 4.71 .974 4.63 3 45 83 65% 46%
1923 CHC NL 26 C 124 122 114 549 418 118 13 11 .976 4.32 .976 4.66 7 61 57 48% 44%
1924 CHC NL 27 C 57 53 49 248 204 40 4 5 .984 4.28 .981 4.78 1 30 31 51% 47%
1925 TOT NL 28 C 95 93 85 407 330 67 10 5 .975 4.18 .970 4.45 3 42 34 45% 44%
1925 CHC NL 28 C 3 2 2 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .970 4.47 0 2 0 0% 44%
1925 STL NL 28 C 92 91 83 401 324 67 10 5 .975 4.25 .970 4.45 3 40 34 46% 44%
1926 STL NL 29 C 146 142 124 593 466 117 10 12 .983 3.99 .971 4.39 4 52 53 50% 43% MVP-1
1927 STL NL 30 C 53 51 40 190 141 45 4 5 .979 3.51 .974 4.43 1 29 22 43% 39%
1928 TOT NL 31 C 77 49 44 233 199 31 3 2 .987 2.99 .979 4.42 1 25 13 34% 45%
1928 STL NL 31 C 14 14 14 66 61 4 1 1 .985 4.64 .979 4.42 0 10 2 17% 45%
1928 NYG NL 31 C 63 35 30 167 138 27 2 1 .988 2.62 .979 4.42 1 15 11 42% 45%
1929 NYG NL 32 C 84 60 58 282 254 22 6 2 .979 3.29 .974 4.34 3 29 8 22% 42%
1930 NYG NL 33 C 69 61 58 301 259 34 8 6 .973 4.25 .976 4.57 4 24 19 44% 44%
1931 NYG NL 34 C 80 43 38 255 223 27 5 1 .980 3.13 .980 4.64 3 16 13 45% 46%
1932 NYG NL 35 C 41 13 11 97 85 9 3 2 .969 2.29 .979 4.66 0 4 5 56% 45%
1933 STL NL 36 C 50 45 38 237 211 19 7 1 .970 4.60 .982 4.35 3 20 10 33% 46%
1934 TOT NL 37 C 64 54 44 253 217 35 1 4 .996 3.94 .985 4.85 6 14 14 50% 44%
1934 CIN NL 37 C 42 36 33 150 124 25 1 2 .993 3.55 .985 4.85 6 7 10 59% 44%
1934 CHC NL 37 C 22 18 11 103 93 10 0 2 1.000 4.68 .985 4.85 0 7 4 36% 44%
1935 STL NL 38 C 8 0 0 12 12 0 0 0 1.000 1.50 .976 4.78 0 0 0
21 Seasons C 1338 1106 996 5405 4295 980 130 101 .976 3.94 .975 4.67 54 560 517 48% 45%
21 Seasons TOT 1338 1106 996 5405 4295 980 130 101 .976 3.94 .975 4.67 54 560 517 48% 45%
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO 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
1915 CHC NL 18 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 CHC NL 19 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1917 CHC NL 20 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1918 CHC NL 21 52 52 0 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1919 CHC NL 22 49 30 49 38 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
1920 CHC NL 23 94 75 94 86 0 86 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1921 CHC NL 24 96 71 96 90 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1922 CHC NL 25 128 119 128 125 0 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1923 CHC NL 26 131 122 131 124 0 124 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1924 CHC NL 27 71 53 71 56 0 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
1925 STL NL 28 94 91 94 92 0 92 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1925 CHC NL 28 17 2 17 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
1926 STL NL 29 147 142 147 146 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1927 STL NL 30 61 51 61 53 0 53 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1928 NYG NL 31 75 35 75 63 0 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1928 STL NL 31 16 14 16 14 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1929 NYG NL 32 91 60 91 84 0 84 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1930 NYG NL 33 94 61 94 69 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
1931 NYG NL 34 85 43 85 80 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1932 NYG NL 35 51 13 51 42 0 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1933 STL NL 36 55 45 55 50 0 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1934 CIN NL 37 44 36 44 42 0 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1934 CHC NL 37 22 18 22 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1935 STL NL 38 14 0 14 8 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
21 Seasons 1493 1081 1493 1287 0 1338 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 154 0
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
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

Hall of Fame
1950 BBWAA ( 2.4%)
1958 BBWAA ( 1.1%)
1960 BBWAA ( 1.1%)

Awards (yr lg award)
1926 NL MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1926 NL (1, 99%)
1 MVP
0.99 Career Shares (244th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1922 NL  125 (1st)
1923 NL  124 (1st)
1925 NL  95 (5th)
1926 NL  146 (1st)
Career  1,338 (48th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1920 NL  317 (5th)
1922 NL  446 (1st)
1923 NL  418 (2nd)
1925 NL  330 (3rd)
1926 NL  466 (1st)

Assists as C s c a p y
1922 NL  143 (1st)
1923 NL  118 (1st)
1925 NL  67 (5th)
1926 NL  117 (2nd)
Career  980 (52nd)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1920 NL  19 (2nd)
1921 NL  12 (5th)
1922 NL  14 (3rd)
1923 NL  13 (2nd)
1926 NL  10 (5th)
1933 NL  7 (5th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1934 NL  6 (5th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1922 NL  45 (5th)
1923 NL  61 (5th)
1926 NL  52 (2nd)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1922 NL  83 (1st)
1923 NL  57 (4th)
1926 NL  53 (2nd)
Career  517 (61st)

Caught Stealing %s c a p y
1919 NL  50.9 (3rd)
1922 NL  64.8 (1st)
1926 NL  50.5 (5th)
Career  48.0 (35th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1920 NL  4.85 (3rd)
1922 NL  4.71 (1st)
1923 NL  4.32 (4th)
1925 NL  4.18 (3rd)
1926 NL  3.99 (4th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1922 NL  .977 (5th)
1925 NL  .975 (4th)
1926 NL  .983 (4th)
1928 NL  .987 (2nd)
1929 NL  .979 (5th)

Oldest s c a p y
1935 NL  born 1896-10-19 (9th)

Youngest s c a p y
1915 NL  born 1896-10-19 (3rd)
1916 NL  born 1896-10-19 (3rd)
1917 NL  born 1896-10-19 (4th)

             

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