Mickey O'Neil

George Michael O'Neil

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: April 12, 1900 in St. Louis, MO (All Transactions)
Debut: September 12, 1919
Teams (by GP): Braves/Robins/Giants/Senators 1919-1927

Final Game: June 19, 1927
Died: April 8, 1964 in St. Louis, MO
Buried: Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, MO
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%
1919	BSN	NL	19	C	11	10	7	53	33	19	1	3	.981	4.73	.972	5.39	0	11	11	50%	44%
1920	BSN	NL	20	C	105	91	78	475	304	153	18	10	.962	4.35	.968	5.31	3	69	84	55%	46%
1920	BSN	NL	20	2B	1			0	0	0	0	0		0.00		5.70
1921	BSN	NL	21	C	95	84	67	406	276	117	13	8	.968	4.14	.971	4.87	2	51	66	56%	49%
1922	BSN	NL	22	C	79	73	60	316	239	70	7	3	.978	3.91	.974	4.63	6	40	44	52%	46%
1923	BSN	NL	23	C	95	90	71	413	298	104	11	5	.973	4.23	.976	4.66	8	49	65	57%	44%
1924	BSN	NL	24	C	106	102	94	477	362	108	7	8	.985	4.43	.981	4.78	10	69	66	49%	47%
1925	BSN	NL	25	C	69	64	53	246	208	31	7	3	.972	3.46	.970	4.45	3	25	20	44%	44%
1926	BRO	NL	26	C	74	68	53	311	247	53	11	5	.965	4.05	.971	4.39	4	37	26	41%	43%
1927	TOT	MLB	27	C	20	15	5	70	53	15	2	2	.971	3.40	.974	4.47	2	6	6	50%	39%
1927	WSH	AL	27	C	4	1	0	6	5	1	0	0	1.000	1.50	.973	4.62	1	1	0	0%	39%
1927	NYG	NL	27	C	16	14	5	64	48	14	2	2	.969	3.88	.974	4.43	1	5	6	55%	39%
	9 Seasons			C	654	597	488	2767	2020	670	77	47	.972	4.11	.973	4.76	38	357	388	52%	46%
	1 Season			2B	1			0	0	0	0	0		0.00		5.70
	9 Seasons			TOT	655	597	488	2767	2020	670	77	47	.972	4.11	.973	4.77	38	357	388	52%	46%

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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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1919	BSN	NL	19	11	10	11	11	11	0	0
1920	BSN	NL	20	112	91	112	105	105	7	0
1921	BSN	NL	21	98	84	98	95	95	4	1
1922	BSN	NL	22	83	73	83	79	79	4	0
1923	BSN	NL	23	96	90	96	95	95	1	0
1924	BSN	NL	24	106	102	106	106	106	0	0
1925	BSN	NL	25	70	64	70	69	69	1	0
1926	BRO	NL	26	75	68	75	74	74	1	0
1927	NYG	NL	27	16	14	16	16	16	0	0
1927	WSH	AL	27	5	1	5	4	4	1	0
	9 Seasons			672	597	672	654	654	19	1

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

Def. Games as C s c a p y 1920 NL 105 (2nd) 1921 NL 95 (4th) 1924 NL 106 (3rd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1923 NL 298 (5th) 1924 NL 362 (5th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1920 NL 153 (1st) 1921 NL 117 (2nd) 1923 NL 104 (3rd) 1924 NL 108 (1st)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1920 NL 18 (3rd) 1921 NL 13 (3rd) 1923 NL 11 (4th) 1924 NL 7 (4th) 1926 NL 11 (4th)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1923 NL 8 (3rd) 1924 NL 10 (2nd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1920 NL 69 (5th) 1921 NL 51 (4th) 1924 NL 69 (1st)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1920 NL 84 (1st) 1921 NL 66 (1st) 1923 NL 65 (3rd) 1924 NL 66 (1st)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1920 NL 54.9 (5th) 1921 NL 56.4 (3rd) 1922 NL 52.4 (4th) 1923 NL 57.0 (1st) Career 52.1 (5th)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1921 NL 4.14 (5th) 1923 NL 4.23 (5th) 1924 NL 4.43 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1921 NL .968 (5th) 1922 NL .978 (4th) 1924 NL .985 (4th)	Youngest s c a p y 1919 NL born 1900-04-12 (3rd) 1920 NL born 1900-04-12 (4th)

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