Steve O'Neill

Stephen Francis O'Neill

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: July 6, 1891 in Minooka, PA
High School: Minooka HS (Minooka, PA) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 18, 1911
Teams (by GP): Indians/Naps/RedSox/Browns/Yankees 1911-1928

Final Game: September 14, 1928
Died: January 26, 1962 in Cleveland, OH
Buried: St. Joseph Cemetery, Scranton, PA
Relatives: Brother of Jack O'Neill, Brother of Jim O'Neill and Brother of Mike O'Neill
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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
1911	CLE	AL	19	C	9				73	55	17	1	1	.986		8.00	.965		6.80	1		13	13	50%	45%
1912	CLE	AL	20	C	68				441	316	108	17	9	.961		6.24	.961		6.78	9		93	77	45%	42%
1913	CLE	AL	21	C	80				485	353	119	13	9	.973		5.90	.967		6.56	6		79	76	49%	45%		MVP-24
1914	CLE	AL	22	C	82				551	393	134	24	22	.956		6.43	.967		6.69	13		114	93	45%	45%
1914	CLE	AL	22	1B	1				1	1	0	0	1	1.000		1.00	.980		10.60
1915	CLE	AL	23	C	115				755	556	175	24	17	.968		6.36	.965		6.46	9		123	99	45%	43%
1916	CLE	AL	24	C	128				715	540	154	21	36	.971		5.42	.974		6.33	17		120	86	42%	43%
1917	CLE	AL	25	C	127				603	446	145	12	19	.980		4.65	.971		5.71	10		107	93	47%	45%
1918	CLE	AL	26	C	113	110	102		573	409	154	10	11	.983		4.98	.970		5.51	11		78	80	51%	44%
1919	CLE	AL	27	C	123	123	102		611	472	125	14	16	.977		4.85	.974		5.57	5		65	64	50%	45%
1920	CLE	AL	28	C	148	145	133		721	576	128	17	20	.976		4.76	.973		5.11	9		78	69	47%	48%
1921	CLE	AL	29	C	105	102	81		494	393	92	9	8	.982		4.62	.971		4.89	3		51	34	40%	45%
1922	CLE	AL	30	C	130	124	95		581	450	116	15	9	.974		4.35	.977		4.81	17		70	37	35%	43%		MVP-6
1923	CLE	AL	31	C	111	108	80		436	354	68	14	3	.968		3.80	.975		4.82	14		47	31	40%	45%
1924	BOS	AL	32	C	92	91	76		430	342	75	13	2	.970		4.53	.972		4.61	14		50	50	50%	44%
1925	NYY	AL	33	C	31	26	19		148	113	27	8	8	.946		4.52	.977		4.60	2		24	15	38%	45%
1927	SLB	AL	35	C	60	55	47		241	180	57	4	8	.983		3.95	.974		4.63	4		34	35	51%	39%
1928	SLB	AL	36	C	10	8	3		24	19	4	1	0	.958		2.30	.976		4.71	1		7	2	22%	41%
	17 Seasons			C	1532	892	738		7882	5967	1698	217	198	.972		5.00	.971		5.55	145		1153	954	45%	44%
	1 Season			1B	1				1	1	0	0	1	1.000		1.00	.980		10.60
	17 Seasons			TOT	1533	892	738		7883	5968	1698	217	199	.972		5.00	.971		5.55	145		1153	954	45%	44%
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

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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.
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
1911	CLE	AL	19	9		9		0	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912	CLE	AL	20	69		69		0	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913	CLE	AL	21	80		80		0	80	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914	CLE	AL	22	87		87		0	82	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915	CLE	AL	23	121		121		0	115	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916	CLE	AL	24	130		130		0	128	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917	CLE	AL	25	129		129		0	127	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918	CLE	AL	26	114		114		0	113	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919	CLE	AL	27	125	123	125	123	0	123	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1920	CLE	AL	28	149	145	149	148	0	148	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1921	CLE	AL	29	106	102	106	105	0	105	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1922	CLE	AL	30	133	124	133	131	0	131	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1923	CLE	AL	31	113	108	113	111	0	111	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1924	BOS	AL	32	106	91	106	92	0	92	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	0
1925	NYY	AL	33	35	26	35	31	0	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
1927	SLB	AL	35	74	55	74	60	0	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	0
1928	SLB	AL	36	10	8	10	10	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	17 Seasons			1590	782	1590	811	0	1533	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	40	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 1948 BBWAA ( 1.7%) 1949 BBWAA ( 3.9%) 1950 BBWAA ( 0.6%) 1951 BBWAA ( 1.3%) 1952 BBWAA ( 4.3%) 1953 BBWAA ( 4.9%) 1958 BBWAA ( 3.8%)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1913 AL (24, 2%) 1922 AL (6, 20%) 0.22 Career Shares (708th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1915 AL 115 (2nd) 1916 AL 128 (1st) 1917 AL 127 (3rd) 1918 AL 113 (1st) 1919 AL 123 (2nd) 1920 AL 148 (2nd) 1922 AL 130 (4th) Career 1,532 (28th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1915 AL 556 (2nd) 1916 AL 540 (2nd) 1917 AL 446 (4th) 1918 AL 409 (3rd) 1919 AL 472 (2nd) 1920 AL 576 (2nd) 1922 AL 450 (4th) Career 5,967 (70th)
Assists as C s c a p y 1912 AL 108 (5th) 1914 AL 134 (5th) 1915 AL 175 (1st) 1916 AL 154 (2nd) 1917 AL 145 (4th) 1918 AL 154 (1st) 1919 AL 125 (4th) 1920 AL 128 (4th) 1922 AL 116 (4th) Career 1,698 (3rd)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1914 AL 24 (4th) 1915 AL 24 (3rd) 1916 AL 21 (1st) 1919 AL 14 (2nd) 1920 AL 17 (2nd) 1922 AL 15 (1st) 1923 AL 14 (4th) 1924 AL 13 (4th) 1925 AL 8 (4th) Career 217 (35th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1912 AL 9 (5th) 1914 AL 13 (4th) 1916 AL 17 (2nd) 1917 AL 10 (4th) 1918 AL 11 (2nd) 1920 AL 9 (2nd) 1922 AL 17 (1st) 1923 AL 14 (2nd) 1924 AL 14 (1st) Career 145 (71st)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1912 AL 93 (5th) 1914 AL 114 (5th) 1915 AL 123 (2nd) 1916 AL 120 (1st) 1917 AL 107 (3rd) 1918 AL 78 (4th) 1920 AL 78 (2nd) 1922 AL 70 (2nd) Career 1,153 (18th)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1912 AL 77 (4th) 1914 AL 93 (5th) 1915 AL 99 (1st) 1916 AL 86 (1st) 1917 AL 93 (4th) 1918 AL 80 (1st) 1919 AL 64 (4th) 1920 AL 69 (5th) 1924 AL 50 (4th) Career 954 (11th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1913 AL 49.0 (2nd) 1918 AL 50.6 (2nd) 1919 AL 49.6 (3rd) 1924 AL 50.0 (2nd) 1927 AL 50.7 (3rd) Career 45.3 (90th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1914 AL 6.43 (3rd) 1915 AL 6.36 (2nd) 1916 AL 5.42 (4th) 1918 AL 4.98 (5th) 1921 AL 4.62 (4th) 1922 AL 4.35 (5th) 1924 AL 4.53 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1913 AL .973 (4th) 1915 AL .968 (5th) 1917 AL .980 (3rd) 1918 AL .983 (1st) 1919 AL .977 (4th) 1921 AL .982 (2nd)
Youngest s c a p y 1911 AL born 1891-07-06 (4th)

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