Tom Oliver

Thomas Noble Oliver (Rebel)

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 168 lb.

Born: January 15, 1903 in Montgomery, AL (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1930
Team: RedSox 1930-1933

Final Game: September 23, 1933
Died: February 26, 1988 in Montgomery, AL
Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, AL
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	Awards
1930	BOS	AL	27	CF	154	154	153	495	477	9	9	3	.982	3.16	.966	2.84
1930	BOS	AL	27	OF	154	154	153	495	477	9	9	3	.982	3.16	.965	2.32
1931	BOS	AL	28	CF	148	147	145	445	427	15	3	4	.993	2.99	.974	2.83	MVP-20
1931	BOS	AL	28	OF	148	147	145	451	433	15	3	4	.993	3.03	.969	2.38	MVP-20
1932	BOS	AL	29	CF	116	114	113	346	328	12	6	4	.983	2.93	.971	2.94
1932	BOS	AL	29	OF	116	114	113	346	328	12	6	4	.983	2.93	.967	2.42
1933	BOS	AL	30	CF	86	57	55	199	187	9	3	3	.985	2.28	.976	2.75
1933	BOS	AL	30	OF	86	57	55	199	187	9	3	3	.985	2.28	.970	2.37
	4 Seasons			OF	504	472	466	1491	1425	45	21	14	.986	2.92	.967	2.37
	4 Seasons			CF	504	472	466	1485	1419	45	21	14	.986	2.90	.971	2.84
	4 Seasons			TOT	504	472	466	1491	1425	45	21	14	.986	2.92	.967	2.37

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	CF	OF	PH	PR
1930	BOS	AL	27	154	154	154	154	154	154	0	0
1931	BOS	AL	28	148	147	148	148	148	148	0	0
1932	BOS	AL	29	122	114	122	116	116	116	5	1
1933	BOS	AL	30	90	57	90	86	86	86	2	5
	4 Seasons			514	472	514	504	504	504	7	6

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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1931 AL (20, 2%) 0.02 Career Shares (1361st)	Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 AL 154 (1st) 1931 AL 148 (2nd) 1932 AL 116 (4th)	Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 AL 477 (1st) 1931 AL 427 (1st) 1932 AL 328 (3rd)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 AL 9 (3rd) 1931 AL 15 (1st) 1932 AL 12 (3rd) 1933 AL 9 (4th)
Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 AL 9 (4th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1930 AL 154 (1st) 1931 AL 148 (5th)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1930 AL 477 (1st) 1931 AL 433 (1st)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1931 AL 15 (3rd)
Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 AL 3.16 (1st) 1931 AL 2.99 (2nd) 1932 AL 2.93 (2nd) Career 2.90 (11th)	Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1930 AL .982 (1st) 1931 AL .993 (1st) 1932 AL .983 (2nd) 1933 AL .985 (2nd) Career .986 (91st)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1930 AL 3.16 (1st) 1931 AL 3.03 (2nd) 1932 AL 2.93 (2nd) Career 2.92 (5th)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1930 AL .982 (5th) 1931 AL .993 (1st) 1933 AL .985 (4th)

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