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Dick Padden

Richard Joseph Padden (Brains)

Positions: Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: September 17, 1870 in Wheeling, WV (All Transactions)
Debut: July 15, 1896
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Browns/Senators/Cardinals 1896-1905

Final Game: May 2, 1905
Died: October 31, 1922 in Martins Ferry, OH
Buried: St. Mary Cemetery, Martins Ferry, OH
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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 Awards
1896 PIT NL 25 2B 61 349 176 149 24 14 .931 5.33 .940 5.53
1897 PIT NL 26 2B 134 819 369 402 48 36 .941 5.75 .936 5.61
1898 PIT NL 27 2B 128 748 301 407 40 46 .947 5.53 .943 5.62
1899 WHS NL 28 SS 85 528 201 281 46 33 .913 5.67 .910 5.65
1899 WHS NL 28 2B 48 282 140 124 18 12 .936 5.50 .941 5.55
1901 STL NL 30 2B 115 655 286 336 33 47 .950 5.41 .941 5.14
1901 STL NL 30 SS 8 46 15 24 7 2 .848 4.88 .925 5.72
1902 SLB AL 31 2B 117 673 288 363 22 64 .967 5.56 .948 5.36
1903 SLB AL 32 2B 29 157 57 93 7 17 .955 5.17 .943 5.11
1904 SLB AL 33 2B 132 689 288 373 28 31 .959 5.01 .954 5.11
1905 SLB AL 34 2B 16 80 32 44 4 2 .950 4.75 .952 5.00
9 Seasons 2B 780 4452 1937 2291 224 269 .950 5.42 .944 5.38
2 Seasons SS 93 574 216 305 53 35 .908 5.60 .911 5.66
9 Seasons TOT 873 5026 2153 2596 277 304 .945 5.44 .940 5.41
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
1896 PIT NL 25 61 61 0 0 0 61 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1897 PIT NL 26 134 134 0 0 0 134 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1898 PIT NL 27 128 128 0 0 0 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1899 WHS NL 28 134 134 0 0 0 48 0 85 0 0 0 0 0
1901 STL NL 30 123 123 0 0 0 115 0 8 0 0 0 0 0
1902 SLB AL 31 117 117 0 0 0 117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1903 SLB AL 32 29 29 0 0 0 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1904 SLB AL 33 132 132 0 0 0 132 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1905 SLB AL 34 16 16 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 874 874 0 0 0 780 0 93 0 0 0 0 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

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1897 NL  134 (1st)
1901 NL  115 (4th)
1902 AL  117 (4th)
1904 AL  132 (5th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1897 NL  369 (1st)
1901 NL  286 (3rd)
1902 AL  288 (4th)
1904 AL  288 (4th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1897 NL  402 (3rd)
1898 NL  407 (5th)
1901 NL  336 (4th)
1902 AL  363 (3rd)
1904 AL  373 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1897 NL  48 (2nd)
1901 NL  33 (3rd)
1904 AL  28 (5th)
Career  224 (57th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1897 NL  5.75 (5th)
1901 NL  5.41 (2nd)
1902 AL  5.56 (5th)
1904 AL  5.01 (5th)
Career  5.42 (65th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1898 NL  .947 (5th)
1901 NL  .950 (3rd)
1902 AL  .967 (2nd)
1904 AL  .959 (5th)

                           

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