Herb Plews

Herbert Eugene Plews

Positions: Second Baseman, Pinch Hitter and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: June 14, 1928 in Helena, MT
School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1950. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1956
Teams (by GP): Senators/RedSox 1956-1959

Final Game: July 26, 1959
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG
1956	WSH	AL	28	2B	66	56	53	513.0	320	137	166	17	38	.947	-8	-18	5.32	4.59	.973	5.44	5.40
1956	WSH	AL	28	SS	5	0	0	8.0	5	1	3	1	1	.800	-0	-45	4.50	0.80	.960	4.95	4.94
1956	WSH	AL	28	3B	2	2	2	24.1	8	2	6	0	0	1.000	0	15	2.96	4.00	.949	3.22	3.20
1957	WSH	AL	29	2B	79	67	59	602.1	382	199	175	8	42	.979	-10	-20	5.59	4.73	.980	5.39	5.41
1957	WSH	AL	29	3B	11	8	8	78.2	18	4	11	3	1	.833	-5	-75	1.72	1.36	.951	3.23	3.24
1957	WSH	AL	29	SS	4	0	0	4.0	2	0	2	0	0	1.000	0	90	4.50	0.50	.965	5.18	5.12
1958	WSH	AL	30	2B	64	53	44	478.0	293	133	153	7	41	.976	-1	-3	5.38	4.47	.978	5.26	5.21
1958	WSH	AL	30	3B	36	33	28	292.1	87	23	55	9	4	.897	-8	-31	2.40	2.17	.951	3.11	3.08
1959	TOT	AL	31	2B	8	5	5	49.0	41	21	18	2	3	.951	-1	-17	7.16	4.88	.976	5.29	5.25
1959	WSH	AL	31	2B	6	5	5	46.0	35	18	16	1	2	.971	-1	-23	6.65	5.67	.976	5.28	5.25
1959	BOS	AL	31	2B	2	0	0	3.0	6	3	2	1	1	.833	0	80	15.00	2.50	.977	5.40	5.25
	4 Seasons			2B	217	181	161	1642.1	1036	490	512	34	124	.967	-19	-14	5.49	4.62	.977	5.36	5.34
	3 Seasons			3B	49	43	38	395.1	113	29	72	12	5	.894	-12	-37	2.30	2.06	.951	3.14	3.12
	2 Seasons			SS	9	0	0	12.0	7	1	5	1	1	.857	0	0	4.50	0.67	.961	5.03	5.02
	4 Seasons			TOT	275	224	199	2049.2	1156	520	589	47	130	.959	-31	-18	4.87	4.03	.974	4.93	4.94

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.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp
1956	WSH	AL	28	2B	-8	-18	-6	-1	-5	-2
1956	WSH	AL	28	SS	-0	-45	-0	-0	-0	0
1956	WSH	AL	28	3B	0	15	0	0	0	0
1957	WSH	AL	29	2B	-10	-20	-9	-6	-3	-1
1957	WSH	AL	29	3B	-5	-75	-5	-1	-4	0
1957	WSH	AL	29	SS	0	90	0	-0	0	0
1958	WSH	AL	30	2B	-1	-3	-1	1	-2	0
1958	WSH	AL	30	3B	-8	-31	-8	-6	-1	0
1959	WSH	AL	31	2B	-1	-23	-1	-1	0	0
1959	BOS	AL	31	2B	0	80	0	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			2B	-19	-14	-16	-7	-9	-3
	3 Seasons			3B	-12	-37	-12	-8	-4	0
	2 Seasons			SS	0	0	0	-0	0	0
	4 Seasons			TOT	-31	-18	-28	-15	-13	-3

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1956	WSH	AL	28	91	58	91	72	66	2	5	25	2
1957	WSH	AL	29	104	75	104	89	79	11	4	27	0
1958	WSH	AL	30	111	86	111	99	64	36	0	23	0
1959	WSH	AL	31	27	5	27	6	6	0	0	22	0
1959	BOS	AL	31	13	0	13	2	2	0	0	11	1
	4 Seasons			346	224	346	268	217	49	9	108	3

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.

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	643	543	463	43	GB	GBs	GBr	LD	LDs	LDf
1956	WSH	AL	28	2309	66%	82%	26%	188	89%	3	136	33	74	29	164	131	25	0	1	17	1	8	8	11	39	15	9	11	0	37	11	25	2	0	2
1957	WSH	AL	29	2737	68%	81%	26%	243	90%	0	200	78	89	33	173	149	21	0	0	8	0	8	0	7	41	17	8	7	3	38	10	26	1	1	0
1958	WSH	AL	30	2081	65%	81%	26%	190	91%	3	133	46	62	25	152	124	22	1	2	7	0	6	1	5	41	11	7	12	2	36	15	19	4	3	1
1959	WSH	AL	31	213	58%	86%	31%	20	95%	0	17	5	10	2	15	13	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	0
1959	BOS	AL	31	15	80%	87%	67%	5	60%	0	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			7355	66%	82%	26%	646	90%	6	489	162	238	89	507	420	70	1	3	34	1	24	9	25	124	44	25	31	5	114	37	72	7	4	3
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		93%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	543	53	GB	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1956	WSH	AL	28	103	70%	85%	32%	9	89%	0	2	2	0	0	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957	WSH	AL	29	352	70%	83%	24%	22	64%	0	4	3	0	1	11	9	1	0	0	3	0	2	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	4	50%
1958	WSH	AL	30	1260	63%	85%	29%	90	80%	1	23	19	1	3	54	46	5	2	0	9	0	7	2	8	4	3	0	3	0	0	0	5	40%
	3 Seasons			1715	64%	84%	28%	121	78%	1	29	24	1	4	71	61	6	2	0	12	0	9	3	10	5	3	1	4	0	0	0	9	44%
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		89%																								62%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	643	63	463	163	363	GB	GBs	GBr	LD	LDs	LDf
1956	WSH	AL	28	37	70%	73%	22%	4	50%	1	1	0	1	0	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
1957	WSH	AL	29	15	80%	80%	20%	2	100%	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			52	73%	75%	21%	6	67%	2	1	0	1	0	5	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	27%		90%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1956 AL 17 (1st)	Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y 1957 AL 5.59 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1957 AL 4.73 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1956 AL 17 (1st)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1957 AL 5.59 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1957 AL 4.73 (5th)

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