Jake Powell

Alvin Jacob Powell

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: July 15, 1908 in Silver Spring, MD (All Transactions)
Debut: August 3, 1930
Teams (by GP): Senators/Yankees/Phillies 1930-1945

Final Game: September 30, 1945
Died: November 4, 1948 in Washington, DC
Buried: St. John Cemetery, Forest Glen, MD
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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
1930	WSH	AL	21	OF	2	0	0		3	3	0	0	0	1.000		1.50	.967		2.30
1930	WSH	AL	21	LF	1	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.970		2.10
1930	WSH	AL	21	RF	1	0	0		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.960		2.00
1934	WSH	AL	25	CF	9	9	9		22	18	3	1	0	.955		2.33	.972		2.64
1934	WSH	AL	25	OF	9	9	9		22	18	3	1	0	.955		2.33	.968		2.29
1935	WSH	AL	26	CF	136	135	128		380	361	10	9	4	.976		2.73	.974		2.84
1935	WSH	AL	26	OF	136	136	128		380	361	10	9	4	.976		2.73	.970		2.39
1935	WSH	AL	26	2B	2	0	0		2	0	2	0	0	1.000		1.00	.970		5.85
1935	WSH	AL	26	RF	1	1	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.10
1936	TOT	AL	27	OF	137	136	129		330	311	8	11	3	.967		2.33	.968		2.38
1936	TOT	AL	27	CF	95	94	89		224	212	4	8	3	.964		2.27	.974		2.82
1936	WSH	AL	27	CF	53	53	50		123	115	2	6	1	.951		2.21	.974		2.82
1936	WSH	AL	27	OF	53	53	50		123	115	2	6	1	.951		2.21	.968		2.38
1936	NYY	AL	27	OF	84	83	79		207	196	6	5	2	.976		2.40	.968		2.38
1936	NYY	AL	27	CF	42	41	39		101	97	2	2	2	.980		2.36	.974		2.82
1936	NYY	AL	27	LF	42	42	40		106	99	4	3	0	.972		2.45	.963		2.12
1937	NYY	AL	28	LF	94	93	87		210	201	5	4	2	.981		2.19	.966		2.16
1937	NYY	AL	28	OF	94	93	87		210	201	5	4	2	.981		2.19	.969		2.35
1938	NYY	AL	29	OF	43	41	39		89	86	1	2	0	.978		2.02	.972		2.35
1938	NYY	AL	29	LF	37	36	35		83	80	1	2	0	.976		2.19	.972		2.17
1938	NYY	AL	29	RF	6	5	4		6	6	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.972		2.07
1938	NYY	AL	29	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.80
1939	NYY	AL	30	OF	23	20	17		58	56	1	1	0	.983		2.48	.969		2.44
1939	NYY	AL	30	LF	19	18	17		47	45	1	1	0	.979		2.42	.966		2.38
1939	NYY	AL	30	RF	3	1	0		5	5	0	0	0	1.000		1.67	.962		2.07
1939	NYY	AL	30	CF	2	1	0		6	6	0	0	0	1.000		3.00	.977		2.85
1940	NYY	AL	31	OF	7	5	4		16	15	1	0	0	1.000		2.29	.970		2.40
1940	NYY	AL	31	CF	3	2	1		7	6	1	0	0	1.000		2.33	.976		2.77
1940	NYY	AL	31	LF	2	2	2		6	6	0	0	0	1.000		3.00	.963		2.35
1940	NYY	AL	31	RF	2	1	1		3	3	0	0	0	1.000		1.50	.970		2.10
1943	WSH	AL	34	OF	33	31	28		89	83	4	2	0	.978		2.64	.977		2.47
1943	WSH	AL	34	LF	25	25	24		74	70	2	2	0	.973		2.88	.979		2.40
1943	WSH	AL	34	CF	8	6	4		15	13	2	0	0	1.000		1.88	.978		2.79
1944	WSH	AL	35	OF	90	86	84		205	196	5	4	0	.980		2.23	.974		2.47
1944	WSH	AL	35	LF	59	56	54		139	134	3	2	0	.986		2.32	.972		2.35
1944	WSH	AL	35	RF	32	30	30		66	62	2	2	0	.970		2.00	.971		2.08
1944	WSH	AL	35	3B	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			3.30
1945	TOT	MLB	36	OF	71	67	64		133	123	6	4	3	.970		1.82	.978		2.43
1945	TOT	MLB	36	RF	41	38	36		60	54	5	1	2	.983		1.44	.978		2.15
1945	TOT	MLB	36	LF	25	24	23		59	55	1	3	1	.949		2.24	.976		2.28
1945	WSH	AL	36	OF	27	24	23		60	56	1	3	1	.950		2.11	.978		2.40
1945	WSH	AL	36	LF	21	20	19		55	51	1	3	1	.945		2.48	.976		2.26
1945	WSH	AL	36	RF	6	4	4		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		0.17	.970		2.15
1945	PHI	NL	36	OF	44	43	41		73	67	5	1	2	.986		1.64	.978		2.45
1945	PHI	NL	36	RF	35	34	32		59	53	5	1	2	.983		1.66	.978		2.15
1945	PHI	NL	36	CF	5	5	5		10	10	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.983		2.88
1945	PHI	NL	36	LF	4	4	4		4	4	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.970		2.35
	11 Seasons			OF	645	624	589		1535	1453	44	38	12	.975		2.32	.971		2.40
	9 Seasons			LF	304	296	282		725	691	17	17	3	.977		2.33	.970		2.24
	8 Seasons			CF	259	252	236		664	626	20	18	7	.973		2.49	.974		2.82
	7 Seasons			RF	86	76	71		142	132	7	3	2	.979		1.62	.973		2.11
	1 Season			2B	2	0	0		2	0	2	0	0	1.000		1.00	.970		5.85
	1 Season			3B	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			3.30
	11 Seasons			TOT	648	624	589		1537	1453	46	38	12	.975		2.31	.971		2.41
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1930	WSH	AL	21	3	0	3	2	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	0
1934	WSH	AL	25	9	9	9	9	0	0	0	9	0	9	0	0
1935	WSH	AL	26	139	136	139	136	2	0	0	136	1	136	3	0
1936	NYY	AL	27	87	83	87	84	0	0	42	42	0	84	4	0
1936	WSH	AL	27	53	53	53	53	0	0	0	53	0	53	0	0
1937	NYY	AL	28	97	93	97	94	0	0	94	0	0	94	3	0
1938	NYY	AL	29	45	41	45	43	0	0	37	1	6	43	1	1
1939	NYY	AL	30	31	20	31	23	0	0	19	2	3	23	4	5
1940	NYY	AL	31	12	5	12	7	0	0	2	3	2	7	2	3
1943	WSH	AL	34	37	31	37	33	0	0	25	8	0	33	3	1
1944	WSH	AL	35	96	86	96	91	0	1	59	0	32	91	5	0
1945	PHI	NL	36	48	43	48	44	0	0	4	5	35	44	4	0
1945	WSH	AL	36	31	24	31	27	0	0	21	0	6	27	4	0
	11 Seasons			688	624	688	646	2	1	304	259	86	646	34	10

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 CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1935 AL 136 (4th)	Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1935 AL 361 (5th)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1935 AL 10 (3rd)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1935 AL 9 (5th) 1936 AL 8 (5th)
Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1937 AL 2.19 (4th)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1937 AL .981 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1935 AL 2.73 (5th)	Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1935 AL .976 (4th)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1935 AL 2.73 (5th)

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