Bill Regan

William Wright Regan

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 155 lb.

Born: January 23, 1899 in Pittsburgh, PA(All Transactions)
Debut: June 2, 1926
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Pirates 1926-1931

Final Game: June 14, 1931
Died: June 11, 1968 in Pittsburgh, PA
Buried: Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
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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
1926	BOS	AL	27	2B	106	106	106	679	264	391	24	66	.965	6.18	.967	5.63
1927	BOS	AL	28	2B	121	119	112	708	283	397	28	76	.960	5.62	.961	5.69	MVP-22
1928	BOS	AL	29	2B	137	136	128	791	293	469	29	87	.963	5.56	.963	5.67	MVP-25
1928	BOS	AL	29	OF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.40	MVP-25
1928	BOS	AL	29	RF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.00	MVP-25
1929	BOS	AL	30	2B	91	92	84	494	193	282	19	66	.962	5.22	.968	5.91
1929	BOS	AL	30	3B	10	9	5	24	8	14	2	2	.917	2.20	.952	3.10
1929	BOS	AL	30	1B	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.00	.995	10.20
1930	BOS	AL	31	2B	127	125	122	776	308	439	29	92	.963	5.88	.969	5.95
1930	BOS	AL	31	3B	2	1	1	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.00	.945	3.05
1931	PIT	NL	32	2B	28	27	24	162	63	90	9	14	.944	5.46	.964	5.60
	6 Seasons			2B	610	605	576	3610	1404	2068	138	401	.962	5.69	.965	5.76
	2 Seasons			3B	12	10	6	26	9	15	2	2	.923	2.00	.952	3.09
	1 Season			OF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.40
	1 Season			1B	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.00	.995	10.20
	1 Season			RF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.00
	6 Seasons			TOT	624	615	582	3638	1415	2083	140	403	.962	5.61	.965	5.71

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	1B	2B	3B	RF	OF	PH
1926	BOS	AL	27	108	106	108	106	0	106	0	0	0	2
1927	BOS	AL	28	129	119	129	121	0	121	0	0	0	8
1928	BOS	AL	29	138	136	138	138	0	137	0	1	1	0
1929	BOS	AL	30	104	101	104	102	1	92	9	0	0	2
1930	BOS	AL	31	134	126	134	129	0	127	2	0	0	5
1931	PIT	NL	32	28	27	28	28	0	28	0	0	0	0
	6 Seasons			641	615	641	624	1	611	11	1	1	17

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)) 1927 AL (22, 3%) 1928 AL (25, 2%) 0.05 Career Shares (1113th)	Assists† s c a p y 1928 AL 469 (4th) 1930 AL 440 (5th)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1927 AL 121 (3rd) 1928 AL 137 (3rd) 1930 AL 127 (5th)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1926 AL 264 (4th) 1927 AL 283 (3rd) 1928 AL 293 (3rd) 1930 AL 308 (5th)
Assists as 2B s c a p y 1926 AL 391 (4th) 1927 AL 397 (5th) 1928 AL 469 (3rd) 1930 AL 439 (4th)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1926 AL 24 (4th) 1927 AL 28 (2nd) 1928 AL 29 (3rd) 1930 AL 29 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1926 AL 6.18 (1st) 1927 AL 5.62 (3rd) 1928 AL 5.56 (4th) 1930 AL 5.88 (3rd) Career 5.69 (32nd)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1926 AL .965 (5th) 1928 AL .963 (5th)

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