Jack Remsen

John Jay Remsen

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 189 lb.

Born: 1851 in Brooklyn, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: May 2, 1872
Teams (by GP): Atlantics/DarkBlues/WhiteStockings/Mutuals/Blues/... 1872-1884

Final Game: October 15, 1884
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G
1872	BRA	NA	21	OF	37	118	89	5	24	2	.797	2.54	.820	1.94	0-37-0
1873	BRA	NA	22	OF	50	135	102	5	28	2	.793	2.14	.803	2.00	0-50-0
1874	NYU	NA	23	OF	63	162	128	12	22	2	.864	2.22	.802	2.02	8-57-0
1874	NYU	NA	23	1B	3	14	12	0	2	0	.857	4.00	.932	10.53
1875	HAR	NA	24	OF	86	194	162	10	22	1	.887	2.00	.818	1.88	0-81-5
1876	HAR	NL	25	OF	69	213	177	12	24	5	.887	2.74	.847	2.11	3-66-0
1877	STL	NL	26	OF	33	85	73	4	8	0	.906	2.33	.831	1.88	0-33-0
1878	CHC	NL	27	OF	56	124	103	14	7	5	.944	2.09	.834	1.77	0-56-0
1879	CHC	NL	28	OF	31	65	52	4	9	1	.862	1.81	.838	1.89	5-26-0
1879	CHC	NL	28	1B	11	153	135	5	13	2	.915	12.73	.953	11.13
1881	CLV	NL	30	OF	48	142	117	7	18	1	.873	2.58	.871	2.06	0-48-0
1884	TOT	MLB	33	OF	93	195	169	10	16	2	.918	1.92	.849	1.66	32-61-0
1884	PHI	NL	33	OF	12	21	17	3	1	0	.952	1.67	.867	1.79	0-12-0
1884	BRO	AA	33	OF	81	174	152	7	15	2	.914	1.96	.847	1.64	32-49-0
	10 Seasons			OF	566	1433	1172	83	178	21	.876	2.22	.832	1.91	48-515-5
	2 Seasons			1B	14	167	147	5	15	2	.910	10.86	.951	11.00
	10 Seasons			TOT	580	1600	1319	88	193	23	.879	2.43	.844	2.13	48-515-5

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	Batting	1B	LF	CF	RF	OF
1872	BRA	NA	21	37	37	0	0	37	0	37
1873	BRA	NA	22	50	50	0	0	50	0	50
1874	NYU	NA	23	64	64	3	8	57	0	63
1875	HAR	NA	24	86	86	0	0	81	5	86
1876	HAR	NL	25	69	69	0	3	66	0	69
1877	STL	NL	26	33	33	0	0	33	0	33
1878	CHC	NL	27	56	56	0	0	56	0	56
1879	CHC	NL	28	42	42	11	5	26	0	31
1881	CLV	NL	30	48	48	0	0	48	0	48
1884	BRO	AA	33	81	81	0	32	49	0	81
1884	PHI	NL	33	12	12	0	0	12	0	12
	10 Seasons			578	578	14	48	515	5	566

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

Hall of Fame 1936 Veterans ( 1.3%)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1874 NA 63 (1st) 1875 NA 86 (1st) 1876 NL 69 (1st)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1875 NA 162 (4th) 1876 NL 177 (2nd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1872 NA 5 (5th) 1874 NA 12 (2nd) 1876 NL 12 (4th)
Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1872 NA 24 (1st) Career 178 (46th)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1872 NA 2.54 (4th) 1876 NL 2.74 (4th) 1877 NL 2.33 (5th) 1878 NL 2.09 (5th) 1881 NL 2.58 (3rd) 1884 AA 1.96 (5th)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1874 NA .864 (4th) 1875 NA .887 (5th) 1877 NL .906 (2nd) 1878 NL .944 (1st) 1884 AA .914 (4th)

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