Jim Russell

James William Russell

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 181 lb.

Born: October 1, 1918 in Fayette City, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: September 12, 1942
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Braves/Dodgers 1942-1951

Final Game: October 1, 1951
Died: November 24, 1987 in Orlando, FL
Buried: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Fayette City, PA
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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
1942	PIT	NL	23	CF	3	3	3		12	12	0	0	0	1.000		4.00	.978		2.63
1942	PIT	NL	23	OF	3	3	3		12	12	0	0	0	1.000		4.00	.981		2.33
1943	PIT	NL	24	LF	134	127	117		303	284	16	3	3	.990		2.24	.977		2.26
1943	PIT	NL	24	OF	134	131	118		304	285	16	3	3	.990		2.25	.977		2.41
1943	PIT	NL	24	1B	6	3	3		38	38	0	0	3	1.000		6.33	.992		10.48
1943	PIT	NL	24	RF	4	4	1		3	3	0	0	0	1.000		0.75	.977		2.20
1943	PIT	NL	24	CF	2	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.75
1944	PIT	NL	25	OF	149	144	137		370	345	20	5	7	.986		2.45	.980		2.47	MVP-29
1944	PIT	NL	25	LF	140	136	129		355	330	20	5	6	.986		2.50	.981		2.35	MVP-29
1944	PIT	NL	25	CF	6	5	5		12	12	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.985		2.97	MVP-29
1944	PIT	NL	25	RF	3	3	3		3	3	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.973		2.10	MVP-29
1945	PIT	NL	26	OF	140	131	124		331	313	9	9	1	.973		2.30	.978		2.45
1945	PIT	NL	26	LF	139	131	124		330	312	9	9	1	.973		2.31	.970		2.34
1945	PIT	NL	26	CF	1	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.980		2.90
1946	PIT	NL	27	OF	134	128	124		326	308	7	11	1	.966		2.35	.977		2.38
1946	PIT	NL	27	CF	68	67	66		179	171	3	5	1	.972		2.56	.979		2.85
1946	PIT	NL	27	LF	67	61	58		147	137	4	6	0	.959		2.10	.975		2.26
1946	PIT	NL	27	1B	5	5	5		46	43	2	1	6	.978		9.00	.991		9.98
1947	PIT	NL	28	OF	119	117	116		356	343	6	7	3	.980		2.93	.977		2.42
1947	PIT	NL	28	CF	96	94	94		293	284	4	5	0	.983		3.00	.978		2.79
1947	PIT	NL	28	RF	23	22	21		63	59	2	2	2	.968		2.65	.978		2.14
1947	PIT	NL	28	LF	1	1	1		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.30
1948	BSN	NL	29	OF	84	83	81		251	246	3	2	0	.992		2.96	.978		2.39
1948	BSN	NL	29	CF	82	81	79		238	232	4	2	1	.992		2.88	.984		2.78
1948	BSN	NL	29	LF	2	2	2		8	8	0	0	0	1.000		4.00	.970		2.30
1949	BSN	NL	30	OF	120	106	95		279	269	3	7	3	.975		2.27	.977		2.48
1949	BSN	NL	30	CF	95	81	76		214	204	4	6	3	.972		2.19	.978		2.89
1949	BSN	NL	30	LF	29	25	19		67	65	1	1	0	.985		2.28	.974		2.41
1950	BRO	NL	31	OF	55	50	38	420.0	135	131	3	1	0	.993	2.87	2.44	.978	2.34	2.31
1950	BRO	NL	31	LF	53	48	36	397.0	124	120	3	1	0	.992	2.79	2.32	.977	2.29	2.27
1950	BRO	NL	31	CF	3	2	2	23.0	11	11	0	0	0	1.000	4.30	3.67	.980	2.78	2.73
1951	BRO	NL	32	LF	4	1	0	14.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.93	0.75	.977	2.31	2.33
1951	BRO	NL	32	OF	4	1	0	14.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.93	0.75	.980	2.44	2.40
	10 Seasons			OF	942	894	836	434.0	2367	2255	67	45	18	.981	2.84	2.46	.978	2.34	2.42
	9 Seasons			LF	569	532	486	411.0	1337	1259	53	25	10	.981	2.76	2.31	.976	2.29	2.31
	9 Seasons			CF	356	333	325	23.0	960	927	15	18	5	.981	4.30	2.65	.980	2.78	2.83
	3 Seasons			RF	30	29	25		69	65	2	2	2	.971		2.23	.978		2.14
	2 Seasons			1B	11	8	8		84	81	2	1	9	.988		7.55	.992		10.25
	10 Seasons			TOT	953	902	844	434.0	2451	2336	69	46	27	.981	2.84	2.52	.978	2.34	2.51
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.

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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	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP
1942	PIT	NL	23	CF
1943	PIT	NL	24	LF
1943	PIT	NL	24	1B
1943	PIT	NL	24	RF
1943	PIT	NL	24	CF
1944	PIT	NL	25	LF
1944	PIT	NL	25	CF
1944	PIT	NL	25	RF
1945	PIT	NL	26	LF
1945	PIT	NL	26	CF
1946	PIT	NL	27	CF
1946	PIT	NL	27	LF
1946	PIT	NL	27	1B
1947	PIT	NL	28	CF
1947	PIT	NL	28	RF
1947	PIT	NL	28	LF
1948	BSN	NL	29	CF
1948	BSN	NL	29	LF
1949	BSN	NL	30	CF
1949	BSN	NL	30	LF
1950	BRO	NL	31	LF
1950	BRO	NL	31	CF
1951	BRO	NL	32	LF
	9 Seasons			LF
	9 Seasons			CF
	3 Seasons			RF
	2 Seasons			1B
	10 Seasons			TOT
Lg				Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1942	PIT	NL	23	5	3	5	3	0	0	3	0	3	2	0
1943	PIT	NL	24	146	134	146	138	6	134	2	4	135	7	1
1944	PIT	NL	25	152	144	152	149	0	140	6	3	149	3	1
1945	PIT	NL	26	146	131	146	140	0	139	1	0	140	6	1
1946	PIT	NL	27	146	133	146	139	5	67	68	0	134	6	1
1947	PIT	NL	28	128	117	128	119	0	1	96	23	119	9	0
1948	BSN	NL	29	89	83	89	84	0	2	82	0	84	6	0
1949	BSN	NL	30	130	106	130	120	0	29	95	0	120	14	1
1950	BRO	NL	31	77	50	77	55	0	53	3	0	55	25	1
1951	BRO	NL	32	16	1	16	4	0	4	0	0	4	14	0
	10 Seasons			1035	902	1035	951	11	569	356	30	943	92	6

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 -- CF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1948	BSN	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	0	1	23	13	0	15	0	1	2	1	0	7	1	0	11	10	0	58	25	43.1%	32	1	1.7%	3	1847	64%	84%	32%	228	62%
1949	BSN	NL	30	6	0	6	0	1	4	0	2	1	0	33	21	0	20	1	0	6	3	0	7	2	0	22	15	2	88	42	47.7%	44	2	2.3%	2	2647	65%	82%	32%	311	58%
1950	BRO	NL	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	6	2	33.3%	4	0	0.0%	0	102	54%	82%	44%	19	58%
	3 Seasons			6	0	6	0	1	8	0	4	1	1	59	35	0	37	1	1	8	4	0	14	3	0	34	26	2	152	69	45.4%	80	3	2.0%	5	4596	64%	83%	32%	558	60%
	MLB Averages																														45.4%			2.9%			62%	82%	31%		59%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1948	BSN	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	50.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	71	51%	85%	39%	11	73%
1949	BSN	NL	30	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	14	10	1	7	0	0	4	1	0	3	0	0	5	5	0	33	16	48.5%	16	1	3.0%	0	675	68%	84%	32%	80	53%
1950	BRO	NL	31	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	1	35	27	1	16	2	0	8	4	1	6	1	0	10	9	0	75	43	57.3%	30	2	2.7%	1	1728	61%	79%	38%	237	52%
1951	BRO	NL	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	3	2	66.7%	1	0	0.0%	0	58	60%	76%	28%	4	75%
	4 Seasons			1	0	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	1	49	37	2	24	3	0	12	5	1	11	1	0	17	16	0	113	62	54.9%	48	3	2.7%	1	2532	63%	81%	36%	332	53%
	MLB Averages																														57.2%			2.8%			62%	82%	31%		52%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1944 NL (29, 0%) 0.00 Career Shares (1712th)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 NL 134 (2nd) 1944 NL 140 (1st) 1945 NL 139 (1st)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 NL 284 (2nd) 1944 NL 330 (1st) 1945 NL 312 (1st) 1946 NL 137 (5th)	Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 NL 16 (1st) 1944 NL 20 (1st) 1945 NL 9 (3rd) Career 53 (91st)
Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1944 NL 5 (3rd) 1945 NL 9 (3rd) 1946 NL 6 (3rd)	Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1949 NL 95 (5th)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1946 NL 5 (4th) 1949 NL 6 (5th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1944 NL 149 (5th)
Putouts as OF s c a p y 1944 NL 345 (5th) 1946 NL 308 (5th) 1947 NL 343 (3rd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1943 NL 16 (5th) 1944 NL 20 (3rd)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1945 NL 9 (4th) 1946 NL 11 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 NL 2.24 (2nd) 1944 NL 2.50 (1st) 1945 NL 2.31 (3rd) Career 2.31 (11th)
Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 NL .990 (2nd) 1944 NL .986 (3rd) 1945 NL .973 (3rd) Career .981 (70th)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1947 NL 3.00 (1st) 1948 NL 2.88 (3rd)	Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1947 NL .983 (3rd) 1948 NL .992 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1947 NL 2.93 (1st) 1948 NL 2.96 (2nd) Career 2.47 (87th)
Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1943 NL .990 (3rd) 1948 NL .992 (2nd)

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