Vic Saier

Victor Sylvester Saier

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: May 4, 1891 in Lansing, MI
High School: St. Mary's HS (Lansing, MI) (All Transactions)
Debut: May 3, 1911
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Pirates 1911-1919

Final Game: August 5, 1919
Died: May 14, 1967 in East Lansing, MI
Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Lansing, MI
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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
1911	CHC	NL	20	1B	73			763	715	33	15	44	.980	10.25	.985	10.23
1912	CHC	NL	21	1B	120			1227	1165	52	10	67	.992	10.14	.988	10.17
1913	CHC	NL	22	1B	149			1569	1472	71	26	79	.983	10.36	.986	10.40	MVP-6
1914	CHC	NL	23	1B	153			1602	1521	59	22	62	.986	10.33	.988	10.60	MVP-16
1915	CHC	NL	24	1B	139			1434	1348	65	21	71	.985	10.17	.990	10.61
1916	CHC	NL	25	1B	147			1723	1622	74	27	78	.984	11.54	.987	10.80
1917	CHC	NL	26	1B	6			63	56	7	0	3	1.000	10.50	.988	10.92
1919	PIT	NL	28	1B	51	48	43	518	493	17	8	19	.985	10.00	.988	11.24
	8 Seasons			1B	838	48	43	8899	8392	378	129	423	.986	10.47	.988	10.55
	8 Seasons			TOT	838	48	43	8899	8392	378	129	423	.986	10.47	.988	10.55

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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.
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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	PH	PR
1911	CHC	NL	20	86		86		73
1912	CHC	NL	21	122		122		120
1913	CHC	NL	22	149		149		149
1914	CHC	NL	23	153		153		153
1915	CHC	NL	24	144		144		139
1916	CHC	NL	25	147		147		147
1917	CHC	NL	26	6		6		6
1919	PIT	NL	28	58	48	58	51	51	8	0
	8 Seasons			865	48	865	51	838	8	0

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)) 1913 NL (6, 23%) 1914 NL (16, 6%) 0.29 Career Shares (619th)	Putouts† s c a p y 1913 NL 1,472 (2nd) 1914 NL 1,521 (2nd) 1915 NL 1,348 (5th) 1916 NL 1,622 (2nd)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1913 NL 149 (4th) 1914 NL 153 (2nd) 1915 NL 139 (5th) 1916 NL 147 (2nd)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1913 NL 1,472 (2nd) 1914 NL 1,521 (2nd) 1915 NL 1,348 (5th) 1916 NL 1,622 (2nd)
Assists as 1B s c a p y 1914 NL 59 (5th) 1915 NL 65 (4th) 1916 NL 74 (2nd)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1913 NL 26 (1st) 1914 NL 22 (2nd) 1915 NL 21 (1st) 1916 NL 27 (2nd) Career 129 (76th)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1912 NL 10.14 (3rd) 1913 NL 10.36 (5th) 1914 NL 10.33 (5th) 1916 NL 11.54 (1st) Career 10.47 (40th)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1912 NL .992 (2nd)
Youngest s c a p y 1911 NL born 1891-05-04 (9th)

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