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Bill Salkeld

William Franklin Salkeld

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: March 8, 1917 in Pocatello, ID (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1945
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Braves/WhiteSox 1945-1950

Final Game: April 21, 1950
Died: April 22, 1967 in Los Angeles, CA
Buried: Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, CA
Relatives: Grandfather of Roger Salkeld
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1945 PIT NL 28 C 86 73 57 328 279 40 9 8 .973 3.71 .978 4.57 3 43 20 32% 40% MVP-24
1946 PIT NL 29 C 51 47 31 213 176 31 6 3 .972 4.06 .980 5.01 6 28 18 39% 43%
1947 PIT NL 30 C 15 7 5 34 29 4 1 0 .971 2.20 .981 4.96 1 2 2 50% 44%
1948 BSN NL 31 C 59 59 43 289 254 32 3 5 .990 4.85 .980 5.15 5 3 31 16 34% 40% 2
1949 BSN NL 32 C 63 55 39 256 230 21 5 3 .980 3.98 .982 4.98 4 8 20 9 31% 43% 0
1950 CHW AL 33 C 1 1 1 8.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 4.50 4.00 .985 4.95 4.80 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons C 275 242 176 8.0 1124 972 128 24 19 .979 4.50 4.00 .980 4.95 4.89 19 11 124 65 34% 41% 2
6 Seasons TOT 275 242 176 8.0 1124 972 128 24 19 .979 4.50 4.00 .980 4.95 4.89 19 11 124 65 34% 41% 2
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.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

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
1945 PIT NL 28 C
1946 PIT NL 29 C
1947 PIT NL 30 C
1948 BSN NL 31 C
1949 BSN NL 32 C
1950 CHW AL 33 C
6 Seasons C
6 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1945 PIT NL 28 95 73 95 87 0 87 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0
1946 PIT NL 29 69 47 69 51 0 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
1947 PIT NL 30 47 7 47 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0
1948 BSN NL 31 78 59 78 59 0 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 0
1949 BSN NL 32 66 55 66 63 0 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1950 CHW AL 33 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 356 242 356 276 0 276 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 89 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.

Advanced Fielding -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1948 BSN NL 31 1426 3.27 3.65 30 97% 0 1 174 18 4 8 144 22 7 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 1 7 86%
1949 BSN NL 32 1630 3.41 3.93 42 98% 1 0 193 15 0 21 157 19 7 0 1 1 3 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 4 75%
1950 CHW AL 33 32 4.50 4.50 3 100% 0 0 4 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 3088 3.36 3.81 75 97% 1 1 371 36 4 29 302 41 14 0 2 3 4 0 1 3 0 5 0 1 1 11 82%
MLB Averages 4.30 4.84 95% 84%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1948 BSN NL 31 4 3 585 26 9 9 26% 23 8 2 0 1 1 2 0 43 11 1.78 1.21
1949 BSN NL 32 3 8 629 19 6 6 24% 18 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 40 10 1.22 1.01
1950 CHW AL 33 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 7 11 1229 45 15 15 25% 41 12 3 2 1 1 2 0 83 21 1.54 1.13
MLB Averages 44% 1.21 1.19

* 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))
1945 NL (24, 2%)
0.02 Career Shares (1361st)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1945 NL  86 (5th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1945 NL  40 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1945 NL  9 (4th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1946 NL  6 (3rd)
1948 NL  5 (5th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1945 NL  43 (1st)
1946 NL  28 (3rd)
1948 NL  31 (4th)

                           

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