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Bill Serena

William Robert Serena

Positions: Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: October 2, 1924 in Alameda, CA
High School: Alameda HS (Alameda, CA)
Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1946. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1949
Team: Cubs 1949-1954

Final Game: August 7, 1954
Died: April 17, 1996 in Hayward, CA
Cremated
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1949 CHC NL 24 3B 11 11 11 26 9 15 2 0 .923 2.18 .952 3.18
1950 CHC NL 25 3B 125 125 117 1102.1 419 122 274 23 24 .945 3.23 3.17 .948 3.31 3.27 RoY-5
1951 CHC NL 26 3B 12 12 12 103.0 34 15 17 2 1 .941 2.80 2.67 .953 3.37 3.36
1952 CHC NL 27 3B 58 57 51 509.2 175 70 100 5 5 .971 3.00 2.93 .954 3.15 3.12
1952 CHC NL 27 2B 49 46 46 412.0 265 128 134 3 25 .989 5.72 5.35 .975 5.48 5.43
1953 CHC NL 28 2B 49 46 40 399.1 230 106 120 4 24 .983 -3 -10 5.09 4.61 .972 5.44 5.33
1953 CHC NL 28 3B 28 27 22 217.0 72 29 40 3 7 .958 -1 -7 2.86 2.46 .951 3.04 2.98
1954 CHC NL 29 3B 12 11 10 90.2 30 3 25 2 0 .933 1 12 2.78 2.33 .952 3.17 3.15
1954 CHC NL 29 2B 2 1 1 11.0 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -55 2.45 1.50 .977 5.56 5.55
6 Seasons 3B 246 243 223 2022.2 756 248 471 37 37 .951 -0 -0 3.09 2.92 .950 3.24 3.20
3 Seasons 2B 100 93 87 822.1 498 236 255 7 49 .986 -4 -6 5.37 4.91 .974 5.46 5.38
6 Seasons TOT 346 336 310 2845.0 1254 484 726 44 86 .965 -4 -2 3.75 3.50 .959 3.88 3.83
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
1949 CHC NL 24 3B
1950 CHC NL 25 3B
1951 CHC NL 26 3B
1952 CHC NL 27 3B
1952 CHC NL 27 2B
1953 CHC NL 28 2B -3 -10 -1 -1 -1 -2
1953 CHC NL 28 3B -1 -7 -1 -1 -1 0
1954 CHC NL 29 3B 1 12 1 0 1 0
1954 CHC NL 29 2B -0 -55 -0 -0 0 0
6 Seasons 3B -0 -0 -0 -1 0 0
3 Seasons 2B -4 -6 -2 -1 -1 -2
6 Seasons TOT -4 -2 -2 -2 -0 -2

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1949 CHC NL 24 12 11 12 11 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1950 CHC NL 25 127 125 127 125 0 0 0 0 125 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1951 CHC NL 26 13 12 13 12 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1952 CHC NL 27 122 103 122 106 0 0 0 49 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 1
1953 CHC NL 28 93 73 93 76 0 0 0 49 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 0
1954 CHC NL 29 41 12 41 14 0 0 0 2 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 0
6 Seasons 408 336 408 344 0 0 0 100 246 0 0 0 0 0 0 66 1
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 -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1949 CHC NL 24 158 58% 78% 32% 10 80% 0 1 0 1 0 8 6 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 50%
1950 CHC NL 25 4036 64% 84% 30% 300 85% 4 94 64 10 20 201 146 37 5 9 22 1 17 4 18 21 12 1 17 3 3 0 13 62%
1951 CHC NL 26 367 69% 87% 27% 30 90% 0 15 12 1 2 15 15 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 100%
1952 CHC NL 27 1884 59% 80% 26% 141 95% 0 57 43 3 11 92 83 6 0 11 4 1 2 1 2 4 2 1 3 1 0 1 7 86%
1953 CHC NL 28 663 63% 80% 23% 42 90% 1 20 15 3 2 25 18 4 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 3 1 2 3 0 0 0 3 67%
1954 CHC NL 29 256 61% 82% 29% 24 88% 0 3 2 0 1 20 16 3 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 67%
6 Seasons 7364 63% 82% 28% 547 88% 5 190 136 18 36 361 284 52 6 22 33 2 25 6 26 29 15 4 23 5 3 2 29 69%
MLB Averages 63% 82% 26% 89% 67%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1952 CHC NL 27 1236 60% 82% 27% 131 95% 0 95 44 35 16 93 80 9 0 1 3 0 3 0 3 23 7 3 5 3 20 8 12 3 3 0
1953 CHC NL 28 1559 62% 82% 26% 133 92% 1 96 40 40 16 99 83 12 1 1 5 0 5 0 4 22 11 2 5 0 19 5 13 3 2 1
1954 CHC NL 29 49 65% 80% 24% 1 100% 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 2844 61% 82% 26% 265 94% 1 193 84 77 32 193 163 22 1 2 8 0 8 0 7 45 18 5 10 3 39 13 25 6 5 1
MLB Averages 63% 82% 26% 93%

* 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

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1950 NL  125 (5th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1950 NL  122 (5th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1950 NL  274 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1950 NL  23 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1950 NL  3.17 (4th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1950 NL  .945 (5th)

                           

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