Jimmy Slagle

James Franklin Slagle (Rabbit or Shorty)

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 7", Weight: 144 lb.

Born: July 11, 1873 in Worthville, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: April 17, 1899
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Phillies/Senators/Orphans/Beaneaters 1899-1908

Final Game: October 3, 1908
Died: May 10, 1956 in Chicago, IL
Buried: Oakridge Cemetery, Hillside, IL
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G
1899	WHS	NL	25	OF	146	448	407	20	21	8	.953	2.92	.944	2.15	0-146-0
1900	PHI	NL	26	OF	141	371	320	22	29	5	.922	2.43	.940	2.17	141-0-0
1901	TOT	NL	27	OF	114	236	197	23	16	6	.932	1.93	.942	2.06	48-5-61
1901	PHI	NL	27	OF	48	129	108	12	9	3	.930	2.50	.942	2.06	48-0-0
1901	BSN	NL	27	OF	66	107	89	11	7	3	.935	1.52	.942	2.06	0-5-61
1902	CHC	NL	28	OF	115	289	264	15	10	5	.965	2.43	.945	1.97	94-22-0
1903	CHC	NL	29	OF	139	329	292	16	21	8	.936	2.22	.942	1.94	115-24-0
1904	CHC	NL	30	OF	120	227	194	15	18	7	.921	1.74	.947	1.89	102-18-0
1905	CHC	NL	31	OF	155	346	306	27	13	6	.962	2.15	.955	1.97	33-123-0
1906	CHC	NL	32	OF	127	292	276	9	7	5	.976	2.24	.959	1.89	4-123-0
1907	CHC	NL	33	OF	136	264	239	15	10	5	.962	1.87	.960	1.98	4-132-0
1908	CHC	NL	34	OF	101	210	199	6	5	2	.976	2.03	.960	2.04	26-75-0
	10 Seasons			OF	1294	3012	2694	168	150	57	.950	2.21	.949	2.01	567-668-61
	10 Seasons			TOT	1294	3012	2694	168	150	57	.950	2.21	.949	2.01	567-668-61

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	LF	CF	RF	OF
1899	WHS	NL	25	147	147	0	146	0	146
1900	PHI	NL	26	141	141	141	0	0	141
1901	BSN	NL	27	66	66	0	5	61	66
1901	PHI	NL	27	48	48	48	0	0	48
1902	CHC	NL	28	117	117	94	22	0	115
1903	CHC	NL	29	139	139	115	24	0	139
1904	CHC	NL	30	120	120	102	18	0	120
1905	CHC	NL	31	155	155	33	123	0	155
1906	CHC	NL	32	127	127	4	123	0	127
1907	CHC	NL	33	136	136	4	132	0	136
1908	CHC	NL	34	104	104	26	75	0	101
	10 Seasons			1300	1300	567	668	61	1294

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

Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1900 NL 141 (1st) 1903 NL 139 (3rd) 1905 NL 155 (1st)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1899 NL 407 (1st) 1900 NL 320 (5th) 1903 NL 292 (4th) 1905 NL 306 (5th)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1900 NL 22 (5th) 1901 NL 23 (1st) 1905 NL 27 (1st) Career 168 (90th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1900 NL 29 (1st) 1903 NL 21 (4th) 1904 NL 18 (2nd) Career 150 (67th)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1899 NL 2.92 (1st) 1902 NL 2.43 (1st) 1903 NL 2.22 (5th) 1906 NL 2.24 (4th)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1902 NL .965 (5th) 1906 NL .976 (4th)

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