Roy Smalley

Roy Frederick Smalley Jr.

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: June 9, 1926 in Springfield, MO
High School: Springfield HS (Springfield, MO)
Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in 1944. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 20, 1948
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Phillies/Braves 1948-1958

Final Game: April 21, 1958
Died: October 22, 2011 in Sahuarita, AZ
Relatives: Father of Roy Smalley and Brother-In-Law of Gene Mauch
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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
1948	CHC	NL	22	SS	124	106	89		574	189	351	34	70	.941				4.35	.959		4.98
1949	CHC	NL	23	SS	132	132	123		742	265	438	39	91	.947				5.33	.961		5.04
1950	CHC	NL	24	SS	154	154	147	1360.0	924	332	541	51	115	.945			5.78	5.67	.961	5.22	5.16
1951	CHC	NL	25	SS	74	71	62	615.0	322	117	190	15	42	.953			4.49	4.15	.955	4.89	4.87
1952	CHC	NL	26	SS	82	79	70	701.2	356	139	200	17	33	.952			4.35	4.13	.960	5.04	5.00
1953	CHC	NL	27	SS	77	73	69	641.0	369	153	191	25	39	.932	-11	-21	4.83	4.47	.958	5.04	4.94
1954	MLN	NL	28	SS	9	0	0	37.2	20	9	10	1	5	.950	-1	-25	4.54	2.11	.959	5.16	5.12
1954	MLN	NL	28	2B	7	4	3	44.0	28	13	15	0	5	1.000	-1	-27	5.73	4.00	.976	5.56	5.54
1954	MLN	NL	28	1B	2	1	1	11.0	15	14	1	0	1	1.000	0	11	12.27	7.50	.991	9.82	9.75
1955	PHI	NL	29	SS	87	79	74	706.0	350	136	205	9	32	.974	5	8	4.35	3.92	.964	5.02	4.98
1955	PHI	NL	29	2B	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		5.40	5.40
1955	PHI	NL	29	3B	1	1	1	9.0	3	2	1	0	0	1.000	-0	-27	3.00	3.00	.950	3.10	3.10
1956	PHI	NL	30	SS	60	53	44	472.0	235	81	142	12	32	.949	2	5	4.25	3.72	.962	4.94	4.89
1957	PHI	NL	31	SS	20	6	4	83.0	34	11	21	2	5	.941	-1	-16	3.47	1.60	.958	4.83	4.85
1958	PHI	NL	32	SS	1	0	0	6.0	7	3	2	2	1	.714	-1	-160	7.50	5.00	.964	5.10	5.10
	11 Seasons			SS	820	753	682	4622.1	3933	1435	2291	207	465	.947	-7	-2	4.83	4.54	.960	5.06	5.00
	2 Seasons			2B	8	4	3	45.0	28	13	15	0	5	1.000	-1	-27	5.60	3.50	.976	5.56	5.52
	1 Season			1B	2	1	1	11.0	15	14	1	0	1	1.000	0	11	12.27	7.50	.991	9.82	9.75
	1 Season			3B	1	1	1	9.0	3	2	1	0	0	1.000	-0	-27	3.00	3.00	.950	3.10	3.10
	11 Seasons			TOT	831	759	687	4687.1	3979	1464	2308	207	471	.948	-8	-2	4.86	4.54	.960	5.07	5.02

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
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
1948	CHC	NL	22	SS
1949	CHC	NL	23	SS
1950	CHC	NL	24	SS
1951	CHC	NL	25	SS
1952	CHC	NL	26	SS
1953	CHC	NL	27	SS	-11	-21	-9	-5	-4	-2
1954	MLN	NL	28	SS	-1	-25	-1	-0	-1	0
1954	MLN	NL	28	2B	-1	-27	-1	-0	-1	0
1954	MLN	NL	28	1B	0	11	0	0	-0	0
1955	PHI	NL	29	SS	5	8	7	4	3	-2
1955	PHI	NL	29	2B	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955	PHI	NL	29	3B	-0	-27	-0	0	-0	0
1956	PHI	NL	30	SS	2	5	1	1	0	1
1957	PHI	NL	31	SS	-1	-16	-1	-0	-1	0
1958	PHI	NL	32	SS	-1	-160	-1	-1	0	0
	11 Seasons			SS	-7	-2	-4	-2	-2	-3
	2 Seasons			2B	-1	-27	-1	-0	-1	0
	1 Season			1B	0	11	0	0	-0	0
	1 Season			3B	-0	-27	-0	0	-0	0
	11 Seasons			TOT	-8	-2	-5	-2	-3	-3

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1948	CHC	NL	22	124	106	124	124	0	0	0	124	0	2
1949	CHC	NL	23	135	132	135	132	0	0	0	132	3	0
1950	CHC	NL	24	154	154	154	154	0	0	0	154	0	0
1951	CHC	NL	25	79	71	79	74	0	0	0	74	5	0
1952	CHC	NL	26	87	79	87	82	0	0	0	82	5	0
1953	CHC	NL	27	82	73	82	77	0	0	0	77	5	0
1954	MLN	NL	28	25	5	25	18	2	7	0	9	10	0
1955	PHI	NL	29	92	80	92	89	0	1	1	87	3	0
1956	PHI	NL	30	65	53	65	60	0	0	0	60	5	0
1957	PHI	NL	31	28	6	28	20	0	0	0	20	6	2
1958	PHI	NL	32	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
	11 Seasons			872	759	872	831	2	8	1	820	42	4

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 -- SS*

											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	63	463	163	363	GB	GBs	GBr	LD	LDs	LDf
1948	CHC	NL	22	1244	68%	79%	31%	132	90%	0	49	20	21	8	109	80	26	0	2	12	0	10	2	10	19	9	0	7	1	0	18	9	8	1	1	0
1949	CHC	NL	23	2740	64%	85%	30%	314	90%	2	148	62	70	16	239	192	36	1	7	20	0	15	5	15	42	12	1	10	4	3	35	13	18	7	2	5
1950	CHC	NL	24	4858	64%	83%	30%	531	89%	8	260	98	122	40	427	331	76	0	9	42	3	33	6	30	93	31	10	22	13	4	84	44	39	8	5	3
1951	CHC	NL	25	1988	64%	85%	28%	177	93%	3	83	43	31	10	145	97	37	1	3	11	0	8	3	8	39	18	1	5	8	2	36	19	15	1	1	0
1952	CHC	NL	26	2480	63%	81%	26%	241	91%	1	123	67	45	11	174	133	35	0	0	14	1	11	2	12	29	10	1	8	5	1	29	11	14	0	0	0
1953	CHC	NL	27	2439	61%	83%	26%	243	87%	0	131	77	46	8	150	118	27	1	0	22	1	15	6	18	31	10	0	10	3	0	27	10	14	2	1	1
1954	MLN	NL	28	157	59%	80%	20%	11	91%	0	9	3	3	3	10	7	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	5	1	0	2	0	0	3	1	2	1	1	0
1955	PHI	NL	29	2919	61%	82%	25%	309	93%	2	132	81	38	13	221	178	36	0	7	10	0	9	1	8	29	12	0	9	2	0	23	12	11	3	0	2
1956	PHI	NL	30	1969	68%	82%	23%	198	89%	1	81	46	28	7	149	110	30	1	4	12	0	11	1	11	33	14	1	6	4	3	30	15	13	3	2	1
1957	PHI	NL	31	339	57%	79%	23%	24	88%	1	11	4	6	1	21	13	5	0	1	2	0	0	2	1	5	2	0	1	1	0	4	2	2	1	0	0
1958	PHI	NL	32	29	55%	59%	28%	3	67%	0	3	1	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	11 Seasons			21162	64%	83%	27%	2183	90%	18	1030	502	412	117	1647	1261	310	4	33	148	5	115	28	115	326	119	14	81	41	13	290	136	137	27	13	12
	MLB Averages				63%	81%	26%		90%

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
1954	MLN	NL	28	191	58%	83%	30%	20	90%	0	13	4	5	4	15	12	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	3	0	5	3	1	0	0	0
1955	PHI	NL	29	4	50%	25%	0%	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			195	58%	82%	29%	20	90%	0	13	4	5	4	15	12	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	3	0	5	3	1	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				63%	81%	26%		93%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1954	MLN	NL	28	44	59%	82%	34%	2	100%	0	14	1	13	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			44	59%	82%	34%	2	100%	0	14	1	13	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				63%	81%	26%		93%																											86%

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%
1955	PHI	NL	29	33	64%	88%	24%	1	100%	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			33	64%	88%	24%	1	100%	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				63%	81%	26%		89%																								66%

* 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

Hall of Fame 1964 BBWAA ( 0.5%)	Assists† s c a p y 1950 NL 541 (1st)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1948 NL 34 (1st) 1949 NL 39 (1st) 1950 NL 51 (1st)	Def. Games as SS s c a p y 1950 NL 154 (3rd)
Putouts as SS s c a p y 1949 NL 265 (3rd) 1950 NL 332 (1st)	Assists as SS s c a p y 1949 NL 438 (5th) 1950 NL 541 (1st)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1948 NL 34 (1st) 1949 NL 39 (1st) 1950 NL 51 (1st) 1953 NL 25 (2nd)	Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y 1955 NL 5 (5th) 1956 NL 2 (5th)
Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y 1950 NL 5.78 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 1949 NL 5.33 (1st) 1950 NL 5.67 (1st)	Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1955 NL .974 (1st)

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