Bob Speake

Robert Charles Speake (Spook)

Positions: Outfielder, Pinch Hitter and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 178 lb.

Born: August 22, 1930 in Springfield, MO
High School: Springfield HS (Springfield, MO)
Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in 1948. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1955
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Giants 1955-1959

Final Game: June 8, 1959
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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
1955	CHC	NL	24	OF	55	55	41	476.2	98	90	4	4	1	.959	1	3	1.77	1.71	.977	2.30	2.28
1955	CHC	NL	24	LF	49	47	35	404.1	78	73	3	2	1	.974	-1	-4	1.69	1.55	.972	2.05	2.03
1955	CHC	NL	24	1B	8	7	7	64.2	78	69	7	2	7	.974	0	7	10.58	9.50	.991	9.80	9.70
1955	CHC	NL	24	RF	8	8	6	72.1	23	19	1	3	0	.870	2	41	2.49	2.50	.975	1.98	1.96
1957	CHC	NL	26	OF	60	59	56	515.2	152	143	5	4	0	.974	1	2	2.58	2.47	.980	2.29	2.31
1957	CHC	NL	26	CF	40	39	37	347.1	114	109	3	2	0	.982	5	18	2.90	2.80	.985	2.81	2.83
1957	CHC	NL	26	1B	39	40	39	367.2	376	337	36	3	21	.992	2	6	9.13	9.56	.990	9.67	9.73
1957	CHC	NL	26	LF	20	20	19	168.1	31	28	1	2	0	.935	-4	-31	1.55	1.45	.978	2.03	2.05
1958	SFG	NL	27	LF	10	7	5	67.0	16	13	2	1	0	.938	-0	-4	2.01	1.50	.975	2.01	2.00
1958	SFG	NL	27	OF	10	7	5	67.0	16	13	2	1	0	.938	-0	-4	2.01	1.50	.980	2.26	2.25
	3 Seasons			OF	125	121	102	1059.1	266	246	11	9	1	.966	2	2	2.18	2.06	.979	2.29	2.29
	3 Seasons			LF	79	74	59	639.2	125	114	6	5	1	.960	-6	-11	1.69	1.52	.974	2.04	2.03
	2 Seasons			1B	47	47	46	432.1	454	406	43	5	28	.989	2	6	9.35	9.55	.990	9.69	9.73
	1 Season			CF	40	39	37	347.1	114	109	3	2	0	.982	5	18	2.90	2.80	.985	2.81	2.83
	1 Season			RF	8	8	6	72.1	23	19	1	3	0	.870	2	41	2.49	2.50	.975	1.98	1.96
	4 Seasons			TOT	172	168	148	1491.2	720	652	54	14	29	.981	4	3	4.26	4.10	.986	4.44	4.32

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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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof
1955	CHC	NL	24	LF	-1	-4	-1	-0	-1		0
1955	CHC	NL	24	1B	0	7	0	-1	1	0
1955	CHC	NL	24	RF	2	41	2	2	0		1
1957	CHC	NL	26	CF	5	18	4	2	2		1
1957	CHC	NL	26	1B	2	6	2	1	1	0
1957	CHC	NL	26	LF	-4	-31	-4	-0	-4		0
1958	SFG	NL	27	LF	-0	-4	-0	-0	0		0
	3 Seasons			LF	-6	-11	-6	-1	-4		0
	2 Seasons			1B	2	6	2	-0	2	0
	1 Season			CF	5	18	4	2	2		1
	1 Season			RF	2	41	2	2	0		1
	4 Seasons			TOT	4	3	2	2	1	0	2

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1955	CHC	NL	24	95	62	95	62	8	49	0	8	55	31	2
1957	CHC	NL	26	129	99	129	101	43	20	40	0	60	28	0
1958	SFG	NL	27	66	7	66	10	0	10	0	0	10	52	6
1959	SFG	NL	28	15	0	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	2
	4 Seasons			305	168	305	173	51	79	40	8	125	124	10

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 -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1955	CHC	NL	24	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	4	3	0	4	1	0	6	3	1	4	1	0	4	4	0	22	12	54.5%	9	1	4.5%	2	1457	65%	80%	31%	103	61%
1957	CHC	NL	26	2	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	9	7	0	8	2	0	6	2	0	3	1	0	4	4	0	30	16	53.3%	14	0	0.0%	1	761	64%	76%	27%	82	35%
1958	SFG	NL	27	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	4	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	2	28.6%	4	1	14.3%	1	291	68%	78%	25%	29	52%
	3 Seasons			4	0	3	1	1	6	0	1	2	1	17	12	1	15	3	0	12	5	1	7	2	0	8	8	0	59	30	50.8%	27	2	3.4%	4	2509	65%	78%	29%	214	50%
	MLB Averages																														58.3%			2.7%			64%	80%	30%		48%

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%
1955	CHC	NL	24	256	62%	82%	29%	16	88%	0	62	3	58	1	9	4	2	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	2	5	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	1	0%
1957	CHC	NL	26	1349	60%	76%	26%	79	92%	1	270	18	250	1	27	31	26	3	0	2	2	1	1	0	1	19	0	0	1	16	1	3	2	1	9	78%
	2 Seasons			1605	61%	77%	26%	95	92%	1	332	21	308	2	36	35	28	3	0	3	4	1	3	0	3	24	0	0	1	21	2	3	2	1	10	70%
	MLB Averages				64%	80%	27%		94%																											88%

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1957	CHC	NL	26	2	0	1	1	1	3	0	2	0	1	14	9	0	9	2	0	5	2	1	3	0	0	8	8	0	39	21	53.8%	17	1	2.6%	2	1433	58%	79%	29%	168	64%
	1 Season			2	0	1	1	1	3	0	2	0	1	14	9	0	9	2	0	5	2	1	3	0	0	8	8	0	39	21	53.8%	17	1	2.6%	2	1433	58%	79%	29%	168	64%
	MLB Averages																														44.5%			2.4%			64%	80%	30%		58%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1955	CHC	NL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	4	57.1%	3	0	0.0%	0	193	72%	77%	33%	21	62%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	4	57.1%	3	0	0.0%	0	193	72%	77%	33%	21	62%
	MLB Averages																														42.0%			3.3%			64%	80%	30%		54%

* 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

Total Zone Runs as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1957 NL 5 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1957 NL 5 (4th)

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