Roy Spencer

Roy Hampton Spencer

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 168 lb.

Born: February 22, 1900 in Scranton, NC (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1925
Teams (by GP): Senators/Pirates/Indians/Dodgers/Giants 1925-1938

Final Game: May 9, 1938
Died: February 8, 1973 in Port Charlotte, FL
Buried: Gulf Pines Memorial Park, Englewood, FL
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%
1925	PIT	NL	25	C	11	4	4	21	18	1	2	2	.905	1.73	.970	4.45	1	2	0	0%	44%
1926	PIT	NL	26	C	12	5	4	33	29	3	1	0	.970	2.67	.971	4.39	0	3	1	25%	44%
1927	PIT	NL	27	C	34	22	16	116	98	15	3	2	.974	3.32	.974	4.43	4	12	5	29%	39%
1929	WSH	AL	29	C	41	28	24	153	128	20	5	2	.967	3.61	.976	4.69	2	19	10	34%	44%
1930	WSH	AL	30	C	93	89	80	444	395	44	5	3	.989	4.72	.984	4.88	4	27	35	56%	42%
1931	WSH	AL	31	C	145	142	118	722	642	69	11	9	.985	4.90	.981	4.92	5	51	41	45%	42%
1932	WSH	AL	32	C	98	91	61	365	313	44	8	9	.978	3.64	.982	4.90	4	29	29	50%	43%
1933	CLE	AL	33	C	72	68	58	303	258	42	3	4	.990	4.17	.988	4.88	2	11	24	69%	45%
1934	CLE	AL	34	C	4	2	0	9	7	2	0	0	1.000	2.25	.981	5.00	0	0	0
1936	NYG	NL	36	C	14	1	1	21	18	3	0	0	1.000	1.50	.979	4.96	0	0	1	100%	47%
1937	BRO	NL	37	C	45	33	23	204	177	27	0	2	1.000	4.53	.980	5.25	2	14	12	46%	46%
1938	BRO	NL	38	C	16	13	9	62	55	5	2	0	.968	3.75	.979	4.85	1	1	2	67%	45%
	12 Seasons			C	585	498	398	2453	2138	275	40	33	.984	4.12	.982	4.87	25	169	160	49%	43%
	12 Seasons			TOT	585	498	398	2453	2138	275	40	33	.984	4.12	.982	4.87	25	169	160	49%	43%

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	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1925	PIT	NL	25	14	4	14	11	11	3	0
1926	PIT	NL	26	28	5	28	16	16	11	1
1927	PIT	NL	27	38	22	38	34	34	4	0
1929	WSH	AL	29	50	28	50	41	41	7	3
1930	WSH	AL	30	93	89	93	93	93	0	0
1931	WSH	AL	31	145	142	145	145	145	0	0
1932	WSH	AL	32	102	91	102	98	98	4	0
1933	CLE	AL	33	75	68	75	72	72	3	0
1934	CLE	AL	34	5	2	5	4	4	1	0
1936	NYG	NL	36	19	1	19	14	14	4	1
1937	BRO	NL	37	51	33	51	45	45	6	0
1938	BRO	NL	38	16	13	16	16	16	0	0
	12 Seasons			636	498	636	589	589	43	5

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 C s c a p y 1930 AL 93 (4th) 1931 AL 145 (1st) 1932 AL 98 (5th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1930 AL 395 (3rd) 1931 AL 642 (2nd) 1932 AL 313 (5th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1931 AL 69 (4th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1931 AL 11 (2nd) 1932 AL 8 (5th)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1931 AL 5 (4th) 1932 AL 4 (4th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1930 AL 35 (3rd) 1931 AL 41 (2nd) 1932 AL 29 (5th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1930 AL 56.5 (4th) 1931 AL 44.6 (5th) 1932 AL 50.0 (4th) 1933 AL 68.6 (1st) Career 48.6 (27th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1930 AL 4.72 (2nd) 1931 AL 4.90 (3rd)
Fielding % as C s c a p y 1930 AL .989 (2nd) 1931 AL .985 (5th) 1932 AL .978 (5th)	Oldest s c a p y 1938 NL born 1900-02-22 (5th)

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