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Freddy Spurgeon

Fred Spurgeon

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: October 9, 1901 in Wabash, IN
Schools: Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN), Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 19, 1924
Team: Indians 1924-1927

Final Game: September 3, 1927
Died: November 5, 1970 in Kalamazoo, MI
Buried: Grand Prairie Cemetery, Kalamazoo, MI
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1924 CLE AL 22 2B 3 3 1 17 5 10 2 0 .882 5.00 .966 5.77
1925 CLE AL 23 3B 56 51 45 191 54 123 14 13 .927 3.16 .947 3.21
1925 CLE AL 23 2B 46 42 36 235 101 127 7 17 .970 4.96 .962 5.76
1925 CLE AL 23 SS 3 3 2 16 3 9 4 1 .750 4.00 .944 5.20
1926 CLE AL 24 2B 149 149 143 852 341 479 32 93 .962 5.50 .967 5.63
1927 CLE AL 25 2B 52 50 42 292 124 150 18 28 .938 5.27 .961 5.69
4 Seasons 2B 250 244 222 1396 571 766 59 138 .958 5.35 .965 5.67
1 Season 3B 56 51 45 191 54 123 14 13 .927 3.16 .947 3.21
1 Season SS 3 3 2 16 3 9 4 1 .750 4.00 .944 5.20
4 Seasons TOT 309 298 269 1603 628 898 77 152 .952 4.94 .963 5.22
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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1924 CLE AL 22 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1925 CLE AL 23 107 96 107 104 0 0 0 45 57 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1926 CLE AL 24 149 149 149 149 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1927 CLE AL 25 58 50 58 52 0 0 0 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5
4 Seasons 317 298 317 308 0 0 0 249 57 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 6
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

Assists† s c a p y
1926 AL  479 (2nd)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1926 AL  149 (1st)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1926 AL  341 (2nd)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1926 AL  479 (1st)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1926 AL  32 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1926 AL  5.50 (4th)

                           

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