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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: Kalamazoo College, Valparaiso University (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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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1924 22 CLE AL 3 8 7 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 .250 .286 .536 37 2 1 0 /4
1925 23 CLE AL 107 406 376 50 108 9 3 0 32 8 5 15 21 .287 .315 .327 .642 62 123 0 15 54/6
1926 24 CLE AL 149 678 614 101 181 31 3 0 49 7 2 27 36 .295 .327 .355 .682 77 218 2 35 *4
1927 25 CLE AL 57 221 179 30 45 6 1 1 19 8 1 18 14 .251 .323 .313 .636 65 56 1 23 4
4 Seasons 316 1313 1176 181 335 47 7 1 100 23 8 60 71 .285 .322 .339 .661 70 399 4 73
162 Game Avg. 162 673 603 93 172 24 4 1 51 12 4 31 36 .285 .322 .339 .661 70 205 2 37

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1924 22 CLE AL 8 -1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 -2 -0.2 -1 -0.1 -0.1 $ /4
1925 23 CLE AL 406 -23 1 0 0 -3 4 13 -8 -0.7 -5 -0.5 -0.2 $ 54/6
1926 24 CLE AL 678 -21 5 0 0 5 5 20 14 1.4 9 0.9 0.5 $ *4
1927 25 CLE AL 221 -9 2 0 0 -6 2 7 -4 -0.4 2 0.2 -0.6 $ 4
4 Seasons 1313 -54 8 0 0 -5 11 40 0 0.1 5 0.5 -0.4 $

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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.
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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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

At Bats s c a p y
1926 AL  614 (3rd)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1926 AL  678 (4th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1926 AL  101 (7th)

Singles s c a p y
1926 AL  147 (2nd)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1926 AL  35 (1st)
1927 AL  23 (8th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1926 AL  470 (1st)

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)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 4 (1843), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 3 (1771), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 4 (2356), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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