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Virgil Stallcup

Thomas Virgil Stallcup (Red)

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: January 3, 1922 in Ravensford, NC
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1941. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1947
Teams (by GP): Reds/Cardinals 1947-1953

Final Game: April 25, 1953
Died: May 2, 1989 in Greenville, SC
Buried: Greenville Memorial Gardens, Greenville, SC
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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
1947 CIN NL 25 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.10
1948 CIN NL 26 SS 148 148 139 729 264 433 32 84 .956 4.71 .959 4.98
1949 CIN NL 27 SS 141 140 133 720 256 437 27 87 .963 4.91 .961 5.04
1950 CIN NL 28 SS 136 134 123 1157.1 660 253 389 18 79 .973 4.99 4.72 .961 5.22 5.16
1951 CIN NL 29 SS 117 111 102 984.1 540 190 333 17 61 .969 4.78 4.47 .955 4.89 4.87
1952 TOT NL 30 SS 13 4 3 44.1 21 5 16 0 4 1.000 4.26 1.62 .960 5.03 5.00
1952 CIN NL 30 SS 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.00
1952 STL NL 30 SS 12 4 3 43.1 21 5 16 0 4 1.000 4.36 1.75 .960 5.03 5.00
6 Seasons SS 556 537 500 2186.0 2670 968 1608 94 315 .965 4.88 4.63 .959 5.07 5.02
7 Seasons TOT 556 537 500 2186.0 2670 968 1608 94 315 .965 4.88 4.63 .959 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.
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

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1947 CIN NL 25 SS
1948 CIN NL 26 SS
1949 CIN NL 27 SS
1950 CIN NL 28 SS
1951 CIN NL 29 SS
1952 CIN NL 30 SS
1952 STL NL 30 SS
6 Seasons SS
7 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1947 CIN NL 25 8 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
1948 CIN NL 26 149 148 149 148 0 0 0 0 0 148 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1949 CIN NL 27 141 140 141 141 0 0 0 0 0 141 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1950 CIN NL 28 136 134 136 136 0 0 0 0 0 136 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1951 CIN NL 29 121 111 121 117 0 0 0 0 0 117 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1952 STL NL 30 29 4 29 12 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 13 4
1952 CIN NL 30 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1953 STL NL 31 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
7 Seasons 587 537 587 556 0 0 0 0 0 556 0 0 0 0 0 22 11
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 CIN NL 26 2290 70% 81% 26% 238 88% 4 95 45 40 10 180 125 44 1 3 15 0 15 0 14 40 15 3 7 4 2 33 18 13 6 2 3
1949 CIN NL 27 3320 70% 83% 26% 340 95% 3 156 79 60 17 272 204 58 4 2 12 0 10 2 11 53 21 2 14 9 2 49 23 25 3 2 1
1950 CIN NL 28 3624 64% 80% 25% 368 93% 1 165 86 66 13 282 196 72 0 5 13 1 11 1 11 54 25 0 14 3 3 48 25 20 4 3 1
1951 CIN NL 29 3226 64% 84% 28% 350 92% 2 149 69 67 13 272 212 48 1 2 11 1 9 1 9 46 18 1 9 5 2 39 21 16 6 2 4
1952 STL NL 30 127 71% 76% 22% 12 100% 0 3 2 0 1 10 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
1952 CIN NL 30 4 75% 100% 50% 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
5 Seasons 12591 67% 82% 26% 1308 92% 10 568 281 233 54 1016 743 226 6 12 51 2 45 4 45 195 81 6 44 21 9 171 89 74 19 9 9
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 90%

* 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

Assists† s c a p y
1948 NL  433 (5th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1948 NL  32 (2nd)
1949 NL  27 (4th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1948 NL  148 (3rd)
1949 NL  141 (4th)
1950 NL  136 (5th)
1951 NL  117 (5th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1948 NL  264 (3rd)
1949 NL  256 (4th)
1951 NL  190 (5th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1948 NL  433 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1948 NL  32 (2nd)
1949 NL  27 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1951 NL  4.78 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1949 NL  .963 (4th)
1950 NL  .973 (2nd)
1951 NL  .969 (1st)

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