Ed Stevens

Edward Lee Stevens (Big Ed)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: January 12, 1925 in Galveston, TX
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1941. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 9, 1945
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Dodgers 1945-1950

Final Game: October 1, 1950
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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
1945	BRO	NL	20	1B	55	53	53		523	478	38	7	40	.987		9.38	.990		10.17
1946	BRO	NL	21	1B	99	79	59		775	716	48	11	59	.986		7.72	.991		9.98
1947	BRO	NL	22	1B	4	2	2		34	29	4	1	2	.971		8.25	.991		9.62
1948	PIT	NL	23	1B	117	111	100		1108	1021	83	4	94	.996		9.44	.990		9.61
1949	PIT	NL	24	1B	58	57	54		594	533	58	3	65	.995		10.19	.991		9.62
1950	PIT	NL	25	1B	12	10	9	93.1	100	92	8	0	11	1.000	9.64	8.33	.990	9.71	9.61
	6 Seasons			1B	345	312	277	93.1	3134	2869	239	26	271	.992	9.64	9.01	.990	9.71	9.81
	6 Seasons			TOT	345	312	277	93.1	3134	2869	239	26	271	.992	9.64	9.01	.990	9.71	9.81

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
1945	BRO	NL	20	1B
1946	BRO	NL	21	1B
1947	BRO	NL	22	1B
1948	PIT	NL	23	1B
1949	PIT	NL	24	1B
1950	PIT	NL	25	1B
	6 Seasons			1B
	6 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	PH
1945	BRO	NL	20	55	53	55	55	55	0
1946	BRO	NL	21	103	79	103	99	99	4
1947	BRO	NL	22	5	2	5	4	4	1
1948	PIT	NL	23	128	111	128	117	117	12
1949	PIT	NL	24	67	57	67	58	58	9
1950	PIT	NL	25	17	10	17	12	12	5
	6 Seasons			375	312	375	345	345	31

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 -- 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%
1948	PIT	NL	23	1554	60%	83%	29%	87	93%	0	389	13	368	8	44	29	20	6	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	39	1	1	0	31	3	8	1	7	9	100%
1949	PIT	NL	24	1414	65%	83%	27%	95	98%	2	322	18	302	2	45	33	20	8	1	0	2	0	1	1	2	37	3	0	0	33	3	3	1	2	10	90%
1950	PIT	NL	25	340	71%	80%	29%	15	93%	0	81	6	73	2	2	6	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	1	0	0	9	1	0	0	0	2	50%
	3 Seasons			3308	63%	83%	28%	197	95%	2	792	37	743	12	91	68	42	18	1	1	3	0	2	1	2	85	5	1	0	73	7	11	2	9	21	90%
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		93%																											88%

* 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

Putouts† s c a p y 1948 NL 1,021 (5th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1948 NL 117 (5th)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1948 NL 1,021 (5th)	Assists as 1B s c a p y 1948 NL 83 (3rd)
Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1945 NL 7 (5th) 1946 NL 11 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1948 NL 9.44 (4th)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1948 NL .996 (1st)

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