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Bobby Sturgeon

Robert Harwood Sturgeon

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: August 6, 1919 in Clinton, IN
High School: Polytechnic HS (Long Beach, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1940
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Braves 1940-1948

Final Game: October 3, 1948
Died: March 10, 2007 in San Dimas, CA
Buried: Westminster Memorial Park, Westminster, CA
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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
1940 CHC NL 20 SS 7 7 5 46 19 20 7 5 .848 5.57 .950 5.50
1941 CHC NL 21 SS 126 120 110 608 215 366 27 68 .956 4.61 .951 5.17
1941 CHC NL 21 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.60
1941 CHC NL 21 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.30
1942 CHC NL 22 2B 32 29 25 170 69 99 2 18 .988 5.25 .968 5.61
1942 CHC NL 22 SS 29 17 12 109 43 64 2 15 .982 3.69 .955 5.22
1942 CHC NL 22 3B 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.50 .940 3.20
1946 CHC NL 26 SS 72 55 44 286 109 158 19 31 .934 3.71 .957 5.15
1946 CHC NL 26 2B 21 20 17 105 51 51 3 13 .971 4.86 .970 5.55
1947 CHC NL 27 SS 45 27 25 200 75 120 5 24 .975 4.33 .963 5.11
1947 CHC NL 27 2B 30 28 18 133 60 72 1 18 .992 4.40 .975 5.57
1947 CHC NL 27 3B 5 4 4 12 2 10 0 1 1.000 2.40 .947 3.06
1948 BSN NL 28 2B 18 15 13 81 36 40 5 9 .938 4.22 .971 5.40
1948 BSN NL 28 3B 4 3 3 7 3 3 1 0 .857 1.50 .941 3.10
1948 BSN NL 28 SS 4 1 1 8 4 3 1 0 .875 1.75 .959 4.97
6 Seasons SS 283 227 197 1257 465 731 61 143 .951 4.23 .955 5.17
5 Seasons 2B 102 92 73 489 216 262 11 58 .978 4.69 .971 5.55
4 Seasons 3B 12 7 7 20 6 13 1 1 .950 1.58 .944 3.12
6 Seasons TOT 397 326 277 1766 687 1006 73 202 .959 4.26 .959 5.20
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
1940 CHC NL 20 SS
1941 CHC NL 21 SS
1941 CHC NL 21 2B
1941 CHC NL 21 3B
1942 CHC NL 22 2B
1942 CHC NL 22 SS
1942 CHC NL 22 3B
1946 CHC NL 26 SS
1946 CHC NL 26 2B
1947 CHC NL 27 SS
1947 CHC NL 27 2B
1947 CHC NL 27 3B
1948 BSN NL 28 2B
1948 BSN NL 28 3B
1948 BSN NL 28 SS
6 Seasons SS
5 Seasons 2B
4 Seasons 3B
6 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1940 CHC NL 20 7 7 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1941 CHC NL 21 129 120 129 128 0 0 0 1 1 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1942 CHC NL 22 63 46 63 60 0 0 0 31 2 30 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1946 CHC NL 26 100 75 100 93 0 0 0 21 0 73 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1947 CHC NL 27 87 59 87 77 0 0 0 30 5 45 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1948 BSN NL 28 34 19 34 26 0 0 0 18 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 5
6 Seasons 420 326 420 391 0 0 0 101 12 285 0 0 0 0 0 23 7
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 -- 2B*

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 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1948 BSN NL 28 499 60% 86% 26% 50 84% 0 30 13 10 7 34 30 3 0 0 4 0 3 1 3 7 3 0 2 1 7 3 4 0 0 0
1 Season 499 60% 86% 26% 50 84% 0 30 13 10 7 34 30 3 0 0 4 0 3 1 3 7 3 0 2 1 7 3 4 0 0 0
MLB Averages 61% 82% 27% 92%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

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 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1948 BSN NL 28 60 70% 78% 18% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 60 70% 78% 18% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 61% 82% 27% 89% 68%

* 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

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1941 NL  .956 (4th)

Youngest s c a p y
1940 NL  born 1919-08-06 (6th)

                           

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