Bill Sweeney

William John Sweeney

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: March 6, 1886 in Covington, KY
High School: St. Xavier HS (Cincinnati, OH) (All Transactions)
Debut: June 14, 1907
Teams (by GP): Doves/Braves/Rustlers/Cubs 1907-1914

Final Game: October 5, 1914
Died: May 26, 1948 in Cambridge, MA
Buried: St. Joseph Cemetery, West Roxbury, MA
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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	G	Awards
1907	TOT	NL	21	SS	18				75	21	44	10	3	.867		3.61	.932		5.18
1907	CHC	NL	21	SS	3				14	2	6	6	0	.571		2.67	.932		5.17
1907	BSN	NL	21	3B	23				101	36	52	13	5	.871		3.83	.928		3.36
1907	BSN	NL	21	SS	15				61	19	38	4	3	.934		3.80	.932		5.18
1907	BSN	NL	21	OF	11				20	13	3	4	0	.800		1.45	.960		1.98	9-1-1
1907	BSN	NL	21	2B	5				30	14	13	3	1	.900		5.40	.952		5.24
1907	BSN	NL	21	1B	1				4	4	0	0	0	1.000		4.00	.985		10.60
1908	BSN	NL	22	3B	123				485	174	277	34	14	.930		3.67	.932		3.31
1908	BSN	NL	22	SS	3				4	0	3	1	0	.750		1.00	.930		5.30
1908	BSN	NL	22	2B	1				3	1	2	0	0	1.000		3.00	.953		5.10
1909	BSN	NL	23	3B	112				442	156	243	43	14	.903		3.56	.930		3.31
1909	BSN	NL	23	SS	26				158	66	83	9	12	.943		5.73	.926		5.33
1910	BSN	NL	24	SS	110				589	232	300	57	52	.903		4.84	.924		5.20
1910	BSN	NL	24	3B	21				97	39	53	5	2	.948		4.38	.932		3.17
1910	BSN	NL	24	1B	17				188	168	16	4	19	.979		10.82	.984		10.40
1911	BSN	NL	25	2B	136				828	372	410	46	61	.944		5.75	.952		5.21		MVP-21
1912	BSN	NL	26	2B	153				974	459	475	40	76	.959		6.10	.955		5.33		MVP-6
1913	BSN	NL	27	2B	137				737	301	391	45	42	.939		5.05	.955		5.27		MVP-13
1914	CHC	NL	28	2B	134				762	301	426	35	40	.954		5.43	.949		5.21
	6 Seasons			2B	566				3334	1448	1717	169	220	.949		5.59	.953		5.26
	4 Seasons			3B	279				1125	405	625	95	35	.916		3.69	.931		3.30
	4 Seasons			SS	157				826	319	430	77	67	.907		4.77	.925		5.22
	2 Seasons			1B	18				192	172	16	4	19	.979		10.44	.984		10.41
	1 Season			OF	11				20	13	3	4	0	.800		1.45	.960		1.98	9-1-1
	8 Seasons			TOT	1031				5497	2357	2791	349	341	.937		4.99	.945		4.78	9-1-1
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	G	Awards

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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-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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF
1907	BSN	NL	21	58	58	1	5	23	15	9	1	1	11
1907	CHC	NL	21	3	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
1908	BSN	NL	22	127	127	0	1	123	3	0	0	0	0
1909	BSN	NL	23	138	138	0	0	112	26	0	0	0	0
1910	BSN	NL	24	150	150	17	0	21	110	0	0	0	0
1911	BSN	NL	25	137	137	0	136	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912	BSN	NL	26	153	153	0	153	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913	BSN	NL	27	139	139	0	137	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914	CHC	NL	28	134	134	0	134	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8 Seasons			1039	1039	18	566	279	157	9	1	1	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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame 1945 BBWAA ( 0.4%)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1911 NL (21, 5%) 1912 NL (6, 25%) 1913 NL (13, 9%) 0.39 Career Shares (521st)	Assists† s c a p y 1912 NL 475 (2nd)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1909 NL 52 (3rd) 1910 NL 66 (1st) 1912 NL 40 (5th) 1913 NL 45 (4th)
Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1911 NL 136 (4th) 1912 NL 153 (1st) 1913 NL 137 (3rd)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1911 NL 372 (1st) 1912 NL 459 (1st) 1913 NL 301 (5th) 1914 NL 301 (4th)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1911 NL 410 (4th) 1912 NL 475 (1st) 1913 NL 391 (4th) 1914 NL 426 (3rd)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1911 NL 46 (1st) 1912 NL 40 (1st) 1913 NL 45 (1st) 1914 NL 35 (4th) Career 169 (89th)
Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1908 NL 174 (5th)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1908 NL 277 (4th) 1909 NL 243 (5th)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1908 NL 34 (3rd) 1909 NL 43 (1st)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1910 NL 57 (1st)
Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1911 NL 5.75 (1st) 1912 NL 6.10 (1st) 1914 NL 5.43 (2nd) Career 5.59 (43rd)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1912 NL .959 (4th) 1914 NL .954 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1908 NL 3.67 (1st) 1909 NL 3.56 (2nd)

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