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Bob Swift

Robert Virgil Swift

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: March 6, 1915 in Salina, KS (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1940
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Browns/Athletics 1940-1953

Final Game: September 27, 1953
Died: October 17, 1966 in Detroit, MI
Buried: Roselawn Memorial Park, Salina, KS
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1940 SLB AL 25 C 128 116 89 453 389 55 9 8 .980 3.47 .982 5.27 11 51 22 30% 41%
1941 SLB AL 26 C 58 48 36 205 180 22 3 3 .985 3.48 .983 5.00 3 23 9 28% 41%
1942 TOT AL 27 C 88 81 59 393 334 50 9 5 .977 4.36 .979 4.93 5 41 33 45% 42%
1942 SLB AL 27 C 28 24 16 92 81 11 0 2 1.000 3.29 .979 4.93 2 7 7 50% 42%
1942 PHA AL 27 C 60 57 43 301 253 39 9 3 .970 4.87 .979 4.93 3 34 26 43% 42%
1943 PHA AL 28 C 77 73 52 339 278 53 8 9 .976 4.30 .981 5.23 4 54 24 31% 42%
1944 DET AL 29 C 76 73 63 342 288 48 6 4 .982 4.42 .976 4.91 5 21 33 61% 39%
1945 DET AL 30 C 94 84 71 423 358 60 5 12 .988 4.45 .986 4.92 7 33 37 53% 45%
1946 DET AL 31 C 42 29 25 205 187 14 4 2 .980 4.79 .982 5.52 3 14 4 22% 46%
1947 DET AL 32 C 97 84 66 451 401 45 5 6 .989 4.60 .985 5.02 5 18 22 55% 46%
1948 DET AL 33 C 112 99 69 536 476 55 5 13 .991 4.74 .986 4.74 10 9 21 19 48% 44% 1
1949 DET AL 34 C 69 52 41 261 232 26 3 6 .989 3.74 .985 4.76 3 10 10 12 55% 45% 1
1950 DET AL 35 C 66 46 26 391.1 222 201 20 1 3 .995 5.08 3.35 .985 4.94 4.85 4 2 2 9 82% 49% 0
1951 DET AL 36 C 43 33 21 291.1 166 146 17 3 3 .982 5.04 3.79 .982 5.03 5.01 2 6 12 6 33% 46% 0
1952 DET AL 37 C 28 23 10 182.1 133 118 12 3 1 .977 6.42 4.64 .985 5.44 5.44 1 4 2 5 71% 46% 1
1953 DET AL 38 C 2 2 0 13.0 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 6.50 .985 5.19 5.15 0 0 0 0 0
14 Seasons C 980 843 628 878.0 4142 3601 477 64 75 .985 0 0 5.40 4.16 .983 5.08 5.01 63 31 302 235 44% 43% 3
14 Seasons TOT 980 843 628 878.0 4142 3601 477 64 75 .985 0 0 5.40 4.16 .983 5.08 5.01 63 31 302 235 44% 43% 3
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 SLB AL 25 C
1941 SLB AL 26 C
1942 SLB AL 27 C
1942 PHA AL 27 C
1943 PHA AL 28 C
1944 DET AL 29 C
1945 DET AL 30 C
1946 DET AL 31 C
1947 DET AL 32 C
1948 DET AL 33 C
1949 DET AL 34 C
1950 DET AL 35 C
1951 DET AL 36 C
1952 DET AL 37 C
1953 DET AL 38 C 0 0 0
14 Seasons C 0 0 0
14 Seasons TOT 0 0 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1940 SLB AL 25 130 116 130 128 0 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1941 SLB AL 26 63 48 63 58 0 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1942 PHA AL 27 60 57 60 60 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1942 SLB AL 27 29 24 29 28 0 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1943 PHA AL 28 77 73 77 77 0 77 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1944 DET AL 29 80 73 80 76 0 76 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1945 DET AL 30 95 84 95 94 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1946 DET AL 31 42 29 42 42 0 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1947 DET AL 32 97 84 97 97 0 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1948 DET AL 33 113 99 113 112 0 112 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1949 DET AL 34 74 52 74 69 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1950 DET AL 35 67 46 67 66 0 66 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1951 DET AL 36 44 33 44 43 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1952 DET AL 37 28 23 28 28 0 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 DET AL 38 2 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Seasons 1001 843 1001 980 0 980 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 0
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 -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1948 DET AL 33 1751 4.56 5.11 23 91% 0 0 238 17 2 7 212 22 5 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 4 0 1 1 3 67%
1949 DET AL 34 1284 4.01 4.57 20 95% 0 0 130 13 2 14 101 13 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 2 50%
1950 DET AL 35 1294 4.35 4.80 23 100% 0 0 148 15 1 4 128 14 5 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 100%
1951 DET AL 36 815 3.64 4.12 12 100% 0 0 98 9 2 1 86 9 4 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 3 0 1 1 1 100%
1952 DET AL 37 545 5.93 6.95 18 100% 0 0 78 12 1 5 60 8 3 0 0 1 3 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 100%
1953 DET AL 38 55 4.15 4.85 3 100% 0 0 13 3 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 5744 4.37 4.93 99 97% 0 0 705 69 8 31 597 66 19 1 0 6 8 0 1 7 1 12 0 2 3 11 82%
MLB Averages 4.13 4.66 95% 83%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1948 DET AL 33 5 9 699 10 11 11 52% 9 11 1 0 0 0 1 0 30 14 1.02 1.37
1949 DET AL 34 1 10 532 6 4 4 40% 6 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 25 8 1.68 0.70
1950 DET AL 35 3 2 492 0 5 5 100% 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 10 10 1.08
1951 DET AL 36 1 6 344 5 3 3 38% 5 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 21 4 1.66 1.53
1952 DET AL 37 1 4 228 2 3 3 60% 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 13 5 1.50 0.25
1953 DET AL 38 0 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 11 31 2321 23 26 26 53% 22 22 1 4 0 0 3 0 99 41 1.37 1.10
MLB Averages 45% 1.21 1.18

* 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1940 AL  128 (3rd)
1942 AL  88 (5th)
1945 AL  94 (4th)
1947 AL  97 (4th)
1948 AL  112 (3rd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1942 AL  334 (5th)
1945 AL  358 (5th)
1947 AL  401 (4th)
1948 AL  476 (2nd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1942 AL  50 (4th)
1944 AL  48 (5th)
1945 AL  60 (4th)
1947 AL  45 (5th)
1948 AL  55 (3rd)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1942 AL  9 (4th)
1943 AL  8 (4th)
1945 AL  5 (5th)
1948 AL  5 (5th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1940 AL  11 (4th)
1945 AL  7 (5th)
1947 AL  5 (5th)
1948 AL  10 (1st)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1940 AL  51 (2nd)
1942 AL  41 (3rd)
1943 AL  54 (3rd)
1945 AL  33 (4th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1942 AL  33 (2nd)
1944 AL  33 (2nd)
1945 AL  37 (3rd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1944 AL  61.1 (2nd)
1945 AL  52.9 (2nd)
1947 AL  55.0 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1947 AL  4.60 (4th)
1948 AL  4.74 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1940 AL  .980 (5th)
1945 AL  .988 (5th)
1947 AL  .989 (2nd)
1948 AL  .991 (3rd)

Oldest s c a p y
1953 AL  born 1915-03-06 (8th)

             

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