Jim Tabor

James Reubin Tabor (Rawhide)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: November 5, 1916 in New Hope, AL
School: University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL)(All Transactions)
Debut: August 2, 1938
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Phillies 1938-1947

Final Game: September 17, 1947
Died: August 22, 1953 in Sacramento, CA
Buried: Esslinger Cemetery, Gurley, AL
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	Awards
1938	BOS	AL	21	3B	11	10	10	45	15	25	5	2	.889	3.64	.941	3.14
1938	BOS	AL	21	SS	2	2	2	11	3	5	3	3	.727	4.00	.953	5.15
1939	BOS	AL	22	3B	148	148	147	522	144	338	40	32	.923	3.26	.943	3.15
1940	BOS	AL	23	3B	120	119	114	443	143	267	33	25	.926	3.42	.937	3.21
1941	BOS	AL	24	3B	125	123	122	430	123	277	30	24	.930	3.20	.947	3.28
1942	BOS	AL	25	3B	138	130	129	437	168	236	33	24	.924	2.93	.939	3.16
1943	BOS	AL	26	3B	133	131	130	422	135	261	26	32	.938	2.98	.951	3.17	MVP-33
1943	BOS	AL	26	LF	2	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.980	2.40	MVP-33
1943	BOS	AL	26	OF	2	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.975	2.45	MVP-33
1944	BOS	AL	27	3B	114	114	110	403	125	258	20	14	.950	3.36	.954	3.34
1946	PHI	NL	29	3B	124	123	118	395	156	221	18	17	.954	3.04	.952	3.08	MVP-20
1947	PHI	NL	30	3B	67	65	61	179	68	96	15	8	.916	2.45	.947	3.06
	9 Seasons			3B	980	963	941	3276	1077	1979	220	178	.933	3.12	.946	3.18
	1 Season			LF	2	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.980	2.40
	1 Season			SS	2	2	2	11	3	5	3	3	.727	4.00	.953	5.15
	1 Season			OF	2	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.975	2.45
	9 Seasons			TOT	984	967	945	3289	1082	1984	223	181	.932	3.12	.946	3.19

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	3B	SS	LF	OF	PH	PR
1938	BOS	AL	21	19	12	19	13	11	2	0	0	6	0
1939	BOS	AL	22	149	148	149	148	148	0	0	0	1	0
1940	BOS	AL	23	120	119	120	120	120	0	0	0	0	0
1941	BOS	AL	24	126	123	126	125	125	0	0	0	2	0
1942	BOS	AL	25	139	130	139	138	138	0	0	0	0	1
1943	BOS	AL	26	137	133	137	135	133	0	2	2	3	0
1944	BOS	AL	27	116	114	116	114	114	0	0	0	2	0
1946	PHI	NL	29	124	123	124	124	124	0	0	0	0	0
1947	PHI	NL	30	75	65	75	67	67	0	0	0	8	0
	9 Seasons			1005	967	1005	984	980	2	2	2	22	1

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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1943 AL (33, 0%) 1946 NL (20, 3%) 0.03 Career Shares (1251st)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1939 AL 40 (1st) 1941 AL 30 (5th) 1942 AL 33 (4th)	Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1939 AL 148 (4th) 1942 AL 138 (3rd) 1943 AL 133 (3rd) 1946 NL 124 (2nd)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1939 AL 144 (4th) 1940 AL 143 (5th) 1942 AL 168 (1st) 1943 AL 135 (5th) 1944 AL 125 (5th) 1946 NL 156 (2nd) Career 1,077 (76th)
Assists as 3B s c a p y 1939 AL 338 (1st) 1940 AL 267 (5th) 1941 AL 277 (4th) 1942 AL 236 (4th) 1943 AL 261 (3rd) 1946 NL 221 (3rd) Career 1,979 (93rd)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1939 AL 40 (1st) 1940 AL 33 (1st) 1941 AL 30 (1st) 1942 AL 33 (1st) 1943 AL 26 (1st) 1944 AL 20 (3rd) 1946 NL 18 (2nd) Career 220 (71st)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1939 AL 3.26 (3rd) 1940 AL 3.42 (1st) 1941 AL 3.20 (5th) 1942 AL 2.93 (5th) 1943 AL 2.98 (5th) 1944 AL 3.36 (5th) 1946 NL 3.04 (3rd) Career 3.12 (60th)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1946 NL .954 (4th)
Youngest s c a p y 1938 AL born 1916-11-05 (7th)

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