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Leo Thomas

Leo Raymond Thomas (Tommy)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 178 lb.

Born: July 26, 1923 in Turlock, CA
High School: Alameda HS (Alameda, CA)
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1942. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 29, 1950
Teams (by GP): Browns/WhiteSox 1950-1952

Final Game: July 27, 1952
Died: March 5, 2001 in Concord, CA
Cremated
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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
1950 SLB AL 26 3B 35 35 33 304.2 111 35 72 4 7 .964 3.16 3.06 .960 3.25 3.20
1952 TOT AL 28 3B 46 40 36 363.4 157 51 96 10 10 .936 3.64 3.20 .953 3.29 3.29
1952 SLB AL 28 3B 37 34 31 304.2 136 46 81 9 9 .934 3.75 3.43 .953 3.29 3.29
1952 SLB AL 28 SS 3 0 0 5.0 5 2 3 0 1 1.000 9.00 1.67 .962 4.86 4.93
1952 SLB AL 28 2B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.60
1952 CHW AL 28 3B 9 6 5 58.2 21 5 15 1 1 .952 3.07 2.22 .953 3.30 3.29
2 Seasons 3B 81 75 69 668.0 268 86 168 14 17 .948 3.42 3.14 .956 3.27 3.25
1 Season SS 3 0 0 5.0 5 2 3 0 1 1.000 9.00 1.67 .962 4.86 4.93
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.60
2 Seasons TOT 85 75 69 675.0 273 88 171 14 18 .949 3.45 3.05 .956 3.29 3.34
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
1950 SLB AL 26 3B
1952 SLB AL 28 3B
1952 SLB AL 28 SS
1952 SLB AL 28 2B
1952 CHW AL 28 3B
2 Seasons 3B
1 Season SS
1 Season 2B
2 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1950 SLB AL 26 35 35 35 35 0 0 0 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 SLB AL 28 41 34 41 40 0 0 0 1 37 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1952 CHW AL 28 19 6 19 9 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
2 Seasons 95 75 95 84 0 0 0 1 81 3 0 0 0 0 0 13 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 -- 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%
1950 SLB AL 26 978 60% 83% 27% 64 91% 0 22 15 2 5 44 35 8 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 6 4 1 5 1 0 1 3 67%
1952 SLB AL 28 1239 66% 84% 26% 133 86% 3 42 33 5 4 78 58 15 3 1 8 1 7 0 7 9 6 0 7 2 1 1 6 67%
1952 CHW AL 28 256 57% 79% 28% 19 95% 0 6 3 1 2 15 12 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 2473 62% 83% 27% 216 88% 3 70 51 8 11 137 105 25 3 5 10 1 9 0 9 16 11 1 13 3 1 2 9 67%
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 89% 69%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

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 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1952 SLB AL 28 22 68% 95% 32% 1 100% 0 2 0 2 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1 Season 22 68% 95% 32% 1 100% 0 2 0 2 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 90%

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
1952 SLB AL 28 10 70% 100% 30% 1 100% 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 10 70% 100% 30% 1 100% 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 93%

* 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.

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