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Bob Thurman

Robert Burns Thurman

Positions: Pinch Hitter and Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: May 14, 1917 in Kellyville, OK
High School: North HS (Wichita, KS)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1949. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1955
Team: Redlegs 1955-1959

Final Game: April 21, 1959
Died: October 31, 1998 in Wichita, KS
Buried: Old Mission Cemetery, Wichita, 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 Awards
1955 CIN NL 38 LF 36 27 19 239.0 61 56 2 3 0 .951 -0 -2 2.18 1.61 .972 2.05 2.03
1955 CIN NL 38 OF 36 27 19 239.0 59 54 2 3 0 .949 -0 -2 2.11 1.56 .977 2.30 2.28
1956 CIN NL 39 OF 29 24 17 198.2 43 39 2 2 1 .953 -1 -7 1.86 1.41 .977 2.28 2.25
1956 CIN NL 39 RF 20 18 12 146.2 30 27 2 1 1 .967 -1 -10 1.78 1.45 .974 1.98 1.96
1956 CIN NL 39 LF 9 6 5 52.0 13 12 0 1 0 .923 0 2 2.08 1.33 .973 2.06 2.04
1957 CIN NL 40 OF 44 35 23 318.2 79 75 3 1 1 .987 -3 -10 2.20 1.77 .980 2.29 2.31
1957 CIN NL 40 LF 29 23 17 211.2 54 52 1 1 0 .981 -1 -8 2.25 1.83 .978 2.03 2.05
1957 CIN NL 40 RF 15 12 6 107.0 24 23 1 0 1 1.000 -1 -15 2.02 1.60 .972 1.98 1.99
1958 CIN NL 41 OF 41 35 19 297.1 84 80 2 2 1 .976 1 6 2.48 2.00 .980 2.26 2.25
1958 CIN NL 41 LF 33 30 19 258.0 68 66 0 2 0 .971 0 0 2.30 2.00 .975 2.01 2.00
1958 CIN NL 41 RF 9 5 0 39.1 14 12 2 0 1 1.000 1 43 3.20 1.56 .978 2.01 2.01
4 Seasons OF 150 121 78 1053.2 265 248 9 8 3 .970 -3 -3 2.20 1.71 .979 2.28 2.27
4 Seasons LF 107 86 60 760.2 196 186 3 7 0 .964 -2 -3 2.24 1.77 .975 2.03 2.03
3 Seasons RF 44 35 18 293.0 68 62 5 1 3 .985 -1 -5 2.06 1.52 .974 1.98 1.98
5 Seasons TOT 150 121 78 1053.2 265 248 9 8 3 .970 -3 -3 2.20 1.71 .979 2.28 2.27
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
1955 CIN NL 38 LF -0 -2 1 3 -2 -1
1956 CIN NL 39 RF -1 -10 -1 -1 0 0
1956 CIN NL 39 LF 0 2 0 1 -1 0
1957 CIN NL 40 LF -1 -8 -0 -2 1 -1
1957 CIN NL 40 RF -1 -15 -0 -1 0 -1
1958 CIN NL 41 LF 0 0 1 0 1 -1
1958 CIN NL 41 RF 1 43 0 0 0 1
4 Seasons LF -2 -3 1 2 -1 -3
3 Seasons RF -1 -5 -1 -2 1 0
5 Seasons TOT -3 -3 0 1 -0 -3

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1955 CIN NL 38 82 27 82 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 36 0 0 36 0 53 2
1956 CIN NL 39 80 24 80 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 20 29 0 51 3
1957 CIN NL 40 74 35 74 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 0 15 44 0 39 0
1958 CIN NL 41 94 35 94 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 0 9 41 0 57 0
1959 CIN NL 42 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
5 Seasons 334 121 334 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 107 0 44 150 0 204 5
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 -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1955 CIN NL 38 3 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 9 6 1 8 1 0 4 1 0 6 2 0 7 7 0 34 17 50.0% 16 1 2.9% 1 1013 69% 84% 31% 109 53%
1956 CIN NL 39 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 213 62% 81% 27% 19 63%
1957 CIN NL 40 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 13 10 0 6 0 0 3 1 0 3 0 0 6 5 0 31 16 51.6% 15 0 0.0% 1 911 60% 84% 33% 103 51%
1958 CIN NL 41 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 6 0 9 0 0 3 3 0 5 1 0 2 2 0 27 12 44.4% 15 0 0.0% 0 1112 64% 81% 32% 120 55%
4 Seasons 7 0 7 0 2 3 0 0 2 1 31 23 1 23 1 0 10 5 0 14 3 0 16 15 0 94 47 50.0% 46 1 1.1% 2 3249 64% 83% 31% 351 54%
MLB Averages 58.3% 2.7% 64% 80% 30% 48%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1956 CIN NL 39 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 4 1 0 2 0 0 6 3 0 1 0 0 4 3 1 17 7 41.2% 9 1 5.9% 1 642 67% 81% 31% 54 52%
1957 CIN NL 40 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 8 1 12.5% 7 0 0.0% 1 459 66% 75% 29% 40 58%
1958 CIN NL 41 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 6 2 33.3% 2 2 33.3% 0 165 76% 80% 27% 16 81%
3 Seasons 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 3 1 7 1 1 5 0 0 7 4 0 4 0 0 8 5 2 31 10 32.3% 18 3 9.7% 2 1266 68% 79% 30% 110 58%
MLB Averages 42.0% 3.3% 64% 80% 30% 54%

* 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

Oldest s c a p y
1955 NL  born 1917-05-14 (8th)
1956 NL  born 1917-05-14 (8th)
1957 NL  born 1917-05-14 (5th)
1958 NL  born 1917-05-14 (3rd)
1959 NL  born 1917-05-14 (3rd)

                                         

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