Jack Tobin

John Thomas Tobin

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 142 lb.

Born: May 4, 1892 in St. Louis, MO (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1914
Teams (by GP): Browns/Terriers/RedSox/Senators 1914-1927

Final Game: September 28, 1927
Died: December 10, 1969 in St. Louis, MO
Buried: Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, MO
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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
1914	SLM	FL	22	OF	132				227	185	31	11	3	.952		1.64	.951		1.94	12-7-113
1915	SLM	FL	23	OF	158				311	279	21	11	3	.965		1.90	.963		2.06	0-31-128
1916	SLB	AL	24	OF	41				57	46	2	9	0	.842		1.17	.963		2.12	0-6-35
1918	SLB	AL	26	OF	122	121	121		272	244	20	8	7	.971		2.16	.962		2.26	43-78-1
1918	SLB	AL	26	CF	78	78	78		188	170	12	6	5	.968		2.33	.967		2.63
1918	SLB	AL	26	LF	43	43	43		84	74	8	2	2	.976		1.91	.961		2.20
1918	SLB	AL	26	RF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.00
1919	SLB	AL	27	LF	123	123	123		276	247	16	13	5	.953		2.14	.961		2.21
1919	SLB	AL	27	OF	123	123	123		276	247	16	13	5	.953		2.14	.958		2.26
1920	SLB	AL	28	OF	147	147	144		324	293	18	13	2	.960		2.12	.962		2.25
1920	SLB	AL	28	RF	102	102	99		218	194	16	8	1	.963		2.06	.958		1.91
1920	SLB	AL	28	LF	45	45	45		106	99	2	5	1	.953		2.24	.962		2.30
1921	SLB	AL	29	OF	150	150	144		319	277	28	14	5	.956		2.03	.960		2.33
1921	SLB	AL	29	RF	143	143	139		306	264	28	14	5	.954		2.04	.958		1.96
1921	SLB	AL	29	CF	8	7	5		13	13	0	0	0	1.000		1.63	.962		2.68
1922	SLB	AL	30	OF	145	145	142		251	221	15	15	4	.940		1.63	.964		2.31
1922	SLB	AL	30	RF	145	145	142		252	221	16	15	4	.940		1.63	.954		1.85
1923	SLB	AL	31	OF	151	151	150		292	269	14	9	3	.969		1.87	.965		2.38
1923	SLB	AL	31	RF	151	151	150		293	269	14	10	3	.966		1.87	.960		2.12
1924	SLB	AL	32	OF	132	132	130		282	251	19	12	5	.957		2.05	.970		2.39
1924	SLB	AL	32	RF	132	132	130		276	251	13	12	5	.957		2.00	.968		2.02
1925	SLB	AL	33	OF	39	31	30		62	61	1	0	0	1.000		1.59	.965		2.43
1925	SLB	AL	33	RF	37	30	29		59	58	1	0	0	1.000		1.59	.966		2.08
1925	SLB	AL	33	1B	3	1	1		19	18	0	1	2	.947		6.00	.988		10.47
1925	SLB	AL	33	LF	2	1	1		3	3	0	0	0	1.000		1.50	.957		2.35
1925	SLB	AL	33	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.90
1926	TOT	AL	34	OF	58	55	53		99	89	7	3	1	.970		1.66	.966		2.34
1926	TOT	AL	34	RF	53	52	51		89	79	7	3	1	.966		1.62	.964		2.00
1926	WSH	AL	34	OF	7	4	3		10	10	0	0	0	1.000		1.43	.966		2.34
1926	WSH	AL	34	CF	4	3	2		10	10	0	0	0	1.000		2.50	.969		2.72
1926	WSH	AL	34	RF	2	1	1		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.00
1926	BOS	AL	34	OF	51	51	50		89	79	7	3	1	.966		1.69	.966		2.34
1926	BOS	AL	34	RF	51	51	50		89	79	7	3	1	.966		1.69	.964		2.00
1926	BOS	AL	34	LF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.30
1927	BOS	AL	35	OF	93	89	84		171	152	10	9	4	.947		1.74	.964		2.35
1927	BOS	AL	35	RF	88	85	81		166	147	10	9	4	.946		1.78	.955		1.97
1927	BOS	AL	35	LF	5	4	3		5	5	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.968		2.38
	13 Seasons			OF	1491	1144	1121		2943	2614	202	127	42	.957		1.89	.962		2.25	274-213-1129
	9 Seasons (incomplete)			RF	852	840	821		1659	1483	105	71	23	.957		1.86	.960		1.98
	6 Seasons (incomplete)			LF	219	216	215		474	428	26	20	8	.958		2.07	.961		2.23
	4 Seasons (incomplete)			CF	91	88	85		211	193	12	6	5	.972		2.25	.967		2.64
	1 Season			1B	3	1	1		19	18	0	1	2	.947		6.00	.988		10.47
	13 Seasons			TOT	1494	1145	1122		2962	2632	202	128	44	.957		1.90	.962		2.27	274-213-1129
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	G	Awards

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.
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	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1914	SLM	FL	22	139		139		0	12	7	113	132
1915	SLM	FL	23	158		158		0	0	31	128	158
1916	SLB	AL	24	77		77		0	0	6	35	41
1918	SLB	AL	26	122		122		0	43	78	1	122
1919	SLB	AL	27	127	123	127	123	0	123	0	0	123	4	0
1920	SLB	AL	28	147	147	147	147	0	45	0	102	147	0	0
1921	SLB	AL	29	150	150	150	150	0	0	8	143	150	0	0
1922	SLB	AL	30	146	145	146	145	0	0	0	145	145	1	0
1923	SLB	AL	31	151	151	151	151	0	0	0	151	151	0	0
1924	SLB	AL	32	136	132	136	132	0	0	0	132	132	4	0
1925	SLB	AL	33	77	32	77	42	3	2	1	37	39	35	0
1926	BOS	AL	34	51	51	51	51	0	1	0	51	51	0	0
1926	WSH	AL	34	27	4	27	6	0	0	4	2	6	17	4
1927	BOS	AL	35	111	89	111	92	0	5	0	88	92	19	0
	13 Seasons			1619	1024	1619	1039	3	231	135	1128	1489	80	4

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

Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1919 AL 123 (4th)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1919 AL 247 (4th)	Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1919 AL 16 (1st)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1919 AL 13 (1st)
Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1918 AL 12 (5th)	Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1920 AL 102 (4th) 1921 AL 143 (3rd) 1922 AL 145 (2nd) 1923 AL 151 (1st) 1924 AL 132 (2nd) Career 852 (85th)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1920 AL 194 (3rd) 1921 AL 264 (2nd) 1922 AL 221 (3rd) 1923 AL 269 (4th) 1924 AL 251 (3rd) Career 1,483 (95th)	Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1920 AL 16 (4th) 1921 AL 28 (1st) 1922 AL 16 (3rd) 1923 AL 14 (5th) Career 105 (35th)
Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1920 AL 8 (4th) 1921 AL 14 (2nd) 1922 AL 15 (1st) 1923 AL 10 (5th) 1924 AL 12 (1st) 1927 AL 9 (5th) Career 71 (20th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1915 FL 158 (1st) 1918 AL 122 (5th) 1921 AL 150 (3rd) 1923 AL 151 (2nd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1914 FL 31 (2nd) 1918 AL 20 (3rd) 1921 AL 28 (1st) 1924 AL 19 (5th) Career 202 (50th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1919 AL 13 (4th) 1922 AL 15 (2nd)
Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1919 AL 2.14 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1918 AL 2.33 (5th)	Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1918 AL .968 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1920 AL 2.06 (2nd) 1921 AL 2.04 (1st) 1924 AL 2.00 (4th)
Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1920 AL .963 (4th) 1923 AL .966 (2nd)

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