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Bill Traffley

William Franklin Traffley

Positions: Catcher and Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: December 21, 1859 in Staten Island, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: July 27, 1878
Teams (by GP): Orioles/RedStockings/WhiteStockings 1878-1886

Final Game: July 29, 1886
Died: June 23, 1908 in Des Moines, IA
Buried: Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, IA
Relatives: Brother of John Traffley
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1878 CHC NL 18 C 2 10 7 3 0 0 1.000 5.00 .891 7.10 10
1883 CIN AA 23 C 29 181 121 33 27 2 .851 5.31 .890 6.68 36
1883 CIN AA 23 SS 2 2 0 1 1 0 .500 0.50 .835 3.95
1884 BAL AA 24 C 47 408 321 57 30 6 .926 8.04 .913 7.44 65
1884 BAL AA 24 OF 6 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .847 1.63 0-0-6
1884 BAL AA 24 1B 1 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 9.00 .958 10.60
1885 BAL AA 25 C 61 490 357 105 28 6 .943 7.57 .908 6.94 104
1885 BAL AA 25 OF 10 4 2 1 1 0 .750 0.30 .880 1.87 0-5-5
1885 BAL AA 25 2B 3 15 6 6 3 1 .800 4.00 .901 6.10
1886 BAL AA 26 C 25 208 163 35 10 4 .952 7.92 .910 7.19 42
5 Seasons C 164 1297 969 233 95 18 .927 7.33 .907 7.08 257
2 Seasons OF 16 10 8 1 1 0 .900 0.56 .860 1.78 0-5-11
1 Season 2B 3 15 6 6 3 1 .800 4.00 .901 6.10
1 Season SS 2 2 0 1 1 0 .500 0.50 .835 3.95
1 Season 1B 1 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 9.00 .958 10.60
5 Seasons TOT 186 1333 992 241 100 19 .925 6.63 .907 6.59 0-5-11 257
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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1878 CHC NL 18 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1883 CIN AA 23 30 30 0 29 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
1884 BAL AA 24 53 53 0 47 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0
1885 BAL AA 25 69 69 0 61 0 3 0 0 0 5 5 10 0
1886 BAL AA 26 25 25 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 179 179 0 164 1 3 0 2 0 5 11 16 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1885 AA  61 (2nd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1885 AA  357 (3rd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1885 AA  105 (3rd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1884 AA  65 (5th)
1885 AA  104 (1st)
Career  257 (27th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1885 AA  7.57 (2nd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1885 AA  .943 (1st)

Youngest s c a p y
1878 NL  born 1859-12-21 (2nd)

             

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