Thurman Tucker

Thurman Lowell Tucker (Joe E.)

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: September 26, 1917 in Gordon, TX (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1942
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Indians 1942-1951

Final Game: April 29, 1951
Died: May 7, 1993 in Oklahoma City, OK
Buried: Gordon Cemetery, Gordon, TX
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All-Star

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
1942	CHW	AL	24	CF	5	5	5		10	8	1	1	0	.900		1.80	.981		2.80
1942	CHW	AL	24	OF	5	5	5		10	8	1	1	0	.900		1.80	.976		2.38
1943	CHW	AL	25	CF	132	132	132		418	399	14	5	1	.988		3.13	.978		2.79
1943	CHW	AL	25	OF	132	132	132		418	399	14	5	1	.988		3.13	.977		2.47
1944	CHW	AL	26	CF	120	117	116		430	414	12	4	2	.991		3.55	.979		3.01	AS
1944	CHW	AL	26	OF	120	117	116		430	414	12	4	2	.991		3.55	.974		2.47	AS
1946	CHW	AL	28	CF	110	107	101		290	276	11	3	1	.990		2.61	.984		2.74
1946	CHW	AL	28	OF	110	107	101		290	276	11	3	1	.990		2.61	.977		2.36
1947	CHW	AL	29	CF	65	62	60		180	171	5	4	2	.978		2.71	.983		2.95
1947	CHW	AL	29	OF	65	62	60		180	171	5	4	2	.978		2.71	.979		2.47
1948	CLE	AL	30	CF	66	54	52		176	171	5	0	2	1.000		2.67	.978		3.01
1948	CLE	AL	30	OF	66	54	52		177	172	5	0	2	1.000		2.68	.975		2.51
1949	CLE	AL	31	CF	48	39	35		112	110	1	1	0	.991		2.31	.980		2.84
1949	CLE	AL	31	OF	42	43	39		123	119	2	2	0	.984		2.88	.980		2.44
1949	CLE	AL	31	LF	4	4	4		9	7	1	1	0	.889		2.00	.982		2.35
1950	CLE	AL	32	OF	34	18	13	192.2	62	58	2	2	1	.968	2.80	1.76	.979	2.51	2.47
1950	CLE	AL	32	CF	16	8	5	92.0	34	32	1	1	0	.971	3.23	2.06	.981	2.95	2.89
1950	CLE	AL	32	LF	15	8	6	77.2	25	23	1	1	1	.960	2.78	1.60	.977	2.41	2.37
1950	CLE	AL	32	RF	4	2	2	23.0	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.96	1.25	.976	2.11	2.10
	8 Seasons			OF	574	538	518	192.2	1690	1617	52	21	9	.988	2.80	2.91	.977	2.51	2.45
	8 Seasons			CF	562	524	506	92.0	1650	1581	50	19	8	.988	3.23	2.90	.980	2.95	2.88
	2 Seasons			LF	19	12	10	77.2	34	30	2	2	1	.941	2.78	1.68	.979	2.41	2.37
	1 Season			RF	4	2	2	23.0	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.96	1.25	.976	2.11	2.10
	9 Seasons			TOT	574	538	518	192.2	1690	1617	52	21	9	.988	2.80	2.91	.977	2.51	2.45
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	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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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos
1942	CHW	AL	24	CF
1943	CHW	AL	25	CF
1944	CHW	AL	26	CF
1946	CHW	AL	28	CF
1947	CHW	AL	29	CF
1948	CLE	AL	30	CF
1949	CLE	AL	31	CF
1949	CLE	AL	31	LF
1950	CLE	AL	32	CF
1950	CLE	AL	32	LF
1950	CLE	AL	32	RF
	8 Seasons			CF
	2 Seasons			LF
	1 Season			RF
	9 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1942	CHW	AL	24	7	5	7	5	0	5	0	5	2	0
1943	CHW	AL	25	139	132	139	132	0	132	0	132	7	0
1944	CHW	AL	26	124	117	124	120	0	120	0	120	1	3
1946	CHW	AL	28	121	107	121	110	0	110	0	110	11	0
1947	CHW	AL	29	89	62	89	65	0	65	0	65	22	2
1948	CLE	AL	30	83	54	83	66	0	66	0	66	13	7
1949	CLE	AL	31	80	43	80	52	4	48	0	52	27	4
1950	CLE	AL	32	57	18	57	34	15	16	4	34	22	6
1951	CLE	AL	33	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	9 Seasons			701	538	701	584	19	562	4	584	106	22

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 -- CF*

				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%
1948	CLE	AL	30	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	4	0	0	29	19	0	14	2	0	6	3	0	6	1	0	16	10	2	71	35	49.3%	34	2	2.8%	3	2190	58%	81%	29%	280	61%
1949	CLE	AL	31	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	23	17	0	15	0	0	3	0	0	5	2	0	9	6	0	55	25	45.5%	30	0	0.0%	1	1493	56%	81%	30%	189	59%
1950	CLE	AL	32	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	10	5	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	1	0	24	6	25.0%	18	0	0.0%	1	403	57%	84%	30%	65	51%
	3 Seasons			2	0	2	0	0	7	0	5	1	0	62	41	0	37	2	0	9	3	0	13	3	0	29	17	2	150	66	44.0%	82	2	1.3%	5	4086	57%	81%	29%	534	59%
	MLB Averages																														45.4%			2.9%			62%	82%	31%		59%

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%
1949	CLE	AL	31	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	40.0%	2	1	20.0%	0	152	62%	80%	28%	15	53%
1950	CLE	AL	32	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	5	4	0	6	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	9	8	1	21	15	71.4%	5	1	4.8%	0	353	66%	79%	32%	45	51%
	2 Seasons			2	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	9	6	0	6	2	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	9	8	1	26	17	65.4%	7	2	7.7%	0	505	65%	79%	31%	60	52%
	MLB Averages																														57.2%			2.8%			62%	82%	31%		52%

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%
1950	CLE	AL	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	94	49%	71%	28%	9	56%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	94	49%	71%	28%	9	56%
	MLB Averages																														43.3%			3.0%			62%	82%	31%		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

All-Star Games 1944 (CF)	Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL 132 (3rd) 1944 AL 120 (4th) 1946 AL 110 (5th)	Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL 399 (1st) 1944 AL 414 (3rd) 1946 AL 276 (5th)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL 14 (1st) 1944 AL 12 (3rd) 1946 AL 11 (3rd) 1947 AL 5 (5th)
Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL 5 (5th)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1943 AL 399 (1st) 1944 AL 414 (3rd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1943 AL 14 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL 3.13 (1st) 1944 AL 3.55 (1st) 1946 AL 2.61 (4th) Career 2.90 (12th)
Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL .988 (2nd) 1944 AL .991 (2nd) 1946 AL .990 (2nd) Career .988 (51st)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1943 AL 3.13 (1st) 1944 AL 3.55 (1st) 1946 AL 2.61 (5th) Career 2.91 (6th)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1943 AL .988 (5th) 1944 AL .991 (1st) 1946 AL .990 (4th)

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