Tom Umphlett

Thomas Mullen Umphlett

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: May 12, 1930 in Scotland Neck, NC
High School: Ahoskie HS (Ahoskie, NC)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1950. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1953
Teams (by GP): Senators/RedSox 1953-1955

Final Game: September 24, 1955
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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
1953	BOS	AL	23	CF	136	133	124	1179.2	401	384	11	6	1	.985	14	14	3.01	2.90	.984	2.96	2.95	RoY-2
1953	BOS	AL	23	OF	136	133	124	1179.2	401	382	12	7	1	.983	12	12	3.01	2.90	.981	2.43	2.41	RoY-2
1954	WSH	AL	24	OF	101	82	78	750.1	184	169	13	2	4	.989	1	2	2.18	1.80	.979	2.39	2.37
1954	WSH	AL	24	RF	86	79	76	697.1	162	147	13	2	4	.988	-1	-2	2.07	1.86	.975	2.05	2.03
1954	WSH	AL	24	LF	13	3	2	45.0	16	16	0	0	0	1.000	2	53	3.20	1.23	.977	2.26	2.24
1954	WSH	AL	24	CF	3	0	0	8.0	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	1	105	5.62	1.67	.984	2.81	2.83
1955	WSH	AL	25	OF	103	83	80	758.0	248	237	8	3	1	.988	2	3	2.91	2.38	.982	2.40	2.38
1955	WSH	AL	25	CF	61	49	47	441.2	166	161	3	2	0	.988	3	8	3.34	2.69	.985	2.87	2.85
1955	WSH	AL	25	RF	23	21	20	187.0	49	45	3	1	1	.980	-3	-19	2.31	2.09	.981	2.05	2.03
1955	WSH	AL	25	LF	19	13	13	129.1	35	34	1	0	0	1.000	2	14	2.44	1.84	.980	2.26	2.25
	3 Seasons			OF	340	298	282	2688.0	833	788	33	12	6	.986	15	7	2.75	2.41	.981	2.41	2.39
	3 Seasons			CF	200	182	171	1629.1	572	550	14	8	1	.986	18	13	3.12	2.82	.984	2.94	2.92
	2 Seasons			RF	109	100	96	884.1	211	192	16	3	5	.986	-4	-6	2.12	1.91	.976	2.05	2.03
	2 Seasons			LF	32	16	15	174.1	51	50	1	0	0	1.000	4	24	2.63	1.59	.979	2.26	2.25
	3 Seasons			TOT	340	298	282	2688.0	833	788	33	12	6	.986	15	7	2.75	2.41	.981	2.41	2.39

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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rof
1953	BOS	AL	23	CF	14	14	12	16	-4	2
1954	WSH	AL	24	RF	-1	-2	-3	-1	-2	2
1954	WSH	AL	24	LF	2	53	2	2	0	0
1954	WSH	AL	24	CF	1	105	1	0	0	0
1955	WSH	AL	25	CF	3	8	2	1	1	1
1955	WSH	AL	25	RF	-3	-19	-2	-0	-2	-1
1955	WSH	AL	25	LF	2	14	0	0	0	1
	3 Seasons			CF	18	13	15	18	-3	3
	2 Seasons			RF	-4	-6	-5	-2	-4	1
	2 Seasons			LF	4	24	2	2	0	1
	3 Seasons			TOT	15	7	12	18	-6	3

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1953	BOS	AL	23	137	133	137	136	0	136	0	136	1	0
1954	WSH	AL	24	114	82	114	101	13	3	86	101	14	4
1955	WSH	AL	25	110	83	110	103	19	61	23	103	8	2
	3 Seasons			361	298	361	340	32	200	109	340	23	6

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%
1953	BOS	AL	23	6	0	6	0	4	11	0	3	3	3	64	44	4	48	5	3	20	7	0	16	0	0	44	35	0	192	91	47.4%	94	7	3.6%	4	5072	66%	81%	29%	613	64%
1954	WSH	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	38	74%	92%	53%	6	83%
1955	WSH	AL	25	2	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	2	1	37	23	1	21	5	0	4	2	0	11	3	0	14	12	0	87	45	51.7%	41	1	1.1%	2	1913	70%	83%	29%	292	55%
	3 Seasons			8	0	7	1	4	14	0	3	5	4	101	67	5	69	10	3	24	9	0	27	3	0	58	47	0	279	136	48.7%	135	8	2.9%	6	7023	67%	82%	29%	911	62%
	MLB Averages																														46.1%			2.7%			64%	81%	31%		60%

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%
1954	WSH	AL	24	2	0	2	0	1	13	0	5	4	2	50	19	3	33	4	2	9	8	0	8	2	0	19	15	1	119	48	40.3%	65	6	5.0%	7	3063	70%	83%	30%	311	50%
1955	WSH	AL	25	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	1	1	0	8	2	0	5	0	0	1	1	0	5	2	1	8	4	0	27	9	33.3%	17	1	3.7%	2	839	68%	79%	28%	70	64%
	2 Seasons			3	0	3	0	1	16	0	6	5	2	58	21	3	38	4	2	10	9	0	13	4	1	27	19	1	146	57	39.0%	82	7	4.8%	9	3902	69%	82%	29%	381	53%
	MLB Averages																														44.4%			3.4%			64%	81%	31%		55%

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%
1954	WSH	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	0	5	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	15	9	60.0%	6	0	0.0%	0	209	68%	79%	31%	33	48%
1955	WSH	AL	25	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	10	7	0	5	2	0	6	4	0	4	2	0	3	3	0	28	18	64.3%	10	0	0.0%	1	564	75%	81%	29%	79	44%
	2 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	15	10	0	10	4	0	8	5	0	4	2	0	6	6	0	43	27	62.8%	16	0	0.0%	1	773	73%	80%	29%	112	46%
	MLB Averages																														58.3%			2.5%			64%	81%	31%		49%

* 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

Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1953 AL 136 (5th)	Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1953 AL 384 (4th)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1953 AL 11 (4th)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1953 AL 6 (2nd)
Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1954 AL 13 (2nd)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1953 AL 382 (4th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1953 AL 7 (4th)	Total Zone Runs as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1953 AL 14 (2nd) 1955 AL 3 (5th) Career 18 (78th)
Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1953 AL 3.01 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1953 AL 2.90 (4th)	Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1953 AL .985 (5th)	Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1954 AL 2.07 (5th)
Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1954 AL .988 (2nd)	Total Zone Runs as OF s c a p y 1953 AL 12 (3rd)	Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y 1953 AL 3.01 (4th) 1955 AL 2.91 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1953 AL 2.90 (4th)
Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1954 AL .989 (4th)

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