Emil Verban

Emil Matthew Verban (Dutch or Antelope)

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: August 27, 1915 in Lincoln, IL
Signed by the Cincinnati Reds as an amateur free agent in 1936. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1944
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Cardinals/Cubs/Braves 1944-1950

Final Game: October 1, 1950
Died: June 8, 1989 in Quincy, IL
Buried: St. Mary Cemetery, Lincoln, IL
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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	Awards
1944	STL	NL	28	2B	146	139	112		722	319	380	23	105	.968		4.79	.963		5.63
1945	STL	NL	29	2B	155	154	145		822	398	406	18	95	.978		5.19	.967		5.58
1946	PHI	NL	30	2B	138	138	132		762	353	381	28	83	.963		5.32	.970		5.55	AS,MVP-20
1947	PHI	NL	31	2B	155	152	144		920	450	453	17	111	.982		5.83	.975		5.57	AS,MVP-22
1948	TOT	NL	32	2B	110	102	92		545	238	290	17	72	.969		4.80	.971		5.40
1948	PHI	NL	32	2B	54	46	38		236	104	126	6	25	.975		4.26	.971		5.40
1948	CHC	NL	32	2B	56	56	54		309	134	164	11	47	.964		5.32	.971		5.40
1949	CHC	NL	33	2B	88	83	80		484	218	249	17	60	.965		5.31	.976		5.57
1950	TOT	NL	34	2B	10	6	6	65.2	41	18	20	3	8	.927	5.21	3.80	.974	5.65	5.59
1950	CHC	NL	34	2B	8	5	5	53.2	29	11	17	1	6	.966	4.70	3.50	.974	5.65	5.59
1950	CHC	NL	34	SS	3	0	0	8.0	3	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.38	1.00	.960	5.18	5.17
1950	CHC	NL	34	3B	1	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	1	0	.000	0.00	0.00	.950	3.60	3.30
1950	CHC	NL	34	CF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00	0.00		2.70	2.70
1950	CHC	NL	34	OF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00	0.00		2.70	2.30
1950	BSN	NL	34	2B	2	1	1	12.0	12	7	3	2	2	.833	7.50	5.00	.974	5.62	5.60
	7 Seasons			2B	802	774	711	65.2	4296	1994	2179	123	534	.971	5.21	5.20	.970	5.65	5.56
	1 Season			SS	3	0	0	8.0	3	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.38	1.00	.960	5.18	5.17
	1 Season			OF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00	0.00		2.70	2.30
	1 Season			CF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00	0.00		2.70	2.70
	1 Season			3B	1	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	1	0	.000	0.00	0.00	.950	3.60	3.30
	7 Seasons			TOT	807	774	711	75.2	4300	1996	2180	124	534	.971	4.88	5.17	.970	5.53	5.55

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.
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
1944	STL	NL	28	2B
1945	STL	NL	29	2B
1946	PHI	NL	30	2B
1947	PHI	NL	31	2B
1948	PHI	NL	32	2B
1948	CHC	NL	32	2B
1949	CHC	NL	33	2B
1950	CHC	NL	34	2B
1950	CHC	NL	34	SS
1950	CHC	NL	34	3B
1950	CHC	NL	34	CF
1950	BSN	NL	34	2B
	7 Seasons			2B
	1 Season			SS
	1 Season			3B
	1 Season			CF
	7 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	CF	OF	PH	PR
1944	STL	NL	28	146	139	146	146	146	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945	STL	NL	29	155	154	155	155	155	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946	PHI	NL	30	138	138	138	138	138	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946	STL	NL	30	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1947	PHI	NL	31	155	152	155	155	155	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948	CHC	NL	32	56	56	56	56	56	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948	PHI	NL	32	55	46	55	54	54	0	0	0	0	1	0
1949	CHC	NL	33	98	83	98	88	88	0	0	0	0	7	5
1950	CHC	NL	34	46	5	46	14	8	1	4	1	1	17	20
1950	BSN	NL	34	4	1	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
	7 Seasons			854	774	854	808	802	1	4	1	1	26	27

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 -- 2B*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	643	543	463	43	GB	GBs	GBr	LD	LDs	LDf
1948	PHI	NL	32	975	61%	84%	26%	93	92%	1	55	21	23	11	73	61	10	1	2	2	0	2	0	2	13	6	1	4	2	13	6	7	0	0	0
1948	CHC	NL	32	582	68%	81%	31%	47	89%	0	39	11	20	8	40	32	7	0	0	4	0	4	0	3	14	5	3	5	0	14	5	8	0	0	0
1949	CHC	NL	33	1676	67%	83%	32%	144	93%	1	103	22	60	20	134	109	19	1	1	9	0	8	1	8	35	9	10	8	1	28	9	19	5	2	3
1950	CHC	NL	34	212	58%	85%	31%	18	89%	1	9	2	3	4	16	13	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	5	1	1	2	0	4	2	2	0	0	0
1950	BSN	NL	34	48	65%	88%	23%	6	100%	0	6	4	2	0	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
	3 Seasons			3493	65%	83%	30%	308	92%	3	212	60	108	43	266	218	38	3	3	17	0	16	1	14	68	21	16	19	3	60	22	37	5	2	3
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		93%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	643	63	463	163	363	GB	GBs	GBr	LD	LDs	LDf
1950	CHC	NL	34	30	60%	97%	43%	4	100%	0	2	2	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			30	60%	97%	43%	4	100%	0	2	2	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		91%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	543	53	GB	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1950	CHC	NL	34	7	71%	71%	14%	2	50%	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	100%
	1 Season			7	71%	71%	14%	2	50%	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	100%
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		89%																								72%

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%
1950	CHC	NL	34	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	7	43%	71%	14%	1	0%
	1 Season			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	7	43%	71%	14%	1	0%
	MLB Averages																														45.5%			2.6%			62%	82%	31%		59%

* 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 1945--not played 1946 * 1947 (2B)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1946 NL (20, 3%) 1947 NL (22, 3%) 0.06 Career Shares (1057th)	Assists† s c a p y 1945 NL 406 (5th) 1946 NL 381 (5th) 1947 NL 453 (2nd)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1946 NL 28 (3rd)
Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1944 NL 146 (3rd) 1945 NL 155 (1st) 1946 NL 138 (2nd) 1947 NL 155 (1st) 1948 NL 110 (3rd)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1944 NL 319 (4th) 1945 NL 398 (2nd) 1946 NL 353 (2nd) 1947 NL 450 (1st) 1948 NL 238 (4th)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1944 NL 380 (4th) 1945 NL 406 (4th) 1946 NL 381 (1st) 1947 NL 453 (1st) 1948 NL 290 (3rd) 1949 NL 249 (4th)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1944 NL 23 (5th) 1945 NL 18 (5th) 1946 NL 28 (1st) 1947 NL 17 (3rd) 1948 NL 17 (2nd) 1949 NL 17 (1st)
Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1945 NL 5.19 (5th) 1946 NL 5.32 (3rd) 1947 NL 5.83 (1st) 1949 NL 5.31 (2nd)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1944 NL .968 (3rd) 1945 NL .978 (1st) 1947 NL .982 (2nd) 1948 NL .969 (5th)

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