Eddie Waitkus

Edward Stephen Waitkus

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: September 4, 1919 in Cambridge, MA
High School: Cambridge High and Latin School (Cambridge, MA)
School: Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in 1939. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 15, 1941
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Cubs/Orioles 1941-1955

Final Game: September 20, 1955
Died: September 16, 1972 in Jamaica Plain, MA
Buried: Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
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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
1941	CHC	NL	21	1B	9	7	4		78	71	3	4	8	.949				8.22	.989		10.16
1946	CHC	NL	26	1B	106	105	104		1077	992	81	4	76	.996				10.12	.991		9.98	MVP-13
1947	CHC	NL	27	1B	126	125	124		1270	1161	101	8	109	.994				10.02	.991		9.62
1948	CHC	NL	28	1B	116	115	114		1165	1064	92	9	77	.992				9.97	.990		9.61	AS
1948	CHC	NL	28	LF	20	20	19		45	43	1	1	0	.978				2.20	.970		2.31	AS
1948	CHC	NL	28	OF	20	20	19		44	43	0	1	0	.977				2.15	.978		2.39	AS
1949	PHI	NL	29	1B	54	54	54		491	452	36	3	51	.994				9.04	.991		9.62	AS
1950	PHI	NL	30	1B	154	153	149	1360.1	1496	1387	99	10	142	.993			9.83	9.65	.990	9.71	9.61	MVP-24
1951	PHI	NL	31	1B	144	142	136	1274.0	1318	1214	94	10	121	.992			9.24	9.08	.989	9.76	9.72
1952	PHI	NL	32	1B	146	139	137	1251.0	1388	1281	95	12	119	.991			9.90	9.42	.990	9.89	9.81
1953	PHI	NL	33	1B	59	53	50	476.0	523	480	37	6	65	.989	3	7	9.78	8.76	.990	9.88	9.68
1954	BAL	AL	34	1B	78	76	74	655.1	666	618	48	0	72	1.000	-1	-1	9.15	8.54	.990	9.60	9.53
1955	TOT	MLB	35	1B	57	47	47	432.2	466	430	30	6	46	.987	-2	-6	9.57	8.07	.991	9.72	9.63
1955	BAL	AL	35	1B	26	18	18	176.0	194	180	9	5	15	.974	-2	-17	9.66	7.27	.991	9.63	9.54
1955	PHI	NL	35	1B	31	29	29	256.2	272	250	21	1	31	.996	0	2	9.50	8.74	.991	9.79	9.70
	11 Seasons			1B	1049	1016	993	5449.1	9938	9150	716	72	886	.993	-0	-0	9.60	9.41	.990	9.77	9.70
	1 Season			OF	20	20	19		44	43	0	1	0	.977				2.15	.978		2.39
	1 Season			LF	20	20	19		45	43	1	1	0	.978				2.20	.970		2.31
	11 Seasons			TOT	1069	1036	1012	5449.1	9982	9193	716	73	886	.993	-0	-0	9.60	9.27	.990	9.77	9.56

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	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp
1941	CHC	NL	21	1B
1946	CHC	NL	26	1B
1947	CHC	NL	27	1B
1948	CHC	NL	28	1B
1948	CHC	NL	28	LF
1949	PHI	NL	29	1B
1950	PHI	NL	30	1B
1951	PHI	NL	31	1B
1952	PHI	NL	32	1B
1953	PHI	NL	33	1B	3	7	2	1	1	1
1954	BAL	AL	34	1B	-1	-1	-2	1	-3	1
1955	BAL	AL	35	1B	-2	-17	-2	-1	-2	0
1955	PHI	NL	35	1B	0	2	0	-0	0	0
	11 Seasons			1B	-0	-0	-2	1	-3	2
	1 Season			LF
	11 Seasons			TOT	-0	-0	-2	1	-3	2

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	OF	PH	PR
1941	CHC	NL	21	12	7	12	9	9	0	0	3	0
1946	CHC	NL	26	113	105	113	106	106	0	0	6	1
1947	CHC	NL	27	130	125	130	126	126	0	0	4	0
1948	CHC	NL	28	139	135	139	135	116	20	20	3	1
1949	PHI	NL	29	54	54	54	54	54	0	0	0	0
1950	PHI	NL	30	154	153	154	154	154	0	0	1	0
1951	PHI	NL	31	145	142	145	144	144	0	0	2	0
1952	PHI	NL	32	146	139	146	143	143	0	0	4	0
1953	PHI	NL	33	81	53	81	59	59	0	0	22	0
1954	BAL	AL	34	95	76	95	78	78	0	0	17	0
1955	BAL	AL	35	38	18	38	26	26	0	0	14	0
1955	PHI	NL	35	33	29	33	31	31	0	0	3	0
	11 Seasons			1140	1036	1140	1065	1046	20	20	79	2

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 -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1948	CHC	NL	28	1622	68%	79%	31%	96	91%	1	385	15	369	1	39	38	25	9	0	1	3	1	2	0	2	37	0	1	0	33	1	4	1	3	17	82%
1949	PHI	NL	29	1639	62%	86%	25%	96	92%	0	345	22	321	2	43	29	20	7	0	4	4	0	4	0	3	42	1	0	2	40	3	1	0	1	10	100%
1950	PHI	NL	30	5288	67%	83%	27%	282	95%	2	1267	80	1181	5	116	77	53	16	0	3	8	1	7	0	6	132	4	1	0	113	5	19	1	18	15	93%
1951	PHI	NL	31	4627	66%	84%	25%	268	92%	2	1041	71	961	10	108	74	53	14	0	9	10	2	7	1	8	107	5	1	0	91	6	15	1	12	26	85%
1952	PHI	NL	32	4432	61%	85%	28%	266	92%	1	1120	71	1036	13	100	81	58	13	2	3	8	0	6	2	5	103	3	1	0	94	4	9	2	6	21	81%
1953	PHI	NL	33	1827	60%	83%	25%	117	92%	0	411	34	370	7	45	36	19	13	1	4	4	0	4	0	4	62	5	0	2	58	6	4	2	2	13	62%
1954	BAL	AL	34	2845	62%	80%	24%	156	96%	2	609	70	536	3	38	48	24	17	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	73	5	0	1	61	6	11	2	8	13	85%
1955	PHI	NL	35	1028	60%	83%	27%	62	98%	0	240	23	214	3	20	20	13	5	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	30	0	0	1	27	1	2	1	1	3	100%
1955	BAL	AL	35	797	64%	80%	23%	45	89%	1	174	16	155	3	16	9	5	3	0	1	4	0	4	0	3	15	1	0	0	14	2	1	0	1	2	100%
	8 Seasons			24105	64%	83%	26%	1388	93%	9	5592	402	5143	47	525	412	270	97	5	29	42	4	35	3	32	601	24	4	6	531	34	66	10	52	120	84%
	MLB Averages				63%	82%	26%		93%																											86%

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%
1948	CHC	NL	28	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	4	0	5	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	15	5	33.3%	10	0	0.0%	1	247	63%	82%	29%	31	35%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	4	0	5	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	15	5	33.3%	10	0	0.0%	1	247	63%	82%	29%	31	35%
	MLB Averages																														57.7%			2.6%			63%	82%	31%		51%

* 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 1948 * 1949	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1946 NL (13, 6%) 1950 NL (24, 2%) 0.08 Career Shares (972nd)	Putouts† s c a p y 1946 NL 992 (5th) 1947 NL 1,161 (4th) 1948 NL 1,107 (3rd) 1950 NL 1,387 (1st) 1951 NL 1,214 (4th) 1952 NL 1,281 (3rd)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1946 NL 106 (5th) 1947 NL 126 (4th) 1950 NL 154 (2nd) 1951 NL 144 (4th) 1952 NL 146 (3rd)
Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1946 NL 992 (5th) 1947 NL 1,161 (4th) 1948 NL 1,064 (4th) 1950 NL 1,387 (1st) 1951 NL 1,214 (4th) 1952 NL 1,281 (3rd)	Assists as 1B s c a p y 1946 NL 81 (5th) 1947 NL 101 (2nd) 1948 NL 92 (2nd) 1950 NL 99 (3rd) 1951 NL 94 (3rd) 1952 NL 95 (4th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1947 NL 8 (4th) 1948 NL 9 (5th) 1950 NL 10 (4th) 1951 NL 10 (5th) 1952 NL 12 (4th)	Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y 1953 NL 3 (3rd)
Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 1950 NL 9.83 (1st) 1951 NL 9.24 (5th) 1952 NL 9.90 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1946 NL 10.12 (2nd) 1947 NL 10.02 (1st) 1948 NL 9.97 (1st) 1950 NL 9.65 (1st) 1951 NL 9.08 (5th) 1952 NL 9.42 (5th) 1954 AL 8.54 (4th)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1946 NL .996 (2nd) 1947 NL .994 (3rd) 1948 NL .992 (3rd) 1950 NL .993 (2nd) 1951 NL .992 (2nd) 1952 NL .991 (4th) 1954 AL 1.000 (1st) Career .993 (81st)

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