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Buck Weaver

George Daniel Weaver

Positions: Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: August 18, 1890 in Pottstown, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: April 11, 1912 (Age 21)
Team: WhiteSox 1912-1920

Final Game: September 27, 1920 (Age 30)
Died: January 31, 1956 in Chicago, IL
Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Chicago, IL
Relatives: Brother-In-Law of Jim Scott
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All-Time Rank (among batters): #1323. Lee Tannehill… #1324. Johnny Wyrostek… #1325. Ivan de Jesus… #1326. BUCK WEAVER… #1327. Mike Marshall… #1328. Jerry Hairston… #1329. Bill Hall… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1912 21 CHW AL 147 553 523 55 117 21 8 1 43 13 20 9 74 .224 .245 .300 .546 58 157 6 15 *6
1913 22 CHW AL 151 573 533 51 145 17 8 4 52 20 15 60 .272 .302 .356 .659 93 190 8 17 *6
1914 23 CHW AL 136 576 541 64 133 20 9 2 28 14 20 20 40 .246 .279 .327 .606 83 177 5 10 *6 MVP-7
1915 24 CHW AL 148 644 563 83 151 18 11 3 49 24 20 32 58 .268 .316 .355 .671 98 200 7 42 *6
1916 25 CHW AL 151 669 582 78 132 27 6 3 38 22 13 30 48 .227 .280 .309 .589 76 180 13 44 56
1917 26 CHW AL 118 513 447 64 127 16 5 3 32 19 27 29 .284 .332 .362 .694 110 162 5 35 *56
1918 27 CHW AL 112 454 420 37 126 12 5 0 29 20 11 24 .300 .323 .352 .675 103 148 3 19 *65/4
1919 28 CHW AL 140 621 571 89 169 33 9 3 75 22 11 21 .296 .315 .401 .716 99 229 5 33 *56
1920 29 CHW AL 151 692 629 102 208 34 8 2 74 19 17 28 23 .331 .365 .420 .785 107 264 6 27 *56
9 Yrs 1254 5295 4809 623 1308 198 69 21 420 173 90 183 377 .272 .307 .355 .662 92 1707 58 242
162 Game Avg. 162 684 621 80 169 26 9 3 54 22 24 49 .272 .307 .355 .662 92 221 7 31

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
1912 21 CHW AL 147 553 -30 -4 0 -8 9 -32 -3.4 19 -13 -1.5 .477 .479 -0.7 0.2 -5 *6
1913 22 CHW AL 151 573 -6 -1 0 11 10 14 1.5 20 34 3.5 .510 .510 2.3 2.3 23 $2,500 *6
1914 23 CHW AL 136 576 -11 -2 0 -5 9 -9 -1.2 20 11 0.7 .492 .493 1.5 0.4 16 $6,000 *6 MVP-7
1915 24 CHW AL 148 644 -3 -1 0 5 10 10 1.1 22 33 3.3 .508 .507 2.8 1.7 28 $6,000 *6
1916 25 CHW AL 151 669 -17 1 0 3 7 -6 -0.8 23 17 1.5 .496 .496 1.2 1.2 14 $6,000 56
1917 26 CHW AL 118 514 5 -0 0 -1 4 8 0.9 18 25 2.7 .508 .506 2.8 0.4 26 *56
1918 27 CHW AL 112 454 -0 0 0 -1 7 6 0.7 15 21 2.2 .506 .504 2.4 0.7 22 *65/4
1919 28 CHW AL 140 621 -1 0 0 2 6 7 0.9 21 28 2.9 .506 .505 2.7 1.0 26 $7,250 *56
1920 29 CHW AL 151 692 8 -1 0 -2 6 10 1.0 22 32 3.2 .507 .506 3.4 0.4 34 $7,200 *56
9 Seasons 1254 5296 -55 -9 0 4 68 8 0.8 180 188 18.5 .501 .501 18.4 8.2 184 $34,950

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1917 26 CHW AL WS NYG W 6 21 21 3 7 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 .333 .333 .381 .714 8 1 0 0 0 0
1919 28 CHW AL WS CIN L 8 34 34 4 11 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .324 .324 .500 .824 17 0 0 0 0 0
2 Yrs (2 Series) 14 55 55 7 18 5 1 0 1 0 2 0 4 .327 .327 .455 .782 25 1 0 0 0 0
2 WS 14 55 55 7 18 5 1 0 1 0 2 0 4 .327 .327 .455 .782 25 1 0 0 0 0

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1912 CHW AL 21 SS 147 938 342 525 71 53 .924 5.90 .921 5.32
1913 CHW AL 22 SS 151 982 392 520 70 73 .929 6.04 .935 5.39
1914 CHW AL 23 SS 134 815 367 389 59 50 .928 5.64 .937 5.35 MVP-7
1915 CHW AL 24 SS 148 800 281 470 49 54 .939 5.07 .937 5.15
1916 CHW AL 25 3B 85 91 79 337 124 193 20 22 .941 3.73 .939 3.40
1916 CHW AL 25 SS 66 59 54 350 142 192 16 27 .954 5.06 .938 5.18
1917 CHW AL 26 3B 107 106 105 392 154 218 20 18 .949 3.48 .941 3.36
1917 CHW AL 26 SS 10 11 9 60 20 39 1 9 .983 5.90 .931 5.08
1918 CHW AL 27 SS 98 96 93 542 191 319 32 53 .941 5.20 .939 5.39
1918 CHW AL 27 3B 11 10 10 29 10 18 1 0 .966 2.55 .948 3.37
1918 CHW AL 27 2B 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 2.00 .960 5.50
1919 CHW AL 28 3B 97 97 91 325 113 200 12 14 .963 3.23 .950 3.34
1919 CHW AL 28 SS 43 43 43 236 87 141 8 16 .966 5.30 .942 5.24
1920 CHW AL 29 3B 127 124 121 460 153 276 31 17 .933 3.38 .946 3.59
1920 CHW AL 29 SS 25 27 27 136 56 75 5 21 .963 5.24 .944 5.21
9 Seasons SS 822 236 226 4859 1878 2670 311 356 .936 5.53 .934 5.29
5 Seasons 3B 427 428 406 1543 554 905 84 71 .946 3.42 .944 3.43
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 2.00 .960 5.50
9 Seasons TOT 1250 664 632 6404 2432 3577 395 427 .938 4.81 .937 4.66
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1914 AL (7, 17%)
0.17 Career Shares (801st)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1913 AL  2.3 (2nd)
1915 AL  1.7 (4th)
1916 AL  1.2 (7th)
1919 AL  1.0 (7th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1918 AL  .300 (7th)

Games Played s c a p y
1913 AL  151 (6th)
1916 AL  151 (10th)
1919 AL  140 (4th)

At Bats s c a p y
1915 AL  563 (9th)
1916 AL  582 (7th)
1919 AL  571 (1st)
1920 AL  629 (2nd)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1916 AL  669 (8th)
1919 AL  621 (3rd)
1920 AL  692 (4th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1916 AL  78 (10th)
1919 AL  89 (4th)
1920 AL  102 (9th)

Hits s c a p y
1919 AL  169 (7th)
1920 AL  208 (7th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1919 AL  229 (7th)

Doubles s c a p y
1919 AL  33 (7th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1913 AL  4 (8th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1912 AL  74 (4th)
1913 AL  60 (6th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1919 AL  22 (7th)
1920 AL  19 (7th)

Singles s c a p y
1918 AL  109 (8th)
1919 AL  124 (7th)
1920 AL  164 (4th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1913 AL  8 (6th)
1916 AL  13 (2nd)
1920 AL  6 (10th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1915 AL  42 (1st)
1916 AL  44 (1st)
1917 AL  35 (6th)
1919 AL  33 (6th)
1920 AL  27 (8th)
Career  242 (43rd)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1915 AL  20 (7th)
1920 AL  17 (6th)
Career  90 (166th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1913 AL  6.7 (9th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1919 AL  27.2 (6th)
1920 AL  27.3 (10th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1913 AL  133.3 (9th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1912 AL  441 (10th)
1915 AL  474 (5th)
1916 AL  507 (1st)
1919 AL  435 (1st)
1920 AL  465 (4th)

Assists† s c a p y
1912 AL  525 (2nd)
1913 AL  520 (1st)
1915 AL  470 (4th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1912 AL  71 (1st)
1913 AL  70 (1st)
1914 AL  59 (1st)
1915 AL  49 (4th)
1916 AL  36 (5th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1920 AL  127 (2nd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1917 AL  154 (5th)
1920 AL  153 (2nd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1920 AL  276 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1920 AL  31 (1st)

Double Plays Turned as 3B s c a p y
1916 AL  22 (4th)
1917 AL  18 (4th)
1920 AL  17 (4th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  147 (2nd)
1913 AL  151 (2nd)
1915 AL  148 (4th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  342 (2nd)
1913 AL  392 (1st)
1914 AL  367 (2nd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  525 (2nd)
1913 AL  520 (1st)
1915 AL  470 (3rd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  71 (1st)
1913 AL  70 (1st)
1914 AL  59 (1st)
1915 AL  49 (4th)
1918 AL  32 (5th)
Career  311 (63rd)

Double Plays Turned as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  53 (3rd)
1913 AL  73 (1st)
1914 AL  50 (4th)
1915 AL  54 (4th)
1918 AL  53 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1916 AL  3.73 (2nd)
1917 AL  3.48 (3rd)
1920 AL  3.38 (3rd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1916 AL  .941 (4th)
1917 AL  .949 (1st)
1919 AL  .963 (2nd)
1920 AL  .933 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  5.90 (2nd)
1913 AL  6.04 (1st)
1914 AL  5.64 (2nd)
1915 AL  5.07 (5th)
Career  5.53 (18th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1912 AL  .924 (4th)
1915 AL  .939 (4th)
1918 AL  .941 (3rd)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 1 (743), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 36 (682), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 17 (912), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 15 (1151), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Shortstop (98th), 18.5 career WAR/19.3 7yr-peak WAR/18.9 JAWS
Average HOF SS (out of 21) = 63.1 career WAR/41.0 7yr-peak WAR/52.1 JAWS

Similarity Scores

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  2. Freddy Parent (943)
  3. Mickey Morandini (939)
  4. Jerry Lumpe (938)
  5. Rennie Stennett (932)
  6. Mark Koenig (931)
  7. Ski Melillo (930)
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  9. Rey Sanchez (928)
  10. Tony Womack (927)
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  1. Everett Scott (977)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Ozzie Guillen (976)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Pee Wee Reese (974) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Alfredo Griffin (978)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Alfredo Griffin (970)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Alfredo Griffin (965)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Alfredo Griffin (959)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Alfredo Griffin (949)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Bobby Richardson (937)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

  • September 1, 1910: Drafted by the Chicago White Sox from York (Tri-State) in the 1910 rule 5 draft.
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Salaries

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Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
191322Chicago White Sox$2,500Never Just a Game 201
191423Chicago White Sox$6,000Never Just a Game 201
191524Chicago White Sox$6,000Never Just a Game 201
191625Chicago White Sox$6,000Never Just a Game 201; 1942 TSN Guid 164
191928Chicago White Sox$7,250II Seymour 334Never Just a Game, p. 233, says $6,500
192029Chicago White Sox$7,250*Michael Haupert research of HOF contractsSecond Fireside at 130:7200.00,
Career to date (may be incomplete)$35,000
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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