Max West

Max Edward West

Positions: Outfielder and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 182 lb.

Born: November 28, 1916 in Dexter, MO
High School: Alhambra HS (Alhambra, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1938
Teams (by GP): Bees/Braves/Pirates/Reds 1938-1948

Final Game: October 1, 1948
Died: December 31, 2003 in Sierra Madre, CA
Cremated
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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
1938	BSN	NL	21	OF	109	99	76		214	205	6	3	2	.986		1.94	.976		2.34
1938	BSN	NL	21	LF	72	67	50		143	138	3	2	1	.986		1.96	.971		2.23
1938	BSN	NL	21	RF	38	32	26		71	67	3	1	1	.986		1.84	.978		2.08
1938	BSN	NL	21	1B	7	7	2		66	63	2	1	2	.985		9.29	.992		10.47
1939	BSN	NL	22	OF	124	117	89		303	287	8	8	2	.974		2.38	.975		2.32	MVP-23
1939	BSN	NL	22	RF	54	42	41		110	104	3	3	1	.973		1.98	.973		2.12	MVP-23
1939	BSN	NL	22	CF	47	40	17		111	103	4	4	1	.964		2.28	.977		2.70	MVP-23
1939	BSN	NL	22	LF	44	35	31		82	80	1	1	0	.988		1.84	.974		2.16	MVP-23
1940	BSN	NL	23	OF	102	100	80		242	220	16	6	1	.975		2.31	.977		2.32	AS,MVP-26
1940	BSN	NL	23	CF	57	55	39		141	132	7	2	1	.986		2.44	.981		2.66	AS,MVP-26
1940	BSN	NL	23	RF	50	41	38		95	83	8	4	0	.958		1.82	.974		2.04	AS,MVP-26
1940	BSN	NL	23	1B	36	35	33		367	338	24	5	33	.986		10.06	.990		10.47	AS,MVP-26
1940	BSN	NL	23	LF	5	4	3		6	5	1	0	0	1.000		1.20	.973		2.24	AS,MVP-26
1941	BSN	NL	24	OF	132	131	117		321	302	13	6	5	.981		2.39	.975		2.31
1941	BSN	NL	24	LF	125	121	111		295	280	10	5	3	.983		2.32	.976		2.34
1941	BSN	NL	24	CF	5	5	4		17	14	3	0	1	1.000		3.40	.980		2.64
1941	BSN	NL	24	RF	5	5	2		9	8	0	1	0	.889		1.60	.968		1.96
1942	BSN	NL	25	1B	85	82	74		862	807	47	8	67	.991		10.05	.989		10.18	MVP-27
1942	BSN	NL	25	OF	50	46	41		114	106	4	4	0	.965		2.20	.981		2.34	MVP-27
1942	BSN	NL	25	LF	36	34	31		78	73	2	3	0	.962		2.08	.983		2.32	MVP-27
1942	BSN	NL	25	RF	13	12	10		35	32	2	1	1	.971		2.62	.981		2.08	MVP-27
1942	BSN	NL	25	CF	2	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		0.50	.980		2.60	MVP-27
1946	BSN	NL	29	1B	1	0	0		3	3	0	0	0	1.000		3.00	.990		10.00
1946	CIN	NL	29	OF	58	55	47		124	112	6	6	3	.952		2.03	.977		2.38
1946	CIN	NL	29	LF	55	53	45		116	104	6	6	3	.948		2.00	.975		2.26
1946	CIN	NL	29	CF	2	2	2		8	8	0	0	0	1.000		4.00	.979		2.85
1946	CIN	NL	29	RF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.10
1948	PIT	NL	31	1B	32	22	19		220	198	20	2	14	.991		6.81	.990		9.61
1948	PIT	NL	31	OF	16	6	3		11	11	0	0	0	1.000		0.69	.978		2.39
1948	PIT	NL	31	RF	13	4	2		9	9	0	0	0	1.000		0.69	.976		2.00
1948	PIT	NL	31	LF	3	2	1		2	2	0	0	0	1.000		0.67	.970		2.30
	7 Seasons			OF	591	554	453		1329	1243	53	33	13	.975		2.19	.976		2.33
	7 Seasons			LF	340	316	272		722	682	23	17	7	.976		2.07	.975		2.28
	7 Seasons			RF	174	136	119		329	303	16	10	3	.970		1.83	.975		2.07
	5 Seasons			1B	161	146	128		1518	1409	93	16	116	.989		9.33	.990		10.14
	5 Seasons			CF	113	102	62		278	258	14	6	3	.978		2.41	.979		2.68
	7 Seasons			TOT	752	700	581		2847	2652	146	49	129	.983		3.72	.983		4.00
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.
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	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP
1938	BSN	NL	21	LF
1938	BSN	NL	21	RF
1938	BSN	NL	21	1B
1939	BSN	NL	22	RF
1939	BSN	NL	22	CF
1939	BSN	NL	22	LF
1940	BSN	NL	23	CF
1940	BSN	NL	23	RF
1940	BSN	NL	23	1B
1940	BSN	NL	23	LF
1941	BSN	NL	24	LF
1941	BSN	NL	24	CF
1941	BSN	NL	24	RF
1942	BSN	NL	25	1B
1942	BSN	NL	25	LF
1942	BSN	NL	25	RF
1942	BSN	NL	25	CF
1946	BSN	NL	29	1B
1946	CIN	NL	29	LF
1946	CIN	NL	29	CF
1946	CIN	NL	29	RF
1948	PIT	NL	31	1B
1948	PIT	NL	31	RF
1948	PIT	NL	31	LF
	7 Seasons			LF
	7 Seasons			RF
	5 Seasons			1B
	5 Seasons			CF
	7 Seasons			TOT
Lg				Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH
1938	BSN	NL	21	123	106	123	116	7	72	0	38	109	7
1939	BSN	NL	22	130	117	130	124	0	44	47	54	124	6
1940	BSN	NL	23	139	135	139	136	36	5	57	50	102	3
1941	BSN	NL	24	138	131	138	131	0	125	5	5	131	7
1942	BSN	NL	25	134	128	134	131	85	36	2	13	50	3
1946	CIN	NL	29	72	55	72	58	0	55	2	1	58	14
1946	BSN	NL	29	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
1948	PIT	NL	31	87	28	87	47	32	3	0	13	16	44
	7 Seasons			824	700	824	744	161	340	113	174	590	84

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	PIT	NL	31	426	63%	81%	32%	19	89%	0	105	2	103	0	9	9	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	1	0	7	1	1	1	0	5	100%
	1 Season			426	63%	81%	32%	19	89%	0	105	2	103	0	9	9	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	1	0	7	1	1	1	0	5	100%
	MLB Averages				61%	82%	27%		94%																											90%

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%
1948	PIT	NL	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	7	3	42.9%	4	0	0.0%	0	215	52%	78%	31%	13	38%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	7	3	42.9%	4	0	0.0%	0	215	52%	78%	31%	13	38%
	MLB Averages																														43.0%			2.5%			61%	82%	31%		52%

* 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 1940 (RF)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1939 NL (23, 1%) 1940 NL (26, 2%) 1942 NL (27, 1%) 0.04 Career Shares (1177th)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 NL 125 (3rd)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 NL 280 (3rd)
Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 NL 10 (3rd)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 NL 5 (4th) 1942 NL 3 (4th) 1946 NL 6 (3rd)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1940 NL 7 (3rd)	Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1940 NL 8 (5th)
Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1940 NL 4 (4th)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1940 NL 16 (1st) 1941 NL 13 (5th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1939 NL 8 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1942 NL 10.05 (4th)
Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 NL 2.32 (3rd)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 NL .983 (1st)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1938 NL .986 (5th)	Youngest s c a p y 1938 NL born 1916-11-28 (8th)

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