Del Wilber

Delbert Quentin Wilber (Babe)

Positions: Catcher and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: February 24, 1919 in Lincoln Park, MI (All Transactions)
Debut: April 21, 1946
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Phillies/Cardinals 1946-1954

Final Game: September 19, 1954
Died: July 18, 2002 in St. Petersburg, FL
Buried: Bay Pines National Cemetery, Bay Pines, FL
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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	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO
1946	STL	NL	27	C	4	1	0		13	13	0	0	0	1.000				3.25	.980		5.00	1		1	0	0%	43%
1947	STL	NL	28	C	34	27	15		120	108	10	2	2	.983				3.47	.981		4.96	4		7	4	36%	44%
1948	STL	NL	29	C	26	15	13		78	67	7	4	1	.949				2.85	.980		5.15	2	0	0	3	100%	40%	1
1949	STL	NL	30	C	2	0	0		6	5	1	0	0	1.000				3.00	.982		5.00	0	0	0	0			0
1951	PHI	NL	32	C	73	61	59	582.1	360	326	26	8	5	.978			5.44	4.82	.981	5.18	5.16	8	9	20	13	39%	41%	0
1952	BOS	AL	33	C	39	32	26	299.0	183	160	22	1	5	.995			5.48	4.67	.985	5.44	5.44	6	7	7	10	59%	46%	0
1953	BOS	AL	34	C	28	19	14	179.1	99	90	7	2	0	.980	0	0	4.87	3.46	.985	5.18	5.15	2	5	3	4	57%	51%	1
1953	BOS	AL	34	1B	2	2	2	18.0	18	18	0	0	2	1.000	0	0	9.00	9.00	.989	9.70	9.65
1954	BOS	AL	35	C	18	16	7	126.1	60	49	8	3	2	.950	-1	-9	4.06	3.17	.986	5.40	5.36	1	4	5	4	44%	48%	1
	8 Seasons			C	224	171	134	1187.0	919	818	81	20	15	.978	-1	-1	5.22	4.01	.982	5.27	5.19	24	25	43	38	47%	44%	3
	1 Season			1B	2	2	2	18.0	18	18	0	0	2	1.000	0	0	9.00	9.00	.989	9.70	9.65
	8 Seasons			TOT	226	173	136	1205.0	937	836	81	20	17	.979	-1	-1	5.27	4.06	.983	5.33	5.23	24	25	43	38	47%	44%	3

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
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rctch
1946	STL	NL	27	C
1947	STL	NL	28	C
1948	STL	NL	29	C
1949	STL	NL	30	C
1951	PHI	NL	32	C
1952	BOS	AL	33	C
1953	BOS	AL	34	C	0	0					0
1953	BOS	AL	34	1B	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954	BOS	AL	35	C	-1	-9					-1
	8 Seasons			C	-1	-1					-1
	1 Season			1B	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8 Seasons			TOT	-1	-1	0	0	0	0	-1

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	1B	PH	PR
1946	STL	NL	27	4	1	4	4	4	0	0	0
1947	STL	NL	28	51	27	51	34	34	0	17	0
1948	STL	NL	29	27	15	27	26	26	0	1	0
1949	STL	NL	30	2	0	2	2	2	0	0	0
1951	PHI	NL	32	84	61	84	73	73	0	11	1
1952	BOS	AL	33	47	32	47	39	39	0	8	0
1952	PHI	NL	33	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	0
1953	BOS	AL	34	58	21	58	30	28	2	31	0
1954	BOS	AL	35	24	16	24	18	18	0	6	0
	8 Seasons			299	173	299	226	224	2	76	1

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 -- C*

					Pitching Stats						Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	ERA	RAvg	Fld	F2O%	XI	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	SO	Tot	1B	2B	3B	K23	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	263	n23	GB	bFld	bF2O%
1948	STL	NL	29	242	2.21	2.84	1	100%	0	0	18	0	0	3	15	3	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
1949	STL	NL	30	16	9.00	9.00	0		0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951	PHI	NL	32	1984	4.02	4.44	52	94%	0	0	272	35	2	20	215	22	5	0	2	3	6	0	4	2	1	5	0	0	1	3	100%
1952	BOS	AL	33	1269	3.65	4.14	21	95%	0	0	158	18	6	6	127	23	4	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	5	0	3	3	1	100%
1953	BOS	AL	34	771	3.41	4.17	13	92%	0	0	90	10	0	3	77	7	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	50%
1954	BOS	AL	35	538	2.64	2.99	8	75%	0	0	48	3	0	1	43	8	2	0	0	1	3	0	2	1	1	2	0	0	0	2	100%
	6 Seasons			4820	3.59	4.09	95	93%	0	0	587	66	8	33	478	63	12	0	2	7	15	3	7	5	3	13	0	3	4	8	88%
	MLB Averages				4.10	4.62		95%																							84%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PB	WP	SBO	SB	CS	CSctch	CS%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	RBA	RK	SBlev	CSlev
1948	STL	NL	29	0	0	103	2	2	2	50%	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	6	3	0.56	2.31
1949	STL	NL	30	0	0	6	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951	PHI	NL	32	5	9	725	17	12	12	41%	14	10	2	2	1	0	0	0	40	16	1.15	1.27
1952	BOS	AL	33	6	7	499	7	10	10	59%	6	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	24	15	1.60	1.11
1953	BOS	AL	34	2	5	303	3	4	4	57%	2	3	1	0	0	1	1	0	14	5	1.06	0.87
1954	BOS	AL	35	1	4	223	5	4	4	44%	5	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	14	5	1.30	1.41
	6 Seasons			14	25	1859	34	32	32	48%	28	27	5	4	1	1	3	0	98	44	1.22	1.25
	MLB Averages									45%											1.20	1.17

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%
1953	BOS	AL	34	92	74%	84%	23%	5	100%	0	18	2	16	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	100%
	1 Season			92	74%	84%	23%	5	100%	0	18	2	16	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	100%
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	26%		93%																											85%

* 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

Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1951 NL 8 (4th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1951 NL 8 (2nd) 1952 AL 6 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1951 NL 8 (4th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1951 NL 8 (2nd)
1952 AL 6 (5th)

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