Bob Will

Robert Lee Will (Butch)

Positions: Pinch Hitter and Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: July 15, 1931 in Berwyn, IL
High School: Morton HS (Berwyn, IL)
Schools: Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), Minnesota State University, Mankato (Mankato, MN)
Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in 1954. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1957
Team: Cubs 1957-1963

Final Game: June 12, 1963
Died: August 11, 2011 in Woodstock, IL
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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
1957	CHC	NL	25	CF	30	17	16	172.0	53	50	1	2	1	.962	-0	-3	2.67	1.70	.985	2.81	2.83
1957	CHC	NL	25	OF	30	17	16	172.0	54	51	1	2	0	.963	-0	-3	2.72	1.73	.980	2.29	2.31
1958	CHC	NL	26	OF	1	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-240	0.00	0.00		2.25	2.20
1958	CHC	NL	26	RF	1	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-240	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.00
1960	CHC	NL	28	OF	121	112	108	1027.2	236	224	10	2	2	.992	-2	-2	2.05	1.93	.978	2.20	2.20
1960	CHC	NL	28	RF	117	110	106	1007.2	229	217	10	2	2	.991	-2	-2	2.03	1.94	.979	1.99	1.99
1960	CHC	NL	28	LF	4	2	2	20.0	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-6	2.25	1.25	.974	1.98	2.00
1961	CHC	NL	29	OF	30	13	13	142.2	33	33	0	0	0	1.000	-3	-24	2.08	1.10	.977	2.16	2.14
1961	CHC	NL	29	RF	22	13	13	129.2	29	29	0	0	0	1.000	-3	-29	2.01	1.32	.974	1.93	1.91
1961	CHC	NL	29	LF	9	0	0	13.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	0	18	2.08	0.33	.973	1.87	1.86
1961	CHC	NL	29	1B	1	1	0	6.0	4	3	0	1	1	.750	-1	-140	4.50	3.00	.990	9.75	9.70
1962	CHC	NL	30	OF	9	6	6	65.0	14	14	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-20	1.94	1.56	.974	2.06	2.04
1962	CHC	NL	30	RF	9	6	6	65.0	14	14	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-20	1.94	1.56	.975	1.90	1.88
1963	CHC	NL	31	1B	1	1	0	7.0	10	10	0	0	1	1.000	-0	-69	12.86	10.00	.989	9.77	9.80
	5 Seasons			OF	191	148	143	1409.1	337	322	11	4	2	.988	-7	-6	2.13	1.74	.978	2.20	2.20
	4 Seasons			RF	149	129	125	1204.1	272	260	10	2	2	.993	-6	-6	2.02	1.81	.978	1.98	1.97
	1 Season			CF	30	17	16	172.0	53	50	1	2	1	.962	-0	-3	2.67	1.70	.985	2.81	2.83
	2 Seasons			LF	13	2	2	33.0	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	0	4	2.18	0.62	.974	1.94	1.90
	2 Seasons			1B	2	2	0	13.0	14	13	0	1	2	.929	-1	-102	9.00	6.50	.989	9.76	9.75
	6 Seasons			TOT	193	150	143	1422.1	351	335	11	5	4	.986	-8	-7	2.19	1.79	.979	2.27	2.28

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

View Complete Notes on Fielding Data

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	Rof
1957	CHC	NL	25	CF	-0	-3	1	-1	1	-1
1958	CHC	NL	26	RF	-0	-240	-0	0	-0	0
1960	CHC	NL	28	RF	-2	-2	2	2	0	-4
1960	CHC	NL	28	LF	-0	-6	-0	0	-0	0
1961	CHC	NL	29	RF	-3	-29	-0	2	-2	-3
1961	CHC	NL	29	LF	0	18	0	0	0	0
1961	CHC	NL	29	1B	-1	-140	-1	0	-1
1962	CHC	NL	30	RF	-1	-20	-0	-0	0	-1
1963	CHC	NL	31	1B	-0	-69	-0	-0	0
	4 Seasons			RF	-6	-6	2	3	-1	-8
	1 Season			CF	-0	-3	1	-1	1	-1
	2 Seasons			LF	0	4	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			1B	-1	-102	-1	-0	-1
	6 Seasons			TOT	-8	-7	1	2	-1	-9

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1957	CHC	NL	25	70	17	70	30	0	0	30	0	30	41	5
1958	CHC	NL	26	6	0	6	1	0	0	0	1	1	5	0
1960	CHC	NL	28	138	112	138	121	0	4	0	117	121	20	0
1961	CHC	NL	29	86	14	86	32	1	9	0	22	31	61	2
1962	CHC	NL	30	87	6	87	9	0	0	0	9	9	79	1
1963	CHC	NL	31	23	1	23	1	1	0	0	0	0	22	0
	6 Seasons			410	150	410	194	2	13	30	149	192	228	8

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 -- 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%
1958	CHC	NL	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	13	46%	92%	23%	2	0%
1960	CHC	NL	28	2	0	2	0	1	10	0	1	4	2	53	14	4	26	2	1	15	9	1	22	3	1	17	9	0	133	37	27.8%	89	7	5.3%	3	4319	60%	80%	28%	430	52%
1961	CHC	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	2	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	23	2	8.7%	21	0	0.0%	0	583	58%	84%	31%	63	46%
1962	CHC	NL	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	4	3	0	12	4	33.3%	8	0	0.0%	0	294	58%	83%	32%	24	58%
	4 Seasons			2	0	2	0	1	10	0	1	4	2	69	17	4	35	2	1	16	10	1	26	3	1	23	12	0	169	44	26.0%	118	7	4.1%	3	5209	60%	80%	28%	519	52%
	MLB Averages																														40.6%			3.1%			63%	80%	29%		53%

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%
1957	CHC	NL	25	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	9	6	0	7	0	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	4	1	0	24	8	33.3%	16	0	0.0%	1	633	62%	78%	31%	79	54%
	1 Season			2	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	9	6	0	7	0	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	4	1	0	24	8	33.3%	16	0	0.0%	1	633	62%	78%	31%	79	54%
	MLB Averages																														42.5%			2.2%			63%	80%	29%		56%

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%
1960	CHC	NL	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	4	2	50.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	93	52%	76%	34%	10	50%
1961	CHC	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	60	63%	78%	40%	6	50%
	2 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	5	3	60.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	153	56%	77%	37%	16	50%
	MLB Averages																														58.2%			2.5%			63%	80%	29%		48%

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%
1961	CHC	NL	29	27	85%	74%	26%	0		0	3	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
1963	CHC	NL	31	27	52%	89%	37%	0		0	10	0	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			54	69%	81%	31%	0		0	13	0	13	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	28%		94%																											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

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1960 NL 117 (4th)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1960 NL 217 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1960 NL 2.03 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1960 NL 1.94 (4th)
Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1960 NL .991 (3rd)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1960 NL .992 (3rd)

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