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Ed Willett

Robert Edgar Willett

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 183 lb.

Born: March 7, 1884 in Norfolk, VA(All Transactions)
Debut: September 5, 1906 (Age 22)
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Terriers 1906-1915

Final Game: September 23, 1915 (Age 31)
Died: May 10, 1934 in Wellington, KS
Buried: Caldwell Cemetery, Caldwell, KS
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
1906 DET AL 22 P 3 25.0 12 3 9 0 0 1.000 4.32 4.00 .948 3.20 3.17
1907 DET AL 23 P 10 48.2 22 3 18 1 0 .955 3.88 2.10 .946 3.27 3.25
1908 DET AL 24 P 30 197.1 99 14 81 4 3 .960 4.33 3.17 .946 3.20 3.19
1909 DET AL 25 P 41 292.2 111 13 91 7 2 .937 3.20 2.54 .942 3.19 3.15
1909 DET AL 25 OF 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .950 1.80 0-0-1
1910 DET AL 26 P 37 224.1 126 6 113 7 2 .944 4.77 3.22 .942 3.29 3.28
1910 DET AL 26 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 1.80 0-0-1
1911 DET AL 27 P 38 231.1 92 5 84 3 2 .967 3.46 2.34 .938 2.88 2.85
1912 DET AL 28 P 37 284.1 132 12 113 7 2 .947 3.96 3.38 .940 2.96 2.90
1913 DET AL 29 P 34 242.0 106 8 93 5 3 .953 3.76 2.97 .938 3.01 2.98
1914 SLM FL 30 P 27 175.0 86 6 76 4 2 .953 4.22 3.04 .947 3.04 3.00
1915 SLM FL 31 P 17 52.2 22 2 17 3 2 .864 3.25 1.12 .956 3.08 3.05
10 Seasons P 274 1773.1 808 72 695 41 18 .949 3.89 2.80 .942 3.09 3.06
2 Seasons OF 2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 1.80 0-0-2
10 Seasons TOT 276 1773.1 810 74 695 41 18 .949 3.89 2.79 .942 3.09 3.05 0-0-2
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-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.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1906 DET AL 22 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1907 DET AL 23 10 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1908 DET AL 24 30 30 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1909 DET AL 25 42 42 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
1910 DET AL 26 38 38 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
1911 DET AL 27 39 39 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1912 DET AL 28 37 37 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1913 DET AL 29 35 35 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1914 SLM FL 30 28 28 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1915 SLM FL 31 17 17 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons 279 279 274 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Def. Games as P s c a p y
1909 AL  41 (4th)

Assists as P s c a p y
1910 AL  113 (2nd)
1911 AL  84 (4th)
1912 AL  113 (2nd)
1913 AL  93 (3rd)
Career  695 (93rd)

Errors Committed as P s c a p y
1912 AL  7 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as P† s c a p y
1908 AL  4.33 (3rd)
1910 AL  4.77 (1st)
1912 AL  3.96 (2nd)
1914 FL  4.22 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as P s c a p y
1908 AL  3.17 (4th)
1912 AL  3.38 (3rd)
1913 AL  2.97 (2nd)
1914 FL  3.04 (3rd)
Career  2.80 (17th)

                                         

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