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Davey Williams

David Carlous Williams

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: November 2, 1927 in Dallas, TX
High School: Sunset HS (Dallas, TX) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1949
Team: Giants 1949-1955

Final Game: July 31, 1955
Died: August 17, 2009 in Farmer's Branch, TX
Buried: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, TX
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All-Star

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 Awards
1949 NYG NL 21 2B 13 13 13 43 19 22 2 5 .953 3.15 .976 5.57
1951 NYG NL 23 2B 22 13 13 136.2 81 38 43 0 7 1.000 5.33 3.68 .976 5.70 5.68
1952 NYG NL 24 2B 138 133 123 1173.0 672 279 375 18 102 .973 5.02 4.74 .975 5.48 5.43
1953 NYG NL 25 2B 95 86 80 757.1 453 191 254 8 54 .982 1 1 5.29 4.68 .972 5.44 5.33 AS
1954 NYG NL 26 2B 142 141 132 1252.0 763 353 396 14 112 .982 10 9 5.38 5.27 .976 5.57 5.54
1955 NYG NL 27 2B 71 58 46 525.1 311 139 162 10 39 .968 -3 -7 5.16 4.24 .974 5.48 5.43
6 Seasons 2B 481 444 407 3844.1 2323 1019 1252 52 319 .978 7 2 5.22 4.72 .975 5.51 5.46
6 Seasons TOT 481 444 407 3844.1 2323 1019 1252 52 319 .978 7 2 5.22 4.72 .975 5.51 5.46
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 Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1949 NYG NL 21 2B
1951 NYG NL 23 2B
1952 NYG NL 24 2B
1953 NYG NL 25 2B 1 1 -0 2 -2 1
1954 NYG NL 26 2B 10 9 7 1 6 3
1955 NYG NL 27 2B -3 -7 -1 -2 1 -2
6 Seasons 2B 7 2 5 1 5 2
6 Seasons TOT 7 2 5 1 5 2

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1949 NYG NL 21 13 13 13 13 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1951 NYG NL 23 30 13 30 22 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10
1952 NYG NL 24 138 133 138 138 0 0 0 138 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 NYG NL 25 112 86 112 95 0 0 0 95 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 6
1954 NYG NL 26 142 141 142 142 0 0 0 142 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1955 NYG NL 27 82 58 82 71 0 0 0 71 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
6 Seasons 517 444 517 481 0 0 0 481 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 16
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 -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1949 NYG NL 21 259 69% 85% 30% 18 94% 0 7 1 5 1 19 16 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 2 1 0 1 4 1 3 0 0 0
1951 NYG NL 23 571 62% 83% 28% 60 100% 0 37 18 11 8 46 37 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 0 4 0 7 4 2 0 0 0
1952 NYG NL 24 4325 60% 80% 27% 396 94% 0 236 92 98 47 319 261 52 0 4 16 2 11 3 12 80 17 13 33 4 71 37 32 6 2 4
1953 NYG NL 25 3285 58% 81% 26% 313 91% 0 186 66 83 37 250 207 39 0 2 8 0 6 2 7 56 14 14 18 2 50 19 29 5 2 3
1954 NYG NL 26 5109 67% 79% 28% 438 95% 0 333 105 165 63 381 321 47 1 6 13 0 11 2 9 112 35 24 27 3 97 31 64 11 8 3
1955 NYG NL 27 1876 63% 80% 26% 174 91% 1 114 43 55 17 134 102 25 0 1 9 1 7 1 7 34 9 3 16 0 29 16 13 4 2 1
6 Seasons 15425 63% 80% 27% 1399 93% 1 913 325 417 173 1149 944 174 1 13 47 4 35 8 35 293 79 55 98 10 258 108 143 26 14 11
MLB Averages 63% 82% 26% 93%

* 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
1953 *

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1952 NL  138 (4th)
1953 NL  95 (5th)
1954 NL  142 (5th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1952 NL  279 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1952 NL  375 (4th)
1954 NL  396 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1952 NL  18 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1954 NL  10 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1953 NL  5.29 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1953 NL  .982 (2nd)
1954 NL  .982 (1st)

Youngest s c a p y
1949 NL  born 1927-11-02 (10th)

                                         

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