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Earl Williams

Earl Craig Williams

Positions: Catcher, First Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: July 14, 1948 in Newark, NJ
High School: Montclair HS (Montclair, NJ)
Drafted by the Milwaukee Braves in the 1st round (6th pick) of the 1965 amateur draft (August Legion). (All Transactions)
Debut: September 13, 1970
Teams (by GP): Braves/Orioles/Athletics/Expos 1970-1977

Final Game: September 25, 1977
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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 Awards
1970 ATL NL 21 1B 4 2 1 22.0 21 20 1 0 1 1.000 1 44 8.59 5.25 .992 9.70 9.65
1970 ATL NL 21 3B 3 2 2 21.0 10 3 7 0 3 1.000 -1 -40 4.29 3.33 .945 2.91 2.90
1971 ATL NL 22 C 72 71 59 626.0 418 375 35 8 4 .981 -6 -12 5.89 5.69 .988 6.34 6.33 15 24 51 19 27% 35% 1 RoY-1
1971 ATL NL 22 3B 42 37 30 327.1 110 27 74 9 9 .918 -1 -4 2.78 2.40 .949 2.80 2.80 RoY-1
1971 ATL NL 22 1B 31 19 18 186.1 203 194 8 1 25 .995 -2 -10 9.76 6.52 .992 9.88 9.87 RoY-1
1972 ATL NL 23 C 116 113 102 986.0 646 584 49 13 7 .980 -17 -21 5.78 5.46 .987 6.61 6.63 28 49 78 26 25% 37% 0
1972 ATL NL 23 3B 21 21 18 177.0 56 16 30 10 1 .821 -6 -39 2.34 2.19 .945 2.87 2.88
1972 ATL NL 23 1B 20 15 13 137.2 148 140 8 0 10 1.000 0 4 9.68 7.40 .992 9.73 9.76
1973 BAL AL 24 C 95 86 73 769.0 446 407 33 6 5 .987 4 6 5.15 4.63 .985 6.05 6.02 4 27 38 33 46% 38% 0
1973 BAL AL 24 1B 42 39 30 339.1 347 326 19 2 36 .994 -0 -0 9.15 8.21 .992 9.86 9.80
1973 BAL AL 24 DH 2 2
1974 BAL AL 25 C 75 70 58 617.0 347 308 33 6 5 .983 -2 -4 4.97 4.55 .983 5.89 5.87 11 17 44 28 39% 38% 0
1974 BAL AL 25 1B 47 43 38 392.1 418 399 17 2 39 .995 -2 -5 9.54 8.85 .992 9.70 9.66
1974 BAL AL 25 DH 1 0
1975 ATL NL 26 1B 90 89 80 780.1 904 844 50 10 77 .989 -5 -8 10.31 9.93 .990 9.97 9.96
1975 ATL NL 26 C 11 10 7 82.1 60 52 6 2 3 .967 -3 -44 6.34 5.27 .985 6.02 6.02 5 4 14 4 22% 32% 0
1976 TOT NL 27 1B 64 58 41 478.1 554 497 49 8 46 .986 1 4 10.27 8.53 .991 9.95 9.93
1976 TOT NL 27 C 51 40 36 378.1 234 218 15 1 4 .996 -8 -25 5.54 4.57 .986 5.96 5.94 6 21 37 5 12% 33% 0
1976 ATL NL 27 C 38 34 31 307.1 189 178 10 1 0 .995 -5 -20 5.51 4.95 .986 5.96 5.94 5 12 26 3 10% 33% 0
1976 ATL NL 27 1B 17 14 10 122.0 128 120 8 0 9 1.000 -1 -8 9.44 7.53 .991 9.95 9.93
1976 MON NL 27 1B 47 44 31 356.1 426 377 41 8 37 .981 2 7 10.56 8.89 .991 9.95 9.93
1976 MON NL 27 C 13 6 5 71.0 45 40 5 0 4 1.000 -3 -51 5.70 3.46 .986 5.96 5.94 1 9 11 2 15% 33% 0
1977 OAK AL 28 DH 45 45
1977 OAK AL 28 C 36 33 16 269.0 188 165 21 2 2 .989 2 9 6.22 5.17 .986 6.01 5.97 2 10 26 20 43% 39% 1
1977 OAK AL 28 1B 29 12 6 135.2 146 140 5 1 12 .993 -0 -3 9.62 5.00 .990 10.02 9.95
7 Seasons C 456 423 351 3727.2 2339 2109 192 38 30 .984 -30 -10 5.56 5.05 .986 6.21 6.19 71 152 288 135 32% 37% 2
8 Seasons 1B 327 277 227 2472.0 2741 2560 157 24 246 .991 -6 -3 9.89 8.31 .991 9.89 9.86
3 Seasons 3B 66 60 50 525.1 176 46 111 19 13 .892 -7 -17 2.69 2.38 .947 2.83 2.83
8 Seasons TOT 849 760 628 6725.0 5256 4715 460 81 289 .985 -43 -8 6.93 6.10 .987 7.30 7.34 71 152 288 135 32% 37% 2
Lg 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 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.
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
1970 ATL NL 21 1B 1 44 1 1 0 0
1970 ATL NL 21 3B -1 -40 -1 -1 0
1971 ATL NL 22 C -6 -12 -6
1971 ATL NL 22 3B -1 -4 -1 -0 -1 0
1971 ATL NL 22 1B -2 -10 -2 -1 -0 0
1972 ATL NL 23 C -17 -21 -17
1972 ATL NL 23 3B -6 -39 -6 -2 -4 0
1972 ATL NL 23 1B 0 4 0 1 -1 0
1973 BAL AL 24 C 4 6 4
1973 BAL AL 24 1B -0 -0 -0 2 -2 0
1974 BAL AL 25 C -2 -4 -2
1974 BAL AL 25 1B -2 -5 -2 -2 0 0
1975 ATL NL 26 1B -5 -8 -5 -4 -1 0
1975 ATL NL 26 C -3 -44 -3
1976 ATL NL 27 C -5 -20 -5
1976 ATL NL 27 1B -1 -8 -1 -1 1 0
1976 MON NL 27 1B 2 7 2 -2 4 0
1976 MON NL 27 C -3 -51 -3
1977 OAK AL 28 C 2 9 2
1977 OAK AL 28 1B -0 -3 -0 0 -0 0
7 Seasons C -30 -10 -30
8 Seasons 1B -6 -3 -6 -6 0 0
3 Seasons 3B -7 -17 -7 -3 -5 0
8 Seasons TOT -43 -8 -13 -9 -5 0 -30
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 P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1970 ATL NL 21 10 4 10 7 0 0 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1971 ATL NL 22 145 127 145 133 0 72 31 0 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
1972 ATL NL 23 151 149 151 150 0 116 20 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1973 BAL AL 24 132 127 132 128 0 93 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0
1974 BAL AL 25 118 113 118 116 0 75 47 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0
1975 ATL NL 26 111 99 111 100 0 11 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1976 ATL NL 27 61 48 61 54 0 38 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1976 MON NL 27 61 50 61 54 0 14 47 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1977 OAK AL 28 100 90 100 54 0 36 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 7 0
8 Seasons 889 807 889 796 0 455 330 0 66 0 0 0 0 0 48 69 0
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%
1971 ATL NL 22 2585 3.45 4.05 19 100% 1 0 363 15 2 9 336 35 4 0 0 5 8 0 5 3 0 4 0 0 0 3 100%
1972 ATL NL 23 4215 4.24 4.72 43 95% 2 0 580 26 3 21 530 41 9 0 0 8 13 0 5 8 1 7 0 0 1 4 100%
1973 BAL AL 24 3140 3.20 3.55 15 100% 0 0 386 13 3 5 365 33 2 0 0 4 6 0 0 6 0 4 0 1 1 1 100%
1974 BAL AL 25 2575 3.50 4.14 20 90% 0 0 312 15 5 10 281 34 4 0 0 4 6 0 2 4 0 5 0 1 1 1 0%
1975 ATL NL 26 365 3.29 4.28 2 50% 0 0 53 0 0 3 49 5 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0
1976 ATL NL 27 1319 3.43 3.98 15 100% 0 0 177 12 2 4 158 10 3 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 100%
1976 MON NL 27 326 5.70 5.70 2 100% 0 0 41 2 2 6 31 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 0
1977 OAK AL 28 1158 4.05 4.68 7 100% 2 0 165 2 2 6 154 23 4 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 100%
7 Seasons 15683 3.70 4.21 123 96% 5 0 2077 85 19 64 1904 187 27 1 0 26 38 0 15 23 1 30 0 3 7 11 91%
MLB Averages 3.65 4.14 95% 90%

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
1971 ATL NL 22 15 24 926 50 18 18 26% 44 17 4 1 2 0 1 0 107 20 1.53 1.14
1972 ATL NL 23 28 49 1527 78 23 21 23% 70 19 8 2 0 2 0 0 195 29 1.15 1.08
1973 BAL AL 24 6 27 1084 38 33 25 46% 34 33 4 0 0 0 0 0 87 40 1.34 1.15
1974 BAL AL 25 11 17 924 45 28 23 38% 38 25 7 2 0 1 0 0 92 37 1.30 1.25
1975 ATL NL 26 5 4 140 14 4 3 22% 13 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 25 4 1.57 1.19
1976 ATL NL 27 5 12 519 26 3 3 10% 24 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 47 3 1.22 1.68
1976 MON NL 27 1 9 123 11 2 2 15% 11 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 3 1.26 1.28
1977 OAK AL 28 2 10 426 26 20 17 43% 24 13 1 2 1 5 1 1 55 23 1.11 1.15
7 Seasons 73 152 5669 288 131 112 31% 258 116 27 7 3 8 2 1 635 159 1.29 1.17
MLB Averages 36% 1.29 1.25

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%
1970 ATL NL 21 72 64% 71% 18% 4 100% 0 11 0 9 2 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1971 ATL NL 22 822 70% 81% 25% 36 97% 0 193 13 176 4 14 9 6 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 25 1 0 0 23 1 2 0 2 0
1972 ATL NL 23 564 63% 83% 29% 27 100% 0 130 4 124 2 16 8 3 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 1 0 9 2 1 0 1 1 100%
1973 BAL AL 24 1372 69% 84% 28% 60 90% 0 348 15 331 3 27 20 8 4 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 38 2 0 0 35 3 3 1 2 3 67%
1974 BAL AL 25 1598 71% 83% 27% 63 97% 0 398 17 374 7 32 16 7 5 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 40 1 2 0 38 3 2 0 2 2 100%
1975 ATL NL 26 3453 61% 85% 29% 184 93% 0 831 38 785 8 87 51 37 7 2 0 10 0 10 0 7 77 2 1 1 72 3 5 1 4 9 89%
1976 MON NL 27 1536 59% 84% 28% 121 88% 0 375 30 339 6 41 41 28 5 3 1 8 1 6 1 6 37 1 1 0 32 3 5 3 2 7 86%
1976 ATL NL 27 535 49% 79% 27% 29 93% 0 117 7 109 1 10 10 8 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1977 OAK AL 28 604 66% 86% 24% 33 91% 0 145 9 134 1 17 5 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 13 1 0 0 12 1 1 1 0 2 0%
8 Seasons 10556 64% 84% 28% 557 93% 0 2548 133 2381 34 247 161 100 29 7 6 24 2 21 1 17 250 8 5 1 231 16 19 6 13 25 80%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 28% 94% 89%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

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 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1970 ATL NL 21 60 77% 62% 2% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1971 ATL NL 22 1397 61% 82% 27% 113 88% 1 29 26 1 2 74 58 12 1 3 9 0 9 0 6 9 7 0 8 1 1 0 4 50%
1972 ATL NL 23 781 59% 87% 27% 56 82% 0 16 13 2 1 32 25 7 0 1 9 0 8 1 8 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 2238 61% 83% 26% 169 86% 1 45 39 3 3 106 83 19 1 4 18 0 17 1 14 10 8 0 9 1 1 0 4 50%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 28% 89% 67%

* 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

Awards (yr lg award)
1971 NL Rookie of the Year

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1972 NL  116 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1972 NL  13 (2nd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1971 NL  15 (4th)
1972 NL  28 (1st)
1974 AL  11 (4th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1971 NL  51 (5th)
1972 NL  78 (2nd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1973 AL  46.5 (4th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1975 NL  10 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1975 NL  10.31 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1975 NL  9.93 (1st)

                                         

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