Jimmy Williams

James Thomas Williams

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: December 20, 1876 in St. Louis, MO (All Transactions)
Debut: April 15, 1899
Teams (by GP): Highlanders/Pirates/Browns/Orioles 1899-1909

Final Game: October 3, 1909
Died: January 16, 1965 in St. Petersburg, FL
Buried: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
1899	PIT	NL	22	3B	153	673	251	355	67	14	.900	3.96	.902	3.59
1900	PIT	NL	23	3B	103	458	153	254	51	21	.889	3.95	.895	3.82
1900	PIT	NL	23	SS	4	17	3	11	3	1	.824	3.50	.922	5.88
1901	BLA	AL	24	2B	130	803	339	412	52	47	.935	5.78	.935	5.71
1902	BLA	AL	25	2B	104	614	248	332	34	46	.945	5.58	.948	5.36
1902	BLA	AL	25	3B	19	78	27	37	14	1	.821	3.37	.912	3.57
1902	BLA	AL	25	1B	1	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		10.90
1903	NYY	AL	26	2B	132	736	266	438	32	59	.957	5.33	.943	5.11
1904	NYY	AL	27	2B	146	820	315	465	40	52	.951	5.34	.954	5.11
1905	NYY	AL	28	2B	129	692	335	332	25	51	.964	5.17	.952	5.00
1906	NYY	AL	29	2B	139	770	326	412	32	34	.958	5.31	.954	5.30
1907	NYY	AL	30	2B	139	776	357	393	26	45	.966	5.40	.954	5.43
1908	SLB	AL	31	2B	148	828	352	445	31	50	.963	5.39	.951	5.22
1909	SLB	AL	32	2B	109	521	221	280	20	42	.962	4.60	.953	4.91
	9 Seasons			2B	1176	6560	2759	3509	292	426	.955	5.33	.949	5.24
	3 Seasons			3B	275	1209	431	646	132	36	.891	3.92	.900	3.67
	1 Season			SS	4	17	3	11	3	1	.824	3.50	.922	5.88
	1 Season			1B	1	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		10.90
	11 Seasons			TOT	1456	7786	3193	4166	427	463	.945	5.05	.942	4.95

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	1B	2B	3B	SS
1899	PIT	NL	22	153	153	0	0	153	0
1900	PIT	NL	23	106	106	0	0	103	4
1901	BLA	AL	24	130	130	0	130	0	0
1902	BLA	AL	25	125	125	1	104	19	0
1903	NYY	AL	26	132	132	0	132	0	0
1904	NYY	AL	27	146	146	0	146	0	0
1905	NYY	AL	28	129	129	0	129	0	0
1906	NYY	AL	29	139	139	0	139	0	0
1907	NYY	AL	30	139	139	0	139	0	0
1908	SLB	AL	31	148	148	0	148	0	0
1909	SLB	AL	32	110	110	0	109	0	0
	11 Seasons			1457	1457	1	1176	275	4

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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Assists† s c a p y 1903 AL 438 (5th) 1904 AL 465 (4th)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1901 AL 130 (5th) 1902 AL 104 (5th) 1903 AL 132 (3rd) 1904 AL 146 (3rd) 1905 AL 129 (4th) 1906 AL 139 (1st) 1907 AL 139 (2nd) 1908 AL 148 (2nd) Career 1,176 (80th)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1901 AL 339 (3rd) 1903 AL 266 (3rd) 1904 AL 315 (3rd) 1905 AL 335 (2nd) 1906 AL 326 (4th) 1907 AL 357 (2nd) 1908 AL 352 (2nd) Career 2,759 (69th)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1901 AL 412 (3rd) 1902 AL 332 (5th) 1903 AL 438 (1st) 1904 AL 465 (1st) 1905 AL 332 (4th) 1906 AL 412 (2nd) 1907 AL 393 (3rd) 1908 AL 445 (2nd) Career 3,509 (73rd)
Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1901 AL 52 (4th) 1902 AL 34 (3rd) 1903 AL 32 (4th) 1904 AL 40 (2nd) 1906 AL 32 (4th) 1907 AL 26 (5th) 1908 AL 31 (4th) Career 292 (35th)	Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1899 NL 153 (1st)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1899 NL 251 (1st) 1900 NL 153 (5th)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1899 NL 355 (3rd) 1900 NL 254 (5th)
Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1899 NL 67 (1st) 1900 NL 51 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1901 AL 5.78 (5th) 1902 AL 5.58 (4th) 1903 AL 5.33 (3rd) 1904 AL 5.34 (2nd) 1905 AL 5.17 (4th) 1906 AL 5.31 (5th) 1907 AL 5.40 (5th) 1908 AL 5.39 (3rd) Career 5.33 (84th)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1901 AL .935 (4th) 1903 AL .957 (2nd) 1905 AL .964 (2nd) 1906 AL .958 (4th) 1907 AL .966 (3rd) 1908 AL .963 (3rd) 1909 AL .962 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1899 NL 3.96 (3rd) 1900 NL 3.95 (3rd)
Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1900 NL .889 (4th)

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