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Bump Wills

Elliott Taylor Wills

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 172 lb.

Born: July 27, 1952 in Washington, DC
High School: Central Valley HS (Spokane Valley, WA)
School: Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
Drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 1st round (6th pick) of the 1975 amateur draft (January Secondary). (All Transactions)
Debut: April 7, 1977
Teams (by GP): Rangers/Cubs 1977-1982

Final Game: October 3, 1982
Relatives: Son of Maury Wills
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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 Awards
1977 TEX AL 24 2B 150 145 141 1310.1 828 321 492 15 89 .982 13 12 5.58 5.42 .978 5.42 5.38 RoY-3
1977 TEX AL 24 SS 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.80 RoY-3
1977 TEX AL 24 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 10.00 RoY-3
1977 TEX AL 24 DH 1 0 RoY-3
1978 TEX AL 25 2B 156 148 141 1336.1 893 350 526 17 84 .981 10 9 5.90 5.62 .980 5.47 5.42
1979 TEX AL 26 2B 146 143 140 1269.0 825 337 468 20 95 .976 9 9 5.71 5.51 .978 5.50 5.43
1980 TEX AL 27 2B 144 144 140 1269.1 826 340 473 13 112 .984 -8 -8 5.76 5.65 .981 5.60 5.58
1980 TEX AL 27 DH 2 0
1981 TEX AL 28 2B 101 101 98 894.1 604 268 326 10 70 .983 2 3 5.98 5.88 .982 5.54 5.52
1981 TEX AL 28 DH 1 1
1982 CHC NL 29 2B 103 100 69 832.1 515 199 297 19 45 .963 -14 -20 5.36 4.82 .978 5.42 5.43
6 Seasons 2B 800 781 729 6911.2 4491 1815 2582 94 495 .979 13 2 5.73 5.50 .979 5.49 5.46
1 Season SS 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.80
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 10.00
6 Seasons TOT 803 781 729 6911.2 4491 1815 2582 94 495 .979 13 2 5.73 5.48 .979 5.49 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
1977 TEX AL 24 2B 13 12 14 6 8 -1
1977 TEX AL 24 SS
1977 TEX AL 24 1B
1978 TEX AL 25 2B 10 9 12 12 0 -2
1979 TEX AL 26 2B 9 9 11 4 7 -2
1980 TEX AL 27 2B -8 -8 -9 -3 -6 1
1981 TEX AL 28 2B 2 3 5 4 1 -3
1982 CHC NL 29 2B -14 -20 -11 -4 -6 -3
6 Seasons 2B 13 2 23 19 5 -10
1 Season SS
1 Season 1B
6 Seasons TOT 13 2 23 19 5 -10

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1977 TEX AL 24 152 145 152 150 0 0 0 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2
1978 TEX AL 25 157 148 157 156 0 0 0 156 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4
1979 TEX AL 26 146 143 146 146 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1980 TEX AL 27 146 144 146 144 0 0 0 144 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2
1981 TEX AL 28 102 102 102 101 0 0 0 101 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
1982 CHC NL 29 128 100 128 103 0 0 0 103 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 2
6 Seasons 831 782 831 800 0 0 0 800 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 33 11
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
1977 TEX AL 24 5475 53% 81% 29% 573 94% 0 322 95 153 74 492 421 60 1 6 15 0 14 1 15 90 25 13 33 4 79 37 42 7 5 2
1978 TEX AL 25 5567 54% 84% 30% 609 94% 4 349 115 151 83 519 433 65 4 15 17 2 9 6 8 84 22 14 28 5 74 34 39 7 3 3
1979 TEX AL 26 5371 57% 82% 30% 568 92% 5 334 111 156 67 469 390 61 0 10 20 2 13 5 12 95 26 14 36 3 83 39 43 9 3 6
1980 TEX AL 27 5498 54% 81% 27% 566 95% 3 341 137 131 74 472 380 72 0 10 14 1 10 3 11 112 30 20 41 7 101 49 50 10 6 2
1981 TEX AL 28 3712 59% 82% 33% 376 94% 0 264 76 125 63 327 279 39 0 9 10 1 8 1 8 70 25 14 13 6 60 19 41 7 5 2
1982 CHC NL 29 3589 53% 85% 29% 344 93% 0 195 45 80 70 307 274 27 0 6 19 1 17 1 17 45 12 11 14 0 41 15 24 3 1 2
6 Seasons 29212 55% 82% 29% 3036 94% 12 1805 579 796 431 2586 2177 324 5 56 95 7 71 17 71 496 140 86 165 25 438 193 239 43 23 17
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 94%

* 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

Assists† s c a p y
1977 AL  492 (2nd)
1978 AL  526 (2nd)
1980 AL  473 (5th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1977 AL  150 (4th)
1978 AL  156 (1st)
1979 AL  146 (3rd)
1980 AL  144 (4th)
1981 AL  101 (4th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1977 AL  321 (4th)
1978 AL  350 (1st)
1979 AL  337 (4th)
1980 AL  340 (4th)
1981 AL  268 (1st)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1977 AL  492 (1st)
1978 AL  526 (1st)
1979 AL  468 (2nd)
1980 AL  473 (2nd)
1981 AL  326 (4th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1977 AL  15 (5th)
1978 AL  17 (2nd)
1979 AL  20 (2nd)
1980 AL  13 (5th)
1981 AL  10 (2nd)
1982 NL  19 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1977 AL  13 (1st)
1978 AL  10 (3rd)
1979 AL  9 (2nd)
Career  13 (99th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1978 AL  5.90 (3rd)
1979 AL  5.71 (5th)
1981 AL  5.98 (4th)
Career  5.73 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1977 AL  5.42 (3rd)
1978 AL  5.62 (1st)
1979 AL  5.51 (3rd)
1980 AL  5.65 (3rd)
1981 AL  5.88 (1st)
Career  5.50 (54th)

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