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Taffy Wright

Taft Shedron Wright

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: August 10, 1911 in Tabor City, NC (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1938
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Senators/Athletics 1938-1949

Final Game: September 16, 1949
Died: October 22, 1981 in Orlando, FL
Buried: Meadowbrook Cemetery, Lumberton, NC
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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 Awards
1938 WSH AL 26 OF 60 57 46 112 107 3 2 3 .982 1.83 .972 2.35
1938 WSH AL 26 RF 46 44 38 80 76 3 1 3 .988 1.72 .972 2.06
1938 WSH AL 26 LF 14 13 8 32 31 0 1 0 .969 2.21 .972 2.17
1939 WSH AL 27 OF 123 120 112 259 236 10 13 4 .950 2.00 .969 2.44
1939 WSH AL 27 RF 80 77 72 174 159 8 7 4 .960 2.09 .962 2.08
1939 WSH AL 27 LF 43 43 40 85 77 2 6 0 .929 1.84 .966 2.38
1940 CHW AL 28 OF 144 144 143 300 278 11 11 2 .963 2.01 .970 2.40
1940 CHW AL 28 RF 144 144 143 300 278 11 11 2 .963 2.01 .970 2.09
1941 CHW AL 29 OF 134 134 133 295 279 8 8 3 .973 2.14 .973 2.41 MVP-25
1941 CHW AL 29 RF 134 134 133 295 279 8 8 3 .973 2.14 .969 2.14 MVP-25
1942 CHW AL 30 LF 81 81 80 188 176 6 6 1 .968 2.25 .974 2.27 MVP-23
1942 CHW AL 30 OF 81 81 80 188 176 6 6 1 .968 2.25 .976 2.38 MVP-23
1942 CHW AL 30 RF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.10 MVP-23
1946 CHW AL 34 OF 107 107 102 224 217 5 2 0 .991 2.07 .977 2.36
1946 CHW AL 34 RF 99 99 94 211 204 5 2 0 .991 2.11 .972 2.10
1946 CHW AL 34 LF 8 8 8 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 1.63 .974 2.24
1947 CHW AL 35 OF 100 97 95 210 198 6 6 1 .971 2.04 .979 2.47 MVP-31
1947 CHW AL 35 RF 67 66 64 149 142 4 3 1 .980 2.18 .977 2.11 MVP-31
1947 CHW AL 35 LF 34 31 31 61 55 3 3 0 .951 1.71 .976 2.36 MVP-31
1948 CHW AL 36 OF 114 112 112 239 227 9 3 3 .987 2.07 .975 2.51
1948 CHW AL 36 RF 108 106 106 227 216 8 3 3 .987 2.07 .971 2.14
1948 CHW AL 36 LF 6 6 6 11 10 1 0 0 1.000 1.83 .975 2.33
1949 PHA AL 37 OF 35 31 23 67 60 5 2 0 .970 1.86 .980 2.44
1949 PHA AL 37 RF 35 31 23 64 58 4 2 0 .969 1.77 .978 2.09
9 Seasons OF 898 883 846 1894 1778 63 53 17 .972 2.05 .974 2.42
9 Seasons RF 714 701 673 1500 1412 51 37 16 .975 2.05 .970 2.11
6 Seasons LF 186 182 173 390 362 12 16 1 .959 2.01 .972 2.30
9 Seasons TOT 898 883 846 1894 1778 63 53 17 .972 2.05 .974 2.42
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG 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
1938 WSH AL 26 RF
1938 WSH AL 26 LF
1939 WSH AL 27 RF
1939 WSH AL 27 LF
1940 CHW AL 28 RF
1941 CHW AL 29 RF
1942 CHW AL 30 LF
1942 CHW AL 30 RF
1946 CHW AL 34 RF
1946 CHW AL 34 LF
1947 CHW AL 35 RF
1947 CHW AL 35 LF
1948 CHW AL 36 RF
1948 CHW AL 36 LF
1949 PHA AL 37 RF
9 Seasons RF
6 Seasons LF
9 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1938 WSH AL 26 100 57 100 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0 46 60 0 41 0
1939 WSH AL 27 129 120 129 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 0 80 123 0 6 0
1940 CHW AL 28 147 144 147 144 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 144 0 3 0
1941 CHW AL 29 136 134 136 134 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 134 134 0 2 0
1942 CHW AL 30 85 81 85 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 81 0 1 81 0 4 0
1946 CHW AL 34 115 107 115 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 99 107 0 8 0
1947 CHW AL 35 124 97 124 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 0 67 100 0 25 1
1948 CHW AL 36 134 112 134 114 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 108 114 0 21 0
1949 PHA AL 37 59 31 59 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35 35 0 26 0
9 Seasons 1029 883 1029 898 0 0 0 0 0 0 186 0 714 898 0 136 1
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 -- RF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1948 CHW AL 36 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 27 13 0 28 4 0 4 2 0 7 2 0 10 10 0 76 31 40.8% 45 0 0.0% 4 1662 59% 84% 28% 180 42%
1949 PHA AL 37 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 11 5 1 8 3 0 5 3 0 3 0 0 11 10 0 38 21 55.3% 16 1 2.6% 1 941 62% 81% 32% 99 52%
2 Seasons 2 0 2 0 0 6 0 2 1 1 38 18 1 36 7 0 9 5 0 10 2 0 21 20 0 114 52 45.6% 61 1 0.9% 5 2603 60% 83% 29% 279 46%
MLB Averages 43.5% 2.9% 61% 82% 31% 52%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1941 AL (25, 1%)
1942 AL (23, 2%)
1947 AL (31, 0%)
0.03 Career Shares (1251st)

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1939 AL  80 (5th)
1940 AL  144 (1st)
1941 AL  134 (1st)
1946 AL  99 (4th)
1948 AL  108 (3rd)

Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1939 AL  159 (5th)
1940 AL  278 (2nd)
1941 AL  279 (1st)
1946 AL  204 (4th)
1948 AL  216 (3rd)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1939 AL  8 (5th)
1940 AL  11 (1st)
1948 AL  8 (1st)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1939 AL  7 (5th)
1940 AL  11 (1st)
1941 AL  8 (3rd)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1940 AL  144 (4th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1939 AL  13 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1942 AL  2.25 (5th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1942 AL  .968 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1939 AL  2.09 (4th)
1940 AL  2.01 (4th)
1941 AL  2.14 (3rd)
1946 AL  2.11 (4th)
1948 AL  2.07 (3rd)
Career  2.05 (42nd)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1939 AL  .960 (3rd)
1940 AL  .963 (4th)
1941 AL  .973 (5th)
1946 AL  .991 (2nd)
1948 AL  .987 (1st)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1946 AL  .991 (3rd)
1948 AL  .987 (4th)

Oldest s c a p y
1949 AL  born 1911-08-10 (8th)

                                         

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