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Bobby Young

Robert George Young

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: January 22, 1925 in Granite, MD
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1946. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 30, 1948
Teams (by GP): Browns/Orioles/Phillies/Indians/Cardinals 1948-1958

Final Game: September 28, 1958
Died: January 28, 1985 in Baltimore, MD
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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
1948 STL NL 23 3B 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .940 3.10
1951 SLB AL 26 2B 147 147 145 1298.1 840 361 462 17 118 .980 5.71 5.60 .978 5.72 5.69
1952 SLB AL 27 2B 149 146 135 1300.1 800 380 407 13 127 .984 5.45 5.28 .978 5.57 5.57 MVP-29
1953 SLB AL 28 2B 148 146 138 1301.1 778 397 363 18 120 .977 -16 -15 5.26 5.14 .979 5.60 5.57
1954 BAL AL 29 2B 127 118 113 1066.1 624 299 310 15 76 .976 -7 -8 5.14 4.80 .976 5.37 5.33
1955 TOT AL 30 2B 69 64 52 548.0 329 145 179 5 56 .985 -1 -1 5.32 4.70 .976 5.37 5.32
1955 BAL AL 30 2B 58 54 45 460.0 271 121 146 4 42 .985 -1 -3 5.22 4.60 .976 5.37 5.32
1955 CLE AL 30 2B 11 10 7 88.0 58 24 33 1 14 .983 1 10 5.83 5.18 .976 5.37 5.32
1955 CLE AL 30 3B 1 0 0 3.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -80 3.00 1.00 .950 3.30 3.10
1958 PHI NL 33 2B 21 12 10 120.0 63 28 33 2 6 .968 -2 -17 4.58 2.90 .975 5.33 5.30
6 Seasons 2B 661 633 593 5634.1 3434 1610 1754 70 503 .980 -25 -5 5.37 5.09 .978 5.55 5.52
2 Seasons 3B 2 0 0 3.0 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -80 3.00 1.50 .943 3.30 3.10
8 Seasons TOT 663 633 593 5637.1 3437 1612 1755 70 503 .980 -25 -5 5.37 5.08 .978 5.55 5.51
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
1948 STL NL 23 3B
1951 SLB AL 26 2B
1952 SLB AL 27 2B
1953 SLB AL 28 2B -16 -15 -17 -15 -2 1
1954 BAL AL 29 2B -7 -8 -5 -2 -2 -2
1955 BAL AL 30 2B -1 -3 -1 -0 -1 0
1955 CLE AL 30 2B 1 10 -0 -1 1 1
1955 CLE AL 30 3B -0 -80 -0 0 -0 0
1958 PHI NL 33 2B -2 -17 -2 -1 -0 0
6 Seasons 2B -25 -5 -25 -20 -5 0
2 Seasons 3B -0 -80 -0 0 -0 0
8 Seasons TOT -25 -5 -25 -20 -5 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1948 STL NL 23 3 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
1951 SLB AL 26 147 147 147 147 0 0 0 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 SLB AL 27 149 146 149 149 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1953 SLB AL 28 148 146 148 148 0 0 0 148 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 BAL AL 29 130 118 130 127 0 0 0 127 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1955 BAL AL 30 59 54 59 58 0 0 0 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
1955 CLE AL 30 18 10 18 13 0 0 0 11 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
1956 CLE AL 31 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1958 PHI NL 33 32 12 32 21 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 3
8 Seasons 687 633 687 664 0 0 0 661 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 9
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
1951 SLB AL 26 4193 57% 80% 23% 362 92% 2 261 86 129 46 310 256 39 1 5 14 0 14 0 11 85 24 20 14 8 74 22 48 10 6 4
1952 SLB AL 27 4298 63% 82% 25% 338 94% 1 287 93 153 41 297 247 39 1 7 9 1 6 2 6 97 35 28 21 3 91 24 67 2 1 0
1953 SLB AL 28 5234 64% 81% 23% 420 95% 2 356 141 156 60 336 263 55 2 11 16 2 14 0 10 105 37 21 22 5 93 30 61 12 6 6
1954 BAL AL 29 4596 62% 80% 25% 377 94% 1 297 113 130 55 303 259 33 1 4 15 2 7 6 7 76 35 11 13 3 69 19 49 5 5 0
1955 BAL AL 30 2047 65% 82% 25% 173 95% 0 127 39 61 27 147 121 25 0 0 4 0 4 0 4 42 14 5 13 5 39 18 21 1 1 0
1955 CLE AL 30 369 59% 77% 21% 33 94% 0 28 10 15 3 29 22 6 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 14 5 2 4 1 13 5 7 0 0 0
1958 PHI NL 33 519 58% 77% 24% 42 93% 0 28 10 12 6 34 31 3 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 6 5 0 1 0 6 1 5 0 0 0
6 Seasons 21256 62% 81% 24% 1745 94% 6 1384 492 656 238 1456 1199 200 5 27 61 5 48 8 41 425 155 87 88 25 385 119 258 30 19 10
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 93%

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%
1948 STL NL 23 8 25% 88% 25% 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 CLE AL 30 14 64% 64% 0% 2 50% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 22 50% 73% 9% 2 50% 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 81% 26% 89% 66%

* 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))
1952 AL (29, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1497th)

Assists† s c a p y
1951 AL  462 (3rd)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1951 AL  147 (2nd)
1952 AL  149 (2nd)
1953 AL  148 (2nd)
1954 AL  127 (4th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1951 AL  361 (3rd)
1952 AL  380 (2nd)
1953 AL  397 (2nd)
1954 AL  299 (4th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1951 AL  462 (2nd)
1952 AL  407 (3rd)
1953 AL  363 (5th)
1954 AL  310 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1951 AL  17 (3rd)
1952 AL  13 (4th)
1953 AL  18 (2nd)
1954 AL  15 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1952 AL  5.45 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1952 AL  5.28 (4th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1952 AL  .984 (4th)
1953 AL  .977 (5th)
1954 AL  .976 (4th)

                                         

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