FieldingOFsplit table — FieldingOFsplit • Lahman

Outfield position data: information about positions played in the outfield

Usage

data(FieldingOFsplit)

Format

A data frame with 36677 observations on the following 18 variables.

playerID: Player ID code
yearID: Year
stint: player's stint (order of appearances within a season)
teamID: Team; a factor
lgID: League; a factor with levels AA AL FL NL PL UA
POS: Position
G: Games
GS: Games Started
InnOuts: Time played in the field expressed as outs
PO: Putouts
A: Assists
E: Errors
DP: Double Plays
PB: Passed Balls (by catchers)
WP: Wild Pitches (by catchers)
SB: Opponent Stolen Bases (by catchers)
CS: Opponents Caught Stealing (by catchers)
ZR: Zone Rating

Source

Lahman, S. (2025) Lahman's Baseball Database, 1871-2024, 2025 version, https://sabr.org/lahman-database/

Examples

require("dplyr")
require("tidyr")

## Data set starts in 1954
## Can get a more complete record from the Fielding data frame
## or from the Appearances data (see below)

## Output directly from the FieldingOFsplit data

## Joe DiMaggio (no records: pre-1954 player)
FieldingOFsplit %>% 
   filter(playerID == "dimagjo01") 
#>  [1] playerID yearID   stint    teamID   lgID     POS      G        GS      
#>  [9] InnOuts  PO       A        E        DP       PB       WP       SB      
#> [17] CS       ZR      
#> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

## Willie Mays (all but his first few years)
FieldingOF %>% 
  filter(playerID == "mayswi01") 
#>   playerID yearID stint Glf Gcf Grf
#> 1 mayswi01   1951     1   0 121   0
#> 2 mayswi01   1952     1   0  34   0
#> 3 mayswi01   1954     1   0 151   0
#> 4 mayswi01   1955     1   0 152   0

## Mike Trout (complete)
FieldingOF %>% 
  filter(playerID == "troutmi01")
#> [1] playerID yearID   stint    Glf      Gcf      Grf     
#> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)