FieldingOFsplit table

Description

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") 

## Willie Mays (all but his first few years)
FieldingOF %>% 
  filter(playerID == "mayswi01") 

## Mike Trout (complete)
FieldingOF %>% 
  filter(playerID == "troutmi01")