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Best Fielding Team
Phillies

LF - Ethan Allen
CF - Richie Ashburn
RF - Jim Fogarty
3B - Placido Polanco
SS - Dick Bartell
2B - Manny Trillo
1B - Pete Rose
C - Bill Killefer
P - Bucky Waters

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All-Time Best Player Fielding - Career


First Base

Rank

Name

First

FV

Lyear

G

FPCT

RF

1

Rose

Pete

1.2591

1983

702

0.995

9.25


2

Brogna

Rico

1.2467

2000

487

0.995

8.58


3

Lee

Travis

1.2350

2002

351

0.996

8.88


4

White

Bill

1.2224

1968

364

0.994

9.39


5

Waitkus

Eddie

1.1961

1955

588

0.992

9.26


6

Thome

Jim

1.1887

2012

346

0.996

8.97


7

Farrar

Sid

1.1827

1889

816

0.974

10.55



Second Base

Rank

Name

First

FV

Lyear

G

FPCT

RF

1

Trillo

Manny

1.4572

1982

501

0.988

5.55


2

Cash

Dave

1.4567

1976

482

0.982

5.45


3

Lajoie

Nap

1.4221

1900

315

0.952

6.13


4

Sizemore

Ted

1.3785

1978

259

0.983

5.05


5

Herr

Tom

1.3235

1990

258

0.990

4.75


6

Verban

Emil

1.3089

1948

347

0.973

5.38


7

Samuel

Juan

1.3012

1988

792

0.972

5.10



Shortstop

Rank

Name

First

FV

Lyear

G

FPCT

RF

1

Bartell

Dick

1.7227

1934

585

0.954

5.71


2

Allen

Bob

1.6965

1894

567

0.915

5.92


3

Bowa

Larry

1.6646

1981

1730

0.981

4.61


4

Galvis

Freddy

1.6471

2017

498

0.984

4.06


5

Bancroft

Dave

1.6198

1920

670

0.937

5.99


6

Doolan

Mickey

1.6100

1913

1297

0.938

5.44


7

Irwin

Arthur

1.6029

1894

341

0.893

4.65



Third Base

Rank

Name

First

FV

Lyear

G

FPCT

RF

1

Polanco

Placido

1.6230

2012

416

0.983

2.81


2

Rolen

Scott

1.6191

2002

842

0.965

2.80


3

Jones

Willie

1.6076

1959

1495

0.963

3.12


4

Feliz

Pedro

1.5978

2009

284

0.969

2.53


5

May

Pinky

1.5815

1943

646

0.962

3.29


6

Schmidt

Mike

1.5777

1989

2212

0.955

3.00


7

Money

Don

1.5609

1972

338

0.967

2.97





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Catcher

Rank

Name

First

FV

Lyear

G

FPCT

RF

CS%

1

Killefer

Bill

1.9858

1917

614

0.980

6.33

0.477

2

Diaz

Bo

1.9228

1985

325

0.987

6.74

0.325

3

McFarland

Ed

1.8977

1901

419

0.964

4.69

0.446

4

Dalrymple

Clay

1.8921

1968

944

0.987

6.15

0.481

5

Boone

Bob

1.8906

1981

1095

0.986

5.71

0.349

6

Ruiz

Carlos

1.8565

2016

1029

0.994

7.65

0.273

7

Lieberthal

Mike

1.8470

2006

1139

0.992

7.17

0.297

Outfield

Rank

Name

First

FV

Lyear

G

FPCT

RF

ApG

1

Ashburn

Richie

1.6389

1959

1785

0.984

3.14

0.086

2

Allen

Ethan

1.6314

1936

331

0.977

2.65

0.139

3

Fogarty

Jim

1.6298

1889

594

0.936

2.53

0.259

4

Thomas

Roy

1.6072

1911

1257

0.971

2.42

0.137

5

Callison

Johnny

1.5892

1969

1379

0.985

2.06

0.111

6

Victorino

Shane

1.5785

2012

929

0.996

2.22

0.058

7

Glanville

Doug

1.5684

2004

792

0.991

2.43

0.067

8

Delahanty

Ed

1.5629

1901

1175

0.949

2.41

0.188

9

Paskert

Dode

1.5579

1917

918

0.974

2.45

0.131

10

Cooley

Duff

1.5397

1899

358

0.943

2.45

0.103

11

Rowand

Aaron

1.5272

2007

268

0.990

2.46

0.063

12

Litwhiler

Danny

1.5253

1943

369

0.981

2.40

0.081

13

Maddox

Garry

1.5212

1986

1282

0.985

2.73

0.060

14

Williams

Cy

1.5203

1930

1324

0.974

2.45

0.131

15

Dykstra

Lenny

1.5154

1996

727

0.985

2.84

0.050

16

Arnovich

Morrie

1.5136

1940

422

0.979

2.53

0.100

17

Montanez

Willie

1.5092

1974

350

0.979

2.26

0.094

18

Hamilton

Billy

1.5057

1895

729

0.922

2.49

0.137

19

Manning

Jack

1.5005

1885

309

0.864

1.66

0.272

20

Leach

Freddy

1.4988

1928

481

0.975

2.65

0.114

21

Unser

Del

1.4973

1982

338

0.986

2.27

0.080

Pitcher

Rank

Name

First

FV

Lyear

IP

FPCT

RF

1

Walters

Bucky

1.1266

1938

745

0.981

3.20


2

Buffinton

Charlie

1.1076

1889

1113

0.930

2.90


3

Alexander

Pete

1.1072

1930

2514

0.982

2.86


4

Coleman

John

1.0811

1884

693

0.901

2.48


5

Ferguson

Charlie

1.0781

1887

1515

0.919

2.43


6

Jackson

Larry

1.0761

1968

752

0.953

2.68


7

Davis

Curt

1.0745

1936

566

0.944

3.23



    Franchise When and Where

    Philadelphia Phillies (1890 to Present)
    Unofficially known as Blue Jays 1943-4
    Philadelphia Quakers (1883-1889)



Fielding Ratings in the Stat Geek Baseball PEVA system are meant to give a grade that relates to value for payroll purposes. A player with a low amount of innings played at a position may be rated lower for that purpose, but be a better defensive player. They would be rated higher in the PEVA/FV system with higher innings played, but their FV is lower due to lack of use.

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What is Field Value?


Field Value (FV) is the fielding rating for Stat Geek Baseball's New Player Rating value. This rating is given to each player at each position they play during the season with over 1 inning played per max games for the season (162 for modern baseball) at that position, as well as a total fielding rating given to a player for each season for players who played more than one position. A minimum grade is given per position to any player with under max games.

Each position has different maximum, average, and minimum rating values per the difficulty and value of that position, which folds into the overall value of PEVA for that season.

FV Scale Maximums

Catcher - 2.10
Shortstop - 1.75
Outfield - 1.70
Third Base - 1.70
Second Base - 1.50
First Base - 1.40
Pitcher - 1.15

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