Putouts Records and Details
What is Putouts ?
Putouts are awarded to defensive players who meet one of several criteria when an out is recorded by their team. These criteria include tagging a runner out, catching a batted or thrown ball and tagging a base for an out, catching a fly ball, catching a third strike, or being the closest player to a runner called out for interference. Generally, for Putouts, higher is better. (Source)
What is a good Putouts?
What does good Putouts mean? "Good" baseball stats can be very subjective and mean different things to different people.
I have attempted to quantify good and bad by taking season and career stats for MLB players with a minimum number
of played outs. In this case 100 for career and 50 for a season. To find good and bad within this cohort of players I calculated the first and third quartiles,
anything between these quartiles I consider average. This makes up the middle 50% of players. In an example
where higher is better for a stat, below the first quartile (bottom 25% of players) would be bad and above the 3rd
quartile (top 25% of players) would be good. For stats where lower is better, flip around good and bad.
Career, Season, and Season Average Putouts Records
For my hot take on Putouts records most of the same rules apply from the first section. To be considered for my
prestigious lists the player must meet a certain threshold of played outs. Since this is a Fielding stat to be considered
for the career list the player must have over 100 played outs, for a season consideration the player must have
had 75 played outs. Additionally, the player's final game must have been after 1899.