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1959 National League Catcher

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Team & League Standard Fielding--C

Tm #Fld R/G G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr Rctch PB WP SB CS CS%
CHC 3 4.44 155 155 132 1391.0 903 828 57 18 3 .980 -14 -12 -14 12 34 108 28 21%
CIN 2 4.79 154 154 140 1357.0 871 779 84 8 9 .991 11 10 11 6 28 40 35 47%
LAD 3 4.29 156 156 145 1411.2 1254 1174 71 9 18 .993 2 2 2 19 39 24 31 56%
MLN 3 3.97 157 157 149 1400.2 947 868 72 7 17 .993 10 9 10 5 26 36 32 47%
PHI 4 4.68 155 155 110 1354.0 952 871 63 18 9 .981 -4 -4 -4 14 38 73 38 34%
PIT 4 4.39 155 155 114 1393.1 873 796 66 11 10 .987 -2 -2 -2 10 41 57 32 36%
SFG 4 3.98 154 154 108 1376.1 1049 960 82 7 7 .993 4 3 4 7 30 50 35 41%
STL 6 4.71 154 154 112 1363.0 1024 939 73 12 14 .988 -1 -1 -1 15 47 52 38 42%
LgAvg 4 4.40 155 155 126 1381 984 902 71 11 11 .989 1 0 1 11 35 55 34 38%
28 4.40 1240 1240 1010 11047.0 7873 7215 568 90 87 .989 6 1 6 88 283 440 269 38%

Team & League Advanced Fielding -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Tm PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
CHC 5884 4.02 4.47 72 90% 0 0 824 50 2 22 750 57 11 0 0 11 18 1 7 10 1 3 0 0 1 6 100%
CIN 5883 4.31 4.90 104 97% 1 0 787 79 3 23 682 74 16 1 0 7 8 1 4 3 0 9 0 1 2 9 89%
LAD 6085 3.79 4.27 101 98% 0 0 1175 69 6 32 1068 71 20 0 0 9 9 3 0 6 2 19 0 3 5 16 88%
MLN 5828 3.54 4.05 95 94% 1 1 841 54 3 25 759 73 23 2 1 1 7 0 5 2 3 15 0 0 1 14 86%
PHI 5814 4.27 4.82 95 95% 0 1 870 80 1 27 761 63 7 1 0 9 18 2 2 14 0 9 0 0 1 8 50%
PIT 5751 3.95 4.46 75 91% 0 0 772 49 3 16 703 63 16 2 0 4 11 1 6 4 2 10 0 0 0 6 83%
SFG 5853 3.46 4.01 106 98% 1 0 964 73 5 21 864 80 23 5 0 10 7 0 1 6 0 9 0 4 4 16 88%
STL 5966 4.31 4.79 92 96% 2 0 939 75 5 21 838 72 10 2 0 9 13 0 6 7 1 15 0 1 1 8 100%
LgAvg 5883 3.96 4.47 93 95% 1 0 897 66 4 23 803 69 16 2 0 8 11 1 4 7 1 11 0 1 2 10 86%
47064 3.96 4.47 740 95% 5 2 7172 529 28 187 6425 553 126 13 1 60 91 8 31 52 9 89 0 9 15 83 86%

* 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.

Team & League Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Tm PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
CHC 12 34 2187 108 28 25 21% 96 25 10 1 2 2 5 1 197 42 1.20 0.93
CIN 7 28 2275 40 35 35 47% 35 32 3 2 2 1 10 0 98 56 1.01 1.16
LAD 19 39 2294 24 31 29 56% 20 27 4 3 0 1 2 0 124 41 1.37 1.25
MLN 5 26 2230 35 32 32 48% 32 29 3 2 0 1 6 0 84 48 1.01 1.16
PHI 14 38 2178 73 38 36 34% 63 33 8 3 2 2 4 1 175 53 1.17 1.05
PIT 10 41 2156 57 32 32 36% 49 32 7 0 1 0 1 0 142 40 1.11 1.07
SFG 7 30 2238 50 35 31 41% 44 29 6 5 0 1 4 0 117 51 0.98 1.23
STL 15 47 2375 52 38 35 42% 46 32 5 3 1 3 7 0 159 55 0.98 1.17
LgAvg 11 35 2242 55 34 32 38% 48 30 6 2 1 1 5 0 137 48 1.11 1.13
89 283 17933 439 269 255 38% 385 239 46 19 8 11 39 2 1096 386 1.11 1.13

* 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.

Player Standard Fielding--C

Rk Age Tm G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr Rctch RF/9 RF/G PB WP SB CS CS%
1 Earl Averill 27 CHC 32 25 22 236.2 191 173 11 7 1 .963 -4 -20 -4 7.00 5.75 3 6 18 5 22%
2 Ed Bailey 28 CIN 117 110 103 961.2 619 549 64 6 6 .990 12 15 12 5.74 5.24 3 17 20 27 57%
3 Smoky Burgess 32 PIT 101 95 66 798.0 488 441 39 8 4 .984 0 0 0 5.41 4.75 3 23 30 21 41%
4 Del Crandall 29 MLN 146 142 139 1271.2 859 783 71 5 15 .994 12 11 12 6.04 5.85 2 23 29 32 52%
5 Dutch Dotterer 27 CIN 51 44 37 395.1 252 230 20 2 3 .992 -1 -3 -1 5.69 4.90 3 11 20 8 29%
6 Hank Foiles 30 PIT 51 24 19 234.2 161 153 8 0 3 1.000 0 0 0 6.17 3.16 3 8 4 3 43%
7 Gene Green 26 STL 11 4 2 37.1 37 34 3 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 8.92 3.36 0 1 1 0 0%
8 Jim Hegan 38 TOT 46 27 16 254.0 176 156 17 3 3 .983 2 9 2 6.13 3.76 2 1 12 9 43%
9 Jim Hegan 38 PHI 25 18 11 155.1 96 84 11 1 2 .990 2 15 2 5.50 3.80 1 1 8 7 47%
10 Jim Hegan 38 SFG 21 9 5 98.2 80 72 6 2 1 .975 0 0 0 7.11 3.71 1 0 4 2 33%
11 Ray Katt 32 STL 14 5 3 55.0 41 38 2 1 0 .976 1 22 1 6.55 2.86 0 0 0 1 100%
12 Danny Kravitz 28 PIT 45 36 29 355.2 220 198 19 3 3 .986 -2 -7 -2 5.49 4.82 4 10 23 8 26%
13 Hobie Landrith 29 SFG 109 88 66 782.0 626 576 45 5 5 .992 6 9 6 7.15 5.70 4 16 23 24 51%
14 Joe Lonnett 32 PHI 43 33 24 291.0 178 171 4 3 0 .983 -3 -12 -3 5.41 4.07 4 10 14 4 22%
15 Stan Lopata 33 MLN 11 7 6 65.1 43 43 0 0 1 1.000 -1 -18 -1 5.92 3.91 1 1 6 0 0%
16 Roger McCardell 26 SFG 3 1 0 9.2 6 5 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 5.59 2.00 0 0 1 1 50%
17 Tim McCarver 17 STL 6 6 5 51.0 35 32 2 1 0 .971 -2 -47 -2 6.00 5.67 3 3 2 0 0%
18 Cal Neeman 30 CHC 38 34 21 264.2 168 158 9 1 1 .994 -3 -14 -3 5.68 4.39 3 6 20 2 9%
19 Gene Oliver 24 STL 9 2 1 32.0 27 24 2 1 0 .963 -1 -38 -1 7.31 2.89 2 2 0 1 100%
20 Hardy Peterson 29 PIT 2 0 0 5.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 7.20 2.00 0 0 0 0
21 Joe Pignatano 29 LAD 49 41 38 380.0 340 322 17 1 8 .997 0 0 0 8.03 6.92 5 10 7 6 46%
22 Jay Porter 26 STL 19 9 2 82.0 57 53 4 0 1 1.000 -2 -29 -2 6.26 3.00 5 7 5 4 44%
23 Del Rice 36 MLN 9 8 4 63.2 45 42 1 2 1 .956 -1 -19 -1 6.08 4.78 2 2 1 0 0%
24 John Roseboro 26 LAD 117 114 106 1021.2 910 848 54 8 10 .991 2 2 2 7.95 7.71 14 29 17 25 60%
25 Carl Sawatski 31 PHI 69 61 41 498.2 336 306 23 7 4 .979 -5 -12 -5 5.94 4.77 4 17 31 10 24%
Rk Age Tm G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr Rctch RF/9 RF/G PB WP SB CS CS%
26 Bob Schmidt 26 SFG 70 56 37 486.0 337 307 30 0 1 1.000 -2 -5 -2 6.24 4.81 2 14 22 8 27%
27 Norm Sherry 27 LAD 2 1 1 10.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 3.60 2.00 0 0 0 0
28 Hal Smith 28 STL 141 128 99 1105.2 827 758 60 9 13 .989 3 3 3 6.66 5.80 5 34 44 32 42%
29 Sammy Taylor 26 CHC 109 96 89 889.2 544 497 37 10 1 .982 -7 -9 -7 5.40 4.90 6 22 70 21 23%
30 Valmy Thomas 33 PHI 65 43 34 409.0 342 310 25 7 3 .980 2 6 2 7.37 5.15 5 10 20 17 46%
LgAvg 20 17 14 150 107 98 8 1 1 .989 0 0 0 6.35 5.29 1 4 6 4 38%

Player Advanced Fielding -- c

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Rk Age Tm PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1 Earl Averill 27 CHC 1033 4.41 5.06 16 81% 0 0 174 11 1 7 155 11 1 0 0 2 7 1 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0
2 Ed Bailey 28 CIN 4164 4.31 4.87 74 100% 1 0 555 57 3 14 481 57 12 1 0 6 6 1 2 3 0 6 0 1 2 5 100%
3 Smoky Burgess 32 PIT 3186 3.54 3.95 39 90% 0 0 419 28 2 5 384 37 7 0 0 2 8 1 4 3 1 4 0 0 0 5 80%
4 Del Crandall 29 MLN 5289 3.42 3.91 91 93% 0 1 766 51 2 22 691 71 23 2 1 0 5 0 4 1 3 14 0 0 1 14 86%
5 Dutch Dotterer 27 CIN 1719 4.33 4.96 30 90% 0 0 232 22 0 9 201 17 4 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 4 75%
6 Hank Foiles 30 PIT 1030 5.38 5.97 13 100% 0 0 152 9 1 6 135 7 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
7 Gene Green 26 STL 161 5.06 5.06 1 100% 0 0 34 0 0 0 34 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Jim Hegan 38 SFG 402 3.10 3.47 13 100% 1 0 72 9 0 2 61 5 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
9 Jim Hegan 38 PHI 677 4.75 5.16 10 100% 0 0 84 9 0 3 72 11 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 100%
10 Ray Katt 32 STL 243 3.76 3.93 5 80% 0 0 38 4 0 0 34 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Danny Kravitz 28 PIT 1511 3.91 4.60 23 87% 0 0 197 12 0 5 180 19 7 1 0 1 3 0 2 1 1 3 0 0 0 1 100%
12 Hobie Landrith 29 SFG 3317 3.26 3.88 57 98% 0 0 577 44 3 14 516 46 11 1 0 7 5 0 0 5 0 6 0 3 3 8 88%
13 Joe Lonnett 32 PHI 1223 3.43 3.87 13 92% 0 0 169 12 1 3 152 4 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0%
14 Stan Lopata 33 MLN 256 4.45 4.91 2 100% 0 0 34 1 1 1 31 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Roger McCardell 26 SFG 44 5.59 5.59 2 50% 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 50%
16 Tim McCarver 17 STL 218 3.18 4.59 2 50% 0 0 31 1 0 0 30 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
17 Cal Neeman 30 CHC 1153 4.93 5.41 21 100% 0 0 157 18 0 3 136 9 2 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 100%
18 Gene Oliver 24 STL 152 4.22 5.34 1 100% 0 0 23 1 1 0 21 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Hardy Peterson 29 PIT 24 3.60 3.60 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 Joe Pignatano 29 LAD 1657 4.33 4.67 21 100% 0 0 322 10 3 12 297 17 7 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 8 0 2 3 2 100%
21 Jay Porter 26 STL 378 5.71 6.59 5 100% 0 0 53 5 0 1 47 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
22 Del Rice 36 MLN 283 5.09 6.08 2 100% 1 0 41 2 0 2 37 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
23 John Roseboro 26 LAD 4386 3.60 4.14 80 98% 0 0 849 59 3 20 767 54 13 0 0 8 8 3 0 5 2 11 0 1 2 14 86%
24 Carl Sawatski 31 PHI 2134 4.13 4.89 38 97% 0 1 306 32 0 10 264 23 2 1 0 6 7 1 2 4 0 4 0 0 1 2 100%
25 Bob Schmidt 26 SFG 2090 3.82 4.30 34 100% 0 0 310 20 2 5 282 28 8 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 5 100%
Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Rk Age Tm PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
26 Norm Sherry 27 LAD 42 2.70 2.70 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
27 Hal Smith 28 STL 4814 4.27 4.68 78 97% 2 0 760 64 4 20 672 59 10 1 0 3 10 0 4 6 0 14 0 1 1 8 100%
28 Sammy Taylor 26 CHC 3698 3.64 4.02 35 89% 0 0 493 21 1 12 459 37 8 0 0 6 10 0 4 6 1 1 0 0 0 3 100%
29 Valmy Thomas 33 PHI 1780 4.86 5.28 34 91% 0 0 311 27 0 11 273 25 4 0 0 1 7 0 0 7 0 3 0 0 0 4 25%
LgAvg 654 3.96 4.47 10 95% 0 0 100 7 0 3 89 8 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 86%

Player Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning

Rk Age Tm PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1 Earl Averill 27 CHC 3 6 384 18 5 4 22% 17 4 1 0 0 1 1 0 37 8 1.56 0.80
2 Ed Bailey 28 CIN 4 17 1602 20 27 27 57% 17 26 2 1 1 0 7 0 54 41 1.36 1.17
3 Smoky Burgess 32 PIT 4 23 1175 30 21 21 41% 26 21 4 0 0 0 1 0 76 27 1.12 1.21
4 Del Crandall 29 MLN 2 23 2023 28 32 32 53% 25 29 3 2 0 1 5 0 65 46 1.01 1.16
5 Dutch Dotterer 27 CIN 3 11 673 20 8 8 29% 18 6 1 1 1 1 3 0 44 15 0.67 1.11
6 Hank Foiles 30 PIT 3 8 407 4 3 3 43% 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 4 0.62 0.63
7 Gene Green 26 STL 0 1 53 1 0 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1.45
8 Jim Hegan 38 SFG 1 0 148 4 2 2 33% 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0.94 1.57
9 Jim Hegan 38 PHI 1 1 259 8 7 6 47% 7 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 12 7 1.02 1.23
10 Ray Katt 32 STL 0 0 86 0 1 1 100% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0.68
11 Danny Kravitz 28 PIT 3 10 564 23 8 8 26% 19 8 3 0 1 0 0 0 48 9 1.20 0.87
12 Hobie Landrith 29 SFG 4 16 1267 23 24 22 51% 20 21 3 2 0 1 3 0 63 33 0.81 1.29
13 Joe Lonnett 32 PHI 4 10 438 14 4 4 22% 13 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 37 7 1.62 1.83
14 Stan Lopata 33 MLN 1 1 102 6 0 0 0% 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0.95
15 Roger McCardell 26 SFG 0 0 26 1 1 0 50% 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.90 2.07
16 Tim McCarver 17 STL 3 3 86 2 0 0 0% 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0.14
17 Cal Neeman 30 CHC 3 6 434 20 2 2 9% 18 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 37 9 1.01 1.19
18 Gene Oliver 24 STL 2 2 68 0 1 1 100% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0.09
19 Hardy Peterson 29 PIT 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 Joe Pignatano 29 LAD 5 10 640 7 6 6 46% 5 5 2 1 0 0 0 0 30 10 1.34 1.02
21 Jay Porter 26 STL 5 7 165 5 4 3 44% 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 5 0.69 1.59
22 Del Rice 36 MLN 2 2 105 1 0 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11 2 1.41
23 John Roseboro 26 LAD 14 29 1635 17 25 23 60% 15 22 2 2 0 1 2 0 94 31 1.39 1.31
24 Carl Sawatski 31 PHI 4 17 797 31 10 9 24% 27 8 2 1 2 1 1 0 70 16 1.12 1.06
25 Bob Schmidt 26 SFG 2 14 797 22 8 7 27% 19 6 3 2 0 0 1 0 47 15 1.17 0.86
Rk Age Tm PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
26 Norm Sherry 27 LAD 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
27 Hal Smith 28 STL 5 34 1917 44 32 30 42% 38 26 5 3 1 3 7 0 113 47 1.04 1.16
28 Sammy Taylor 26 CHC 6 22 1369 70 21 19 23% 61 19 7 1 2 1 2 1 123 25 1.16 0.94
29 Valmy Thomas 33 PHI 5 10 684 20 17 17 46% 16 16 4 1 0 0 2 0 56 23 0.99 0.78
LgAvg 1 4 249 6 4 4 38% 5 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 15 5 1.11 1.13


1958 NL  / 1960 NL  / 1959 AL  / 1959 MLB  Catcher