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Joe Astroth

Joseph Henry Astroth

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 187 lb.

Born: September 1, 1922 in East Alton, IL
High School: Alton HS (Alton, IL)
School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)
Signed by the Philadelphia Athletics as an amateur free agent in 1945. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 13, 1945
Team: Athletics 1945-1956

Final Game: May 13, 1956
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1945 PHA AL 22 C 8 3 2 28 20 4 4 0 .857 3.00 .986 4.92 0 4 0 0% 45%
1946 PHA AL 23 C 4 2 2 9 7 1 1 0 .889 2.00 .982 5.52 0 0 0
1949 PHA AL 26 C 44 41 36 191 163 24 4 4 .979 4.25 .985 4.76 2 7 8 13 62% 45% 2
1950 PHA AL 27 C 38 31 28 282.1 134 123 9 2 3 .985 4.21 3.47 .985 4.94 4.85 4 4 8 3 27% 49% 0
1951 PHA AL 28 C 57 50 50 447.2 248 228 18 2 2 .992 4.95 4.32 .982 5.03 5.01 7 12 19 10 34% 46% 0
1952 PHA AL 29 C 102 92 90 843.2 476 436 36 4 9 .992 5.04 4.63 .985 5.44 5.44 7 13 19 22 54% 46% 0
1953 PHA AL 30 C 79 75 71 662.0 393 341 47 5 13 .987 5 9 5.27 4.91 .985 5.18 5.15 7 23 12 31 72% 51% 5
1954 PHA AL 31 C 71 64 60 583.0 343 300 39 4 5 .988 -4 -8 5.23 4.77 .986 5.40 5.36 4 19 24 16 40% 48% 5
1955 KCA AL 32 C 100 92 73 818.0 475 420 50 5 9 .989 2 3 5.17 4.70 .988 5.58 5.54 11 16 21 21 50% 47% 8
1956 KCA AL 33 C 8 5 2 42.0 24 19 5 0 1 1.000 0 0 5.14 3.00 .988 5.91 5.86 0 2 2 2 50% 44% 0
10 Seasons C 511 455 414 3678.2 2321 2057 233 31 46 .987 3 1 5.07 4.48 .985 5.34 5.25 42 96 117 118 50% 47% 20
10 Seasons TOT 511 455 414 3678.2 2321 2057 233 31 46 .987 3 1 5.07 4.48 .985 5.34 5.25 42 96 117 118 50% 47% 20
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1945 PHA AL 22 C
1946 PHA AL 23 C
1949 PHA AL 26 C
1950 PHA AL 27 C
1951 PHA AL 28 C
1952 PHA AL 29 C
1953 PHA AL 30 C 5 9 5
1954 PHA AL 31 C -4 -8 -4
1955 KCA AL 32 C 2 3 2
1956 KCA AL 33 C 0 0 0
10 Seasons C 3 1 3
10 Seasons TOT 3 1 3

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1945 PHA AL 22 10 3 10 8 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1946 PHA AL 23 4 2 4 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1949 PHA AL 26 55 41 55 44 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 1
1950 PHA AL 27 39 31 39 38 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1951 PHA AL 28 64 50 64 57 0 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
1952 PHA AL 29 104 92 104 102 0 102 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1953 PHA AL 30 82 75 82 79 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1954 PHA AL 31 77 64 77 71 0 71 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1955 KCA AL 32 101 92 101 100 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1956 KCA AL 33 8 5 8 8 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
10 Seasons 544 455 544 511 0 511 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35 4
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age 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%
1949 PHA AL 26 953 5.64 6.24 30 90% 2 2 95 15 0 12 68 16 3 1 0 1 4 0 3 1 0 3 0 0 1 6 50%
1950 PHA AL 27 978 5.83 6.43 22 86% 0 1 98 16 2 6 74 7 3 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 3 0 2 2 2 0%
1951 PHA AL 28 1607 4.49 4.96 39 92% 0 0 182 28 2 7 145 15 3 0 1 3 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 3 33%
1952 PHA AL 29 3185 4.33 4.77 63 100% 0 0 382 55 3 12 312 30 6 0 0 1 4 1 2 1 0 7 0 0 0 1 100%
1953 PHA AL 30 2837 4.86 5.36 70 100% 0 0 328 60 1 11 256 47 7 0 0 4 4 0 2 2 0 13 0 1 3 2 100%
1954 PHA AL 31 2615 5.20 5.73 56 93% 0 1 295 39 2 9 245 40 8 3 0 4 4 0 3 1 0 5 0 1 1 8 88%
1955 KCA AL 32 3652 5.43 5.94 84 98% 0 0 423 64 1 21 337 50 6 3 1 6 5 0 1 4 0 8 1 0 1 4 75%
1956 KCA AL 33 201 6.64 6.86 7 100% 0 0 19 5 0 1 13 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
8 Seasons 16028 5.02 5.52 371 96% 2 4 1822 282 11 79 1450 209 37 7 3 20 25 1 13 11 0 42 1 5 9 27 67%
MLB Averages 4.08 4.60 95% 85%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1949 PHA AL 26 0 7 399 5 7 7 58% 4 6 1 1 0 0 2 0 21 12 0.75 1.23
1950 PHA AL 27 1 4 422 8 2 1 20% 8 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 22 4 1.21 3.51
1951 PHA AL 28 7 12 650 19 8 8 30% 18 7 1 1 0 0 0 0 52 11 1.24 1.24
1952 PHA AL 29 7 13 1185 18 20 19 53% 16 17 2 1 0 2 0 0 57 24 1.28 1.23
1953 PHA AL 30 7 23 1170 12 31 30 72% 10 29 2 2 0 0 5 0 64 37 0.89 1.11
1954 PHA AL 31 4 19 1085 23 16 16 41% 21 12 2 3 0 1 5 0 66 22 0.99 0.90
1955 KCA AL 32 11 16 1466 21 21 19 50% 18 17 2 2 1 2 8 0 65 40 0.91 1.08
1956 KCA AL 33 0 2 91 2 2 2 50% 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 4 0.04 0.88
8 Seasons 37 96 6468 108 107 102 50% 97 91 10 10 1 6 20 0 354 154 1.04 1.15
MLB Averages 45% 1.19 1.16

* 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Assists as C s c a p y
1953 AL  47 (4th)
1955 AL  50 (5th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1951 AL  7 (2nd)
1952 AL  7 (4th)
1953 AL  7 (5th)
1955 AL  11 (2nd)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1953 AL  31 (2nd)
1955 AL  21 (5th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1952 AL  53.7 (2nd)
1953 AL  72.1 (1st)
1955 AL  50.0 (3rd)
Career  50.2 (11th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1953 AL  5 (1st)
1955 AL  2 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1953 AL  5.27 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1953 AL  4.91 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1952 AL  .992 (3rd)
1953 AL  .987 (4th)
1955 AL  .989 (4th)

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