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Toby Atwell

Maurice Dailey Atwell

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: March 8, 1924 in Leesburg, VA
High School: Leesburg HS (Leesburg, VA)
School: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA)
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1946. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 15, 1952
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Cubs/Braves 1952-1956

Final Game: September 28, 1956
Died: January 25, 2003 in Purcellville, VA
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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
1952 CHC NL 28 C 101 96 88 851.2 513 451 50 12 2 .977 5.29 4.96 .984 5.52 5.47 11 22 48 20 29% 44% 0 AS,MVP-38
1953 TOT NL 29 C 69 57 53 521.1 347 295 37 15 2 .957 -5 -12 5.73 4.81 .984 5.53 5.42 7 15 24 12 33% 40% 1
1953 CHC NL 29 C 24 22 21 192.1 133 108 17 8 0 .940 -1 -6 5.85 5.21 .984 5.53 5.42 1 3 8 4 33% 40% 0
1953 PIT NL 29 C 45 35 32 329.0 214 187 20 7 2 .967 -4 -15 5.66 4.60 .984 5.53 5.42 6 12 16 8 33% 40% 1
1954 PIT NL 30 C 88 83 77 719.1 403 360 39 4 4 .990 -2 -3 4.99 4.53 .986 5.36 5.33 5 6 43 20 32% 44% 0
1955 PIT NL 31 C 67 58 50 524.0 361 334 24 3 3 .992 -2 -5 6.15 5.34 .987 5.65 5.60 5 11 30 11 27% 46% 1
1956 TOT NL 32 C 19 15 10 110.1 65 59 6 0 1 1.000 0 0 5.30 3.42 .985 5.83 5.77 2 3 6 4 40% 40% 1
1956 PIT NL 32 C 9 6 3 41.1 29 27 2 0 0 1.000 -1 -29 6.31 3.22 .985 5.84 5.77 1 2 4 0 0% 40% 0
1956 MLN NL 32 C 10 9 7 69.0 36 32 4 0 1 1.000 1 17 4.70 3.60 .985 5.83 5.77 1 1 2 4 67% 40% 1
5 Seasons C 344 309 278 2726.2 1689 1499 156 34 12 .980 -9 -4 5.46 4.81 .985 5.52 5.47 30 57 151 67 31% 43% 3
5 Seasons TOT 344 309 278 2726.2 1689 1499 156 34 12 .980 -9 -4 5.46 4.81 .985 5.52 5.47 30 57 151 67 31% 43% 3
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
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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
1952 CHC NL 28 C
1953 CHC NL 29 C -1 -6 -1
1953 PIT NL 29 C -4 -15 -4
1954 PIT NL 30 C -2 -3 -2
1955 PIT NL 31 C -2 -5 -2
1956 PIT NL 32 C -1 -29 -1
1956 MLN NL 32 C 1 17 1
5 Seasons C -9 -4 -9
5 Seasons TOT -9 -4 -9

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1952 CHC NL 28 108 96 108 102 0 102 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1953 PIT NL 29 53 35 53 44 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1
1953 CHC NL 29 24 22 24 24 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1954 PIT NL 30 96 83 96 88 0 88 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1
1955 PIT NL 31 71 58 71 67 0 67 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1956 MLN NL 32 15 9 15 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1956 PIT NL 32 12 6 12 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
5 Seasons 379 309 379 344 0 344 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48 2
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%
1952 CHC NL 28 2908 3.68 4.37 51 98% 0 0 368 37 1 12 318 37 9 0 0 5 8 1 1 6 1 1 0 0 0 5 80%
1953 PIT NL 29 949 6.62 7.29 23 91% 0 0 127 16 0 10 101 14 4 0 0 1 6 0 2 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 100%
1953 CHC NL 29 662 4.96 6.09 17 94% 0 1 71 9 1 4 57 12 5 0 0 2 5 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 100%
1954 PIT NL 30 2412 5.17 5.83 69 94% 0 0 280 43 2 19 216 30 10 0 0 4 4 0 4 0 1 2 0 0 0 9 100%
1955 PIT NL 31 1531 4.75 5.49 32 97% 0 0 248 23 3 14 207 15 0 1 0 3 3 0 0 3 1 3 0 0 0 2 100%
1956 MLN NL 32 272 4.50 5.34 6 83% 0 0 30 5 0 1 24 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1956 PIT NL 32 193 6.13 6.35 8 100% 0 0 26 7 1 0 18 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 8927 4.73 5.44 206 95% 0 1 1150 140 8 60 941 114 28 1 1 16 26 1 8 17 3 8 0 0 0 20 95%
MLB Averages 3.98 4.50 95% 86%

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
1952 CHC NL 28 10 22 1094 40 18 18 31% 37 17 2 0 1 1 0 0 99 21 1.19 1.36
1953 PIT NL 29 3 12 389 9 5 5 36% 7 5 1 0 1 0 1 0 36 7 0.86 0.74
1953 CHC NL 29 1 3 251 6 4 3 40% 6 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 15 8 1.17 1.05
1954 PIT NL 30 3 6 957 34 16 15 32% 30 16 3 0 1 0 0 0 50 20 1.20 0.81
1955 PIT NL 31 4 11 596 29 9 8 24% 23 6 6 2 0 1 1 0 53 13 1.09 1.09
1956 MLN NL 32 1 1 97 1 4 3 80% 1 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 0.80 1.18
1956 PIT NL 32 1 2 83 4 0 0 0% 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0.75
5 Seasons 23 57 3467 123 56 52 31% 108 51 12 2 3 3 3 0 263 74 1.13 1.07
MLB Averages 45% 1.17 1.14

* 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

All-Star Games
1952

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1952 NL (38, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1497th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1952 NL  451 (4th)
1954 NL  360 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1952 NL  12 (2nd)
1953 NL  15 (1st)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1952 NL  11 (2nd)
1953 NL  7 (4th)
1954 NL  5 (4th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1952 NL  48 (1st)
1953 NL  24 (5th)
1954 NL  43 (1st)
1955 NL  30 (2nd)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1954 NL  20 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1952 NL  4.96 (4th)
1954 NL  4.53 (4th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1954 NL  .990 (2nd)

                                         

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