Johnny Bassler

John Landis Bassler

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: June 3, 1895 in Lancaster, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: July 11, 1913
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Naps 1913-1927

Final Game: September 30, 1927
Died: June 29, 1979 in Santa Monica, CA
Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	G	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	Awards
1913	CLE	AL	18	C	1			2	1	0	1	0	.500	1.00	.965	6.60		1	1	0	0%	45%
1914	CLE	AL	19	C	25			149	99	42	8	3	.946	5.64	.967	6.69		4	31	29	48%	45%
1914	CLE	AL	19	3B	1			0	0	0	0	0		0.00		3.30
1914	CLE	AL	19	OF	1			0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.00	0-0-1
1921	DET	AL	26	C	114	111	92	560	433	113	14	7	.975	4.79	.971	4.89		10	58	52	47%	45%
1922	DET	AL	27	C	118	113	92	545	421	113	11	12	.980	4.53	.977	4.81		7	77	48	38%	43%	MVP-6
1923	DET	AL	28	C	128	121	92	587	447	133	7	8	.988	4.53	.975	4.82		9	57	85	60%	45%	MVP-7
1924	DET	AL	29	C	122	116	93	516	402	103	11	11	.979	4.14	.972	4.61		2	72	55	43%	44%	MVP-5
1925	DET	AL	30	C	118	107	80	470	375	87	8	14	.983	3.92	.977	4.60		3	55	39	41%	45%
1926	DET	AL	31	C	63	57	42	284	223	61	0	6	1.000	4.51	.979	4.66		1	27	31	53%	43%
1927	DET	AL	32	C	67	58	46	269	206	56	7	8	.974	3.91	.974	4.63		1	31	19	38%	39%
	9 Seasons			C	756	683	537	3382	2607	708	67	69	.980	4.38	.974	4.79		38	409	358	47%	44%
	1 Season			3B	1			0	0	0	0	0		0.00		3.30
	1 Season			OF	1			0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.00	0-0-1
	9 Seasons			TOT	758	683	537	3382	2607	708	67	69	.980	4.37	.974	4.79	0-0-1	38	409	358	47%	44%

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	3B	RF	OF	PH	PR
1913	CLE	AL	18	1		1		1	0	0	0
1914	CLE	AL	19	43		43		25	1	1	1
1921	DET	AL	26	119	111	119	114	114	0	0	0	5	0
1922	DET	AL	27	121	113	121	117	117	0	0	0	4	0
1923	DET	AL	28	135	121	135	128	128	0	0	0	7	0
1924	DET	AL	29	124	116	124	122	122	0	0	0	4	0
1925	DET	AL	30	121	107	121	118	118	0	0	0	3	0
1926	DET	AL	31	66	57	66	63	63	0	0	0	3	0
1927	DET	AL	32	81	58	81	67	67	0	0	0	14	0
	9 Seasons			811	683	811	729	755	1	1	1	40	0

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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1922 AL (6, 20%) 1923 AL (7, 27%) 1924 AL (5, 34%) 0.81 Career Shares (302nd)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1923 AL 128 (3rd) 1924 AL 122 (4th) 1925 AL 118 (4th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1921 AL 433 (5th) 1923 AL 447 (5th) 1924 AL 402 (5th) 1925 AL 375 (3rd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1921 AL 113 (4th) 1922 AL 113 (5th) 1923 AL 133 (2nd) 1924 AL 103 (3rd) 1925 AL 87 (3rd) Career 708 (94th)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1921 AL 14 (4th) 1922 AL 11 (3rd) 1924 AL 11 (5th) 1925 AL 8 (4th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1921 AL 10 (3rd) 1922 AL 7 (4th) 1923 AL 9 (4th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1921 AL 58 (5th) 1922 AL 77 (1st) 1923 AL 57 (5th) 1924 AL 72 (3rd) 1925 AL 55 (4th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1921 AL 52 (4th) 1922 AL 48 (5th) 1923 AL 85 (1st) 1924 AL 55 (2nd)
Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1914 AL 48.3 (4th) 1921 AL 47.3 (5th) 1923 AL 59.9 (1st) 1926 AL 53.4 (4th) Career 46.7 (60th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1921 AL 4.79 (2nd) 1922 AL 4.53 (4th) 1923 AL 4.53 (4th) 1925 AL 3.92 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1921 AL .975 (5th) 1922 AL .980 (5th) 1923 AL .988 (2nd) 1924 AL .979 (4th) 1925 AL .983 (4th)	Youngest s c a p y 1913 AL born 1895-06-03 (4th) 1914 AL born 1895-06-03 (4th)

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