Dick Bertell

Richard George Bertell

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: November 21, 1935 in Oak Park, IL
High School: Roosevelt HS (Des Moines, IA)
School: Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in 1957. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 22, 1960
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Giants 1960-1967

Final Game: April 12, 1967
Died: December 20, 1999 in Mission Viejo, CA
Buried: El Toro Memorial Park, Lake Forest, CA
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Standard Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
1957	21	CHC-min	A	73	227	227		58	5	1	3						.256	.256	.326	.581		74							DMO · WL
1958	22	CHC-min	A,AA	107	399	395	3	108	16	3	8	2	0	0	3	10	.273	.278	.390	.668		154		0	0	1			PBO,FTW · WL,TL
1959	23	CHC-min	A,AA,AAA	77	274	241	33	65	8	3	4	30	0	0	28	21	.270	.347	.378	.724		91		1	3	1	2		LNC,SAN,FTW · EL,TL,AA
1960	24	CHC-min	AAA,AA	123	425	393	35	112	17	2	6	51	1		32	40	.285	.339	.384	.723		151							HSN,SAN · AA,TL
1960	24	CHC	NL	5	19	15	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	1	.133	.263	.133	.396	14	2	0	0	0	1	0	/2
1961	25	CHC	NL	92	287	267	20	73	7	1	2	33	0	0	15	33	.273	.308	.330	.637	70	88	7	0	1	4	3	2
1962	26	CHC	NL	77	235	215	19	65	6	2	2	18	0	1	13	30	.302	.343	.377	.720	91	81	4	1	5	1	5	2
1963	27	CHC	NL	100	350	322	15	75	7	2	2	14	0	2	24	41	.233	.284	.286	.570	61	92	8	0	2	2	6	2
1964	28	CHC	NL	112	395	353	29	84	11	3	4	35	2	1	33	67	.238	.305	.320	.625	74	113	11	2	5	2	8	*2
1965	29	TOT	NL	56	154	132	7	27	3	0	0	10	0	0	18	15	.205	.298	.227	.525	49	30	2	0	3	1	5	2
1965	29	CHC	NL	34	98	84	6	18	2	0	0	7	0	0	11	10	.214	.302	.238	.540	54	20	1	0	2	1	2	2
1965	29	SFG	NL	22	56	48	1	9	1	0	0	3	0	0	7	5	.188	.291	.208	.499	42	10	1	0	1	0	3	2

1966	30	SFG-min	AAA	37	125	98	7	24	2	0	1	12	0	1	24	13	.245	.393	.296	.689		29		0	3	0			PHX · PCL
1967	31	PHI-min	AAA	37	104	93	6	18	2	1	1	9	0	2	10	16	.194	.272	.269	.541		25		0	1	0			SDG · PCL
1967	31	CHC	NL	2	7	6	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.500	.667	80	3	0	0	1	0	0	/2
7 Yrs				444	1447	1310	91	327	34	9	10	112	2	4	106	188	.250	.305	.312	.617	70	409	32	3	17	11	27
162 Game Avg.				162	528	478	33	119	12	3	4	41	1	1	39	69	.250	.305	.312	.617	70	149	12	1	6	4	10

CHC (7 yrs)				422	1391	1262	90	318	33	9	10	109	2	4	99	183	.252	.305	.316	.622	71	399	31	3	16	11	24
SFG (1 yr)				22	56	48	1	9	1	0	0	3	0	0	7	5	.188	.291	.208	.499	42	10	1	0	1	0	3

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos
1960	24	CHC	NL	5	19	-2	-0	0	0	0	-2	-0.2	1	-1	-0.1	.467	.499	-0.1	0.0	-1	$	/2
1961	25	CHC	NL	92	287	-13	0	-1	0	4	-10	-1.1	10	-1	-0.1	.488	.493	-0.1	0.4	-1	$	2
1962	26	CHC	NL	77	235	-5	-3	-1	-3	3	-8	-0.8	8	0	0.0	.489	.495	0.3	0.1	3	$	2
1963	27	CHC	NL	100	350	-15	-3	-0	12	5	-1	-0.0	12	11	1.2	.499	.500	-0.3	2.1	-1	$	2
1964	28	CHC	NL	112	395	-11	-2	-2	8	6	-1	0.0	14	13	1.3	.499	.499	0.3	1.7	5	$	*2
1965	29	CHC	NL	34	98	-5	-1	0	5	2	1	0.1	3	4	0.4	.503	.501	-0.1	0.7	-1	$	2
1965	29	SFG	NL	22	56	-4	-0	-0	-2	1	-6	-0.6	2	-4	-0.4	.471	.496	-0.2	-0.1	-2	$	2

1967	31	CHC	NL	2	7	-0	0	0	0	0	-0	-0.0	0	0	0.0	.488	.500	0.0	0.0	0	$	/2
7 Seasons				444	1447	-56	-9	-3	20	21	-26	-2.7	49	23	2.3	.494	.498	-0.2	4.9	3	$

CHC (7 yrs)				422	1391	-51	-9	-3	22	21	-21	-2.0	47	27	2.7	.495	.498	0.0	5.0	5	$
SFG (1 yr)				22	56	-4	-0	-0	-2	1	-6	-0.6	2	-4	-0.4	.471	.496	-0.2	-0.1	-2	$

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1960	24	CHC	NL	19	14	1	1.9	98	.133	.133	.261	.263	.326	.133	.400	.396	.727	14	.182	-1.6	-0.2	.385	.200	.000
1961	25	CHC	NL	287	206	26	3.4	106	.301	.273	.270	.308	.337	.330	.421	.637	.757	70	.356	-11.6	-1.1	.512	.112	.056	.0
1962	26	CHC	NL	235	161	27	4.5	107	.342	.302	.275	.343	.343	.377	.417	.720	.760	91	.493	-3.2	-0.3	.606	.130	.074	.0
1963	27	CHC	NL	350	261	25	2.6	94	.260	.233	.261	.284	.324	.286	.390	.570	.713	61	.318	-16.7	-1.8	.444	.121	.053	.0
1964	28	CHC	NL	395	288	34	3.2	97	.282	.238	.268	.305	.326	.320	.398	.625	.724	74	.386	-12.2	-1.3	.530	.178	.082	2.7
1965	29	TOT	NL	154	111	10	2.4	96	.229	.205	.261	.298	.325	.227	.394	.525	.719	49	.274	-8.4	-0.9	.449	.159	.023
1965	29	CHC	NL	98	70	7	2.7	95	.240	.214	.260	.302	.324	.238	.394	.540	.718	54	.314	-4.8	-0.5	.463	.155	.024
1965	29	SFG	NL	56	41	3	2.0	96	.209	.188	.262	.291	.326	.208	.395	.499	.721	42	.206	-3.6	-0.4	.425	.167	.021

1967	31	CHC	NL	7	6	1	4.5	94	.200	.167	.264	.167	.327	.500	.387	.667	.714	80	.557	-0.3	-0.0	.600	.333	.333
7 Yrs				1447	1047	124	3.2	99	.282	.250	.267	.305	.330	.312	.403	.617	.733	70	.371	-54.1	-5.6	.506	.142	.063	3.3
162 Game Avg.				528	382	45	3.2	99	.282	.250	.267	.305	.330	.312	.403	.617	.733	70	.371	-54.1	-5.6	.506	.142	.063	1

CHC (7 yrs)				1391	1006	121	3.2	99	.285	.252	.267	.305	.330	.316	.404	.622	.734	71	.377	-50.5	-5.3	.510	.141	.064	3.3
SFG (1 yr)				56	41	3	2.0	96	.209	.188	.262	.291	.326	.208	.395	.499	.721	42	.205	-3.6	-0.4	.425	.167	.021

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1960	24	CHC	NL	19	0.0%	5.3%	15.8%	0.0%	0%	0.33	15.0		7.5	1.00	79%
1961	25	CHC	NL	287	0.7%	11.5%	5.2%	3.5%	14%	2.20	8.1	133.5	8.1	1.10	82%
1962	26	CHC	NL	235	0.9%	12.8%	5.5%	4.3%	15%	2.31	7.2	107.5	11.9	1.08	78%
1963	27	CHC	NL	350	0.6%	11.7%	6.9%	3.1%	15%	1.71	7.9	161.0	23.0	1.08	80%
1964	28	CHC	NL	395	1.0%	17.0%	8.4%	4.6%	21%	2.03	5.3	88.3	10.1	1.14	72%
1965	29	TOT	NL	154	0.0%	9.7%	11.7%	2.0%	11%	0.83	8.8		13.2	1.38	77%
1965	29	CHC	NL	98	0.0%	10.2%	11.2%	2.0%	11%	0.91	8.4		12.0	1.52	77%
1965	29	SFG	NL	56	0.0%	8.9%	12.5%	1.8%	11%	0.71	9.6		16.0	1.19	77%

1967	31	CHC	NL	7	0.0%	14.3%	0.0%	14.3%	100%		6.0			0.67	71%
7 Yrs				1447	0.7%	13.0%	7.3%	3.7%	16%	1.77	7.0	131.0	11.7	1.12	78%
MLB Averages					2.2%	15.0%	8.2%	6.4%	28%	1.82	6.0	39.9	8.8	1.08	73%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1960	24	CHC	NL	-1.6	-0.2	19	-0.1	0.2	-0.2	.80	-0.1	0.1	-0.6	-0.1	1.00	-1.3		0
1961	25	CHC	NL	-11.9	-1.2	290	-0.5	5.0	-5.5	1.08	-0.8	0.4	-6.7	-0.7	0.94	-10.0	1.74	6
1962	26	CHC	NL	-3.2	-0.3	237	-0.3	3.8	-4.1	1.02	-0.7	0.4	-3.9	-0.4	0.93	-5.9	0.41	6
1963	27	CHC	NL	-16.7	-1.8	356	-1.7	4.2	-5.9	.93	-1.6	-0.2	-17.0	-1.8	0.93	-17.4	0.15	1
1964	28	CHC	NL	-12.2	-1.3	401	-0.5	5.7	-6.3	.92	-1.0	0.4	-6.9	-0.7	0.96	-10.9	0.77	3
1965	29	TOT	NL	-8.5	-0.9	155	-0.8	1.5	-2.3	.89	-0.8	-0.1	-6.2	-0.6	0.92	-7.8		0
1965	29	CHC	NL	-4.8	-0.5	99	-0.4	1.1	-1.5	.89	-0.3	-0.1	-3.9	-0.4	0.91	-3.5		0
1965	29	SFG	NL	-3.7	-0.4	56	-0.4	0.4	-0.8	.89	-0.5	-0.0	-2.3	-0.2	0.94	-4.3		0

1967	31	CHC	NL	-0.3	-0.0	7	-0.0	0.1	-0.2	1.13	-0.0	0.0	-0.5	-0.1	1.01	-0.4		0
7 Yrs				-54.6	-5.7	1465	-3.9	20.6	-24.5	.97	-5.1	1.1	-41.8	-4.3	0.94	-53.6	0.96	16

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1960	24	CHC	NL	0	0	0%	8	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1961	25	CHC	NL	2	0	21%	107	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	35%	12	7	5	1	1	0	10	7	3
1962	26	CHC	NL	2	0	22%	96	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	2	44%	11	9	2	2	1	1	5	0	5
1963	27	CHC	NL	8	0	13%	113	0	2	0%	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	5	4	25%	10	10	0	1	1	0	9	3	5
1964	28	CHC	NL	8	0	22%	124	2	1	67%	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	4	36%	20	17	3	5	2	3	6	1	5
1965	29	TOT	NL	3	0	16%	52	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	24%	12	10	0	0	0	0	5	1	4
1965	29	CHC	NL	2	0	21%	39	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	21%	10	8	0	0	0	0	4	1	3
1965	29	SFG	NL	1	0	6%	13	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33%	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1

1967	31	CHC	NL	0	0	100%	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7 Yrs				23	0	19%	500	2	4	33%	2	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	16	15	33%	66	54	10	9	5	4	35	12	22

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1960	24	CHC	NL	19	47%	2			0	0	0	0		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		4	0	0%	3	2	67%	12	2	17%	3	2	67%	0	0		0
1961	25	CHC	NL	287	47%	73			6	2	0	1	1.74	2	0	4	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	100%	54	7	13%	23	9	39%	182	31	17%	18	15	83%	10	1	10%	0
1962	26	CHC	NL	235	31%	65			6	2	1	1	0.41	2	0	6	0	2	2	0	0	5	5	100%	34	4	12%	18	8	44%	128	17	13%	9	5	56%	7	4	57%	0
1963	27	CHC	NL	350	27%	75			1	0	0	0	0.15	2	0	11	2	0	1	1	0	3	2	67%	51	8	16%	28	10	36%	197	14	7%	10	2	20%	13	5	38%	0
1964	28	CHC	NL	395	33%	84			3	0	0	0	0.77	4	0	5	2	2	3	1	0	5	5	100%	69	11	16%	36	9	25%	252	34	13%	23	8	35%	12	4	33%	0
1965	29	TOT	NL	154	55%	27			0	0	0	0		0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	75%	22	2	9%	10	4	40%	90	12	13%	13	6	46%	5	2	40%	0
1965	29	CHC	NL	98	43%	18			0	0	0	0		0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	67%	12	1	8%	8	3	38%	54	8	15%	9	4	44%	3	0	0%	0
1965	29	SFG	NL	56	77%	9			0	0	0	0		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	10	1	10%	2	1	50%	36	4	11%	4	2	50%	2	2	100%	0

1967	31	CHC	NL	7	0%	1			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	2	0	0%	1	1	100%	5	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
7 Yrs				1447	36%	327			16	4	1	2	0.96	10	0	31	5	5	7	3	0	19	17	89%	236	32	14%	119	43	36%	866	110	13%	76	38	50%	47	16	34%	0
MLB Averages					52%																			77%			10%			30%			14%			48%			52%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1960	24	5	19	15	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	1	.133	.263	.133	.396	14	2	0	0	0	1	0
1961	25	97	306	282	20	75	7	1	2	35	0	0	18	34	.266	.305	.319	.624	67	90	7	0	1	5	3
1962	26	174	541	497	39	140	13	3	4	53	0	1	31	64	.282	.321	.344	.666	77	171	11	1	6	6	8
1963	27	274	891	819	54	215	20	5	6	67	0	3	55	105	.263	.307	.321	.628	71	263	19	1	8	8	14
1964	28	386	1286	1172	83	299	31	8	10	102	2	4	88	172	.255	.306	.321	.627	72	376	30	3	13	10	22
1965	29	442	1440	1304	90	326	34	8	10	112	2	4	106	187	.250	.305	.311	.617	70	406	32	3	16	11	27
1966	30	442	1440	1304	90	326	34	8	10	112	2	4	106	187	.250	.305	.311	.617	70	406	32	3	16	11	27
1967	31	444	1447	1310	91	327	34	9	10	112	2	4	106	188	.250	.305	.312	.617	70	409	32	3	17	11	27

Neutralized Batting

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All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1960	24	5	22	17	0	3	0	0	0	4	0	4	1	.176	.318	.176	.495	1	5
1961	25	96	300	279	21	76	7	1	2	34	0	16	34	.272	.308	.326	.634	28	92
1962	26	77	233	213	18	63	6	2	2	17	0	13	30	.296	.338	.371	.709	26	77
1963	27	100	355	326	17	79	7	2	2	15	0	25	41	.242	.295	.294	.589	29	100
1964	28	112	399	356	30	87	11	3	4	37	2	34	67	.244	.312	.326	.638	36	112
1965	29	56	156	133	8	29	3	0	0	11	0	19	15	.218	.314	.241	.554	10	56

1967	31	2	7	6	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.500	.667	1	2
7 Yrs		448	1472	1330	96	338	34	9	10	118	2	111	189	.254	.311	.316	.626	131	444
162 Game Avg.		162	532	481	35	122	12	3	4	43	1	40	68	.254	.311	.316	.626	47	444

* 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

Defensive WAR† s c a p y 1963 NL 2.1 (4th) 1964 NL 1.7 (5th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1963 NL 2.1 (4th)
1964 NL 1.7 (5th)

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