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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 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
1960 CHC NL 24 C 5 4 3 44.0 24 18 6 0 0 1.000 0 0 4.91 4.80 .986 6.59 6.56 0 1 3 2 40% 40% 0
1961 CHC NL 25 C 90 75 55 655.0 453 396 49 8 10 .982 0 0 6.11 4.94 .985 6.39 6.32 23 19 26 20 43% 38% 4
1962 CHC NL 26 C 76 61 42 537.0 347 306 36 5 0 .986 -3 -7 5.73 4.50 .987 6.72 6.66 16 24 41 17 29% 34% 3
1963 CHC NL 27 C 99 97 78 844.2 641 549 84 8 15 .988 12 17 6.74 6.39 .986 7.07 7.05 10 20 29 45 61% 42% 3
1964 CHC NL 28 C 110 105 89 913.2 594 531 52 11 3 .981 8 11 5.74 5.30 .988 6.81 6.76 8 28 29 34 54% 40% 6
1965 TOT NL 29 C 56 45 31 377.2 280 241 35 4 4 .986 3 10 6.58 4.93 .988 6.96 6.97 6 14 22 19 46% 36% 2
1965 CHC NL 29 C 34 29 20 240.0 160 128 29 3 2 .981 5 25 5.89 4.62 .988 6.96 6.97 2 5 11 15 58% 36% 2
1965 SFG NL 29 C 22 16 11 137.2 120 113 6 1 2 .992 -2 -17 7.78 5.41 .988 6.96 6.97 4 9 11 4 27% 36% 0
1967 CHC NL 31 C 2 2 2 20.0 13 12 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 5.85 6.50 .990 6.89 6.90 0 1 0 0 0
7 Seasons C 438 389 300 3392.0 2352 2053 263 36 32 .985 20 7 6.15 5.29 .987 6.79 6.74 63 107 150 137 48% 38% 18
7 Seasons TOT 438 389 300 3392.0 2352 2053 263 36 32 .985 20 7 6.15 5.29 .987 6.79 6.74 63 107 150 137 48% 38% 18
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
1960 CHC NL 24 C 0 0 0
1961 CHC NL 25 C 0 0 0
1962 CHC NL 26 C -3 -7 -3
1963 CHC NL 27 C 12 17 12
1964 CHC NL 28 C 8 11 8
1965 CHC NL 29 C 5 25 5
1965 SFG NL 29 C -2 -17 -2
1967 CHC NL 31 C 0 0 0
7 Seasons C 20 7 20
7 Seasons TOT 20 7 20

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1960 CHC NL 24 5 4 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1961 CHC NL 25 92 75 92 90 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1962 CHC NL 26 77 61 77 76 0 76 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1963 CHC NL 27 100 97 100 99 0 99 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1964 CHC NL 28 112 105 112 110 0 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1965 CHC NL 29 34 29 34 34 0 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1965 SFG NL 29 22 16 22 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1967 CHC NL 31 2 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 444 389 444 438 0 438 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 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.

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%
1960 CHC NL 24 197 4.09 4.09 3 100% 0 0 18 0 0 0 18 6 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 100%
1961 CHC NL 25 2844 4.22 4.99 45 89% 0 0 395 25 2 12 355 48 14 1 0 4 8 1 3 4 0 10 0 1 4 7 100%
1962 CHC NL 26 2321 4.21 4.85 29 86% 1 0 306 18 1 10 277 35 3 0 0 5 5 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 1 4 75%
1963 CHC NL 27 3491 3.02 3.53 64 97% 0 0 545 37 3 14 491 81 21 1 2 9 8 0 1 7 1 12 0 0 3 11 100%
1964 CHC NL 28 3828 3.65 4.03 34 91% 0 1 535 21 3 16 495 58 6 2 0 7 11 1 4 6 0 3 0 0 0 5 80%
1965 CHC NL 29 1036 3.38 4.39 14 93% 0 1 130 7 2 2 119 29 6 0 0 3 3 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 1 4 100%
1965 SFG NL 29 572 2.88 3.27 6 100% 0 0 115 5 0 3 107 6 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
1967 CHC NL 31 85 3.15 3.15 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 14374 3.64 4.21 195 92% 1 2 2056 113 11 57 1874 264 53 5 2 31 36 2 12 22 1 30 0 2 9 33 94%
MLB Averages 3.64 4.14 95% 89%

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
1960 CHC NL 24 0 1 84 3 2 2 40% 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 2.74 1.11
1961 CHC NL 25 23 19 1079 26 20 19 43% 25 18 1 2 0 0 4 0 93 28 1.04 1.10
1962 CHC NL 26 16 24 880 41 17 17 29% 37 15 3 2 1 0 3 0 99 25 1.40 0.96
1963 CHC NL 27 10 20 1282 29 45 41 61% 25 38 3 4 1 3 3 0 83 52 1.39 1.21
1964 CHC NL 28 8 28 1368 29 34 30 54% 26 29 3 3 0 2 6 1 90 41 1.36 0.99
1965 CHC NL 29 2 5 394 11 15 15 58% 9 13 2 0 0 2 2 1 27 18 1.09 1.07
1965 SFG NL 29 4 9 214 11 4 3 27% 11 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 30 5 1.21 1.52
1967 CHC NL 31 0 1 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
7 Seasons 63 107 5336 150 137 127 48% 136 118 12 11 2 8 18 2 432 171 1.32 1.10
MLB Averages 38% 1.23 1.21

* 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

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1963 NL  12 (5th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1961 NL  49 (4th)
1963 NL  84 (3rd)
1964 NL  52 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1963 NL  8 (4th)
1964 NL  11 (1st)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1961 NL  23 (1st)
1962 NL  16 (1st)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1962 NL  41 (5th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1961 NL  20 (4th)
1963 NL  45 (2nd)
1964 NL  34 (1st)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1961 NL  43.5 (5th)
1963 NL  60.8 (1st)
1964 NL  54.0 (2nd)
1965 NL  46.3 (3rd)
Career  47.7 (39th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1963 NL  12 (1st)
1964 NL  8 (1st)
1965 NL  3 (4th)
Career  20 (62nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1961 NL  6.11 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1961 NL  4.94 (4th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1961 NL  .982 (4th)

             

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