Dick Brown

Richard Ernest Brown

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 176 lb.

Born: January 17, 1935 in Shinnston, WV
High School: Holy Name HS (Lake Worth, FL)
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1953. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 20, 1957
Teams (by GP): Orioles/Tigers/Indians/WhiteSox 1957-1965

Final Game: October 3, 1965
Died: April 12, 1970 in Baltimore, MD
Buried: Pinecrest Cemetery, Lake Worth, FL
Relatives: Brother of Larry Brown
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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
1957	CLE	AL	22	C	33	32	27	274.0	211	190	18	3	4	.986	-4	-18	6.83	6.30	.991	5.92	5.94	4	12	19	8	30%	47%	1
1958	CLE	AL	23	C	62	46	35	419.2	309	281	24	4	6	.987	-5	-14	6.54	4.92	.990	6.01	5.95	16	15	20	14	41%	47%	0
1959	CLE	AL	24	C	48	40	36	376.2	270	248	21	1	5	.996	-1	-3	6.43	5.60	.989	6.08	6.04	1	17	12	10	45%	40%	0
1960	CHW	AL	25	C	14	12	9	106.1	74	66	7	1	1	.986	-1	-11	6.18	5.21	.987	5.92	5.92	2	0	6	1	14%	40%	0
1961	DET	AL	26	C	91	84	68	727.2	503	460	38	5	7	.990	9	15	6.16	5.47	.989	6.21	6.14	6	14	19	24	56%	36%	3
1962	DET	AL	27	C	132	122	107	1074.1	789	742	42	5	8	.994	0	0	6.57	5.94	.989	6.30	6.28	7	25	31	14	31%	36%	3
1963	BAL	AL	28	C	58	51	44	459.0	345	317	23	5	7	.986	1	3	6.67	5.86	.989	6.64	6.64	4	6	13	7	35%	33%	1
1964	BAL	AL	29	C	84	62	54	572.2	414	380	29	5	4	.988	2	4	6.43	4.87	.990	7.07	7.06	8	9	19	13	41%	37%	0
1965	BAL	AL	30	C	92	73	66	683.1	515	466	40	9	6	.983	5	9	6.66	5.50	.988	6.96	6.94	5	18	31	25	45%	34%	2
	9 Seasons			C	614	522	446	4693.2	3430	3150	242	38	48	.989	6	2	6.50	5.52	.989	6.44	6.42	53	116	170	116	41%	38%	10
	9 Seasons			TOT	614	522	446	4693.2	3430	3150	242	38	48	.989	6	2	6.50	5.52	.989	6.44	6.42	53	116	170	116	41%	38%	10

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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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rctch
1957	CLE	AL	22	C	-4	-18	-4
1958	CLE	AL	23	C	-5	-14	-5
1959	CLE	AL	24	C	-1	-3	-1
1960	CHW	AL	25	C	-1	-11	-1
1961	DET	AL	26	C	9	15	9
1962	DET	AL	27	C	0	0	0
1963	BAL	AL	28	C	1	3	1
1964	BAL	AL	29	C	2	4	2
1965	BAL	AL	30	C	5	9	5
	9 Seasons			C	6	2	6
	9 Seasons			TOT	6	2	6

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1957	CLE	AL	22	34	32	34	33	33	1	0
1958	CLE	AL	23	68	46	68	62	62	9	0
1959	CLE	AL	24	48	40	48	48	48	1	1
1960	CHW	AL	25	16	12	16	14	14	2	0
1961	DET	AL	26	93	84	93	91	91	3	0
1962	DET	AL	27	134	122	134	132	132	3	0
1963	BAL	AL	28	59	51	59	58	58	1	0
1964	BAL	AL	29	88	62	88	84	84	7	0
1965	BAL	AL	30	96	73	96	92	92	7	0
	9 Seasons			636	522	636	614	614	34	1

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%
1957	CLE	AL	22	1131	3.97	4.85	18	100%	0	0	178	12	1	4	161	17	4	1	0	1	3	0	0	3	0	4	0	0	1	3	100%
1958	CLE	AL	23	1832	4.33	4.92	35	97%	0	1	273	27	1	9	236	27	4	1	0	6	3	1	1	1	0	6	0	0	0	4	100%
1959	CLE	AL	24	1646	3.85	4.37	32	97%	0	0	245	26	0	3	216	20	4	1	0	4	1	0	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	2	100%
1960	CHW	AL	25	445	3.89	4.32	13	100%	0	0	66	8	0	1	57	6	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
1961	DET	AL	26	3076	3.43	4.07	49	98%	0	0	465	42	0	6	416	38	5	0	0	3	5	1	0	4	1	7	0	0	1	4	75%
1962	DET	AL	27	4667	3.96	4.49	96	99%	0	0	745	72	5	24	642	38	12	1	1	4	4	0	0	4	0	8	1	2	3	5	100%
1963	BAL	AL	28	1947	3.61	4.04	30	97%	0	0	319	21	5	8	285	23	8	0	0	2	5	2	1	2	0	7	0	2	3	4	100%
1964	BAL	AL	29	2345	3.08	3.50	28	93%	1	0	381	19	2	6	354	29	7	0	0	6	5	0	2	3	1	4	0	1	1	1	100%
1965	BAL	AL	30	2788	2.53	3.12	32	94%	1	0	471	22	3	5	441	46	8	0	0	7	9	0	6	3	0	6	0	1	3	2	100%
	9 Seasons			19877	3.55	4.10	333	97%	2	1	3143	249	17	66	2808	244	56	4	1	33	36	4	11	21	2	48	1	6	12	25	96%
	MLB Averages				3.76	4.26		95%																							88%

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
1957	CLE	AL	22	4	12	454	19	8	8	30%	15	8	3	0	1	0	1	0	45	9	0.88	1.54
1958	CLE	AL	23	14	15	759	19	14	14	42%	17	11	2	1	0	2	0	0	60	16	1.12	1.53
1959	CLE	AL	24	1	17	664	12	10	10	45%	10	7	2	2	0	1	0	0	43	14	1.42	1.16
1960	CHW	AL	25	2	0	160	6	1	1	14%	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	11	2	1.01	1.70
1961	DET	AL	26	6	14	1161	19	24	23	56%	18	20	1	3	0	1	3	0	55	29	0.88	1.05
1962	DET	AL	27	7	25	1801	31	14	13	31%	26	12	3	2	2	0	3	0	89	19	1.38	1.24
1963	BAL	AL	28	5	6	752	13	7	7	35%	13	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	31	10	1.55	1.07
1964	BAL	AL	29	8	9	818	19	13	12	41%	18	13	1	0	0	0	0	0	43	14	1.42	1.18
1965	BAL	AL	30	5	18	1045	31	25	25	45%	30	21	0	4	1	0	2	1	67	29	1.15	1.44
	9 Seasons			52	116	7614	169	116	113	41%	152	100	13	12	4	4	10	1	444	142	1.20	1.28
	MLB Averages									38%											1.20	1.19

* 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y 1962 AL 132 (3rd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1962 AL 742 (3rd)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1965 AL 9 (2nd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1958 AL 16 (2nd)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1961 AL 24 (2nd) 1965 AL 25 (2nd)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1961 AL 55.8 (1st) 1965 AL 44.6 (2nd)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1961 AL 9 (1st) 1964 AL 2 (4th) 1965 AL 5 (1st)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1962 AL 6.57 (2nd)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1962 AL 5.94 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1961 AL .990 (5th) 1962 AL .994 (4th)

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