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Billy Bryan

William Ronald Bryan

Positions: Catcher and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: December 4, 1938 in Morgan, GA
Signed by the Kansas City Athletics as an amateur free agent in 1960. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 12, 1961
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Yankees/Senators 1961-1968

Final Game: July 23, 1968
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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
1961 KCA AL 22 C 4 4 3 34.0 17 16 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 4.50 4.25 .989 6.22 6.15 1 1 0 0 0
1962 KCA AL 23 C 22 18 15 173.2 124 117 4 3 0 .976 -5 -35 6.27 5.50 .989 6.30 6.28 6 12 11 1 8% 36% 1
1963 KCA AL 24 C 24 22 19 183.0 154 147 4 3 0 .981 -2 -13 7.43 6.29 .989 6.64 6.64 2 6 7 1 13% 33% 0
1964 KCA AL 25 C 65 48 41 462.1 342 317 22 3 5 .991 -3 -8 6.60 5.22 .990 7.07 7.06 8 17 24 9 27% 37% 1
1965 KCA AL 26 C 95 89 74 768.0 580 527 44 9 6 .984 -7 -11 6.69 6.01 .988 6.96 6.94 16 38 41 16 28% 34% 3
1966 TOT AL 27 C 35 27 26 252.0 199 172 22 5 4 .975 -2 -10 6.93 5.54 .988 6.86 6.85 4 11 24 11 31% 38% 1
1966 TOT AL 27 1B 6 5 4 46.0 44 42 1 1 4 .977 -0 -8 8.41 7.17 .991 9.59 9.57
1966 KCA AL 27 C 21 14 13 127.1 114 99 11 4 2 .965 -3 -28 7.77 5.24 .988 6.86 6.85 3 6 16 4 20% 38% 1
1966 KCA AL 27 1B 3 3 3 27.0 26 26 0 0 1 1.000 0 4 8.67 8.67 .991 9.60 9.57
1966 NYY AL 27 C 14 13 13 124.2 85 73 11 1 2 .988 1 10 6.06 6.00 .988 6.86 6.85 1 5 8 7 47% 38% 0
1966 NYY AL 27 1B 3 2 1 19.0 18 16 1 1 3 .944 -0 -25 8.05 5.67 .991 9.57 9.57
1967 NYY AL 28 C 1 1 1 9.0 6 5 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 6.00 6.00 .988 7.20 7.20 0 0 0 0 0
1968 WSA AL 29 C 28 28 26 242.2 173 155 15 3 1 .983 -3 -15 6.30 6.07 .990 6.97 6.94 5 14 17 9 35% 37% 0
8 Seasons C 274 237 205 2124.2 1595 1456 113 26 17 .984 -22 -12 6.65 5.73 .989 6.88 6.87 42 99 124 47 27% 36% 6
1 Season 1B 6 5 4 46.0 44 42 1 1 4 .977 -0 -8 8.41 7.17 .991 9.59 9.57
8 Seasons TOT 280 242 209 2170.2 1639 1498 114 27 21 .984 -22 -12 6.68 5.76 .989 6.94 6.92 42 99 124 47 27% 36% 6
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
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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
1961 KCA AL 22 C 0 0 0
1962 KCA AL 23 C -5 -35 -5
1963 KCA AL 24 C -2 -13 -2
1964 KCA AL 25 C -3 -8 -3
1965 KCA AL 26 C -7 -11 -7
1966 KCA AL 27 C -3 -28 -3
1966 KCA AL 27 1B 0 4 0 0 0 0
1966 NYY AL 27 C 1 10 1
1966 NYY AL 27 1B -0 -25 -0 0 -0 0
1967 NYY AL 28 C 0 0 0
1968 WSA AL 29 C -3 -15 -3
8 Seasons C -22 -12 -22
1 Season 1B -0 -8 -0 0 -0 0
8 Seasons TOT -22 -12 -0 0 -0 0 -22

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1961 KCA AL 22 9 4 9 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1962 KCA AL 23 25 18 25 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1963 KCA AL 24 24 22 24 24 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1964 KCA AL 25 93 48 93 65 0 65 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 0
1965 KCA AL 26 108 89 108 95 0 95 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0
1966 KCA AL 27 32 17 32 24 0 20 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0
1966 NYY AL 27 27 15 27 17 0 14 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1967 NYY AL 28 16 1 16 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
1968 WSA AL 29 40 28 40 28 0 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
8 Seasons 374 242 374 280 0 273 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 115 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%
1961 KCA AL 22 121 3.72 4.03 4 100% 0 0 15 4 0 0 11 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1962 KCA AL 23 774 4.98 5.45 11 91% 0 0 117 8 0 4 105 4 1 0 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1963 KCA AL 24 754 4.15 4.50 16 94% 0 0 148 13 0 3 132 4 1 0 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1964 KCA AL 25 2013 4.13 4.56 32 97% 0 0 321 22 2 10 287 22 6 0 0 5 3 0 2 1 0 3 0 2 2 1 100%
1965 KCA AL 26 3339 4.46 5.02 52 94% 0 0 523 25 0 27 470 43 7 1 0 6 9 2 4 3 1 7 0 1 1 3 100%
1966 KCA AL 27 535 3.60 4.17 10 80% 0 0 88 7 2 3 76 6 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
1966 NYY AL 27 515 2.74 3.10 4 75% 0 1 73 1 0 1 71 11 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 67%
1967 NYY AL 28 34 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1968 WSA AL 29 1053 4.01 4.38 16 94% 0 0 155 11 1 0 143 16 4 0 0 2 3 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 100%
8 Seasons 9138 4.17 4.64 145 93% 0 1 1445 91 5 48 1300 108 21 1 0 18 26 4 11 11 2 14 0 3 3 9 89%
MLB Averages 3.54 4.03 95% 90%

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
1961 KCA AL 22 1 1 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1962 KCA AL 23 5 12 282 11 1 1 8% 8 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 34 2 1.00 1.32
1963 KCA AL 24 2 6 249 7 1 1 13% 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 3 1.01 0.06
1964 KCA AL 25 8 17 783 24 9 9 27% 21 9 2 0 1 0 1 0 59 10 1.25 1.54
1965 KCA AL 26 16 38 1265 41 14 14 25% 35 13 5 1 1 0 4 0 128 29 1.11 0.96
1966 KCA AL 27 3 6 184 16 4 4 20% 14 4 0 0 2 0 1 0 34 8 1.20 1.21
1966 NYY AL 27 1 5 200 8 7 6 47% 7 5 1 2 0 0 0 0 20 8 1.43 1.10
1967 NYY AL 28 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1968 WSA AL 29 5 14 399 17 9 8 35% 15 7 1 1 1 1 0 0 47 10 1.19 2.48
8 Seasons 41 99 3413 124 45 43 27% 107 40 12 4 5 1 7 0 341 71 1.16 1.41
MLB Averages 38% 1.26 1.22

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1966 KCA AL 27 112 59% 80% 35% 6 100% 0 37 1 35 1 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
1966 NYY AL 27 81 81% 81% 28% 3 67% 0 16 0 16 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0
1 Season 193 68% 81% 32% 9 89% 0 53 1 51 1 5 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 6 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 1 0
MLB Averages 63% 79% 28% 93% 86%

* 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

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1965 AL  9 (2nd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1965 AL  16 (3rd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1965 AL  41 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1965 AL  6.01 (5th)

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