John Buck

Johnathan Richard Buck (twitter: @14Buckshot)

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 230 lb.

Born: July 7, 1980 in Kemmerer, WY
High School: Taylorsville HS (Taylorsville, UT)
Drafted by the Houston Astros in the 7th round of the 1998 amateur draft.
Signed June 11, 1998. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 25, 2004
Teams (by GP): Royals/Marlins/BlueJays 2004-2012
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2013, 3 yrs/$18M (11-13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 7.101, Free Agent: 2014 [*], Agents: Doug Rogalski [*]
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
2004	KCR	AL	23	C	68	66	63	575.0	393	376	14	3	4	.992	-3	-4	-6	-8	6.10	5.74	.992	7.12	7.07	7	26	30	14	32%	32%	0	RoY-8
2004	KCR	AL	23	DH	3	3																									RoY-8
2005	KCR	AL	24	C	117	112	108	976.2	699	640	56	3	5	.996	3	-5	4	-6	6.41	5.95	.992	6.79	6.72	3	51	60	31	34%	30%	6
2006	KCR	AL	25	C	112	107	96	930.1	658	615	37	6	7	.991	-5	-1	-6	-1	6.31	5.82	.992	7.09	6.99	5	56	33	17	34%	30%	1
2007	KCR	AL	26	C	112	104	90	924.1	734	697	29	8	6	.989	-1	-9	-1	-12	7.07	6.48	.991	7.28	7.20	3	31	44	12	21%	27%	0
2008	KCR	AL	27	C	107	106	104	950.1	783	751	24	8	6	.990	-6	-12	-8	-15	7.34	7.24	.991	7.26	7.19	4	42	59	12	17%	27%	0
2009	KCR	AL	28	C	46	41	39	366.2	331	309	14	8	4	.976	-5	-3	-16	-10	7.93	7.02	.992	7.48	7.39	2	15	41	8	16%	26%	1
2009	KCR	AL	28	DH	12	8
2010	TOR	AL	29	C	112	104	100	933.0	778	733	40	5	6	.994	1	-11	1	-14	7.46	6.90	.990	7.44	7.37	4	39	47	18	28%	26%	1	AS
2010	TOR	AL	29	DH	4	4																									AS
2011	FLA	NL	30	C	135	129	111	1144.0	1055	1008	42	5	5	.995	-3	-5	-3	-5	8.26	7.78	.992	7.98	7.96	7	31	83	17	17%	28%	1
2012	MIA	NL	31	C	38	38	38	342.1	290	259	26	5	2	.983	4	4	13	14	7.49	7.50	.991	8.31	8.23	2	3	20	9	31%	28%	0
	9 Seasons			C	847	807	749	7142.2	5721	5388	282	51	45	.991	-15	-46	-3	-7	7.14	6.69	.991	7.37	7.29	37	294	417	138	25%	28%	10
	9 Seasons			TOT	847	807	749	7142.2	5721	5388	282	51	45	.991	-15	-46	-3	-7	7.14	6.69	.991	7.37	7.29	37	294	417	138	25%	28%	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.

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	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rdp	Rbnt	RerC	RsbC
2004	KCR	AL	23	C	-3	-6		-3	-4	-8		0	-2	0
2005	KCR	AL	24	C	3	4		3	-5	-6		0	-2	0
2006	KCR	AL	25	C	-5	-6		-5	-1	-1		-1	1	0
2007	KCR	AL	26	C	-1	-1		-1	-9	-12		0	-4	-4
2008	KCR	AL	27	C	-6	-8		-6	-12	-15		0	-1	-7
2009	KCR	AL	28	C	-5	-16		-5	-3	-10	0	0	0	-4
2010	TOR	AL	29	C	1	1		1	-11	-14	0	-1	-5	-3
2011	FLA	NL	30	C	-3	-3		-3	-5	-5	0	0	0	-3
2012	MIA	NL	31	C	4	13	0	4	4	14		0	4	0
	9 Seasons			C	-15	-3	0	-15	-46	-7	0	-2	-9	-21
	9 Seasons			TOT	-15	-3	0	-15	-46	-7	0	-2	-9	-21

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	DH	PH	PR
2004	KCR	AL	23	71	69	71	68	68	3	0	0
2005	KCR	AL	24	118	112	118	117	117	0	1	0
2006	KCR	AL	25	114	107	114	112	112	0	4	0
2007	KCR	AL	26	113	104	113	112	112	0	3	0
2008	KCR	AL	27	109	106	109	107	107	0	2	1
2009	KCR	AL	28	59	49	59	46	46	12	6	0
2010	TOR	AL	29	118	108	118	112	112	4	5	0
2011	FLA	NL	30	140	129	140	135	135	0	9	0
2012	MIA	NL	31	38	38	38	38	38	0	0	0
	9 Seasons			880	822	880	847	847	19	30	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%
2004	KCR	AL	23	2566	5.29	5.92	20	100%	2	0	376	18	2	7	348	14	2	0	0	1	3	0	2	1	0	4	0	1	1	4	100%
2005	KCR	AL	24	4409	5.61	6.07	39	92%	1	1	640	25	2	15	597	56	11	0	1	10	3	0	1	2	0	5	0	1	1	10	70%
2006	KCR	AL	25	4206	5.71	6.11	29	90%	0	0	615	17	2	16	579	37	7	0	0	9	6	0	0	6	0	7	0	0	1	5	60%
2007	KCR	AL	26	4003	4.40	4.84	35	86%	2	0	697	16	0	12	668	29	14	0	0	5	8	0	3	5	0	6	0	0	0	8	88%
2008	KCR	AL	27	4097	4.52	4.92	32	94%	0	0	751	24	2	9	713	24	5	1	0	5	8	1	1	6	0	6	0	1	2	4	100%
2009	KCR	AL	28	1629	5.18	5.67	12	100%	0	0	309	10	0	9	290	14	2	0	0	2	8	0	0	8	0	4	0	0	0	1	100%
2010	TOR	AL	29	4028	4.45	4.78	30	90%	0	0	733	18	3	11	700	40	8	0	0	15	5	0	0	5	2	6	0	0	0	5	60%
2011	FLA	NL	30	4863	3.90	4.27	48	88%	0	1	1008	30	4	16	956	42	11	0	0	12	5	0	0	5	0	5	0	1	1	12	75%
2012	MIA	NL	31	1400	3.13	3.44	23	91%	0	0	259	7	0	2	249	26	12	1	1	3	5	0	0	5	1	2	0	0	0	13	85%
	9 Seasons			31201	4.73	5.15	268	91%	5	2	5388	165	15	97	5100	282	72	2	2	62	51	1	7	43	3	45	0	4	6	62	79%
	MLB Averages				4.28	4.65		92%																							85%

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
2004	KCR	AL	23	7	26	996	30	14	7	32%	21	13	9	1	0	0	0	0	88	21	1.37	1.00
2005	KCR	AL	24	3	51	1745	60	31	26	34%	49	26	10	2	1	3	6	3	146	43	1.14	1.25
2006	KCR	AL	25	5	56	1654	33	17	13	34%	27	17	6	0	0	0	1	0	133	23	1.23	0.96
2007	KCR	AL	26	3	31	1546	44	12	9	21%	38	9	6	3	0	0	0	0	102	19	1.03	1.12
2008	KCR	AL	27	4	42	1525	59	12	7	17%	49	10	10	2	0	0	0	0	132	20	1.05	1.19
2009	KCR	AL	28	2	15	628	41	8	8	16%	35	6	6	2	0	0	1	0	74	12	1.25	2.13
2010	TOR	AL	29	4	39	1503	47	18	15	28%	41	16	6	2	0	0	1	0	119	23	1.44	1.02
2011	FLA	NL	30	7	31	1707	83	17	15	17%	71	16	11	1	1	0	1	0	144	23	1.20	1.54
2012	MIA	NL	31	2	3	482	20	9	7	31%	18	8	2	0	0	1	0	0	36	14	1.22	1.42
	9 Seasons			37	294	11786	417	138	107	25%	349	121	66	13	2	4	10	3	974	198	1.20	1.24
	MLB Averages									28%											1.27	1.23

* 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

All-Star Games 2010 *	Def. Games as C s c a p y 2010 AL 112 (5th) 2011 NL 135 (2nd) Active 847 (10th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 2010 AL 733 (5th) 2011 NL 1,008 (1st) Active 5,388 (9th) Career 5,388 (89th)	Assists as C s c a p y 2005 AL 56 (4th) Active 282 (17th)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 2007 AL 8 (3rd) 2008 AL 8 (5th) 2009 AL 8 (1st) 2012 NL 5 (2nd) Active 51 (5th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 2011 NL 7 (5th) Active 37 (13th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 2008 AL 59 (3rd) 2011 NL 83 (3rd) Active 417 (7th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 2005 AL 31 (4th) Active 138 (15th)
Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 2012 NL 4 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y Active 7.14 (19th) Career 7.14 (52nd)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 2008 AL 7.24 (5th) Active 6.69 (14th) Career 6.69 (36th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 2005 AL .996 (3rd) 2010 AL .994 (5th) Active .991 (15th) Career .991 (61st)

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