Paul Casanova

Paulino (Ortiz) Casanova

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: December 21, 1941 in Colon, Cuba
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1960. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 18, 1965
Teams (by GP): Senators/Braves 1965-1974

Final Game: September 9, 1974
Relatives: Father of Raul Casanova
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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
1965	WSA	AL	23	C	4	4	3	31.0	16	15	0	1	0	.938	-1	-39	4.35	3.75	.988	6.97	6.95	0	2	3	0	0%	34%	0
1966	WSA	AL	24	C	119	113	106	1032.2	741	674	53	14	12	.981	5	6	6.34	6.11	.988	6.86	6.85	6	30	37	32	46%	38%	3
1967	WSA	AL	25	C	137	132	131	1221.0	912	827	70	15	19	.984	6	6	6.61	6.55	.989	7.22	7.23	14	36	38	37	49%	41%	9	AS,MVP-21
1968	WSA	AL	26	C	92	86	81	761.0	524	472	46	6	3	.989	-2	-3	6.13	5.63	.990	6.97	6.94	10	32	38	23	38%	37%	2
1969	WSA	AL	27	C	122	106	99	952.1	647	583	59	5	5	.992	3	4	6.07	5.26	.987	6.65	6.65	11	35	53	27	34%	36%	7
1970	WSA	AL	28	C	100	82	72	774.1	515	461	48	6	12	.988	8	12	5.92	5.09	.988	6.65	6.62	2	22	23	24	51%	39%	6
1971	WSA	AL	29	C	83	81	78	716.2	463	416	40	7	4	.985	-1	-2	5.73	5.49	.988	6.37	6.34	6	20	32	17	35%	39%	0
1972	ATL	NL	30	C	43	32	28	300.0	159	139	16	4	3	.975	-1	-4	4.65	3.60	.987	6.61	6.63	4	15	10	8	44%	37%	0
1973	ATL	NL	31	C	78	64	44	574.1	387	330	48	9	3	.977	-2	-4	5.92	4.85	.987	6.34	6.34	9	18	62	30	33%	36%	0
1974	ATL	NL	32	C	33	29	19	247.1	140	123	15	2	4	.986	4	19	5.02	4.18	.985	6.12	6.11	3	3	18	12	40%	33%	3
	10 Seasons			C	811	729	661	6610.2	4504	4040	395	69	65	.985	19	3	6.04	5.47	.988	6.75	6.72	65	213	314	210	40%	37%	30
	10 Seasons			TOT	811	729	661	6610.2	4504	4040	395	69	65	.985	19	3	6.04	5.47	.988	6.75	6.72	65	213	314	210	40%	37%	30

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	Rctch
1965	WSA	AL	23	C	-1	-39	-1
1966	WSA	AL	24	C	5	6	5
1967	WSA	AL	25	C	6	6	6
1968	WSA	AL	26	C	-2	-3	-2
1969	WSA	AL	27	C	3	4	3
1970	WSA	AL	28	C	8	12	8
1971	WSA	AL	29	C	-1	-2	-1
1972	ATL	NL	30	C	-1	-4	-1
1973	ATL	NL	31	C	-2	-4	-2
1974	ATL	NL	32	C	4	19	4
	10 Seasons			C	19	3	19
	10 Seasons			TOT	19	3	19

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1965	WSA	AL	23	5	4	5	4	4	0	1
1966	WSA	AL	24	122	113	122	119	119	4	0
1967	WSA	AL	25	141	132	141	137	137	8	0
1968	WSA	AL	26	96	86	96	92	92	8	0
1969	WSA	AL	27	124	106	124	122	122	6	0
1970	WSA	AL	28	104	82	104	100	100	10	0
1971	WSA	AL	29	94	81	94	83	83	11	0
1972	ATL	NL	30	49	32	49	43	43	6	0
1973	ATL	NL	31	82	64	82	78	78	5	1
1974	ATL	NL	32	42	29	42	33	33	10	0
	10 Seasons			859	729	859	811	811	68	2

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%
1965	WSA	AL	23	130	3.77	5.23	2	50%	0	0	15	1	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0%
1966	WSA	AL	24	4261	3.63	4.05	53	81%	0	0	674	36	3	8	627	52	6	0	0	7	14	2	7	5	3	12	0	1	1	3	33%
1967	WSA	AL	25	5083	3.32	3.82	72	93%	0	0	803	54	5	19	724	72	11	2	0	12	15	1	4	10	0	21	0	3	5	5	80%
1968	WSA	AL	26	3263	3.88	4.51	39	95%	0	0	468	26	2	12	428	48	11	0	0	9	6	1	2	3	1	3	0	1	1	5	60%
1969	WSA	AL	27	4036	3.47	3.95	70	96%	1	0	591	40	2	11	538	61	20	2	1	3	5	0	2	3	1	5	1	1	2	15	87%
1970	WSA	AL	28	3220	3.38	3.80	36	92%	1	0	470	25	1	4	439	52	9	0	0	8	6	0	3	3	0	12	0	0	0	5	80%
1971	WSA	AL	29	3070	3.78	4.33	48	92%	0	0	416	33	2	10	371	41	9	0	1	8	7	2	3	2	2	4	0	1	1	9	89%
1972	ATL	NL	30	1333	4.96	5.44	14	86%	0	0	141	7	1	3	130	15	6	0	0	4	4	0	2	2	0	3	0	1	1	3	100%
1973	ATL	NL	31	2386	4.48	5.15	26	96%	0	1	322	14	0	11	297	41	6	0	0	5	8	0	1	7	0	3	0	0	0	1	100%
1974	ATL	NL	32	1036	2.73	3.20	17	94%	1	0	123	10	0	4	108	19	4	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	4	100%
	10 Seasons			27818	3.66	4.18	377	92%	3	1	4023	246	16	82	3676	401	82	4	2	58	68	6	27	35	8	67	1	8	11	51	80%
	MLB Averages				3.51	3.98		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
1965	WSA	AL	23	0	2	53	3	0	0	0%	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	1	1.15
1966	WSA	AL	24	6	30	1423	37	32	31	46%	31	27	4	3	2	2	3	0	97	42	1.38	1.35
1967	WSA	AL	25	14	36	1840	38	37	32	49%	34	34	4	1	0	2	9	0	129	54	1.48	1.69
1968	WSA	AL	26	10	32	1223	38	23	22	38%	32	18	6	5	0	0	2	0	104	25	1.37	1.56
1969	WSA	AL	27	11	35	1477	53	27	23	34%	49	23	4	3	0	1	7	0	120	40	1.30	1.26
1970	WSA	AL	28	2	22	1147	23	24	22	51%	21	23	2	1	0	0	6	0	63	39	0.95	1.29
1971	WSA	AL	29	6	20	1183	32	17	16	35%	27	16	4	0	1	1	0	0	72	24	1.03	1.28
1972	ATL	NL	30	4	15	516	10	7	5	41%	10	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	40	8	1.29	1.41
1973	ATL	NL	31	9	18	866	60	29	27	33%	53	22	5	5	2	2	0	0	112	35	1.45	1.40
1974	ATL	NL	32	3	3	382	18	12	10	40%	14	9	4	0	0	3	3	1	28	15	1.40	1.77
	10 Seasons			65	213	10110	312	208	188	40%	274	178	33	18	5	12	30	1	771	283	1.32	1.44
	MLB Averages									37%											1.28	1.24

* 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

Hall of Fame 1980 BBWAA ()	All-Star Games 1967	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1967 AL (21, 1%) 0.01 Career Shares (1497th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1966 AL 119 (5th) 1967 AL 137 (2nd) 1969 AL 122 (1st)
Putouts as C s c a p y 1967 AL 827 (2nd) 1969 AL 583 (5th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1966 AL 53 (4th) 1967 AL 70 (2nd) 1969 AL 59 (3rd)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1966 AL 14 (1st) 1967 AL 15 (2nd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1967 AL 14 (4th) 1968 AL 10 (3rd) 1969 AL 11 (4th)
Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1969 AL 53 (3rd) 1973 NL 62 (4th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1966 AL 32 (4th) 1967 AL 37 (2nd) 1973 NL 30 (5th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1966 AL 46.4 (2nd) 1967 AL 49.3 (5th) 1970 AL 51.1 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1966 AL 5 (3rd) 1967 AL 6 (1st) 1970 AL 8 (3rd) 1974 NL 4 (5th) Career 19 (65th)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1967 AL 6.55 (5th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1969 AL .992 (2nd)

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