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Ed Charles

Edwin Douglas Charles (Ez or The Poet)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: April 29, 1933 in Daytona Beach, FL
High School: Gibbs HS (St. Petersburg, FL)
Signed by the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent in 1952. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 11, 1962
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Mets 1962-1969

Final Game: October 1, 1969
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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 Awards
1962 KCA AL 29 3B 140 138 131 1201.2 446 145 285 16 27 .964 7 7 3.22 3.07 .952 3.08 3.07
1962 KCA AL 29 2B 2 0 0 3.2 4 3 1 0 1 1.000 -0 -98 9.82 2.00 .980 5.40 5.25
1963 KCA AL 30 3B 158 158 156 1414.0 488 153 310 25 19 .949 4 3 2.95 2.93 .947 3.02 3.02
1964 KCA AL 31 3B 147 144 141 1293.2 416 138 259 19 25 .954 -11 -10 2.76 2.70 .955 3.03 3.02
1965 KCA AL 32 3B 128 127 119 1108.1 413 150 251 12 28 .971 5 5 3.26 3.13 .960 3.13 3.12
1965 KCA AL 32 2B 1 0 0 1.0 4 1 3 0 1 1.000 0 0 36.00 4.00 .978 5.40 5.10
1965 KCA AL 32 SS 1 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 4.80 4.70
1966 KCA AL 33 3B 104 98 92 882.1 297 85 201 11 21 .963 10 14 2.92 2.75 .954 3.03 3.03
1966 KCA AL 33 1B 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.00 .990 9.90 9.60
1966 KCA AL 33 LF 1 1 0 6.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -80 1.50 1.00 .980 1.80 1.80
1966 KCA AL 33 OF 1 1 0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -80 0.00 0.00 2.10 2.10
1967 TOT MLB 34 3B 107 103 100 911.2 362 102 241 19 17 .948 -1 -1 3.39 3.21 .951 2.99 2.99
1967 KCA AL 34 3B 18 17 15 148.0 59 17 40 2 1 .966 -1 -5 3.47 3.17 .955 3.13 3.14
1967 NYM NL 34 3B 89 86 85 763.2 303 85 201 17 16 .944 -0 -1 3.37 3.21 .950 2.96 2.96
1968 NYM NL 35 3B 106 90 85 850.0 282 69 200 13 19 .954 3 4 2.85 2.54 .954 2.93 2.94
1968 NYM NL 35 1B 2 2 2 18.0 11 10 1 0 0 1.000 0 20 5.50 5.50 .992 10.10 10.10
1969 NYM NL 36 3B 52 45 35 387.0 130 37 86 7 9 .946 3 9 2.86 2.37 .946 2.92 2.90
8 Seasons 3B 942 903 859 8048.2 2834 879 1833 122 165 .957 19 3 3.03 2.88 .953 3.03 3.02
2 Seasons 2B 3 0 0 4.2 8 4 4 0 2 1.000 -0 -77 15.43 2.67 .979 5.40 5.20
2 Seasons 1B 3 2 2 19.0 12 11 1 0 0 1.000 0 19 5.68 4.00 .992 10.09 9.93
1 Season SS 1 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 4.80 4.70
1 Season OF 1 1 0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -80 0.00 0.00 2.10 2.10
1 Season LF 1 1 0 6.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -80 1.50 1.00 .980 1.80 1.80
8 Seasons TOT 950 906 861 8081.1 2854 894 1838 122 167 .957 18 3 3.04 2.88 .953 3.05 3.05
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
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
1962 KCA AL 29 3B 7 7 7 4 2 0
1962 KCA AL 29 2B -0 -98 -0 0 -0 0
1963 KCA AL 30 3B 4 3 4 -0 4 0
1964 KCA AL 31 3B -11 -10 -11 -5 -6 0
1965 KCA AL 32 3B 5 5 4 2 1 1
1965 KCA AL 32 2B 0 0 0 0 0
1965 KCA AL 32 SS -0 -120 -0 -0 0 0
1966 KCA AL 33 3B 10 14 9 7 2 1
1966 KCA AL 33 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1966 KCA AL 33 LF -0 -80 -0 -0 0 0
1967 KCA AL 34 3B -1 -5 -1 -1 0 0
1967 NYM NL 34 3B -0 -1 0 2 -2 -1
1968 NYM NL 35 3B 3 4 3 1 2 0
1968 NYM NL 35 1B 0 20 0 0 0 0
1969 NYM NL 36 3B 3 9 2 1 1 1
8 Seasons 3B 19 3 17 12 5 2
2 Seasons 1B 0 19 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 2B -0 -77 -0 0 -0 0
1 Season LF -0 -80 -0 -0 0 0
1 Season SS -0 -120 -0 -0 0 0
8 Seasons TOT 18 3 16 11 5 2 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1962 KCA AL 29 147 138 147 140 0 0 0 2 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1963 KCA AL 30 158 158 158 158 0 0 0 0 158 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1964 KCA AL 31 150 144 150 147 0 0 0 0 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1965 KCA AL 32 134 127 134 128 0 0 0 1 128 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1966 KCA AL 33 118 99 118 106 0 0 1 0 104 0 1 0 0 1 0 14 1
1967 NYM NL 34 101 86 101 89 0 0 0 0 89 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 2
1967 KCA AL 34 19 17 19 18 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1968 NYM NL 35 117 92 117 108 0 0 2 0 106 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
1969 NYM NL 36 61 45 61 52 0 0 0 0 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
8 Seasons 1005 906 1005 946 0 0 3 3 942 1 1 0 0 1 0 79 3
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 -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1962 KCA AL 29 5112 58% 79% 26% 410 92% 4 137 112 9 16 278 202 53 5 15 15 1 11 3 12 26 18 0 21 5 5 0 12 58%
1963 KCA AL 30 6019 58% 80% 26% 466 92% 2 150 115 14 20 308 261 40 3 13 25 1 20 4 20 19 15 1 17 1 0 1 11 64%
1964 KCA AL 31 5720 61% 78% 25% 407 90% 6 138 110 9 19 264 209 38 4 10 19 0 18 1 15 25 17 2 19 3 1 0 16 75%
1965 KCA AL 32 4792 59% 80% 24% 399 94% 2 150 122 11 18 259 200 45 4 8 12 0 11 1 11 30 18 3 25 4 2 0 12 75%
1966 KCA AL 33 3726 57% 78% 26% 294 93% 2 88 70 5 13 204 161 34 4 9 11 1 9 1 10 21 16 1 18 2 1 0 10 80%
1967 NYM NL 34 3241 63% 81% 27% 298 89% 2 85 71 3 11 202 166 25 3 7 17 0 14 3 11 16 8 1 10 4 3 1 14 57%
1967 KCA AL 34 660 59% 74% 23% 51 94% 0 17 12 2 3 37 29 4 0 3 2 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 100%
1968 NYM NL 35 3462 67% 79% 30% 265 92% 1 69 49 12 8 195 151 40 2 3 13 0 12 1 11 20 14 2 18 2 1 1 7 71%
1969 NYM NL 36 1613 63% 76% 26% 118 93% 1 35 25 3 7 87 68 14 1 1 7 0 6 1 6 10 7 1 9 1 1 0 4 50%
8 Seasons 34345 60% 79% 26% 2708 92% 20 869 686 68 115 1834 1447 293 26 69 121 3 103 15 98 168 114 11 138 22 14 3 88 68%
MLB Averages 63% 79% 28% 89% 64%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1962 KCA AL 29 18 72% 89% 22% 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1965 KCA AL 32 3 100% 67% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 21 76% 86% 19% 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 79% 28% 93%

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 33 3 67% 67% 0% 1 100% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1968 NYM NL 35 78 78% 67% 12% 4 100% 0 8 1 7 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
2 Seasons 81 78% 67% 11% 5 100% 0 9 2 7 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
MLB Averages 63% 79% 28% 94% 86%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1965 KCA AL 32 14 57% 64% 21% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 14 57% 64% 21% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 79% 28% 91%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1966 KCA AL 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 87% 77% 29% 1 100%
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 87% 77% 29% 1 100%
MLB Averages 58.4% 2.7% 63% 79% 27% 48%

* 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 3B s c a p y
1963 AL  158 (2nd)
1964 AL  147 (2nd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1962 AL  145 (5th)
1963 AL  153 (4th)
1964 AL  138 (3rd)
1965 AL  150 (4th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1962 AL  285 (5th)
1963 AL  310 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1963 AL  25 (4th)
1964 AL  19 (2nd)
1967 NL  17 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1962 AL  7 (4th)
1966 AL  10 (3rd)
1968 NL  3 (4th)
1969 NL  3 (5th)
Career  19 (62nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1962 AL  3.22 (2nd)
1965 AL  3.26 (3rd)
1967 NL  3.37 (2nd)
1968 NL  2.85 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1962 AL  3.07 (3rd)
1963 AL  2.93 (5th)
1965 AL  3.13 (3rd)
1967 NL  3.21 (2nd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1962 AL  .964 (4th)
1963 AL  .949 (5th)
1965 AL  .971 (2nd)
1966 AL  .963 (4th)
1968 NL  .954 (5th)
Career  .957 (83rd)

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