Harry Chiti

Harry Chiti

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 221 lb.

Born: November 16, 1932 in Kincaid, IL
High School: Northwestern HS (Detroit, MI)
Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in 1950. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 27, 1950
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Athletics/Tigers/Mets 1950-1962

Final Game: June 10, 1962
Died: January 31, 2002 in Haines City, FL
Buried: Rolling Hills Cemetery, Winter Haven, FL
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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
1950	CHC	NL	17	C	1	1	0	8.0	2	1	1	0	0	1.000			2.25	2.00	.980	5.40	5.30	0		0	0
1951	CHC	NL	18	C	8	8	8	70.0	46	34	8	4	1	.913			5.40	5.25	.981	5.18	5.16	2	1	3	4	57%	41%	0
1952	CHC	NL	19	C	32	30	28	263.2	186	170	13	3	6	.984			6.25	5.72	.984	5.52	5.47	5	7	13	4	24%	44%	0
1955	CHC	NL	22	C	113	103	86	906.2	573	495	69	9	10	.984	-4	-5	5.60	4.99	.987	5.65	5.60	17	20	50	34	40%	46%	4
1956	CHC	NL	23	C	67	63	51	540.0	369	327	35	7	2	.981	3	7	6.03	5.40	.985	5.83	5.77	6	7	20	19	49%	40%	0
1958	KCA	AL	25	C	83	75	72	700.1	472	425	41	6	9	.987	-4	-7	5.99	5.61	.990	6.01	5.95	18	11	19	15	44%	47%	1
1959	KCA	AL	26	C	47	44	41	383.1	256	228	25	3	5	.988	1	3	5.94	5.38	.989	6.08	6.04	5	9	12	11	48%	40%	1
1960	TOT	AL	27	C	88	84	70	742.4	485	436	41	8	1	.984	-6	-10	5.78	5.42	.987	5.93	5.92	9	22	40	16	29%	40%	0
1960	KCA	AL	27	C	52	51	49	458.2	292	263	24	5	1	.983	-4	-10	5.63	5.52	.987	5.93	5.92	6	12	25	9	26%	40%	0
1960	DET	AL	27	C	36	33	21	283.2	193	173	17	3	0	.984	-2	-8	6.03	5.28	.987	5.93	5.92	3	10	15	7	32%	40%	0
1961	DET	AL	28	C	5	4	1	37.0	22	19	3	0	0	1.000	1	32	5.35	4.40	.989	6.20	6.14	1	1	2	3	60%	36%	0
1962	NYM	NL	29	C	14	11	5	92.0	68	62	4	2	1	.971	-1	-13	6.46	4.71	.987	6.72	6.66	1	1	8	2	20%	34%	0
	10 Seasons			C	458	423	362	3743.1	2479	2197	240	42	35	.983	-10	-3	5.86	5.32	.987	5.86	5.82	64	79	167	108	39%	43%	6
	10 Seasons			TOT	458	423	362	3743.1	2479	2197	240	42	35	.983	-10	-3	5.86	5.32	.987	5.86	5.82	64	79	167	108	39%	43%	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
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	Rctch
1950	CHC	NL	17	C
1951	CHC	NL	18	C
1952	CHC	NL	19	C
1955	CHC	NL	22	C	-4	-5	-4
1956	CHC	NL	23	C	3	7	3
1958	KCA	AL	25	C	-4	-7	-4
1959	KCA	AL	26	C	1	3	1
1960	KCA	AL	27	C	-4	-10	-4
1960	DET	AL	27	C	-2	-8	-2
1961	DET	AL	28	C	1	32	1
1962	NYM	NL	29	C	-1	-13	-1
	10 Seasons			C	-10	-3	-10
	10 Seasons			TOT	-10	-3	-10

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1950	CHC	NL	17	3	1	3	1	1	2	0
1951	CHC	NL	18	9	8	9	8	8	1	0
1952	CHC	NL	19	32	30	32	32	32	1	0
1955	CHC	NL	22	113	103	113	113	113	1	0
1956	CHC	NL	23	72	63	72	67	67	5	0
1958	KCA	AL	25	103	75	103	83	83	21	2
1959	KCA	AL	26	55	44	55	47	47	9	0
1960	KCA	AL	27	58	51	58	52	52	7	0
1960	DET	AL	27	37	33	37	36	36	1	0
1961	DET	AL	28	5	4	5	5	5	0	0
1962	NYM	NL	29	15	11	15	14	14	2	0
	10 Seasons			502	423	502	458	458	50	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%
1951	CHC	NL	18	73	4.11	6.46	2	100%	0	0	15	2	0	1	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952	CHC	NL	19	787	2.93	3.22	15	93%	0	1	123	8	2	6	107	8	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	4	1	0	2	1	100%
1955	CHC	NL	22	2870	3.76	4.33	57	98%	0	0	409	41	2	16	349	49	12	1	0	11	6	0	4	2	0	10	0	2	2	5	100%
1956	CHC	NL	23	2021	3.82	4.43	38	92%	0	0	291	25	1	9	256	31	9	1	0	5	5	0	2	3	1	2	0	1	1	11	82%
1958	KCA	AL	25	2841	3.55	3.96	54	93%	0	1	418	43	2	14	358	39	6	0	1	10	6	0	4	2	0	9	0	0	1	6	50%
1959	KCA	AL	26	1618	4.29	4.88	27	93%	0	1	223	18	0	9	196	24	5	2	0	4	3	0	0	3	0	5	1	0	1	5	80%
1960	KCA	AL	27	1956	3.85	4.37	45	96%	0	1	266	35	0	8	223	23	6	1	0	5	5	2	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	4	100%
1960	DET	AL	27	1230	3.71	4.31	18	100%	0	0	174	14	0	3	157	17	3	0	1	6	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	100%
1961	DET	AL	28	152	4.38	4.38	0		0	0	19	0	0	1	18	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962	NYM	NL	29	403	4.99	5.58	7	100%	0	0	61	6	0	1	54	4	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	100%
	9 Seasons			13951	3.79	4.31	263	95%	0	4	1999	192	7	68	1730	198	45	6	2	42	31	4	12	15	2	32	2	3	7	35	83%
	MLB Averages				3.99	4.50		95%																							86%

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
1951	CHC	NL	18	0	1	22	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1952	CHC	NL	19	3	7	281	13	2	2	13%	11	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	28	3	1.27	1.29
1955	CHC	NL	22	15	20	1057	44	21	21	32%	36	16	7	4	1	1	4	1	94	27	1.23	1.09
1956	CHC	NL	23	4	7	735	16	17	16	52%	12	16	4	1	0	0	0	0	34	19	0.91	1.38
1958	KCA	AL	25	18	11	983	19	15	14	44%	16	11	3	4	0	0	1	1	69	19	1.29	1.67
1959	KCA	AL	26	5	9	637	12	11	11	48%	8	11	4	0	0	0	1	0	36	14	0.92	1.28
1960	KCA	AL	27	6	12	763	25	9	8	26%	19	7	6	0	0	2	0	0	53	13	1.08	1.52
1960	DET	AL	27	3	10	443	15	7	7	32%	14	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	40	7	1.42	1.20
1961	DET	AL	28	1	1	41	2	3	3	60%	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	7	3	1.08	1.68
1962	NYM	NL	29	1	1	152	8	2	2	20%	7	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	13	5	1.36	1.04
	9 Seasons			56	79	5114	154	87	84	36%	125	74	27	10	2	3	6	2	375	110	1.18	1.35
	MLB Averages									42%											1.18	1.16

* 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 1955 NL 113 (4th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1955 NL 495 (3rd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1955 NL 69 (1st) 1958 AL 41 (4th) 1960 AL 41 (4th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1955 NL 9 (2nd) 1958 AL 6 (4th) 1960 AL 8 (2nd)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1955 NL 17 (1st) 1958 AL 18 (1st) 1960 AL 9 (3rd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1955 NL 50 (1st) 1960 AL 40 (1st)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1955 NL 34 (1st) 1956 NL 19 (5th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1956 NL 48.7 (1st)
Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1956 NL 3 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1955 NL 5.60 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1955 NL 4.99 (5th) 1960 AL 5.42 (2nd)	Youngest s c a p y 1950 NL born 1932-11-16 (1st) 1951 NL born 1932-11-16 (1st) 1952 NL born 1932-11-16 (5th)

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