Jimmie Coker

Jimmie Goodwin Coker

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: March 28, 1936 in Holly Hill, SC
Signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent in 1955. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 11, 1958
Teams (by GP): Reds/Phillies/Giants 1958-1967

Final Game: September 12, 1967
Died: October 29, 1991 in Throckmorton, TX
Buried: Throckmorton Cemetery, Throckmorton, TX
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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
1958	PHI	NL	22	C	2	2	1	17.0	11	11	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-71	5.82	5.50	.988	6.04	6.00	2	1	0	0			0
1960	PHI	NL	24	C	76	73	68	639.0	445	394	43	8	5	.982	-5	-9	6.15	5.75	.986	6.58	6.57	7	22	55	22	29%	40%	5
1961	PHI	NL	25	C	11	9	3	71.2	61	59	1	1	0	.984	-3	-50	7.53	5.45	.985	6.39	6.32	4	3	9	1	10%	38%	0
1963	SFG	NL	27	C	2	0	0	5.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-240	7.20	2.00	.985	7.02	7.05	1	0	2	0	0%	42%	0
1964	CIN	NL	28	C	11	8	8	82.0	73	63	10	0	0	1.000	2	29	8.01	6.64	.988	6.80	6.76	2	1	4	7	64%	40%	0
1965	CIN	NL	29	C	19	16	13	148.0	153	145	7	1	2	.993	-2	-16	9.24	8.00	.988	6.96	6.97	4	8	14	5	26%	36%	0
1966	CIN	NL	30	C	39	30	20	268.0	235	205	25	5	2	.979	0	0	7.72	5.90	.987	6.84	6.83	1	15	16	15	48%	40%	0
1966	CIN	NL	30	LF	2	0	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-30	0.00	0.00		1.80	1.75
1966	CIN	NL	30	OF	2	0	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-30	0.00	0.00		2.02	2.05
1967	CIN	NL	31	C	34	22	18	210.1	164	146	14	4	4	.976	-2	-11	6.85	4.71	.990	6.89	6.89	1	12	12	6	33%	40%	2
	8 Seasons			C	194	160	131	1441.0	1146	1027	100	19	13	.983	-12	-10	7.04	5.81	.987	6.71	6.71	22	62	112	56	33%	40%	7
	1 Season			LF	2	0	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-30	0.00	0.00		1.80	1.75
	1 Season			OF	2	0	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-30	0.00	0.00		2.02	2.05
	9 Seasons			TOT	196	160	131	1445.0	1146	1027	100	19	13	.983	-12	-10	7.02	5.75	.987	6.70	6.67	22	62	112	56	33%	40%	7

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.
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rctch
1958	PHI	NL	22	C	-1	-71				-1
1960	PHI	NL	24	C	-5	-9				-5
1961	PHI	NL	25	C	-3	-50				-3
1963	SFG	NL	27	C	-1	-240				-1
1964	CIN	NL	28	C	2	29				2
1965	CIN	NL	29	C	-2	-16				-2
1966	CIN	NL	30	C	0	0				0
1966	CIN	NL	30	LF	-0	-30	-0	-0	0
1967	CIN	NL	31	C	-2	-11				-2
	8 Seasons			C	-12	-10				-12
	1 Season			LF	-0	-30	-0	-0	0
	9 Seasons			TOT	-12	-10	-0	-0	0	-12

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	LF	OF	PH
1958	PHI	NL	22	2	2	2	2	2	0	0	0
1960	PHI	NL	24	81	73	81	76	76	0	0	7
1961	PHI	NL	25	11	9	11	11	11	0	0	1
1962	PHI	NL	26	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	5
1963	SFG	NL	27	4	0	4	2	2	0	0	4
1964	CIN	NL	28	11	8	11	11	11	0	0	1
1965	CIN	NL	29	24	16	24	19	19	0	0	6
1966	CIN	NL	30	50	30	50	41	39	2	2	12
1967	CIN	NL	31	45	22	45	34	34	0	0	14
	9 Seasons			233	160	233	196	194	2	2	50

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%
1958	PHI	NL	22	83	9.00	11.65	3	100%	0	0	10	3	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1960	PHI	NL	24	2738	3.93	4.49	53	91%	1	1	394	35	0	8	351	43	11	0	0	3	8	2	1	5	0	5	0	0	0	9	89%
1961	PHI	NL	25	324	5.90	6.15	4	75%	0	0	59	2	0	3	54	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	100%
1963	SFG	NL	27	27	3.60	3.60	0		0	0	4	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964	CIN	NL	28	328	2.96	3.51	7	100%	0	0	64	4	0	1	59	10	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	100%
1965	CIN	NL	29	615	3.53	4.01	14	100%	0	0	144	12	0	2	129	8	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	100%
1966	CIN	NL	30	1144	4.23	4.57	26	96%	1	0	205	17	1	5	182	24	5	0	0	4	5	0	4	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	100%
1967	CIN	NL	31	896	3.39	3.73	20	95%	0	0	150	6	1	11	132	14	4	1	1	0	4	0	1	3	1	4	1	0	2	5	80%
	8 Seasons			6155	3.97	4.45	127	94%	2	1	1030	79	2	30	918	100	25	1	1	8	19	2	7	10	2	13	1	0	2	19	89%
	MLB Averages				3.68	4.18		95%																							88%

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
1958	PHI	NL	22	2	1	35	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
1960	PHI	NL	24	7	22	1020	55	22	22	29%	50	21	4	1	1	0	5	0	103	31	1.27	0.95
1961	PHI	NL	25	4	3	118	9	1	0	10%	6	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	18	1	1.71	2.00
1963	SFG	NL	27	1	0	8	2	0	0	0%	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.94
1964	CIN	NL	28	2	1	114	4	7	7	64%	3	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	7	2.75	1.51
1965	CIN	NL	29	4	8	234	14	5	5	26%	14	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	31	6	1.02	1.68
1966	CIN	NL	30	1	15	406	16	15	14	48%	15	12	1	2	0	1	0	0	43	15	1.32	0.96
1967	CIN	NL	31	1	12	327	12	6	5	33%	10	5	2	1	0	0	2	1	34	8	1.33	1.92
	8 Seasons			22	62	2262	112	56	53	33%	100	50	11	4	1	2	7	1	244	68	1.33	1.21
	MLB Averages									38%											1.23	1.21

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	CIN	NL	30	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	13	77%	62%	23%	0
	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	13	77%	62%	23%	0
	MLB Averages																														58.3%			2.6%			63%	79%	28%		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

Assists as C s c a p y 1960 NL 43 (5th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1960 NL 8 (4th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1960 NL 7 (4th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1960 NL 55 (1st)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1960 NL 22 (4th)

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