Pete Daley

Peter Harvey Daley

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: January 14, 1930 in Grass Valley, CA
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1948. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 3, 1955
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Athletics/Senators 1955-1961

Final Game: October 1, 1961
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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
1955	BOS	AL	25	C	14	10	9	111.2	79	75	4	0	0	1.000	-1	-11	6.37	5.64	.988	5.59	5.54	0	2	4	1	20%	47%	0
1956	BOS	AL	26	C	57	43	41	425.0	244	228	14	2	1	.992	-3	-8	5.12	4.25	.988	5.91	5.86	4	9	14	5	26%	44%	0
1957	BOS	AL	27	C	77	49	43	487.2	309	289	20	0	5	1.000	1	2	5.70	4.01	.991	5.92	5.94	2	7	10	10	50%	47%	0
1958	BOS	AL	28	C	27	18	14	164.0	99	88	10	1	1	.990	0	0	5.38	3.63	.990	6.01	5.95	0	3	6	2	25%	47%	3
1959	BOS	AL	29	C	58	41	33	394.2	274	245	28	1	5	.996	3	9	6.23	4.71	.989	6.08	6.04	6	6	5	10	67%	40%	2
1960	KCA	AL	30	C	61	57	56	515.0	299	263	33	3	3	.990	-1	-2	5.17	4.85	.987	5.93	5.92	6	9	35	13	27%	40%	2
1960	KCA	AL	30	LF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-120	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.10
1960	KCA	AL	30	OF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-120	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.20
1961	WSA	AL	31	C	72	59	52	531.2	324	285	35	4	6	.988	-2	-5	5.42	4.44	.989	6.21	6.14	7	14	32	15	32%	36%	0
	7 Seasons			C	366	277	248	2629.2	1628	1473	144	11	21	.993	-3	-1	5.53	4.42	.989	5.99	5.96	25	50	106	56	35%	41%	7
	1 Season			OF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-120	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.20
	1 Season			LF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-120	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.10
	7 Seasons			TOT	367	277	248	2630.2	1628	1473	144	11	21	.993	-3	-1	5.53	4.41	.989	5.99	5.95	25	50	106	56	35%	41%	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.
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	Rctch
1955	BOS	AL	25	C	-1	-11				-1
1956	BOS	AL	26	C	-3	-8				-3
1957	BOS	AL	27	C	1	2				1
1958	BOS	AL	28	C	0	0				0
1959	BOS	AL	29	C	3	9				3
1960	KCA	AL	30	C	-1	-2				-1
1960	KCA	AL	30	LF	-0	-120	-0	-0	0
1961	WSA	AL	31	C	-2	-5				-2
	7 Seasons			C	-3	-1				-3
	1 Season			LF	-0	-120	-0	-0	0
	7 Seasons			TOT	-3	-1	-0	-0	0	-3

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	LF	OF	PH
1955	BOS	AL	25	17	10	17	14	14	0	0	4
1956	BOS	AL	26	59	43	59	57	57	0	0	3
1957	BOS	AL	27	78	49	78	78	78	0	0	1
1958	BOS	AL	28	27	18	27	27	27	0	0	0
1959	BOS	AL	29	65	41	65	58	58	0	0	9
1960	KCA	AL	30	73	57	73	62	61	1	1	14
1961	WSA	AL	31	72	59	72	72	72	0	0	0
	7 Seasons			391	277	391	368	367	1	1	31

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%
1955	BOS	AL	25	472	2.82	3.30	11	100%	0	0	74	9	2	2	61	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	100%
1956	BOS	AL	26	1880	4.56	5.15	24	96%	0	0	229	18	0	9	202	14	4	0	0	3	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	100%
1957	BOS	AL	27	2039	4.22	4.72	29	100%	0	0	282	23	1	10	246	18	6	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	5	100%
1958	BOS	AL	28	684	2.91	3.51	7	86%	0	0	88	5	0	0	83	10	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
1959	BOS	AL	29	1726	4.63	4.88	35	97%	0	0	242	22	3	6	211	28	11	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	5	0	1	2	4	100%
1960	KCA	AL	30	2220	4.43	4.92	43	93%	0	1	263	30	1	6	226	32	6	1	0	6	3	0	3	0	0	3	0	0	1	5	80%
1961	WSA	AL	31	2264	4.18	4.71	34	91%	0	0	291	23	1	11	256	33	6	2	0	7	4	0	2	2	0	6	0	1	1	4	75%
	7 Seasons			11285	4.23	4.72	183	95%	0	1	1469	130	8	44	1285	139	36	4	0	21	11	0	9	2	0	20	0	2	4	23	91%
	MLB Averages				3.93	4.44		95%																							87%

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
1955	BOS	AL	25	0	2	194	4	1	1	20%	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	1	1.16	1.59
1956	BOS	AL	26	4	9	751	14	5	5	26%	12	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	34	8	1.00	1.18
1957	BOS	AL	27	2	7	794	10	10	9	50%	10	8	0	1	0	1	0	0	22	10	0.84	1.41
1958	BOS	AL	28	0	3	275	6	2	2	25%	6	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	12	4	0.82	1.32
1959	BOS	AL	29	6	6	690	5	10	10	67%	5	9	0	1	0	0	2	0	23	14	0.92	1.09
1960	KCA	AL	30	6	9	862	35	13	11	27%	30	9	5	3	0	1	2	0	57	17	0.94	1.03
1961	WSA	AL	31	7	14	831	32	15	15	32%	31	12	1	2	0	1	0	0	67	17	1.20	1.23
	7 Seasons			25	50	4397	106	56	53	35%	97	45	9	7	0	4	7	0	223	71	1.02	1.20
	MLB Averages									41%											1.17	1.16

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%
1960	KCA	AL	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	5	20%	80%	0%	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	5	20%	80%	0%	0
	MLB Averages																														58.2%			2.6%			64%	80%	29%		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

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1960 AL 35 (3rd)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1957 AL 1 (5th)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1957 AL 5.70 (5th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1957 AL 1.000 (1st)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1960 AL 35 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1957 AL 1 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1957 AL 5.70 (5th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1957 AL 1.000 (1st)

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