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Jody Davis

Jody Richard Davis

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 192 lb.

Born: November 12, 1956 in Gainesville, GA
High School: North Hall HS (Gainesville, GA)
Drafted by the New York Mets in the 3rd round of the 1976 amateur draft (January). Player signed March 12, 1976. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 21, 1981
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Braves 1981-1990
Agents: Jack Sands [*]
Final Game: May 13, 1990
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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
1981 CHC NL 24 C 56 53 45 474.1 327 274 44 9 4 .972 3 8 6.03 5.68 .983 5.93 5.95 3 15 39 29 43% 33% 0
1982 CHC NL 25 C 129 120 113 1069.0 698 598 89 11 11 .984 9 10 5.78 5.33 .985 6.29 6.30 10 23 95 57 38% 32% 2
1983 CHC NL 26 C 150 140 124 1215.1 818 730 75 13 7 .984 -7 -7 5.96 5.37 .984 6.57 6.54 21 40 128 49 28% 33% 3 MVP-21
1984 CHC NL 27 C 146 141 129 1245.1 915 811 89 15 9 .984 3 3 6.50 6.16 .986 6.53 6.51 10 35 121 58 32% 31% 2 AS,MVP-10
1985 CHC NL 28 C 138 129 107 1124.0 786 694 84 8 7 .990 6 6 6.23 5.64 .987 6.42 6.42 14 28 119 62 34% 30% 2
1986 CHC NL 29 C 145 141 128 1257.2 998 885 105 8 14 .992 21 20 7.08 6.83 .985 6.93 6.94 15 50 98 89 48% 32% 10 AS,GG
1986 CHC NL 29 1B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 9.90 10.00 AS,GG
1987 CHC NL 30 C 123 119 96 1014.0 837 749 79 9 11 .989 1 1 7.35 6.73 .987 6.94 6.90 12 36 117 51 30% 29% 2
1988 TOT NL 31 C 76 70 56 601.4 432 396 34 2 1 .995 0 0 6.44 5.66 .987 6.56 6.57 7 22 58 24 29% 29% 0
1988 CHC NL 31 C 74 68 54 583.2 417 383 32 2 1 .995 0 0 6.40 5.61 .987 6.56 6.57 7 21 56 23 29% 29% 0
1988 ATL NL 31 C 2 2 2 17.2 15 13 2 0 0 1.000 0 0 7.64 7.50 .987 6.57 6.55 0 1 2 1 33% 29% 0
1989 ATL NL 32 C 72 61 51 539.2 410 364 40 6 1 .985 2 4 6.74 5.61 .986 6.67 6.68 6 21 37 26 41% 32% 0
1989 ATL NL 32 1B 2 1 1 12.0 12 12 0 0 3 1.000 -0 -20 9.00 6.00 .992 9.75 9.75
1990 ATL NL 33 1B 6 5 1 37.2 50 45 5 0 4 1.000 0 16 11.95 8.33 .992 9.61 9.53
1990 ATL NL 33 C 4 2 2 22.0 20 19 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 8.18 5.00 .987 6.67 6.60 0 0 3 0 0% 29% 0
10 Seasons C 1039 976 851 8562.2 6241 5520 640 81 65 .987 38 5 6.47 5.93 .986 6.58 6.57 98 270 815 445 35% 31% 21
3 Seasons 1B 9 6 2 51.2 62 57 5 0 7 1.000 0 2 10.80 6.89 .992 9.65 9.63
10 Seasons TOT 1048 982 853 8614.1 6303 5577 645 81 72 .987 38 5 6.50 5.94 .986 6.60 6.60 98 270 815 445 35% 31% 21
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
1981 CHC NL 24 C 3 8 3
1982 CHC NL 25 C 9 10 9
1983 CHC NL 26 C -7 -7 -7
1984 CHC NL 27 C 3 3 3
1985 CHC NL 28 C 6 6 6
1986 CHC NL 29 C 21 20 21
1986 CHC NL 29 1B -0 -120 -0 0 -0 0
1987 CHC NL 30 C 1 1 1
1988 CHC NL 31 C 0 0 0
1988 ATL NL 31 C 0 0 0
1989 ATL NL 32 C 2 4 2
1989 ATL NL 32 1B -0 -20 -0 -0 0 0
1990 ATL NL 33 1B 0 16 0 0 0 0
1990 ATL NL 33 C 0 0 0
10 Seasons C 38 5 38
3 Seasons 1B 0 2 0 -0 0 0
10 Seasons TOT 38 5 0 -0 0 0 38

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1981 CHC NL 24 56 53 56 56 0 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1982 CHC NL 25 130 120 130 129 0 129 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1983 CHC NL 26 151 140 151 150 0 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1984 CHC NL 27 150 141 150 146 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1985 CHC NL 28 142 129 142 138 0 138 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1986 CHC NL 29 148 141 148 146 0 145 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1987 CHC NL 30 125 119 125 123 0 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1988 CHC NL 31 88 68 88 74 0 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
1988 ATL NL 31 2 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1989 ATL NL 32 78 62 78 73 0 72 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1990 ATL NL 33 12 7 12 9 0 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
10 Seasons 1082 982 1082 1046 0 1039 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 61 0
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%
1981 CHC NL 24 2039 3.95 4.36 24 92% 0 0 275 16 2 7 250 44 7 0 0 7 10 1 4 5 0 4 0 1 1 8 88%
1982 CHC NL 25 4567 4.00 4.46 50 96% 1 0 600 29 4 25 541 88 16 1 1 3 11 0 3 8 0 11 1 2 6 8 88%
1983 CHC NL 26 5186 3.96 4.47 59 90% 0 1 735 35 10 13 677 68 18 0 0 5 13 1 5 7 4 7 0 2 3 8 88%
1984 CHC NL 27 5249 3.69 4.08 39 95% 0 1 811 18 4 19 770 93 12 1 2 8 15 0 3 12 1 9 0 2 3 8 100%
1985 CHC NL 28 4857 4.26 4.69 59 98% 0 1 695 32 4 21 638 81 21 2 0 7 8 1 1 6 0 8 1 1 2 9 100%
1986 CHC NL 29 5410 4.47 4.87 39 97% 0 0 887 27 1 17 841 106 6 0 2 10 8 0 0 8 0 13 0 1 3 6 100%
1987 CHC NL 30 4427 4.49 4.93 42 93% 1 1 749 23 4 15 706 81 17 0 1 6 9 0 2 7 1 10 0 3 4 15 80%
1988 CHC NL 31 2484 3.55 4.04 17 88% 0 1 384 10 1 10 362 30 4 0 0 6 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 4 75%
1988 ATL NL 31 74 5.09 5.09 1 100% 0 0 13 0 0 2 11 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1989 ATL NL 32 2254 3.59 4.09 24 96% 0 1 366 14 3 6 343 38 8 0 0 4 6 0 0 6 0 1 0 0 0 9 89%
1990 ATL NL 33 98 3.27 3.27 2 100% 0 0 19 2 0 0 17 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons 36645 4.05 4.49 356 94% 2 6 5534 206 33 135 5156 632 109 4 6 58 82 3 18 61 6 64 2 12 23 75 89%
MLB Averages 3.86 4.32 95% 89%

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
1981 CHC NL 24 3 15 772 39 29 26 43% 36 25 3 2 0 2 0 0 70 32 1.40 1.37
1982 CHC NL 25 9 23 1676 95 57 56 38% 88 50 7 4 0 3 2 1 147 63 1.17 1.42
1983 CHC NL 26 20 40 1881 128 48 35 27% 122 44 6 1 0 3 3 1 231 65 1.26 1.29
1984 CHC NL 27 10 35 1961 121 58 56 32% 111 53 9 2 1 3 2 0 200 70 1.47 1.36
1985 CHC NL 28 13 28 1810 119 62 44 34% 104 55 14 4 1 3 2 2 194 70 1.17 1.27
1986 CHC NL 29 15 50 2005 98 89 72 48% 88 76 10 7 0 6 10 1 209 105 1.38 1.11
1987 CHC NL 30 12 36 1661 117 51 45 30% 106 46 11 5 0 0 2 0 207 61 1.39 1.08
1988 CHC NL 31 7 21 894 56 23 18 29% 52 19 4 2 0 2 0 0 102 25 1.48 1.18
1988 ATL NL 31 0 1 23 2 1 1 33% 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1.86 1.08
1989 ATL NL 32 6 21 817 37 26 19 41% 36 22 1 2 0 2 0 0 99 30 1.22 1.40
1990 ATL NL 33 0 0 46 3 0 0 0% 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2.54
10 Seasons 95 270 13546 815 444 372 35% 747 391 66 29 2 24 21 5 1465 522 1.33 1.26
MLB Averages 32% 1.29 1.28

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%
1986 CHC NL 29 10 30% 100% 0% 1 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
1989 ATL NL 32 49 49% 82% 39% 1 100% 0 12 0 12 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
1990 ATL NL 33 154 58% 81% 39% 13 100% 0 44 1 42 1 6 6 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 3 100%
3 Seasons 213 54% 82% 37% 15 93% 0 56 1 54 1 7 6 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 3 100%
MLB Averages 59% 81% 29% 95% 88%

* 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

All-Star Games
1984 *
1986 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1983 NL (21, 0%)
1984 NL (10, 15%)
0.15 Career Shares (809th)

Gold Gloves
1986 NL (C)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1986 NL  21 (1st)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1982 NL  129 (5th)
1983 NL  150 (1st)
1984 NL  146 (2nd)
1985 NL  138 (5th)
1986 NL  145 (1st)
Career  1,039 (98th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1984 NL  811 (2nd)
1985 NL  694 (4th)
1986 NL  885 (1st)
1987 NL  749 (5th)
Career  5,520 (82nd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1982 NL  89 (2nd)
1984 NL  89 (2nd)
1985 NL  84 (2nd)
1986 NL  105 (1st)
1987 NL  79 (4th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1981 NL  9 (2nd)
1982 NL  11 (5th)
1983 NL  13 (2nd)
1984 NL  15 (1st)
1987 NL  9 (5th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1982 NL  10 (3rd)
1983 NL  21 (1st)
1984 NL  10 (5th)
1985 NL  14 (3rd)
1986 NL  15 (2nd)
1987 NL  12 (4th)
1989 NL  6 (5th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1983 NL  128 (2nd)
1984 NL  121 (1st)
1985 NL  119 (2nd)
1987 NL  117 (5th)
Career  815 (56th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1982 NL  57 (3rd)
1984 NL  58 (2nd)
1985 NL  62 (1st)
1986 NL  89 (1st)
1987 NL  51 (5th)
Career  445 (83rd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1981 NL  42.6 (2nd)
1982 NL  37.5 (5th)
1986 NL  47.6 (1st)
1989 NL  41.3 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1981 NL  3 (5th)
1982 NL  9 (2nd)
1985 NL  6 (5th)
1986 NL  21 (1st)
Career  38 (29th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1986 NL  7.08 (5th)
Career  6.47 (94th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1981 NL  5.68 (3rd)
1984 NL  6.16 (5th)
1986 NL  6.83 (4th)
1987 NL  6.73 (4th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1985 NL  .990 (5th)
1986 NL  .992 (2nd)
1987 NL  .989 (5th)

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