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Brian Dorsett

Brian Richard Dorsett

Positions: Catcher and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: April 9, 1961 in Terre Haute, IN
High School: North HS (Terre Haute, IN)
School: Indiana State University (Terre Haute, IN)
Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 10th round of the 1983 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 8, 1987
Teams (by GP): Reds/Yankees/Cubs/Padres/Angels/... 1987-1996

Final Game: June 4, 1996
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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
1987 CLE AL 26 C 4 2 2 21.0 12 12 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -57 5.14 3.00 .988 6.73 6.68 1 0 4 0 0% 31% 0
1988 CAL AL 27 C 7 3 0 33.0 22 19 3 0 1 1.000 0 0 6.00 3.14 .989 6.22 6.16 3 1 2 2 50% 31% 0
1989 NYY AL 28 C 8 6 6 54.0 32 29 3 0 1 1.000 1 22 5.33 4.00 .989 6.23 6.18 0 2 2 2 50% 32% 0
1990 NYY AL 29 C 9 5 1 48.0 31 31 0 0 1 1.000 -1 -25 5.81 3.44 .991 6.41 6.36 0 3 5 0 0% 34% 0
1990 NYY AL 29 DH 5 5
1991 SDP NL 30 1B 2 0 0 5.0 5 4 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 2.50 .992 9.72 9.75
1993 CIN NL 32 C 18 14 12 127.1 116 111 5 0 0 1.000 0 0 8.20 6.44 .989 6.74 6.69 0 4 9 3 25% 32% 0
1993 CIN NL 32 1B 3 1 0 10.0 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 0 48 7.20 2.67 .992 9.72 9.60
1994 CIN NL 33 C 73 61 48 538.1 450 412 34 4 6 .991 4 9 7.46 6.11 .991 7.10 7.05 9 14 31 20 39% 32% 2
1994 CIN NL 33 1B 1 0 0 3.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -80 3.00 1.00 .990 9.60 9.70
1996 CHC NL 35 C 15 9 9 90.2 84 79 5 0 1 1.000 2 26 8.34 5.60 .989 7.50 7.45 1 2 2 3 60% 28% 1
7 Seasons C 134 100 78 912.1 747 693 50 4 10 .995 5 7 7.33 5.54 .990 6.96 6.89 14 26 55 30 35% 32% 3
3 Seasons 1B 6 1 0 18.0 14 13 1 0 0 1.000 0 13 7.00 2.33 .992 9.70 9.67
8 Seasons TOT 140 101 78 930.1 761 706 51 4 10 .995 5 7 7.32 5.41 .990 7.01 7.01 14 26 55 30 35% 32% 3
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
1987 CLE AL 26 C -1 -57 -1
1988 CAL AL 27 C 0 0 0
1989 NYY AL 28 C 1 22 1
1990 NYY AL 29 C -1 -25 -1
1991 SDP NL 30 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1993 CIN NL 32 C 0 0 0
1993 CIN NL 32 1B 0 48 0 0 0 0
1994 CIN NL 33 C 4 9 4
1994 CIN NL 33 1B -0 -80 -0 -0 0
1996 CHC NL 35 C 2 26 2
7 Seasons C 5 7 5
3 Seasons 1B 0 13 0 -0 0 0
8 Seasons TOT 5 7 0 -0 0 0 5

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1987 CLE AL 26 5 2 5 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1988 CAL AL 27 7 3 7 7 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1989 NYY AL 28 8 6 8 8 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1990 NYY AL 29 14 10 14 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 0
1991 SDP NL 30 11 0 11 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1993 CIN NL 32 25 15 25 21 0 18 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1994 CIN NL 33 76 61 76 74 0 73 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1996 CHC NL 35 17 9 17 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
8 Seasons 163 106 163 140 0 134 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 36 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%
1987 CLE AL 26 110 8.14 10.71 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1988 CAL AL 27 146 2.73 3.82 0 0 0 19 0 1 1 17 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
1989 NYY AL 28 229 2.67 3.00 4 100% 0 0 29 2 0 0 27 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1990 NYY AL 29 232 5.06 5.25 2 100% 0 0 31 2 0 1 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1993 CIN NL 32 578 4.45 5.09 9 100% 0 0 111 8 0 3 100 5 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1994 CIN NL 33 2256 3.43 4.07 26 96% 0 0 412 14 4 5 389 36 12 0 0 6 4 0 2 2 0 6 0 2 2 9 100%
1996 CHC NL 35 393 4.67 4.86 0 0 0 79 0 1 0 78 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
7 Seasons 3944 3.82 4.43 41 98% 0 0 693 26 6 11 650 52 17 0 0 7 4 0 2 2 0 10 0 4 4 11 100%
MLB Averages 4.09 4.53 94% 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
1987 CLE AL 26 1 0 48 4 0 0 0% 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0.42
1988 CAL AL 27 3 1 61 2 2 2 50% 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 1.71 1.88
1989 NYY AL 28 0 2 87 2 2 1 50% 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 1.23 1.70
1990 NYY AL 29 0 3 108 5 0 0 0% 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 1.95
1993 CIN NL 32 0 4 227 9 3 3 25% 8 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 19 2 1.09 1.60
1994 CIN NL 33 9 14 775 31 20 17 39% 24 15 7 3 0 2 2 2 62 23 0.98 1.24
1996 CHC NL 35 1 2 140 2 3 3 60% 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 6 3 1.95 1.38
7 Seasons 14 26 1446 55 30 26 35% 43 24 12 4 0 2 3 2 118 32 1.12 1.36
MLB Averages 31% 1.30 1.26

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%
1991 SDP NL 30 20 55% 80% 30% 1 100% 0 4 0 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1993 CIN NL 32 43 65% 67% 35% 1 100% 0 8 0 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1994 CIN NL 33 10 60% 60% 20% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 73 62% 70% 32% 2 100% 0 13 0 13 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 58% 79% 32% 93% 85%

* 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

Passed Balls s c a p y
1994 NL  9 (3rd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1994 NL  39.2 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1994 NL  4 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1994 NL  7.46 (4th)

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