Johnny Edwards

John Alban Edwards

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: June 10, 1938 in Columbus, OH
High School: West HS (Columbus, OH)
School: The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Signed by the Cincinnati Redlegs as an amateur free agent in 1959. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 27, 1961
Teams (by GP): Reds/Astros/Cardinals 1961-1974

Final Game: October 2, 1974
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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
1961	CIN	NL	23	C	52	39	36	384.0	277	257	15	5	2	.982	-4	-12	6.38	5.23	.985	6.39	6.32	11	13	18	8	31%	38%	0
1962	CIN	NL	24	C	130	124	117	1115.0	911	807	92	12	11	.987	6	6	7.26	6.92	.987	6.72	6.66	16	25	51	31	38%	34%	1
1963	CIN	NL	25	C	148	141	134	1241.2	1101	1008	87	6	16	.995	3	3	7.94	7.40	.986	7.07	7.05	10	53	51	44	46%	42%	6	AS,GG
1964	CIN	NL	26	C	120	116	109	1020.2	971	890	73	8	17	.992	-1	-1	8.49	8.03	.988	6.81	6.76	11	41	47	31	40%	40%	5	AS,GG
1965	CIN	NL	27	C	110	98	92	900.2	830	761	61	8	9	.990	0	0	8.21	7.47	.988	6.96	6.97	5	55	46	34	43%	36%	6	AS
1966	CIN	NL	28	C	98	84	70	737.1	662	617	40	5	3	.992	-2	-3	8.02	6.70	.987	6.84	6.83	7	30	50	25	33%	40%	3
1967	CIN	NL	29	C	73	57	43	518.2	489	454	30	5	4	.990	2	5	8.40	6.63	.990	6.89	6.89	4	14	25	18	42%	40%	2
1968	STL	NL	30	C	54	52	51	486.2	378	350	25	3	2	.992	5	12	6.93	6.94	.990	6.87	6.90	1	9	11	14	56%	39%	3
1969	HOU	NL	31	C	151	140	127	1241.2	1221	1135	79	7	9	.994	3	3	8.80	8.04	.989	7.06	7.01	10	63	53	49	48%	40%	0	MVP-36
1970	HOU	NL	32	C	139	134	114	1177.0	933	854	74	5	11	.995	5	5	7.10	6.68	.987	6.85	6.82	6	69	59	49	45%	33%	1
1971	HOU	NL	33	C	104	91	79	816.1	606	555	48	3	7	.995	3	4	6.65	5.80	.988	6.34	6.33	9	31	34	27	44%	35%	3
1972	HOU	NL	34	C	105	96	84	859.2	694	645	41	8	8	.988	-6	-8	7.18	6.53	.987	6.61	6.63	9	33	60	24	29%	37%	1
1973	HOU	NL	35	C	76	69	54	611.2	462	435	22	5	3	.989	-4	-8	6.72	6.01	.987	6.34	6.34	2	19	48	16	25%	36%	0
1974	HOU	NL	36	C	32	27	21	240.2	175	157	16	2	3	.989	-4	-20	6.47	5.41	.985	6.12	6.11	1	9	27	6	18%	33%	0
	14 Seasons			C	1392	1268	1131	11351.2	9710	8925	703	82	105	.992	6	1	7.63	6.92	.988	6.78	6.75	102	464	580	376	39%	37%	31
	14 Seasons			TOT	1392	1268	1131	11351.2	9710	8925	703	82	105	.992	6	1	7.63	6.92	.988	6.78	6.75	102	464	580	376	39%	37%	31

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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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rctch
1961	CIN	NL	23	C	-4	-12	-4
1962	CIN	NL	24	C	6	6	6
1963	CIN	NL	25	C	3	3	3
1964	CIN	NL	26	C	-1	-1	-1
1965	CIN	NL	27	C	0	0	0
1966	CIN	NL	28	C	-2	-3	-2
1967	CIN	NL	29	C	2	5	2
1968	STL	NL	30	C	5	12	5
1969	HOU	NL	31	C	3	3	3
1970	HOU	NL	32	C	5	5	5
1971	HOU	NL	33	C	3	4	3
1972	HOU	NL	34	C	-6	-8	-6
1973	HOU	NL	35	C	-4	-8	-4
1974	HOU	NL	36	C	-4	-20	-4
	14 Seasons			C	6	1	6
	14 Seasons			TOT	6	1	6

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH
1961	CIN	NL	23	52	39	52	52	52	5
1962	CIN	NL	24	133	124	133	130	130	8
1963	CIN	NL	25	148	141	148	148	148	2
1964	CIN	NL	26	126	116	126	120	120	10
1965	CIN	NL	27	114	98	114	110	110	11
1966	CIN	NL	28	98	84	98	98	98	1
1967	CIN	NL	29	80	57	80	74	74	7
1968	STL	NL	30	85	52	85	54	54	31
1969	HOU	NL	31	151	140	151	151	151	5
1970	HOU	NL	32	140	134	140	139	139	3
1971	HOU	NL	33	106	91	106	104	104	8
1972	HOU	NL	34	108	96	108	105	105	6
1973	HOU	NL	35	79	69	79	76	76	8
1974	HOU	NL	36	50	27	50	33	33	18
	14 Seasons			1470	1268	1470	1394	1394	123

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%
1961	CIN	NL	23	1623	3.73	4.24	27	93%	0	0	255	23	0	8	224	15	2	0	0	4	5	0	1	4	0	2	0	0	0	0
1962	CIN	NL	24	4724	3.49	3.94	98	96%	0	0	807	74	8	20	701	82	15	0	2	17	12	1	2	9	1	13	0	4	7	11	82%
1963	CIN	NL	25	5123	3.19	3.60	106	98%	0	0	1009	87	7	19	894	83	16	1	1	8	6	0	4	2	0	16	0	2	4	13	100%
1964	CIN	NL	26	4221	3.21	3.57	86	97%	1	0	884	63	4	19	798	71	14	0	0	12	9	0	4	5	0	15	0	0	1	9	89%
1965	CIN	NL	27	3888	4.10	4.65	73	100%	0	0	760	64	9	12	675	59	9	1	1	6	8	1	1	6	0	9	0	3	3	5	100%
1966	CIN	NL	28	3166	4.20	4.55	65	98%	0	1	617	38	1	24	554	41	7	0	0	5	5	0	1	4	0	4	0	0	0	8	88%
1967	CIN	NL	29	2209	3.16	3.59	59	97%	0	0	457	35	1	19	402	31	9	1	0	3	5	0	2	3	2	4	0	1	1	4	100%
1968	STL	NL	30	1992	2.48	2.96	37	95%	0	0	352	27	2	3	319	23	8	0	0	1	3	0	2	1	1	2	0	0	0	8	100%
1969	HOU	NL	31	5014	3.93	4.49	72	99%	1	0	1130	53	9	21	1046	65	11	1	1	11	7	1	2	4	0	7	0	1	2	4	75%
1970	HOU	NL	32	4952	4.27	4.76	74	97%	0	0	849	54	4	26	765	63	13	0	1	3	5	1	2	2	1	7	0	1	2	4	75%
1971	HOU	NL	33	3304	3.32	3.57	53	98%	0	0	538	30	4	17	487	47	14	1	1	5	3	0	2	1	1	7	0	1	2	9	89%
1972	HOU	NL	34	3604	3.53	3.80	54	98%	0	0	647	36	1	13	597	39	11	0	1	2	8	0	1	7	1	8	0	0	2	9	89%
1973	HOU	NL	35	2577	3.24	3.67	42	95%	0	0	431	28	1	11	391	22	8	0	0	2	5	0	2	3	1	3	0	0	0	5	100%
1974	HOU	NL	36	1024	2.95	3.29	21	100%	0	0	160	14	2	4	140	15	6	0	0	2	2	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	2	100%
	14 Seasons			47421	3.56	3.99	867	97%	2	1	8896	626	53	216	7993	656	143	5	8	81	83	4	26	53	8	100	0	13	24	91	91%
	MLB Averages				3.57	4.05		95%																							90%

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
1961	CIN	NL	23	11	13	590	18	8	7	31%	13	6	4	1	1	1	0	0	58	9	1.07	1.02
1962	CIN	NL	24	16	25	1820	51	31	31	38%	49	27	2	2	0	2	2	0	112	47	1.17	1.05
1963	CIN	NL	25	10	53	1878	51	44	39	46%	45	41	6	1	0	2	6	0	136	57	1.09	1.24
1964	CIN	NL	26	11	41	1502	47	31	30	40%	43	26	4	2	0	3	5	0	130	45	1.18	1.20
1965	CIN	NL	27	5	55	1450	46	34	33	43%	37	31	9	3	0	0	6	0	138	41	1.04	1.13
1966	CIN	NL	28	7	30	1192	50	25	23	33%	43	23	7	1	0	1	3	0	107	29	1.17	0.79
1967	CIN	NL	29	4	14	826	25	18	16	42%	24	15	0	2	1	1	2	1	54	20	1.34	1.26
1968	STL	NL	30	1	9	702	11	14	11	56%	8	11	3	1	0	2	3	1	30	17	0.96	1.61
1969	HOU	NL	31	10	63	1862	53	39	37	42%	46	32	5	2	2	5	0	0	158	47	1.39	1.21
1970	HOU	NL	32	7	69	1919	59	46	39	44%	54	43	5	1	0	2	1	0	177	49	1.34	1.26
1971	HOU	NL	33	8	31	1228	33	25	20	43%	31	19	2	2	0	4	3	0	90	31	1.12	1.40
1972	HOU	NL	34	9	33	1358	60	22	19	27%	56	18	3	2	1	2	1	1	127	27	1.50	1.33
1973	HOU	NL	35	2	19	922	48	16	12	25%	43	15	5	1	0	0	0	0	86	16	1.50	0.94
1974	HOU	NL	36	1	9	383	27	6	6	18%	25	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	49	8	1.08	1.77
	14 Seasons			102	464	17632	579	359	323	38%	517	313	57	21	5	25	32	3	1452	443	1.25	1.20
	MLB Averages									37%											1.27	1.22

* 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

Hall of Fame 1980 BBWAA ()	All-Star Games 1963 * 1964 * 1965	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1969 NL (36, 0%) 0.00 Career Shares (1712th)	Gold Gloves 1963 NL (C) 1964 NL (C) All multiple winners
Putouts† s c a p y 1963 NL 1,008 (5th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1962 NL 130 (1st) 1963 NL 148 (1st) 1964 NL 120 (4th) 1969 NL 151 (1st) 1970 NL 139 (1st) Career 1,392 (40th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1962 NL 807 (2nd) 1963 NL 1,008 (1st) 1964 NL 890 (1st) 1965 NL 761 (3rd) 1969 NL 1,135 (1st) 1970 NL 854 (2nd) Career 8,925 (19th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1962 NL 92 (1st) 1963 NL 87 (2nd) 1964 NL 73 (1st) 1965 NL 61 (3rd) 1969 NL 79 (1st) 1970 NL 74 (1st) Career 703 (95th)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1962 NL 12 (2nd) 1965 NL 8 (4th) 1972 NL 8 (5th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1961 NL 11 (3rd) 1962 NL 16 (1st) 1964 NL 11 (3rd) 1972 NL 9 (4th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1962 NL 51 (2nd) 1963 NL 51 (3rd) 1964 NL 47 (3rd) 1965 NL 46 (2nd) 1966 NL 50 (4th) 1969 NL 53 (4th) 1970 NL 59 (2nd) 1972 NL 60 (4th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1962 NL 31 (1st) 1963 NL 44 (3rd) 1964 NL 31 (3rd) 1965 NL 34 (2nd) 1969 NL 49 (2nd) 1970 NL 49 (1st)
Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1969 NL 48.0 (5th) 1970 NL 45.4 (4th) 1971 NL 44.3 (3rd)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1962 NL 6 (2nd) 1963 NL 3 (4th) 1968 NL 5 (3rd)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1962 NL 7.26 (3rd) 1963 NL 7.94 (1st) 1964 NL 8.49 (1st) 1965 NL 8.21 (2nd) 1966 NL 8.02 (1st) 1969 NL 8.80 (1st) 1970 NL 7.10 (2nd) 1971 NL 6.65 (3rd) 1972 NL 7.18 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1962 NL 6.92 (2nd) 1963 NL 7.40 (1st) 1964 NL 8.03 (1st) 1965 NL 7.47 (1st) 1966 NL 6.70 (2nd) 1969 NL 8.04 (1st) 1970 NL 6.68 (3rd) 1971 NL 5.80 (5th) 1972 NL 6.53 (5th) Career 6.92 (22nd)
Fielding % as C s c a p y 1963 NL .995 (1st) 1964 NL .992 (4th) 1966 NL .992 (4th) 1969 NL .994 (1st) 1970 NL .995 (1st) 1971 NL .995 (1st) Career .992 (50th)

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