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John Ellis

John Charles Ellis

Positions: First Baseman and Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 225 lb.

Born: August 21, 1948 in New London, CT
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1966. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 17, 1969
Teams (by GP): Indians/Rangers/Yankees 1969-1981

Final Game: October 3, 1981
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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
1969 NYY AL 20 C 15 15 15 134.0 92 83 7 2 1 .978 -3 -27 6.04 6.00 .987 6.65 6.65 1 4 23 4 15% 36% 0
1970 NYY AL 21 1B 53 49 23 397.1 490 449 37 4 35 .992 2 7 11.01 9.17 .991 9.59 9.56
1970 NYY AL 21 3B 5 5 4 41.0 4 0 3 1 0 .750 -2 -44 0.66 0.60 .950 3.07 3.06
1970 NYY AL 21 C 2 2 2 19.0 13 12 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 6.16 6.50 .988 6.63 6.60 1 0 0 1 100% 39% 0
1971 NYY AL 22 1B 65 64 42 539.0 667 625 35 7 66 .990 -2 -5 11.02 10.15 .992 9.59 9.53
1971 NYY AL 22 C 2 0 0 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 6.48 6.35 0 0 0 0 0
1972 NYY AL 23 C 25 23 23 213.1 143 127 11 5 1 .965 -2 -11 5.82 5.52 .985 6.48 6.46 1 5 10 5 33% 39% 0
1972 NYY AL 23 1B 8 7 3 60.2 65 63 1 1 4 .985 0 10 9.49 8.00 .991 9.76 9.71
1973 CLE AL 24 C 72 70 65 620.1 405 370 27 8 5 .980 -8 -15 5.76 5.51 .985 6.05 6.02 9 43 37 22 37% 38% 0
1973 CLE AL 24 DH 38 31
1973 CLE AL 24 1B 12 11 8 98.0 123 117 4 2 6 .984 -0 -5 11.11 10.08 .992 9.86 9.80
1974 CLE AL 25 1B 69 68 54 583.1 710 667 37 6 57 .992 1 3 10.86 10.20 .992 9.70 9.66
1974 CLE AL 25 C 42 34 26 304.1 177 156 18 3 4 .983 -1 -4 5.15 4.14 .983 5.89 5.87 2 9 27 13 33% 38% 0
1974 CLE AL 25 DH 21 21
1975 CLE AL 26 C 84 72 65 670.2 451 396 44 11 3 .976 -1 -2 5.90 5.24 .983 6.00 5.98 6 21 54 35 39% 38% 0
1975 CLE AL 26 DH 3 2
1975 CLE AL 26 1B 2 2 1 17.0 20 17 1 2 1 .900 0 21 9.53 9.00 .990 9.85 9.80
1976 TEX AL 27 C 7 4 3 39.0 23 21 2 0 0 1.000 0 0 5.31 3.29 .981 5.75 5.77 2 2 2 2 50% 34% 0
1976 TEX AL 27 DH 3 2
1977 TEX AL 28 C 16 5 3 68.0 42 40 2 0 1 1.000 -1 -18 5.56 2.63 .986 6.01 5.97 0 1 8 1 11% 39% 0
1977 TEX AL 28 DH 15 13
1977 TEX AL 28 1B 8 7 3 54.0 52 49 3 0 0 1.000 -2 -40 8.67 6.50 .990 10.02 9.95
1978 TEX AL 29 C 22 17 13 157.2 95 81 10 4 1 .958 -2 -15 5.19 4.14 .983 5.53 5.48 4 3 9 4 31% 38% 1
1978 TEX AL 29 DH 7 7
1979 TEX AL 30 DH 61 47
1979 TEX AL 30 1B 30 28 7 185.0 232 216 11 5 17 .978 -1 -5 11.04 7.57 .992 10.08 9.96
1979 TEX AL 30 C 7 3 0 28.0 17 16 1 0 1 1.000 -1 -43 5.46 2.43 .982 5.46 5.39 0 2 4 1 20% 36% 0
1980 TEX AL 31 1B 39 33 9 239.0 254 240 12 2 22 .992 -3 -14 9.49 6.46 .992 10.02 10.00
1980 TEX AL 31 DH 20 19
1980 TEX AL 31 C 3 0 0 5.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 7.20 1.33 .985 5.40 5.47 0 0 0 0 0
1981 TEX AL 32 1B 18 13 7 117.0 149 140 8 1 16 .993 -2 -24 11.38 8.22 .993 10.06 10.03
1981 TEX AL 32 DH 1 1
10 Seasons 1B 304 282 157 2290.1 2762 2583 149 30 224 .989 -6 -3 10.74 8.99 .992 9.75 9.72
12 Seasons C 297 245 215 2261.0 1462 1306 123 33 17 .977 -19 -10 5.69 4.81 .984 6.04 5.99 26 90 174 88 34% 38% 1
1 Season 3B 5 5 4 41.0 4 0 3 1 0 .750 -2 -44 0.66 0.60 .950 3.07 3.06
13 Seasons TOT 606 532 376 4592.1 4228 3889 275 64 241 .985 -26 -7 8.16 6.87 .989 7.87 7.84 26 90 174 88 34% 38% 1
Lg 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
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
1969 NYY AL 20 C -3 -27 -3
1970 NYY AL 21 1B 2 7 2 3 -1 0
1970 NYY AL 21 3B -2 -44 -2 -1 -0 0
1970 NYY AL 21 C 0 0 0
1971 NYY AL 22 1B -2 -5 -2 -0 -2 0
1971 NYY AL 22 C 0 0 0
1972 NYY AL 23 C -2 -11 -2
1972 NYY AL 23 1B 0 10 0 1 -0 0
1973 CLE AL 24 C -8 -15 -8
1973 CLE AL 24 1B -0 -5 -0 0 -1 0
1974 CLE AL 25 1B 1 3 1 -1 3 0
1974 CLE AL 25 C -1 -4 -1
1975 CLE AL 26 C -1 -2 -1
1975 CLE AL 26 1B 0 21 0 0 0 0
1976 TEX AL 27 C 0 0 0
1977 TEX AL 28 C -1 -18 -1
1977 TEX AL 28 1B -2 -40 -2 0 -2 0
1978 TEX AL 29 C -2 -15 -2
1979 TEX AL 30 1B -1 -5 -1 -2 1 0
1979 TEX AL 30 C -1 -43 -1
1980 TEX AL 31 1B -3 -14 -3 -0 -3 0
1980 TEX AL 31 C 0 0 0
1981 TEX AL 32 1B -2 -24 -2 -2 -0 0
10 Seasons 1B -6 -3 -6 -1 -5 0
12 Seasons C -19 -10 -19
1 Season 3B -2 -44 -2 -1 -0 0
13 Seasons TOT -26 -7 -7 -2 -5 0 -19
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1969 NYY AL 20 22 15 22 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1970 NYY AL 21 78 56 78 59 0 2 53 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0
1971 NYY AL 22 83 64 83 67 0 2 65 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
1972 NYY AL 23 52 30 52 32 0 25 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 0
1973 CLE AL 24 127 112 127 84 0 72 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38 15 0
1974 CLE AL 25 128 123 128 104 0 42 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 4 0
1975 CLE AL 26 92 76 92 86 0 84 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 0
1976 TEX AL 27 11 6 11 7 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 0
1977 TEX AL 28 49 25 49 24 0 16 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 18 0
1978 TEX AL 29 34 24 34 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 5 0
1979 TEX AL 30 111 78 111 35 0 7 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 61 32 0
1980 TEX AL 31 73 52 73 42 0 3 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 18 0
1981 TEX AL 32 23 14 23 18 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 0
13 Seasons 883 675 883 595 0 297 304 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 169 182 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 -- 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%
1970 NYY AL 21 1667 59% 81% 32% 102 93% 2 435 19 409 9 42 38 28 2 1 1 4 2 2 0 2 37 0 0 0 37 0 0 0 0 9 78%
1971 NYY AL 22 2244 68% 84% 35% 131 87% 4 629 30 589 9 55 35 21 8 1 1 7 0 5 2 6 69 2 0 1 67 3 2 1 1 14 71%
1972 NYY AL 23 255 65% 83% 32% 20 95% 0 64 7 56 1 11 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 100%
1973 CLE AL 24 420 58% 83% 29% 23 87% 0 113 6 103 4 10 5 3 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 6 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 2 0%
1974 CLE AL 25 2418 64% 85% 30% 137 96% 0 670 43 626 1 58 37 26 3 1 3 6 3 3 0 2 57 0 0 0 49 0 8 3 5 6 100%
1975 CLE AL 26 69 72% 86% 28% 5 100% 1 17 0 17 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1977 TEX AL 28 245 49% 81% 25% 8 100% 0 49 4 45 0 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1979 TEX AL 30 810 59% 85% 30% 57 86% 0 216 12 201 3 27 12 9 1 0 0 5 0 5 0 5 17 0 0 0 14 0 2 0 2 3 67%
1980 TEX AL 31 1005 61% 83% 27% 32 91% 1 236 3 231 3 19 12 6 1 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 21 0 0 0 20 0 1 0 1 3 100%
1981 TEX AL 32 482 62% 82% 33% 15 87% 0 140 5 134 1 4 9 2 2 0 4 1 0 1 0 1 17 0 0 0 15 0 2 0 1 1 100%
10 Seasons 9615 63% 83% 31% 530 91% 8 2569 129 2411 31 231 153 99 18 5 13 30 6 21 3 19 229 2 0 1 213 3 15 4 10 40 78%
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 94% 88%

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%
1969 NYY AL 20 550 3.09 3.56 5 100% 1 0 84 4 1 7 72 8 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1970 NYY AL 21 91 8.53 9.47 1 100% 0 0 12 1 0 0 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1971 NYY AL 22 9 21.60 21.60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1972 NYY AL 23 894 3.16 3.75 13 77% 0 0 126 7 2 4 113 11 3 0 0 3 5 0 2 3 0 1 0 1 1 3 33%
1973 CLE AL 24 2730 5.22 5.70 20 90% 1 0 370 14 2 8 346 26 3 0 0 2 8 0 5 3 0 6 0 0 1 1 100%
1974 CLE AL 25 1313 4.50 4.94 22 86% 0 0 156 11 1 9 135 20 6 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 0 4 0 0 0 4 100%
1975 CLE AL 26 2876 3.82 4.37 26 100% 1 0 397 15 3 11 368 44 8 0 0 0 11 0 1 10 0 4 0 0 0 5 100%
1976 TEX AL 27 166 2.77 3.46 1 100% 0 0 21 1 1 0 19 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1977 TEX AL 28 280 2.65 2.91 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 40 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1978 TEX AL 29 664 3.48 3.65 10 100% 0 0 81 6 0 0 75 10 4 0 0 2 4 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 3 100%
1979 TEX AL 30 120 5.46 6.11 0 0 0 16 0 0 2 14 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1980 TEX AL 31 21 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
12 Seasons 9714 4.19 4.67 98 92% 3 0 1307 59 10 41 1197 125 24 1 0 10 33 0 11 22 0 19 0 1 2 17 88%
MLB Averages 3.70 4.17 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
1969 NYY AL 20 1 4 189 23 4 3 15% 17 2 5 1 1 1 0 0 36 5 1.24 1.06
1970 NYY AL 21 1 0 38 0 1 1 100% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.79
1971 NYY AL 22 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1972 NYY AL 23 1 5 307 10 5 4 33% 10 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 21 7 1.22 1.24
1973 CLE AL 24 9 43 1054 37 22 18 37% 35 21 2 1 0 0 0 0 111 24 1.17 1.10
1974 CLE AL 25 2 9 490 27 13 12 33% 21 13 3 0 3 0 0 0 44 14 1.44 0.97
1975 CLE AL 26 7 21 1047 54 35 32 39% 52 30 1 3 1 2 0 0 107 37 1.27 1.13
1976 TEX AL 27 2 2 70 2 2 2 50% 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0.77 0.61
1977 TEX AL 28 0 1 101 8 1 1 11% 7 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 1 1.21 1.07
1978 TEX AL 29 4 3 265 9 4 3 31% 8 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 22 6 1.38 1.21
1979 TEX AL 30 0 2 44 4 1 1 20% 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 1 1.46 1.82
1980 TEX AL 31 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Seasons 27 90 3619 174 88 77 34% 156 77 12 6 6 5 1 0 363 98 1.27 1.10
MLB Averages 36% 1.29 1.26

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1970 NYY AL 21 164 42% 83% 33% 5 60% 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 164 42% 83% 33% 5 60% 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 89% 67%

* 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

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1975 AL  11 (4th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1973 AL  9 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1970 AL  2 (4th)

             

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