Al Evans

Alfred Hubert Evans

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: September 28, 1916 in Kenly, NC
High School: Oak Ridge Military Academy (Oak Ridge, NC)
Signed by the Washington Senators as an amateur free agent in 1937. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 13, 1939
Teams (by GP): Senators/RedSox 1939-1951

Final Game: August 5, 1951
Died: April 6, 1979 in Wilson, NC
Buried: Kenly Cemetery, Kenly, NC
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO
1939	WSH	AL	22	C	6	6	6		28	21	6	1	0	.964		4.50	.981		4.92	0		4	2	33%	37%
1940	WSH	AL	23	C	9	6	5		36	34	2	0	0	1.000		4.00	.982		5.27	1		5	1	17%	41%
1941	WSH	AL	24	C	51	43	35		226	195	24	7	6	.969		4.29	.983		5.00	4		24	14	37%	41%
1942	WSH	AL	25	C	67	56	53		308	254	42	12	5	.961		4.42	.979		4.93	10		26	27	51%	42%
1944	WSH	AL	27	C	8	4	4		15	10	4	1	1	.933		1.75	.976		4.91	1		3	2	40%	39%
1945	WSH	AL	28	C	41	40	40		184	160	19	5	4	.973		4.37	.986		4.92	9		11	5	31%	45%
1946	WSH	AL	29	C	81	76	67		379	336	30	13	5	.966		4.52	.982		5.52	18		26	13	33%	46%
1947	WSH	AL	30	C	94	91	84		442	389	48	5	14	.989		4.65	.985		5.02	4		25	31	55%	46%
1948	WSH	AL	31	C	85	66	55		288	245	38	5	6	.983		3.33	.986		4.74	3	6	15	25	63%	44%	2
1949	WSH	AL	32	C	107	99	81		372	322	47	3	2	.992		3.45	.985		4.76	2	25	31	23	43%	45%	3
1950	WSH	AL	33	C	88	77	70	695.1	316	289	23	4	8	.987	4.04	3.55	.985	4.94	4.85	5	13	25	18	42%	49%	1
1951	BOS	AL	34	C	10	8	4	70.0	41	40	1	0	0	1.000	5.27	4.10	.982	5.03	5.01	0	0	4	2	33%	46%	0
	12 Seasons			C	647	572	504	765.1	2635	2295	284	56	51	.979	4.15	3.99	.984	4.95	4.96	57	44	199	163	45%	44%	6
	12 Seasons			TOT	647	572	504	765.1	2635	2295	284	56	51	.979	4.15	3.99	.984	4.95	4.96	57	44	199	163	45%	44%	6

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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
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
1939	WSH	AL	22	C
1940	WSH	AL	23	C
1941	WSH	AL	24	C
1942	WSH	AL	25	C
1944	WSH	AL	27	C
1945	WSH	AL	28	C
1946	WSH	AL	29	C
1947	WSH	AL	30	C
1948	WSH	AL	31	C
1949	WSH	AL	32	C
1950	WSH	AL	33	C
1951	BOS	AL	34	C
	12 Seasons			C
	12 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1939	WSH	AL	22	7	6	7	6	6	1	0
1940	WSH	AL	23	14	6	14	9	9	5	0
1941	WSH	AL	24	53	43	53	51	51	3	1
1942	WSH	AL	25	74	56	74	67	67	11	0
1944	WSH	AL	27	14	4	14	8	8	2	4
1945	WSH	AL	28	51	40	51	41	41	7	3
1946	WSH	AL	29	88	76	88	81	81	8	0
1947	WSH	AL	30	99	91	99	94	94	5	2
1948	WSH	AL	31	93	66	93	85	85	17	0
1949	WSH	AL	32	109	99	109	107	107	4	0
1950	WSH	AL	33	90	77	90	88	88	4	1
1951	BOS	AL	34	12	8	12	10	10	1	2
	12 Seasons			704	572	704	647	647	68	13

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%
1948	WSH	AL	31	2540	4.96	5.66	44	95%	0	1	222	32	6	13	171	37	6	0	0	0	5	0	4	1	2	6	0	1	2	1	100%
1949	WSH	AL	32	3542	5.20	5.78	47	94%	0	0	297	30	5	10	252	43	13	1	0	3	3	0	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	9	89%
1950	WSH	AL	33	3073	4.71	5.40	37	97%	0	0	288	34	1	11	242	23	0	0	0	1	4	0	1	3	0	8	0	0	1	1	100%
1951	BOS	AL	34	301	4.11	4.89	2	100%	0	0	40	1	0	1	38	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			9456	4.94	5.59	130	95%	0	1	847	97	12	35	703	105	19	1	0	4	12	0	7	5	3	15	0	1	3	11	91%
	MLB Averages				4.23	4.76		95%																							84%

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
1948	WSH	AL	31	3	6	1029	17	26	26	60%	16	24	1	1	0	1	2	0	30	30	1.02	0.98
1949	WSH	AL	32	2	25	1456	26	20	18	43%	21	16	2	3	3	1	3	0	69	29	1.16	1.40
1950	WSH	AL	33	5	13	1274	25	18	18	42%	22	16	2	1	1	1	1	0	56	25	1.10	0.96
1951	BOS	AL	34	0	0	115	4	2	2	33%	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	1.62	1.75
	4 Seasons			10	44	3874	72	66	64	48%	63	58	5	5	4	3	6	0	159	86	1.13	1.13
	MLB Averages									44%											1.21	1.20

* 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y 1949 AL 107 (5th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1947 AL 389 (5th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1947 AL 48 (4th) 1949 AL 47 (5th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1942 AL 12 (1st) 1945 AL 5 (5th) 1946 AL 13 (1st) 1948 AL 5 (5th)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1942 AL 10 (3rd) 1945 AL 9 (4th) 1946 AL 18 (1st) 1950 AL 5 (3rd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1946 AL 26 (4th) 1947 AL 25 (5th) 1949 AL 31 (2nd) 1950 AL 25 (2nd)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1947 AL 31 (3rd) 1948 AL 25 (4th) 1949 AL 23 (3rd) 1950 AL 18 (5th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1942 AL 50.9 (2nd) 1947 AL 55.4 (3rd) 1948 AL 62.5 (4th) Career 45.0 (99th)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1947 AL 4.65 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1947 AL .989 (4th) 1949 AL .992 (1st) 1950 AL .987 (5th)

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