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Hank Foiles

Henry Lee Foiles

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: June 10, 1929 in Richmond, VA
High School: Granby HS (Norfolk, VA)
School: University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1947. (Date given is approximate. Exact date is uncertain.)(All Transactions)
Debut: April 21, 1953
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Indians/Reds/Angels/Orioles/... 1953-1964

Final Game: May 2, 1964
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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
1953 TOT MLB 24 C 10 6 4 51.0 26 17 7 2 1 .923 0 0 4.24 2.40 .985 5.36 5.24 3 1 1 4 80% 47% 0
1953 CIN NL 24 C 3 3 3 25.0 11 7 3 1 0 .909 0 0 3.60 3.33 .984 5.54 5.43 0 1 1 1 50% 40% 0
1953 CLE AL 24 C 7 3 1 26.0 15 10 4 1 1 .933 0 0 4.85 2.00 .985 5.19 5.16 3 0 0 3 100% 51% 0
1955 CLE AL 26 C 41 31 20 261.0 248 222 23 3 7 .988 1 5 8.45 5.98 .988 5.58 5.54 3 10 9 13 59% 47% 0
1956 TOT MLB 27 C 74 66 55 564.0 325 291 30 4 8 .988 2 4 5.12 4.34 .985 5.83 5.77 7 15 16 15 48% 40% 1
1956 CLE AL 27 C 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 6.30 5.90 0 0 0 0 0
1956 PIT NL 27 C 73 66 55 563.0 325 291 30 4 8 .988 2 4 5.13 4.40 .985 5.83 5.77 7 15 16 15 48% 40% 1
1957 PIT NL 28 C 109 90 67 788.0 477 436 32 9 2 .981 -1 -2 5.35 4.29 .988 5.98 6.02 9 16 20 12 38% 40% 2 AS
1958 PIT NL 29 C 103 88 68 772.0 502 456 41 5 5 .990 4 6 5.79 4.83 .988 6.06 6.02 5 15 17 17 50% 39% 2
1959 PIT NL 30 C 51 24 19 234.2 161 153 8 0 3 1.000 0 0 6.17 3.16 .989 6.34 6.28 3 8 4 3 43% 38% 0
1960 TOT AL 31 C 46 33 26 314.1 230 204 23 3 5 .987 3 11 6.50 4.93 .987 5.93 5.92 4 5 10 12 55% 40% 1
1960 KCA AL 31 C 2 2 1 13.0 10 9 0 1 0 .900 0 0 6.23 4.50 .987 5.95 5.90 0 0 0 0 0
1960 CLE AL 31 C 22 18 13 167.1 113 99 12 2 4 .982 1 7 5.97 5.05 .987 5.93 5.92 2 4 7 7 50% 40% 1
1960 DET AL 31 C 22 13 12 134.0 107 96 11 0 1 1.000 2 18 7.19 4.86 .987 5.93 5.92 2 1 3 5 63% 40% 0
1961 BAL AL 32 C 38 32 27 300.1 212 194 17 1 4 .995 -4 -16 6.32 5.55 .989 6.21 6.14 5 12 20 7 26% 36% 0
1962 CIN NL 33 C 41 36 30 324.1 268 249 14 5 1 .981 -5 -18 7.30 6.41 .987 6.72 6.66 6 18 21 6 22% 34% 0
1963 TOT MLB 34 C 31 24 14 203.1 158 140 14 4 4 .975 -1 -6 6.82 4.97 .989 6.66 6.65 2 5 11 6 35% 33% 0
1963 CIN NL 34 C 1 1 1 10.0 6 5 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -120 5.40 6.00 .987 7.11 7.00 1 1 1 0 0% 42% 0
1963 LAA AL 34 C 30 23 13 193.1 152 135 13 4 4 .974 0 0 6.89 4.93 .989 6.64 6.64 1 4 10 6 38% 33% 0
10 Seasons C 544 430 330 3813.0 2607 2362 209 36 40 .986 -1 -0 6.07 4.73 .988 6.07 6.04 47 105 129 95 42% 39% 6
11 Seasons TOT 544 430 330 3813.0 2607 2362 209 36 40 .986 -1 -0 6.07 4.73 .988 6.07 6.04 47 105 129 95 42% 39% 6
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
1953 CIN NL 24 C 0 0 0
1953 CLE AL 24 C 0 0 0
1955 CLE AL 26 C 1 5 1
1956 CLE AL 27 C 0 0 0
1956 PIT NL 27 C 2 4 2
1957 PIT NL 28 C -1 -2 -1
1958 PIT NL 29 C 4 6 4
1959 PIT NL 30 C 0 0 0
1960 KCA AL 31 C 0 0 0
1960 CLE AL 31 C 1 7 1
1960 DET AL 31 C 2 18 2
1961 BAL AL 32 C -4 -16 -4
1962 CIN NL 33 C -5 -18 -5
1963 CIN NL 34 C -1 -120 -1
1963 LAA AL 34 C 0 0 0
10 Seasons C -1 -0 -1
11 Seasons TOT -1 -0 -1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1953 CLE AL 24 7 3 7 7 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 CIN NL 24 5 3 5 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1955 CLE AL 26 62 31 62 41 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3
1956 PIT NL 27 79 66 79 73 0 73 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
1956 CLE AL 27 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 PIT NL 28 109 90 109 109 0 109 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
1958 PIT NL 29 104 88 104 103 0 103 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1959 PIT NL 30 53 24 53 51 0 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
1960 DET AL 31 26 13 26 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
1960 CLE AL 31 24 18 24 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1960 KCA AL 31 6 2 6 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1961 BAL AL 32 43 32 43 38 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
1962 CIN NL 33 43 36 43 41 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1963 LAA AL 34 41 23 41 29 0 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1963 CIN NL 34 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1964 LAA AL 35 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
11 Seasons 608 430 608 543 0 543 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 71 18
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%
1953 CLE AL 24 109 3.46 3.46 3 67% 0 0 11 2 0 0 9 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0%
1953 CIN NL 24 113 6.84 7.20 2 100% 0 0 7 0 0 1 6 3 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1955 CLE AL 26 1131 3.52 4.28 26 92% 0 0 225 17 0 5 203 20 3 2 1 1 3 0 2 1 1 7 1 0 1 1 100%
1956 PIT NL 27 1865 3.25 3.66 36 97% 1 0 234 24 2 9 198 27 8 1 0 2 3 0 2 1 0 5 0 0 0 4 100%
1956 CLE AL 27 4 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 PIT NL 28 3116 3.87 4.41 49 96% 0 0 402 36 1 11 354 30 7 3 0 4 9 1 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 5 100%
1958 PIT NL 29 3176 3.62 4.04 52 96% 0 0 452 39 1 11 399 35 6 1 0 5 5 0 2 3 0 4 0 1 1 4 100%
1959 PIT NL 30 1030 5.38 5.97 13 100% 0 0 152 9 1 6 135 7 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
1960 CLE AL 31 727 4.09 4.57 12 92% 0 0 98 10 3 6 79 12 3 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 4 0 2 2 0
1960 DET AL 31 585 3.63 4.03 11 100% 0 0 96 8 1 0 87 11 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 100%
1960 KCA AL 31 61 3.46 5.54 1 100% 1 0 9 1 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1961 BAL AL 32 1212 2.46 2.64 11 91% 0 0 192 7 1 3 181 17 3 1 0 4 1 0 1 0 1 4 0 1 2 2 100%
1962 CIN NL 33 1413 4.41 4.91 25 92% 0 0 249 14 2 8 225 14 6 0 0 1 5 0 2 3 0 1 0 1 1 3 100%
1963 LAA AL 34 834 4.24 4.66 11 73% 0 0 136 5 2 3 126 13 3 0 0 3 4 0 4 0 0 4 0 2 2 1 100%
1963 CIN NL 34 44 2.70 6.30 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons 15420 3.78 4.25 252 94% 2 0 2268 172 14 63 2015 194 46 9 1 26 35 1 22 12 3 35 1 8 10 23 96%
MLB Averages 3.87 4.38 95% 87%

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
1953 CLE AL 24 3 0 42 0 3 3 100% 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 1.27
1953 CIN NL 24 0 1 50 1 1 1 50% 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 1.01 0.42
1955 CLE AL 26 3 10 456 9 13 11 59% 8 12 0 0 1 1 0 0 29 17 0.90 1.51
1956 PIT NL 27 6 15 693 6 13 13 68% 5 11 1 1 0 1 1 1 36 19 1.07 1.16
1956 CLE AL 27 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 PIT NL 28 9 16 1152 18 10 10 36% 17 8 0 2 1 0 2 0 62 13 1.06 1.17
1958 PIT NL 29 5 15 1236 17 17 17 50% 13 16 2 0 2 1 2 0 56 20 1.64 1.59
1959 PIT NL 30 3 8 407 4 3 3 43% 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 4 0.62 0.63
1960 CLE AL 31 2 4 275 7 7 6 50% 7 6 0 0 0 1 1 0 20 8 1.12 1.88
1960 DET AL 31 2 1 230 3 5 5 63% 2 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 9 6 1.04 0.67
1960 KCA AL 31 0 0 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1961 BAL AL 32 5 12 428 20 7 7 26% 17 5 3 2 0 0 1 0 40 9 1.87 1.55
1962 CIN NL 33 6 18 545 21 6 6 22% 15 6 5 0 1 0 0 0 58 9 1.22 1.08
1963 LAA AL 34 1 4 332 10 6 6 38% 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 7 1.13 1.23
1963 CIN NL 34 1 1 20 1 0 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1.17
10 Seasons 46 105 5895 117 91 88 44% 100 80 12 6 5 5 7 1 356 116 1.29 1.33
MLB Averages 41% 1.19 1.17

* 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
1957 *

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1957 NL  109 (3rd)
1958 NL  103 (4th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1958 NL  456 (5th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1958 NL  41 (4th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1957 NL  9 (1st)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1956 NL  7 (5th)
1957 NL  9 (3rd)
1958 NL  5 (5th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1958 NL  17 (3rd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1956 NL  48.4 (2nd)
1957 NL  37.5 (5th)
1958 NL  50.0 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1958 NL  4 (3rd)
1960 AL  3 (4th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1958 NL  .990 (2nd)

                           

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