Brook Fordyce

Brook Alexander Fordyce

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: May 7, 1970 in New London, CT
High School: St. Bernard HS (Uncasville, CT)
Drafted by the New York Mets in the 3rd round of the 1989 amateur draft.
Signed June 6, 1989. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 26, 1995
Teams (by GP): Orioles/WhiteSox/Reds/DevilRays/Mets 1995-2004

Final Game: October 2, 2004
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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	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO
1996	CIN	NL	26	C	4	3	2	26.0	18	18	0	0	0	1.000	1		46		6.23	4.50	.989	7.51	7.45	0	0	1	1	50%	28%	0
1997	CIN	NL	27	C	30	23	15	204.2	177	162	12	3	1	.983	-4		-23		7.65	5.80	.990	7.68	7.62	2	8	29	6	17%	32%	0
1997	CIN	NL	27	DH	1	1
1998	CIN	NL	28	C	54	44	29	367.0	315	288	20	7	3	.978	2		7		7.55	5.70	.990	7.51	7.47	0	15	29	16	36%	32%	1
1999	CHW	AL	29	C	103	90	85	811.0	599	561	30	8	5	.987	-2		-3		6.56	5.74	.991	6.98	6.87	4	33	61	27	31%	33%	0
2000	TOT	AL	30	C	92	80	75	731.1	601	564	33	4	4	.993	-3		-5		7.35	6.49	.991	6.93	6.85	5	21	55	16	23%	30%	0
2000	CHW	AL	30	C	40	32	31	299.0	264	251	13	0	2	1.000	3		12		7.95	6.60	.991	6.93	6.85	2	7	14	10	42%	30%	0
2000	BAL	AL	30	C	52	48	44	432.1	337	313	20	4	2	.988	-6		-17		6.93	6.40	.991	6.93	6.85	3	14	41	6	13%	30%	0
2001	BAL	AL	31	C	95	89	74	768.2	581	541	30	10	7	.983	-6		-9		6.69	6.01	.990	7.17	7.11	8	16	97	24	20%	29%	0
2002	BAL	AL	32	C	55	39	35	369.0	279	267	8	4	1	.986	-4		-13		6.71	5.00	.993	6.96	6.89	3	11	41	8	16%	32%	0
2003	BAL	AL	33	C	107	100	94	884.2	668	624	41	3	5	.996	-3	-10	-4	-14	6.77	6.21	.991	6.79	6.72	6	28	70	20	22%	30%	1
2004	TBD	AL	34	C	51	46	40	400.2	288	274	11	3	3	.990	0	-5	0	-15	6.40	5.59	.992	7.12	7.07	1	15	23	9	28%	32%	0
2004	TBD	AL	34	DH	1	0
	9 Seasons			C	591	514	449	4563.0	3526	3299	185	42	29	.988	-19	-15	-5	-14	6.87	5.90	.991	7.06	6.99	29	147	406	127	24%	31%	2
	10 Seasons			TOT	591	514	449	4563.0	3526	3299	185	42	29	.988	-19	-15	-5	-14	6.87	5.90	.991	7.06	6.99	29	147	406	127	24%	31%	2

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	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rbnt	RerC	RsbC
1996	CIN	NL	26	C	1	46	1
1997	CIN	NL	27	C	-4	-23	-4
1998	CIN	NL	28	C	2	7	2
1999	CHW	AL	29	C	-2	-3	-2
2000	CHW	AL	30	C	3	12	3
2000	BAL	AL	30	C	-6	-17	-6
2001	BAL	AL	31	C	-6	-9	-6
2002	BAL	AL	32	C	-4	-13	-4
2003	BAL	AL	33	C	-3	-4	-3	-10	-14	0	-5	-5
2004	TBD	AL	34	C	0	0	0	-5	-15	0	-2	-1
	9 Seasons			C	-19	-5	-19	-15	-14	0	-7	-6
	10 Seasons			TOT	-19	-5	-19	-15	-14	0	-7	-6

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	DH	PH	PR
1995	NYM	NL	25	4	0	4	0	0	0	3	1
1996	CIN	NL	26	4	3	4	4	4	0	0	0
1997	CIN	NL	27	47	24	47	30	30	1	14	3
1998	CIN	NL	28	57	44	57	54	54	0	5	0
1999	CHW	AL	29	105	90	105	103	103	0	11	0
2000	BAL	AL	30	53	48	53	52	52	0	3	0
2000	CHW	AL	30	40	32	40	40	40	0	2	1
2001	BAL	AL	31	95	89	95	95	95	0	0	0
2002	BAL	AL	32	56	39	56	55	55	0	1	0
2003	BAL	AL	33	108	100	108	107	107	0	1	0
2004	TBD	AL	34	54	46	54	51	51	1	3	1
	10 Seasons			623	515	623	591	591	2	43	6

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%
1996	CIN	NL	26	114	3.81	3.81	0		0	0	18	0	0	0	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1997	CIN	NL	27	935	5.23	5.63	2	100%	0	1	163	0	2	1	160	11	1	0	0	2	3	0	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	100%
1998	CIN	NL	28	1557	3.87	4.19	16	88%	0	0	288	12	1	5	270	19	2	0	0	3	7	0	2	5	1	3	0	0	0	3	100%
1999	CHW	AL	29	3642	5.08	5.67	36	97%	0	1	562	29	2	15	516	30	5	0	0	7	8	0	4	4	0	5	0	0	2	7	100%
2000	BAL	AL	30	1893	4.52	4.85	22	100%	1	0	312	14	2	4	292	20	9	0	0	6	4	0	1	3	0	2	0	1	1	6	100%
2000	CHW	AL	30	1323	4.64	5.27	10	90%	0	0	250	6	0	4	240	14	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	0%
2001	BAL	AL	31	3339	4.65	5.01	23	91%	1	0	541	17	0	8	516	30	4	0	0	5	10	0	3	7	0	7	0	0	0	4	100%
2002	BAL	AL	32	1604	4.85	5.22	14	93%	1	0	268	13	1	6	248	7	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	100%
2003	BAL	AL	33	3882	4.79	5.10	40	90%	0	0	624	20	6	10	588	41	18	0	0	5	3	0	0	3	0	5	0	3	3	13	77%
2004	TBD	AL	34	1790	5.08	5.64	12	100%	0	0	274	8	3	3	259	11	4	0	0	2	3	1	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	2	100%
	9 Seasons			20079	4.75	5.17	175	94%	3	2	3300	119	17	56	3107	183	46	0	0	32	42	1	13	28	2	29	0	4	7	39	90%
	MLB Averages				4.49	4.90		93%																							85%

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
1996	CIN	NL	26	0	0	38	1	1	0	50%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.94	1.15
1997	CIN	NL	27	2	8	362	29	6	5	17%	25	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	43	7	1.32	1.26
1998	CIN	NL	28	0	15	551	29	16	12	36%	22	15	7	1	0	0	1	0	54	22	1.21	1.27
1999	CHW	AL	29	4	33	1428	61	27	17	31%	53	25	7	1	1	1	0	0	122	29	1.19	1.07
2000	BAL	AL	30	3	14	716	41	6	4	13%	36	4	5	2	0	0	0	0	67	8	1.51	1.26
2000	CHW	AL	30	2	7	529	14	10	7	42%	12	9	2	1	0	0	0	0	34	11	1.44	0.97
2001	BAL	AL	31	8	16	1229	97	24	21	20%	84	19	13	4	0	1	0	0	151	26	1.25	1.18
2002	BAL	AL	32	3	11	608	41	8	6	16%	38	7	3	1	0	0	0	0	66	13	1.16	0.66
2003	BAL	AL	33	6	28	1453	70	20	14	22%	61	19	9	1	0	0	1	1	135	26	1.34	1.29
2004	TBD	AL	34	1	15	680	23	9	5	28%	18	8	5	1	0	0	0	0	46	12	1.40	0.95
	9 Seasons			29	147	7594	406	127	91	24%	350	112	55	13	1	2	2	1	719	155	1.29	1.13
	MLB Averages									31%											1.28	1.24

* 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 1999 AL 8 (3rd) 2001 AL 10 (3rd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 2001 AL 8 (5th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 2001 AL 97 (3rd) 2003 AL 70 (3rd)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 2000 AL 7.35 (3rd) Career 6.87 (73rd)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 2000 AL 6.49 (4th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 2000 AL .993 (3rd) 2003 AL .996 (3rd)

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