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Russ Gibson

John Russell Gibson

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: May 6, 1939 in Fall River, MA
High School: Durfee HS (Fall River, MA)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1957. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1967
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Giants 1967-1972

Final Game: September 6, 1972
Died: July 27, 2008 in Swansea, MA
Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Swansea, MA
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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
1967 BOS AL 28 C 48 37 33 362.1 270 254 16 0 3 1.000 1 3 6.71 5.63 .989 7.22 7.23 0 16 10 10 50% 41% 0
1968 BOS AL 29 C 74 65 55 586.0 472 428 36 8 7 .983 -7 -14 7.13 6.27 .990 6.97 6.94 13 28 40 19 32% 37% 0
1968 BOS AL 29 1B 1 0 0 2.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -60 13.50 3.00 .990 9.45 9.50
1969 BOS AL 30 C 83 78 65 695.2 518 466 41 11 2 .979 0 0 6.56 6.11 .987 6.65 6.65 11 28 40 28 41% 36% 2
1970 SFG NL 31 C 23 18 16 164.2 137 126 7 4 1 .971 -3 -22 7.27 5.78 .987 6.85 6.82 5 10 15 7 32% 33% 0
1971 SFG NL 32 C 22 15 10 139.2 86 79 4 3 0 .965 0 0 5.35 3.77 .988 6.34 6.33 1 4 4 4 50% 35% 0
1972 SFG NL 33 C 5 3 1 34.0 17 16 1 0 1 1.000 -1 -35 4.50 3.40 .987 6.62 6.64 1 2 6 1 14% 37% 0
6 Seasons C 255 216 180 1982.1 1500 1369 105 26 14 .983 -10 -6 6.69 5.78 .988 6.84 6.83 31 88 115 69 38% 36% 2
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 2.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -60 13.50 3.00 .990 9.45 9.50
6 Seasons TOT 256 216 180 1984.1 1503 1372 105 26 14 .983 -10 -6 6.70 5.77 .988 6.85 6.84 31 88 115 69 38% 36% 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 Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1967 BOS AL 28 C 1 3 1
1968 BOS AL 29 C -7 -14 -7
1968 BOS AL 29 1B -0 -60 -0 -0 0
1969 BOS AL 30 C 0 0 0
1970 SFG NL 31 C -3 -22 -3
1971 SFG NL 32 C 0 0 0
1972 SFG NL 33 C -1 -35 -1
6 Seasons C -10 -6 -10
1 Season 1B -0 -60 -0 -0 0
6 Seasons TOT -10 -6 -0 -0 0 -10

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1967 BOS AL 28 50 37 50 49 0 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1968 BOS AL 29 76 65 76 75 0 74 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1969 BOS AL 30 85 78 85 83 0 83 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1970 SFG NL 31 24 18 24 23 0 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1971 SFG NL 32 25 15 25 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1972 SFG NL 33 5 3 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
6 Seasons 265 216 265 257 0 256 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 1
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%
1967 BOS AL 28 1508 3.23 3.53 18 94% 0 0 251 10 1 9 231 16 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 1 0%
1968 BOS AL 29 2451 3.21 3.64 32 94% 0 0 436 21 0 9 406 34 7 1 0 6 8 3 3 2 1 7 1 0 2 6 83%
1969 BOS AL 30 2990 3.54 4.11 39 90% 2 0 475 28 6 4 436 41 8 1 0 4 11 1 7 3 3 2 0 1 1 4 75%
1970 SFG NL 31 746 5.25 5.74 10 100% 2 0 125 8 0 2 114 8 2 0 0 0 4 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1971 SFG NL 32 582 3.54 4.19 3 100% 1 0 79 2 3 2 72 4 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
1972 SFG NL 33 143 3.71 4.50 2 100% 0 0 17 1 0 2 14 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 8420 3.53 4.01 104 93% 5 0 1383 70 10 28 1273 104 22 2 0 11 26 4 13 9 4 13 1 2 4 12 75%
MLB Averages 3.45 3.90 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
1967 BOS AL 28 0 16 563 10 10 9 50% 10 7 0 3 0 0 0 0 35 12 1.32 1.73
1968 BOS AL 29 13 28 885 40 19 17 32% 37 13 3 3 0 3 0 0 101 23 1.07 1.23
1969 BOS AL 30 11 28 1119 40 28 23 41% 36 21 4 5 0 2 2 0 107 31 1.16 1.53
1970 SFG NL 31 5 10 294 15 7 5 32% 14 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 43 8 0.85 1.05
1971 SFG NL 32 1 4 195 4 4 3 50% 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 8 1.26 1.53
1972 SFG NL 33 1 2 59 6 1 1 14% 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 12 2 1.06 0.22
6 Seasons 31 88 3115 115 69 58 38% 106 51 9 12 0 6 2 0 313 84 1.10 1.41
MLB Averages 38% 1.30 1.24

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%
1968 BOS AL 29 11 73% 91% 27% 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 11 73% 91% 27% 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 94% 88%

* 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
1968 AL  8 (2nd)
1969 AL  11 (2nd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1968 AL  13 (1st)
1969 AL  11 (4th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1968 AL  40 (5th)
1969 AL  40 (5th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1969 AL  28 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1969 AL  6.11 (5th)

                                         

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