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Brian Johnson

Brian David Johnson

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: January 8, 1968 in Oakland, CA
High School: Skyline HS (Oakland, CA)
School: Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 16th round of the 1989 amateur draft.
Signed July 7, 1989. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 5, 1994
Teams (by GP): Padres/Giants/Tigers/Reds/Royals/... 1994-2001

Final Game: September 21, 2001
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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
1994 SDP NL 26 C 24 23 17 197.2 197 182 15 0 1 1.000 0 0 8.97 8.21 .991 7.10 7.05 3 12 24 13 35% 32% 0
1994 SDP NL 26 1B 5 0 0 3.2 3 3 0 0 1 1.000 -0 -65 7.36 0.60 .993 9.82 9.68
1995 SDP NL 27 C 55 52 44 463.2 429 394 32 3 2 .993 0 0 8.27 7.75 .989 7.40 7.37 5 22 37 15 29% 30% 0
1995 SDP NL 27 1B 2 0 0 7.0 10 9 0 1 0 .900 -0 -34 11.57 4.50 .993 9.64 9.65
1996 SDP NL 28 C 66 59 44 521.2 476 450 21 5 3 .989 0 0 8.13 7.14 .989 7.50 7.45 5 15 49 16 25% 28% 1
1996 SDP NL 28 1B 1 1 0 3.0 6 6 0 0 1 1.000 -0 -80 18.00 6.00 .992 9.60 9.60
1996 SDP NL 28 3B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -360 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.70
1997 TOT MLB 29 C 98 86 72 773.2 599 561 33 5 7 .992 0 0 6.91 6.06 .990 7.45 7.39 2 27 61 26 30% 32% 1
1997 DET AL 29 C 43 38 33 340.1 229 217 9 3 2 .987 -2 -7 5.98 5.26 .991 7.15 7.09 0 10 31 8 21% 33% 0
1997 DET AL 29 DH 2 0
1997 SFG NL 29 C 55 48 39 433.1 370 344 24 2 5 .995 2 6 7.64 6.69 .990 7.68 7.62 2 17 30 18 38% 32% 1
1997 SFG NL 29 1B 2 0 0 6.0 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 12.00 4.00 .992 9.45 9.45
1998 SFG NL 30 C 95 86 70 764.0 627 590 33 4 4 .994 2 3 7.34 6.56 .990 7.51 7.47 7 21 41 20 33% 32% 0
1998 SFG NL 30 LF 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 4.50 1.00 .980 1.80 1.90
1998 SFG NL 30 OF 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 4.50 1.00 .980 2.25 2.20
1999 CIN NL 31 C 39 26 22 248.1 213 201 11 1 2 .995 -1 -5 7.68 5.44 .990 7.41 7.35 4 15 14 7 33% 29% 0
2000 KCR AL 32 C 37 35 29 304.1 235 221 12 2 1 .991 -4 -16 6.89 6.30 .991 6.93 6.85 4 15 29 8 22% 30% 0
2001 LAD NL 33 C 2 0 0 4.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 6.75 1.50 .993 7.65 7.65 0 1 0 0 0
8 Seasons C 416 367 298 3277.1 2779 2602 157 20 20 .993 -3 -1 7.58 6.63 .990 7.39 7.34 30 128 255 105 29% 31% 2
4 Seasons 1B 10 1 0 19.2 27 26 0 1 2 .963 -1 -37 11.90 2.60 .993 9.61 9.62
1 Season LF 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 4.50 1.00 .980 1.80 1.90
1 Season 3B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -360 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.70
1 Season OF 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 4.50 1.00 .980 2.25 2.20
8 Seasons TOT 428 368 298 3301.0 2807 2629 157 21 22 .993 -4 -2 7.60 6.51 .990 7.40 7.37 30 128 255 105 29% 31% 2
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
1994 SDP NL 26 C 0 0 0
1994 SDP NL 26 1B -0 -65 -0 0 -0
1995 SDP NL 27 C 0 0 0
1995 SDP NL 27 1B -0 -34 -0 0 -0 0
1996 SDP NL 28 C 0 0 0
1996 SDP NL 28 1B -0 -80 -0 0 -0 0
1996 SDP NL 28 3B -1 -360 -1 -1 0 0
1997 DET AL 29 C -2 -7 -2
1997 SFG NL 29 C 2 6 2
1997 SFG NL 29 1B 0 0 0 0 0
1998 SFG NL 30 C 2 3 2
1998 SFG NL 30 LF 0 0 0 0 0 0
1999 CIN NL 31 C -1 -5 -1
2000 KCR AL 32 C -4 -16 -4
2001 LAD NL 33 C 0 0 0
8 Seasons C -3 -1 -3
4 Seasons 1B -1 -37 -1 0 -1 0
1 Season 3B -1 -360 -1 -1 0 0
1 Season LF 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons TOT -4 -2 -1 -1 -1 0 0 -3

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1994 SDP NL 26 36 23 36 27 0 24 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1995 SDP NL 27 68 52 68 57 0 55 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1996 SDP NL 28 82 60 82 68 0 66 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
1997 SFG NL 29 56 48 56 56 0 55 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1997 DET AL 29 45 38 45 43 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0
1998 SFG NL 30 99 86 99 96 0 95 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 0
1999 CIN NL 31 45 26 45 39 0 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
2000 KCR AL 32 37 35 37 37 0 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2001 LAD NL 33 3 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
8 Seasons 471 368 471 425 0 416 10 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 60 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 -- 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%
1994 SDP NL 26 885 5.65 6.15 9 100% 0 0 183 5 1 3 174 14 4 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 100%
1995 SDP NL 27 1957 3.46 4.04 15 93% 1 0 394 10 1 2 381 34 5 0 0 15 3 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 1 0
1996 SDP NL 28 2160 3.24 3.69 11 73% 0 1 449 5 2 2 439 23 2 0 1 7 5 0 1 4 1 2 0 0 0 3 67%
1997 SFG NL 29 1881 4.71 5.03 17 76% 1 0 344 7 6 4 327 24 7 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 1 5 0 1 1 7 71%
1997 DET AL 29 1469 4.31 4.57 11 91% 1 0 217 8 0 7 202 9 2 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
1998 SFG NL 30 3293 4.05 4.48 25 76% 0 0 591 12 2 7 570 31 7 0 0 6 4 0 1 3 1 4 0 1 2 8 63%
1999 CIN NL 31 1086 4.89 5.29 7 100% 0 0 201 5 0 3 193 11 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 100%
2000 KCR AL 32 1358 5.83 6.18 4 100% 0 1 222 3 0 3 216 10 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0
2001 LAD NL 33 16 2.25 4.50 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 14105 4.28 4.69 99 85% 3 2 2604 55 12 31 2505 156 29 0 1 35 20 0 8 12 3 19 0 3 4 23 74%
MLB Averages 4.53 4.97 93% 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
1994 SDP NL 26 3 12 324 24 13 7 35% 22 10 2 2 0 1 0 0 43 12 1.10 0.96
1995 SDP NL 27 5 22 687 37 15 12 29% 33 11 4 3 0 1 0 0 87 19 1.48 1.05
1996 SDP NL 28 5 15 743 49 16 10 25% 43 12 5 2 1 2 1 0 94 17 1.27 1.31
1997 SFG NL 29 2 17 726 30 18 14 38% 26 14 4 3 0 1 1 1 54 20 1.52 1.38
1997 DET AL 29 0 10 564 31 8 5 21% 24 7 7 0 0 1 0 0 46 9 1.22 1.19
1998 SFG NL 30 7 21 1237 41 20 16 33% 35 18 6 2 0 0 0 0 83 20 1.16 1.04
1999 CIN NL 31 4 15 404 14 7 6 33% 11 6 3 1 0 0 0 0 45 9 1.64 1.36
2000 KCR AL 32 4 15 493 29 8 6 22% 25 7 4 1 0 0 0 0 56 10 1.43 1.34
2001 LAD NL 33 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
8 Seasons 30 128 5184 255 105 76 29% 219 85 35 14 1 6 2 1 509 116 1.33 1.19
MLB Averages 31% 1.29 1.23

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%
1994 SDP NL 26 16 56% 88% 44% 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1995 SDP NL 27 32 81% 78% 34% 3 67% 0 9 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1996 SDP NL 28 11 64% 82% 64% 1 0% 0 6 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1997 SFG NL 29 21 67% 86% 38% 0 0 8 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 80 70% 83% 41% 4 50% 0 26 2 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 58% 77% 31% 93% 83%

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%
1996 SDP NL 28 9 33% 67% 22% 1 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 9 33% 67% 22% 1 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 58% 77% 31% 87% 60%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1998 SFG NL 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 43% 86% 57% 1 100%
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 43% 86% 57% 1 100%
MLB Averages 61.7% 2.6% 58% 77% 39% 47%

* 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

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1998 NL  .994 (3rd)

                                         

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