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Ray Katt    \KOTT\

Raymond Frederick Katt

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: May 9, 1927 in New Braunfels, TX
School: Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)
Signed by the New York Giants as an amateur free agent in 1947. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1952 (Age 25)
Teams (by GP): Giants/Cardinals 1952-1959

Final Game: July 21, 1959 (Age 32)
Died: October 19, 1999 in New Braunfels, TX
Buried: Guadalupe Valley Memorial Park, New Braunfels, TX
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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
1952 NYG NL 25 C 8 6 6 62.0 43 39 4 0 0 1.000 6.24 5.38 .984 5.52 5.48 2 0 3 0 0% 44% 0
1953 NYG NL 26 C 8 8 7 68.0 40 33 6 1 0 .975 0 0 5.16 4.88 .984 5.53 5.42 1 0 0 3 100% 40% 0
1954 NYG NL 27 C 82 56 44 531.1 296 265 23 8 4 .973 -1 -2 4.88 3.51 .986 5.36 5.33 12 7 6 12 67% 44% 0
1955 NYG NL 28 C 122 95 72 849.1 534 482 45 7 7 .987 3 4 5.58 4.32 .987 5.65 5.60 17 7 20 29 59% 46% 1
1956 TOT NL 29 C 84 76 59 663.1 437 395 34 8 4 .982 3 5 5.82 5.11 .985 5.83 5.77 5 9 18 14 44% 40% 1
1956 NYG NL 29 C 37 30 20 259.1 186 164 18 4 1 .978 5 23 6.32 4.92 .985 5.83 5.77 3 1 4 10 71% 40% 0
1956 STL NL 29 C 47 46 39 404.0 251 231 16 4 3 .984 -2 -6 5.50 5.26 .985 5.83 5.77 2 8 14 4 22% 40% 1
1957 NYG NL 30 C 68 47 28 426.1 268 238 25 5 4 .981 1 3 5.55 3.87 .988 5.98 6.02 6 6 9 13 59% 40% 0
1958 STL NL 31 C 14 11 6 93.1 69 63 4 2 2 .971 0 0 6.46 4.79 .988 6.06 6.02 1 1 6 3 33% 39% 0
1959 STL NL 32 C 14 5 3 55.0 41 38 2 1 0 .976 1 22 6.55 2.86 .989 6.33 6.28 0 0 0 1 100% 38% 0
8 Seasons C 400 304 225 2748.2 1728 1553 143 32 21 .981 7 3 5.55 4.24 .986 5.71 5.68 44 30 62 75 55% 43% 2
8 Seasons TOT 400 304 225 2748.2 1728 1553 143 32 21 .981 7 3 5.55 4.24 .986 5.71 5.68 44 30 62 75 55% 43% 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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1952 NYG NL 25 C
1953 NYG NL 26 C 0 0 0
1954 NYG NL 27 C -1 -2 -1
1955 NYG NL 28 C 3 4 3
1956 NYG NL 29 C 5 23 5
1956 STL NL 29 C -2 -6 -2
1957 NYG NL 30 C 1 3 1
1958 STL NL 31 C 0 0 0
1959 STL NL 32 C 1 22 1
8 Seasons C 7 3 7
8 Seasons TOT 7 3 7

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1952 NYG NL 25 9 6 9 8 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1953 NYG NL 26 8 8 8 8 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 NYG NL 27 86 56 86 82 0 82 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1955 NYG NL 28 124 95 124 122 0 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1956 STL NL 29 47 46 47 47 0 47 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 NYG NL 29 37 30 37 37 0 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 NYG NL 30 72 47 72 68 0 68 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1958 STL NL 31 19 11 19 14 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1959 STL NL 32 15 5 15 14 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
8 Seasons 417 304 417 400 0 400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 1
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 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%
1952 NYG NL 25 265 3.92 4.21 4 100% 0 0 39 3 0 0 36 4 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1953 NYG NL 26 146 4.11 4.11 0 1 0 20 0 0 1 19 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1954 NYG NL 27 2212 3.03 3.44 30 90% 0 0 258 21 1 10 226 23 2 0 1 5 8 0 7 1 0 4 0 0 0 1 100%
1955 NYG NL 28 3084 3.55 3.97 37 92% 0 0 426 32 5 9 380 35 3 0 0 5 6 1 3 2 1 7 0 1 1 3 33%
1956 STL NL 29 1699 3.48 3.88 26 100% 0 0 231 23 0 3 205 17 3 0 0 5 4 0 1 3 0 3 0 0 0 2 100%
1956 NYG NL 29 1063 3.64 4.33 19 95% 0 0 158 17 0 3 138 16 1 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1957 NYG NL 30 1506 4.80 5.48 23 87% 0 1 199 16 2 8 172 16 3 0 0 3 5 1 3 1 0 3 0 1 1 0
1958 STL NL 31 441 5.30 6.17 4 100% 0 0 65 2 1 3 59 4 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 0
1959 STL NL 32 243 3.76 3.93 5 80% 0 0 38 4 0 0 34 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 10659 3.70 4.18 148 93% 1 1 1434 118 9 37 1269 118 15 0 1 22 30 3 17 10 1 20 0 3 4 7 71%
MLB Averages 3.94 4.44 95% 86%

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
1952 NYG NL 25 2 0 98 3 0 0 0% 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 1.59
1953 NYG NL 26 1 0 61 0 1 1 100% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1.39
1954 NYG NL 27 11 7 839 6 12 11 67% 4 11 2 0 0 1 0 0 42 18 1.05 1.25
1955 NYG NL 28 14 7 1149 19 23 22 55% 17 22 2 0 0 1 1 0 57 28 1.22 0.92
1956 STL NL 29 2 8 608 14 4 4 22% 11 3 2 1 1 0 1 0 36 12 1.23 1.02
1956 NYG NL 29 2 1 392 5 10 9 67% 5 8 0 1 0 1 0 0 13 14 0.91 0.98
1957 NYG NL 30 5 6 569 9 8 7 47% 9 6 0 1 0 1 0 0 30 13 1.15 1.23
1958 STL NL 31 1 1 174 6 3 2 33% 6 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 3 0.68 1.60
1959 STL NL 32 0 0 86 0 1 1 100% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0.68
8 Seasons 38 30 3976 62 62 57 50% 55 55 6 3 1 4 2 0 202 91 1.14 1.08
MLB Averages 44% 1.18 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 1916 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
1955 NL  122 (2nd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1955 NL  482 (5th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1955 NL  45 (4th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1954 NL  8 (2nd)
1955 NL  7 (3rd)
1956 NL  8 (5th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1954 NL  12 (1st)
1955 NL  17 (1st)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1955 NL  29 (3rd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1955 NL  59.2 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1955 NL  3 (2nd)
1956 NL  3 (4th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1955 NL  .987 (4th)

                                         

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