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Bob Kearney

Robert Henry Kearney

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: October 3, 1956 in San Antonio, TX
School: University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 14th round of the 1977 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 25, 1979
Teams (by GP): Mariners/Athletics/Giants 1979-1987

Final Game: June 20, 1987
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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
1979 SFG NL 22 C 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 6.30 6.10 0 0 0 0 0
1981 OAK AL 24 C 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.50 0 0 0 0 0
1982 OAK AL 25 C 22 20 15 182.1 132 114 14 4 1 .970 0 0 6.32 5.82 .988 5.69 5.66 0 10 11 9 45% 36% 1
1983 OAK AL 26 C 101 87 68 770.0 487 437 41 9 5 .982 2 3 5.59 4.73 .986 5.70 5.66 8 18 46 28 38% 33% 4
1983 OAK AL 26 DH 3 1
1984 SEA AL 27 C 133 127 110 1113.2 897 823 63 11 9 .988 2 2 7.16 6.66 .987 5.96 5.92 11 34 66 47 42% 36% 2
1985 SEA AL 28 C 108 95 68 814.0 582 529 50 3 7 .995 6 9 6.40 5.36 .987 6.05 5.99 11 29 52 35 40% 33% 6
1986 SEA AL 29 C 79 60 49 548.1 470 419 46 5 3 .989 7 15 7.63 5.89 .989 6.62 6.56 4 18 45 35 44% 34% 2
1987 SEA AL 30 C 24 13 11 130.0 106 94 10 2 0 .981 3 28 7.20 4.33 .988 6.74 6.67 0 2 4 5 56% 31% 1
8 Seasons C 469 402 321 3560.1 2674 2416 224 34 25 .987 20 7 6.67 5.63 .987 6.04 6.01 34 111 224 159 42% 34% 16
8 Seasons TOT 469 402 321 3560.1 2674 2416 224 34 25 .987 20 7 6.67 5.63 .987 6.04 6.01 34 111 224 159 42% 34% 16
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
1979 SFG NL 22 C 0 0 0
1981 OAK AL 24 C 0 0 0
1982 OAK AL 25 C 0 0 0
1983 OAK AL 26 C 2 3 2
1984 SEA AL 27 C 2 2 2
1985 SEA AL 28 C 6 9 6
1986 SEA AL 29 C 7 15 7
1987 SEA AL 30 C 3 28 3
8 Seasons C 20 7 20
8 Seasons TOT 20 7 20

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1979 SFG NL 22 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1981 OAK AL 24 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1982 OAK AL 25 22 20 22 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1983 OAK AL 26 108 88 108 101 0 101 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 1
1984 SEA AL 27 133 127 133 133 0 133 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1985 SEA AL 28 108 95 108 108 0 108 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1986 SEA AL 29 81 60 81 79 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6
1987 SEA AL 30 24 13 24 24 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 479 403 479 469 0 469 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 15 8
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%
1979 SFG NL 22 6 9.00 9.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1981 OAK AL 24 5 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
1982 OAK AL 25 800 4.49 4.89 15 93% 0 1 115 9 0 3 103 15 3 0 0 1 4 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 100%
1983 OAK AL 26 3364 4.24 4.77 31 100% 0 0 436 9 1 26 400 40 2 1 0 7 8 1 2 5 0 5 0 0 1 0
1984 SEA AL 27 4857 4.41 4.92 49 98% 1 0 827 30 1 26 770 62 11 0 1 4 11 1 1 9 0 9 0 1 1 4 75%
1985 SEA AL 28 3567 4.74 5.30 40 100% 0 0 528 26 3 18 481 50 8 0 1 5 3 0 1 2 0 9 0 1 2 6 100%
1986 SEA AL 29 2423 4.60 5.25 19 100% 0 0 419 10 2 13 393 45 9 0 0 3 5 0 1 4 0 3 0 0 0 5 100%
1987 SEA AL 30 540 3.67 4.08 4 75% 0 0 94 1 0 1 92 10 1 0 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 15562 4.46 4.99 158 98% 1 1 2419 85 7 87 2239 222 34 1 2 22 33 2 8 23 0 27 0 2 4 18 94%
MLB Averages 3.91 4.37 96% 91%

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
1979 SFG NL 22 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1981 OAK AL 24 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1982 OAK AL 25 0 10 306 11 9 9 45% 11 9 0 0 0 0 1 0 32 11 1.25 1.60
1983 OAK AL 26 10 18 1324 46 28 25 38% 40 25 6 2 0 1 4 0 96 31 1.41 1.55
1984 SEA AL 27 11 34 1854 66 47 42 42% 62 41 4 5 0 1 2 0 150 65 1.11 1.12
1985 SEA AL 28 11 29 1321 52 35 26 40% 45 32 7 3 0 0 6 0 110 50 1.06 1.09
1986 SEA AL 29 4 18 906 45 35 30 44% 39 31 5 4 1 0 2 0 88 40 1.62 1.27
1987 SEA AL 30 0 2 177 4 5 5 56% 3 5 0 0 1 0 1 0 10 8 2.33 0.98
8 Seasons 36 111 5896 224 159 137 42% 200 143 22 14 2 2 16 0 486 205 1.29 1.25
MLB Averages 33% 1.30 1.28

* 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1984 AL  133 (2nd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1984 AL  823 (1st)

Assists as C s c a p y
1984 AL  63 (3rd)
1986 AL  46 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1983 AL  9 (5th)
1984 AL  11 (4th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1983 AL  8 (5th)
1984 AL  11 (3rd)
1985 AL  11 (3rd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1984 AL  66 (3rd)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1984 AL  47 (2nd)
1986 AL  35 (5th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1985 AL  40.2 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1985 AL  6 (4th)
1986 AL  7 (3rd)
Career  20 (62nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1984 AL  7.16 (1st)
1985 AL  6.40 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1984 AL  6.66 (1st)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1985 AL  .995 (1st)

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