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Terry Kennedy

Terrance Edward Kennedy

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: June 4, 1956 in Euclid, OH
School: Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)
Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1st round (6th pick) of the 1977 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 4, 1978
Teams (by GP): Padres/Giants/Orioles/Cardinals 1978-1991

Final Game: October 6, 1991
Relatives: Son of Bob Kennedy
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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
1978 STL NL 22 C 10 9 6 72.1 51 46 4 1 1 .980 -1 -17 6.22 5.00 .985 6.17 6.12 1 6 5 2 29% 32% 1
1979 STL NL 23 C 32 26 24 238.1 143 135 7 1 1 .993 -2 -10 5.36 4.44 .985 6.13 6.11 2 6 24 7 23% 34% 0
1980 STL NL 24 C 41 38 31 341.1 210 182 21 7 3 .967 -6 -21 5.35 4.95 .983 6.09 6.10 3 9 48 13 21% 31% 0
1980 STL NL 24 LF 28 26 15 218.1 50 49 1 0 1 1.000 3 16 2.06 1.79 .976 2.06 2.06
1980 STL NL 24 OF 28 26 15 218.1 50 49 1 0 0 1.000 3 16 2.06 1.79 .980 2.31 2.31
1981 SDP NL 25 C 100 98 88 877.2 548 465 63 20 12 .964 -1 -1 5.41 5.28 .983 5.93 5.95 4 25 88 48 35% 33% 0 AS
1982 SDP NL 26 C 139 133 123 1198.2 729 666 56 7 11 .990 -1 -1 5.42 5.19 .985 6.29 6.30 9 23 100 36 26% 32% 2 MVP-14
1982 SDP NL 26 1B 12 12 11 105.0 123 111 10 2 7 .984 -2 -22 10.37 10.08 .992 10.23 10.26 MVP-14
1983 SDP NL 27 C 143 142 122 1240.0 873 782 79 12 8 .986 4 4 6.25 6.02 .984 6.57 6.54 7 23 135 63 32% 33% 2 AS,MVP-10,SS
1983 SDP NL 27 1B 4 3 2 28.0 28 25 3 0 4 1.000 0 13 9.00 7.00 .992 9.96 9.93 AS,MVP-10,SS
1984 SDP NL 28 C 147 141 121 1208.0 776 708 54 14 6 .982 -5 -5 5.68 5.18 .986 6.53 6.51 10 36 100 38 28% 31% 1
1985 SDP NL 29 C 140 134 116 1181.2 731 654 67 10 12 .986 11 11 5.49 5.15 .987 6.42 6.42 4 17 103 55 35% 30% 3 AS
1985 SDP NL 29 1B 5 0 0 7.0 9 8 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -69 11.57 1.80 .993 10.03 10.04 AS
1986 SDP NL 30 C 123 114 97 999.0 770 692 70 8 13 .990 1 1 6.86 6.20 .985 6.93 6.94 9 20 105 47 31% 32% 0
1987 BAL AL 31 C 142 135 122 1187.1 814 750 58 6 11 .993 5 5 6.12 5.69 .988 6.74 6.67 4 43 111 49 31% 31% 2 AS
1988 BAL AL 32 C 79 75 69 648.0 357 332 23 2 3 .994 0 0 4.93 4.49 .989 6.22 6.16 6 18 64 25 28% 31% 1
1989 SFG NL 33 C 121 102 66 870.0 571 516 47 8 6 .986 7 10 5.82 4.65 .986 6.67 6.68 2 23 61 36 37% 32% 1
1989 SFG NL 33 1B 2 0 0 3.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.50 .993 9.60 9.75
1990 SFG NL 34 C 103 84 54 727.1 432 390 38 4 3 .991 2 3 5.30 4.16 .987 6.65 6.61 5 21 63 24 28% 29% 1
1991 SFG NL 35 C 58 40 31 390.1 279 237 36 6 2 .978 7 22 6.29 4.71 .988 6.78 6.75 2 11 44 35 44% 33% 0
1991 SFG NL 35 1B 2 0 0 3.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 40 9.00 1.50 .993 9.90 9.75
14 Seasons C 1378 1271 1070 11180.0 7284 6555 623 106 92 .985 21 2 5.78 5.21 .986 6.49 6.49 68 281 1051 478 31% 32% 14
1 Season OF 28 26 15 218.1 50 49 1 0 0 1.000 3 16 2.06 1.79 .980 2.31 2.31
1 Season LF 28 26 15 218.1 50 49 1 0 1 1.000 3 16 2.06 1.79 .976 2.06 2.06
5 Seasons 1B 25 15 13 146.0 166 150 14 2 11 .988 -2 -16 10.11 6.56 .992 10.15 10.08
14 Seasons TOT 1431 1312 1098 11544.1 7500 6754 638 108 103 .986 22 2 5.76 5.17 .986 6.46 6.47 68 281 1051 478 31% 32% 14
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
1978 STL NL 22 C -1 -17 -1
1979 STL NL 23 C -2 -10 -2
1980 STL NL 24 C -6 -21 -6
1980 STL NL 24 LF 3 16 2 -0 2 1
1981 SDP NL 25 C -1 -1 -1
1982 SDP NL 26 C -1 -1 -1
1982 SDP NL 26 1B -2 -22 -2 -1 -1 0
1983 SDP NL 27 C 4 4 4
1983 SDP NL 27 1B 0 13 0 -0 0 0
1984 SDP NL 28 C -5 -5 -5
1985 SDP NL 29 C 11 11 11
1985 SDP NL 29 1B -0 -69 -0 -0 -0 0
1986 SDP NL 30 C 1 1 1
1987 BAL AL 31 C 5 5 5
1988 BAL AL 32 C 0 0 0
1989 SFG NL 33 C 7 10 7
1989 SFG NL 33 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1990 SFG NL 34 C 2 3 2
1991 SFG NL 35 C 7 22 7
1991 SFG NL 35 1B 0 40 0 0 0 0
14 Seasons C 21 2 21
1 Season LF 3 16 2 -0 2 1
5 Seasons 1B -2 -16 -2 -1 -0 0
14 Seasons TOT 22 2 0 -2 2 0 1 21
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1978 STL NL 22 10 9 10 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1979 STL NL 23 33 26 33 32 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1980 STL NL 24 84 64 84 69 0 41 0 0 0 0 28 0 0 28 0 17 0
1981 SDP NL 25 101 98 101 100 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1982 SDP NL 26 153 145 153 150 0 139 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1983 SDP NL 27 149 145 149 147 0 143 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1984 SDP NL 28 148 141 148 147 0 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1985 SDP NL 29 143 134 143 140 0 140 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1986 SDP NL 30 141 114 141 123 0 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0
1987 BAL AL 31 143 135 143 142 0 142 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1988 BAL AL 32 85 75 85 79 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1989 SFG NL 33 125 102 125 122 0 121 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
1990 SFG NL 34 107 84 107 103 0 103 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
1991 SFG NL 35 69 40 69 59 0 58 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
14 Seasons 1491 1312 1491 1423 0 1378 25 0 0 0 28 0 0 28 0 136 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%
1978 STL NL 22 297 3.11 3.73 4 100% 0 0 46 3 1 2 40 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0
1979 STL NL 23 1005 4.12 4.53 8 88% 0 1 137 5 1 3 128 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1980 STL NL 24 1479 4.48 5.14 20 80% 2 0 182 11 0 4 167 20 5 0 0 2 7 0 2 5 0 3 0 0 1 3 33%
1981 SDP NL 25 3771 3.79 4.20 47 87% 4 1 466 23 7 20 416 63 14 1 2 7 20 1 9 10 1 12 0 2 2 13 85%
1982 SDP NL 26 4997 3.43 3.92 55 96% 1 0 663 40 7 15 600 54 7 2 1 7 7 0 2 5 0 10 1 1 3 7 86%
1983 SDP NL 27 5219 3.59 3.96 79 100% 2 0 783 58 6 18 701 76 13 2 0 4 12 1 3 8 0 7 1 1 3 10 100%
1984 SDP NL 28 5093 3.53 3.86 59 95% 4 0 705 30 6 27 641 56 11 0 1 9 14 1 9 4 2 6 0 0 1 7 86%
1985 SDP NL 29 4896 3.29 3.77 60 100% 0 0 655 45 4 19 587 65 13 0 0 3 10 3 1 6 0 13 0 3 6 7 100%
1986 SDP NL 30 4252 3.70 4.16 57 96% 1 0 694 32 4 20 638 68 20 2 0 4 8 0 3 5 0 13 1 4 6 17 94%
1987 BAL AL 31 5178 5.11 5.59 51 98% 0 1 750 32 2 22 693 60 11 1 0 6 6 1 2 3 0 12 0 1 2 5 100%
1988 BAL AL 32 2873 5.17 5.71 26 88% 0 0 334 16 2 15 301 24 4 0 0 3 2 0 2 0 1 3 0 0 0 6 50%
1989 SFG NL 33 3612 3.44 3.91 38 95% 0 0 516 27 9 10 469 47 8 1 0 2 8 0 1 7 1 6 0 3 3 14 93%
1990 SFG NL 34 3149 4.17 4.52 34 88% 0 1 390 20 2 8 360 38 9 0 0 7 4 0 1 3 0 4 0 0 2 8 75%
1991 SFG NL 35 1687 4.50 4.75 10 80% 0 0 237 7 1 0 229 36 1 0 0 5 6 0 1 5 1 2 0 0 0 1 100%
14 Seasons 47508 3.91 4.34 548 95% 14 4 6558 349 52 183 5970 619 117 9 4 59 106 7 36 63 6 93 3 16 30 99 87%
MLB Averages 3.86 4.32 95% 89%

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
1978 STL NL 22 1 6 96 5 2 2 29% 5 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 17 3 1.13 1.46
1979 STL NL 23 2 6 346 24 7 7 23% 22 4 2 3 0 0 0 0 42 7 1.68 1.91
1980 STL NL 24 3 9 547 48 13 11 21% 43 13 5 0 0 0 0 0 70 15 1.05 1.37
1981 SDP NL 25 4 25 1428 88 48 32 35% 88 43 0 3 0 2 0 0 146 57 1.43 1.28
1982 SDP NL 26 9 23 1783 100 36 28 26% 95 33 5 2 0 1 2 0 158 41 1.23 1.23
1983 SDP NL 27 6 23 1838 135 63 49 32% 127 58 7 2 1 3 2 0 194 69 1.34 1.31
1984 SDP NL 28 10 36 1875 100 38 30 28% 94 37 5 1 1 0 1 0 167 46 1.15 1.32
1985 SDP NL 29 4 17 1754 103 54 41 34% 88 46 14 6 1 2 3 0 147 58 1.18 1.28
1986 SDP NL 30 9 20 1571 105 47 38 31% 94 37 10 4 1 6 0 0 158 49 1.37 1.45
1987 BAL AL 31 4 43 1867 111 49 33 31% 102 43 9 5 0 1 2 0 185 55 1.18 1.33
1988 BAL AL 32 6 18 1087 64 25 14 28% 53 21 10 1 1 3 1 0 104 27 0.98 1.17
1989 SFG NL 33 2 23 1271 61 36 35 37% 56 34 5 2 0 0 1 1 113 40 1.22 1.42
1990 SFG NL 34 5 21 1204 63 24 18 28% 58 20 5 4 0 0 1 1 99 29 1.31 1.67
1991 SFG NL 35 2 11 606 44 35 26 44% 38 35 6 0 0 0 0 0 67 37 1.36 1.42
14 Seasons 67 281 17273 1051 477 364 31% 963 426 83 33 5 18 14 2 1667 533 1.25 1.35
MLB Averages 33% 1.30 1.28

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%
1980 STL NL 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 11 11 0 11 3 0 3 2 0 3 1 1 3 3 0 31 20 64.5% 10 1 3.2% 0 896 70% 88% 28% 111 44%
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 11 11 0 11 3 0 3 2 0 3 1 1 3 3 0 31 20 64.5% 10 1 3.2% 0 896 70% 88% 28% 111 44%
MLB Averages 60.1% 2.8% 59% 81% 32% 53%

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%
1982 SDP NL 26 452 64% 84% 27% 25 88% 0 111 5 106 0 8 10 8 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 7 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 4 100%
1983 SDP NL 27 112 85% 79% 24% 4 100% 0 25 1 24 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
1985 SDP NL 29 32 41% 78% 28% 2 100% 0 7 0 7 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1989 SFG NL 33 9 44% 67% 33% 1 100% 0 3 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1991 SFG NL 35 13 69% 85% 31% 2 100% 0 3 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 618 66% 82% 27% 34 91% 0 149 7 142 0 13 14 10 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 11 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 5 100%
MLB Averages 59% 81% 29% 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

Hall of Fame
1997 BBWAA ( 0.2%)

All-Star Games
1981 *
1983
1985 (C)
1987 (C)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1982 NL (14, 6%)
1983 NL (10, 11%)
0.17 Career Shares (792nd)

Silver Sluggers
1983 NL (C)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1981 NL  100 (1st)
1982 NL  139 (3rd)
1983 NL  143 (4th)
1984 NL  147 (1st)
1985 NL  140 (3rd)
1986 NL  123 (4th)
1987 AL  142 (1st)
Career  1,378 (43rd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1981 NL  465 (4th)
1982 NL  666 (5th)
1983 NL  782 (4th)
1987 AL  750 (2nd)
Career  6,555 (49th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1981 NL  63 (2nd)
1983 NL  79 (5th)
1985 NL  67 (3rd)
1986 NL  70 (5th)
1987 AL  58 (1st)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1981 NL  20 (1st)
1983 NL  12 (4th)
1984 NL  14 (2nd)
1985 NL  10 (5th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1981 NL  4 (5th)
1984 NL  10 (5th)
1986 NL  9 (5th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1981 NL  88 (2nd)
1982 NL  100 (5th)
1983 NL  135 (1st)
1984 NL  100 (5th)
1985 NL  103 (3rd)
1986 NL  105 (5th)
1987 AL  111 (1st)
1988 AL  64 (4th)
Career  1,051 (28th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1981 NL  48 (1st)
1983 NL  63 (2nd)
1985 NL  55 (3rd)
1986 NL  47 (5th)
1987 AL  49 (1st)
Career  478 (72nd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1991 NL  44.3 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1985 NL  11 (2nd)
1989 NL  7 (3rd)
1991 NL  7 (3rd)
Career  21 (57th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1983 NL  6.02 (5th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1982 NL  .990 (3rd)
1986 NL  .990 (4th)
1987 AL  .993 (3rd)
1990 NL  .991 (2nd)

             

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