Hal King

Harold King

Positions: Catcher and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: February 1, 1944 in Oviedo, FL
High School: Oviedo HS (Oviedo, FL)
Signed by the California Angels as an amateur free agent in 1965. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 6, 1967
Teams (by GP): Braves/Reds/Rangers/Astros 1967-1974

Final Game: October 1, 1974
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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
1967	HOU	NL	23	C	11	11	6	87.0	70	62	8	0	1	1.000	-1	-14	7.24	6.36	.990	6.89	6.89	3	5	7	4	36%	40%	0
1968	HOU	NL	24	C	19	10	9	112.2	94	83	8	3	0	.968	-5	-53	7.27	4.79	.990	6.87	6.90	3	10	15	2	12%	39%	0
1970	ATL	NL	26	C	62	51	42	452.0	335	316	14	5	1	.985	-6	-16	6.57	5.32	.987	6.85	6.82	10	22	35	10	22%	33%	0
1971	ATL	NL	27	C	60	48	45	453.1	302	274	23	5	0	.983	-2	-5	5.90	4.95	.988	6.34	6.33	10	21	17	12	41%	35%	2
1972	TEX	AL	28	C	38	34	21	291.1	203	181	16	6	3	.970	0	0	6.09	5.18	.985	6.48	6.46	1	7	13	8	38%	39%	3
1973	CIN	NL	29	C	9	5	3	51.0	27	26	1	0	1	1.000	0	0	4.76	3.00	.987	6.34	6.34	1	1	2	0	0%	36%	0
1974	CIN	NL	30	C	5	1	1	14.0	7	6	1	0	0	1.000	1	86	4.50	1.40	.986	6.11	6.12	0	0	0	1	100%	33%	0
	7 Seasons			C	204	160	127	1461.1	1038	948	71	19	6	.982	-13	-11	6.28	5.00	.987	6.60	6.58	28	66	89	37	29%	36%	5
	7 Seasons			TOT	204	160	127	1461.1	1038	948	71	19	6	.982	-13	-11	6.28	5.00	.987	6.60	6.58	28	66	89	37	29%	36%	5

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rctch
1967	HOU	NL	23	C	-1	-14	-1
1968	HOU	NL	24	C	-5	-53	-5
1970	ATL	NL	26	C	-6	-16	-6
1971	ATL	NL	27	C	-2	-5	-2
1972	TEX	AL	28	C	0	0	0
1973	CIN	NL	29	C	0	0	0
1974	CIN	NL	30	C	1	86	1
	7 Seasons			C	-13	-11	-13
	7 Seasons			TOT	-13	-11	-13

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH
1967	HOU	NL	23	15	11	15	11	11	4
1968	HOU	NL	24	27	10	27	19	19	13
1970	ATL	NL	26	89	51	89	62	62	30
1971	ATL	NL	27	86	48	86	60	60	29
1972	TEX	AL	28	50	34	50	38	38	13
1973	CIN	NL	29	35	5	35	9	9	29
1974	CIN	NL	30	20	1	20	5	5	17
	7 Seasons			322	160	322	204	204	135

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	HOU	NL	23	335	4.72	4.96	7	100%	0	0	57	2	0	3	52	7	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	100%
1968	HOU	NL	24	437	4.25	4.60	12	92%	0	0	76	7	0	3	66	8	3	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	50%
1970	ATL	NL	26	1908	4.76	5.43	29	97%	1	0	316	22	3	11	280	13	4	0	0	1	5	0	2	3	0	2	0	1	2	1	100%
1971	ATL	NL	27	1923	4.44	4.84	26	96%	1	0	276	17	0	5	254	23	7	0	0	1	4	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	100%
1972	TEX	AL	28	1217	3.00	3.37	16	81%	1	0	182	9	1	7	165	15	2	0	1	0	6	0	2	4	1	3	0	0	0	3	33%
1973	CIN	NL	29	205	3.88	4.06	0		0	0	26	0	1	0	25	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
1974	CIN	NL	30	61	3.21	3.21	1	100%	0	0	6	1	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	7 Seasons			6086	4.21	4.66	91	93%	3	0	939	58	5	29	847	68	19	0	1	4	17	0	8	9	3	7	0	1	3	10	70%
	MLB Averages				3.51	3.98		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	HOU	NL	23	3	5	118	6	4	3	40%	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	17	4	1.26	1.55
1968	HOU	NL	24	2	10	164	13	2	2	13%	10	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	30	2	1.53	0.44
1970	ATL	NL	26	10	22	735	35	10	6	22%	29	9	6	0	0	1	0	0	82	10	1.37	0.95
1971	ATL	NL	27	10	21	739	16	12	12	43%	16	9	0	2	0	1	2	1	64	13	1.93	1.21
1972	TEX	AL	28	1	7	466	13	8	7	38%	13	6	0	1	0	1	3	0	33	11	1.30	0.93
1973	CIN	NL	29	1	1	64	2	0	0	0%	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0.85
1974	CIN	NL	30	0	0	25	0	1	1	100%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1		0.17
	7 Seasons			27	66	2311	85	37	31	30%	74	31	10	3	1	3	5	1	231	41	1.47	1.05
	MLB Averages									37%											1.29	1.24

* 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

Passed Balls s c a p y 1970 NL 10 (4th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1970 NL 10 (4th)

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