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Tim Laudner

Timothy Jon Laudner

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 212 lb.

Born: June 7, 1958 in Mason City, IA
High School: Park Center HS (Minneapolis, MN)
School: University of Missouri Columbia (Columbia, MO)
Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 3rd round of the 1979 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 28, 1981
Team: Twins 1981-1989
Agents: Ron Simon [*]
Final Game: September 3, 1989
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All-Star

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
1981 MIN AL 23 C 12 10 9 92.1 54 49 5 0 0 1.000 -1 -13 5.26 4.50 .987 5.51 5.49 1 4 6 2 25% 38% 0
1981 MIN AL 23 DH 2 2
1982 MIN AL 24 C 93 90 81 785.2 507 454 41 12 5 .976 -4 -6 5.67 5.32 .988 5.69 5.66 2 25 76 34 31% 36% 1
1983 MIN AL 25 C 57 50 38 436.0 285 259 22 4 5 .986 -6 -17 5.80 4.93 .986 5.70 5.66 2 17 52 16 24% 33% 0
1983 MIN AL 25 DH 4 0
1984 MIN AL 26 C 81 75 58 653.1 409 362 38 9 2 .978 7 13 5.51 4.94 .987 5.96 5.92 0 16 32 31 49% 36% 1
1984 MIN AL 26 DH 2 0
1985 MIN AL 27 C 68 53 35 446.0 260 233 19 8 3 .969 0 0 5.09 3.71 .987 6.05 5.99 2 13 30 15 33% 33% 0
1985 MIN AL 27 1B 1 0 0 2.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -180 13.50 3.00 .990 9.90 9.70
1986 MIN AL 28 C 68 57 40 481.2 317 299 13 5 3 .984 -4 -10 5.83 4.59 .989 6.62 6.56 4 23 31 12 28% 34% 0
1987 MIN AL 29 C 101 76 63 702.0 552 517 28 7 2 .987 -5 -9 6.99 5.40 .988 6.74 6.67 10 28 66 21 24% 31% 0
1987 MIN AL 29 1B 7 3 2 31.0 31 30 1 0 3 1.000 0 8 9.00 4.43 .992 9.58 9.49
1987 MIN AL 29 DH 2 2
1988 MIN AL 30 C 109 102 88 892.2 661 621 35 5 8 .992 -5 -7 6.61 6.02 .989 6.22 6.16 8 37 76 25 25% 31% 3 AS
1988 MIN AL 30 DH 4 3 AS
1988 MIN AL 30 1B 3 0 0 4.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -30 6.75 1.00 .993 9.67 9.50 AS
1989 MIN AL 31 C 68 57 40 500.2 347 328 16 3 3 .991 -3 -7 6.18 5.06 .989 6.24 6.17 2 27 46 20 30% 31% 0
1989 MIN AL 31 DH 19 15
1989 MIN AL 31 1B 11 0 0 17.0 19 19 0 0 2 1.000 0 0 10.06 1.73 .993 9.79 9.69
9 Seasons C 657 570 452 4990.1 3392 3122 217 53 31 .984 -21 -5 6.02 5.08 .988 6.14 6.11 31 190 415 176 30% 33% 5
4 Seasons 1B 22 3 2 54.0 56 55 1 0 5 1.000 -0 -4 9.33 2.55 .992 9.67 9.60
9 Seasons TOT 679 573 454 5044.1 3448 3177 218 53 36 .985 -21 -5 6.06 5.00 .988 6.18 6.22 31 190 415 176 30% 33% 5
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
1981 MIN AL 23 C -1 -13 -1
1982 MIN AL 24 C -4 -6 -4
1983 MIN AL 25 C -6 -17 -6
1984 MIN AL 26 C 7 13 7
1985 MIN AL 27 C 0 0 0
1985 MIN AL 27 1B -0 -180 -0 -0 0
1986 MIN AL 28 C -4 -10 -4
1987 MIN AL 29 C -5 -9 -5
1987 MIN AL 29 1B 0 8 0 1 -0 0
1988 MIN AL 30 C -5 -7 -5
1988 MIN AL 30 1B -0 -30 -0 -0 -0 0
1989 MIN AL 31 C -3 -7 -3
1989 MIN AL 31 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons C -21 -5 -21
4 Seasons 1B -0 -4 -0 0 -1 0
9 Seasons TOT -21 -5 -0 0 -1 0 -21

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1981 MIN AL 23 14 12 14 12 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
1982 MIN AL 24 93 90 93 93 0 93 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1983 MIN AL 25 62 50 62 57 0 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 0
1984 MIN AL 26 87 75 87 81 0 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 0
1985 MIN AL 27 72 53 72 69 0 68 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1986 MIN AL 28 76 57 76 68 0 68 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
1987 MIN AL 29 113 81 113 105 0 101 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 1
1988 MIN AL 30 117 105 117 110 0 109 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 0
1989 MIN AL 31 100 72 100 77 0 68 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 15 1
9 Seasons 734 595 734 672 0 657 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 66 2
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%
1981 MIN AL 23 415 4.58 5.17 4 100% 0 0 50 2 0 2 46 5 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1982 MIN AL 24 3470 4.77 5.29 26 96% 0 0 456 20 1 16 419 39 3 0 0 4 11 0 3 8 0 5 0 0 0 2 100%
1983 MIN AL 25 1926 5.16 5.70 35 86% 0 1 256 23 0 9 222 24 5 0 1 3 4 0 4 0 1 5 0 0 1 2 100%
1984 MIN AL 26 2756 3.84 4.38 30 93% 1 0 364 21 2 14 327 37 1 1 0 5 9 0 4 5 0 2 0 0 1 0
1985 MIN AL 27 1870 4.30 4.66 18 94% 0 0 233 13 2 6 212 20 4 0 0 2 8 0 2 6 0 3 0 1 1 3 67%
1986 MIN AL 28 2082 4.35 5.12 19 84% 0 0 298 12 2 6 278 13 3 0 0 1 6 2 2 2 1 3 0 1 1 4 50%
1987 MIN AL 29 3014 4.23 4.72 20 95% 1 0 517 12 1 11 493 28 4 0 0 7 7 0 1 6 0 2 0 1 2 4 75%
1988 MIN AL 30 3849 4.36 4.66 33 94% 1 0 622 30 1 13 578 35 1 0 0 5 5 0 1 4 0 8 0 1 1 3 33%
1989 MIN AL 31 2198 4.80 5.09 20 95% 0 1 328 16 1 7 303 16 2 0 0 2 3 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 80%
9 Seasons 21580 4.45 4.92 205 92% 3 2 3124 149 10 84 2878 217 24 2 1 30 53 3 17 33 2 31 0 4 7 24 71%
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
1981 MIN AL 23 1 4 187 6 2 1 25% 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 2 1.01 1.18
1982 MIN AL 24 2 25 1300 76 34 29 31% 65 29 10 4 1 1 1 0 123 39 1.44 1.34
1983 MIN AL 25 2 17 762 52 16 13 24% 45 12 7 3 0 1 0 0 84 14 1.25 1.48
1984 MIN AL 26 0 16 1004 32 31 26 49% 31 30 1 1 0 0 1 0 60 36 1.16 1.17
1985 MIN AL 27 2 13 661 30 15 13 33% 25 13 5 2 0 0 0 0 59 21 1.21 1.10
1986 MIN AL 28 4 23 769 31 12 8 28% 29 11 2 1 0 0 0 0 69 18 1.10 1.06
1987 MIN AL 29 10 28 1102 66 21 15 24% 63 17 3 4 0 0 0 0 135 23 1.39 1.26
1988 MIN AL 30 8 37 1476 76 25 22 25% 71 20 5 5 0 0 3 0 150 36 1.35 1.25
1989 MIN AL 31 2 27 881 46 20 9 30% 44 18 1 1 1 1 0 0 88 22 1.17 1.19
9 Seasons 31 190 8142 415 176 136 30% 379 152 34 21 2 3 5 0 782 211 1.29 1.24
MLB Averages 32% 1.29 1.28

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%
1985 MIN AL 27 14 57% 93% 29% 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1987 MIN AL 29 127 59% 79% 23% 6 100% 0 29 3 25 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
1988 MIN AL 30 17 53% 59% 6% 2 100% 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1989 MIN AL 31 69 57% 83% 32% 4 100% 0 19 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 227 58% 79% 25% 12 100% 0 54 9 44 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 59% 81% 29% 95% 89%

* 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

All-Star Games
1988 *

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1988 AL  109 (5th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1988 AL  621 (3rd)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1982 AL  12 (1st)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1982 AL  76 (5th)
1988 AL  76 (2nd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1984 AL  49.2 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1984 AL  7 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1987 AL  6.99 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1988 AL  6.02 (5th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1988 AL  .992 (4th)

                           

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