Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Encyclopedia of Players > L Listing > Tim Laudner Statistics and History

News: s-r blog:S-R Stat Table SHARE Tutorial

 
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 Schools: Park Center HS (Brooklyn Park, MN), 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 (Age 23)
Team: Twins 1981-1989
Agents: Ron Simon [*]
Final Game: September 3, 1989 (Age 31)
View Player Bio from the SABR BioProject
    About biographical information

15
15
View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error

All-Star

Player News

Add Your Blog Posts Here · Player News Archive · Player News RSS Feed · Hide Stories

Standard Batting

More Stats

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1981 23 MIN AL 14 47 43 4 7 2 0 2 5 0 0 3 17 .163 .234 .349 .583 63 15 0 1 0 0 1 2/D
1982 24 MIN AL 93 343 306 37 78 19 1 7 33 0 2 34 74 .255 .328 .392 .721 95 120 6 0 2 1 2 2
1983 25 MIN AL 62 184 168 20 31 9 0 6 18 0 0 15 49 .185 .250 .345 .595 60 58 2 0 0 1 0 2/D
1984 26 MIN AL 87 284 262 31 54 16 1 10 35 0 0 18 78 .206 .258 .389 .647 74 102 4 1 1 2 0 2/D
1985 27 MIN AL 72 182 164 16 39 5 0 7 19 0 1 12 45 .238 .292 .396 .688 83 65 2 1 4 1 0 2/3
1986 28 MIN AL 76 223 193 21 47 10 0 10 29 1 0 24 56 .244 .333 .451 .784 111 87 5 3 1 2 0 2
1987 29 MIN AL 113 317 288 30 55 7 1 16 43 1 0 23 80 .191 .252 .389 .640 65 112 4 1 3 2 0 2/3D
1988 30 MIN AL 117 418 375 38 94 18 1 13 54 0 0 36 89 .251 .316 .408 .724 100 153 14 1 3 3 0 *2/D3 AS
1989 31 MIN AL 100 270 239 24 53 11 1 6 27 1 0 25 65 .222 .293 .351 .645 77 84 7 0 4 2 0 2D3
9 Yrs 734 2268 2038 221 458 97 5 77 263 3 3 190 553 .225 .292 .391 .682 84 796 44 8 18 14 3
162 Game Avg. 162 501 450 49 101 21 1 17 58 1 1 42 122 .225 .292 .391 .682 84 176 10 2 4 3 1

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
1981 23 MIN AL 14 47 -3 -0 0 -1 1 -3 -0.4 2 -2 -0.2 .475 .498 -0.1 -0.0 -1 2/D
1982 24 MIN AL 93 343 -5 -1 -0 -4 6 -4 -0.4 12 8 0.7 .495 .497 1.2 0.2 12 2
1983 25 MIN AL 62 184 -8 -0 1 -6 3 -11 -1.0 6 -4 -0.5 .482 .493 0.2 -0.3 2 2/D
1984 26 MIN AL 87 284 -10 0 -0 7 5 2 0.2 10 11 1.1 .502 .501 0.4 1.2 4 2/D
1985 27 MIN AL 72 182 -6 -1 0 -0 3 -3 -0.3 6 3 0.3 .495 .498 0.3 0.3 3 $145,000 2/3
1986 28 MIN AL 76 223 3 -0 -0 -4 4 2 0.2 8 10 0.9 .503 .501 1.3 -0.0 14 $155,000 2
1987 29 MIN AL 113 317 -14 -0 -0 -5 5 -14 -1.3 11 -3 -0.3 .488 .491 0.1 0.0 1 $245,000 2/3D
1988 30 MIN AL 117 418 -2 -1 -1 -5 6 -3 -0.2 14 11 1.1 .497 .498 1.6 0.1 16 $295,000 *2/D3 AS
1989 31 MIN AL 100 270 -7 -0 0 -3 2 -8 -0.8 10 1 0.1 .491 .494 0.4 -0.1 4 $700,000 2D3
9 Seasons 734 2268 -51 -3 -1 -21 33 -44 -4.1 78 34 3.2 .494 .497 5.4 1.5 55 $1,540,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1987 29 MIN AL ALCS DET W 5 16 14 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 5 .071 .188 .143 .330 2 0 0 0 0 0
1987 29 MIN AL WS STL W 7 27 22 4 7 1 0 1 4 0 0 5 4 .318 .444 .500 .944 11 1 0 0 0 0
1 Yr (2 Series) 12 43 36 5 8 2 0 1 6 0 0 7 9 .222 .349 .361 .710 13 1 0 0 0 0
1 ALCS 5 16 14 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 5 .071 .188 .143 .330 2 0 0 0 0 0
1 WS 7 27 22 4 7 1 0 1 4 0 0 5 4 .318 .444 .500 .944 11 1 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

More Stats

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-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

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)

Double Plays Turned as C s c a p y
1988 AL  8 (4th)

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/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)

                           

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 9 (1231), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 4 (2384), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Catcher (357th), 3.2 career WAR/4.0 7yr-peak WAR/3.6 JAWS
Average HOF C (out of 13) = 52.4 career WAR/33.7 7yr-peak WAR/43.0 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
Similar Batters 
 View Similar Player Links in Pop-up
 Compare Stats to Similars
  1. Chris Snyder (969)
  2. Kelly Stinnett (954)
  3. Tom Lampkin (953)
  4. Rick Wilkins (941)
  5. Chris Widger (940)
  6. Barry Foote (939)
  7. Bob Tillman (938)
  8. Elrod Hendricks (938)
  9. Charlie O'Brien (933)
  10. Kelly Shoppach (931)
Most Similar by Ages 
 View Similar Player Links in Pop-up
 Hold mouse over #'s to see names
  1. George Mitterwald (977)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Bob Melvin (973)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Ron Karkovice (973)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Ron Karkovice (973)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Ron Karkovice (964)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Ron Karkovice (977)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Chris Snyder (969)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

  • June 8, 1976: Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 33rd round of the 1976 amateur draft, but did not sign.
  • June 5, 1979: Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 3rd round of the 1979 amateur draft.
  • November 9, 1987: Granted Free Agency.
  • February 3, 1988: Signed as a Free Agent with the Minnesota Twins.
  • November 4, 1988: Granted Free Agency.
  • December 19, 1988: Signed as a Free Agent with the Minnesota Twins.
The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Salaries

 Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
198527Minnesota Twins$145,000Scully, Business of MLB, p. 163
198628Minnesota Twins$155,000G. Scully, Business of MLB, p. 163Arbitration loss; $250,000 request
198729Minnesota Twins$245,000Proofing corrections
198830Minnesota Twins$295,000USA Today, 4/1/88
198931Minnesota Twins$700,0001989 USA Today survey
199032Minnesota Twins$625,000USA Today
Career to date (may be incomplete)$2,165,000
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

Other Resources & Links

Error?     Compare     Search SABR's Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball Library     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Cube     WahooSam.com     WhatIfSports: Tim Laudner    

Viewed 14,154 times through May 15, 2013.
Name and misspellings: Timothy Jon Tim Laudner

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.