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Don Leppert

Donald George Leppert

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: October 19, 1931 in Indianapolis, IN
High School: Washington HS (Indianapolis, IN)
School: Wabash College (Crawfordsville, IN)
Signed by the Milwaukee Braves as an amateur free agent in 1955. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 18, 1961
Teams (by GP): Senators/Pirates 1961-1964

Final Game: September 16, 1964
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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
1961 PIT NL 29 C 21 15 11 137.1 94 80 11 3 1 .968 -1 -9 5.96 4.33 .985 6.39 6.32 4 4 4 3 43% 38% 1
1962 PIT NL 30 C 44 41 37 351.2 269 243 23 3 2 .989 -1 -3 6.81 6.05 .987 6.72 6.66 8 7 24 6 20% 34% 0
1963 WSA AL 31 C 60 55 41 477.1 306 281 20 5 4 .984 -5 -13 5.68 5.02 .989 6.64 6.64 8 17 19 3 14% 33% 0 AS
1964 WSA AL 32 C 43 39 20 310.0 207 191 14 2 2 .990 1 4 5.95 4.77 .990 7.07 7.06 4 5 16 7 30% 37% 1
4 Seasons C 168 150 109 1276.1 876 795 68 13 9 .985 -6 -6 6.09 5.14 .988 6.74 6.71 24 33 63 19 23% 35% 2
4 Seasons TOT 168 150 109 1276.1 876 795 68 13 9 .985 -6 -6 6.09 5.14 .988 6.74 6.71 24 33 63 19 23% 35% 2
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
1961 PIT NL 29 C -1 -9 -1
1962 PIT NL 30 C -1 -3 -1
1963 WSA AL 31 C -5 -13 -5
1964 WSA AL 32 C 1 4 1
4 Seasons C -6 -6 -6
4 Seasons TOT -6 -6 -6

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1961 PIT NL 29 22 15 22 21 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1962 PIT NL 30 45 41 45 44 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1963 WSA AL 31 73 55 73 60 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
1964 WSA AL 32 50 39 50 43 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
4 Seasons 190 150 190 168 0 168 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 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%
1961 PIT NL 29 611 4.72 5.50 12 83% 0 1 79 6 0 2 71 11 3 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0
1962 PIT NL 30 1487 3.11 3.83 22 100% 2 0 248 15 0 6 227 16 5 1 0 4 3 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 100%
1963 WSA AL 31 2040 4.60 5.13 27 85% 0 0 279 18 3 3 255 24 7 0 0 13 5 1 2 2 0 4 0 2 4 2 50%
1964 WSA AL 32 1324 4.01 4.41 26 92% 0 0 192 21 0 4 167 14 3 0 0 3 2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 5462 4.06 4.64 87 91% 2 1 798 60 3 15 720 65 18 1 0 21 13 1 6 6 1 9 0 2 4 3 67%
MLB Averages 3.76 4.27 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
1961 PIT NL 29 4 4 249 4 3 3 43% 4 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 17 6 0.46 0.56
1962 PIT NL 30 8 7 609 24 6 6 20% 21 6 2 0 1 0 0 0 50 7 1.39 0.83
1963 WSA AL 31 8 17 690 19 3 2 14% 18 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 58 7 1.28 1.34
1964 WSA AL 32 4 5 492 16 7 6 30% 14 7 2 0 0 0 1 0 30 9 0.73 0.90
4 Seasons 24 33 2040 63 19 17 23% 57 18 5 1 1 0 2 0 155 29 1.13 0.89
MLB Averages 37% 1.20 1.17

* 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
1963

Passed Balls s c a p y
1963 AL  8 (5th)

                           

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