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Phil Masi

Philip Samuel Masi

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 177 lb.

Born: January 6, 1916 in Chicago, IL
High School: Austin HS (Chicago, IL)
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1936. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 23, 1939
Teams (by GP): Braves/WhiteSox/Bees/Pirates 1939-1952

Final Game: August 17, 1952
Died: March 29, 1990 in Mount Prospect, IL
Buried: All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, IL
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1939 BSN NL 23 C 42 21 20 124 104 15 5 4 .960 2.83 .982 4.81 3 1 7 88% 46%
1940 BSN NL 24 C 52 31 23 175 137 32 6 2 .966 3.25 .978 5.00 3 17 15 47% 45%
1941 BSN NL 25 C 83 42 32 230 194 31 5 3 .978 2.71 .983 5.04 2 11 14 56% 46%
1942 BSN NL 26 C 39 19 18 103 78 21 4 1 .961 2.54 .979 4.95 3 13 10 43% 46%
1942 BSN NL 26 OF 4 1 1 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 2.35
1942 BSN NL 26 RF 4 1 1 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 2.08
1942 BSN NL 26 LF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.30
1943 BSN NL 27 C 73 65 63 234 192 40 2 2 .991 3.18 .981 4.70 0 27 19 41% 44%
1944 BSN NL 28 C 63 51 48 219 180 34 5 3 .977 3.40 .979 4.56 2 40 17 30% 43%
1944 BSN NL 28 1B 12 12 12 131 118 11 2 9 .985 10.75 .990 10.04
1944 BSN NL 28 3B 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0.50 .950 3.30
1945 BSN NL 29 C 95 91 87 395 335 52 8 7 .980 4.07 .978 4.57 2 39 28 42% 40% MVP-29
1945 BSN NL 29 1B 7 6 6 59 55 2 2 1 .966 8.14 .990 10.17 MVP-29
1946 BSN NL 30 C 124 102 98 536 470 56 10 5 .981 4.24 .980 5.01 3 41 28 41% 43% AS,MVP-24
1947 BSN NL 31 C 123 105 103 474 411 58 5 1 .989 3.81 .981 4.96 3 29 27 48% 44% AS
1948 BSN NL 32 C 109 95 95 503 458 39 6 5 .988 4.56 .980 5.15 3 6 33 19 37% 40% 0 AS
1949 TOT NL 33 C 81 62 57 327 291 34 2 8 .994 4.01 .982 4.98 4 5 17 15 47% 43% 1
1949 BSN NL 33 C 37 27 24 148 134 13 1 1 .993 3.97 .982 4.98 1 2 7 6 46% 43% 1
1949 PIT NL 33 C 44 35 33 179 157 21 1 7 .994 4.05 .982 4.98 3 3 10 9 47% 43% 0
1949 PIT NL 33 1B 2 2 2 20 17 3 0 3 1.000 10.00 .991 9.60
1950 CHW AL 34 C 114 106 96 913.1 494 440 52 2 9 .996 4.85 4.32 .985 4.94 4.85 5 18 28 25 47% 49% 3
1951 CHW AL 35 C 78 60 53 579.2 330 299 24 7 7 .979 5.01 4.14 .982 5.03 5.01 4 8 26 11 30% 46% 1
1952 CHW AL 36 C 25 15 11 166.2 113 101 7 5 2 .956 5.83 4.32 .985 5.44 5.44 2 4 11 4 27% 46% 0
14 Seasons C 1101 865 804 1659.2 4257 3690 495 72 59 .983 5.01 3.80 .981 5.02 4.92 39 41 333 239 42% 44% 5
3 Seasons 1B 21 20 20 210 190 16 4 13 .981 9.81 .990 10.04
1 Season RF 4 1 1 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 2.08
1 Season OF 4 1 1 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 2.35
1 Season 3B 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0.50 .950 3.30
1 Season LF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.30
14 Seasons TOT 1128 886 825 1659.2 4472 3884 512 76 72 .983 5.01 3.90 .981 5.02 5.00 39 41 333 239 42% 44% 5
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% 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
1939 BSN NL 23 C
1940 BSN NL 24 C
1941 BSN NL 25 C
1942 BSN NL 26 C
1942 BSN NL 26 RF
1942 BSN NL 26 LF
1943 BSN NL 27 C
1944 BSN NL 28 C
1944 BSN NL 28 1B
1944 BSN NL 28 3B
1945 BSN NL 29 C
1945 BSN NL 29 1B
1946 BSN NL 30 C
1947 BSN NL 31 C
1948 BSN NL 32 C
1949 BSN NL 33 C
1949 PIT NL 33 C
1949 PIT NL 33 1B
1950 CHW AL 34 C
1951 CHW AL 35 C
1952 CHW AL 36 C
14 Seasons C
3 Seasons 1B
1 Season RF
1 Season 3B
1 Season LF
14 Seasons TOT
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
1939 BSN NL 23 46 21 46 42 0 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1940 BSN NL 24 63 31 63 52 0 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1941 BSN NL 25 87 42 87 83 0 83 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1942 BSN NL 26 57 20 57 43 0 39 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 4 0 2 12
1943 BSN NL 27 80 65 80 73 0 73 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5
1944 BSN NL 28 89 63 89 77 0 63 13 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 6
1945 BSN NL 29 114 97 114 101 0 95 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 5
1946 BSN NL 30 133 102 133 124 0 124 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1947 BSN NL 31 126 105 126 123 0 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1948 BSN NL 32 113 95 113 109 0 109 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 5
1949 PIT NL 33 48 37 48 46 0 44 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1949 BSN NL 33 37 27 37 37 0 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4
1950 CHW AL 34 122 106 122 114 0 114 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1951 CHW AL 35 84 60 84 78 0 78 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 2
1952 CHW AL 36 30 15 30 25 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3
14 Seasons 1229 886 1229 1127 0 1101 22 0 2 0 1 0 4 4 0 87 43
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%
1948 BSN NL 32 2372 3.51 4.03 55 100% 0 0 308 40 0 15 253 22 7 1 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 6 100%
1949 BSN NL 33 955 3.71 4.32 16 100% 0 0 119 10 1 4 104 12 5 0 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 100%
1949 PIT NL 33 753 6.64 7.83 21 100% 0 0 84 17 1 3 63 10 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 100%
1950 CHW AL 34 3142 4.45 4.94 67 99% 0 0 356 42 3 27 283 36 11 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 8 0 1 2 7 100%
1951 CHW AL 35 2305 3.92 4.53 60 98% 0 0 277 51 1 13 212 23 5 0 0 4 7 0 0 7 1 5 0 0 0 3 100%
1952 CHW AL 36 706 2.59 2.92 14 93% 0 0 102 10 1 7 83 6 3 0 0 0 5 0 1 4 0 2 0 0 1 2 100%
5 Seasons 10233 4.05 4.62 233 99% 0 0 1246 170 7 69 998 109 34 2 0 7 19 3 2 14 1 20 0 3 5 21 100%
MLB Averages 4.12 4.64 95% 83%

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
1948 BSN NL 32 2 6 874 21 14 13 40% 15 13 5 0 1 1 0 0 38 21 1.39 1.12
1949 BSN NL 33 1 2 368 7 4 3 36% 6 3 1 0 0 1 1 0 11 5 1.03 2.17
1949 PIT NL 33 1 3 340 4 6 6 60% 4 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 12 7 0.82 1.50
1950 CHW AL 34 6 18 1296 20 19 17 49% 15 17 5 1 0 1 4 0 70 28 0.98 1.64
1951 CHW AL 35 3 8 891 25 11 11 31% 20 10 4 1 1 0 1 0 55 16 1.09 1.21
1952 CHW AL 36 3 4 280 11 4 2 27% 11 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 24 6 1.67 1.33
5 Seasons 16 41 4049 88 58 52 40% 71 48 15 4 2 6 6 0 210 83 1.19 1.43
MLB Averages 44% 1.21 1.19

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%
1949 PIT NL 33 30 73% 87% 33% 3 100% 0 11 0 11 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 30 73% 87% 33% 3 100% 0 11 0 11 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 93% 86%

* 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
1945--not played
1946 *
1947 *
1948 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1945 NL (29, 1%)
1946 NL (24, 2%)
0.03 Career Shares (1251st)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1945 NL  95 (2nd)
1946 NL  124 (1st)
1947 NL  123 (3rd)
1948 NL  109 (3rd)
1950 AL  114 (3rd)
Career  1,101 (88th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1945 NL  335 (2nd)
1946 NL  470 (1st)
1947 NL  411 (5th)
1948 NL  458 (3rd)
1950 AL  440 (3rd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1945 NL  52 (1st)
1946 NL  56 (3rd)
1947 NL  58 (2nd)
1950 AL  52 (3rd)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1945 NL  8 (5th)
1946 NL  10 (3rd)
1951 AL  7 (5th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1950 AL  5 (3rd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1943 NL  27 (3rd)
1944 NL  40 (1st)
1945 NL  39 (2nd)
1946 NL  41 (2nd)
1947 NL  29 (4th)
1948 NL  33 (3rd)
1950 AL  28 (1st)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1945 NL  28 (2nd)
1946 NL  28 (3rd)
1947 NL  27 (2nd)
1950 AL  25 (3rd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1947 NL  48.2 (3rd)
1950 AL  47.2 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1950 AL  4.85 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1945 NL  4.07 (4th)
1946 NL  4.24 (5th)
1950 AL  4.32 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1945 NL  .980 (5th)
1946 NL  .981 (4th)
1947 NL  .989 (1st)
1948 NL  .988 (3rd)
1949 NL  .994 (1st)
1950 AL  .996 (1st)
1951 AL  .979 (5th)

                                         

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