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Chief Meyers

John Tortes Meyers

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 194 lb.

Born: July 29, 1880 in Riverside, CA
High School: Riverside HS (Riverside, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1909
Teams (by GP): Giants/Robins/Braves 1909-1917

Final Game: October 4, 1917
Died: July 25, 1971 in San Bernardino, CA
Buried: Green Acres Memorial Park, Bloomington, CA
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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
1909 NYG NL 28 C 64 464 376 71 17 4 .963 6.98 .965 6.27 8 62 52 46% 45%
1910 NYG NL 29 C 117 817 638 154 25 16 .969 6.77 .973 6.30 17 133 107 45% 44%
1911 NYG NL 30 C 128 855 729 108 18 11 .979 6.54 .966 6.44 10 108 85 44% 44% MVP-10
1912 NYG NL 31 C 122 706 576 111 19 10 .973 5.63 .969 6.31 12 101 84 45% 44% MVP-3
1913 NYG NL 32 C 116 747 579 143 25 12 .967 6.22 .970 6.29 6 111 102 48% 44% MVP-5
1914 NYG NL 33 C 126 657 487 150 20 16 .970 5.06 .970 6.31 5 91 91 50% 44%
1915 NYG NL 34 C 96 562 464 90 8 15 .986 5.77 .975 6.20 13 90 58 39% 46%
1916 BRO NL 35 C 74 492 389 95 8 9 .984 6.54 .974 6.30 8 74 62 46% 44%
1917 TOT NL 36 C 68 379 299 74 6 6 .984 5.49 .975 5.98 7 52 40 43% 44%
1917 BRO NL 36 C 44 229 186 37 6 3 .974 5.07 .975 5.98 4 36 21 37% 44%
1917 BSN NL 36 C 24 150 113 37 0 3 1.000 6.25 .975 5.98 3 16 19 54% 44%
9 Seasons C 911 5679 4537 996 146 99 .974 6.07 .970 6.28 86 822 681 45% 44%
9 Seasons TOT 911 5679 4537 996 146 99 .974 6.07 .970 6.28 86 822 681 45% 44%
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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1909 NYG NL 28 90 90 0 64 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1910 NYG NL 29 127 127 0 117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1911 NYG NL 30 133 133 0 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1912 NYG NL 31 126 126 0 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1913 NYG NL 32 120 120 0 116 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1914 NYG NL 33 134 134 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1915 NYG NL 34 110 110 0 96 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 BRO NL 35 80 80 0 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1917 BRO NL 36 47 47 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1917 BSN NL 36 25 25 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 992 992 0 911 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1911 NL (10, 17%)
1912 NL (3, 39%)
1913 NL (5, 31%)
0.87 Career Shares (287th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1910 NL  117 (3rd)
1911 NL  128 (1st)
1912 NL  122 (1st)
1913 NL  116 (2nd)
1914 NL  126 (1st)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1910 NL  638 (1st)
1911 NL  729 (1st)
1912 NL  576 (1st)
1913 NL  579 (1st)
1914 NL  487 (1st)
1915 NL  464 (4th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1910 NL  154 (3rd)
1913 NL  143 (4th)
1914 NL  150 (3rd)
Career  996 (48th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1910 NL  25 (2nd)
1911 NL  18 (4th)
1912 NL  19 (3rd)
1913 NL  25 (2nd)
1914 NL  20 (2nd)
Career  146 (81st)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1909 NL  8 (5th)
1910 NL  17 (1st)
1911 NL  10 (3rd)
1912 NL  12 (1st)
1913 NL  6 (5th)
1915 NL  13 (2nd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1910 NL  133 (2nd)
1913 NL  111 (5th)
1915 NL  90 (3rd)
Career  822 (55th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1910 NL  107 (2nd)
1913 NL  102 (3rd)
1914 NL  91 (2nd)
Career  681 (32nd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1913 NL  47.9 (4th)
1914 NL  50.0 (3rd)
1916 NL  45.6 (5th)
Career  45.3 (88th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1910 NL  6.77 (1st)
1911 NL  6.54 (1st)
1912 NL  5.63 (4th)
1913 NL  6.22 (2nd)
1915 NL  5.77 (4th)
Career  6.07 (84th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1911 NL  .979 (3rd)
1912 NL  .973 (4th)
1915 NL  .986 (1st)

Oldest s c a p y
1915 NL  born 1880-07-29 (9th)
1916 NL  born 1880-07-29 (9th)
1917 NL  born 1880-07-29 (6th)

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