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Bob Montgomery

Robert Edward Montgomery

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: April 16, 1944 in Nashville, TN
High School: Central HS (Nashville, TN)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1962. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 6, 1970
Team: RedSox 1970-1979

Final Game: September 9, 1979
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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
1970 BOS AL 26 C 22 21 20 196.0 159 143 13 3 3 .981 0 0 7.16 7.09 .988 6.65 6.62 3 11 10 9 47% 39% 0
1971 BOS AL 27 C 66 60 59 542.1 380 361 15 4 3 .989 -2 -4 6.24 5.70 .988 6.37 6.34 7 17 30 12 29% 39% 3
1972 BOS AL 28 C 22 19 18 184.2 132 120 10 2 2 .985 -2 -13 6.34 5.91 .985 6.48 6.46 2 5 9 3 25% 39% 0
1973 BOS AL 29 C 33 31 31 285.1 192 168 19 5 2 .974 2 8 5.90 5.67 .985 6.05 6.02 2 6 21 13 38% 38% 3
1974 BOS AL 30 C 79 60 55 567.0 354 318 28 8 3 .977 -1 -2 5.49 4.38 .983 5.89 5.87 4 22 41 25 38% 38% 1
1974 BOS AL 30 DH 5 4
1975 BOS AL 31 C 53 49 42 436.2 236 210 23 3 6 .987 2 5 4.80 4.40 .983 6.00 5.98 1 6 34 18 35% 38% 1
1975 BOS AL 31 1B 6 2 1 21.1 33 29 2 2 1 .939 -1 -73 13.08 5.17 .990 9.83 9.82
1975 BOS AL 31 DH 3 3
1976 BOS AL 32 C 30 26 23 236.1 120 106 12 2 2 .983 -2 -10 4.49 3.93 .981 5.75 5.77 1 12 23 9 28% 34% 0
1976 BOS AL 32 DH 1 1
1977 BOS AL 33 C 15 12 10 107.2 57 50 6 1 0 .982 -1 -11 4.68 3.73 .986 6.01 5.97 0 3 9 4 31% 39% 0
1978 BOS AL 34 C 10 9 7 80.0 41 35 5 1 0 .976 1 15 4.50 4.00 .983 5.54 5.48 1 1 2 3 60% 38% 1
1979 BOS AL 35 C 31 24 16 221.1 128 121 5 2 0 .984 -4 -22 5.12 4.06 .982 5.46 5.39 2 8 24 3 11% 36% 0
10 Seasons C 361 311 281 2857.1 1799 1632 136 31 21 .983 -7 -3 5.57 4.90 .985 6.05 6.01 23 91 203 99 33% 38% 9
1 Season 1B 6 2 1 21.1 33 29 2 2 1 .939 -1 -73 13.08 5.17 .990 9.83 9.82
10 Seasons TOT 367 313 282 2878.2 1832 1661 138 33 22 .982 -8 -3 5.62 4.90 .985 6.08 6.07 23 91 203 99 33% 38% 9
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
1970 BOS AL 26 C 0 0 0
1971 BOS AL 27 C -2 -4 -2
1972 BOS AL 28 C -2 -13 -2
1973 BOS AL 29 C 2 8 2
1974 BOS AL 30 C -1 -2 -1
1975 BOS AL 31 C 2 5 2
1975 BOS AL 31 1B -1 -73 -1 0 -1 0
1976 BOS AL 32 C -2 -10 -2
1977 BOS AL 33 C -1 -11 -1
1978 BOS AL 34 C 1 15 1
1979 BOS AL 35 C -4 -22 -4
10 Seasons C -7 -3 -7
1 Season 1B -1 -73 -1 0 -1 0
10 Seasons TOT -8 -3 -1 0 -1 0 -7

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1970 BOS AL 26 22 21 22 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1971 BOS AL 27 67 60 67 66 0 66 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1972 BOS AL 28 24 19 24 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1973 BOS AL 29 34 31 34 33 0 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1974 BOS AL 30 88 64 88 79 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 8 0
1975 BOS AL 31 62 54 62 58 0 53 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0
1976 BOS AL 32 31 27 31 30 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
1977 BOS AL 33 17 12 17 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1978 BOS AL 34 10 9 10 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1979 BOS AL 35 32 24 32 31 0 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
10 Seasons 387 321 387 366 0 361 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 22 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%
1970 BOS AL 26 827 2.71 3.26 10 90% 0 0 142 8 0 2 132 13 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 1 0%
1971 BOS AL 27 2334 4.18 4.45 28 96% 1 0 366 26 0 18 322 13 0 1 0 0 4 0 2 2 1 3 0 0 0 2 50%
1972 BOS AL 28 773 3.02 3.61 12 100% 0 0 119 9 1 1 108 8 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 2 100%
1973 BOS AL 29 1221 3.85 4.04 22 100% 0 0 168 15 1 2 150 19 6 0 0 0 5 1 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 4 100%
1974 BOS AL 30 2399 4.17 4.57 25 92% 0 1 317 18 2 6 290 29 3 1 0 2 8 0 1 7 0 3 0 0 1 4 50%
1975 BOS AL 31 1857 4.20 4.60 20 95% 0 0 212 14 1 8 189 22 6 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 1 6 0 1 1 5 80%
1976 BOS AL 32 997 2.89 3.66 14 100% 0 0 106 10 1 3 92 12 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 0
1977 BOS AL 33 482 4.93 5.10 2 100% 0 0 50 1 0 0 49 6 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1978 BOS AL 34 339 3.26 3.60 3 100% 0 0 35 2 1 0 32 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1979 BOS AL 35 943 3.94 4.27 6 100% 0 0 121 4 0 6 111 5 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
10 Seasons 12172 3.85 4.24 142 96% 1 1 1636 107 7 46 1475 132 24 3 0 5 31 2 4 25 2 21 1 1 4 20 75%
MLB Averages 3.69 4.18 95% 90%

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
1970 BOS AL 26 3 11 319 10 9 8 47% 9 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 34 9 1.13 1.02
1971 BOS AL 27 7 17 903 30 12 8 29% 27 9 3 0 0 3 3 0 72 17 1.22 0.94
1972 BOS AL 28 2 5 314 9 3 3 25% 8 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 18 3 1.02 1.01
1973 BOS AL 29 3 6 481 21 13 10 38% 19 12 2 0 0 1 3 0 46 16 0.98 1.00
1974 BOS AL 30 4 22 892 41 25 21 38% 38 24 3 1 0 0 1 0 84 30 1.01 1.32
1975 BOS AL 31 1 6 711 34 18 13 35% 30 17 4 0 0 1 1 0 44 23 1.17 1.17
1976 BOS AL 32 1 12 385 23 9 9 28% 22 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 46 9 1.24 1.67
1977 BOS AL 33 0 3 187 9 4 4 31% 9 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 5 1.03 1.32
1978 BOS AL 34 1 1 129 2 3 3 60% 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 5 0.95 0.91
1979 BOS AL 35 2 8 339 24 3 3 11% 23 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 39 5 1.64 1.00
10 Seasons 24 91 4660 203 99 82 33% 187 91 16 3 0 5 9 0 403 122 1.17 1.18
MLB Averages 36% 1.29 1.25

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%
1975 BOS AL 31 110 43% 86% 31% 9 78% 1 29 1 28 0 4 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 110 43% 86% 31% 9 78% 1 29 1 28 0 4 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 94% 88%

* 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.

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