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Ray Murray

Raymond Lee Murray (Deacon)

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 204 lb.

Born: October 12, 1917 in Spring Hope, NC
Signed as a Free Agent with the Cleveland Indians in 1946. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 25, 1948
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Indians/Orioles 1948-1954

Final Game: September 25, 1954
Died: April 9, 2003 in Fort Worth, TX
Buried: Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park, Fort Worth, TX
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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
1950 CLE AL 32 C 45 31 26 318.1 176 156 15 5 2 .972 4.83 3.80 .985 4.94 4.85 3 2 9 7 44% 49% 1
1951 TOT AL 33 C 40 35 31 315.2 138 111 25 2 5 .986 3.88 3.40 .982 5.03 5.01 4 11 8 16 67% 46% 2
1951 CLE AL 33 C 1 0 0 3.0 5 4 1 0 0 1.000 15.00 5.00 .982 5.10 5.00 0 0 0 1 100% 46% 0
1951 PHA AL 33 C 39 35 31 312.2 133 107 24 2 5 .985 3.77 3.36 .982 5.03 5.01 4 11 8 15 65% 46% 2
1952 PHA AL 34 C 42 40 31 344.1 211 175 35 1 3 .995 5.49 5.00 .985 5.44 5.44 4 6 13 17 57% 46% 2
1953 PHA AL 35 C 78 75 70 670.0 379 330 45 4 8 .989 -1 -2 5.04 4.81 .985 5.18 5.15 8 25 16 24 60% 51% 1
1954 BAL AL 36 C 21 18 15 151.2 93 83 9 1 3 .989 0 0 5.46 4.38 .986 5.40 5.36 1 4 9 7 44% 48% 0
5 Seasons C 226 199 173 1800.0 997 855 129 13 21 .987 -1 -1 4.92 4.35 .985 5.18 5.14 20 48 55 71 56% 48% 6
6 Seasons TOT 226 199 173 1800.0 997 855 129 13 21 .987 -1 -1 4.92 4.35 .985 5.18 5.14 20 48 55 71 56% 48% 6
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
1950 CLE AL 32 C
1951 CLE AL 33 C
1951 PHA AL 33 C
1952 PHA AL 34 C
1953 PHA AL 35 C -1 -2 -1
1954 BAL AL 36 C 0 0 0
5 Seasons C -1 -1 -1
6 Seasons TOT -1 -1 -1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1948 CLE AL 30 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1950 CLE AL 32 55 31 55 47 0 47 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1
1951 PHA AL 33 40 35 40 39 0 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1951 CLE AL 33 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 PHA AL 34 44 40 44 42 0 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1953 PHA AL 35 84 75 84 78 0 78 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1954 BAL AL 36 22 18 22 21 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
6 Seasons 250 199 250 228 0 228 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 1
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%
1950 CLE AL 32 1379 4.07 4.78 29 86% 0 0 159 22 2 5 130 14 1 0 1 2 5 0 4 1 0 2 0 0 2 1 100%
1951 PHA AL 33 1291 5.24 5.73 36 89% 0 1 102 26 3 4 69 25 5 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 5 0 1 2 4 75%
1951 CLE AL 33 16 9.00 9.00 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 PHA AL 34 1319 3.79 4.23 35 94% 0 0 153 25 0 3 125 31 6 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 6 83%
1953 PHA AL 35 2757 4.46 4.91 57 98% 0 0 309 43 2 17 246 41 12 0 0 2 4 0 1 3 1 7 0 1 2 5 100%
1954 BAL AL 36 690 4.57 5.10 10 100% 0 0 82 9 4 2 67 9 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 100%
5 Seasons 7452 4.42 4.93 167 93% 0 1 809 125 11 32 640 121 25 1 1 8 13 0 7 6 2 20 0 2 6 17 88%
MLB Averages 4.10 4.62 95% 84%

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
1950 CLE AL 32 3 2 529 9 7 7 44% 6 7 2 0 1 0 1 0 17 8 1.48 0.76
1951 PHA AL 33 4 11 506 7 15 15 68% 7 14 0 1 0 0 2 0 26 18 0.68 0.99
1951 CLE AL 33 0 0 5 0 1 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.02
1952 PHA AL 34 4 6 543 10 17 17 63% 9 16 1 0 0 1 2 0 31 22 1.02 1.45
1953 PHA AL 35 8 25 1094 16 23 23 59% 13 16 2 4 1 3 1 0 65 30 0.72 1.05
1954 BAL AL 36 1 4 277 9 7 6 44% 9 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 15 8 0.88 1.03
5 Seasons 20 48 2954 51 70 69 58% 44 59 5 6 2 5 6 0 154 87 0.94 1.09
MLB Averages 45% 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

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1950 AL  5 (5th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1953 AL  8 (2nd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1953 AL  60.0 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1953 AL  4.81 (5th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1953 AL  .989 (2nd)

                                         

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