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Hal Naragon

Harold Richard Naragon

Positions: Catcher and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: October 1, 1928 in Zanesville, OH
High School: Barberton HS (Barberton, OH)
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1947. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 23, 1951
Teams (by GP): Indians/Senators/Twins 1951-1962

Final Game: August 5, 1962
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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
1951 CLE AL 22 C 2 2 2 22.0 14 12 1 1 1 .929 5.32 6.50 .982 5.03 5.00 1 0 1 1 50% 46% 0
1954 CLE AL 25 C 45 33 17 284.2 146 132 14 0 1 1.000 1 4 4.62 3.24 .986 5.40 5.36 2 2 14 11 44% 48% 1
1955 CLE AL 26 C 52 32 18 300.0 216 199 15 2 3 .991 3 12 6.42 4.12 .988 5.58 5.54 2 8 5 10 67% 47% 2
1956 CLE AL 27 C 48 33 21 293.2 171 162 7 2 0 .988 -2 -8 5.18 3.52 .988 5.91 5.86 6 8 11 6 35% 44% 1
1957 CLE AL 28 C 39 28 21 267.0 195 179 14 2 2 .990 -2 -9 6.51 4.95 .991 5.92 5.94 3 9 7 7 50% 47% 0
1959 TOT AL 30 C 64 54 52 496.1 331 313 16 2 1 .994 -5 -12 5.97 5.14 .989 6.08 6.04 7 14 28 10 26% 40% 0
1959 CLE AL 30 C 10 8 8 75.0 54 51 3 0 1 1.000 1 16 6.48 5.40 .989 6.08 6.04 1 3 2 3 60% 40% 0
1959 WSH AL 30 C 54 46 44 421.1 277 262 13 2 0 .993 -6 -17 5.87 5.09 .989 6.08 6.04 6 11 26 7 21% 40% 0
1960 WSH AL 31 C 29 23 18 227.1 136 119 14 3 1 .978 0 0 5.27 4.59 .987 5.93 5.92 1 3 10 4 29% 40% 1
1961 MIN AL 32 C 36 30 26 278.2 181 168 12 1 4 .994 -1 -4 5.81 5.00 .989 6.21 6.14 3 3 20 5 20% 36% 1
1962 MIN AL 33 C 9 5 3 49.0 41 41 0 0 1 1.000 0 0 7.53 4.56 .989 6.30 6.28 0 0 3 0 0% 36% 0
9 Seasons C 324 240 178 2218.2 1431 1325 93 13 14 .991 -6 -3 5.75 4.38 .988 5.88 5.83 25 47 99 54 35% 43% 6
10 Seasons TOT 324 240 178 2218.2 1431 1325 93 13 14 .991 -6 -3 5.75 4.38 .988 5.88 5.83 25 47 99 54 35% 43% 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
1951 CLE AL 22 C
1954 CLE AL 25 C 1 4 1
1955 CLE AL 26 C 3 12 3
1956 CLE AL 27 C -2 -8 -2
1957 CLE AL 28 C -2 -9 -2
1959 CLE AL 30 C 1 16 1
1959 WSH AL 30 C -6 -17 -6
1960 WSH AL 31 C 0 0 0
1961 MIN AL 32 C -1 -4 -1
1962 MIN AL 33 C 0 0 0
9 Seasons C -6 -3 -6
10 Seasons TOT -6 -3 -6

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1951 CLE AL 22 3 2 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1954 CLE AL 25 46 33 46 45 0 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1955 CLE AL 26 57 32 57 52 0 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
1956 CLE AL 27 53 33 53 48 0 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
1957 CLE AL 28 57 28 57 39 0 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 0
1958 CLE AL 29 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1959 WSH AL 30 71 46 71 54 0 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 0
1959 CLE AL 30 14 8 14 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1960 WSH AL 31 33 23 33 29 0 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
1961 MIN AL 32 57 30 57 36 0 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 0
1962 MIN AL 33 24 5 24 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
10 Seasons 424 240 424 324 0 324 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 140 2
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%
1951 CLE AL 22 93 1.64 3.27 3 100% 0 0 11 3 0 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1954 CLE AL 25 1189 2.72 3.07 18 100% 0 0 134 17 0 2 115 15 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1955 CLE AL 26 1244 3.24 3.66 27 100% 0 0 197 24 0 4 169 15 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 2 100%
1956 CLE AL 27 1249 3.46 3.95 22 100% 0 0 165 21 0 1 143 8 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 CLE AL 28 1153 3.67 4.31 22 100% 0 1 178 20 2 3 153 13 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 100%
1959 WSH AL 30 1827 4.19 4.83 26 100% 1 0 262 23 0 5 233 13 2 0 1 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 100%
1959 CLE AL 30 304 2.28 2.40 2 100% 0 0 51 2 0 0 49 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1960 WSH AL 31 1016 4.04 4.51 24 100% 0 1 118 14 1 5 98 14 8 1 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 1 2 100%
1961 MIN AL 32 1184 3.71 4.36 14 93% 0 0 168 10 1 3 154 12 2 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 1 2 1 0%
1962 MIN AL 33 217 4.41 5.51 4 100% 0 0 42 4 1 1 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
9 Seasons 9476 3.55 4.09 162 99% 1 2 1326 138 5 24 1158 94 17 4 2 6 12 3 2 7 0 14 0 4 6 11 91%
MLB Averages 3.95 4.46 95% 86%

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
1951 CLE AL 22 1 0 41 1 1 1 50% 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 5.23 1.54
1954 CLE AL 25 2 2 468 14 11 11 44% 12 9 1 2 1 0 1 1 22 13 1.31 1.25
1955 CLE AL 26 2 8 501 5 10 9 67% 5 10 0 0 0 0 2 0 21 14 0.67 1.10
1956 CLE AL 27 6 8 467 11 6 5 35% 11 5 0 0 0 1 1 0 35 8 1.03 1.01
1957 CLE AL 28 3 9 438 7 7 7 50% 6 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 23 9 0.75 0.73
1959 WSH AL 30 6 11 730 26 7 7 21% 24 5 2 1 0 1 0 0 48 9 1.34 0.64
1959 CLE AL 30 1 3 112 2 3 2 60% 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 3 0.75 0.65
1960 WSH AL 31 1 3 415 10 4 4 29% 9 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 21 4 0.56 1.03
1961 MIN AL 32 3 3 446 20 5 5 20% 18 5 2 0 0 0 1 0 31 7 1.41 1.19
1962 MIN AL 33 0 0 82 3 0 0 0% 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1.52
9 Seasons 25 47 3700 99 54 51 35% 91 49 7 3 1 2 6 1 216 68 1.19 1.00
MLB Averages 42% 1.18 1.16

* 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

Passed Balls s c a p y
1956 AL  6 (4th)
1959 AL  7 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1955 AL  3 (1st)

                           

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