Russ Nixon

Russell Eugene Nixon

Positions: Catcher and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: February 19, 1935 in Cleves, OH
High School: Western Hills HS (Cincinnati, OH)
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1953. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 20, 1957
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Indians/Twins 1957-1968

Final Game: September 16, 1968
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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
1957	CLE	AL	22	C	57	45	36	418.2	304	268	31	5	5	.984	-4	-11	6.43	5.25	.991	5.92	5.94	11	10	23	14	38%	47%	1
1958	CLE	AL	23	C	101	93	75	813.2	535	499	31	5	4	.991	-2	-3	5.86	5.25	.990	6.01	5.95	10	14	25	17	40%	47%	1
1959	CLE	AL	24	C	74	68	54	597.2	411	374	31	6	8	.985	-6	-12	6.10	5.47	.989	6.08	6.04	4	19	32	10	24%	40%	2
1960	TOT	AL	25	C	99	88	80	800.4	528	488	34	6	5	.989	-4	-6	5.87	5.27	.987	5.93	5.92	9	23	31	16	34%	40%	0
1960	CLE	AL	25	C	25	21	18	196.2	143	134	8	1	2	.993	1	6	6.50	5.68	.987	5.93	5.92	2	3	6	6	50%	40%	0
1960	BOS	AL	25	C	74	67	62	603.2	385	354	26	5	3	.987	-5	-10	5.67	5.14	.987	5.93	5.92	7	20	25	10	29%	40%	0
1961	BOS	AL	26	C	66	59	52	513.2	363	330	24	9	2	.975	-6	-14	6.20	5.36	.989	6.21	6.14	11	11	28	7	20%	36%	1
1962	BOS	AL	27	C	38	33	29	286.0	208	201	7	0	1	1.000	-3	-13	6.55	5.47	.989	6.30	6.28	1	8	15	0	0%	36%	0
1963	BOS	AL	28	C	76	72	66	645.0	509	483	22	4	1	.992	-1	-2	7.05	6.64	.989	6.64	6.64	5	21	19	9	32%	33%	0
1964	BOS	AL	29	C	45	41	30	338.0	287	273	11	3	3	.990	-2	-7	7.56	6.31	.990	7.07	7.06	3	13	13	5	28%	37%	0
1965	BOS	AL	30	C	38	30	27	272.2	214	200	10	4	0	.981	-4	-18	6.93	5.53	.988	6.96	6.94	3	10	30	6	17%	34%	1
1966	MIN	AL	31	C	32	18	14	195.2	144	137	5	2	0	.986	-1	-6	6.53	4.44	.988	6.86	6.85	0	6	13	5	28%	38%	0
1967	MIN	AL	32	C	69	41	28	417.0	336	308	26	2	1	.994	-3	-9	7.21	4.84	.989	7.22	7.23	7	19	19	11	37%	41%	0
1968	BOS	AL	33	C	27	23	18	208.0	154	147	6	1	1	.994	0	0	6.62	5.67	.990	6.97	6.94	2	6	14	7	33%	37%	0
	12 Seasons			C	722	611	509	5506.1	3993	3708	238	47	31	.988	-36	-8	6.45	5.47	.989	6.38	6.38	66	160	262	107	29%	39%	6
	12 Seasons			TOT	722	611	509	5506.1	3993	3708	238	47	31	.988	-36	-8	6.45	5.47	.989	6.38	6.38	66	160	262	107	29%	39%	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.

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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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rctch
1957	CLE	AL	22	C	-4	-11	-4
1958	CLE	AL	23	C	-2	-3	-2
1959	CLE	AL	24	C	-6	-12	-6
1960	CLE	AL	25	C	1	6	1
1960	BOS	AL	25	C	-5	-10	-5
1961	BOS	AL	26	C	-6	-14	-6
1962	BOS	AL	27	C	-3	-13	-3
1963	BOS	AL	28	C	-1	-2	-1
1964	BOS	AL	29	C	-2	-7	-2
1965	BOS	AL	30	C	-4	-18	-4
1966	MIN	AL	31	C	-1	-6	-1
1967	MIN	AL	32	C	-3	-9	-3
1968	BOS	AL	33	C	0	0	0
	12 Seasons			C	-36	-8	-36
	12 Seasons			TOT	-36	-8	-36

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH
1957	CLE	AL	22	62	45	62	57	57	9
1958	CLE	AL	23	113	93	113	101	101	18
1959	CLE	AL	24	82	68	82	74	74	11
1960	BOS	AL	25	80	67	80	74	74	10
1960	CLE	AL	25	25	21	25	25	25	2
1961	BOS	AL	26	87	59	87	66	66	22
1962	BOS	AL	27	65	33	65	38	38	29
1963	BOS	AL	28	98	72	98	76	76	25
1964	BOS	AL	29	81	41	81	45	45	37
1965	BOS	AL	30	59	30	59	38	38	24
1966	MIN	AL	31	51	18	51	32	32	24
1967	MIN	AL	32	74	41	74	69	69	21
1968	BOS	AL	33	29	23	29	27	27	3
	12 Seasons			906	611	906	722	722	235

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%
1957	CLE	AL	22	1874	4.49	5.25	28	89%	0	0	270	21	5	7	237	28	8	0	0	3	5	1	3	1	1	5	0	4	4	3	100%
1958	CLE	AL	23	3392	3.32	3.67	64	98%	0	0	498	52	2	13	431	29	7	1	0	1	5	2	1	2	0	4	0	0	0	5	100%
1959	CLE	AL	24	2506	3.57	4.07	31	94%	0	0	379	21	1	13	344	31	5	0	0	8	6	0	2	4	0	8	0	0	1	4	100%
1960	BOS	AL	25	2627	4.50	4.89	46	96%	0	0	352	36	2	9	305	26	8	0	1	5	5	0	1	4	1	3	0	1	1	3	67%
1960	CLE	AL	25	840	3.52	3.89	14	86%	0	0	135	11	0	3	121	8	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	50%
1961	BOS	AL	26	2279	4.13	4.73	40	98%	0	0	329	30	0	6	292	22	8	1	0	2	9	1	1	7	0	2	0	0	0	5	100%
1962	BOS	AL	27	1260	4.73	5.17	18	100%	0	0	193	15	0	3	175	7	3	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	100%
1963	BOS	AL	28	2787	4.17	4.65	54	100%	0	0	481	46	2	4	429	20	7	0	0	5	4	1	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	100%
1964	BOS	AL	29	1463	4.23	4.58	24	92%	0	0	274	17	2	6	249	10	4	0	0	1	3	0	3	0	1	3	0	0	1	1	100%
1965	BOS	AL	30	1157	4.08	4.64	16	100%	0	0	197	13	1	6	177	10	0	0	0	3	4	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
1966	MIN	AL	31	808	3.13	3.59	11	100%	0	0	141	11	0	2	128	5	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967	MIN	AL	32	1751	3.69	4.14	20	100%	0	0	312	13	1	3	295	26	6	1	0	6	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	1	1	100%
1968	BOS	AL	33	868	3.59	3.85	13	92%	0	0	148	9	0	3	136	6	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	100%
	12 Seasons			23612	3.95	4.41	379	96%	0	0	3709	295	16	78	3319	228	58	3	1	38	47	5	16	26	3	32	0	6	8	29	93%
	MLB Averages				3.63	4.12		95%																							89%

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
1957	CLE	AL	22	11	10	763	23	14	14	38%	20	14	2	0	1	0	1	0	59	17	1.77	1.04
1958	CLE	AL	23	9	14	1260	25	17	16	40%	22	16	3	1	0	0	1	0	67	18	1.34	1.30
1959	CLE	AL	24	4	19	874	32	10	9	24%	28	6	4	3	0	1	2	0	76	16	1.18	1.27
1960	BOS	AL	25	7	20	1060	25	10	9	29%	23	9	2	0	0	1	0	0	68	12	1.53	1.23
1960	CLE	AL	25	2	3	330	6	6	6	50%	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	11	1.30	1.72
1961	BOS	AL	26	11	11	878	28	7	7	20%	26	5	2	2	0	0	1	0	66	13	1.06	2.05
1962	BOS	AL	27	1	8	487	15	0	0	0%	13	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	30	0	1.02
1963	BOS	AL	28	5	21	1045	19	9	7	32%	17	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	64	12	1.03	1.02
1964	BOS	AL	29	3	13	561	13	5	3	28%	12	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	39	7	1.17	1.34
1965	BOS	AL	30	3	10	437	30	6	5	17%	25	3	5	2	0	1	1	0	45	9	0.98	1.75
1966	MIN	AL	31	0	6	291	13	5	5	28%	13	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	5	1.27	1.07
1967	MIN	AL	32	7	19	603	19	11	11	37%	16	10	2	1	1	0	0	0	58	13	1.05	0.83
1968	BOS	AL	33	2	6	313	14	7	5	33%	14	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	25	7	1.52	1.46
	12 Seasons			65	160	8902	262	107	97	29%	235	92	25	12	2	3	6	0	631	140	1.24	1.28
	MLB Averages									39%											1.24	1.21

* 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y 1958 AL 101 (5th) 1960 AL 99 (4th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1960 AL 488 (4th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1957 AL 5 (4th) 1959 AL 6 (3rd) 1961 AL 9 (2nd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1957 AL 11 (2nd) 1958 AL 10 (4th) 1960 AL 9 (3rd) 1961 AL 11 (5th)
Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1957 AL 23 (4th) 1958 AL 25 (3rd) 1959 AL 32 (4th) 1960 AL 31 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1960 AL 5.87 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1960 AL 5.27 (5th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1958 AL .991 (4th) 1960 AL .989 (4th)

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