Ken O'Dea

James Kenneth O'Dea

Positions: Catcher and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: March 16, 1913 in Lima, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: April 21, 1935
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Cubs/Giants/Braves 1935-1946

Final Game: August 6, 1946
Died: December 17, 1985 in Lima, NY
Buried: St. Agnes Cemetery, Avon, NY
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%
1935	CHC	NL	22	C	63	46	41	249	213	27	9	3	.964	3.81	.976	4.78	6	22	12	35%	44%
1936	CHC	NL	23	C	55	41	37	243	211	27	5	1	.979	4.33	.979	4.96	6	17	11	39%	47%
1937	CHC	NL	24	C	64	49	46	267	234	29	4	4	.985	4.11	.980	5.25	1	22	13	37%	46%
1938	CHC	NL	25	C	71	59	56	336	294	32	10	3	.970	4.59	.979	4.85	3	24	12	33%	45%
1939	NYG	NL	26	C	30	17	16	94	78	11	5	1	.947	2.97	.982	4.81	1	11	5	31%	46%
1940	NYG	NL	27	C	31	22	21	119	89	29	1	1	.992	3.81	.978	5.00	2	11	12	52%	45%
1941	NYG	NL	28	C	14	13	11	71	62	9	0	0	1.000	5.07	.983	5.04	2	2	4	67%	46%
1942	STL	NL	29	C	49	48	39	290	247	37	6	6	.979	5.80	.979	4.95	3	13	18	58%	46%
1943	STL	NL	30	C	56	52	42	272	237	32	3	6	.989	4.80	.981	4.70	4	9	13	59%	44%
1944	STL	NL	31	C	69	66	60	362	326	34	2	4	.994	5.22	.979	4.56	5	15	14	48%	43%
1945	STL	NL	32	C	91	79	71	373	321	50	2	14	.995	4.08	.978	4.57	4	33	30	48%	40%
1946	TOT	NL	33	C	34	27	21	158	138	19	1	1	.994	4.62	.980	5.01	3	8	10	56%	43%
1946	STL	NL	33	C	22	16	13	114	99	14	1	0	.991	5.14	.980	5.01	3	4	7	64%	43%
1946	BSN	NL	33	C	12	11	8	44	39	5	0	1	1.000	3.67	.980	5.01	0	4	3	43%	43%
	12 Seasons			C	627	519	461	2834	2450	336	48	44	.983	4.44	.979	4.83	40	187	154	45%	44%
	12 Seasons			TOT	627	519	461	2834	2450	336	48	44	.983	4.44	.979	4.83	40	187	154	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.

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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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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH
1935	CHC	NL	22	76	46	76	63	63	13
1936	CHC	NL	23	80	41	80	55	55	25
1937	CHC	NL	24	83	49	83	65	65	20
1938	CHC	NL	25	86	59	86	72	72	14
1939	NYG	NL	26	52	17	52	22	22	30
1940	NYG	NL	27	48	22	48	31	31	17
1941	NYG	NL	28	59	13	59	14	14	45
1942	STL	NL	29	58	48	58	49	49	9
1943	STL	NL	30	71	52	71	55	55	16
1944	STL	NL	31	85	66	85	69	69	16
1945	STL	NL	32	100	79	100	91	91	10
1946	STL	NL	33	22	16	22	22	22	0
1946	BSN	NL	33	12	11	12	12	12	0
	12 Seasons			832	519	832	620	620	215

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

All-Star Games 1945--not played	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1945 NL 91 (3rd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1945 NL 321 (4th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1945 NL 50 (2nd)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1938 NL 10 (3rd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1936 NL 6 (3rd) 1944 NL 5 (5th) 1945 NL 4 (5th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1938 NL 24 (5th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1945 NL 30 (1st)
Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1942 NL 58.1 (3rd) 1945 NL 47.6 (4th) Career 45.2 (92nd)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1945 NL 4.08 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1945 NL .995 (1st)

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