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Ed Ott

Nathan Edward Ott

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: July 11, 1951 in Muncy, PA
High School: Muncy HS (Muncy, PA)
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 23rd round of the 1970 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 10, 1974
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Angels 1974-1981
Agents: Tom Reich [*]
Final Game: October 2, 1981
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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
1974 PIT NL 22 OF 2 0 0 2.1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.86 0.50 .980 2.31 2.25
1974 PIT NL 22 RF 2 0 0 2.1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.86 0.50 .980 1.93 2.05
1975 PIT NL 23 C 2 0 0 5.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.60 1.00 .985 6.12 6.00 1 0 0 0 0
1976 PIT NL 24 C 8 5 5 53.2 26 20 6 0 1 1.000 1 22 4.36 3.25 .986 5.97 5.94 1 2 3 4 57% 33% 0
1977 PIT NL 25 C 90 78 69 712.2 513 455 49 9 6 .982 2 3 6.36 5.60 .985 6.49 6.49 8 18 40 29 42% 35% 2
1978 PIT NL 26 C 97 92 89 838.0 594 537 42 15 7 .975 -7 -10 6.22 5.97 .985 6.17 6.12 10 26 67 26 28% 32% 0
1978 PIT NL 26 LF 4 4 3 32.0 9 8 0 1 0 .889 -0 -11 2.25 2.00 .978 2.00 1.98
1978 PIT NL 26 OF 4 4 3 32.0 12 10 1 1 0 .917 -0 -11 3.09 2.75 .980 2.31 2.30
1979 PIT NL 27 C 116 103 93 957.0 669 612 53 4 6 .994 -2 -3 6.25 5.73 .985 6.13 6.11 7 34 72 33 31% 34% 2
1980 PIT NL 28 C 117 105 99 944.1 653 569 73 11 5 .983 9 11 6.12 5.49 .983 6.09 6.10 6 14 82 49 37% 31% 2
1980 PIT NL 28 LF 3 0 0 9.2 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 50 2.79 1.00 .977 2.05 2.07
1980 PIT NL 28 OF 3 0 0 9.2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 50 1.86 0.67 .980 2.33 2.30
1981 CAL AL 29 C 72 68 64 603.1 330 287 36 7 1 .979 3 6 4.82 4.49 .987 5.51 5.49 4 11 45 31 41% 38% 2
7 Seasons C 502 451 419 4114.0 2787 2482 259 46 26 .983 6 2 6.00 5.46 .985 6.10 6.09 37 105 309 172 36% 34% 8
3 Seasons OF 9 4 3 44.0 15 13 1 1 0 .933 0 3 2.86 1.56 .980 2.31 2.29
2 Seasons LF 7 4 3 41.2 12 11 0 1 0 .917 0 3 2.38 1.57 .978 2.01 2.01
1 Season RF 2 0 0 2.1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.86 0.50 .980 1.93 2.05
8 Seasons TOT 511 455 422 4158.0 2802 2495 260 47 26 .983 6 2 5.96 5.39 .985 6.06 6.02 37 105 309 172 36% 34% 8
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
1974 PIT NL 22 RF 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 PIT NL 23 C 0 0 0
1976 PIT NL 24 C 1 22 1
1977 PIT NL 25 C 2 3 2
1978 PIT NL 26 C -7 -10 -7
1978 PIT NL 26 LF -0 -11 -0 -0 0 0
1979 PIT NL 27 C -2 -3 -2
1980 PIT NL 28 C 9 11 9
1980 PIT NL 28 LF 0 50 0 0 0 0
1981 CAL AL 29 C 3 6 3
7 Seasons C 6 2 6
2 Seasons LF 0 3 0 -0 0 0
1 Season RF 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons TOT 6 2 0 -0 0 0 6

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1974 PIT NL 22 7 0 7 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 5 1
1975 PIT NL 23 5 0 5 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1976 PIT NL 24 27 5 27 8 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0
1977 PIT NL 25 104 78 104 90 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 1
1978 PIT NL 26 112 96 112 100 0 97 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 16 0
1979 PIT NL 27 117 103 117 116 0 116 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
1980 PIT NL 28 120 105 120 118 0 117 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 8 0
1981 CAL AL 29 75 68 75 72 0 72 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
8 Seasons 567 455 567 508 0 502 0 0 0 0 7 0 2 9 0 85 3
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%
1975 PIT NL 23 19 0.00 3.60 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1976 PIT NL 24 229 2.52 3.35 3 100% 0 0 21 1 0 1 19 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 100%
1977 PIT NL 25 2939 3.23 3.70 38 92% 0 0 457 22 3 15 417 48 12 0 0 2 9 0 4 5 2 6 0 2 4 7 86%
1978 PIT NL 26 3562 3.38 3.92 49 88% 1 1 538 32 6 11 489 45 11 2 0 2 15 0 6 9 1 7 1 2 3 14 71%
1979 PIT NL 27 4037 3.59 3.97 52 94% 0 1 618 34 2 20 561 49 9 2 0 3 5 0 1 4 1 8 1 0 2 8 100%
1980 PIT NL 28 3954 3.55 3.96 42 95% 1 0 570 28 5 15 521 67 13 0 0 4 11 0 3 8 2 5 0 1 3 7 86%
1981 CAL AL 29 2532 3.68 4.16 30 97% 0 0 286 19 1 10 255 37 8 0 0 2 6 0 0 6 0 2 0 0 0 6 83%
7 Seasons 17272 3.47 3.93 214 93% 2 2 2492 136 17 72 2264 251 55 4 0 13 46 0 14 32 6 29 2 5 12 44 84%
MLB Averages 3.75 4.23 95% 91%

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
1975 PIT NL 23 1 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1976 PIT NL 24 1 2 98 3 4 3 57% 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 7 4 1.72 1.40
1977 PIT NL 25 8 18 993 40 29 28 42% 38 26 2 2 0 1 2 0 81 33 1.33 1.01
1978 PIT NL 26 10 26 1338 67 26 23 28% 61 23 5 3 1 0 0 0 126 26 1.29 1.29
1979 PIT NL 27 7 34 1486 72 33 29 31% 70 29 2 3 0 1 2 0 132 37 1.20 1.25
1980 PIT NL 28 6 14 1374 82 49 41 37% 74 44 8 2 0 3 2 0 122 60 1.56 1.16
1981 CAL AL 29 6 11 952 45 31 23 41% 42 26 3 2 0 3 2 0 84 34 1.17 1.11
7 Seasons 39 105 6248 309 172 147 36% 288 151 20 13 1 8 8 0 554 194 1.33 1.17
MLB Averages 35% 1.30 1.28

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1978 PIT NL 26 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 50.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 128 67% 86% 27% 16 50%
1980 PIT NL 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 65% 81% 30% 4 75%
2 Seasons 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 50.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 171 67% 85% 28% 20 55%
MLB Averages 59.3% 2.9% 61% 82% 27% 47%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1974 PIT NL 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 21 67% 71% 10% 3 33%
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 21 67% 71% 10% 3 33%
MLB Averages 41.8% 3.0% 61% 82% 27% 52%

* 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
1980 NL  117 (5th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1979 NL  612 (5th)
1980 NL  569 (5th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1980 NL  73 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1978 NL  15 (1st)
1980 NL  11 (4th)
1981 AL  7 (4th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1978 NL  10 (5th)
1980 NL  6 (5th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1981 AL  45 (5th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1980 NL  49 (5th)
1981 AL  31 (4th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1977 NL  42.0 (3rd)
1980 NL  37.4 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1980 NL  9 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1978 NL  6.22 (4th)
1979 NL  6.25 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1978 NL  5.97 (2nd)
1979 NL  5.73 (5th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1979 NL  .994 (2nd)

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