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Bill Plummer

William Francis Plummer

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: March 21, 1947 in Oakland, CA
High School: Anderson Union HS (Anderson, CA)
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1965. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1968
Teams (by GP): Reds/Mariners/Cubs 1968-1978

Final Game: September 7, 1978
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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
1968 CHC NL 21 C 1 0 0 2.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 2.00 .990 6.75 6.90 0 0 0 0 0
1970 CIN NL 23 C 4 2 1 18.0 7 6 0 1 0 .857 -1 -67 3.00 1.50 .987 6.85 6.82 0 0 3 0 0% 33% 0
1971 CIN NL 24 C 4 2 2 21.0 9 7 2 0 0 1.000 1 57 3.86 2.25 .988 6.34 6.32 0 0 0 2 100% 36% 0
1971 CIN NL 24 3B 2 2 0 17.0 5 1 4 0 0 1.000 0 7 2.65 2.50 .948 2.81 2.80
1972 CIN NL 25 C 36 28 23 255.0 158 148 9 1 2 .994 2 9 5.54 4.36 .987 6.61 6.63 3 4 6 7 54% 37% 0
1972 CIN NL 25 1B 1 0 0 7.0 8 8 0 0 1 1.000 0 86 10.29 8.00 .992 9.77 9.80
1972 CIN NL 25 3B 1 0 0 5.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -48 0.00 0.00 2.88 2.90
1973 CIN NL 26 C 42 33 23 302.0 180 170 9 1 3 .994 -2 -8 5.33 4.26 .987 6.34 6.34 4 12 13 6 32% 36% 0
1973 CIN NL 26 3B 5 0 0 14.1 4 2 1 1 0 .750 -2 -126 1.88 0.60 .945 2.89 2.88
1974 CIN NL 27 C 49 33 24 319.0 227 208 13 6 1 .974 -3 -11 6.24 4.51 .985 6.12 6.11 3 13 19 5 21% 33% 1
1974 CIN NL 27 3B 1 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -180 4.50 1.00 .950 3.15 3.00
1975 CIN NL 28 C 63 45 36 427.1 202 186 14 2 5 .990 -4 -11 4.21 3.17 .985 6.03 6.02 2 19 23 2 8% 32% 0
1976 CIN NL 29 C 54 40 33 384.0 262 235 21 6 1 .977 -4 -12 6.00 4.74 .986 5.96 5.94 1 13 35 9 20% 33% 0
1977 CIN NL 30 C 50 31 23 311.0 212 194 15 3 3 .986 -2 -8 6.05 4.18 .985 6.49 6.49 4 13 17 10 37% 35% 0
1978 SEA AL 31 C 40 33 23 282.2 139 127 9 3 1 .978 -6 -25 4.33 3.40 .983 5.53 5.48 1 7 30 3 9% 38% 0
10 Seasons C 343 247 188 2322.0 1398 1283 92 23 16 .984 -19 -10 5.33 4.01 .986 6.15 6.14 18 81 146 44 23% 35% 1
4 Seasons 3B 9 2 0 38.1 10 3 6 1 0 .900 -2 -59 2.11 1.00 .947 2.86 2.88
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 7.0 8 8 0 0 1 1.000 0 86 10.29 8.00 .992 9.77 9.80
10 Seasons TOT 353 249 188 2367.1 1416 1294 98 24 17 .983 -20 -10 5.29 3.94 .985 6.10 6.07 18 81 146 44 23% 35% 1
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
1968 CHC NL 21 C 0 0 0
1970 CIN NL 23 C -1 -67 -1
1971 CIN NL 24 C 1 57 1
1971 CIN NL 24 3B 0 7 0 0 -0 0
1972 CIN NL 25 C 2 9 2
1972 CIN NL 25 1B 0 86 0 0 0 0
1972 CIN NL 25 3B -0 -48 -0 0 -0
1973 CIN NL 26 C -2 -8 -2
1973 CIN NL 26 3B -2 -126 -2 -0 -1 0
1974 CIN NL 27 C -3 -11 -3
1974 CIN NL 27 3B -0 -180 -0 -0 0
1975 CIN NL 28 C -4 -11 -4
1976 CIN NL 29 C -4 -12 -4
1977 CIN NL 30 C -2 -8 -2
1978 SEA AL 31 C -6 -25 -6
10 Seasons C -19 -10 -19
4 Seasons 3B -2 -59 -2 -0 -2 0
1 Season 1B 0 86 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons TOT -20 -10 -1 -0 -1 0 -19

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1968 CHC NL 21 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1970 CIN NL 23 4 2 4 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1971 CIN NL 24 10 4 10 6 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1972 CIN NL 25 38 28 38 38 0 36 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1973 CIN NL 26 50 33 50 47 0 42 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1974 CIN NL 27 50 33 50 50 0 49 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1975 CIN NL 28 65 45 65 63 0 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1976 CIN NL 29 56 40 56 54 0 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1977 CIN NL 30 51 31 51 50 0 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1978 SEA AL 31 41 33 41 40 0 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
10 Seasons 367 249 367 353 0 343 1 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 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%
1968 CHC NL 21 9 9.00 9.00 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1970 CIN NL 23 90 8.00 9.00 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1971 CIN NL 24 88 3.43 5.57 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 7 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1972 CIN NL 25 1052 2.93 3.21 5 80% 0 0 149 2 1 5 141 10 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 100%
1973 CIN NL 26 1294 3.96 4.50 20 100% 0 0 166 17 0 5 144 11 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 100%
1974 CIN NL 27 1368 3.22 4.01 25 84% 1 0 210 14 0 12 184 13 4 0 0 2 6 0 4 2 0 1 0 0 0 5 100%
1975 CIN NL 28 1832 3.85 4.18 21 100% 0 0 189 15 5 7 162 13 8 1 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 5 1 3 4 4 100%
1976 CIN NL 29 1639 3.42 3.91 36 89% 0 0 238 24 1 6 207 21 7 1 0 4 6 0 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 5 100%
1977 CIN NL 30 1354 4.14 4.58 13 92% 0 0 194 8 0 5 180 15 4 0 0 2 3 0 1 2 0 3 0 0 0 1 100%
1978 SEA AL 31 1271 5.03 5.76 10 90% 0 0 126 4 1 6 115 9 3 0 1 1 3 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 50%
10 Seasons 9997 3.82 4.35 130 92% 1 0 1287 84 8 47 1147 94 27 4 1 13 23 1 9 13 1 17 1 3 5 20 95%
MLB Averages 3.61 4.08 95% 90%

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
1968 CHC NL 21 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1970 CIN NL 23 0 0 34 3 0 0 0% 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1.14
1971 CIN NL 24 0 0 28 0 2 2 100% 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2.73
1972 CIN NL 25 3 4 388 6 7 7 54% 6 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 22 6 1.27 0.71
1973 CIN NL 26 4 12 459 13 6 5 32% 11 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 36 8 1.39 1.42
1974 CIN NL 27 3 13 554 19 5 4 21% 15 2 4 1 0 2 1 0 46 7 1.32 1.11
1975 CIN NL 28 2 19 704 23 2 2 8% 21 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 57 2 1.20 1.42
1976 CIN NL 29 1 13 616 35 9 7 20% 32 7 3 0 0 2 0 0 56 11 1.03 1.20
1977 CIN NL 30 4 13 532 17 10 9 37% 16 9 1 0 0 1 0 0 46 12 1.13 1.19
1978 SEA AL 31 1 7 516 30 3 2 9% 29 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 48 7 1.14 1.08
10 Seasons 18 81 3834 146 44 38 23% 133 35 13 3 0 6 1 0 315 55 1.17 1.21
MLB Averages 36% 1.29 1.25

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1971 CIN NL 24 64 56% 83% 34% 4 100% 0 1 0 0 1 4 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1972 CIN NL 25 20 35% 80% 35% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1973 CIN NL 26 71 52% 79% 10% 4 50% 0 3 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1974 CIN NL 27 11 91% 82% 18% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 166 54% 81% 23% 8 75% 0 4 1 0 3 5 5 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 28% 89% 66%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1972 CIN NL 25 30 63% 83% 37% 2 100% 0 8 0 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 30 63% 83% 37% 2 100% 0 8 0 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 81% 28% 94% 88%

* 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.

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