Frankie Pytlak

Frank Anthony Pytlak

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 7", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: July 30, 1908 in Buffalo, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: April 22, 1932
Teams (by GP): Indians/RedSox 1932-1946

Final Game: April 25, 1946
Died: May 8, 1977 in Buffalo, NY
Buried: St. Stanislaus Cemetery, Buffalo, NY
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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%
1932	CLE	AL	23	C	12	9	9	47	40	7	0	0	1.000	3.92	.982	4.90	0	3	2	40%	43%
1933	CLE	AL	24	C	69	63	59	303	246	57	0	11	1.000	4.39	.988	4.88	2	20	29	59%	45%
1934	CLE	AL	25	C	88	81	73	367	325	38	4	4	.989	4.13	.981	4.99	3	35	12	26%	37%
1935	CLE	AL	26	C	48	36	35	189	166	20	3	2	.984	3.88	.984	4.75	2	7	13	65%	41%
1936	CLE	AL	27	C	58	58	55	260	224	35	1	6	.996	4.47	.979	4.78	4	19	22	54%	36%
1937	CLE	AL	28	C	115	115	108	648	559	80	9	13	.986	5.56	.980	5.04	2	56	42	43%	37%
1938	CLE	AL	29	C	99	93	90	538	475	56	7	11	.987	5.36	.983	4.88	5	38	28	42%	37%
1939	CLE	AL	30	C	51	47	44	251	227	24	0	5	1.000	4.92	.981	4.92	1	21	10	32%	37%
1940	CLE	AL	31	C	58	42	38	266	235	30	1	5	.996	4.57	.982	5.27	1	20	17	46%	41%
1940	CLE	AL	31	OF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.40
1940	CLE	AL	31	RF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.10
1941	BOS	AL	32	C	91	87	86	461	416	41	4	7	.991	5.02	.983	5.00	5	29	17	37%	41%
1945	BOS	AL	36	C	6	6	6	23	17	6	0	0	1.000	3.83	.986	4.92	0	2	0	0%	45%
1946	BOS	AL	37	C	4	4	3	29	28	1	0	0	1.000	7.25	.982	5.52	0	1	0	0%	46%
	12 Seasons			C	699	641	606	3382	2958	395	29	64	.991	4.80	.982	4.96	25	251	192	43%	39%
	1 Season			RF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.10
	1 Season			OF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00		2.40
	12 Seasons			TOT	700	641	606	3382	2958	395	29	64	.991	4.79	.982	4.95	25	251	192	43%	39%

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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	RF	OF	PH	PR
1932	CLE	AL	23	12	9	12	12	12	0	0	0	0
1933	CLE	AL	24	80	63	80	69	69	0	0	6	7
1934	CLE	AL	25	91	81	91	87	87	0	0	4	3
1935	CLE	AL	26	55	36	55	48	48	0	0	9	4
1936	CLE	AL	27	75	58	75	58	58	0	0	15	2
1937	CLE	AL	28	125	115	125	115	115	0	0	9	1
1938	CLE	AL	29	113	93	113	99	99	0	0	15	0
1939	CLE	AL	30	63	47	63	51	51	0	0	5	7
1940	CLE	AL	31	62	42	62	59	58	1	1	3	1
1941	BOS	AL	32	107	87	107	92	92	0	0	13	4
1945	BOS	AL	36	9	6	9	6	6	0	0	2	1
1946	BOS	AL	37	4	4	4	4	4	0	0	0	0
	12 Seasons			796	641	796	700	699	1	1	81	30

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

Def. Games as C s c a p y 1937 AL 115 (3rd) 1938 AL 99 (5th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1937 AL 559 (2nd) 1938 AL 475 (3rd) 1941 AL 416 (5th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1937 AL 80 (1st) 1938 AL 56 (5th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1937 AL 9 (3rd) 1938 AL 7 (5th)
Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1937 AL 56 (1st) 1941 AL 29 (5th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1936 AL 22 (5th) 1937 AL 42 (1st) 1938 AL 28 (5th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1933 AL 59.2 (3rd) 1936 AL 53.7 (2nd) 1937 AL 42.9 (2nd) 1938 AL 42.4 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1937 AL 5.56 (3rd) 1938 AL 5.36 (1st) 1941 AL 5.02 (2nd)
Fielding % as C s c a p y 1934 AL .989 (2nd) 1937 AL .986 (4th) 1938 AL .987 (3rd) 1941 AL .991 (3rd) Career .991 (51st)

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