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Del Rice

Delbert W. Rice

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: October 27, 1922 in Portsmouth, OH
High School: Portsmouth HS (Portsmouth, OH)
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1941. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 2, 1945 (Age 22)
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Braves/Angels/Cubs/Orioles 1945-1961

Final Game: August 31, 1961 (Age 38)
Died: January 26, 1983 in Buena Park, CA
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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
1945 STL NL 22 C 77 69 53 325 284 39 2 6 .994 4.19 .978 4.57 7 3 34 23 40% 40% 3
1946 STL NL 23 C 53 43 27 213 196 12 5 0 .977 3.92 .980 5.01 1 4 11 6 35% 43% 0
1947 STL NL 24 C 94 78 55 421 380 33 8 7 .981 4.39 .981 4.96 7 8 13 14 52% 44% 3
1948 STL NL 25 C 99 90 73 495 447 46 2 5 .996 4.98 .980 5.15 3 6 9 17 65% 40% 0
1949 STL NL 26 C 92 88 67 387 355 29 3 4 .992 4.17 .982 4.98 2 7 15 13 46% 43% 1
1950 STL NL 27 C 130 123 105 1072.1 645 572 63 10 12 .984 5.33 4.88 .982 5.38 5.33 9 18 33 13 28% 38% 3
1951 STL NL 28 C 120 108 89 954.1 521 447 66 8 12 .985 4.84 4.28 .981 5.18 5.16 5 6 36 25 41% 41% 3
1952 STL NL 29 C 147 137 119 1196.1 764 677 81 6 8 .992 5.70 5.16 .984 5.52 5.47 7 12 27 30 53% 44% 5
1953 STL NL 30 C 135 128 103 1080.1 695 627 60 8 6 .988 2 2 5.72 5.09 .984 5.53 5.42 8 23 35 21 38% 40% 3 AS
1954 STL NL 31 C 52 45 26 382.0 272 248 20 4 2 .985 -1 -3 6.31 5.15 .986 5.36 5.33 3 9 9 5 36% 44% 3
1955 TOT NL 32 C 40 37 26 314.0 187 164 18 5 3 .973 -3 -11 5.22 4.55 .987 5.65 5.60 3 10 7 7 50% 46% 1
1955 STL NL 32 C 18 18 10 144.1 83 74 6 3 1 .964 -2 -17 4.99 4.44 .987 5.65 5.60 2 4 4 2 33% 46% 0
1955 MLN NL 32 C 22 19 16 169.2 104 90 12 2 2 .981 -1 -7 5.41 4.64 .987 5.65 5.60 1 6 3 5 63% 46% 1
1956 MLN NL 33 C 65 59 35 494.2 297 271 21 5 2 .983 0 0 5.31 4.49 .985 5.83 5.77 0 10 15 8 35% 40% 2
1957 MLN NL 34 C 48 44 33 374.2 251 235 14 2 3 .992 1 3 5.98 5.19 .988 5.98 6.02 1 7 14 8 36% 40% 0
1958 MLN NL 35 C 38 33 28 287.2 188 174 13 1 1 .995 -1 -4 5.85 4.92 .988 6.06 6.02 2 8 8 3 27% 39% 0
1959 MLN NL 36 C 9 8 4 63.2 45 42 1 2 1 .956 -1 -19 6.08 4.78 .989 6.35 6.28 2 2 1 0 0% 38% 1
1960 TOT MLB 37 C 20 18 11 154.2 100 90 7 3 0 .970 -1 -8 5.64 4.85 .986 6.57 6.54 2 4 12 6 33% 40% 0
1960 TOT NL 37 C 19 18 11 151.2 99 89 7 3 0 .970 -1 -8 5.70 5.05 .986 6.58 6.57 2 4 12 6 33% 40% 0
1960 CHC NL 37 C 18 17 11 143.2 95 85 7 3 0 .968 -1 -8 5.76 5.11 .986 6.58 6.57 2 4 12 6 33% 40% 0
1960 STL NL 37 C 1 1 0 8.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 4.50 4.00 .985 6.52 6.60 0 0 0 0 0
1960 BAL AL 37 C 1 0 0 3.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.00 1.00 .990 6.00 5.90 0 0 0 0 0
1961 LAA AL 38 C 30 27 17 209.2 159 144 14 1 0 .994 0 0 6.78 5.27 .989 6.21 6.14 3 12 11 10 48% 36% 0
17 Seasons C 1249 1135 871 6584.1 5965 5353 537 75 72 .987 -4 -1 5.56 4.72 .983 5.57 5.34 65 149 290 209 42% 41% 28
17 Seasons TOT 1249 1135 871 6584.1 5965 5353 537 75 72 .987 -4 -1 5.56 4.72 .983 5.57 5.34 65 149 290 209 42% 41% 28
Lg 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
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1945 STL NL 22 C
1946 STL NL 23 C
1947 STL NL 24 C
1948 STL NL 25 C
1949 STL NL 26 C
1950 STL NL 27 C
1951 STL NL 28 C
1952 STL NL 29 C
1953 STL NL 30 C 2 2 2
1954 STL NL 31 C -1 -3 -1
1955 STL NL 32 C -2 -17 -2
1955 MLN NL 32 C -1 -7 -1
1956 MLN NL 33 C 0 0 0
1957 MLN NL 34 C 1 3 1
1958 MLN NL 35 C -1 -4 -1
1959 MLN NL 36 C -1 -19 -1
1960 CHC NL 37 C -1 -8 -1
1960 STL NL 37 C 0 0 0
1960 BAL AL 37 C 0 0 0
1961 LAA AL 38 C 0 0 0
17 Seasons C -4 -1 -4
17 Seasons TOT -4 -1 -4
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1945 STL NL 22 83 69 83 77 0 77 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1946 STL NL 23 55 43 55 53 0 53 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1947 STL NL 24 97 78 97 94 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1948 STL NL 25 100 90 100 99 0 99 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1949 STL NL 26 92 88 92 92 0 92 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1950 STL NL 27 130 123 130 130 0 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1951 STL NL 28 122 108 122 120 0 120 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1952 STL NL 29 147 137 147 147 0 147 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1953 STL NL 30 135 128 135 135 0 135 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1954 STL NL 31 56 45 56 52 0 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1955 MLN NL 32 27 19 27 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1955 STL NL 32 20 18 20 18 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1956 MLN NL 33 71 59 71 65 0 65 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1957 MLN NL 34 54 44 54 48 0 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1958 MLN NL 35 43 33 43 38 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1959 MLN NL 36 13 8 13 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1960 CHC NL 37 18 16 18 18 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 BAL AL 37 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 STL NL 37 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1961 LAA AL 38 44 27 44 30 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
17 Seasons 1309 1134 1309 1249 0 1249 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 75 0
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 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%
1945 STL NL 22 942 5.24 5.75 20 100% 0 1 82 6 1 12 63 14 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 100%
1946 STL NL 23 1122 3.37 3.70 29 97% 0 0 142 22 2 3 115 9 4 0 0 1 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 100%
1947 STL NL 24 1396 4.46 5.11 31 94% 0 0 197 22 4 9 162 17 3 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 4 0 1 2 4 75%
1948 STL NL 25 1384 3.95 4.38 28 96% 0 0 190 19 1 9 161 8 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 2 100%
1949 STL NL 26 1915 3.47 3.99 34 91% 0 1 226 23 2 11 190 18 4 0 0 3 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 5 40%
1950 STL NL 27 3342 4.35 4.84 71 97% 0 0 421 39 3 33 346 34 10 0 0 2 7 0 3 4 0 8 0 1 1 8 100%
1951 STL NL 28 2962 3.97 4.43 57 98% 0 0 331 36 3 18 274 42 12 0 1 3 7 0 0 7 0 12 0 2 4 6 83%
1952 STL NL 29 3320 4.10 4.64 69 93% 1 0 446 39 3 13 389 50 18 0 0 4 5 0 1 4 1 5 0 1 1 13 85%
1953 STL NL 30 3597 4.40 4.86 67 100% 0 0 479 50 2 13 414 42 12 0 0 8 5 0 2 3 0 5 0 0 0 3 100%
1954 STL NL 31 1551 5.13 5.70 35 89% 0 0 222 16 1 15 190 19 3 2 0 4 4 1 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 5 80%
1955 MLN NL 32 601 4.58 5.39 8 75% 0 0 69 1 1 5 62 9 0 1 0 2 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1955 STL NL 32 458 3.61 4.11 6 83% 0 0 59 3 0 3 53 4 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0
1956 MLN NL 33 1854 3.08 3.65 39 97% 0 0 232 30 3 7 192 18 4 0 0 4 4 0 1 3 0 1 0 1 1 4 100%
1957 MLN NL 34 1611 3.07 3.56 20 100% 0 0 234 17 0 3 214 14 1 0 1 3 2 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 2 100%
1958 MLN NL 35 1197 3.16 3.76 17 100% 0 0 174 7 2 6 159 13 7 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 100%
1959 MLN NL 36 283 5.09 6.08 2 100% 1 0 41 2 0 2 37 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1960 CHC NL 37 631 4.20 4.95 8 88% 0 0 87 6 1 2 78 7 1 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 100%
1960 BAL AL 37 9 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 STL NL 37 31 1.13 2.25 1 100% 0 0 4 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1961 LAA AL 38 903 3.96 4.57 13 92% 0 0 142 9 2 3 128 15 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 50%
17 Seasons 29109 4.02 4.54 555 96% 2 2 3779 348 31 167 3231 334 87 4 4 44 54 1 19 34 7 50 0 7 13 62 85%
MLB Averages 3.98 4.50 95% 86%
Lg 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%

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
1945 STL NL 22 4 3 416 6 6 5 50% 4 6 1 0 1 0 3 0 19 10 0.77 1.41
1946 STL NL 23 1 4 415 8 4 3 33% 7 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 17 8 0.68 1.60
1947 STL NL 24 3 8 573 7 9 8 56% 6 8 0 0 1 1 3 0 26 16 1.27 1.06
1948 STL NL 25 1 6 530 6 3 3 33% 4 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 25 4 0.85 0.90
1949 STL NL 26 1 7 771 4 9 9 69% 2 7 2 2 0 0 1 0 21 11 1.47 0.80
1950 STL NL 27 8 18 1324 27 16 15 37% 23 12 3 1 1 3 3 0 72 27 0.97 1.33
1951 STL NL 28 3 6 1093 28 19 18 40% 25 18 1 0 2 1 3 0 53 27 1.08 1.40
1952 STL NL 29 5 12 1230 21 21 20 50% 20 17 0 2 1 2 5 1 52 28 1.00 0.80
1953 STL NL 30 2 23 1399 27 17 15 39% 26 13 1 4 0 0 3 0 72 25 1.16 0.94
1954 STL NL 31 3 9 592 9 5 5 36% 8 5 0 0 1 0 3 0 32 11 0.67 1.22
1955 MLN NL 32 1 6 249 3 3 3 50% 2 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 18 4 1.16 0.56
1955 STL NL 32 2 4 161 4 1 1 20% 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 14 3 1.02 1.95
1956 MLN NL 33 0 10 680 10 6 6 38% 8 6 2 0 0 0 2 0 30 12 1.11 0.92
1957 MLN NL 34 1 7 663 14 8 8 36% 12 8 2 0 0 0 0 0 27 9 1.16 1.58
1958 MLN NL 35 2 8 431 8 3 3 27% 6 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 23 5 0.83 1.11
1959 MLN NL 36 2 2 105 1 0 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11 2 1.41
1960 CHC NL 37 2 4 252 12 6 5 33% 12 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 23 6 0.85 1.09
1960 BAL AL 37 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 STL NL 37 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1961 LAA AL 38 4 12 359 11 10 9 48% 9 9 2 0 0 1 0 0 34 13 1.30 1.30
17 Seasons 45 149 11255 206 146 136 41% 178 124 20 14 8 8 28 1 569 221 1.03 1.13
MLB Averages 43% 1.18 1.16
Lg PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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

Hall of Fame
1966 BBWAA ( 0.7%)

All-Star Games
1953

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1948 NL  99 (4th)
1949 NL  92 (4th)
1950 NL  130 (2nd)
1951 NL  120 (3rd)
1952 NL  147 (1st)
1953 NL  135 (2nd)
Career  1,249 (59th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1945 NL  284 (5th)
1948 NL  447 (4th)
1949 NL  355 (5th)
1950 NL  572 (3rd)
1951 NL  447 (3rd)
1952 NL  677 (1st)
1953 NL  627 (2nd)
Career  5,353 (90th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1948 NL  46 (4th)
1950 NL  63 (2nd)
1951 NL  66 (2nd)
1952 NL  81 (1st)
1953 NL  60 (2nd)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1947 NL  8 (5th)
1950 NL  10 (5th)
1951 NL  8 (4th)

Double Plays Turned as C s c a p y
1947 NL  7 (3rd)
1948 NL  5 (5th)
1950 NL  12 (3rd)
1951 NL  12 (1st)
1952 NL  8 (3rd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1945 NL  7 (3rd)
1947 NL  7 (5th)
1950 NL  9 (2nd)
1952 NL  7 (5th)
1953 NL  8 (3rd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1945 NL  34 (4th)
1950 NL  33 (2nd)
1951 NL  36 (2nd)
1952 NL  27 (4th)
1953 NL  35 (1st)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1945 NL  23 (4th)
1951 NL  25 (4th)
1952 NL  30 (3rd)
1953 NL  21 (3rd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1952 NL  52.6 (4th)
1953 NL  37.5 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1950 NL  5.33 (5th)
1952 NL  5.70 (2nd)
1953 NL  5.72 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1945 NL  4.19 (2nd)
1948 NL  4.98 (2nd)
1950 NL  4.88 (4th)
1952 NL  5.16 (3rd)
1953 NL  5.09 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1945 NL  .994 (2nd)
1947 NL  .981 (5th)
1948 NL  .996 (1st)
1949 NL  .992 (2nd)
1950 NL  .984 (5th)
1951 NL  .985 (5th)
1952 NL  .992 (2nd)
1953 NL  .988 (3rd)

                           

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