Buck Rodgers

Robert Leroy Rodgers (Buck)

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

Born: August 16, 1938 in Delaware, OH
High School: Prospect HS (Prospect, OH)
Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1956. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 8, 1961
Team: Angels 1961-1969

Final Game: October 1, 1969
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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
1961	LAA	AL	22	C	14	13	13	115.1	85	71	11	3	2	.965	1	10	6.40	5.86	.989	6.21	6.14	1	1	8	6	43%	36%	0
1962	LAA	AL	23	C	150	144	139	1302.1	909	826	73	10	14	.989	5	5	6.21	5.99	.989	6.30	6.28	12	36	40	34	46%	36%	4	MVP-26,RoY-2
1963	LAA	AL	24	C	85	77	64	695.1	474	416	48	10	5	.979	-2	-3	6.01	5.46	.989	6.64	6.64	12	31	23	16	41%	33%	3
1964	LAA	AL	25	C	146	139	135	1255.2	984	884	87	13	14	.987	10	10	6.96	6.65	.990	7.07	7.06	4	36	36	33	48%	37%	8
1965	CAL	AL	26	C	128	112	105	1025.2	741	682	52	7	7	.991	0	0	6.44	5.73	.988	6.96	6.94	9	38	40	20	33%	34%	3
1966	CAL	AL	27	C	133	121	116	1103.0	737	662	69	6	7	.992	6	7	5.96	5.50	.988	6.86	6.85	11	31	47	34	42%	38%	6
1967	CAL	AL	28	C	134	121	115	1094.2	808	728	73	7	11	.991	6	7	6.59	5.98	.989	7.22	7.23	7	46	40	44	52%	41%	2
1967	CAL	AL	28	LF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		1.80	1.90
1967	CAL	AL	28	OF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.10
1968	CAL	AL	29	C	87	74	57	658.0	464	407	50	7	11	.985	-2	-4	6.25	5.25	.990	6.97	6.94	7	34	32	24	43%	37%	1
1969	CAL	AL	30	C	18	14	13	132.0	83	74	9	0	3	1.000	-4	-36	5.66	4.61	.987	6.65	6.65	3	9	17	4	19%	36%	0
	9 Seasons			C	895	815	757	7382.0	5285	4750	472	63	74	.988	20	3	6.37	5.83	.989	6.84	6.83	66	262	283	215	43%	37%	27
	1 Season			OF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.10
	1 Season			LF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		1.80	1.90
	9 Seasons			TOT	896	815	757	7383.0	5285	4750	472	63	74	.988	20	3	6.37	5.83	.989	6.84	6.83	66	262	283	215	43%	37%	27

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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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rctch
1961	LAA	AL	22	C	1	10				1
1962	LAA	AL	23	C	5	5				5
1963	LAA	AL	24	C	-2	-3				-2
1964	LAA	AL	25	C	10	10				10
1965	CAL	AL	26	C	0	0				0
1966	CAL	AL	27	C	6	7				6
1967	CAL	AL	28	C	6	7				6
1967	CAL	AL	28	LF	0	0	0	0	0
1968	CAL	AL	29	C	-2	-4				-2
1969	CAL	AL	30	C	-4	-36				-4
	9 Seasons			C	20	3				20
	1 Season			LF	0	0	0	0	0
	9 Seasons			TOT	20	3	0	0	0	20

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	LF	OF	PH	PR
1961	LAA	AL	22	16	13	16	14	14	0	0	3	0
1962	LAA	AL	23	155	144	155	150	150	0	0	11	0
1963	LAA	AL	24	100	77	100	85	85	0	0	17	1
1964	LAA	AL	25	148	139	148	146	146	0	0	5	0
1965	CAL	AL	26	132	112	132	128	128	0	0	11	0
1966	CAL	AL	27	133	121	133	133	133	0	0	7	0
1967	CAL	AL	28	139	121	139	134	133	1	1	8	0
1968	CAL	AL	29	91	74	91	87	87	0	0	7	0
1969	CAL	AL	30	18	14	18	18	18	0	0	0	0
	9 Seasons			932	815	932	895	894	1	1	69	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%
1961	LAA	AL	22	492	4.06	4.92	6	100%	0	0	71	3	0	1	67	11	3	0	0	1	3	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0
1962	LAA	AL	23	5489	3.60	4.17	88	91%	0	0	818	55	6	21	735	74	17	3	1	10	9	0	4	5	1	14	1	1	4	16	81%
1963	LAA	AL	24	2963	3.37	3.87	41	90%	0	0	417	27	3	5	382	47	8	1	2	9	10	0	5	5	0	5	0	1	1	4	100%
1964	LAA	AL	25	5253	2.87	3.35	79	91%	0	0	880	43	9	15	813	87	21	4	2	14	13	0	8	5	3	12	1	5	6	8	38%
1965	CAL	AL	26	4276	3.18	3.52	74	92%	0	1	689	45	5	29	609	45	7	1	1	6	7	0	5	2	2	6	0	1	2	4	25%
1966	CAL	AL	27	4619	3.54	3.92	51	94%	0	0	661	37	4	13	607	70	9	0	1	18	6	1	2	3	1	7	0	1	1	3	100%
1967	CAL	AL	28	4543	3.18	3.63	64	100%	0	0	732	44	4	22	662	73	7	2	0	16	7	1	3	3	0	11	0	1	1	2	100%
1968	CAL	AL	29	2699	3.32	3.70	35	97%	0	0	411	19	5	6	381	49	11	1	0	3	7	0	3	4	0	11	0	2	4	5	100%
1969	CAL	AL	30	568	3.68	4.36	6	100%	0	0	76	3	0	4	68	9	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	100%
	9 Seasons			30902	3.31	3.77	444	93%	0	1	4755	276	36	116	4324	465	86	12	7	79	62	3	30	29	7	71	2	12	19	43	74%
	MLB Averages				3.55	4.04		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
1961	LAA	AL	22	1	1	179	8	6	6	43%	6	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	14	7	1.20	0.36
1962	LAA	AL	23	12	36	2128	40	34	32	46%	33	28	7	6	0	0	4	0	120	45	1.00	1.39
1963	LAA	AL	24	12	31	1120	23	16	15	41%	19	15	4	1	0	0	3	0	89	28	1.21	1.42
1964	LAA	AL	25	4	36	1958	36	33	33	48%	33	31	3	2	0	0	8	0	107	43	1.33	1.25
1965	CAL	AL	26	8	38	1602	40	20	17	33%	36	17	4	3	0	0	3	0	108	35	1.26	1.48
1966	CAL	AL	27	11	31	1681	47	34	32	42%	41	30	6	2	0	2	6	0	117	54	1.25	1.55
1967	CAL	AL	28	7	46	1640	40	44	41	52%	37	39	3	3	0	2	2	0	119	56	1.52	1.36
1968	CAL	AL	29	7	34	939	32	24	24	43%	30	22	2	2	0	0	1	0	96	31	1.32	1.46
1969	CAL	AL	30	3	9	236	17	4	4	19%	15	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	37	5	2.07	1.43
	9 Seasons			65	262	11483	283	215	204	43%	250	191	33	19	0	5	27	0	807	304	1.32	1.38
	MLB Averages									38%											1.26	1.22

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%
1967	CAL	AL	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	4	75%	25%	25%	0
	1 Season			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	4	75%	25%	25%	0
	MLB Averages																														58.4%			2.7%			63%	79%	27%		48%

* 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

Awards (yr lg award) 1987 NL Mgr of the year	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1962 AL (26, 2%) 0.02 Career Shares (1361st)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1962 AL 150 (1st) 1964 AL 146 (1st) 1965 AL 128 (2nd) 1966 AL 133 (1st) 1967 AL 134 (3rd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1962 AL 826 (2nd) 1964 AL 884 (4th) 1965 AL 682 (3rd) 1967 AL 728 (3rd)
Assists as C s c a p y 1962 AL 73 (2nd) 1963 AL 48 (3rd) 1964 AL 87 (1st) 1965 AL 52 (5th) 1966 AL 69 (1st) 1967 AL 73 (1st) 1968 AL 50 (5th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1962 AL 10 (1st) 1963 AL 10 (1st) 1964 AL 13 (1st) 1967 AL 7 (5th) 1968 AL 7 (3rd)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1962 AL 12 (4th) 1963 AL 12 (2nd) 1966 AL 11 (4th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1962 AL 40 (2nd) 1964 AL 36 (5th) 1965 AL 40 (5th) 1966 AL 47 (5th) 1967 AL 40 (5th)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1962 AL 34 (1st) 1963 AL 16 (3rd) 1964 AL 33 (1st) 1966 AL 34 (2nd) 1967 AL 44 (1st) 1968 AL 24 (5th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1962 AL 45.9 (2nd) 1963 AL 41.0 (3rd) 1964 AL 47.8 (3rd) 1966 AL 42.0 (3rd) 1967 AL 52.4 (3rd) 1968 AL 42.9 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1962 AL 5 (4th) 1964 AL 10 (1st) 1966 AL 6 (1st) 1967 AL 6 (1st) Career 20 (62nd)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1962 AL 6.21 (5th)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1962 AL 5.99 (2nd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1966 AL .992 (5th) 1967 AL .991 (4th)

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