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Buddy Rosar

Warren Vincent Rosar

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: July 3, 1914 in Buffalo, NY
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1934. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 29, 1939 (Age 24)
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Yankees/Indians/RedSox 1939-1951

Final Game: September 19, 1951 (Age 37)
Died: March 13, 1994 in Rochester, NY
Buried: Mount Calvary Cemetery, Cheektowaga, NY
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1939 NYY AL 24 C 35 27 26 150 137 10 3 1 .980 4.20 .981 4.92 2 15 6 29% 37%
1940 NYY AL 25 C 63 59 53 293 258 30 5 8 .983 4.57 .982 5.27 1 16 16 50% 41%
1941 NYY AL 26 C 60 51 43 271 246 24 1 6 .996 4.50 .983 5.00 2 19 14 42% 41%
1942 NYY AL 27 C 58 52 45 276 249 26 1 7 .996 4.74 .979 4.93 2 11 17 61% 42% AS
1943 CLE AL 28 C 114 97 85 581 480 91 10 11 .983 5.01 .981 5.23 1 29 46 61% 42% AS
1944 CLE AL 29 C 98 90 78 473 409 59 5 13 .989 4.78 .976 4.91 2 37 29 44% 39%
1945 PHA AL 30 C 85 81 68 397 338 54 5 6 .987 4.61 .986 4.92 4 4 26 26 50% 45% 1
1946 PHA AL 31 C 117 114 99 605 532 73 0 9 1.000 5.17 .982 5.52 5 1 20 37 65% 46% 1 AS,MVP-23
1947 PHA AL 32 C 102 98 91 478 406 70 2 12 .996 4.67 .985 5.02 3 5 18 38 68% 46% 4 AS,MVP-24
1948 PHA AL 33 C 90 87 79 375 335 39 1 10 .997 4.16 .986 4.74 2 8 11 21 66% 44% 0 AS
1949 PHA AL 34 C 31 27 23 122 112 9 1 2 .992 3.90 .985 4.76 1 1 10 4 29% 45% 0
1950 BOS AL 35 C 25 21 19 187.1 115 108 6 1 1 .991 5.48 4.56 .985 4.94 4.85 2 0 7 4 36% 49% 0
1951 BOS AL 36 C 56 50 36 426.0 256 235 20 1 6 .996 5.39 4.55 .982 5.03 5.01 1 2 5 10 67% 46% 3
13 Seasons C 934 854 745 613.1 4392 3845 511 36 92 .992 5.41 4.66 .982 5.00 5.05 28 21 224 268 54% 43% 9
13 Seasons TOT 934 854 745 613.1 4392 3845 511 36 92 .992 5.41 4.66 .982 5.00 5.05 28 21 224 268 54% 43% 9
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
1939 NYY AL 24 C
1940 NYY AL 25 C
1941 NYY AL 26 C
1942 NYY AL 27 C
1943 CLE AL 28 C
1944 CLE AL 29 C
1945 PHA AL 30 C
1946 PHA AL 31 C
1947 PHA AL 32 C
1948 PHA AL 33 C
1949 PHA AL 34 C
1950 BOS AL 35 C
1951 BOS AL 36 C
13 Seasons C
13 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1939 NYY AL 24 43 27 43 35 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1
1940 NYY AL 25 73 59 73 63 0 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1941 NYY AL 26 67 51 67 60 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1942 NYY AL 27 69 52 69 58 0 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1943 CLE AL 28 115 97 115 114 0 114 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1944 CLE AL 29 99 90 99 98 0 98 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1945 PHA AL 30 92 81 92 85 0 85 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1946 PHA AL 31 121 114 121 117 0 117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1947 PHA AL 32 102 98 102 102 0 102 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1948 PHA AL 33 90 87 90 90 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1949 PHA AL 34 32 27 32 31 0 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1950 BOS AL 35 27 21 27 25 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1951 BOS AL 36 58 50 58 56 0 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
13 Seasons 988 854 988 934 0 934 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 67 1
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 PHA AL 30 1699 2.36 2.86 42 100% 1 0 210 30 3 12 165 26 6 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 0 5 0 1 1 3 100%
1946 PHA AL 31 1155 4.32 4.76 33 100% 0 0 150 23 0 7 120 23 5 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 4 100%
1947 PHA AL 32 2208 3.38 3.75 46 98% 0 0 258 38 3 11 204 41 4 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 8 0 1 2 2 100%
1948 PHA AL 33 2343 4.33 4.65 45 100% 0 1 241 33 2 11 193 32 9 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 7 0 1 2 2 100%
1949 PHA AL 34 734 3.16 3.37 17 100% 0 0 91 11 1 5 74 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 100%
1950 BOS AL 35 654 5.40 5.71 11 100% 0 0 79 10 0 3 66 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1951 BOS AL 36 1804 3.32 3.64 24 100% 0 0 231 16 4 10 200 20 5 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 6 1 1 3 2 100%
7 Seasons 10597 3.61 3.97 218 100% 1 1 1260 161 13 59 1022 148 32 5 3 0 9 1 2 6 1 31 1 5 9 15 100%
MLB Averages 4.07 4.61 95% 86%

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 PHA AL 30 3 4 626 11 16 16 59% 11 13 0 2 0 1 1 0 29 21 1.43 1.38
1946 PHA AL 31 1 1 486 6 11 11 65% 6 7 0 3 0 1 1 0 12 14 1.13 1.36
1947 PHA AL 32 2 5 839 12 26 25 68% 11 21 1 2 0 3 4 0 23 36 1.69 1.35
1948 PHA AL 33 1 8 942 7 19 18 73% 7 15 0 0 0 4 0 0 27 21 0.98 1.27
1949 PHA AL 34 1 1 287 8 0 0 0% 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 3 1.49
1950 BOS AL 35 2 0 270 7 3 2 30% 7 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 10 3 1.25 0.82
1951 BOS AL 36 1 2 701 5 10 9 67% 5 8 0 1 0 1 3 0 10 19 1.37 1.28
7 Seasons 11 21 4151 56 85 81 60% 55 65 1 9 0 11 9 0 123 117 1.38 1.31
MLB Averages 44% 1.20 1.17

* 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

All-Star Games
1942
1943
1946 *
1947 (C)
1948 (C)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1946 AL (23, 1%)
1947 AL (24, 2%)
0.03 Career Shares (1270th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1943 AL  114 (2nd)
1944 AL  98 (2nd)
1945 AL  85 (5th)
1946 AL  117 (1st)
1947 AL  102 (3rd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1943 AL  480 (2nd)
1944 AL  409 (3rd)
1946 AL  532 (2nd)
1947 AL  406 (3rd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1943 AL  91 (1st)
1944 AL  59 (4th)
1946 AL  73 (1st)
1947 AL  70 (1st)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1943 AL  10 (2nd)
1945 AL  5 (5th)

Double Plays Turned as C s c a p y
1940 AL  8 (4th)
1942 AL  7 (4th)
1943 AL  11 (2nd)
1944 AL  13 (1st)
1946 AL  9 (3rd)
1947 AL  12 (3rd)
1948 AL  10 (3rd)
Career  92 (70th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1944 AL  37 (3rd)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1943 AL  46 (2nd)
1944 AL  29 (3rd)
1945 AL  26 (4th)
1946 AL  37 (1st)
1947 AL  38 (1st)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1940 AL  50.0 (4th)
1941 AL  42.4 (5th)
1943 AL  61.3 (1st)
1944 AL  43.9 (5th)
1945 AL  50.0 (4th)
1946 AL  64.9 (2nd)
1947 AL  67.9 (1st)
1948 AL  65.6 (1st)
Career  54.5 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1942 AL  4.74 (3rd)
1943 AL  5.01 (4th)
1944 AL  4.78 (5th)
1945 AL  4.61 (4th)
1946 AL  5.17 (4th)
1947 AL  4.67 (2nd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1943 AL  .983 (3rd)
1944 AL  .989 (1st)
1946 AL  1.000 (1st)
1947 AL  .996 (1st)
1948 AL  .997 (1st)
Career  .992 (45th)

Oldest s c a p y
1951 AL  born 1914-07-03 (8th)

                                         

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