David Ross

David Wade Ross

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: March 19, 1977 in Bainbridge, GA
High School: Florida HS (Tallahassee, FL)
Schools: Auburn University (Auburn, AL), University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 7th round of the 1998 amateur draft.
Signed June 9, 1998. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 29, 2002
Teams (by GP): Reds/Braves/Dodgers/Pirates/Padres/... 2002-2012
2012 Contract Status: Free Agent, 2 yrs/$3.25M (11-12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 9.001, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: Ryan Gleichowski [*]
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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	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO
2002	LAD	NL	25	C	6	2	2	26.0	21	19	2	0	0	1.000	1		46		7.27	3.50	.991	7.55	7.47	0	0	0	1	100%	32%	0
2003	LAD	NL	26	C	38	35	34	314.0	289	259	26	4	2	.986	1	-1	4	-4	8.17	7.50	.992	7.33	7.26	2	12	29	16	36%	31%	0
2004	LAD	NL	27	C	67	51	31	451.2	379	355	21	3	0	.992	1	-2	3	-5	7.49	5.61	.993	7.45	7.40	6	13	27	12	31%	28%	2
2005	TOT	NL	28	C	42	33	29	304.0	237	211	23	3	5	.987	1	1	4	3	6.93	5.57	.992	7.26	7.16	4	12	6	9	60%	29%	0
2005	PIT	NL	28	C	35	31	27	273.0	209	183	23	3	4	.986	1	1	4	4	6.79	5.89	.992	7.26	7.16	4	10	5	9	64%	29%	0
2005	SDP	NL	28	C	7	2	2	31.0	28	28	0	0	1	1.000	0	0	0	0	8.13	4.00	.992	7.26	7.16	0	2	1	0	0%	29%	0
2006	CIN	NL	29	C	75	73	62	620.2	521	480	33	8	5	.985	3	0	6	0	7.44	6.84	.992	7.37	7.32	4	23	17	14	45%	28%	1
2007	CIN	NL	30	C	108	98	75	837.1	717	662	50	5	7	.993	6	2	9	3	7.65	6.59	.991	7.39	7.36	6	32	36	25	41%	25%	1
2008	TOT	MLB	31	C	54	43	35	399.2	378	346	29	3	4	.992	1	2	3	6	8.44	6.94	.993	7.63	7.54	6	11	26	10	28%	27%	1
2008	CIN	NL	31	C	46	43	35	374.2	355	323	29	3	4	.992	1	2	3	6	8.46	7.65	.993	7.65	7.60	6	11	24	10	29%	27%	1
2008	BOS	AL	31	C	8	0	0	25.0	23	23	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	0	0	8.28	2.88	.991	7.27	7.19	0	0	2	0	0%	27%	0
2009	ATL	NL	32	C	52	36	31	354.0	352	314	37	1	6	.997	7	7	24	24	8.92	6.75	.993	7.77	7.70	5	4	21	19	48%	29%	2
2010	ATL	NL	33	C	57	33	26	328.2	302	276	22	4	0	.987	0	1	0	4	8.16	5.23	.992	8.05	7.97	1	10	18	8	31%	29%	0
2011	ATL	NL	34	C	49	42	34	378.2	372	337	32	3	2	.992	0	3	0	10	8.77	7.53	.992	7.98	7.96	2	16	22	11	33%	28%	1
2011	ATL	NL	34	DH	1	0
2012	ATL	NL	35	C	15	13	12	110.1	99	89	9	1	3	.990	0	0	4	0	7.99	6.53	.991	8.30	8.23	0	6	9	5	36%	28%	1
	11 Seasons			C	563	459	371	4125.0	3667	3348	284	35	34	.990	21	13	6	3	7.92	6.45	.992	7.57	7.52	36	139	211	130	38%	28%	9
	11 Seasons			TOT	563	459	371	4125.0	3667	3348	284	35	34	.990	21	13	6	3	7.92	6.45	.992	7.57	7.52	36	139	211	130	38%	28%	9

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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
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	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rdp	Rbnt	RerC	RsbC
2002	LAD	NL	25	C	1	46		1
2003	LAD	NL	26	C	1	4		1	-1	-4		-1	-3	3
2004	LAD	NL	27	C	1	3		1	-2	-5		1	-1	0
2005	PIT	NL	28	C	1	4		1	1	4		0	1	2
2005	SDP	NL	28	C	0	0		0	0	0			0	0
2006	CIN	NL	29	C	3	6		3	0	0		1	2	2
2007	CIN	NL	30	C	6	9		6	2	3		-1	2	5
2008	CIN	NL	31	C	1	3		1	2	6		1	-1	1
2008	BOS	AL	31	C	0	0		0	0	0			0	0
2009	ATL	NL	32	C	7	24		7	7	24	0	1	1	4
2010	ATL	NL	33	C	0	0		0	1	4	0	0	1	1
2011	ATL	NL	34	C	0	0		0	3	10	0	0	1	3
2012	ATL	NL	35	C	0	4	0	0	0	0		0	0	1
	11 Seasons			C	21	6	0	21	13	3	0	2	3	22
	11 Seasons			TOT	23	6	0	23	13	3	0	2	3	22

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	DH	PH	PR
2002	LAD	NL	25	8	2	8	6	6	0	3	0
2003	LAD	NL	26	40	35	40	38	38	0	3	0
2004	LAD	NL	27	70	51	70	67	67	0	5	0
2005	PIT	NL	28	40	31	40	35	35	0	5	0
2005	SDP	NL	28	11	2	11	7	7	0	6	0
2006	CIN	NL	29	90	73	90	75	75	0	16	0
2007	CIN	NL	30	112	98	112	108	108	0	6	0
2008	CIN	NL	31	52	43	52	46	46	0	7	0
2008	BOS	AL	31	8	0	8	8	8	0	0	1
2009	ATL	NL	32	54	36	54	52	52	0	3	2
2010	ATL	NL	33	59	33	59	57	57	0	4	1
2011	ATL	NL	34	52	42	52	49	49	1	5	0
2012	ATL	NL	35	16	13	16	15	15	0	1	0
	11 Seasons			612	459	612	563	563	1	64	4

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%
2002	LAD	NL	25	98	2.42	2.42	0		0	0	20	0	0	0	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2003	LAD	NL	26	1362	4.59	4.99	13	85%	0	0	259	7	2	4	246	26	5	0	0	6	4	0	1	3	1	2	0	1	1	2	50%
2004	LAD	NL	27	1953	4.24	4.60	14	93%	0	0	355	8	0	1	346	21	4	1	0	3	3	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	6	100%
2005	PIT	NL	28	1145	4.02	4.22	16	94%	0	0	183	4	1	6	171	23	11	1	0	4	3	0	1	2	0	4	1	1	2	10	100%
2005	SDP	NL	28	140	5.23	6.10	3	100%	0	0	28	3	0	2	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
2006	CIN	NL	29	2694	4.25	4.73	30	90%	0	0	480	13	5	12	449	33	13	1	0	4	8	2	1	5	1	5	1	3	4	13	85%
2007	CIN	NL	30	3637	4.56	4.99	50	90%	0	1	662	30	1	13	618	50	11	4	1	7	5	0	2	3	1	7	0	1	2	15	80%
2008	CIN	NL	31	1683	5.04	5.62	19	95%	0	0	323	9	3	5	306	29	8	1	1	7	3	0	2	1	1	4	0	1	1	7	100%
2008	BOS	AL	31	106	5.40	5.40	0		0	0	23	0	0	0	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2009	ATL	NL	32	1471	3.43	3.86	20	90%	0	2	314	5	0	3	306	37	11	2	0	7	1	0	0	1	0	6	1	0	1	6	67%
2010	ATL	NL	33	1348	3.15	3.42	12	83%	0	0	276	3	0	4	269	22	7	0	0	8	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	5	80%
2011	ATL	NL	34	1575	3.11	3.18	12	100%	1	0	337	3	1	3	330	32	10	0	0	8	3	0	2	1	0	2	0	1	1	7	100%
2012	ATL	NL	35	457	3.83	3.83	3	100%	0	0	89	1	0	4	84	9	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	100%
	11 Seasons			17669	4.12	4.49	192	91%	1	3	3349	86	13	57	3191	283	82	10	2	54	35	2	10	23	4	34	3	8	12	72	88%
	MLB Averages				4.29	4.66		92%																							85%

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
2002	LAD	NL	25	0	0	23	0	1	1	100%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1		1.47
2003	LAD	NL	26	2	12	498	29	16	13	36%	21	16	8	0	0	0	0	0	55	17	1.18	1.04
2004	LAD	NL	27	6	13	734	27	12	11	31%	23	11	4	1	0	0	2	0	60	14	0.94	1.04
2005	PIT	NL	28	4	10	401	5	9	7	64%	4	8	1	0	0	1	0	0	25	10	1.26	1.63
2005	SDP	NL	28	0	2	45	1	0	0	0%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1.74
2006	CIN	NL	29	4	23	983	17	14	12	45%	15	13	2	0	0	1	1	0	62	15	1.11	0.89
2007	CIN	NL	30	6	32	1394	36	25	23	41%	29	24	6	1	1	0	1	0	88	30	1.12	1.10
2008	CIN	NL	31	6	11	665	24	10	10	29%	20	9	4	0	0	1	1	1	48	11	1.43	1.20
2008	BOS	AL	31	0	0	37	2	0	0	0%	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3.30
2009	ATL	NL	32	5	4	540	21	19	16	48%	17	13	3	6	1	0	2	2	37	20	1.29	1.16
2010	ATL	NL	33	1	10	462	18	8	7	31%	17	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	44	8	1.15	1.29
2011	ATL	NL	34	2	16	558	22	11	10	33%	18	9	4	2	0	0	1	0	48	12	1.67	1.29
2012	ATL	NL	35	0	6	154	9	5	5	36%	8	5	1	0	0	0	1	0	16	6	1.30	0.94
	11 Seasons			36	139	6494	211	130	115	38%	175	116	34	11	2	3	9	3	488	144	1.25	1.14
	MLB Averages									29%											1.27	1.24

* 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y Active 563 (20th)	Putouts as C s c a p y Active 3,348 (22nd)	Assists as C s c a p y Active 284 (16th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 2006 NL 8 (4th) Active 35 (17th)
Passed Balls s c a p y 2009 NL 5 (5th) Active 36 (16th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y Active 130 (19th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 2007 NL 41.0 (2nd) 2009 NL 47.5 (1st) 2012 NL 35.7 (5th) Active 38.1 (4th)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 2009 NL 7 (2nd) Active 21 (11th) Career 21 (56th)
Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y Active 7.92 (5th) Career 7.92 (6th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y Active 6.45 (21st) Career 6.45 (52nd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 2007 NL .993 (5th) Active .990 (17th) Career .990 (73rd)

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