Ken Rudolph

Kenneth Victor Rudolph

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: December 29, 1946 in Rockford, IL
High School: Cathedral HS (Los Angeles, CA)
School: University of Nebraska at Lincoln (Lincoln, NE)
Drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 2nd round of the 1965 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 20, 1969
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Cardinals/Giants/Orioles 1969-1977

Final Game: September 7, 1977
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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
1969	CHC	NL	22	C	11	6	3	60.0	43	39	3	1	0	.977	-1	-20	6.30	3.82	.989	7.06	7.01	0	2	3	0	0%	40%	0
1969	CHC	NL	22	LF	3	1	0	9.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	27	2.00	0.67	.965	1.70	1.67
1969	CHC	NL	22	OF	3	1	0	9.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	27	2.00	0.67	.975	2.00	2.00
1970	CHC	NL	23	C	16	9	6	93.0	73	67	6	0	1	1.000	2	26	7.06	4.56	.987	6.85	6.82	1	4	2	5	71%	33%	1
1971	CHC	NL	24	C	25	24	22	214.0	169	153	16	0	1	1.000	8	45	7.11	6.76	.988	6.34	6.33	1	0	3	13	81%	35%	1
1972	CHC	NL	25	C	41	32	21	283.2	208	178	23	7	2	.966	2	8	6.38	4.90	.987	6.61	6.63	4	7	13	15	54%	37%	0
1973	CHC	NL	26	C	64	52	34	443.0	296	259	28	9	4	.970	3	8	5.83	4.48	.987	6.34	6.34	2	11	28	20	42%	36%	1
1974	SFG	NL	27	C	56	53	35	443.2	279	253	25	1	4	.996	0	0	5.64	4.96	.985	6.12	6.11	4	7	35	11	24%	33%	0
1975	STL	NL	28	C	31	15	9	162.2	107	93	11	3	1	.972	-2	-15	5.75	3.35	.985	6.03	6.02	3	7	14	6	30%	32%	0
1976	STL	NL	29	C	14	8	6	93.0	67	61	2	4	1	.940	-1	-13	6.10	4.50	.986	5.96	5.94	0	7	7	4	36%	33%	0
1977	TOT	MLB	30	C	22	9	3	92.2	78	66	10	2	4	.974	2	26	7.38	3.45	.986	6.25	6.23	1	0	7	6	46%	38%	1
1977	SFG	NL	30	C	11	5	0	47.0	37	30	5	2	3	.946	1	26	6.70	3.18	.985	6.49	6.49	0	0	2	3	60%	35%	0
1977	BAL	AL	30	C	11	4	3	45.2	41	36	5	0	1	1.000	1	26	8.08	3.73	.986	6.01	5.97	1	0	5	3	38%	39%	1
	9 Seasons			C	280	208	139	1885.2	1320	1169	124	27	18	.980	13	8	6.17	4.62	.986	6.33	6.33	16	45	112	80	42%	35%	4
	1 Season			LF	3	1	0	9.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	27	2.00	0.67	.965	1.70	1.67
	1 Season			OF	3	1	0	9.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	27	2.00	0.67	.975	2.00	2.00
	9 Seasons			TOT	283	209	139	1894.2	1322	1171	124	27	18	.980	13	8	6.15	4.58	.986	6.31	6.28	16	45	112	80	42%	35%	4

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-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	Rof	Rctch
1969	CHC	NL	22	C	-1	-20					-1
1969	CHC	NL	22	LF	0	27	0	0	0	0
1970	CHC	NL	23	C	2	26					2
1971	CHC	NL	24	C	8	45					8
1972	CHC	NL	25	C	2	8					2
1973	CHC	NL	26	C	3	8					3
1974	SFG	NL	27	C	0	0					0
1975	STL	NL	28	C	-2	-15					-2
1976	STL	NL	29	C	-1	-13					-1
1977	SFG	NL	30	C	1	26					1
1977	BAL	AL	30	C	1	26					1
	9 Seasons			C	13	8					13
	1 Season			LF	0	27	0	0	0	0
	9 Seasons			TOT	13	8	0	0	0	0	13

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	LF	OF	PH	PR
1969	CHC	NL	22	27	7	27	15	12	3	3	12	2
1970	CHC	NL	23	20	9	20	16	16	0	0	4	1
1971	CHC	NL	24	25	24	25	25	25	0	0	0	0
1972	CHC	NL	25	42	32	42	41	41	0	0	1	1
1973	CHC	NL	26	64	52	64	64	64	0	0	0	0
1974	SFG	NL	27	57	53	57	56	56	0	0	1	0
1975	STL	NL	28	44	15	44	31	31	0	0	14	0
1976	STL	NL	29	27	8	27	14	14	0	0	14	0
1977	BAL	AL	30	11	4	11	11	11	0	0	0	0
1977	SFG	NL	30	11	5	11	11	11	0	0	1	0
	9 Seasons			328	209	328	284	281	3	3	47	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%
1969	CHC	NL	22	257	3.60	4.50	4	100%	0	0	39	1	1	0	37	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	100%
1970	CHC	NL	23	403	3.87	4.06	6	100%	0	0	65	5	0	3	57	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	100%
1971	CHC	NL	24	939	4.16	5.00	10	100%	0	0	153	5	0	2	146	16	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	100%
1972	CHC	NL	25	1226	3.97	4.54	17	100%	0	0	176	11	2	3	160	24	6	0	0	2	7	0	3	4	0	2	0	1	2	3	100%
1973	CHC	NL	26	1885	3.31	3.84	25	92%	1	0	259	14	3	11	231	27	9	0	0	1	9	1	1	7	0	4	0	1	1	3	67%
1974	SFG	NL	27	1894	3.63	4.32	29	100%	0	1	256	21	1	4	230	23	7	0	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	4	0	1	1	8	100%
1975	STL	NL	28	697	2.71	3.38	7	100%	0	1	95	5	0	2	88	10	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0
1976	STL	NL	29	417	5.61	5.90	5	60%	0	0	61	3	2	0	56	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	1	0
1977	BAL	AL	30	199	3.94	4.93	6	83%	0	0	36	4	0	0	32	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	100%
1977	SFG	NL	30	204	4.02	4.98	2	50%	0	0	31	1	3	1	26	5	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	3	0	2	2	0
	9 Seasons			8121	3.71	4.34	111	95%	1	2	1171	70	12	26	1063	121	30	2	1	8	27	1	9	17	0	18	1	5	8	21	95%
	MLB Averages				3.65	4.14		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
1969	CHC	NL	22	0	2	93	3	0	0	0%	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	1.22
1970	CHC	NL	23	1	4	154	2	5	4	71%	1	2	1	2	0	1	1	1	10	4	1.38	0.88
1971	CHC	NL	24	1	0	370	3	13	11	81%	3	11	0	1	0	1	1	1	4	14	1.38	1.55
1972	CHC	NL	25	4	7	462	13	15	15	54%	12	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	33	16	1.43	1.17
1973	CHC	NL	26	2	11	722	28	20	16	42%	27	18	1	1	0	1	1	0	56	24	1.12	1.09
1974	SFG	NL	27	4	7	734	35	11	11	24%	31	10	4	1	0	0	0	0	53	14	1.64	1.23
1975	STL	NL	28	3	7	279	14	6	6	30%	13	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	28	6	1.12	1.84
1976	STL	NL	29	0	7	175	7	4	2	36%	7	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	4	0.98	0.78
1977	BAL	AL	30	1	0	87	5	3	3	38%	3	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	7	4	1.12	1.11
1977	SFG	NL	30	0	0	75	2	3	3	60%	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	3	0.99	1.41
	9 Seasons			16	45	3151	112	80	71	42%	102	70	10	7	0	3	4	2	217	89	1.32	1.24
	MLB Averages									36%											1.28	1.25

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%
1969	CHC	NL	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	42	69%	76%	26%	3	67%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	42	69%	76%	26%	3	67%
	MLB Averages																														59.4%			2.9%			63%	80%	27%		47%

* 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

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1973 NL 41.7 (4th)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1971 NL 8 (3rd) Career 13 (87th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1973 NL 41.7 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1971 NL 8 (3rd)
Career 13 (87th)

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