Mike Ryan

Michael James Ryan

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

Born: November 25, 1941 in Haverhill, MA
High School: St. James HS (Haverhill, MA)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1960. (All Transactions)
Debut: October 3, 1964
Teams (by GP): Phillies/RedSox/Pirates 1964-1974

Final Game: September 10, 1974
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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
1964	BOS	AL	22	C	1	1	0	7.0	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	6.43	5.00	.990	7.07	7.10	0	0	0	0			0
1965	BOS	AL	23	C	33	30	27	264.0	216	194	18	4	0	.981	0	0	7.23	6.42	.988	6.96	6.94	4	7	19	10	34%	34%	0
1966	BOS	AL	24	C	114	106	88	941.0	741	685	50	6	7	.992	1	1	7.03	6.45	.988	6.86	6.85	10	29	65	34	34%	38%	2
1967	BOS	AL	25	C	79	74	53	623.0	513	473	34	6	11	.988	0	0	7.32	6.42	.989	7.22	7.23	4	24	22	17	44%	41%	0
1968	PHI	NL	26	C	96	88	78	775.1	568	501	62	5	7	.991	9	14	6.54	5.86	.990	6.87	6.90	7	18	25	34	58%	39%	3
1969	PHI	NL	27	C	132	129	106	1093.1	856	769	79	8	13	.991	7	8	6.98	6.42	.989	7.06	7.01	9	32	48	35	42%	40%	9
1970	PHI	NL	28	C	46	42	37	364.2	255	238	15	2	1	.992	3	10	6.24	5.50	.987	6.85	6.82	2	6	19	10	34%	33%	0
1971	PHI	NL	29	C	43	38	32	353.1	252	222	30	0	2	1.000	9	31	6.42	5.86	.988	6.34	6.33	2	7	13	21	62%	35%	1
1972	PHI	NL	30	C	46	31	20	300.1	239	216	21	2	3	.992	0	0	7.10	5.15	.987	6.61	6.63	1	13	16	11	41%	37%	0
1973	PHI	NL	31	C	27	21	16	186.0	131	121	9	1	0	.992	2	13	6.29	4.81	.987	6.34	6.34	0	7	5	6	55%	36%	0
1974	PIT	NL	32	C	15	10	5	93.1	56	49	7	0	1	1.000	1	13	5.40	3.73	.985	6.11	6.11	1	1	2	3	60%	33%	0
	11 Seasons			C	632	570	462	5001.1	3832	3473	325	34	45	.991	32	8	6.83	6.01	.988	6.87	6.85	40	144	234	181	44%	38%	15
	11 Seasons			TOT	632	570	462	5001.1	3832	3473	325	34	45	.991	32	8	6.83	6.01	.988	6.87	6.85	40	144	234	181	44%	38%	15

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
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	Rctch
1964	BOS	AL	22	C	0	0	0
1965	BOS	AL	23	C	0	0	0
1966	BOS	AL	24	C	1	1	1
1967	BOS	AL	25	C	0	0	0
1968	PHI	NL	26	C	9	14	9
1969	PHI	NL	27	C	7	8	7
1970	PHI	NL	28	C	3	10	3
1971	PHI	NL	29	C	9	31	9
1972	PHI	NL	30	C	0	0	0
1973	PHI	NL	31	C	2	13	2
1974	PIT	NL	32	C	1	13	1
	11 Seasons			C	32	8	32
	11 Seasons			TOT	32	8	32

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH
1964	BOS	AL	22	1	1	1	1	1	0
1965	BOS	AL	23	33	30	33	33	33	0
1966	BOS	AL	24	116	106	116	114	114	3
1967	BOS	AL	25	79	74	79	79	79	0
1968	PHI	NL	26	96	88	96	96	96	1
1969	PHI	NL	27	133	129	133	132	132	1
1970	PHI	NL	28	46	42	46	46	46	0
1971	PHI	NL	29	43	38	43	43	43	0
1972	PHI	NL	30	46	31	46	46	46	2
1973	PHI	NL	31	28	21	28	27	27	1
1974	PIT	NL	32	15	10	15	15	15	0
	11 Seasons			636	570	636	632	632	8

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%
1964	BOS	AL	22	27	0.00	0.00	0		0	0	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1965	BOS	AL	23	1131	3.72	4.26	20	95%	0	0	198	13	1	2	182	17	5	0	0	0	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	100%
1966	BOS	AL	24	4038	3.90	4.57	45	96%	1	1	689	31	2	22	632	50	4	1	0	2	6	0	2	4	0	8	0	0	0	5	100%
1967	BOS	AL	25	2615	3.65	4.13	49	98%	0	0	471	30	2	20	419	40	10	0	0	9	6	0	2	4	1	11	0	1	1	5	100%
1968	PHI	NL	26	3250	3.42	3.83	44	98%	0	1	505	23	1	13	467	65	17	2	0	8	5	1	2	2	1	7	0	0	2	9	100%
1969	PHI	NL	27	4804	4.30	4.79	85	96%	0	0	772	59	10	17	686	81	22	1	0	10	8	1	2	5	1	13	1	1	3	11	100%
1970	PHI	NL	28	1571	4.15	4.34	19	100%	0	0	236	17	0	3	216	15	1	0	0	3	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	100%
1971	PHI	NL	29	1470	3.87	4.36	14	93%	0	0	222	11	1	9	201	30	3	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	3	100%
1972	PHI	NL	30	1299	4.20	4.50	12	100%	0	0	217	6	3	4	204	17	2	2	0	2	2	1	1	0	0	3	1	0	1	2	100%
1973	PHI	NL	31	820	4.94	5.37	10	100%	0	0	119	5	0	1	113	10	5	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	100%
1974	PIT	NL	32	420	4.44	5.30	8	88%	0	1	50	5	1	1	43	7	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0%
	11 Seasons			21445	3.95	4.43	306	97%	1	3	3484	200	21	92	3168	332	71	6	1	44	34	4	12	18	3	46	2	3	9	45	98%
	MLB Averages				3.52	3.99		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
1964	BOS	AL	22	0	0	9	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1965	BOS	AL	23	4	7	457	19	10	10	34%	17	10	2	0	0	0	0	0	36	10	0.97	1.30
1966	BOS	AL	24	10	29	1497	65	34	31	34%	54	25	10	6	1	3	2	1	127	41	1.50	1.27
1967	BOS	AL	25	4	24	905	22	17	16	44%	20	15	2	1	0	1	0	0	71	22	1.76	1.54
1968	PHI	NL	26	7	18	1192	25	34	33	58%	25	30	0	4	0	0	3	1	64	34	1.51	1.01
1969	PHI	NL	27	9	32	1875	48	35	32	42%	43	32	5	1	0	2	9	1	113	46	1.07	1.18
1970	PHI	NL	28	2	6	592	19	10	9	34%	16	8	3	2	0	0	0	0	31	10	1.12	1.33
1971	PHI	NL	29	2	7	517	13	21	18	62%	11	16	2	3	0	2	1	1	25	21	1.26	1.21
1972	PHI	NL	30	1	13	479	16	11	8	41%	16	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	39	12	1.72	1.17
1973	PHI	NL	31	0	7	320	5	6	3	55%	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	16	6	1.16	0.89
1974	PIT	NL	32	1	1	169	2	3	3	60%	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	1.34	0.87
	11 Seasons			40	144	8012	234	181	163	44%	209	154	24	19	1	8	15	4	527	205	1.36	1.20
	MLB Averages									37%											1.28	1.23

* 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

Hall of Fame 1980 BBWAA ()	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1969 NL 132 (5th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1966 AL 685 (4th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1968 NL 62 (5th) 1969 NL 79 (1st)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1969 NL 8 (5th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1966 AL 10 (5th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1966 AL 65 (1st)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1966 AL 34 (2nd) 1968 NL 34 (5th)
Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1968 NL 57.6 (1st) 1971 NL 61.8 (1st)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1968 NL 9 (1st) 1969 NL 7 (3rd) 1971 NL 9 (2nd) Career 32 (36th)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1966 AL 7.03 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1966 AL 6.45 (5th) Career 6.01 (93rd)
Fielding % as C s c a p y 1966 AL .992 (4th) Career .991 (59th)

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