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Ed Sadowski

Edward Roman Sadowski

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: January 19, 1931 in Pittsburgh, PA
High School: St. John's Lyceum HS (Pittsburgh, PA)(All Transactions)
Debut: April 20, 1960
Teams (by GP): Angels/RedSox/Braves 1960-1966

Final Game: October 2, 1966
Died: November 6, 1993 in Garden Grove, CA
Buried: Holy Sepulcher Cemetery, Orange, CA
Relatives: Brother of Bob Sadowski, Brother of Ted Sadowski and Uncle of Jim Sadowski
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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
1960 BOS AL 29 C 36 29 16 244.0 190 178 11 1 0 .995 2 10 6.97 5.25 .987 5.93 5.92 2 7 4 8 67% 40% 1
1961 LAA AL 30 C 56 44 36 404.2 316 295 17 4 4 .987 -4 -12 6.94 5.57 .989 6.21 6.14 3 15 16 5 24% 36% 0
1962 LAA AL 31 C 18 14 8 119.0 93 86 4 3 0 .968 -2 -20 6.81 5.00 .989 6.30 6.28 3 2 11 3 21% 36% 0
1963 LAA AL 32 C 68 52 40 480.1 379 340 38 1 7 .997 7 17 7.08 5.56 .989 6.64 6.64 2 9 13 16 55% 33% 1
1966 ATL NL 35 C 3 2 2 24.0 17 15 2 0 0 1.000 1 50 6.38 5.67 .987 6.82 6.83 0 0 2 3 60% 40% 0
5 Seasons C 181 141 102 1272.0 995 914 72 9 11 .991 4 4 6.98 5.45 .989 6.34 6.31 10 33 46 35 43% 36% 2
5 Seasons TOT 181 141 102 1272.0 995 914 72 9 11 .991 4 4 6.98 5.45 .989 6.34 6.31 10 33 46 35 43% 36% 2
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 Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1960 BOS AL 29 C 2 10 2
1961 LAA AL 30 C -4 -12 -4
1962 LAA AL 31 C -2 -20 -2
1963 LAA AL 32 C 7 17 7
1966 ATL NL 35 C 1 50 1
5 Seasons C 4 4 4
5 Seasons TOT 4 4 4

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1960 BOS AL 29 38 29 38 36 0 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1961 LAA AL 30 69 44 69 56 0 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 5
1962 LAA AL 31 27 14 27 18 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 3
1963 LAA AL 32 80 52 80 68 0 68 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 13
1966 ATL NL 35 3 2 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 217 141 217 181 0 181 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 23
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%
1960 BOS AL 29 1104 5.24 5.98 22 95% 0 0 176 18 1 6 151 11 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 50%
1961 LAA AL 30 1769 4.01 4.73 20 100% 0 0 293 17 1 5 270 15 2 1 0 2 4 0 0 4 0 3 0 0 0 2 100%
1962 LAA AL 31 495 4.91 6.05 7 100% 0 0 80 7 0 0 73 4 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
1963 LAA AL 32 2004 3.42 4.08 37 100% 0 0 337 25 5 10 297 41 12 2 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 7 0 2 3 7 100%
1966 ATL NL 35 92 1.13 1.88 1 100% 0 0 15 0 0 2 13 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 5464 4.05 4.79 87 99% 0 0 901 67 7 23 804 73 15 3 0 5 9 0 1 8 0 10 0 2 3 11 91%
MLB Averages 3.69 4.19 95% 89%

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
1960 BOS AL 29 3 7 421 4 8 8 67% 3 7 1 0 0 1 1 0 20 9 1.19 0.69
1961 LAA AL 30 3 15 722 16 5 5 24% 14 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 45 12 1.13 0.98
1962 LAA AL 31 3 2 182 10 3 3 23% 8 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 18 3 0.68 1.47
1963 LAA AL 32 2 9 692 13 16 16 55% 12 14 0 1 1 1 1 0 35 23 1.55 1.17
1966 ATL NL 35 0 0 29 2 3 2 60% 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 0.88 2.01
5 Seasons 11 33 2046 45 35 34 44% 39 30 4 2 2 3 2 0 120 50 1.15 1.13
MLB Averages 37% 1.22 1.19

* 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 as C s c a p y
1963 AL  16 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1963 AL  7 (1st)

                           

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