Bill Sarni

William Florine Sarni

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: September 19, 1927 in Los Angeles, CA
High School: Los Angeles HS (Los Angeles, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: May 9, 1951
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Giants 1951-1956

Final Game: September 18, 1956
Died: April 15, 1983 in Creve Coeur, MO
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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
1951	STL	NL	23	C	35	22	15	218.2	122	107	13	2	3	.984			4.94	3.43	.981	5.18	5.16	1	2	6	6	50%	42%	0
1952	STL	NL	24	C	3	2	1	18.0	19	19	0	0	0	1.000			9.50	6.33	.984	5.50	5.47	0	0	1	0	0%	44%	0
1954	STL	NL	26	C	118	96	88	904.0	529	486	41	2	12	.996	1	1	5.25	4.47	.986	5.36	5.33	4	19	15	19	56%	44%	0
1955	STL	NL	27	C	99	84	78	780.1	528	482	39	7	8	.987	-2	-3	6.01	5.26	.987	5.65	5.60	5	13	25	21	46%	46%	0
1956	TOT	NL	28	C	119	110	97	976.4	652	586	61	5	10	.992	4	5	5.96	5.44	.985	5.83	5.77	11	18	29	24	45%	40%	1
1956	STL	NL	28	C	41	40	37	356.2	246	219	25	2	1	.992	0	0	6.16	5.95	.985	5.83	5.77	3	7	18	8	31%	40%	1
1956	NYG	NL	28	C	78	70	60	619.2	406	367	36	3	9	.993	4	8	5.85	5.17	.985	5.83	5.77	8	11	11	16	59%	40%	0
	5 Seasons			C	374	314	279	2897.1	1850	1680	154	16	33	.991	3	1	5.70	4.90	.986	5.58	5.53	21	52	76	70	48%	43%	1
	5 Seasons			TOT	374	314	279	2897.1	1850	1680	154	16	33	.991	3	1	5.70	4.90	.986	5.58	5.53	21	52	76	70	48%	43%	1

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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.
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rctch
1951	STL	NL	23	C
1952	STL	NL	24	C
1954	STL	NL	26	C	1	1	1
1955	STL	NL	27	C	-2	-3	-2
1956	STL	NL	28	C	0	0	0
1956	NYG	NL	28	C	4	8	4
	5 Seasons			C	3	1	3
	5 Seasons			TOT	3	1	3

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1951	STL	NL	23	36	22	36	35	35	1	0
1952	STL	NL	24	3	2	3	3	3	0	0
1954	STL	NL	26	123	96	123	118	118	7	2
1955	STL	NL	27	107	84	107	99	99	13	0
1956	NYG	NL	28	78	70	78	78	78	4	0
1956	STL	NL	28	43	40	43	41	41	2	0
	5 Seasons			390	314	390	374	374	27	2

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%
1951	STL	NL	23	617	4.59	4.78	14	100%	1	0	77	8	0	7	62	11	4	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	2	100%
1952	STL	NL	24	35	2.00	3.00	2	100%	0	0	14	2	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954	STL	NL	26	3129	4.55	5.19	49	98%	0	0	377	31	2	17	326	31	6	0	0	4	2	0	2	0	1	7	0	1	3	7	100%
1955	STL	NL	27	2661	5.22	5.69	40	98%	0	0	378	31	3	13	331	26	3	0	0	4	6	0	3	3	0	8	0	0	1	1	100%
1956	NYG	NL	28	2292	3.86	4.20	49	96%	0	0	325	38	6	10	271	30	10	0	0	3	2	0	2	0	0	9	0	3	4	5	100%
1956	STL	NL	28	1488	3.63	3.99	28	100%	0	0	221	21	0	5	195	24	7	0	0	8	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	3	100%
	5 Seasons			10222	4.41	4.87	182	98%	1	0	1392	131	11	52	1197	122	30	0	0	20	14	0	8	6	1	27	0	4	10	18	100%
	MLB Averages				4.00	4.51		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
1951	STL	NL	23	1	2	249	6	6	6	50%	5	6	0	0	1	0	0	0	13	9	1.18	1.41
1952	STL	NL	24	0	0	14	1	0	0	0%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.63
1954	STL	NL	26	4	19	1238	12	16	16	57%	6	13	6	3	0	0	0	0	50	19	0.94	0.84
1955	STL	NL	27	4	13	1020	21	17	16	45%	16	15	4	2	1	0	0	0	56	20	1.23	1.17
1956	NYG	NL	28	8	11	816	11	14	12	56%	9	13	2	0	0	1	0	0	42	21	0.86	1.37
1956	STL	NL	28	3	7	554	18	8	8	31%	16	7	2	1	0	0	1	1	35	12	1.34	1.36
	5 Seasons			20	52	3891	69	61	58	47%	53	54	14	6	2	1	1	1	197	81	1.14	1.18
	MLB Averages									45%											1.18	1.15

* 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 1954 NL 118 (2nd) 1956 NL 119 (2nd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1954 NL 486 (3rd) 1955 NL 482 (5th) 1956 NL 586 (2nd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1956 NL 61 (1st)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1955 NL 7 (3rd)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1956 NL 11 (2nd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1955 NL 25 (5th) 1956 NL 29 (4th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1956 NL 24 (2nd)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1954 NL 55.9 (3rd) 1956 NL 45.3 (5th)
Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1956 NL 4 (2nd)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1954 NL 5.25 (4th) 1955 NL 6.01 (2nd) 1956 NL 5.96 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1955 NL 5.26 (3rd) 1956 NL 5.44 (3rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1954 NL .996 (1st) 1955 NL .987 (5th) 1956 NL .992 (2nd)

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