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Jimmie Schaffer

Jimmie Ronald Schaffer

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: April 5, 1936 in Limeport, PA
High School: Coopersburg HS (Coopersburg, PA)
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1955. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 20, 1961
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Cubs/Mets/WhiteSox/Phillies/... 1961-1968

Final Game: July 11, 1968
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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
1961 STL NL 25 C 68 45 31 410.2 268 244 23 1 6 .996 1 3 5.85 3.93 .985 6.39 6.32 6 19 14 14 50% 38% 0
1962 STL NL 26 C 69 14 6 227.0 145 134 10 1 1 .993 1 5 5.71 2.09 .987 6.72 6.66 1 10 10 7 41% 34% 0
1963 CHC NL 27 C 54 42 34 381.2 255 231 23 1 3 .996 3 9 5.99 4.70 .986 7.07 7.05 2 17 8 16 67% 42% 0
1964 CHC NL 28 C 43 35 28 302.0 167 143 19 5 1 .970 -2 -8 4.83 3.77 .988 6.81 6.76 5 13 9 4 31% 40% 2
1965 TOT MLB 29 C 35 18 7 166.2 120 110 8 2 2 .983 -1 -7 6.37 3.37 .988 6.96 6.96 1 8 7 3 30% 35% 0
1965 CHW AL 29 C 14 8 2 71.1 57 50 7 0 2 1.000 1 17 7.19 4.07 .988 6.95 6.94 1 1 2 3 60% 34% 0
1965 NYM NL 29 C 21 10 5 95.1 63 60 1 2 0 .968 -2 -25 5.76 2.90 .988 6.96 6.97 0 7 5 0 0% 36% 0
1966 PHI NL 30 C 6 5 2 37.0 21 17 3 1 1 .952 0 0 4.86 3.33 .987 6.84 6.83 0 0 3 2 40% 40% 0
1967 PHI NL 31 C 1 1 0 5.0 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 5.00 .990 6.84 6.90 0 0 0 0 0
1968 CIN NL 32 C 2 0 0 7.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 5.14 2.00 .990 6.81 6.90 0 0 2 0 0% 40% 0
8 Seasons C 278 160 108 1537.0 985 888 86 11 14 .989 2 2 5.70 3.50 .987 6.77 6.71 15 67 53 46 46% 38% 2
8 Seasons TOT 278 160 108 1537.0 985 888 86 11 14 .989 2 2 5.70 3.50 .987 6.77 6.71 15 67 53 46 46% 38% 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
1961 STL NL 25 C 1 3 1
1962 STL NL 26 C 1 5 1
1963 CHC NL 27 C 3 9 3
1964 CHC NL 28 C -2 -8 -2
1965 CHW AL 29 C 1 17 1
1965 NYM NL 29 C -2 -25 -2
1966 PHI NL 30 C 0 0 0
1967 PHI NL 31 C 0 0 0
1968 CIN NL 32 C 0 0 0
8 Seasons C 2 2 2
8 Seasons TOT 2 2 2

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1961 STL NL 25 68 45 68 68 0 68 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5
1962 STL NL 26 70 14 70 69 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1963 CHC NL 27 57 42 57 54 0 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
1964 CHC NL 28 54 35 54 43 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 2
1965 NYM NL 29 24 10 24 21 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1965 CHW AL 29 17 8 17 14 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1966 PHI NL 30 8 5 8 6 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1967 PHI NL 31 2 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1968 CIN NL 32 4 0 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
8 Seasons 304 160 304 278 0 278 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 11
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%
1961 STL NL 25 1769 4.05 4.84 21 100% 0 0 244 17 2 5 220 23 4 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 6 1 1 2 1 100%
1962 STL NL 26 955 3.57 4.08 11 100% 0 0 138 11 0 3 124 9 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1963 CHC NL 27 1583 3.35 3.91 20 85% 0 0 236 13 0 10 213 22 3 1 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 5 80%
1964 CHC NL 28 1312 4.59 5.28 13 77% 0 0 140 6 3 2 129 17 4 0 0 5 4 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 67%
1965 NYM NL 29 422 5.10 5.66 5 100% 0 0 56 5 0 0 51 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1965 CHW AL 29 291 3.03 3.41 4 100% 0 0 50 3 1 2 44 7 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 100%
1966 PHI NL 30 150 2.43 2.68 2 100% 0 0 17 1 0 0 16 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1967 PHI NL 31 19 1.80 1.80 2 100% 0 0 5 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1968 CIN NL 32 28 5.14 5.14 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 6529 3.89 4.51 78 92% 0 0 890 58 6 22 804 82 14 2 0 13 10 2 4 4 0 15 1 2 3 10 80%
MLB Averages 3.54 4.03 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
1961 STL NL 25 6 19 669 14 14 13 50% 14 13 0 1 0 0 0 0 45 18 1.17 0.90
1962 STL NL 26 1 10 348 10 7 6 41% 9 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 24 10 2.34 1.37
1963 CHC NL 27 2 17 595 8 16 15 67% 8 13 0 1 0 2 0 0 32 16 1.38 1.03
1964 CHC NL 28 5 13 491 9 4 4 31% 8 3 0 0 1 1 2 0 37 7 2.09 1.36
1965 NYM NL 29 0 7 161 5 0 0 0% 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 19 0 1.53
1965 CHW AL 29 1 1 93 2 3 3 60% 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 6 0.44 0.96
1966 PHI NL 30 0 0 45 3 2 2 40% 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1.43 1.57
1967 PHI NL 31 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1968 CIN NL 32 0 0 6 2 0 0 0% 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.25
8 Seasons 15 67 2414 53 46 43 46% 49 39 3 3 1 4 2 0 170 59 1.57 1.09
MLB Averages 38% 1.26 1.22

* 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

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1963 NL  3 (4th)

                                         

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