Bob Scheffing

Robert Boden Scheffing

Positions: Catcher and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: August 11, 1913 in Overland, MO
High School: Ritenour HS (St. Louis, MO)
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1935. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 27, 1941
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Reds/Cardinals 1941-1951

Final Game: September 11, 1951
Died: October 26, 1985 in Phoenix, AZ
Buried: St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, Phoenix, AZ
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO
1941	CHC	NL	27	C	34	29	27		148	126	17	5	1	.966		4.21	.983		5.04	3		16	8	33%	46%
1942	CHC	NL	28	C	32	23	22		140	122	16	2	6	.986		4.31	.979		4.95	4		6	7	54%	46%
1946	CHC	NL	32	C	40	22	20		107	97	10	0	3	1.000		2.68	.980		5.01	4		6	5	45%	43%
1947	CHC	NL	33	C	97	95	86		438	379	52	7	4	.984		4.44	.981		4.96	9		25	23	48%	44%
1948	CHC	NL	34	C	78	72	67		372	332	36	4	5	.989		4.72	.980		5.15	2	4	23	20	47%	40%	0
1949	CHC	NL	35	C	40	37	32		174	152	18	4	3	.977		4.25	.982		4.98	4	5	21	9	30%	43%	0
1950	TOT	NL	36	C	14	12	11	106.0	57	54	2	1	1	.982	4.75	4.00	.982	5.38	5.33	2	2	13	2	13%	38%	0
1950	CHC	NL	36	C	3	2	2	19.0	12	11	0	1	1	.917	5.21	3.67	.982	5.40	5.33	1	1	4	0	0%	38%	0
1950	CIN	NL	36	C	11	10	9	87.0	45	43	2	0	0	1.000	4.66	4.09	.982	5.38	5.33	1	1	9	2	18%	38%	0
1951	TOT	NL	37	C	52	38	31	355.1	201	182	15	4	1	.980	4.99	3.79	.981	5.18	5.16	3	6	18	8	31%	41%	1
1951	CIN	NL	37	C	41	33	28	302.0	167	150	13	4	1	.976	4.86	3.98	.981	5.18	5.16	3	5	15	8	35%	41%	1
1951	STL	NL	37	C	11	5	3	53.1	34	32	2	0	0	1.000	5.74	3.09	.981	5.18	5.16	0	1	3	0	0%	41%	0
	8 Seasons			C	387	328	296	461.1	1637	1444	166	27	24	.984	4.94	4.16	.981	5.23	5.05	31	17	128	82	39%	43%	1
	8 Seasons			TOT	387	328	296	461.1	1637	1444	166	27	24	.984	4.94	4.16	.981	5.23	5.05	31	17	128	82	39%	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.

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
1941	CHC	NL	27	C
1942	CHC	NL	28	C
1946	CHC	NL	32	C
1947	CHC	NL	33	C
1948	CHC	NL	34	C
1949	CHC	NL	35	C
1950	CHC	NL	36	C
1950	CIN	NL	36	C
1951	CIN	NL	37	C
1951	STL	NL	37	C
	8 Seasons			C
	8 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH
1941	CHC	NL	27	51	29	51	34	34	17
1942	CHC	NL	28	44	23	44	32	32	12
1946	CHC	NL	32	63	22	63	40	40	23
1947	CHC	NL	33	110	95	110	98	98	13
1948	CHC	NL	34	102	72	102	78	78	25
1949	CHC	NL	35	55	37	55	40	40	15
1950	CIN	NL	36	21	10	21	11	11	10
1950	CHC	NL	36	12	2	12	3	3	9
1951	CIN	NL	37	47	33	47	41	41	8
1951	STL	NL	37	12	5	12	11	11	3
	8 Seasons			517	328	517	388	388	135

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%
1948	CHC	NL	34	1325	4.05	4.89	20	95%	0	0	164	12	2	7	143	17	3	1	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	5	80%
1949	CHC	NL	35	601	4.46	4.91	14	93%	0	0	71	9	0	6	56	8	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	50%
1950	CIN	NL	36	387	4.24	4.97	8	100%	0	0	43	7	0	1	35	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	100%
1950	CHC	NL	36	54	9.90	12.60	2	100%	0	0	7	2	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
1951	CIN	NL	37	1090	4.80	5.54	22	91%	0	0	126	16	0	4	106	11	3	0	0	0	4	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	100%
1951	STL	NL	37	178	4.85	4.85	3	100%	0	0	22	3	1	0	18	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			3635	4.47	5.19	69	94%	0	0	433	49	3	19	362	39	7	1	0	2	8	1	6	1	0	5	1	0	1	10	80%
	MLB Averages				4.23	4.76		95%																							84%

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
1948	CHC	NL	34	2	4	533	12	12	10	50%	8	10	0	1	4	1	0	0	27	15	1.24	1.22
1949	CHC	NL	35	4	5	236	13	4	3	24%	13	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	30	7	0.88	0.76
1950	CIN	NL	36	1	1	166	9	2	2	18%	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	11	2	1.64	0.75
1950	CHC	NL	36	1	1	27	2	0	0	0%	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	1.10
1951	CIN	NL	37	3	5	467	14	8	8	36%	12	8	2	0	0	0	1	1	27	8	0.88	1.61
1951	STL	NL	37	0	1	77	1	0	0	0%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0.91
	4 Seasons			11	17	1506	51	26	23	34%	44	22	3	2	4	2	1	1	109	32	1.11	1.23
	MLB Averages									44%											1.21	1.20

* 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

Passed Balls s c a p y 1947 NL 9 (4th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1947 NL 25 (5th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1947 NL 23 (5th) 1948 NL 20 (4th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1947 NL 47.9 (4th) 1948 NL 46.5 (3rd)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1947 NL 4.44 (5th) 1948 NL 4.72 (4th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1947 NL .984 (3rd) 1948 NL .989 (2nd)	Oldest s c a p y 1950 NL born 1913-08-11 (7th) 1951 NL born 1913-08-11 (3rd)

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