Bob Schmidt

Robert Benjamin Schmidt

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

Born: April 22, 1933 in St. Louis, MO
Signed by the New York Giants as an amateur free agent in 1951. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1958
Teams (by GP): Giants/Senators/Reds/Yankees 1958-1965

Final Game: June 9, 1965
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All-Star

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
1958	SFG	NL	25	C	123	107	93	973.0	682	616	54	12	10	.982	2	2	6.20	5.45	.988	6.06	6.02	3	26	32	27	46%	39%	0	AS
1959	SFG	NL	26	C	70	56	37	486.0	337	307	30	0	1	1.000	-2	-5	6.24	4.81	.989	6.34	6.28	2	14	22	8	27%	38%	1
1960	SFG	NL	27	C	108	98	81	856.0	675	631	31	13	6	.981	-10	-14	6.96	6.13	.986	6.58	6.57	2	36	45	13	22%	40%	3
1961	TOT	NL	28	C	29	24	19	216.0	162	154	7	1	1	.994	0	0	6.71	5.55	.985	6.39	6.32	1	6	15	5	25%	38%	0
1961	SFG	NL	28	C	2	2	2	18.0	18	17	1	0	0	1.000	0	0	9.00	9.00	.985	6.40	6.30	0	3	0	1	100%	38%	0
1961	CIN	NL	28	C	27	22	17	198.0	144	137	6	1	1	.993	0	0	6.50	5.30	.985	6.39	6.32	1	3	15	4	21%	38%	0
1962	WSA	AL	29	C	88	71	63	639.0	383	342	40	1	3	.997	6	11	5.38	4.34	.989	6.30	6.28	9	7	14	16	53%	36%	2
1963	WSA	AL	30	C	6	2	1	32.0	18	18	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-38	5.06	3.00	.989	6.64	6.63	0	4	1	0	0%	33%	0
1965	NYY	AL	32	C	20	11	6	116.0	98	93	4	1	0	.990	-1	-10	7.53	4.85	.988	6.96	6.94	2	2	5	0	0%	34%	0
	7 Seasons			C	444	369	300	3318.0	2355	2161	166	28	21	.988	-6	-2	6.31	5.24	.988	6.34	6.32	19	95	134	69	34%	38%	6
	7 Seasons			TOT	444	369	300	3318.0	2355	2161	166	28	21	.988	-6	-2	6.31	5.24	.988	6.34	6.32	19	95	134	69	34%	38%	6

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.
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
1958	SFG	NL	25	C	2	2	2
1959	SFG	NL	26	C	-2	-5	-2
1960	SFG	NL	27	C	-10	-14	-10
1961	SFG	NL	28	C	0	0	0
1961	CIN	NL	28	C	0	0	0
1962	WSA	AL	29	C	6	11	6
1963	WSA	AL	30	C	-1	-38	-1
1965	NYY	AL	32	C	-1	-10	-1
	7 Seasons			C	-6	-2	-6
	7 Seasons			TOT	-6	-2	-6

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH
1958	SFG	NL	25	127	107	127	123	123	7
1959	SFG	NL	26	71	56	71	70	70	3
1960	SFG	NL	27	110	98	110	108	108	3
1961	CIN	NL	28	27	22	27	27	27	0
1961	SFG	NL	28	2	2	2	2	2	0
1962	WSA	AL	29	88	71	88	88	88	4
1963	WSA	AL	30	9	2	9	6	6	5
1965	NYY	AL	32	20	11	20	20	20	0
	7 Seasons			454	369	454	444	444	22

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%
1958	SFG	NL	25	4115	3.56	4.14	63	94%	1	0	611	41	3	21	546	53	14	0	0	3	12	2	5	5	1	9	0	1	3	7	86%
1959	SFG	NL	26	2090	3.82	4.30	34	100%	0	0	310	20	2	5	282	28	8	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	5	100%
1960	SFG	NL	27	3648	3.46	4.18	62	95%	0	0	631	46	3	18	564	32	12	0	0	4	13	2	3	8	2	5	0	1	1	7	71%
1961	CIN	NL	28	839	3.55	3.73	12	100%	0	0	136	11	0	3	122	6	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
1961	SFG	NL	28	71	3.00	3.00	1	100%	0	0	17	1	0	0	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962	WSA	AL	29	2714	3.65	3.97	49	94%	0	0	348	30	0	8	310	39	15	0	0	5	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	5	80%
1963	WSA	AL	30	151	5.91	6.19	1	0%	0	0	20	0	0	1	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1965	NYY	AL	32	489	3.88	4.11	10	100%	0	0	94	5	0	1	87	3	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	7 Seasons			14117	3.62	4.13	232	95%	1	0	2167	154	8	57	1946	162	52	5	0	16	28	4	10	14	4	20	0	3	6	24	83%
	MLB Averages				3.75	4.26		95%																							88%

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
1958	SFG	NL	25	3	26	1552	32	27	26	46%	29	25	2	2	1	0	1	0	86	36	0.91	1.29
1959	SFG	NL	26	2	14	797	22	8	7	27%	19	6	3	2	0	0	1	0	47	15	1.17	0.86
1960	SFG	NL	27	2	36	1332	45	13	12	22%	45	10	0	1	0	2	3	0	110	26	1.25	1.28
1961	CIN	NL	28	1	3	336	15	4	3	21%	14	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	20	5	1.16	1.43
1961	SFG	NL	28	0	3	26	0	1	1	100%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1		0.77
1962	WSA	AL	29	9	7	1015	14	16	16	53%	13	16	1	0	0	0	2	0	39	21	0.78	0.88
1963	WSA	AL	30	0	4	52	1	0	0	0%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	0.11
1965	NYY	AL	32	2	2	181	5	0	0	0%	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	1	1.57
	7 Seasons			19	95	5291	134	69	65	34%	126	61	7	5	1	3	7	0	327	105	1.10	1.14
	MLB Averages									38%											1.20	1.18

* 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

All-Star Games 1958	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1958 NL 123 (2nd) 1960 NL 108 (4th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1958 NL 616 (2nd) 1960 NL 631 (4th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1958 NL 54 (2nd)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1958 NL 12 (1st) 1960 NL 13 (1st)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1958 NL 32 (1st) 1960 NL 45 (2nd)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1958 NL 27 (2nd)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1958 NL 45.8 (4th)
Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1962 AL 6 (3rd)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1958 NL 6.20 (3rd) 1960 NL 6.96 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1958 NL 5.45 (5th) 1960 NL 6.13 (2nd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1962 AL .997 (1st)

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