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Andy Seminick

Andrew Wasal Seminick

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 187 lb.

Born: September 12, 1920 in Pierce, WV
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1940. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 14, 1943
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Reds/Redlegs 1943-1957

Final Game: September 21, 1957
Died: February 22, 2004 in Melbourne, FL
Buried: Melbourne Cemetery, Melbourne, FL
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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
1943 PHI NL 22 C 22 21 19 100 79 14 7 2 .930 4.23 .981 4.70 1 12 6 33% 44%
1943 PHI NL 22 LF 1 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 4.00 .978 2.30
1943 PHI NL 22 OF 1 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 4.00 .978 2.40
1944 PHI NL 23 C 11 8 8 54 45 7 2 0 .963 4.73 .979 4.56 1 2 3 60% 43%
1944 PHI NL 23 LF 7 5 5 14 13 1 0 1 1.000 2.00 .981 2.34
1944 PHI NL 23 OF 7 5 5 14 13 1 0 1 1.000 2.00 .980 2.47
1945 PHI NL 24 C 70 42 39 233 198 30 5 3 .979 3.26 .978 4.57 6 21 17 45% 40%
1945 PHI NL 24 3B 4 4 3 15 2 9 4 0 .733 2.75 .941 3.20
1945 PHI NL 24 LF 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .970 2.30
1945 PHI NL 24 OF 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .980 2.40
1946 PHI NL 25 C 118 111 104 536 461 61 14 12 .974 4.42 .980 5.01 5 54 31 36% 43%
1947 PHI NL 26 C 107 99 92 502 438 53 11 6 .978 4.59 .981 4.96 17 40 27 40% 44%
1948 PHI NL 27 C 124 121 111 637 541 74 22 8 .965 4.96 .980 5.15 13 8 69 43 38% 40% 2
1949 PHI NL 28 C 98 97 95 477 411 54 12 6 .975 4.74 .982 4.98 13 13 28 28 50% 43% 3 AS
1950 PHI NL 29 C 124 119 99 1027.1 620 551 54 15 9 .976 5.30 4.88 .982 5.38 5.33 5 21 35 28 44% 38% 4 MVP-14
1951 PHI NL 30 C 91 90 78 767.0 434 378 47 9 6 .979 4.99 4.67 .981 5.18 5.16 5 13 30 23 43% 41% 1
1952 CIN NL 31 C 99 93 85 806.2 476 416 47 13 7 .973 5.17 4.68 .984 5.52 5.47 6 8 27 23 46% 44% 4
1953 CIN NL 32 C 112 106 99 939.1 489 436 44 9 2 .982 1 1 4.60 4.29 .984 5.53 5.42 4 13 26 11 30% 40% 6
1954 CIN NL 33 C 82 75 59 651.2 375 327 44 4 11 .989 5 9 5.12 4.52 .986 5.36 5.33 4 12 13 19 59% 44% 5
1955 TOT NL 34 C 93 90 80 766.2 509 461 45 3 6 .994 2 3 5.94 5.44 .987 5.65 5.60 8 18 21 20 49% 46% 3
1955 CIN NL 34 C 5 4 2 36.0 26 26 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 6.50 5.20 .987 5.65 5.60 0 1 1 1 50% 46% 0
1955 PHI NL 34 C 88 86 78 730.2 483 435 45 3 6 .994 2 3 5.91 5.45 .987 5.65 5.60 8 17 20 19 49% 46% 3
1956 PHI NL 35 C 54 49 44 427.2 296 266 23 7 2 .976 -1 -3 6.08 5.35 .985 5.83 5.77 1 9 22 10 31% 40% 1
1957 PHI NL 36 C 8 2 1 32.1 23 22 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 6.40 2.88 .988 5.98 6.02 0 1 1 0 0% 40% 0
15 Seasons C 1213 1123 1013 5418.2 5761 5030 598 133 80 .977 7 2 5.25 4.64 .982 5.47 5.21 89 116 401 289 42% 42% 29
3 Seasons OF 9 5 5 20 19 1 0 1 1.000 2.22 .980 2.46
3 Seasons LF 9 5 5 20 19 1 0 1 1.000 2.22 .979 2.33
1 Season 3B 4 4 3 15 2 9 4 0 .733 2.75 .941 3.20
15 Seasons TOT 1226 1132 1021 5418.2 5796 5051 608 137 81 .976 7 2 5.25 4.62 .982 5.47 5.18 89 116 401 289 42% 42% 29
Lg 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
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
1943 PHI NL 22 C
1943 PHI NL 22 LF
1944 PHI NL 23 C
1944 PHI NL 23 LF
1945 PHI NL 24 C
1945 PHI NL 24 3B
1945 PHI NL 24 LF
1946 PHI NL 25 C
1947 PHI NL 26 C
1948 PHI NL 27 C
1949 PHI NL 28 C
1950 PHI NL 29 C
1951 PHI NL 30 C
1952 CIN NL 31 C
1953 CIN NL 32 C 1 1 1
1954 CIN NL 33 C 5 9 5
1955 CIN NL 34 C 0 0 0
1955 PHI NL 34 C 2 3 2
1956 PHI NL 35 C -1 -3 -1
1957 PHI NL 36 C 0 0 0
15 Seasons C 7 2 7
3 Seasons LF
1 Season 3B
15 Seasons TOT 7 2 7
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1943 PHI NL 22 22 21 22 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
1944 PHI NL 23 22 13 22 18 0 11 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 0 4 0
1945 PHI NL 24 80 46 80 74 0 70 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 7 1
1946 PHI NL 25 124 111 124 118 0 118 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1947 PHI NL 26 111 99 111 107 0 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1948 PHI NL 27 125 121 125 124 0 124 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1949 PHI NL 28 109 97 109 98 0 98 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1950 PHI NL 29 130 119 130 124 0 124 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1951 PHI NL 30 101 90 101 91 0 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1952 CIN NL 31 108 93 108 99 0 99 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1953 CIN NL 32 119 106 119 112 0 112 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1954 CIN NL 33 86 75 86 82 0 82 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1955 PHI NL 34 93 86 93 88 0 88 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1955 CIN NL 34 6 4 6 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1956 PHI NL 35 60 49 60 54 0 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1957 PHI NL 36 8 2 8 8 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Seasons 1304 1132 1304 1224 0 1213 0 0 4 0 9 0 0 9 0 95 1
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 PHI NL 27 2211 3.81 4.77 70 97% 0 1 273 56 0 14 203 42 4 0 2 4 11 0 2 9 2 5 0 0 0 7 86%
1949 PHI NL 28 2648 3.88 4.26 76 92% 0 2 290 54 2 20 214 42 6 5 0 1 9 0 6 3 1 6 2 1 3 8 50%
1950 PHI NL 29 4044 3.48 3.89 85 92% 0 0 517 56 3 21 437 52 12 1 0 2 14 1 7 6 1 8 1 1 2 10 100%
1951 PHI NL 30 2830 3.60 3.87 74 95% 0 0 340 51 1 17 271 39 9 3 0 2 6 0 3 3 2 5 1 1 2 8 88%
1952 CIN NL 31 2641 3.83 4.21 58 91% 0 1 322 25 2 26 269 40 5 1 0 2 11 1 6 4 0 6 1 0 2 9 89%
1953 CIN NL 32 4036 4.44 4.92 97 96% 0 2 437 57 3 32 345 41 12 1 0 8 8 1 3 4 0 2 1 0 1 10 80%
1954 CIN NL 33 2816 3.78 4.30 62 97% 0 0 327 32 5 22 268 44 8 4 1 2 4 0 3 1 1 12 2 0 2 6 83%
1955 PHI NL 34 2909 3.42 3.90 72 99% 0 1 403 56 0 15 332 39 10 2 0 6 1 0 1 0 0 6 0 0 0 5 100%
1955 CIN NL 34 167 6.25 6.75 8 100% 0 0 26 8 0 2 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956 PHI NL 35 1805 4.43 4.78 51 96% 0 0 261 43 0 5 212 22 4 1 0 0 7 1 2 4 1 3 0 0 1 4 100%
1957 PHI NL 36 153 3.06 3.34 0 0 0 22 0 1 1 20 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons 26260 3.85 4.31 653 95% 0 7 3218 438 17 175 2587 362 70 18 3 28 71 4 33 34 8 53 8 3 13 67 85%
MLB Averages 4.05 4.57 95% 85%

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 PHI NL 27 8 8 844 48 27 24 36% 44 18 4 5 0 4 2 0 89 32 1.19 1.17
1949 PHI NL 28 8 13 1033 23 28 25 55% 22 23 1 1 0 4 3 0 57 35 1.25 1.18
1950 PHI NL 29 4 21 1523 35 28 26 44% 33 22 1 5 1 1 5 0 87 36 1.03 1.14
1951 PHI NL 30 5 13 1108 26 20 20 43% 22 18 4 1 0 1 1 0 56 23 1.50 1.16
1952 CIN NL 31 4 8 1081 24 19 19 44% 22 19 2 0 0 0 4 0 45 28 1.05 1.16
1953 CIN NL 32 4 13 1571 26 11 11 30% 19 11 5 0 2 0 6 0 55 29 1.24 1.07
1954 CIN NL 33 4 12 1149 13 19 19 59% 11 17 2 2 0 0 5 0 40 28 1.68 1.37
1955 PHI NL 34 7 17 1028 20 18 17 47% 18 17 1 0 1 1 3 1 63 20 0.98 1.17
1955 CIN NL 34 0 1 82 1 1 0 50% 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1.32 0.85
1956 PHI NL 35 1 9 686 22 10 10 31% 20 9 2 1 0 0 1 0 42 15 1.50 0.95
1957 PHI NL 36 0 1 68 1 0 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.22
10 Seasons 45 116 10173 239 181 171 43% 213 154 22 15 4 12 30 1 538 247 1.23 1.17
MLB Averages 45% 1.19 1.17

* 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
1949 (C)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1950 NL (14, 7%)
0.07 Career Shares (1016th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1946 NL  118 (2nd)
1947 NL  107 (5th)
1948 NL  124 (2nd)
1949 NL  98 (3rd)
1950 NL  124 (3rd)
1951 NL  91 (4th)
1953 NL  112 (3rd)
Career  1,213 (70th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1946 NL  461 (2nd)
1947 NL  438 (4th)
1948 NL  541 (1st)
1949 NL  411 (3rd)
1950 NL  551 (4th)
1951 NL  378 (4th)
1953 NL  436 (5th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1946 NL  61 (2nd)
1947 NL  53 (5th)
1948 NL  74 (1st)
1949 NL  54 (3rd)
1950 NL  54 (3rd)
1954 NL  44 (5th)
1955 NL  45 (4th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1946 NL  14 (1st)
1947 NL  11 (2nd)
1948 NL  22 (1st)
1949 NL  12 (1st)
1950 NL  15 (1st)
1951 NL  9 (2nd)
1952 NL  13 (1st)
1953 NL  9 (3rd)
Career  133 (97th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1945 NL  6 (4th)
1946 NL  5 (5th)
1947 NL  17 (1st)
1948 NL  13 (2nd)
1949 NL  13 (2nd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1946 NL  54 (1st)
1947 NL  40 (1st)
1948 NL  69 (1st)
1949 NL  28 (2nd)
1950 NL  35 (1st)
1952 NL  27 (4th)
1953 NL  26 (4th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1946 NL  31 (2nd)
1947 NL  27 (2nd)
1948 NL  43 (1st)
1949 NL  28 (1st)
1950 NL  28 (3rd)
1951 NL  23 (5th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1945 NL  44.7 (5th)
1949 NL  50.0 (2nd)
1950 NL  44.4 (3rd)
1951 NL  43.4 (5th)
1954 NL  59.4 (2nd)
1955 NL  48.8 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1954 NL  5 (1st)
1955 NL  2 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1954 NL  5.12 (5th)
1955 NL  5.94 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1946 NL  4.42 (4th)
1947 NL  4.59 (4th)
1948 NL  4.96 (3rd)
1949 NL  4.74 (2nd)
1950 NL  4.88 (5th)
1951 NL  4.67 (5th)
1954 NL  4.52 (5th)
1955 NL  5.44 (2nd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1946 NL  .974 (5th)
1954 NL  .989 (5th)
1955 NL  .994 (1st)

                           

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