Jack Shepard

Jack Leroy Shepard

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: May 13, 1931 in Clovis, CA
School: Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1953. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 19, 1953
Team: Pirates 1953-1956

Final Game: September 30, 1956
Died: December 31, 1994 in Atherton, CA
Cremated
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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
1953	PIT	NL	22	C	2	0	0	8.0	8	6	0	2	0	.750	0	0	6.75	3.00	.984	5.51	5.40	0	0	0	0			0
1954	PIT	NL	23	C	67	62	54	539.1	310	257	46	7	5	.977	2	4	5.06	4.52	.986	5.36	5.33	4	18	34	23	40%	44%	2
1955	PIT	NL	24	C	77	71	59	595.0	328	288	34	6	6	.982	0	0	4.87	4.18	.987	5.65	5.60	13	6	20	22	52%	46%	2
1956	PIT	NL	25	C	86	71	56	635.2	396	356	36	4	4	.990	3	6	5.55	4.56	.985	5.83	5.77	4	11	23	18	44%	40%	1
1956	PIT	NL	25	1B	2	1	0	3.1	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-108	8.10	1.50	.990	9.72	9.70
	4 Seasons			C	232	204	169	1778.0	1042	907	116	19	15	.982	5	3	5.18	4.41	.986	5.63	5.58	21	35	77	63	45%	43%	5
	1 Season			1B	2	1	0	3.1	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-108	8.10	1.50	.990	9.72	9.70
	4 Seasons			TOT	234	205	169	1781.1	1045	910	116	19	15	.982	5	3	5.18	4.38	.986	5.63	5.62	21	35	77	63	45%	43%	5

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	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rctch
1953	PIT	NL	22	C	0	0					0
1954	PIT	NL	23	C	2	4					2
1955	PIT	NL	24	C	0	0					0
1956	PIT	NL	25	C	3	6					3
1956	PIT	NL	25	1B	-0	-108	-0	-0	0	0
	4 Seasons			C	5	3					5
	1 Season			1B	-0	-108	-0	-0	0	0
	4 Seasons			TOT	5	3	-0	-0	0	0	5

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	1B	PH
1953	PIT	NL	22	2	0	2	2	2	0	0
1954	PIT	NL	23	82	62	82	67	67	0	17
1955	PIT	NL	24	94	71	94	77	77	0	21
1956	PIT	NL	25	100	72	100	87	86	2	16
	4 Seasons			278	205	278	233	232	2	54

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%
1953	PIT	NL	22	14	0.00	0.00	1	100%	0	0	4	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954	PIT	NL	23	1626	5.82	6.85	40	95%	0	0	189	29	0	13	147	33	3	1	0	4	5	0	4	1	0	6	0	0	3	4	100%
1955	PIT	NL	24	1841	5.09	5.98	33	97%	0	0	187	22	3	14	148	28	7	0	0	1	6	1	1	4	0	7	0	1	2	3	100%
1956	PIT	NL	25	2003	3.79	4.51	37	95%	0	0	262	27	0	9	224	24	7	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	5	100%
	4 Seasons			5484	4.79	5.65	111	96%	0	0	642	78	3	37	522	85	17	1	0	5	13	2	6	5	0	16	0	1	7	12	100%
	MLB Averages				4.04	4.56		96%																							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
1953	PIT	NL	22	0	0	4	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954	PIT	NL	23	2	18	667	26	19	19	42%	20	17	6	1	0	1	2	0	65	24	0.88	0.88
1955	PIT	NL	24	12	6	765	17	17	16	50%	14	16	2	1	1	0	2	0	48	21	0.89	0.92
1956	PIT	NL	25	2	11	768	12	13	13	52%	11	10	1	2	0	1	1	0	38	20	1.06	0.76
	4 Seasons			16	35	2204	55	49	48	47%	45	43	9	4	1	2	5	0	151	65	0.92	0.86
	MLB Averages									45%											1.16	1.14

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1956	PIT	NL	25	8	63%	100%	0%	1	100%	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			8	63%	100%	0%	1	100%	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				64%	81%	26%		93%																											86%

* 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

Assists as C s c a p y 1954 NL 46 (3rd)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1954 NL 7 (4th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1955 NL 13 (3rd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1954 NL 34 (2nd)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1954 NL 23 (2nd) 1955 NL 22 (5th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1955 NL 52.4 (3rd)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1954 NL 2 (4th) 1956 NL 3 (4th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1956 NL .990 (3rd)

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