Al Spohrer

Alfred Ray Spohrer

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: December 3, 1902 in Philadelphia, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: April 13, 1928
Teams (by GP): Braves/Giants 1928-1935

Final Game: September 29, 1935
Died: July 17, 1972 in Plymouth, NH
Buried: Trinity Cemetery, Holderness, NH
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%
1928	TOT	NL	25	C	50	31	27	129	104	22	3	1	.977	2.52	.979	4.42	2	17	11	39%	45%
1928	NYG	NL	25	C	2	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.00	.980	4.40	0	0	0
1928	BSN	NL	25	C	48	31	27	127	102	22	3	1	.976	2.58	.979	4.42	2	17	11	39%	45%
1929	BSN	NL	26	C	109	98	82	389	314	57	18	5	.954	3.40	.974	4.34	7	55	35	39%	42%
1930	BSN	NL	27	C	108	95	84	374	322	36	16	4	.957	3.31	.976	4.57	9	31	17	35%	44%
1931	BSN	NL	28	C	111	104	79	454	392	54	8	5	.982	4.02	.980	4.64	5	40	26	39%	46%
1932	BSN	NL	29	C	100	94	72	440	374	62	4	2	.991	4.36	.979	4.66	6	25	29	54%	45%
1933	BSN	NL	30	C	65	50	46	181	150	26	5	4	.972	2.71	.982	4.35	2	16	11	41%	46%
1934	BSN	NL	31	C	98	70	62	349	296	45	8	5	.977	3.48	.985	4.85	3	23	18	44%	44%
1935	BSN	NL	32	C	90	74	64	287	230	45	12	4	.958	3.06	.976	4.78	2	23	20	47%	44%
	8 Seasons			C	731	616	516	2603	2182	347	74	30	.972	3.46	.979	4.59	36	230	167	42%	44%
	8 Seasons			TOT	731	616	516	2603	2182	347	74	30	.972	3.46	.979	4.59	36	230	167	42%	44%

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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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH	PR
1928	BSN	NL	25	51	31	51	48	48	3	0
1928	NYG	NL	25	3	0	3	3	3	0	0
1929	BSN	NL	26	114	98	114	109	109	5	0
1930	BSN	NL	27	112	95	112	108	108	4	0
1931	BSN	NL	28	114	104	114	111	111	3	0
1932	BSN	NL	29	104	94	104	100	100	3	1
1933	BSN	NL	30	67	50	67	65	65	2	0
1934	BSN	NL	31	100	70	100	98	98	0	2
1935	BSN	NL	32	92	74	92	90	90	2	0
	8 Seasons			757	616	757	732	732	22	3

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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Def. Games as C s c a p y 1929 NL 109 (2nd) 1930 NL 108 (3rd) 1931 NL 111 (3rd) 1934 NL 98 (5th) 1935 NL 90 (5th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1929 NL 314 (3rd) 1931 NL 392 (5th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1932 NL 62 (5th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1929 NL 18 (1st) 1930 NL 16 (1st) 1934 NL 8 (3rd) 1935 NL 12 (3rd)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1929 NL 7 (2nd) 1930 NL 9 (2nd) 1931 NL 5 (4th) 1932 NL 6 (4th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1929 NL 55 (3rd) 1931 NL 40 (2nd)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1932 NL 29 (5th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1932 NL 53.7 (2nd) 1934 NL 43.9 (5th) 1935 NL 46.5 (4th)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1932 NL 4.36 (4th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1931 NL .982 (5th) 1932 NL .991 (2nd)

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