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Ebba St. Claire

Edward Joseph St. Claire

Position: Catcher
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 219 lb.

Born: August 5, 1921 in Whitehall, NY
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1942. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 17, 1951
Teams (by GP): Braves/Giants 1951-1954

Final Game: May 18, 1954
Died: August 22, 1982 in Whitehall, NY
Buried: Our Lady of Angels Cemetery, Whitehall, NY
Relatives: Father of Randy St. Claire
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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 Awards
1951 BSN NL 29 C 62 53 48 486.1 303 267 29 7 5 .977 5.48 4.77 .981 5.18 5.16 5 12 31 21 40% 41% 0
1952 BSN NL 30 C 34 25 21 246.0 177 151 21 5 4 .972 6.29 5.06 .984 5.52 5.47 6 5 15 9 38% 44% 0
1953 MLN NL 31 C 27 17 17 173.0 118 106 11 1 3 .992 -2 -14 6.09 4.33 .984 5.53 5.42 4 4 11 1 8% 40% 0
1954 NYG NL 32 C 16 13 8 109.0 81 72 7 2 3 .975 -2 -22 6.52 4.94 .986 5.36 5.33 2 0 7 0 0% 44% 0
4 Seasons C 139 108 94 1014.1 679 596 68 15 15 .978 -4 -5 5.89 4.78 .983 5.34 5.31 17 21 64 31 33% 42% 0
4 Seasons TOT 139 108 94 1014.1 679 596 68 15 15 .978 -4 -5 5.89 4.78 .983 5.34 5.31 17 21 64 31 33% 42% 0
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
1951 BSN NL 29 C
1952 BSN NL 30 C
1953 MLN NL 31 C -2 -14 -2
1954 NYG NL 32 C -2 -22 -2
4 Seasons C -4 -5 -4
4 Seasons TOT -4 -5 -4

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1951 BSN NL 29 72 53 72 62 0 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 1
1952 BSN NL 30 39 25 39 34 0 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1953 MLN NL 31 33 17 33 27 0 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1954 NYG NL 32 20 13 20 16 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
4 Seasons 164 108 164 139 0 139 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 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%
1951 BSN NL 29 2099 4.04 4.37 48 92% 0 0 265 22 1 23 219 31 6 0 0 4 7 0 4 3 1 5 0 0 1 4 75%
1952 BSN NL 30 1036 3.72 4.52 21 95% 0 0 146 11 3 9 123 23 4 0 0 7 5 1 1 3 0 5 0 1 1 3 100%
1953 MLN NL 31 520 3.72 4.61 7 100% 0 0 72 5 0 5 62 5 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1954 NYG NL 32 448 4.14 4.86 6 100% 1 0 66 3 0 1 62 4 3 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
4 Seasons 4103 3.93 4.49 82 94% 1 0 549 41 4 38 466 63 14 0 0 13 13 1 6 6 1 12 0 1 3 8 88%
MLB Averages 3.99 4.49 95% 83%

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
1951 BSN NL 29 5 12 824 31 21 21 40% 23 20 5 0 3 1 0 0 57 25 1.46 1.07
1952 BSN NL 30 6 5 414 15 9 8 38% 14 8 1 0 0 1 0 0 39 14 0.73 1.25
1953 MLN NL 31 3 4 216 6 1 1 14% 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 16 2 0.48 0.90
1954 NYG NL 32 3 0 190 7 0 0 0% 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 1.27
4 Seasons 17 21 1644 59 31 30 34% 50 28 6 1 3 2 0 0 124 41 1.15 1.12
MLB Averages 45% 1.20 1.16

* 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

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1951 NL  31 (4th)

                                         

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