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John Stearns

John Hardin Stearns (Bad Dude)

Positions: Catcher, First Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: August 21, 1951 in Denver, CO
High School: Thomas Jefferson HS (Denver, CO)
School: University of Colorado (Boulder, CO)
Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1973 amateur draft.
Signed June 15, 1973. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 22, 1974
Teams (by GP): Mets/Phillies 1974-1984

Final Game: September 30, 1984
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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
1974 PHI NL 22 C 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.00 .980 6.30 6.10 0 0 0 0 0
1975 NYM NL 23 C 54 46 45 432.2 339 297 40 2 9 .994 2 6 7.01 6.24 .985 6.03 6.02 2 20 41 24 37% 32% 1
1976 NYM NL 24 C 30 28 28 256.1 223 200 20 3 2 .987 5 23 7.72 7.33 .986 5.96 5.94 1 5 15 17 53% 33% 0
1977 NYM NL 25 C 127 116 111 1045.0 833 742 76 15 12 .982 6 7 7.04 6.44 .985 6.49 6.49 8 18 81 51 39% 35% 4 AS
1977 NYM NL 25 1B 6 5 2 41.1 35 30 3 2 3 .943 -1 -41 7.19 5.50 .991 9.89 9.88 AS
1978 NYM NL 26 C 141 134 127 1202.1 807 711 84 12 7 .985 10 10 5.95 5.64 .985 6.17 6.12 8 27 86 52 38% 32% 6
1978 NYM NL 26 3B 1 0 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -90 0.00 0.00 2.70 3.00
1979 NYM NL 27 C 121 113 107 1029.2 725 628 85 12 11 .983 3 3 6.23 5.89 .985 6.13 6.11 7 26 100 52 34% 34% 6 AS
1979 NYM NL 27 1B 16 14 10 130.1 122 114 8 0 16 1.000 -0 -1 8.42 7.63 .992 9.89 9.86 AS
1979 NYM NL 27 3B 11 7 4 65.0 21 5 14 2 2 .905 -1 -26 2.63 1.73 .951 2.89 2.88 AS
1979 NYM NL 27 LF 6 6 1 40.2 9 7 0 2 0 .778 -2 -56 1.55 1.17 .970 2.01 2.00 AS
1979 NYM NL 27 OF 6 6 1 40.2 9 7 0 2 0 .778 -2 -56 1.55 1.17 .979 2.32 2.32 AS
1980 NYM NL 28 C 74 70 67 618.0 480 432 41 7 6 .985 -1 -2 6.89 6.39 .983 6.09 6.10 1 20 60 26 30% 31% 0 AS
1980 NYM NL 28 1B 16 15 11 128.0 139 120 18 1 10 .993 2 17 9.70 8.63 .992 10.16 10.17 AS
1980 NYM NL 28 3B 1 0 0 3.0 3 0 3 0 1 1.000 0 200 9.00 3.00 .947 3.00 2.90 AS
1981 NYM NL 29 C 66 63 57 551.2 346 302 38 6 7 .983 3 7 5.55 5.15 .983 5.93 5.95 2 14 42 24 36% 33% 3
1981 NYM NL 29 1B 9 7 5 61.0 66 58 8 0 4 1.000 -0 -10 9.74 7.33 .992 10.22 10.24
1981 NYM NL 29 3B 4 3 2 28.0 7 0 6 1 0 .857 -0 -17 1.93 1.50 .949 2.83 2.85
1982 NYM NL 30 C 81 79 77 705.1 446 379 61 6 9 .987 9 15 5.61 5.43 .985 6.29 6.30 2 16 72 49 40% 32% 1 AS
1982 NYM NL 30 3B 12 10 9 91.0 22 5 13 4 0 .818 -3 -41 1.78 1.50 .951 2.77 2.78 AS
1984 NYM NL 32 C 4 2 2 27.1 21 20 1 0 1 1.000 -1 -44 6.91 5.25 .986 6.52 6.50 0 2 3 0 0% 31% 0
1984 NYM NL 32 1B 2 1 1 12.0 9 8 1 0 3 1.000 -0 -10 6.75 4.50 .992 9.82 9.85
10 Seasons C 699 651 621 5869.1 4221 3712 446 63 64 .985 36 7 6.38 5.95 .985 6.19 6.17 31 148 500 295 37% 33% 21
5 Seasons 1B 49 42 29 372.2 371 330 38 3 36 .992 -0 -1 8.89 7.51 .992 10.03 10.03
5 Seasons 3B 29 20 15 188.1 53 10 36 7 3 .868 -4 -29 2.20 1.59 .950 2.82 2.84
1 Season OF 6 6 1 40.2 9 7 0 2 0 .778 -2 -56 1.55 1.17 .979 2.32 2.32
1 Season LF 6 6 1 40.2 9 7 0 2 0 .778 -2 -56 1.55 1.17 .970 2.01 2.00
11 Seasons TOT 783 719 666 6471.0 4654 4059 520 75 103 .984 29 5 6.37 5.85 .985 6.28 6.26 31 148 500 295 37% 33% 21
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
1974 PHI NL 22 C 0 0 0
1975 NYM NL 23 C 2 6 2
1976 NYM NL 24 C 5 23 5
1977 NYM NL 25 C 6 7 6
1977 NYM NL 25 1B -1 -41 -1 -0 -1 0
1978 NYM NL 26 C 10 10 10
1978 NYM NL 26 3B -0 -90 -0 0 -0
1979 NYM NL 27 C 3 3 3
1979 NYM NL 27 1B -0 -1 -0 -1 0 0
1979 NYM NL 27 3B -1 -26 -1 -0 -1 0
1979 NYM NL 27 LF -2 -56 -1 -0 -1 -1
1980 NYM NL 28 C -1 -2 -1
1980 NYM NL 28 1B 2 17 2 1 0 0
1980 NYM NL 28 3B 0 200 0 0 0 0
1981 NYM NL 29 C 3 7 3
1981 NYM NL 29 1B -0 -10 -0 -0 -0 0
1981 NYM NL 29 3B -0 -17 -0 -0 0 0
1982 NYM NL 30 C 9 15 9
1982 NYM NL 30 3B -3 -41 -3 -3 -0 0
1984 NYM NL 32 C -1 -44 -1
1984 NYM NL 32 1B -0 -10 -0 -0 0
10 Seasons C 36 7 36
5 Seasons 1B -0 -1 -0 0 -0 0
5 Seasons 3B -4 -29 -4 -3 -2 0
1 Season LF -2 -56 -1 -0 -1 -1
11 Seasons TOT 29 5 -6 -3 -3 0 -1 36
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
1974 PHI NL 22 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1975 NYM NL 23 59 46 59 54 0 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1
1976 NYM NL 24 32 28 32 30 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1977 NYM NL 25 139 121 139 131 0 128 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 1
1978 NYM NL 26 143 134 143 141 0 141 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1979 NYM NL 27 155 140 155 146 0 121 16 0 11 0 6 0 0 6 0 12 0
1980 NYM NL 28 91 85 91 89 0 74 16 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1981 NYM NL 29 80 73 80 76 0 66 9 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1982 NYM NL 30 98 89 98 90 0 81 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3
1983 NYM NL 31 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
1984 NYM NL 32 8 3 8 6 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
11 Seasons 810 719 810 764 0 700 50 0 29 0 6 0 0 6 0 63 11
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%
1974 PHI NL 22 3 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 NYM NL 23 1848 3.72 4.18 28 100% 0 0 293 21 0 6 266 39 7 0 0 5 2 0 1 1 0 9 0 0 3 3 100%
1976 NYM NL 24 1049 3.05 3.44 10 80% 0 0 201 5 1 4 190 20 3 0 0 2 3 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 3 67%
1977 NYM NL 25 4401 3.73 4.07 65 100% 3 0 740 47 7 7 679 75 18 2 1 3 15 0 3 12 0 12 1 3 4 10 100%
1978 NYM NL 26 5080 3.86 4.27 70 99% 0 0 709 47 4 29 629 86 19 2 2 2 12 0 7 5 0 7 0 2 2 12 100%
1979 NYM NL 27 4450 3.85 4.40 63 95% 0 1 629 35 2 30 560 84 17 5 1 3 12 0 4 8 0 11 2 1 6 14 100%
1980 NYM NL 28 2640 3.87 4.51 36 100% 1 0 434 26 1 9 398 40 9 1 0 3 8 0 1 7 0 3 0 1 1 6 100%
1981 NYM NL 29 2341 3.52 4.03 24 96% 1 1 302 14 3 12 273 41 8 1 0 4 7 1 1 5 0 7 1 0 2 10 90%
1982 NYM NL 30 3061 4.14 4.71 33 94% 0 0 381 22 1 14 344 59 7 0 1 4 6 0 1 5 0 8 0 0 1 6 100%
1984 NYM NL 32 128 5.60 6.91 1 100% 0 0 20 0 0 0 20 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 100%
10 Seasons 25001 3.80 4.28 330 97% 5 2 3710 217 19 111 3360 445 88 12 5 26 65 1 19 45 0 60 5 7 20 65 97%
MLB Averages 3.77 4.25 96% 91%

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
1974 PHI NL 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 NYM NL 23 2 20 666 41 24 20 37% 34 20 6 3 1 1 1 1 75 25 1.25 1.25
1976 NYM NL 24 1 5 362 15 17 14 53% 13 15 2 1 0 1 0 0 23 19 1.31 1.38
1977 NYM NL 25 8 18 1507 81 51 43 39% 71 47 10 3 0 1 4 1 144 62 1.34 1.19
1978 NYM NL 26 8 27 1824 86 52 43 38% 75 45 9 2 2 5 6 0 158 72 1.39 1.21
1979 NYM NL 27 7 26 1705 100 52 45 34% 89 45 11 3 0 4 6 0 160 59 1.37 1.37
1980 NYM NL 28 1 20 988 60 26 25 30% 53 21 6 4 1 1 0 0 100 27 1.35 1.31
1981 NYM NL 29 2 14 860 42 24 23 36% 39 20 2 2 1 2 3 1 77 34 1.27 1.25
1982 NYM NL 30 2 16 1144 72 49 45 40% 62 42 10 3 0 4 1 0 112 60 1.04 1.37
1984 NYM NL 32 0 2 59 3 0 0 0% 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 1.05
10 Seasons 31 148 9115 500 295 258 37% 439 255 56 21 5 19 21 3 856 358 1.30 1.29
MLB Averages 34% 1.30 1.28

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%
1977 NYM NL 25 177 57% 85% 23% 10 80% 0 34 3 31 0 2 4 3 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
1979 NYM NL 27 534 67% 81% 25% 27 96% 0 117 11 105 1 8 8 6 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 14 0 2 1 1 1 100%
1980 NYM NL 28 513 45% 82% 28% 30 97% 1 120 4 116 0 10 18 13 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 10 0 0 0 8 0 2 1 1 2 100%
1981 NYM NL 29 262 44% 87% 31% 15 87% 0 59 1 56 2 4 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 1 0%
1984 NYM NL 32 47 66% 68% 26% 0 0 8 0 8 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 1533 55% 83% 27% 82 93% 1 338 19 316 3 24 39 30 2 1 2 3 0 3 0 3 36 0 0 0 31 0 5 3 2 4 75%
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 94% 89%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1978 NYM NL 26 11 45% 64% 9% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1979 NYM NL 27 282 70% 84% 24% 22 91% 0 7 7 0 0 13 9 4 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 100%
1980 NYM NL 28 14 64% 79% 21% 2 100% 0 1 0 0 1 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1981 NYM NL 29 128 54% 80% 23% 8 75% 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1982 NYM NL 30 389 58% 84% 25% 23 74% 0 5 5 0 0 13 10 2 0 0 4 0 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 824 61% 83% 24% 55 82% 0 13 12 0 1 35 25 8 0 1 7 0 7 0 5 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 100%
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 89% 70%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1979 NYM NL 27 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 28.6% 5 0 0.0% 0 181 73% 85% 31% 20 35%
1 Season 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 28.6% 5 0 0.0% 0 181 73% 85% 31% 20 35%
MLB Averages 59.6% 2.9% 60% 82% 27% 50%

* 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

Hall of Fame
1990 BBWAA ()

All-Star Games
1977 *
1979
1980 *
1982 *

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1977 NL  127 (5th)
1978 NL  141 (2nd)
1979 NL  121 (5th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1977 NL  742 (2nd)
1978 NL  711 (2nd)
1979 NL  628 (3rd)

Assists as C s c a p y
1978 NL  84 (2nd)
1979 NL  85 (2nd)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1977 NL  15 (2nd)
1978 NL  12 (2nd)
1979 NL  12 (2nd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1977 NL  81 (5th)
1978 NL  86 (2nd)
1979 NL  100 (1st)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1978 NL  52 (3rd)
1979 NL  52 (2nd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1982 NL  40.5 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1977 NL  6 (2nd)
1978 NL  10 (3rd)
1981 NL  3 (5th)
1982 NL  9 (2nd)
Career  36 (31st)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1977 NL  7.05 (1st)
1979 NL  6.23 (4th)
Career  6.38 (98th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1977 NL  6.44 (1st)
1978 NL  5.64 (5th)
1979 NL  5.89 (3rd)

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