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John Sullivan

John Peter Sullivan (Sully)

Positions: Catcher and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: January 3, 1941 in Somerville, NJ
High School: Bernardsville HS (Bernardsville, NJ)
Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1959. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 20, 1963
Teams (by GP): Mets/Tigers/Phillies 1963-1968

Final Game: August 7, 1968
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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
1963 DET AL 22 C 2 2 1 14.0 10 9 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 6.43 5.00 .989 6.62 6.65 0 0 1 0 0% 33% 0
1964 DET AL 23 C 2 1 1 9.2 4 2 2 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.72 2.00 .990 7.08 7.05 0 2 0 2 100% 37% 0
1965 DET AL 24 C 29 26 18 224.0 178 163 14 1 1 .994 3 16 7.11 6.10 .988 6.96 6.94 1 8 5 6 55% 34% 1
1967 NYM NL 26 C 57 29 19 311.1 220 201 17 2 2 .991 -1 -4 6.30 3.82 .990 6.89 6.89 3 10 25 12 32% 40% 2
1968 PHI NL 27 C 8 3 2 34.0 30 26 3 1 1 .967 1 35 7.68 3.63 .990 6.88 6.90 0 1 0 2 100% 40% 0
5 Seasons C 98 61 41 593.0 442 401 37 4 4 .991 3 6 6.65 4.47 .989 6.91 6.90 4 21 31 22 42% 39% 3
5 Seasons TOT 98 61 41 593.0 442 401 37 4 4 .991 3 6 6.65 4.47 .989 6.91 6.90 4 21 31 22 42% 39% 3
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
1963 DET AL 22 C 0 0 0
1964 DET AL 23 C 0 0 0
1965 DET AL 24 C 3 16 3
1967 NYM NL 26 C -1 -4 -1
1968 PHI NL 27 C 1 35 1
5 Seasons C 3 6 3
5 Seasons TOT 3 6 3

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1963 DET AL 22 3 2 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1964 DET AL 23 2 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1965 DET AL 24 34 26 34 29 0 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1967 NYM NL 26 65 29 65 57 0 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 0
1968 PHI NL 27 12 3 12 7 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
5 Seasons 116 61 116 97 0 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 0
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%
1963 DET AL 22 64 2.57 3.21 2 100% 0 0 9 1 1 0 7 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1964 DET AL 23 54 13.03 13.03 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1965 DET AL 24 930 3.50 3.78 16 94% 0 0 166 9 0 3 154 14 4 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 100%
1967 NYM NL 26 1311 3.53 3.84 18 100% 0 1 207 15 0 4 188 19 3 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 100%
1968 PHI NL 27 143 2.91 4.76 1 100% 0 0 26 1 1 1 23 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
5 Seasons 2502 3.61 4.01 37 97% 0 1 410 26 2 8 374 39 9 0 0 3 4 1 2 1 0 4 0 1 2 5 100%
MLB Averages 3.39 3.87 95% 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
1963 DET AL 22 0 0 30 1 0 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.26
1964 DET AL 23 0 2 30 0 2 2 100% 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0.44
1965 DET AL 24 1 8 353 5 6 6 55% 5 4 0 2 0 0 1 0 19 12 1.45 1.16
1967 NYM NL 26 3 10 475 25 12 10 32% 24 9 1 2 0 1 2 0 41 16 1.10 0.84
1968 PHI NL 27 0 1 58 0 2 2 100% 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 2 0.92
5 Seasons 4 21 946 31 22 20 42% 30 16 1 4 0 2 3 0 67 32 1.13 0.90
MLB Averages 38% 1.29 1.24

* 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

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1965 AL  3 (3rd)

                                         

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