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Ed Taubensee

Edward Kenneth Taubensee

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: October 31, 1968 in Beeville, TX
High Schools: Lake Howell HS (Castleberry, FL), Maitland HS (Maitland, FL)
Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 6th round of the 1986 amateur draft.
Signed June 6, 1986. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 18, 1991 (Age 22)
Teams (by GP): Reds/Astros/Indians 1991-2001

Final Game: October 7, 2001 (Age 32)
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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
1986	17	CIN-min	Rk	35	118	107	8	21	3	0	1	11	0	1	11	33	.196	.271	.252	.524		27		0	0	0	0		RDL · GULF
1987	18	CIN-min	Rk	55	190	162	24	43	7	0	5	28	2	2	25	47	.265	.363	.401	.764		65		1	0	2	5		BIL · PION
1988	19	CIN-min	A,AA	108	395	342	38	87	16	1	11	42	8	4	47	97	.254	.350	.404	.754		138		4	1	1	5		GBO,CNG · SALL,SOUL
1989	20	CIN-min	A,AA	104	365	323	36	63	7	0	11	35	4	1	36	83	.195	.277	.319	.596		103	3	2	1	3	6		CDR,CNG · MIDW,SOUL
1990	21	CIN-min	A	122	477	417	57	108	21	1	16	62	11	4	51	98	.259	.342	.429	.772		179		4	1	4	5		CDR · MIDW
1991	22	CLE-min	AAA	91	318	287	53	89	23	3	13	39	0	0	31	61	.310	.377	.547	.924		157	6	0	0	0	5		CSP · PCL
1991	22	CLE	AL	26	73	66	5	16	2	1	0	8	0	0	5	16	.242	.288	.303	.591	64	20	1	0	0	2	1	2
1992	23	HOU-min	AAA	20	83	74	13	25	8	1	1	10	0	1	8	17	.338	.402	.514	.916		38	0	0	1	0	1		TUC · PCL
1992	23	HOU	NL	104	331	297	23	66	15	0	5	28	2	1	31	78	.222	.299	.323	.622	81	96	4	2	0	1	3	2
1993	24	HOU	NL	94	312	288	26	72	11	1	9	42	1	0	21	44	.250	.299	.389	.688	87	112	8	0	1	2	5	2
1994	25	TOT	NL	66	205	187	29	53	8	2	8	21	2	0	15	31	.283	.333	.476	.809	110	89	3	0	1	2	2	2
1994	25	HOU	NL	5	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.100	.100	.100	.200	-46	1	1	0	0	0	0	/2
1994	25	CIN	NL	61	195	177	29	52	8	2	8	21	2	0	15	28	.294	.345	.497	.843	118	88	2	0	1	2	2	2
1995	26	CIN	NL	80	244	218	32	62	14	2	9	44	2	2	22	52	.284	.354	.491	.845	122	107	2	2	1	1	2	2/3
1996	27	CIN	NL	108	359	327	46	95	20	0	12	48	3	4	26	64	.291	.338	.462	.800	109	151	4	0	1	5	5	2
1997	28	CIN	NL	108	283	254	26	68	18	0	10	34	0	1	22	66	.268	.323	.457	.779	100	116	2	1	1	5	2	2/379D
1998	29	CIN	NL	130	491	431	61	120	27	0	11	72	1	0	52	93	.278	.352	.418	.769	100	180	4	0	2	6	6	*2
1999	30	CIN	NL	126	461	424	58	132	22	2	21	87	0	2	30	67	.311	.354	.521	.876	116	221	12	1	1	5	1	*2
2000	31	CIN	NL	81	291	266	29	71	12	0	6	24	0	0	21	44	.267	.324	.380	.704	76	101	7	2	1	1	1	2
2001	32	CLE-min	AAA,AA	9	36	33	6	8	1	0	2	8	0	0	3	7	.242	.306	.455	.760		15	1	0	0	0	0		BFL,AKR · IL,EL
2001	32	CLE	AL	52	128	116	16	29	2	1	3	11	0	0	10	19	.250	.315	.362	.677	79	42	3	1	1	0	1	2/D
2002		Did not play in major leagues (Injured)
11 Yrs				975	3178	2874	351	784	151	9	94	419	11	10	255	574	.273	.331	.430	.761	99	1235	50	9	10	30	29
162 Game Avg.				162	528	478	58	130	25	1	16	70	2	2	42	95	.273	.331	.430	.761	99	205	8	1	2	5	5

CIN (7 yrs)				694	2324	2097	281	600	121	6	77	330	8	9	188	414	.286	.343	.460	.803	105	964	33	6	8	25	19
HOU (3 yrs)				203	653	595	49	139	26	1	14	70	3	1	52	125	.234	.296	.351	.647	82	209	13	2	1	3	8
CLE (2 yrs)				78	201	182	21	45	4	2	3	19	0	0	15	35	.247	.305	.341	.646	73	62	4	1	1	2	2

NL (9 yrs)				897	2977	2692	330	739	147	7	91	400	11	10	240	539	.275	.333	.436	.768	100	1173	46	8	9	28	27
AL (2 yrs)				78	201	182	21	45	4	2	3	19	0	0	15	35	.247	.305	.341	.646	73	62	4	1	1	2	2

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos
1991	22	CLE	AL	26	73	-4	-0	-0	-4	1	-8	-0.8	2	-5	-0.5	.470	.495	-0.1	-0.3	-1	$100,000	2
1992	23	HOU	NL	104	331	-9	1	1	1	5	-1	-0.0	9	8	0.9	.499	.499	0.7	0.8	7	$132,000	2
1993	24	HOU	NL	94	312	-8	-1	0	-1	5	-5	-0.4	9	4	0.4	.495	.497	0.4	0.5	5	$170,000	2
1994	25	HOU	NL	5	10	-2	0	-0	0	0	-2	-0.2	0	-2	-0.2	.460	.499	-0.2	0.0	-2	$275,000	/2
1994	25	CIN	NL	61	195	4	1	1	-4	3	5	0.5	5	10	1.0	.508	.503	1.4	-0.1	14		2
1995	26	CIN	NL	80	244	7	-2	0	-4	3	4	0.4	7	11	1.1	.505	.503	1.5	-0.1	15	$710,000	2/3
1996	27	CIN	NL	108	359	4	-1	0	-6	4	1	-0.0	10	11	0.9	.501	.501	1.6	-0.2	17	$625,000	2
1997	28	CIN	NL	108	283	-3	1	1	-10	2	-9	-0.9	8	-1	-0.2	.492	.495	0.9	-0.8	9	$900,000	2/379D
1998	29	CIN	NL	130	491	1	0	2	-9	6	0	-0.1	13	14	1.2	.500	.500	2.2	-0.3	23	$975,000	*2
1999	30	CIN	NL	126	461	10	-1	0	-13	6	2	0.1	12	14	1.3	.501	.501	2.6	-0.7	27	$1,200,000	*2
2000	31	CIN	NL	81	291	-12	-1	-1	-11	4	-21	-2.0	8	-13	-1.3	.475	.488	-0.2	-0.7	-2	$1,400,000	2
2001	32	CLE	AL	52	128	-5	-1	-0	-4	1	-8	-0.8	4	-4	-0.3	.485	.495	0.0	-0.2	0	$1,800,000	2/D
11 Seasons				975	3178	-18	-3	5	-65	40	-41	-4.2	88	47	4.3	.496	.498	10.8	-2.2	112	$8,287,000

CIN (7 yrs)				694	2324	10	-2	4	-57	28	-18	-2.1	63	45	4.0	.498	.499	10.0	-2.9	102	$5,810,000
HOU (3 yrs)				203	653	-19	0	1	0	10	-8	-0.7	18	11	1.1	.496	.498	0.9	1.2	11	$577,000
CLE (2 yrs)				78	201	-9	-1	-0	-8	2	-16	-1.5	7	-9	-0.8	.480	.495	-0.1	-0.5	-1	$1,900,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1995	26	CIN	NL	NLCS	ATL	L	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
1 NLCS							2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0

Standard Fielding

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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
1991	CLE	AL	22	C	25	20	15	181.0	97	89	6	2	1	.979	-4	-27	4.72	3.80	.990	6.49	6.48	4	7	19	3	14%	34%	0
1992	HOU	NL	23	C	103	88	77	804.1	628	557	66	5	6	.992	1	1	6.97	6.05	.991	6.67	6.67	9	28	67	35	34%	32%	2
1993	HOU	NL	24	C	90	80	72	727.2	597	551	41	5	5	.992	-1	-2	7.32	6.58	.989	6.74	6.69	3	38	51	22	30%	31%	4
1994	TOT	NL	25	C	66	50	41	474.2	404	381	19	4	1	.990	-4	-10	7.58	6.06	.991	7.10	7.05	8	23	43	17	28%	32%	0
1994	HOU	NL	25	C	5	2	2	24.0	21	19	2	0	0	1.000	0	0	7.88	4.20	.991	7.09	7.04	2	0	1	1	50%	32%	0
1994	CIN	NL	25	C	61	48	39	450.2	383	362	17	4	1	.990	-4	-11	7.57	6.21	.991	7.10	7.05	6	23	42	16	28%	32%	0
1995	CIN	NL	26	C	65	52	41	475.0	353	326	21	6	0	.983	-4	-10	6.57	5.34	.989	7.40	7.37	4	17	42	11	21%	30%	0
1995	CIN	NL	26	1B	3	2	0	15.0	13	12	1	0	2	1.000	0	0	7.80	4.33	.993	9.72	9.67
1996	CIN	NL	27	C	94	78	61	693.0	591	538	42	11	7	.981	-6	-10	7.53	6.17	.989	7.50	7.45	3	32	87	26	23%	28%	0
1997	CIN	NL	28	C	64	46	33	407.1	387	358	24	5	6	.987	-9	-27	8.44	5.97	.990	7.68	7.62	7	23	45	11	20%	32%	0
1997	CIN	NL	28	OF	11	7	1	54.1	9	8	1	0	0	1.000	-1	-15	1.49	0.82	.980	2.14	2.12
1997	CIN	NL	28	1B	7	5	2	42.0	43	42	1	0	4	1.000	-0	-6	9.21	6.14	.993	9.51	9.44
1997	CIN	NL	28	LF	6	4	0	30.2	4	3	1	0	0	1.000	1	31	1.17	0.67	.980	1.97	1.93
1997	CIN	NL	28	RF	5	3	1	23.2	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	-2	-76	1.90	1.00	.976	2.05	2.02
1997	CIN	NL	28	DH	3	3
1998	CIN	NL	29	C	126	109	98	991.2	830	776	44	10	5	.988	-9	-11	7.44	6.51	.990	7.51	7.47	8	43	79	23	23%	32%	0
1999	CIN	NL	30	C	124	110	90	973.0	790	733	48	9	8	.989	-13	-16	7.22	6.30	.990	7.41	7.35	5	39	97	17	15%	29%	0
2000	CIN	NL	31	C	76	66	56	590.2	451	420	26	5	8	.989	-11	-22	6.80	5.87	.990	7.45	7.38	6	42	50	14	22%	32%	0
2001	CLE	AL	32	C	38	28	19	247.2	218	212	3	3	0	.986	-4	-19	7.81	5.66	.990	7.17	7.11	5	12	29	7	19%	29%	0
2001	CLE	AL	32	DH	5	1
	11 Seasons			C	871	727	603	6566.0	5346	4941	340	65	47	.988	-64	-12	7.24	6.06	.990	7.23	7.20	62	304	609	186	23%	31%	6
	1 Season			OF	11	7	1	54.1	9	8	1	0	0	1.000	-1	-15	1.49	0.82	.980	2.14	2.12
	2 Seasons			1B	10	7	2	57.0	56	54	2	0	6	1.000	-0	-4	8.84	5.60	.993	9.57	9.51
	1 Season			LF	6	4	0	30.2	4	3	1	0	0	1.000	1	31	1.17	0.67	.980	1.97	1.93
	1 Season			RF	5	3	1	23.2	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	-2	-76	1.90	1.00	.976	2.05	2.02
	11 Seasons			TOT	892	741	606	6677.1	5411	5003	343	65	53	.988	-65	-12	7.21	5.99	.990	7.21	7.16	62	304	609	186	23%	31%	6
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Def. Games as C s c a p y 1998 NL 126 (5th) 1999 NL 124 (3rd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1999 NL 733 (3rd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1992 NL 66 (4th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1996 NL 11 (2nd) 1998 NL 10 (3rd) 1999 NL 9 (3rd)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1992 NL 9 (3rd)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1998 NL 79 (4th) 1999 NL 97 (5th)	Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1992 NL 6.97 (5th) 1993 NL 7.32 (3rd) 1994 NL 7.58 (3rd) 1996 NL 7.53 (5th) Career 7.24 (43rd)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1993 NL 6.58 (3rd) Career 6.06 (88th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 2 (1933), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 9 (1703), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS	Catcher (243rd), 4.3 career WAR/6.8 7yr-peak WAR/5.6 JAWS Average HOF C (out of 14) = 49.3 career WAR/32.0 7yr-peak WAR/40.7 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Transactions

June 2, 1986: Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 6th round of the 1986 amateur draft. Player signed June 6, 1986.
December 3, 1990: Drafted by the Oakland Athletics from the Cincinnati Reds in the 1990 rule 5 draft.
April 4, 1991: Selected off waivers by the Cleveland Indians from the Oakland Athletics.
December 10, 1991: Traded by the Cleveland Indians with Willie Blair to the Houston Astros for Kenny Lofton and Dave Rohde.
April 19, 1994: Traded by the Houston Astros to the Cincinnati Reds for Marty Lister (minors) and Ross Powell.
November 16, 2000: Traded by the Cincinnati Reds to the Cleveland Indians for Robert Pugmire (minors) and Jim Brower.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources	Notes/Other Sources
1991	22	Cleveland Indians	$100,000	USA Today survey
1992	23	Houston Astros	$132,000	11/4/92 Toronto Sun	Includes $10,000 earned bonus
1993	24	Houston Astros	$170,000	1996 Joint Exhibit 1	Includes $7,500 earned bonus
1994	25	Houston Astros	$275,000	1996 Joint Exhibit 1
1995	26	Cincinnati Reds	$710,000	1996 Joint Exhibit 1
1996	27	Cincinnati Reds	$625,000	1997 Joint Exhibit 1
1997	28	Cincinnati Reds	$900,000	1997 postseason AP survey	Includes $25,000 earned bonus
1998	29	Cincinnati Reds	$975,000	11/23/98 USA Today	Includes $100,000 earned bonus
1999	30	Cincinnati Reds	$1,200,000	4/6/99 USA Today
2000	31	Cincinnati Reds	$1,400,000	4/5/00 AP
2001	32	Cleveland Indians	$1,800,000	4/6/01 USA Today
2002	33	Cleveland Indians	$1,800,000	4/3/02 AP

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$10,087,000

Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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