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Sammy Taylor

Samuel Douglas Taylor

Positions: Catcher and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: February 27, 1933 in Woodruff, SC
Signed as a Free Agent with the Milwaukee Braves in 1956. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 20, 1958
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Mets/Indians/Reds 1958-1963

Final Game: August 6, 1963
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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
1958 CHC NL 25 C 87 81 68 700.2 489 460 23 6 4 .988 -3 -5 6.20 5.55 .988 6.06 6.02 2 21 27 9 25% 39% 0
1959 CHC NL 26 C 109 96 89 889.2 544 497 37 10 1 .982 -7 -9 5.40 4.90 .989 6.34 6.28 6 22 70 21 23% 38% 2
1960 CHC NL 27 C 43 31 23 272.1 180 152 24 4 2 .978 0 0 5.82 4.09 .986 6.58 6.57 4 10 13 11 46% 40% 1
1961 CHC NL 28 C 75 61 48 541.2 348 319 25 4 5 .989 -4 -9 5.72 4.59 .985 6.39 6.32 8 25 32 11 26% 38% 1
1962 TOT NL 29 C 56 46 33 400.1 253 225 26 2 3 .992 0 0 5.64 4.48 .987 6.72 6.66 6 17 26 13 33% 34% 1
1962 CHC NL 29 C 6 4 2 38.0 24 23 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -32 5.68 4.00 .987 6.73 6.67 1 3 1 0 0% 34% 0
1962 NYM NL 29 C 50 42 31 362.1 229 202 25 2 3 .991 1 3 5.64 4.54 .987 6.72 6.66 5 14 25 13 34% 34% 1
1963 TOT MLB 30 C 17 6 6 91.0 74 68 5 1 2 .986 1 13 7.22 4.29 .986 7.00 7.00 0 2 4 3 43% 41% 0
1963 TOT NL 30 C 15 5 5 76.0 64 60 3 1 1 .984 0 0 7.46 4.20 .986 7.07 7.05 0 2 4 2 33% 42% 0
1963 NYM NL 30 C 13 4 4 64.0 58 55 3 0 1 1.000 0 0 8.16 4.46 .986 7.07 7.05 0 2 4 2 33% 42% 0
1963 CIN NL 30 C 2 1 1 12.0 6 5 0 1 0 .833 0 0 3.75 2.50 .987 7.05 7.05 0 0 0 0 0
1963 CLE AL 30 C 2 1 1 15.0 10 8 2 0 1 1.000 1 80 6.00 5.00 .989 6.66 6.65 0 0 0 1 100% 33% 0
6 Seasons C 387 321 267 2895.2 1888 1721 140 27 17 .986 -13 -5 5.78 4.81 .987 6.38 6.35 26 97 172 68 28% 38% 5
6 Seasons TOT 387 321 267 2895.2 1888 1721 140 27 17 .986 -13 -5 5.78 4.81 .987 6.38 6.35 26 97 172 68 28% 38% 5
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
1958 CHC NL 25 C -3 -5 -3
1959 CHC NL 26 C -7 -9 -7
1960 CHC NL 27 C 0 0 0
1961 CHC NL 28 C -4 -9 -4
1962 CHC NL 29 C -1 -32 -1
1962 NYM NL 29 C 1 3 1
1963 NYM NL 30 C 0 0 0
1963 CIN NL 30 C 0 0 0
1963 CLE AL 30 C 1 80 1
6 Seasons C -13 -5 -13
6 Seasons TOT -13 -5 -13

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1958 CHC NL 25 96 81 96 87 0 87 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
1959 CHC NL 26 110 96 110 109 0 109 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1960 CHC NL 27 74 31 74 43 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 0
1961 CHC NL 28 89 61 89 75 0 75 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 0
1962 NYM NL 29 68 42 68 49 0 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 0
1962 CHC NL 29 7 4 7 6 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1963 NYM NL 30 22 4 22 13 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0
1963 CLE AL 30 4 1 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1963 CIN NL 30 3 1 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
6 Seasons 473 321 473 386 0 386 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 122 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%
1958 CHC NL 25 3007 4.63 5.13 41 93% 0 1 452 29 5 15 403 21 7 0 0 4 5 0 2 3 1 4 0 2 2 5 80%
1959 CHC NL 26 3698 3.64 4.02 35 89% 0 0 493 21 1 12 459 37 8 0 0 6 10 0 4 6 1 1 0 0 0 3 100%
1960 CHC NL 27 1184 4.23 4.96 19 100% 0 0 154 10 0 7 137 23 7 0 0 1 4 0 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 4 100%
1961 CHC NL 28 2349 4.62 5.18 31 87% 0 0 318 21 3 5 288 25 8 0 0 4 4 0 2 2 0 5 0 2 3 4 75%
1962 NYM NL 29 1560 4.30 5.37 20 95% 0 0 200 17 1 4 178 25 2 0 1 6 2 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 3 67%
1962 CHC NL 29 162 3.55 4.26 2 50% 0 0 24 1 0 0 23 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1963 NYM NL 30 278 3.09 4.08 5 100% 0 0 55 5 1 0 49 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1963 CIN NL 30 53 6.00 6.75 1 100% 0 0 11 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1963 CLE AL 30 77 7.20 9.60 0 0 0 8 0 1 0 7 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
6 Seasons 12368 4.22 4.81 154 92% 0 1 1715 105 12 43 1554 136 33 0 1 21 26 0 10 16 2 17 0 5 6 19 84%
MLB Averages 3.84 4.35 95% 87%

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
1958 CHC NL 25 2 21 1176 25 9 8 26% 22 7 3 1 0 1 0 0 60 13 1.22 1.12
1959 CHC NL 26 6 22 1369 70 21 19 23% 61 19 7 1 2 1 2 1 123 25 1.16 0.94
1960 CHC NL 27 4 10 451 13 11 11 46% 13 10 0 0 0 1 1 0 40 12 0.96 0.89
1961 CHC NL 28 8 25 904 32 11 10 26% 27 8 4 2 1 1 1 0 75 15 1.31 1.36
1962 NYM NL 29 4 14 576 25 13 12 34% 23 12 2 1 0 0 1 0 52 20 1.06 1.08
1962 CHC NL 29 1 3 68 1 0 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 2.36
1963 NYM NL 30 0 2 113 4 2 2 33% 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0.26 0.83
1963 CIN NL 30 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1963 CLE AL 30 0 0 36 0 1 1 100% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.66
6 Seasons 25 97 4713 170 68 63 29% 150 59 17 5 3 4 5 1 362 89 1.15 1.04
MLB Averages 38% 1.18 1.17

* 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

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1959 NL  109 (5th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1958 NL  460 (4th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1958 NL  6 (4th)
1959 NL  10 (1st)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1959 NL  6 (2nd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1958 NL  27 (3rd)
1959 NL  70 (1st)
1961 NL  32 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1958 NL  6.20 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1958 NL  5.55 (4th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1958 NL  .988 (3rd)

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