Zack Taylor

James Wren Taylor

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: July 27, 1898 in Yulee, FL
School: Rollins College (Winter Park, FL) (All Transactions)
Debut: June 15, 1920
Teams (by GP): Robins/Braves/Cubs/Giants/Dodgers/... 1920-1935

Final Game: September 24, 1935
Died: September 19, 1974 in Orlando, FL
Buried: Woodlawn Memorial Park, Gotha, FL
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1920	BRO	NL	21	C	9	1	1		17	11	4	2	0	.882		1.67	.968		5.31	1		0	0
1921	BRO	NL	22	C	30	25	22		144	106	33	5	5	.965		4.63	.971		4.87	0		16	15	48%	49%
1922	BRO	NL	23	C	6	2	1		20	16	3	1	0	.950		3.17	.974		4.63	0		7	1	13%	46%
1923	BRO	NL	24	C	84	83	78		488	354	118	16	6	.967		5.62	.976		4.66	13		67	66	50%	44%
1924	BRO	NL	25	C	93	92	85		490	388	96	6	13	.988		5.20	.981		4.78	4		49	60	55%	47%
1925	BRO	NL	26	C	96	89	82		413	294	102	17	12	.959		4.13	.970		4.45	9		64	60	48%	44%
1926	BSN	NL	27	C	123	122	108		525	394	123	8	17	.985		4.20	.971		4.39	13		59	59	50%	43%
1927	TOT	NL	28	C	108	105	79		494	404	79	11	11	.978		4.47	.974		4.43	8		44	36	45%	39%
1927	BSN	NL	28	C	27	25	23		167	137	28	2	3	.988		6.11	.974		4.43	2		19	13	41%	39%
1927	NYG	NL	28	C	81	80	56		327	267	51	9	8	.972		3.93	.974		4.43	6		25	23	48%	39%
1928	BSN	NL	29	C	124	121	93		457	367	83	7	8	.985		3.63	.979		4.42	11		62	43	41%	45%
1929	TOT	NL	30	C	95	90	69		430	348	71	11	7	.974		4.41	.974		4.34	5		33	42	56%	42%		MVP-23
1929	BSN	NL	30	C	31	29	23		141	101	35	5	3	.965		4.39	.974		4.34	2		12	21	64%	42%
1929	CHC	NL	30	C	64	61	46		289	247	36	6	4	.979		4.42	.974		4.34	3		21	21	50%	42%
1930	CHC	NL	31	C	28	24	20		110	92	18	0	1	1.000		3.93	.976		4.57	3		9	9	50%	44%
1931	CHC	NL	32	C	5	1	1		7	5	2	0	0	1.000		1.40	.980		4.64	0		0	1	100%	46%
1932	CHC	NL	33	C	14	4	2		43	39	4	0	1	1.000		3.07	.979		4.66	2		3	2	40%	45%
1933	CHC	NL	34	C	12	0	0		8	8	0	0	0	1.000		0.67	.982		4.35	0		0	0
1934	NYY	AL	35	C	3	1	1		5	3	2	0	0	1.000		1.67	.980		5.00	0		0	0
1935	BRO	NL	36	C	26	13	8		67	51	14	2	2	.970		2.50	.976		4.78	3		4	6	60%	44%
	16 Seasons			C	856	773	650		3718	2880	752	86	83	.977		4.24	.975		4.52	72		417	400	49%	44%
	16 Seasons			TOT	856	773	650		3718	2880	752	86	83	.977		4.24	.975		4.52	72		417	400	49%	44%
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	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

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR
1920	BRO	NL	21	9	1	9	9	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921	BRO	NL	22	30	25	30	30	0	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922	BRO	NL	23	7	2	7	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1923	BRO	NL	24	96	83	96	84	0	84	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0
1924	BRO	NL	25	99	92	99	93	0	93	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
1925	BRO	NL	26	109	89	109	95	0	95	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	0
1926	BSN	NL	27	125	122	125	123	0	123	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1927	NYG	NL	28	83	80	83	81	0	81	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1927	BSN	NL	28	30	25	30	27	0	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
1928	BSN	NL	29	125	121	125	124	0	124	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1929	CHC	NL	30	65	61	65	65	0	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929	BSN	NL	30	34	29	34	30	0	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
1930	CHC	NL	31	32	24	32	28	0	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
1931	CHC	NL	32	8	1	8	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
1932	CHC	NL	33	21	4	21	14	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0
1933	CHC	NL	34	16	0	16	12	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
1934	NYY	AL	35	4	1	4	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1935	BRO	NL	36	26	13	26	26	0	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	16 Seasons			919	773	919	855	0	855	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	63	1
Lg				G	GS	Batting	Defense	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR

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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1929 NL (23, 1%) 0.01 Career Shares (1497th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1924 NL 93 (5th) 1925 NL 96 (2nd) 1926 NL 123 (2nd) 1927 NL 108 (3rd) 1928 NL 124 (2nd) 1929 NL 95 (5th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1923 NL 354 (4th) 1924 NL 388 (3rd) 1926 NL 394 (2nd) 1927 NL 404 (2nd) 1928 NL 367 (5th) 1929 NL 348 (2nd)	Assists as C s c a p y 1923 NL 118 (1st) 1924 NL 96 (3rd) 1925 NL 102 (2nd) 1926 NL 123 (1st) 1927 NL 79 (3rd) 1928 NL 83 (3rd) 1929 NL 71 (2nd) Career 752 (85th)
Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1923 NL 16 (1st) 1925 NL 17 (2nd) 1927 NL 11 (4th) 1929 NL 11 (4th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1923 NL 13 (1st) 1925 NL 9 (1st) 1926 NL 13 (1st) 1927 NL 8 (3rd) 1928 NL 11 (1st) 1929 NL 5 (5th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1923 NL 67 (3rd) 1925 NL 64 (1st) 1926 NL 59 (1st) 1927 NL 44 (4th) 1928 NL 62 (1st)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1923 NL 66 (1st) 1924 NL 60 (2nd) 1925 NL 60 (1st) 1926 NL 59 (1st) 1927 NL 36 (2nd) 1928 NL 43 (3rd) 1929 NL 42 (2nd)
Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1923 NL 49.6 (4th) 1924 NL 55.0 (2nd) 1925 NL 48.4 (5th) 1929 NL 56.0 (1st) Career 49.0 (23rd)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1923 NL 5.62 (1st) 1924 NL 5.20 (1st) 1925 NL 4.13 (4th) 1926 NL 4.20 (3rd) 1927 NL 4.47 (2nd) 1929 NL 4.41 (1st)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1924 NL .988 (1st) 1926 NL .985 (3rd) 1927 NL .978 (2nd) 1928 NL .985 (3rd)

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