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Moe Thacker

Morris Benton Thacker

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: May 21, 1934 in Louisville, KY
High School: DuPont Manual HS (Louisville, KY)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1952. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 3, 1958
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Cardinals 1958-1963

Final Game: July 14, 1963
Died: November 13, 1997 in Louisville, KY
Cremated
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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 24 C 9 7 5 67.0 42 34 6 2 1 .952 0 0 5.37 4.44 .988 6.06 6.02 0 2 6 3 33% 39% 0
1960 CHC NL 26 C 50 30 16 275.2 197 170 23 4 2 .980 3 13 6.30 3.86 .986 6.58 6.57 2 3 9 13 59% 40% 0
1961 CHC NL 27 C 25 11 7 117.1 74 67 5 2 0 .973 -1 -10 5.52 2.88 .985 6.39 6.32 3 4 3 2 40% 38% 0
1962 CHC NL 28 C 65 35 21 324.0 254 219 34 1 8 .996 2 7 7.03 3.89 .987 6.72 6.66 7 17 26 21 45% 34% 0
1963 STL NL 29 C 3 1 0 14.0 10 9 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 6.43 3.33 .986 7.07 7.07 0 0 1 1 50% 42% 0
5 Seasons C 152 84 49 798.0 577 499 69 9 11 .984 4 6 6.41 3.74 .986 6.57 6.54 12 26 45 40 47% 37% 0
5 Seasons TOT 152 84 49 798.0 577 499 69 9 11 .984 4 6 6.41 3.74 .986 6.57 6.54 12 26 45 40 47% 37% 0
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 24 C 0 0 0
1960 CHC NL 26 C 3 13 3
1961 CHC NL 27 C -1 -10 -1
1962 CHC NL 28 C 2 7 2
1963 STL NL 29 C 0 0 0
5 Seasons C 4 6 4
5 Seasons TOT 4 6 4

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 24 11 7 11 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1960 CHC NL 26 54 30 54 50 0 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1961 CHC NL 27 25 11 25 25 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1962 CHC NL 28 65 35 65 65 0 65 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1963 STL NL 29 3 1 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 158 84 158 152 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 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 24 301 4.16 5.91 2 100% 0 0 35 1 2 2 30 6 1 0 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1960 CHC NL 26 1174 4.47 5.03 16 88% 1 0 171 9 1 6 155 22 6 0 0 2 4 1 3 0 0 2 0 1 1 0
1961 CHC NL 27 521 5.68 6.67 3 100% 0 0 69 1 0 1 67 5 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
1962 CHC NL 28 1428 5.09 5.54 21 81% 0 0 216 12 3 11 190 29 4 0 2 4 1 0 0 1 0 8 0 2 2 5 60%
1963 STL NL 29 61 5.79 5.79 1 100% 0 0 9 1 0 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 3485 4.90 5.57 43 86% 1 0 500 24 6 20 450 63 12 0 3 8 9 2 4 3 0 11 0 3 3 5 60%
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 24 0 2 118 6 3 3 33% 4 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 11 3 1.21 0.54
1960 CHC NL 26 2 3 409 9 13 13 59% 7 13 1 0 1 0 0 0 19 14 0.65 0.97
1961 CHC NL 27 3 4 219 3 2 2 40% 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 2 0.79 0.54
1962 CHC NL 28 7 17 554 26 21 18 45% 24 15 1 3 1 3 0 0 61 21 1.15 1.18
1963 STL NL 29 0 0 23 1 1 1 50% 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1.56 0.70
5 Seasons 12 26 1323 45 40 37 47% 39 34 4 3 2 3 0 0 109 41 1.04 1.02
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

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1962 NL  44.7 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1960 NL  3 (5th)

                           

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