Valmy Thomas

Valmy Thomas

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: October 21, 1925 in Santurce, P.R.
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1951. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1957
Teams (by GP): Giants/Phillies/Indians/Orioles 1957-1961

Final Game: October 1, 1961
Died: October 16, 2010 in Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.
Buried: Kingshill Cemetery, Kingshill, St. Croix, V.I.
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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
1957	NYG	NL	31	C	88	66	55	639.0	431	396	31	4	8	.991	3	6	6.01	4.85	.988	5.98	6.02	5	12	16	12	43%	40%	6
1958	SFG	NL	32	C	61	47	31	415.1	263	244	17	2	4	.992	2	6	5.66	4.28	.988	6.06	6.02	5	8	8	11	58%	39%	0
1959	PHI	NL	33	C	65	43	34	409.0	342	310	25	7	3	.980	2	6	7.37	5.15	.989	6.34	6.28	5	10	20	17	46%	38%	2
1959	PHI	NL	33	3B	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.90
1960	BAL	AL	34	C	8	5	2	45.0	29	27	2	0	1	1.000	1	27	5.80	3.63	.987	5.92	5.92	0	2	1	2	67%	40%	0
1961	CLE	AL	35	C	27	21	20	211.0	170	151	17	2	6	.988	2	11	7.17	6.22	.989	6.21	6.14	4	3	5	8	62%	36%	0
	5 Seasons			C	249	182	142	1719.1	1235	1128	92	15	22	.988	10	7	6.39	4.90	.988	6.11	6.10	19	35	50	50	50%	38%	8
	1 Season			3B	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.90
	5 Seasons			TOT	250	182	142	1720.1	1235	1128	92	15	22	.988	10	7	6.38	4.88	.988	6.11	6.09	19	35	50	50	50%	38%	8

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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rctch
1957	NYG	NL	31	C	3	6				3
1958	SFG	NL	32	C	2	6				2
1959	PHI	NL	33	C	2	6				2
1959	PHI	NL	33	3B	0	0	0	0	0
1960	BAL	AL	34	C	1	27				1
1961	CLE	AL	35	C	2	11				2
	5 Seasons			C	10	7				10
	1 Season			3B	0	0	0	0	0
	5 Seasons			TOT	10	7	0	0	0	10

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	3B	PH	PR
1957	NYG	NL	31	88	66	88	88	88	0	1	1
1958	SFG	NL	32	63	47	63	61	61	0	2	1
1959	PHI	NL	33	66	43	66	66	65	1	0	2
1960	BAL	AL	34	8	5	8	8	8	0	0	0
1961	CLE	AL	35	27	21	27	27	27	0	0	0
	5 Seasons			252	182	252	250	249	1	3	4

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%
1957	NYG	NL	31	2497	3.55	3.91	39	92%	0	0	354	25	4	10	315	33	11	0	0	2	4	0	4	0	1	8	0	1	2	8	75%
1958	SFG	NL	32	1813	4.98	5.46	26	96%	0	0	252	19	2	12	219	17	3	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	4	0	1	1	4	100%
1959	PHI	NL	33	1780	4.86	5.28	34	91%	0	0	311	27	0	11	273	25	4	0	0	1	7	0	0	7	0	3	0	0	0	4	25%
1960	BAL	AL	34	181	1.60	1.80	1	100%	0	0	28	1	1	0	26	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
1961	CLE	AL	35	909	4.14	4.66	13	92%	0	0	153	10	4	5	134	17	5	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	0	6	0	2	2	1	100%
	5 Seasons			7180	4.25	4.67	113	93%	0	0	1098	82	11	38	967	94	23	2	0	4	15	0	6	9	1	22	0	4	5	17	71%
	MLB Averages				3.90	4.40		95%																							86%

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
1957	NYG	NL	31	6	12	934	14	12	12	46%	14	9	0	2	0	1	6	0	40	18	1.01	0.69
1958	SFG	NL	32	5	8	671	8	11	11	58%	6	11	1	0	1	0	0	0	26	13	0.94	0.97
1959	PHI	NL	33	5	10	684	20	17	17	46%	16	16	4	1	0	0	2	0	56	23	0.99	0.78
1960	BAL	AL	34	0	2	74	1	2	2	67%	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	2	0.79	1.57
1961	CLE	AL	35	4	3	368	5	8	8	62%	4	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	16	10	1.18	1.01
	5 Seasons			20	35	2731	48	50	50	51%	41	45	6	4	1	1	8	0	143	66	1.00	0.87
	MLB Averages									40%											1.18	1.18

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	543	53	GB	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1959	PHI	NL	33	4	25%	50%	0%	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			4	25%	50%	0%	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				64%	80%	27%		89%																								59%

* 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

Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1959 NL 7 (5th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1958 NL 5 (5th) 1959 NL 5 (3rd)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1959 NL 45.9 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 1957 NL 3 (5th) 1959 NL 2 (5th) 1961 AL 2 (5th)
Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 1957 NL 6.01 (4th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1957 NL .991 (3rd)

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