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Bob Tillman

John Robert Tillman

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

Born: March 24, 1937 in Nashville, TN
High School: Litton HS (Nashville, TN)
Schools: Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro, TN)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1958. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 15, 1962
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Braves/Yankees 1962-1970

Final Game: October 1, 1970
Died: June 23, 2000 in Gallatin, TN
Buried: Sumner Memorial Gardens, Gallatin, TN
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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
1962 BOS AL 25 C 66 58 55 556.1 415 389 19 7 1 .983 -3 -6 6.60 6.18 .989 6.30 6.28 7 17 28 12 30% 36% 1
1963 BOS AL 26 C 95 89 85 804.2 652 621 26 5 5 .992 -8 -12 7.24 6.81 .989 6.64 6.64 7 29 43 8 16% 33% 0
1964 BOS AL 27 C 131 120 117 1077.0 957 897 49 11 5 .989 -5 -6 7.91 7.22 .990 7.07 7.06 6 39 61 23 27% 37% 5
1965 BOS AL 28 C 106 102 93 902.2 730 676 45 9 6 .988 -2 -3 7.19 6.80 .988 6.96 6.94 7 28 50 19 28% 34% 0
1966 BOS AL 29 C 72 56 48 519.0 400 372 24 4 5 .990 -6 -14 6.87 5.50 .988 6.86 6.85 3 22 51 16 24% 38% 0
1967 TOT AL 30 C 41 33 28 310.0 233 203 24 6 6 .974 -4 -15 6.59 5.54 .989 7.22 7.23 1 14 29 10 26% 41% 1
1967 BOS AL 30 C 26 18 13 164.0 133 120 10 3 3 .977 -3 -22 7.13 5.00 .989 7.22 7.23 1 7 18 4 18% 41% 0
1967 NYY AL 30 C 15 15 15 146.0 100 83 14 3 3 .970 -1 -8 5.98 6.47 .989 7.22 7.23 0 7 11 6 35% 41% 1
1968 ATL NL 31 C 75 66 52 583.1 392 359 29 4 7 .990 -4 -8 5.99 5.17 .990 6.87 6.90 7 21 36 16 31% 39% 1
1969 ATL NL 32 C 69 52 45 490.1 328 309 15 4 5 .988 -3 -7 5.95 4.70 .989 7.06 7.01 4 11 26 4 13% 40% 0
1970 ATL NL 33 C 70 63 55 549.1 431 404 22 5 0 .988 -6 -13 6.98 6.09 .987 6.85 6.82 10 14 47 9 16% 33% 0
9 Seasons C 725 639 578 5792.2 4538 4230 253 55 40 .988 -41 -8 6.97 6.18 .989 6.87 6.86 52 195 371 117 24% 36% 8
9 Seasons TOT 725 639 578 5792.2 4538 4230 253 55 40 .988 -41 -8 6.97 6.18 .989 6.87 6.86 52 195 371 117 24% 36% 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
  • 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
1962 BOS AL 25 C -3 -6 -3
1963 BOS AL 26 C -8 -12 -8
1964 BOS AL 27 C -5 -6 -5
1965 BOS AL 28 C -2 -3 -2
1966 BOS AL 29 C -6 -14 -6
1967 BOS AL 30 C -3 -22 -3
1967 NYY AL 30 C -1 -8 -1
1968 ATL NL 31 C -4 -8 -4
1969 ATL NL 32 C -3 -7 -3
1970 ATL NL 33 C -6 -13 -6
9 Seasons C -41 -8 -41
9 Seasons TOT -41 -8 -41

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1962 BOS AL 25 81 58 81 66 0 66 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0
1963 BOS AL 26 96 89 96 95 0 95 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1964 BOS AL 27 131 120 131 131 0 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1965 BOS AL 28 111 102 111 106 0 106 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1966 BOS AL 29 78 56 78 72 0 72 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1967 BOS AL 30 30 18 30 26 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1967 NYY AL 30 22 15 22 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1968 ATL NL 31 86 66 86 75 0 75 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1969 ATL NL 32 69 52 69 69 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1970 ATL NL 33 71 63 71 70 0 70 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
9 Seasons 775 639 775 725 0 725 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 61 1
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%
1962 BOS AL 25 2438 4.02 4.65 37 84% 0 0 395 27 1 10 357 18 3 0 0 1 6 2 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 33%
1963 BOS AL 26 3416 3.83 4.15 55 96% 1 1 626 41 0 13 572 24 11 0 0 1 5 1 0 4 0 5 0 0 0 8 88%
1964 BOS AL 27 4733 4.61 5.19 80 93% 0 0 905 55 2 17 831 48 13 1 0 9 12 2 5 5 1 6 1 1 3 7 71%
1965 BOS AL 28 3946 4.46 5.26 52 98% 0 0 679 36 2 13 628 40 11 0 0 3 9 0 4 5 0 6 0 2 2 3 100%
1966 BOS AL 29 2222 3.97 4.39 34 91% 0 0 371 21 2 11 336 26 8 0 0 1 4 1 2 1 2 5 0 0 0 4 100%
1967 BOS AL 30 694 3.18 3.62 11 91% 0 0 124 8 1 2 113 9 1 1 0 2 3 0 1 2 1 3 1 0 1 1 100%
1967 NYY AL 30 621 3.58 4.13 20 100% 0 0 85 15 0 5 65 14 3 1 1 3 3 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 2 100%
1968 ATL NL 31 2179 3.26 3.63 30 97% 1 0 341 25 4 2 310 22 6 0 0 1 4 0 2 2 0 7 0 2 4 4 100%
1969 ATL NL 32 2025 4.15 4.60 22 95% 0 0 309 15 3 4 287 14 7 0 0 3 4 0 2 2 1 5 0 1 2 5 80%
1970 ATL NL 33 2214 4.26 4.57 22 91% 1 1 406 14 0 5 387 17 3 0 0 4 5 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 75%
9 Seasons 24488 4.10 4.61 363 94% 3 2 4241 257 15 82 3886 232 66 3 1 28 55 7 20 28 5 41 2 6 12 41 83%
MLB Averages 3.55 4.03 95% 89%

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
1962 BOS AL 25 7 17 949 28 12 11 30% 25 9 2 1 1 2 1 0 59 15 1.33 1.23
1963 BOS AL 26 7 29 1257 43 8 6 16% 38 6 4 1 1 1 0 0 98 13 1.13 1.65
1964 BOS AL 27 6 39 1795 61 23 17 27% 55 20 6 1 0 2 5 0 133 32 1.21 1.31
1965 BOS AL 28 7 28 1537 50 18 16 26% 40 15 8 2 2 1 0 0 108 26 1.25 0.93
1966 BOS AL 29 3 22 862 51 16 16 24% 39 11 10 2 2 3 0 0 92 17 1.37 0.98
1967 BOS AL 30 1 7 265 18 4 4 18% 16 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 34 5 1.15 1.14
1967 NYY AL 30 0 7 241 11 6 4 35% 10 6 1 0 0 0 1 0 30 7 1.47 1.15
1968 ATL NL 31 7 21 759 37 14 12 27% 33 13 4 0 0 1 1 1 82 16 1.43 1.07
1969 ATL NL 32 4 11 791 26 4 3 13% 25 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 48 6 1.12 0.35
1970 ATL NL 33 10 14 802 47 9 5 16% 42 7 3 2 2 0 0 0 92 10 1.01 1.43
9 Seasons 52 195 9258 372 114 94 23% 323 94 41 10 8 10 8 1 776 147 1.23 1.15
MLB Averages 37% 1.27 1.22

* 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
1963 AL  95 (5th)
1964 AL  131 (5th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1963 AL  621 (4th)
1964 AL  897 (3rd)
1965 AL  676 (4th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1964 AL  49 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1962 AL  7 (5th)
1964 AL  11 (2nd)
1965 AL  9 (2nd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1970 NL  10 (4th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1963 AL  43 (1st)
1964 AL  61 (1st)
1965 AL  50 (1st)
1966 AL  51 (3rd)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1964 AL  23 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1963 AL  7.24 (2nd)
1964 AL  7.91 (2nd)
1965 AL  7.19 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1963 AL  6.81 (1st)
1964 AL  7.22 (2nd)
1965 AL  6.80 (4th)
Career  6.18 (72nd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1963 AL  .992 (4th)

                           

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