Hal Wagner

Harold Edward Wagner

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: July 2, 1915 in East Riverton, NJ
High School: Riverside HS (Riverside, NJ)
School: Duke University (Durham, NC) (All Transactions)
Debut: October 3, 1937
Teams (by GP): Athletics/RedSox/Tigers/Phillies 1937-1949

Final Game: April 19, 1949
Died: August 4, 1979 in Riverside, NJ
Buried: Lakeview Memorial Park, Cinnaminson, NJ
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All-Star

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
1937	PHA	AL	21	C	1	0	0		1	1	0	0	1	1.000		1.00	.980		5.00	0		0	0
1938	PHA	AL	22	C	30	25	22		106	87	16	3	2	.972		3.43	.983		4.88	2		13	7	35%	37%
1939	PHA	AL	23	C	5	3	1		14	11	3	0	0	1.000		2.80	.981		4.92	0		4	3	43%	37%
1940	PHA	AL	24	C	28	18	12		111	91	16	4	4	.964		3.82	.982		5.27	0		24	6	20%	41%
1941	PHA	AL	25	C	42	32	31		167	144	19	4	4	.976		3.88	.983		5.00	4		24	9	27%	41%
1942	PHA	AL	26	C	94	77	68		424	371	47	6	7	.986		4.45	.979		4.93	15		50	28	36%	42%		AS
1943	PHA	AL	27	C	99	77	73		404	340	56	8	3	.980		4.00	.981		5.23	13		56	30	35%	42%		MVP-33
1944	TOT	AL	28	C	65	63	54		340	300	30	10	4	.971		5.08	.976		4.91	4		27	14	34%	39%
1944	PHA	AL	28	C	1	0	0		2	1	1	0	0	1.000		2.00	.975		4.90	0		0	0
1944	BOS	AL	28	C	64	63	54		338	299	29	10	4	.970		5.13	.976		4.91	4		27	14	34%	39%
1946	BOS	AL	30	C	116	109	102		602	553	39	10	3	.983		5.10	.982		5.52	3		25	20	44%	46%		AS,MVP-26
1947	TOT	AL	31	C	92	77	66		393	357	31	5	4	.987		4.22	.985		5.02	4		24	11	31%	46%
1947	BOS	AL	31	C	21	20	16		93	82	9	2	1	.978		4.33	.985		5.02	2		5	3	38%	46%
1947	DET	AL	31	C	71	57	50		300	275	22	3	3	.990		4.18	.985		5.02	2		19	8	30%	46%
1948	TOT	MLB	32	C	53	30	22		181	165	14	2	4	.989		3.38	.986		4.75	1	1	15	8	35%	44%	0
1948	DET	AL	32	C	52	29	22		176	162	12	2	4	.989		3.35	.986		4.74	1	1	13	7	35%	44%	0
1948	PHI	NL	32	C	1	1	0		5	3	2	0	0	1.000		5.00	.980		5.20	0		2	1	33%	40%
1949	PHI	NL	33	C	1	1	1		4	3	0	1	0	.750		3.00	.982		5.00	0		1	0	0%	43%
	12 Seasons			C	626	512	452		2747	2423	271	53	36	.981		4.30	.981		5.10	46	1	263	136	34%	42%	0
	12 Seasons			TOT	626	512	452		2747	2423	271	53	36	.981		4.30	.981		5.10	46	1	263	136	34%	42%	0
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

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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
1937	PHA	AL	21	C
1938	PHA	AL	22	C
1939	PHA	AL	23	C
1940	PHA	AL	24	C
1941	PHA	AL	25	C
1942	PHA	AL	26	C
1943	PHA	AL	27	C
1944	PHA	AL	28	C
1944	BOS	AL	28	C
1946	BOS	AL	30	C
1947	BOS	AL	31	C
1947	DET	AL	31	C
1948	DET	AL	32	C
1948	PHI	NL	32	C
1949	PHI	NL	33	C
	12 Seasons			C
	12 Seasons			TOT

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	1B	PH	PR
1937	PHA	AL	21	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0
1938	PHA	AL	22	33	25	33	30	30	0	3	0
1939	PHA	AL	23	5	3	5	5	5	0	0	0
1940	PHA	AL	24	34	18	34	28	28	0	4	3
1941	PHA	AL	25	46	32	46	42	42	0	6	0
1942	PHA	AL	26	104	77	104	94	94	0	13	0
1943	PHA	AL	27	111	77	111	99	98	1	15	0
1944	BOS	AL	28	66	63	66	64	64	0	3	0
1944	PHA	AL	28	5	0	5	1	1	0	4	0
1946	BOS	AL	30	117	109	117	116	116	0	1	0
1947	DET	AL	31	71	57	71	71	71	0	1	0
1947	BOS	AL	31	21	20	21	21	21	0	0	0
1948	DET	AL	32	54	29	54	52	52	0	2	0
1948	PHI	NL	32	3	1	3	1	1	0	1	1
1949	PHI	NL	33	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0
	12 Seasons			672	512	672	626	625	1	53	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%
1948	DET	AL	32	663	3.02	3.70	5	100%	0	0	86	5	1	2	78	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0
	1 Season			663	3.02	3.70	5	100%	0	0	86	5	1	2	78	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0
	MLB Averages				4.18	4.71		95%																							83%

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
1948	DET	AL	32	0	1	239	6	2	2	25%	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	12	3	0.58	1.07
	1 Season			0	1	239	6	2	2	25%	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	12	3	0.58	1.07
	MLB Averages									44%											1.20	1.18

* 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

All-Star Games 1942 1946 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1943 AL (33, 0%) 1946 AL (26, 0%) 0.00 Career Shares (1712th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 1942 AL 94 (4th) 1943 AL 99 (4th) 1946 AL 116 (2nd)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1942 AL 371 (3rd) 1943 AL 340 (5th) 1946 AL 553 (1st)
Assists as C s c a p y 1942 AL 47 (5th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1943 AL 8 (4th) 1944 AL 10 (4th) 1946 AL 10 (5th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 1942 AL 15 (1st) 1943 AL 13 (1st)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1942 AL 50 (1st) 1943 AL 56 (2nd) 1946 AL 25 (5th)
Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1942 AL 28 (4th) 1943 AL 30 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1942 AL 4.45 (4th) 1946 AL 5.10 (5th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1942 AL .986 (3rd) 1943 AL .980 (5th) 1946 AL .983 (4th)

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