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Wes Westrum

Wesley Noreen Westrum

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: November 28, 1922 in Clearbrook, MN
High School: Clearbrook-Gonvick HS (Clearbrook, MN)(All Transactions)
Debut: September 17, 1947 (Age 24)
Team: Giants 1947-1957

Final Game: September 29, 1957 (Age 34)
Died: May 28, 2002 in Clearbrook, MN
Buried: Silver Creek Cemetery, Clearbrook, MN
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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
1947 NYG NL 24 C 2 2 2 10 8 2 0 0 1.000 5.00 .981 4.95 0 0 1 100% 44%
1948 NYG NL 25 C 63 37 27 208 179 25 4 4 .981 3.24 .980 5.15 2 4 20 10 33% 40% 0
1949 NYG NL 26 C 62 47 45 247 224 18 5 4 .980 3.90 .982 4.98 4 10 19 7 27% 43% 0
1950 NYG NL 27 C 139 134 109 1136.2 680 608 71 1 21 .999 5.38 4.88 .982 5.38 5.33 8 16 25 29 54% 38% 2 MVP-32
1951 NYG NL 28 C 122 119 97 1027.0 624 554 62 8 9 .987 5.40 5.05 .981 5.18 5.16 5 16 29 31 52% 41% 3
1952 NYG NL 29 C 112 108 82 911.1 557 481 64 12 11 .978 5.38 4.87 .984 5.52 5.47 13 9 15 25 63% 44% 4 AS
1953 NYG NL 30 C 106 101 67 803.0 503 441 53 9 9 .982 3 4 5.54 4.66 .984 5.53 5.42 6 28 15 18 55% 40% 2 AS
1953 NYG NL 30 3B 1 0 0 5.0 3 0 3 0 0 1.000 5.40 3.00 .950 3.06 3.00 AS
1954 NYG NL 31 C 98 83 59 726.2 471 419 45 7 8 .985 3 5 5.75 4.73 .986 5.36 5.33 3 13 15 22 59% 44% 2
1955 NYG NL 32 C 68 51 23 439.1 311 280 27 4 5 .987 1 3 6.29 4.51 .987 5.65 5.60 4 6 13 11 46% 46% 0
1956 NYG NL 33 C 67 45 26 411.2 330 297 27 6 7 .982 -4 -12 7.08 4.84 .985 5.83 5.77 13 7 16 9 36% 40% 1
1957 NYG NL 34 C 63 41 16 333.1 175 148 21 6 4 .966 1 4 4.56 2.68 .988 5.98 6.02 3 6 13 10 43% 40% 1
11 Seasons C 902 768 553 5789.0 4116 3639 415 62 82 .985 4 1 5.59 4.49 .984 5.47 5.40 61 115 180 173 49% 41% 15
1 Season 3B 1 0 0 5.0 3 0 3 0 0 1.000 5.40 3.00 .950 3.06 3.00
11 Seasons TOT 903 768 553 5794.0 4119 3639 418 62 82 .985 4 1 5.59 4.49 .984 5.47 5.40 61 115 180 173 49% 41% 15
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1947 NYG NL 24 C
1948 NYG NL 25 C
1949 NYG NL 26 C
1950 NYG NL 27 C
1951 NYG NL 28 C
1952 NYG NL 29 C
1953 NYG NL 30 C 3 4 3
1953 NYG NL 30 3B
1954 NYG NL 31 C 3 5 3
1955 NYG NL 32 C 1 3 1
1956 NYG NL 33 C -4 -12 -4
1957 NYG NL 34 C 1 4 1
11 Seasons C 4 1 4
1 Season 3B
11 Seasons TOT 4 1 4

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1947 NYG NL 24 6 2 6 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1948 NYG NL 25 67 36 67 64 0 64 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
1949 NYG NL 26 64 47 64 62 0 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1950 NYG NL 27 140 134 140 139 0 139 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1951 NYG NL 28 124 119 124 122 0 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1952 NYG NL 29 114 108 114 112 0 112 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1953 NYG NL 30 107 101 107 106 0 105 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1954 NYG NL 31 98 83 98 98 0 98 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 NYG NL 32 69 51 69 68 0 68 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1956 NYG NL 33 68 45 68 67 0 67 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1957 NYG NL 34 63 41 63 63 0 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Seasons 920 767 920 903 0 902 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 2
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 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 NYG NL 25 580 5.01 5.43 12 92% 0 0 66 11 1 3 51 9 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 1 1 0%
1949 NYG NL 26 1037 4.83 5.62 27 93% 0 1 116 18 1 6 91 8 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 50%
1950 NYG NL 27 3724 3.80 4.26 79 99% 0 0 487 64 4 20 398 53 11 1 0 8 1 0 0 1 0 17 1 2 7 3 67%
1951 NYG NL 28 3848 3.60 4.16 86 98% 1 0 507 71 6 13 416 57 8 2 1 5 8 1 5 2 2 9 0 1 3 8 100%
1952 NYG NL 29 3251 3.58 4.16 55 91% 0 1 438 33 3 16 386 58 11 0 1 11 9 1 6 2 2 12 0 2 2 9 78%
1953 NYG NL 30 3480 4.11 4.72 72 99% 0 0 442 51 6 22 362 49 15 2 0 9 8 0 6 2 1 9 1 0 2 9 89%
1954 NYG NL 31 2956 3.02 3.46 55 96% 0 0 411 45 4 6 356 40 6 1 0 9 7 1 3 3 0 8 1 0 1 4 100%
1955 NYG NL 32 1684 4.40 5.29 43 98% 0 0 244 33 0 6 205 21 8 1 0 1 3 0 3 0 0 6 0 0 0 4 100%
1956 NYG NL 33 1570 3.92 4.32 48 94% 0 0 254 32 1 9 212 27 10 0 0 4 6 1 3 2 0 6 0 0 1 10 80%
1957 NYG NL 34 1330 4.25 4.71 23 87% 0 0 144 13 3 5 123 20 4 0 0 4 4 0 2 2 1 3 0 1 2 5 100%
10 Seasons 23460 3.83 4.38 500 96% 1 2 3109 371 29 106 2600 342 74 8 2 52 49 4 29 16 6 75 3 7 19 55 85%
MLB Averages 4.05 4.56 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
1948 NYG NL 25 0 4 234 7 8 8 53% 4 6 1 1 2 1 0 0 16 8 0.90 0.94
1949 NYG NL 26 1 10 421 16 5 5 24% 12 4 2 1 2 0 0 0 36 6 0.94 0.94
1950 NYG NL 27 6 16 1380 23 30 26 57% 19 26 2 1 2 3 2 1 54 32 1.23 1.27
1951 NYG NL 28 4 16 1383 29 29 27 50% 22 27 5 0 2 2 3 0 72 36 1.41 1.23
1952 NYG NL 29 10 9 1178 14 23 22 62% 11 21 3 2 0 0 4 0 50 36 1.11 1.29
1953 NYG NL 30 5 28 1320 15 18 18 55% 11 13 3 3 1 2 2 0 83 24 1.32 1.27
1954 NYG NL 31 3 13 1099 14 20 20 59% 13 18 1 1 0 1 2 0 46 27 1.09 1.38
1955 NYG NL 32 4 6 661 13 9 9 41% 10 9 2 0 1 0 0 0 34 9 0.88 1.54
1956 NYG NL 33 12 7 594 14 8 8 36% 10 8 3 0 1 0 1 0 45 12 1.37 1.73
1957 NYG NL 34 3 6 511 11 10 9 48% 11 9 0 0 0 1 1 0 30 13 0.89 1.13
10 Seasons 48 115 8781 156 160 152 51% 123 141 22 9 11 10 15 1 466 203 1.16 1.28
MLB Averages 45% 1.19 1.16

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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

Hall of Fame
1964 BBWAA ( 1.0%)

All-Star Games
1952
1953

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1950 NL (32, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1521st)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
1950 NL  139 (1st)
1951 NL  122 (2nd)
1952 NL  112 (3rd)
1953 NL  106 (5th)
1954 NL  98 (4th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
1950 NL  608 (2nd)
1951 NL  554 (2nd)
1952 NL  481 (3rd)
1953 NL  441 (4th)
1954 NL  419 (4th)

Assists as C s c a p y
1950 NL  71 (1st)
1951 NL  62 (3rd)
1952 NL  64 (2nd)
1953 NL  53 (4th)
1954 NL  45 (4th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1951 NL  8 (4th)
1952 NL  12 (2nd)
1953 NL  9 (3rd)
1954 NL  7 (4th)
1957 NL  6 (4th)

Double Plays Turned as C s c a p y
1950 NL  21 (1st)
1951 NL  9 (4th)
1952 NL  11 (1st)
1953 NL  9 (2nd)
1954 NL  8 (4th)
Career  82 (86th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1950 NL  8 (3rd)
1952 NL  13 (1st)
1956 NL  13 (1st)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1950 NL  29 (2nd)
1951 NL  31 (2nd)
1952 NL  25 (5th)
1953 NL  18 (5th)
1954 NL  22 (3rd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1950 NL  53.7 (2nd)
1951 NL  51.7 (3rd)
1952 NL  62.5 (2nd)
1953 NL  54.5 (1st)
1954 NL  59.5 (1st)
Career  49.0 (20th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1953 NL  3 (4th)
1954 NL  3 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1951 NL  5.40 (5th)
1954 NL  5.75 (2nd)
1955 NL  6.29 (1st)
1956 NL  7.08 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
1950 NL  4.88 (4th)
1951 NL  5.05 (2nd)
1952 NL  4.87 (5th)
1954 NL  4.73 (4th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1950 NL  .999 (1st)
1951 NL  .987 (3rd)
1952 NL  .978 (4th)

             

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