Charlie White

Charles White

Positions: Catcher and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 192 lb.

Born: August 12, 1927 in Kinston, NC
Signed by the St. Louis Browns as an amateur free agent in 1951. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1954
Team: Braves 1954-1955

Final Game: May 29, 1955
Died: May 26, 1998 in Seatac, WA
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%
1954	MLN	NL	26	C	28	16	11	158.1	107	101	4	2	.981	-1	-8	5.97	3.75	.986	5.36	5.33	1	3	9	2	18%	44%
1955	MLN	NL	27	C	10	9	6	75.0	41	39	2	0	1.000	-1	-16	4.92	4.10	.987	5.65	5.60	1	5	3	2	40%	46%
	2 Seasons			C	38	25	17	233.1	148	140	6	2	.986	-2	-10	5.63	3.84	.986	5.45	5.40	2	8	12	4	25%	44%
	2 Seasons			TOT	38	25	17	233.1	148	140	6	2	.986	-2	-10	5.63	3.84	.986	5.45	5.40	2	8	12	4	25%	44%

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rctch
1954	MLN	NL	26	C	-1	-8	-1
1955	MLN	NL	27	C	-1	-16	-1
	2 Seasons			C	-2	-10	-2
	2 Seasons			TOT	-2	-10	-2

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	PH
1954	MLN	NL	26	50	16	50	28	28	31
1955	MLN	NL	27	12	9	12	10	10	2
	2 Seasons			62	25	62	38	38	33

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%
1954	MLN	NL	26	595	2.61	3.33	8	88%	0	0	92	2	0	8	82	4	2	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	50%
1955	MLN	NL	27	264	7.66	8.71	1	100%	0	0	28	1	0	0	27	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			859	3.99	4.79	9	89%	0	0	120	3	0	8	109	5	2	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	50%
	MLB Averages				3.99	4.51		96%																							88%

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
1954	MLN	NL	26	1	3	232	9	2	1	18%	7	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	16	4	0.77	1.10
1955	MLN	NL	27	1	5	104	2	2	1	50%	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	3	1.12	0.75
	2 Seasons			2	8	336	11	4	2	27%	9	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	26	7	0.84	0.92
	MLB Averages									46%											1.13	1.14

* 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.

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