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Matt Wieters

Matthew Richard Wieters

Position: Catcher
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 5", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: May 21, 1986 in Goose Creek, SC
High School: Stratford HS (Goose Creek, SC)
School: Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
Drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1st round (5th pick) of the 2007 amateur draft.
Signed August 15, 2007. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 29, 2009
Team: Orioles 2009-2012
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$500k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 2.129, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Scott Boras [*]
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
2009 BAL AL 23 C 86 84 77 738.1 529 489 35 5 12 .991 2 3 6.39 6.09 .992 7.48 7.39 3 16 65 21 24% 26% 0
2009 BAL AL 23 DH 10 10
2010 BAL AL 24 C 126 121 112 1060.1 831 775 51 5 10 .994 7 7 8 8 7.01 6.56 .990 7.44 7.37 2 30 53 24 31% 26% 2
2010 BAL AL 24 DH 2 2
2011 BAL AL 25 C 132 129 122 1150.0 930 855 70 5 14 .995 10 17 10 18 7.24 7.01 .992 7.61 7.57 1 25 58 34 37% 28% 0 AS,GG
2011 BAL AL 25 DH 3 3 AS,GG
2011 BAL AL 25 1B 1 1 1 8.0 4 4 0 0 2 1.000 0 0 0 0 4.50 4.00 .992 9.34 9.20 AS,GG
2012 BAL AL 26 C 41 40 38 372.2 326 306 15 5 2 .985 3 3 11 10 7.75 7.83 .992 7.83 7.81 0 5 19 11 37% 27% 1
2012 BAL AL 26 DH 4 4
4 Seasons C 385 374 349 3321.1 2616 2425 171 20 38 .992 20 29 7 10 7.03 6.74 .991 7.55 7.49 6 76 195 90 32% 27% 3
1 Season 1B 1 1 1 8.0 4 4 0 0 2 1.000 0 0 0 0 4.50 4.00 .992 9.34 9.20
4 Seasons TOT 386 375 350 3329.1 2620 2429 171 20 40 .992 20 29 7 10 7.03 6.74 .991 7.56 7.49 6 76 195 90 32% 27% 3
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
2009 BAL AL 23 C 2 3 0 0 1 -2
2010 BAL AL 24 C 7 8 7 7 8 0 2 0 5
2011 BAL AL 25 C 10 10 10 17 18 0 1 9 5
2011 BAL AL 25 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2012 BAL AL 26 C 3 11 0 3 3 10 -1 2 3
4 Seasons C 20 7 0 20 29 10 0 2 12 11
1 Season 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons TOT 20 7 0 0 0 0 20 29 10 0 0 2 12 11

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2009 BAL AL 23 96 94 96 86 0 86 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 0
2010 BAL AL 24 130 123 130 126 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 0
2011 BAL AL 25 139 133 139 133 0 132 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 0
2012 BAL AL 26 46 44 46 41 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 0
4 Seasons 411 394 411 386 0 385 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 15 0
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%
2009 BAL AL 23 3284 5.03 5.27 26 88% 0 0 489 14 6 13 456 35 12 1 0 3 5 1 0 4 0 12 0 3 4 9 78%
2010 BAL AL 24 4623 4.56 4.92 42 95% 0 0 775 27 2 15 729 51 12 1 0 13 5 0 2 3 0 10 0 0 1 17 100%
2011 BAL AL 25 4971 4.52 4.96 45 93% 1 0 855 19 5 19 812 70 25 1 0 8 5 0 3 2 1 14 0 3 4 14 93%
2012 BAL AL 26 1554 3.45 3.91 12 75% 0 0 306 6 2 7 291 15 2 0 0 3 5 0 1 4 1 2 0 0 0 3 33%
4 Seasons 14432 4.53 4.90 125 91% 1 0 2425 66 15 54 2288 171 51 3 0 27 20 1 6 13 2 38 0 6 9 43 88%
MLB Averages 4.09 4.45 92% 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
2009 BAL AL 23 3 16 1238 65 21 17 24% 55 19 10 1 0 1 0 0 99 22 1.09 1.27
2010 BAL AL 24 2 30 1754 53 24 21 31% 44 20 9 2 0 2 2 0 110 29 1.19 1.46
2011 BAL AL 25 1 25 1858 58 34 32 37% 49 28 9 4 0 2 0 0 103 35 1.32 1.12
2012 BAL AL 26 0 5 551 19 11 9 37% 18 9 1 1 0 1 1 0 32 12 1.64 1.81
4 Seasons 6 76 5401 195 90 79 32% 166 76 29 8 0 6 3 0 344 98 1.24 1.33
MLB Averages 28% 1.28 1.24

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
2011 BAL AL 25 40 90% 85% 23% 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
1 Season 40 90% 85% 23% 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 93% 83%

* 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
2011 *

Gold Gloves
2011 AL (C)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
2010 AL  126 (2nd)
2011 AL  132 (2nd)
2012 AL  41 (3rd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
2010 AL  775 (4th)
2011 AL  855 (4th)
2012 AL  306 (3rd)

Assists as C s c a p y
2010 AL  51 (4th)
2011 AL  70 (5th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
2012 AL  5 (1st)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
2011 AL  34 (5th)
2012 AL  11 (2nd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
2011 AL  37.0 (3rd)
2012 AL  36.7 (2nd)
Active  31.6 (12th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
2010 AL  7 (1st)
2011 AL  10 (2nd)
2012 AL  3 (1st)
Active  20 (13th)
Career  20 (61st)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
2010 AL  .994 (4th)
2011 AL  .995 (4th)

                           

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