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Jerry Zimmerman

Gerald Robert Zimmerman

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: September 21, 1934 in Omaha, NE
High School: Milwaukie HS (Milwaukie, OR)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1952. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1961
Teams (by GP): Twins/Reds 1961-1968

Final Game: September 22, 1968
Died: September 9, 1998 in Neskowin, OR
Cremated
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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
1961 CIN NL 26 C 76 64 46 546.2 406 374 22 10 8 .975 -2 -4 6.52 5.21 .985 6.39 6.32 8 18 24 12 33% 38% 0
1962 MIN AL 27 C 34 15 8 172.1 121 111 9 1 0 .992 1 7 6.27 3.53 .989 6.30 6.28 0 4 5 5 50% 36% 0
1963 MIN AL 28 C 39 15 9 165.2 124 116 8 0 0 1.000 1 7 6.74 3.18 .989 6.64 6.64 0 4 4 2 33% 33% 0
1964 MIN AL 29 C 63 31 22 335.1 288 264 22 2 1 .993 2 7 7.68 4.54 .990 7.07 7.06 4 11 12 12 50% 37% 0
1965 MIN AL 30 C 82 44 25 468.1 344 321 22 1 5 .997 2 5 6.59 4.18 .988 6.96 6.94 4 8 19 8 30% 34% 0
1966 MIN AL 31 C 59 30 27 327.2 281 264 16 1 5 .996 1 4 7.69 4.75 .988 6.86 6.85 2 18 11 10 48% 38% 1
1967 MIN AL 32 C 104 81 51 692.1 621 572 44 5 7 .992 6 10 8.01 5.92 .989 7.22 7.23 1 20 29 26 47% 41% 3
1968 MIN AL 33 C 24 18 6 145.0 117 109 7 1 0 .991 2 17 7.20 4.83 .990 6.97 6.94 0 1 6 5 45% 37% 0
8 Seasons C 481 298 194 2853.1 2302 2131 150 21 26 .991 13 5 7.19 4.74 .988 6.86 6.84 19 84 110 80 42% 38% 4
8 Seasons TOT 481 298 194 2853.1 2302 2131 150 21 26 .991 13 5 7.19 4.74 .988 6.86 6.84 19 84 110 80 42% 38% 4
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
  • 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
1961 CIN NL 26 C -2 -4 -2
1962 MIN AL 27 C 1 7 1
1963 MIN AL 28 C 1 7 1
1964 MIN AL 29 C 2 7 2
1965 MIN AL 30 C 2 5 2
1966 MIN AL 31 C 1 4 1
1967 MIN AL 32 C 6 10 6
1968 MIN AL 33 C 2 17 2
8 Seasons C 13 5 13
8 Seasons TOT 13 5 13

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1961 CIN NL 26 76 64 76 76 0 76 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1962 MIN AL 27 34 15 34 34 0 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1963 MIN AL 28 39 15 39 39 0 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1964 MIN AL 29 63 31 63 63 0 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1965 MIN AL 30 83 44 83 82 0 82 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1966 MIN AL 31 60 30 60 59 0 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1967 MIN AL 32 104 81 104 104 0 104 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1968 MIN AL 33 24 18 24 24 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 483 298 483 481 0 481 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 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%
1961 CIN NL 26 2348 3.97 4.68 39 95% 0 0 377 35 0 12 329 22 1 0 0 4 10 0 3 7 0 7 0 0 1 1 100%
1962 MIN AL 27 729 4.23 4.49 5 100% 0 0 114 4 0 0 110 8 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1963 MIN AL 28 696 3.37 3.97 6 100% 0 0 114 4 0 2 108 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1964 MIN AL 29 1431 3.62 4.08 21 90% 0 0 263 13 1 2 247 21 7 0 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 100%
1965 MIN AL 30 1936 3.11 3.52 23 96% 0 0 321 15 1 6 299 24 7 0 0 7 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 1 1 100%
1966 MIN AL 31 1362 3.13 3.60 21 100% 0 0 265 19 3 10 232 15 3 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 2 2 1 100%
1967 MIN AL 32 2851 2.74 3.31 41 98% 0 0 575 29 2 12 532 41 7 0 0 4 5 1 2 2 1 7 0 0 0 2 100%
1968 MIN AL 33 583 2.54 2.86 9 100% 0 0 110 6 0 3 101 8 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 100%
8 Seasons 11936 3.30 3.82 165 96% 0 0 2139 125 7 47 1958 144 29 1 0 22 21 2 8 11 1 25 0 3 5 11 100%
MLB Averages 3.54 4.03 95% 90%

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
1961 CIN NL 26 9 18 868 24 12 12 33% 23 10 1 1 0 1 0 0 74 16 1.06 1.00
1962 MIN AL 27 0 4 278 5 5 4 50% 3 5 1 0 1 0 0 0 12 6 2.59 1.82
1963 MIN AL 28 0 4 262 4 2 2 33% 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 3 0.75 0.25
1964 MIN AL 29 4 11 544 12 12 10 50% 10 11 2 0 0 1 0 0 38 11 1.15 2.05
1965 MIN AL 30 4 8 694 19 8 8 30% 18 7 1 1 0 0 0 0 40 11 1.76 1.50
1966 MIN AL 31 2 18 479 11 10 8 48% 10 9 1 1 0 0 1 0 40 13 1.03 0.83
1967 MIN AL 32 1 20 1021 29 26 22 47% 29 24 0 1 0 1 3 0 70 30 1.49 1.34
1968 MIN AL 33 0 1 185 6 5 5 45% 5 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 9 5 2.60 1.19
8 Seasons 20 84 4331 110 80 71 42% 102 71 7 5 1 4 4 0 291 95 1.44 1.34
MLB Averages 38% 1.26 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

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1961 NL  10 (4th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1967 AL  26 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1964 AL  2 (4th)
1967 AL  6 (1st)
Career  13 (87th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1967 AL  8.01 (2nd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1965 AL  .997 (1st)
1967 AL  .992 (3rd)

                                         

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