Friday, January 26, 2024

Using innings played to compute full seasons of Hall of Fame catchers

I wondered where Joe Mauer would rank since he just got elected. I used Stathead to call up all the Hall of Famers who played at least 10% of their games at catcher.

Then I divided their innings at catcher by 9. That was then divided by 162 to get full-season equivalents. There are some guys on the list like Biggio who are not known for being catchers. 

Mauer ranks 16th with only 5.41 full-season equivalents.

Player

Innings

Games

Seasons

Ivan Rodriguez

20,348

2,260.89

13.96

Carlton Fisk

18,511

2,056.78

12.70

Gary Carter

17,368

1,929.78

11.91

Rick Ferrell

15,146

1,682.89

10.39

Ted Simmons

15,092

1,676.89

10.35

Gabby Hartnett

15,044

1,671.56

10.32

Johnny Bench

14,487

1,609.67

9.94

Ray Schalk

14,385

1,598.33

9.87

Bill Dickey

14,381

1,597.89

9.86

Yogi Berra

14,346

1,594.00

9.84

Mike Piazza

13,555

1,506.11

9.30

Ernie Lombardi

12,644

1,404.89

8.67

Mickey Cochrane

12,022

1,335.78

8.25

Roy Campanella

11,282

1,253.56

7.74

Roger Bresnahan

7,916

879.56

5.43

Joe Mauer

7,883

875.89

5.41

Buck Ewing

5,412

601.33

3.71

King Kelly

4,380

486.67

3.00

Biz Mackey

4,352

483.56

2.98

Deacon White

3,889

432.11

2.67

Josh Gibson

3,689

409.89

2.53

Craig Biggio

3,493

388.11

2.40

Jim O'Rourke

1,668

185.33

1.14

Frank Chance

1,370

152.22

0.94

Louis Santop

294

32.67

0.20

2 comments:

  1. Where would two catchers Bill Freehan and Elston Howard who deserve to be in the HOF place in this chart.

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  2. Thanks for reading and commenting.

    Bill Freehan 9.22 (12th)
    Elston Howard 6.54 (16th)

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