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 |
Where would two catchers Bill Freehan and Elston Howard who deserve to be in the HOF place in this chart.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading and commenting.
ReplyDeleteBill Freehan 9.22 (12th)
Elston Howard 6.54 (16th)