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	Pos					Pct. of			Catcher Fielding Statistics									Batting Statistics as Catcher																							Win Shares
Year	Rank	WSQ Leader	Tm	Age	WSQ	Total			Games	PO	Assts	Err	DP	PB	F Pct.			At Bats	Hits	2B	3B	HR	Runs	RBI	BB	IBB	SO	HP	SH	SF	SB	CS	GDP	BA	OBA	SA	OPS	RC			B WS	F WS	T WS	BWS/G	FWS/G	TWS/G
1901	7	Joe Sugden	CHI	30	5.70	7.0%			77	274	84	22	5	15	.942			260	75	10	3	1	37	40	18			4	8		11			.288	.344	.362	.706	40			4.8	3.3	8.1	.062	.043	.105
1902	11	Joe Sugden	STL	31	4.52	5.2%			61	192	67	12	9	4	.956			185	46	6	2	0	23	14	18			4	8		2			.249	.329	.303	.632	21			2.0	2.9	4.9	.033	.048	.080
1903	6	Joe Sugden	STL	32	4.92	6.1%			66	321	81	7	6	4	.983			215	45	4	0	0	16	20	22			1	11		4			.209	.286	.228	.514	17			1.1	3.7	4.8	.017	.056	.073
1904	3	Joe Sugden	STL	33	12.94	10.6%			135	604	156	18	17	15	.977			455	111	13	4	0	29	37	36			8	13		5			.244	.311	.290	.601	44			7.6	7.5	15.1	.056	.056	.112
1905	12	Joe Sugden	STL	34	2.77	6.5%			76	420	112	9	6	12	.983			238	41	4	0	0	19	21	21			3	9		3			.172	.248	.189	.437	12			-	3.7	3.7	.000	.049	.049
1906	11	Boss Schmidt	DET	25	4.19	5.2%			67	257	104	16	4	5	.958			216	47	4	3	0	13	10	6			1	5		1			.218	.242	.264	.506	13			-	4.7	4.7	.000	.070	.070
1907	5	Boss Schmidt	DET	26	9.79	8.2%			103	446	132	34	14	16	.944			349	85	6	6	0	32	23	5			7	10		8			.244	.269	.295	.564	32			4.3	5.1	9.4	.042	.050	.091
1908	1	Boss Schmidt	DET	27	19.58	9.8%			121	541	184	37	12	5	.951			419	111	14	3	1	45	38	16			3	16		5			.265	.297	.320	.617	44			8.6	6.0	14.6	.071	.050	.121
1909	14	Boss Schmidt	DET	28	2.77	6.2%			81	315	107	20	7	3	.955			250	52	8	2	1	21	28	7			3	22		7			.208	.238	.268	.506	17			0.1	3.6	3.7	.001	.044	.046
1910	5	Boss Schmidt	DET	29	6.35	4.5%			66	239	80	9	1	11	.973			197	51	7	7	1	22	23	2			3	5		2			.259	.277	.381	.658	21			3.7	2.0	5.7	.056	.030	.086
1911						0.0%
1912	21	Bert Adams	CLE	21	0.69	1.4%			20	85	28	7	3	3	.942			54	11	2	1	0	5	6	4			0	4		0			.204	.259	.278	.537	4			-	0.9	0.9	.000	.045	.045
1913	1	Wally Schang	PHI	23	18.14	5.6%			72	317	97	14	9	8	.967			207	55	16	3	3	32	30	34		44	9	2		4			.266	.392	.415	.807	40			9.9	2.8	12.7	.138	.039	.176
1914	1	Wally Schang	PHI	24	26.85	7.8%			100	498	154	30	11	17	.956			307	88	11	8	3	44	45	32		33	9	7		7	7		.287	.371	.404	.775	54			14.3	4.2	18.5	.143	.042	.185
1915	8	Wally Schang	PHI	25	5.48	2.1%			26	110	46	9	1	2	.945			85	21	2	3	0	15	10	16		11	3	3		4	1		.247	.385	.341	.726	15			3.7	0.3	4.0	.142	.012	.154
1916	8	Wally Schang	PHI	26	5.90	2.9%			36	136	67	14	6	3	.935			125	33	6	3	3	15	14	14		16	4	5		5	0		.264	.357	.432	.789	18			4.0	0.8	4.8	.111	.022	.133
1917	2	Wally Schang	PHI	27	16.03	5.9%			80	267	102	17	11	10	.956			258	73	11	7	2	33	29	24		20	7	10		5			.283	.360	.403	.763	38			9.7	2.2	11.9	.121	.028	.149
1918	4	Wally Schang	BOS	28	9.56	5.0%			57	202	52	10	4	1	.962			162	40	5	1	0	26	14	33		25	1	6		3			.247	.378	.290	.668	22			5.7	1.8	7.5	.100	.032	.132
1919	1	Wally Schang	BOS	29	25.09	8.7%			103	359	131	14	15	14	.972			330	101	16	3	0	43	55	71		42	5	7		15			.306	.436	.373	.809	61			14.6	4.2	18.8	.142	.041	.183
1920	3	Wally Schang	BOS	30	17.84	6.1%			73	285	76	16	8	3	.958			250	76	19	5	3	37	33	41		24	5	5		5	5		.304	.412	.456	.868	48			9.8	3.2	13.0	.134	.044	.178
1921	1	Wally Schang	NY	31	23.89	10.4%			132	500	101	19	13	9	.969			424	134	30	5	6	77	55	78		35	5	6		7	4		.316	.428	.453	.881	89			16.2	4.3	20.5	.123	.033	.155
1922	2	Wally Schang	NY	32	20.68	9.5%			119	456	102	14	12	11	.976			408	130	21	7	1	46	53	53		36	6	23		12	6		.319	.405	.412	.817	70			12.9	4.9	17.8	.108	.041	.150
1923	7	Wally Schang	NY	33	8.36	6.0%			81	292	60	11	6	9	.970			272	75	8	2	2	39	29	27		17	9	7		5	2		.276	.360	.342	.702	37			5.3	2.9	8.2	.065	.036	.101
1924	2	Wally Schang	NY	34	18.78	8.6%			108	423	89	15	9	10	.972			356	104	19	7	5	46	52	48		43	4	13		2	6		.292	.382	.427	.809	60			9.5	6.1	15.6	.088	.056	.144
1925	6	Pinky Hargrave	WAS/STL	29	10.34	8.8%			121	389	100	11	13	15	.978			398	107	23	3	10	51	67	31		24	1	9		4	1		.269	.323	.417	.740	56			6.3	6.1	12.4	.052	.050	.102
1926	3	Wally Schang	STL	36	18.49	10.3%			140	389	125	15	14	11	.972			520	160	35	8	15	56	87	42		58	7	19		8	5		.308	.367	.492	.859	90			15.1	6.1	21.2	.108	.044	.151
1927	3	Wally Schang	STL	37	14.56	5.6%			75	213	73	7	10	9	.976			264	84	15	2	5	40	42	41		33	2	4		3	2		.318	.414	.447	.861	53			9.1	2.6	11.7	.121	.035	.156
1928	2	Wally Schang	STL	38	20.10	12.8%			170	564	81	13	10	7	.980			565	158	23	10	13	79	102	100		54	5	14		12	3		.280	.393	.425	.818	104			17.9	6.7	24.6	.105	.039	.145
1929	3	Wally Schang	STL	39	13.74	10.1%			133	443	94	10	13	10	.982			434	120	22	5	8	69	62	94		46	9	7		3	6		.276	.415	.406	.821	80			12.2	5.5	17.7	.092	.041	.133
1930	7	Pinky Hargrave	DET/WAS	34	6.74	6.5%			85	340	36	7	8	7	.982			260	61	14	3	7	37	34	40		28	2	10		3	0		.235	.341	.392	.733	38			4.1	3.5	7.6	.048	.041	.089
1931	8	Pinky Hargrave	WAS	35	4.64	3.8%			55	170	28	6	7	3	.971			156	40	10	0	1	15	21	23		23	0	1		2	0		.256	.352	.340	.692	22			3.1	1.8	4.9	.056	.033	.089
1932						1.9%			26	86	19	1	1	2	.991			77	14	1	1	0	6	2	11		7	0	0		0	0		.182	.284	.221	.505	5			-	1.1	1.1	.000	.042	.042
1933	16	Johnny Gooch	BOS	35	0.71	0.0%
1934						0.0%
1935						0.0%
1936						0.0%
1937						0.0%
1938						1.6%			20	74	15	5	3	0	.947			75	13	3	0	2	6	5	6		13	1	1		0	1		.173	.244	.293	.537	5			-	1.0	1.0	.000	.050	.050
1939	16	Ken Silvestri	CHI	23	0.70	0.0%
1940						0.0%
1941						0.0%
1942	19	George Dickey	CHI	26	0.59	2.2%			29	90	11	9	5	1	.918			116	27	3	0	1	6	17	9		11	0	1		0	0	3	.233	.288	.284	.572	9			0.5	0.4	0.9	.017	.014	.031
1943						0.0%
	Pos					Pct. of			Catcher Fielding Statistics									Batting Statistics as Catcher																							Win Shares
Year	Rank	WSQ Leader	Tm	Age	WSQ	Total			Games	PO	Assts	Err	DP	PB	F Pct.			At Bats	Hits	2B	3B	HR	Runs	RBI	BB	IBB	SO	HP	SH	SF	SB	CS	GDP	BA	OBA	SA	OPS	RC			B WS	F WS	T WS	BWS/G	FWS/G	TWS/G
1944						0.0%
1945						0.0%
1946	18	George Dickey	CHI	30	1.25	2.0%			30	97	14	0	3	2	1.000			78	15	1	0	0	8	1	12		13	0	1		0	2	2	.192	.300	.205	.505	4			-	1.6	1.6	.000	.053	.053
1947	11	George Dickey	CHI	31	3.67	5.4%			80	285	35	5	5	8	.985			211	47	6	0	1	15	27	34		25	0	1		4	2	2	.223	.331	.265	.596	21			2.5	2.0	4.5	.031	.025	.056
1948						0.0%
1949						0.0%
1950						0.0%
1951						0.0%
1952						0.0%
1953						0.0%
1954						0.0%
1955						0.0%
1956						0.0%
1957						0.0%
1958						0.0%
1959						0.0%
1960						0.0%
1961						0.0%
1962	4	Bob Rodgers	LA	23	14.55	9.0%			150	826	73	10	14	12	.989			543	142	34	5	5	64	58	42	6	62	0	6	8	1	8	18	.262	.310	.370	.680	58			7.2	7.4	14.6	.048	.049	.097
1963	14	Bob Rodgers	LA	24	4.62	4.7%			85	416	48	10	5	12	.979			285	65	6	0	4	24	20	27	2	34	2	7	2	1	2	6	.228	.297	.291	.588	25			2.8	3.0	5.8	.033	.035	.068
1964	5	Bob Rodgers	LA	25	14.60	8.5%			146	884	87	13	14	4	.987			509	123	18	3	4	37	53	39	11	71	4	7	7	4	3	15	.242	.297	.312	.609	46			5.5	8.9	14.4	.038	.061	.099
1965	10	Bob Rodgers	CAL	26	4.90	7.0%			128	682	52	7	7	9	.991			403	84	14	3	1	33	30	32	8	60	3	4	8	4	5	15	.208	.267	.266	.533	27			-	6.2	6.2	.000	.048	.048
1966	6	Bob Rodgers	CAL	27	11.97	7.3%			133	662	69	6	7	11	.992			447	105	20	3	7	46	47	29	8	56	2	0	6	3	4	10	.235	.281	.340	.621	41			5.3	6.6	11.9	.040	.050	.089
1967	6	Bob Rodgers	CAL	28	9.23	7.3%			134	728	73	7	11	7	.991			422	93	12	3	6	28	41	33	4	56	2	6	4	1	3	12	.220	.278	.306	.584	35			3.5	6.3	9.8	.026	.047	.073
1968	22	Bob Rodgers	CAL	29	1.37	4.5%			87	407	50	7	11	7	.985			252	49	6	0	1	15	13	15	3	47	3	2	2	1	1	3	.194	.246	.230	.476	15			-	2.5	2.5	.000	.029	.029
1969						0.0%
1970						0.0%
1971						0.0%
1972						0.0%
1973						0.0%
1974	21	Tim Blackwell	BOS	21	1.84	1.9%			44	182	21	6	5	3	.971			122	30	1	1	0	9	8	10	1	21	1	2	0	1	1	3	.246	.308	.270	.578	10			0.6	1.8	2.4	.014	.041	.055
1975	11	Bob Stinson	KC	29	6.27	10.2%			231	1038	111	18	14	14	.985			580	128	24	3	5	66	47	72	2	97	4	28	2	4	2	15	.221	.310	.298	.608	58			5.9	9.0	14.9	.026	.039	.065
1976	3	Butch Wynegar	MIN	20	23.23	14.5%			302	1429	159	30	17	16	.981			929	240	29	4	16	103	121	126	13	125	3	16	7	3	3	24	.258	.346	.350	.696	115			22.0	12.6	34.6	.073	.042	.115
1977	5	Butch Wynegar	MIN	21	19.90	16.7%			412	1876	203	28	30	22	.987			1241	307	50	7	22	137	144	155	12	164	11	25	8	2	8	35	.247	.334	.352	.686	150			19.6	15.7	35.3	.048	.038	.086
1978	7	Bob Stinson	SEA	32	13.19	13.7%			335	1453	168	21	25	17	.987			1063	265	51	4	24	113	129	118	7	116	12	19	9	4	2	26	.249	.329	.373	.702	133			20.0	12.2	32.2	.060	.036	.096
1979	5	Butch Wynegar	MIN	23	18.02	9.7%			237	1029	94	15	12	10	.987			735	192	28	0	12	92	82	102	8	72	6	17	7	3	4	20	.261	.353	.348	.701	94			11.2	9.9	21.1	.047	.042	.089
1980	8	Butch Wynegar	MIN	24	14.11	7.4%			187	805	80	12	15	8	.987			573	144	20	3	6	68	65	71	6	51	3	9	8	3	1	11	.251	.333	.328	.661	67			8.1	6.4	14.5	.043	.034	.078
1981	9	Ted Simmons	MIL	31	6.09	7.3%			112	462	61	8	7	4	.985			394	86	12	2	11	47	57	31	3	30	2	1	6	0	2	9	.218	.275	.343	.618	36			5.3	3.6	8.9	.047	.032	.079
1982	3	Ted Simmons	MIL	32	22.76	14.8%			353	1792	137	14	25	20	.993			1167	307	51	3	30	148	151	120	7	116	4	12	15	3	1	34	.263	.330	.389	.719	149			22.5	14.4	36.9	.064	.041	.105
1983	3	Butch Wynegar	NY	27	18.72	12.4%			307	1458	123	26	16	18	.984			972	262	48	3	16	114	123	102	8	94	1	4	8	4	5	35	.270	.337	.374	.711	122			22.1	9.2	31.3	.072	.030	.102
1984	3	Butch Wynegar	NY	28	18.44	12.5%			301	1574	140	25	23	30	.986			947	250	35	2	21	111	107	127	12	129	0	12	7	2	7	33	.264	.349	.372	.721	122			18.5	12.0	30.5	.061	.040	.101
1985	11	Butch Wynegar	NY	29	10.06	14.5%			383	1729	140	25	26	30	.987			1003	215	46	1	11	94	86	139	2	181	3	12	11	4	4	30	.214	.309	.295	.604	98			11.3	13.3	24.6	.030	.035	.064
1986	10	Mickey Tettleton	OAK	25	8.65	10.0%			273	1306	91	16	12	27	.989			725	170	29	2	20	85	102	91	1	122	2	17	9	8	2	24	.234	.318	.363	.681	86			10.9	5.6	16.5	.040	.021	.060
	Pos					Pct. of			Catcher Fielding Statistics									Batting Statistics as Catcher																							Win Shares
Year	Rank	WSQ Leader	Tm	Age	WSQ	Total			Games	PO	Assts	Err	DP	PB	F Pct.			At Bats	Hits	2B	3B	HR	Runs	RBI	BB	IBB	SO	HP	SH	SF	SB	CS	GDP	BA	OBA	SA	OPS	RC			B WS	F WS	T WS	BWS/G	FWS/G	TWS/G
1987	12	Gino Petralli	TEX	27	5.24	9.5%			257	1295	100	13	14	49	.991			654	154	22	2	16	67	69	66	1	126	2	10	2	1	3	11	.235	.307	.349	.656	72			6.4	7.7	14.1	.025	.030	.055
1988	8	Mickey Tettleton	BAL	27	10.30	8.5%			224	987	98	17	11	32	.985			640	172	26	4	17	71	76	68	7	121	4	5	9	0	2	22	.269	.338	.402	.740	87			10.8	7.1	17.9	.048	.032	.080
1989	3	Mickey Tettleton	BAL	28	21.72	8.0%			209	1008	83	9	8	31	.992			553	137	20	1	24	76	63	81	2	128	1	8	2	1	3	11	.248	.344	.418	.762	84			13.8	6.1	19.9	.066	.029	.095
1990	6	Mickey Tettleton	BAL	29	13.91	8.5%			228	1063	84	11	8	25	.991			605	142	25	1	12	77	61	125	4	149	7	2	7	1	3	16	.235	.368	.339	.707	84			12.2	5.2	17.4	.054	.023	.076
1991	1	Mickey Tettleton	DET	30	31.85	7.2%			191	851	75	15	5	12	.984			563	148	18	3	25	91	83	96	8	117	1	7	4	4	3	15	.263	.369	.439	.808	94			19.3	6.3	25.6	.101	.033	.134
1992	2	Mickey Tettleton	DET	31	23.17	9.8%			250	1067	97	10	23	12	.991			735	162	40	0	25	98	86	121	14	165	1	4	7	0	6	19	.220	.329	.377	.706	96			15.4	10.1	25.5	.062	.040	.102
1993	5	Chad Kreuter	DET	28	17.55	8.1%			207	963	99	10	15	10	.991			654	178	35	4	25	101	95	107	11	145	3	2	6	4	3	9	.272	.374	.453	.827	117			19.4	7.0	26.4	.094	.034	.128
1994	7	Mickey Tettleton	DET	33	9.05	15.5%			279	1420	116	12	8	21	.992			897	209	44	2	20	105	110	98	6	169	4	3	8	2	3	15	.233	.309	.353	.662	103			9.2	10.2	19.4	.033	.037	.070
1995	17	Matt Walbeck	MIN	25	3.54	8.0%			175	971	60	13	10	14	.988			562	140	27	1	5	68	64	46	2	106	3	4	1	3	2	11	.249	.309	.327	.636	56			4.9	4.8	9.7	.028	.027	.055
1996	20	Chad Kreuter	CHI	31	3.39	7.5%			213	999	65	13	10	18	.988			579	125	31	1	13	73	71	59	3	107	7	5	6	3	1	15	.216	.293	.340	.633	57			2.6	6.8	9.4	.012	.032	.044
1997	12	Jorge Posada	NY	25	6.72	13.6%			343	1975	135	25	15	24	.988			1047	266	39	4	22	123	99	125	3	200	8	4	6	5	9	24	.254	.336	.362	.698	130			12.4	10.0	22.4	.036	.029	.065
1998	2	Jorge Posada	NY	26	19.05	16.8%			425	2355	177	30	13	45	.988			1263	317	65	4	34	164	183	127	9	272	7	17	12	4	4	44	.251	.320	.390	.710	153			19.5	15.7	35.2	.046	.037	.083
1999	8	Jason Varitek	BOS	27	11.42	22.7%			560	3096	244	28	36	61	.992			1719	427	94	7	45	203	225	181	6	312	15	12	19	5	5	52	.248	.322	.390	.712	216			16.2	19.7	35.9	.029	.035	.064
2000	1	Jorge Posada	NY	28	37.33	18.1%			439	2596	162	23	17	31	.992			1383	355	85	3	53	208	200	222	16	300	17	3	10	6	8	32	.257	.364	.437	.801	229			27.9	17.5	45.4	.064	.040	.103
2001	1	Jorge Posada	NY	29	31.02	10.0%			216	1602	95	18	17	21	.990			738	214	47	2	32	90	127	87	11	172	6	1	7	2	8	17	.290	.366	.489	.855	130			24.3	9.1	33.4	.113	.042	.155
2002	1	Jorge Posada	NY	30	32.37	17.4%			393	2573	165	20	24	26	.993			1339	353	83	3	39	174	214	144	13	310	12	3	11	6	4	46	.264	.338	.417	.755	184			27.6	18.1	45.7	.070	.046	.116
2003	1	Jorge Posada	NY	31	42.21	24.9%			604	3438	259	30	33	40	.992			1899	488	103	4	78	243	303	202	16	407	18	8	18	6	10	53	.257	.331	.439	.770	281			44.5	24.1	68.6	.074	.040	.114
2004	2	Jorge Posada	NY	32	24.45	26.3%			624	3885	249	30	45	36	.993			2088	572	137	2	82	299	334	268	28	422	30	2	10	12	11	64	.274	.363	.459	.822	348			50.3	23.2	73.5	.081	.037	.118
2005	2	Victor Martinez	CLE	26	27.48	25.5%			592	3445	233	27	21	27	.993			2020	548	112	2	73	284	290	268	18	375	10	2	19	4	4	44	.271	.356	.437	.793	325			52.0	21.4	73.4	.088	.036	.124
2006	3	Jorge Posada	NY	34	30.76	21.9%			516	3091	214	31	22	30	.991			1771	483	99	4	65	240	287	228	20	318	20	2	15	5	6	61	.273	.359	.443	.802	282			39.4	16.8	56.2	.076	.033	.109
2007	1	Victor Martinez	CLE	28	39.07	31.6%			739	4644	303	48	47	42	.990			2496	685	148	10	91	354	388	300	34	508	33	15	27	6	3	76	.274	.356	.451	.807	407			54.6	30.1	84.7	.074	.041	.115
2008	3	Dioner Navarro	TB	24	19.97	21.5%			497	3272	174	31	33	27	.991			1652	427	96	1	31	171	195	182	11	352	11	7	9	2	8	51	.258	.334	.374	.708	206			24.3	22.8	49.6	.049	.046	.100
2009	2	Jorge Posada	NY	37	23.88	31.9%			753	4706	269	43	44	35	.991			2517	651	142	2	85	312	342	256	17	523	15	12	20	7	6	61	.259	.328	.418	.746	348			43.9	25.0	68.9	.058	.033	.092
2010	2	Victor Martinez	BOS	31	22.20	23.8%			568	3543	216	37	24	20	.990			1844	478	111	2	62	224	253	215	18	342	10	8	21	9	3	50	.259	.336	.422	.758	269			33.8	22.0	55.8	.060	.039	.098
		Copyright © 2009-10 by Andre Lower
		Sources:
		All-Time Major League Handbook
		Win Shares Digital Update
		baseball-reference.com
		ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia