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Jake Beckley, the all-time leader in career putouts. In baseball statistics, a putout (denoted by PO or fly out when appropriate) is given to a defensive player who records an out by a Tagging a runner with the ball when he is not touching a base (a tagout), catching a batted or thrown ball and tagging a base to put out a batter or runner (a Force out), catching a thrown ball and tagging a ...
Ashburn was a two-time National League (NL) batting champion, and finished with a .308 career batting average. [1] He also excelled as a defensive player, routinely leading the league in putouts. [2] His 5,803 career putouts ranks third among center fielders in Major League Baseball history behind only Willie Mays and Tris Speaker. [3]
List of Major League Baseball career putouts leaders; List of Major League Baseball annual putouts leaders; List of Major League Baseball career putouts as a pitcher leaders; List of Major League Baseball career putouts as a catcher leaders; List of Major League Baseball career putouts as a first baseman leaders
Johnny Lee Bench (born December 7, 1947) is an American former professional baseball player. He played his entire Major League Baseball career, which lasted from 1967 to 1983, with the Cincinnati Reds, primarily as a catcher.
Bob Boone broke Freehan's major league mark of 10,734 career total chances in 1987, and Gary Carter surpassed his putouts total of 9,941 in 1988; [24] [25] Carlton Fisk broke his AL records in 1989 (total chances) and 1990 (putouts). [26] Freehan caught 114 shutouts during his career, ranking him 18th all-time among major league catchers. [27]
He had the best career caught-stealing percentage of any major league catcher, at 45.68% (versus a league average of 31%), and he had nine seasons with a caught-stealing rate of 50% or higher. [3] Only one major league catcher (Yadier Molina) has more putouts. Rodríguez recorded 2,844 hits in his career, the most of any catcher in MLB history.
Jake Beckley is the all-time leader in career putouts with 23,743. Jiggs Donahue holds the record for most putouts in a season with 1,846 in 1907. Frank McCormick, Steve Garvey, Bill Terry, and Ernie Banks have all led the league in putouts 5 times. Freddie Freeman is the active leader in putouts.
Ausmus finished his career in 2010 ranked third in major league history with 12,839 putouts as a catcher, trailing only Iván Rodríguez and Jason Kendall, seventh in games caught with 1,938, and 10th in both range factor/game (7.12) and fielding percentage (.994). For his career, he threw out 30.2% of potential basestealers. [3] [9]