Both the Offensive and Defensive stat SCORES of the 26 Reds' catchers with 5 or more seasons with Cincinnati were AVERAGED together to obtain an OVERALL RANKING. A value of greater than 1.000 means BETTER THAN THE LEAGUE. A value less than 1.000 means WORSE THAN THE LEAGUE. A value of exactly 1.000 means EQUALS LEAGUE AVERAGE. The following array of catchers is presented in order of OVERALL BEST to WORST. [See both Offense and Defense Rankings.]

FirstName NName LastName Yrs OFF DEF SCORE JOHNNY (JOHNNY) BENCH 17 1.1860 1.1430 1.1645 CHARLES (POP) SNYDER 5 1.0973 1.2310 1.1641 RAY (RAY) MUELLER 6 1.0327 1.1940 1.1134 JOHN (LARRY) MCLEAN 7 1.0472 1.1480 1.0976 EUGENE (BUBBLES) HARGRAVE 8 1.1731 0.9650 1.0691 HENRY (HEINIE) PEITZ 9 1.1121 1.0220 1.0671 ERNESTO (ERNIE) LOMBARDI 10 1.1846 0.9240 1.0543 BAUDILIO (BO) DIAZ 5 1.0001 1.0740 1.0371 JAMES (JIM) KEENAN 7 1.1083 0.9650 1.0367 THOMAS (TOMMY) CLARKE 9 1.1431 0.9290 1.0360 JOHN (JOHNNY) EDWARDS 7 0.9993 1.0680 1.0336 LONAS (ED) BAILEY 9 1.1273 0.9320 1.0297 EDWARD (EDDIE) TAUBENSEE 7 1.0925 0.9340 1.0133 JOSEPH (JOE) OLIVER 8 0.9920 1.0260 1.0090 HARRY (FARMER) VAUGHN 9 1.0413 0.9720 1.0067 GEORGE (ADMIRAL) SCHLEI 5 1.0346 0.9640 0.9993 HOBERT (HOBIE) LANDRITH 6 0.9328 1.0180 0.9754 JEFFREY (JEFF) REED 5 0.9769 0.9490 0.9630 DONALD (DON) PAVLETICH 7 1.1303 0.7500 0.9402 RAYMOND (RAY) LAMANNO 5 0.9476 0.9190 0.9333 IVEY (IVEY) WINGO 13 0.9212 0.9270 0.9241 CLARENCE (KID) BALDWIN 6 0.9216 0.9180 0.9198 CLYDE (CLYDE) SUKEFORTH 5 0.9527 0.8510 0.9018 PATRICK (PAT) CORRALES 5 0.8853 0.7810 0.8331 WILLIAM (BILL) PLUMMER 8 0.7696 0.7950 0.7823 DONALD (DON) WERNER 5 0.6867 0.8600 0.7734

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