| Rich Gedman | |||
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Full Name: Richard Leo Gedman Bats: Left Throws: Right Height: 6-0 Weight: 210 Born: Sep 26, 1959 in Worcester, Massachusetts College: None Major League Debut: Sep 7, 1980 |
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| CAREER BATTING STATISTICS |
| BATTING | |||||||||||||||
| YEAR | TEAM | LG | AVG | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | OBP | SLG |
| 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1990 1991 1992 |
Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Hou StL StL |
AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL NL NL NL |
.208 .288 .249 .294 .269 .295 .258 .205 .231 .212 .200 .202 .106 .219 |
9 62 92 81 133 144 135 52 95 93 10 40 46 41 |
24 205 289 204 449 498 462 151 299 260 15 104 94 105 |
2 22 30 21 54 66 49 11 33 24 3 4 7 5 |
5 59 72 60 121 147 119 31 69 55 3 21 10 23 |
0 15 17 16 26 30 29 8 14 9 0 7 1 4 |
0 0 2 1 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
0 5 4 2 24 18 16 1 9 4 0 1 3 1 |
1 26 26 18 72 80 65 13 39 16 0 10 8 8 |
0 9 10 15 29 50 37 10 18 23 5 15 4 11 |
5 31 37 37 72 79 61 24 49 47 6 24 15 22 |
.208 .317 .279 .345 .312 .362 .315 .250 .279 .273 .429 .300 .140 .291 |
.208 .434 .363 .412 .506 .484 .424 .278 .368 .292 .200 .298 .213 .286 |
| Totals | AVG .252 |
G 1033 |
AB 3159 |
R 331 |
H 795 |
2B 176 |
3B 12 |
HR 88 |
RBI 382 |
BB 236 |
K 509 |
OBP .304 |
SLG .399 |
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| YEAR | TEAM | LG | HBP | GDP | TB | IBB | SH | SF | SB | CS | SB% | AB/HR | AB/K |
| 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1990 1991 1992 |
Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Hou StL StL |
AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL NL NL NL |
0 1 2 1 1 3 4 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 |
1 9 13 4 5 12 15 2 6 8 1 2 2 0 |
5 89 105 84 227 241 196 42 110 76 3 31 20 30 |
0 1 2 6 8 11 13 2 2 1 0 6 0 1 |
0 1 4 3 2 3 1 1 9 3 0 2 0 0 |
0 3 0 0 5 2 5 3 3 3 0 1 2 1 |
0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 |
-.--- -.--- .000 .000 -.--- 1.000 1.000 -.--- -.--- .000 -.--- -.--- .000 -.--- |
--.- 41.0 72.3 102.0 18.7 27.7 28.9 151.0 33.2 65.0 --.- 104.0 31.3 105.0 |
4.8 6.6 7.8 5.5 6.2 6.3 7.6 6.3 6.1 5.5 2.5 4.3 6.3 4.8 |
| Totals | HBP 16 |
GDP 80 |
TB 1259 |
IBB 53 |
SH 29 |
SF 28 |
SB 3 |
CS 4 |
SB% .429 |
AB/HR 35.9 |
AB/K 6.2 |
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| CAREER FIELDING STATISTICS |
| YEAR | TEAM | LG | POS | G | Ch | PO | A | E | DP | FPCT |
| 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1990 1991 1992 |
Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Bos Hou StL StL |
AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL NL NL NL |
C C C C C C C C C C C C C C |
2 59 86 69 125 139 134 51 93 91 9 39 43 40 |
15 308 436 306 769 861 937 328 615 532 33 205 210 242 |
13 275 397 274 693 768 866 306 570 486 27 180 192 227 |
0 30 29 26 58 78 65 14 40 36 5 25 13 12 |
2 3 10 6 18 15 6 8 5 10 1 0 5 3 |
0 1 5 5 5 13 10 1 4 6 1 5 4 2 |
0.867 0.990 0.977 0.980 0.977 0.983 0.994 0.976 0.992 0.981 0.970 1.000 0.976 0.988 |
| Totals | G 980 |
Ch 5797 |
PO 5274 |
A 431 |
E 92 |
DP 62 |
FPCT 0.984 |
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Gedman was The Sporting News' AL Rookie Player of the Year in 1981 and by the age of 25 had become one of baseball 's top catchers, but was plagued by injuries, holdouts, and inconsistency thereafter.
With a wide-open, weight-back batting stance, Gedman hit 24 homers in 1984 and followed with career highs in average (.295) and RBI (80) in 1985 while throwing out nearly half of opposition basestealers. His average dipped to .258 in 1986, and in 1987 he remained unsigned until May 1, then hit only .205 before injuring his thumb in mid-July.
In 1988 and 1989, Gedman platooned with Rick Cerone. He was traded to Houstonn for a minor-leaguer in June 1990 and spent the last two seasons of his career with the Cardinals as a backup to Tom Pagnozzi.
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