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Catchers with 2000 Hits

Posted by Raphy on May 18, 2009

Jason Kendall hit a single in the second inning of tonight's Brewers-Cardinals game for his 2000 career hit.  Here are all the players with at least half of their games at catcher and at least 2000 career hits: (Totals through yesterday)

  Cnt Player              **H**  From  To   Ages   G    PA    AB    R   2B  3B  HR  RBI  BB  IBB  SO  HBP  SH  SF GDP  SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Positions Teams
+----+-----------------+--------+----+----+-----+----+-----+-----+----+---+---+---+----+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+----+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+-----------+
    1 Ivan Rodriguez      2637   1991 2009 19-37 2301  9387  8757 1268 530  50 300 1236  477  63 1314  56  27  70 293  124  61  .301  .339  .476  .815 *2/D34    TEX-FLA-DET-TOT-HOU
    2 Ted Simmons         2472   1968 1988 18-38 2456  9685  8680 1074 483  47 248 1389  855 188  694  39  11 100 287   21  33  .285  .348  .437  .785 *2D3/759  STL-MIL-ATL
    3 Carlton Fisk        2356   1969 1993 21-45 2499  9853  8756 1276 421  47 376 1330  849 105 1386 143  26  79 204  128  58  .269  .341  .457  .798 *2D/735   BOS-CHW
    4 Yogi Berra          2150   1946 1965 21-40 2120  8364  7555 1175 321  49 358 1430  704  49  414  52   9  44 146   30  26  .285  .348  .482  .830 *279/35   NYY-NYM
    5 Mike Piazza         2127   1992 2007 23-38 1912  7745  6911 1048 344   8 427 1335  759 146 1113  30   0  45 229   17  20  .308  .377  .545  .922 *2D/3     LAD-TOT-NYM-SDP-OAK
    6 Gary Carter         2092   1974 1992 20-38 2295  9019  7971 1025 371  31 324 1225  848 106  997  68  33  99 180   39  42  .262  .335  .439  .774 *29/375   MON-NYM-SFG-LAD-MON
    7 Johnny Bench        2048   1967 1983 19-35 2158  8669  7658 1091 381  24 389 1376  891 135 1278  19  11  90 201   68  43  .267  .342  .476  .818 *253/798  CIN
    8 Jason Kendall       1999   1996 2009 22-35 1867  7813  6847  957 360  34  73  677  650  46  596 236  25  55 157  170  81  .292  .370  .386  .756 *2/79D    PIT-OAK-TOT-MIL

4 Responses to “Catchers with 2000 Hits”

  1. JDV Says:

    This made me wonder about a list of most hits "as" a catcher, but I don't know how to get there. I borrowed the following from a "baseballhalloffame.org" news story after Ivan Rodriguez' 2,600th career hit last Fall:

    "(Rodriguez) already holds the record for most hits as a catcher with 2,502, followed by Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk (2,145) and Ted Simmons (1,908)."

    Obviously, Rodriguez has added to his total since then, but does anyone out there have such a list? Kendall may be higher than 8th on that one.

  2. whiz Says:

    Using the bb-ref splits for Kendall, he has 1966 hits as a catcher. That might mean in games where he started as catcher, and might still include hits after he made a defensive switch, if any. But he looks to be in 3rd overall, ahead of Fisk.

  3. whiz Says:

    OK, looking more carefully it appears those really are hits when his defensive position was catcher.

  4. JDV Says:

    Interesting...thanks...so Kendall should soon become just the 3rd catcher in history with 2,000 hits. I think that is extremely impressive. Can you post a top ten?