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Rich Amaral
Richard Louis Amaral

Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0" , Weight: 175 lb.

Born: April 1, 1962 in Visalia, CA
High School: Estancia (Costa Mesa, CA)
School: University of California, Los Angeles
Drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 2nd round of the 1983 amateur draft.
Signed June 10, 1983. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 27, 1991
Final Game: June 14, 2000
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Rich Amaral
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Minors
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- 1991
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Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
1991	29	SEA	AL	14	18	16	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.063	.167	.063	.229	-33	1	1	1	0	0	0	/45D63
1992	30	SEA	AL	35	109	100	9	24	3	0	1	7	4	2	5	16	.240	.276	.300	.576	62	30	4	0	4	0	0	56/73489
1993	31	SEA	AL	110	421	373	53	108	24	1	1	44	19	11	33	54	.290	.348	.367	.715	92	137	5	3	7	5	0	456/D3	RoY-5
1994	32	SEA	AL	77	262	228	37	60	10	2	4	18	5	1	24	28	.263	.333	.377	.711	82	86	3	1	7	2	1	47/6D38
1995	33	SEA	AL	90	261	238	45	67	14	2	2	19	21	2	21	33	.282	.342	.382	.725	88	91	3	1	1	0	0	78/9D
1996	34	SEA	AL	118	369	312	69	91	11	3	1	29	25	6	47	55	.292	.392	.356	.748	92	111	6	5	4	1	0	7843/D95
1997	35	SEA	AL	89	210	190	34	54	5	0	1	21	12	8	10	34	.284	.327	.326	.653	73	62	7	3	5	2	0	734/89D56
1998	36	SEA	AL	73	149	134	25	37	6	0	1	4	11	1	13	24	.276	.342	.343	.686	81	46	1	1	0	1	0	74/93D85
1999	37	BAL	AL	91	156	137	21	38	8	1	0	11	9	6	15	20	.277	.348	.350	.699	83	48	1	1	1	2	0	98D7/345
2000	38	BAL	AL	30	67	60	10	13	1	1	0	6	6	2	7	8	.217	.299	.267	.565	49	16	6	0	0	0	0	8/D973
10 Seasons				727	2022	1788	305	493	82	10	11	159	112	39	176	277	.276	.344	.351	.695	83	628	37	16	29	13	1
162 Game Avg.				162	451	398	68	110	18	2	2	35	25	9	39	62	.276	.344	.351	.695	83	140	8	4	6	3	0

SEA (8 yrs)				606	1799	1591	274	442	73	8	11	142	97	31	154	249	.278	.345	.354	.699	84	564	30	15	28	11	1
BAL (2 yrs)				121	223	197	31	51	9	2	0	17	15	8	22	28	.259	.333	.325	.658	72	64	7	1	1	2	0

Advanced Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1991	29	SEA	AL	18	16	0	0.0	97	.091	.063	.260	.167	.329	.063	.395	.229	.724	-33	.000	-3.0	-0.3	.188	.063	.000
1992	30	SEA	AL	109	86	7	2.2	94	.277	.240	.259	.276	.328	.300	.385	.576	.713	62	.218	-5.4	-0.6	.451	.130	.060	1.6
1993	31	SEA	AL	421	293	49	4.5	103	.331	.290	.268	.348	.339	.367	.409	.715	.748	92	.466	-2.8	-0.3	.644	.188	.078	1.9
1994	32	SEA	AL	262	181	31	4.6	113	.283	.263	.275	.333	.347	.377	.438	.711	.785	82	.430	-6.4	-0.6	.669	.237	.114	4.4
1995	33	SEA	AL	261	177	35	5.3	110	.320	.282	.272	.342	.346	.382	.429	.725	.774	88	.505	-4.3	-0.4	.750	.269	.101	3.7
1996	34	SEA	AL	369	238	50	5.6	116	.350	.292	.277	.392	.350	.356	.445	.748	.795	92	.503	-2.0	-0.2	.781	.276	.064	1.9
1997	35	SEA	AL	210	158	19	3.2	107	.338	.284	.269	.327	.338	.326	.425	.653	.763	73	.297	-7.2	-0.7	.523	.116	.042	1.8
1998	36	SEA	AL	149	100	18	4.8	109	.327	.276	.271	.342	.339	.343	.430	.686	.770	81	.464	-3.5	-0.3	.707	.239	.067	1.8
1999	37	BAL	AL	156	109	18	4.4	110	.319	.277	.270	.348	.342	.350	.432	.699	.774	83	.407	-2.7	-0.2	.632	.204	.073	.0
2000	38	BAL	AL	67	55	4	1.9	111	.250	.217	.270	.299	.342	.267	.434	.565	.777	49	.129	-4.7	-0.4	.491	.233	.050	.0
10 Seasons				2022	1413	231	4.4	109	.319	.276	.271	.344	.343	.351	.426	.695	.769	83	.422	-41.9	-3.9	.651	.215	.076	20.0
162 Game Avg.				451	315	51	4.4	109	.319	.276	.271	.344	.343	.351	.426	.695	.769	83	.422	-41.9	-3.9	.651	.215	.076	4

SEA (8 yrs)				1799	1249	209	4.5	109	.321	.278	.271	.345	.343	.354	.425	.699	.768	84	.436	-34.5	-3.3	.660	.215	.077	19.8
BAL (2 yrs)				223	164	22	3.6	110	.298	.259	.270	.333	.342	.325	.433	.658	.775	72	.317	-7.4	-0.7	.584	.213	.066	.0

Postseason Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1995	33	SEA	AL	ALCS	CLE	L	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0

1997	35	SEA	AL	ALDS	BAL	L	2	4	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
2 Seasons (2 Series)							4	6	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	2	0	0	0	0	0
1 ALDS							2	4	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
1 ALCS							2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ratio Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GB/FB	GO/AO	IP%	LD%	HR/FB	IF/FB
1991	29	SEA	AL	18	0.0%	27.8%	5.6%	0.0%	0%	5.00	3.2			0.83	1.20	61%	9%	0.0%	33%
1992	30	SEA	AL	109	0.9%	14.7%	4.6%	3.7%	17%	3.20	6.3	100.0	14.3	0.82	1.03	76%	17%	2.7%	18%
1993	31	SEA	AL	421	0.2%	12.8%	7.8%	6.2%	24%	1.64	6.9	373.0	8.5	0.82	1.05	77%	22%	0.7%	13%
1994	32	SEA	AL	262	1.5%	10.7%	9.2%	6.1%	27%	1.17	8.1	57.0	12.7	0.64	0.83	76%	20%	3.7%	11%
1995	33	SEA	AL	261	0.8%	12.6%	8.1%	6.9%	27%	1.57	7.2	119.0	12.5	0.97	0.96	78%	20%	2.4%	19%
1996	34	SEA	AL	369	0.3%	14.9%	12.7%	4.1%	17%	1.17	5.7	312.0	10.8	0.94	1.40	70%	27%	0.9%	9%
1997	35	SEA	AL	210	0.5%	16.2%	4.8%	2.9%	11%	3.40	5.6	190.0	9.0	0.85	1.02	75%	19%	1.3%	8%
1998	36	SEA	AL	149	0.7%	16.1%	8.7%	4.7%	19%	1.85	5.6	134.0	33.5	0.88	1.09	74%	23%	2.0%	17%
1999	37	BAL	AL	156	0.0%	12.8%	9.6%	5.8%	24%	1.33	6.9		12.5	1.00	1.59	76%	25%	0.0%	2%
2000	38	BAL	AL	67	0.0%	11.9%	10.5%	3.0%	15%	1.14	7.5		10.0	1.68	2.75	78%	21%	0.0%	5%
10 Seasons				2022	0.5%	13.7%	8.7%	5.1%	21%	1.57	6.5	162.5	11.2	0.87	1.13	75%	22%	1.6%	12%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1991	29	SEA	AL	0	0	67%	15	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25%	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	1
1992	30	SEA	AL	1	0	29%	44	4	2	67%	3	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	57%	3	2	1	1	0	1	3	1	2
1993	31	SEA	AL	3	0	36%	185	19	11	63%	18	9	1	2	0	0	1	0	7	11	52%	29	14	15	6	5	1	13	4	9
1994	32	SEA	AL	2	0	41%	115	5	1	83%	4	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	7	38%	13	10	3	3	2	1	8	3	5
1995	33	SEA	AL	5	0	49%	135	21	2	91%	12	2	9	0	0	0	2	1	6	10	54%	14	8	6	6	2	4	6	2	4
1996	34	SEA	AL	5	0	48%	190	25	6	81%	20	4	5	2	0	0	2	1	2	11	42%	29	18	11	9	5	4	14	7	7
1997	35	SEA	AL	2	0	50%	112	12	8	60%	10	7	2	1	0	0	4	4	0	3	54%	14	9	5	2	1	1	10	2	8
1998	36	SEA	AL	3	0	48%	61	11	1	92%	9	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	3	5	32%	14	10	4	2	1	1	9	6	3
1999	37	BAL	AL	1	0	39%	91	9	6	60%	8	4	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	52%	12	8	4	2	0	2	7	2	5
2000	38	BAL	AL	1	0	50%	35	6	2	75%	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	33%	6	5	1	0	0	0	3	1	2
10 Seasons				23	0	44%	983	112	39	74%	89	31	23	8	0	0	14	6	19	51	46%	136	86	50	31	16	15	75	29	46
MLB Averages

Situational Hitting*

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						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1991	29	SEA	AL	18	39%	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	1.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		4	1	25%	1	0	0%	7	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
1992	30	SEA	AL	109	37%	24	11	2	2	0	0	0	1.75	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	5	4	80%	20	4	20%	13	5	38%	63	6	10%	6	3	50%	5	4	80%	0
1993	31	SEA	AL	421	39%	108	17	3	3	1	0	1	2.51	1	0	12	1	0	0	1	0	12	7	58%	79	5	6%	39	20	51%	249	44	18%	20	13	65%	23	8	35%	0
1994	32	SEA	AL	262	45%	60	8	2	5	2	1	1	1.79	4	0	7	0	4	2	2	0	7	7	100%	45	3	7%	25	11	44%	139	14	10%	17	8	47%	10	4	40%	0
1995	33	SEA	AL	261	53%	67	6	1	9	2	0	1	1.96	2	0	10	1	1	1	1	0	2	1	50%	35	3	9%	17	6	35%	135	19	14%	10	5	50%	12	4	33%	0
1996	34	SEA	AL	369	47%	91	10	1	9	2	0	1	1.50	1	0	6	0	1	1	0	0	9	4	44%	58	6	10%	30	13	43%	206	29	14%	24	12	50%	22	7	32%	0
1997	35	SEA	AL	210	68%	54	8	0	20	4	0	2	1.05	1	0	5	0	1	0	1	0	5	5	100%	38	7	18%	23	10	43%	139	20	14%	14	8	57%	11	3	27%	0
1998	36	SEA	AL	149	53%	37	11	0	4	1	0	0	1.63	1	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0		13	1	8%	5	1	20%	77	3	4%	2	2	100%	6	0	0%	0
1999	37	BAL	AL	156	52%	38	2	1	16	4	0	0	0.77	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	25	1	4%	11	6	55%	100	11	11%	7	5	71%	8	3	38%	0
2000	38	BAL	AL	67	72%	13	1	0	4	0	0	0	1.20	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0%	18	6	33%	5	1	20%	42	7	17%	3	2	67%	2	1	50%	0
10 Seasons				2022	49%	493	74	10	74	16	1	6	1.32	11	0	51	2	9	5	6	0	42	29	69%	335	37	11%	169	73	43%	1157	153	13%	103	58	56%	99	34	34%	0
MLB Averages

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Pit	Pit/PA	Str	Str%	L/Str	S/Str	F/Str	I/Str	AS/Str	I/Bll	AS/Pit	Con	1stS	30%	30c	30s	20%	20c	20s	31%	31c	31s	L/SO	PAu	Pitu	Stru
1991	29	SEA	AL	18	66	3.67	45	68%	20%	24%	31%	24%	80%	0%	55%	69%	28%	0%	0	0	17%	3	3	6%	1	1	0%	0	0	0
1992	30	SEA	AL	109	388	3.56	253	65%	26%	9%	30%	35%	74%	0%	48%	88%	41%	3%	3	0	9%	10	3	3%	3	1	56%	0	0	0
1993	31	SEA	AL	421	1447	3.44	893	62%	34%	9%	20%	37%	66%	0%	41%	86%	27%	4%	18	0	13%	56	18	8%	32	16	56%	0	0	0
1994	32	SEA	AL	262	944	3.60	559	59%	35%	7%	20%	37%	65%	1%	38%	89%	21%	6%	15	0	15%	40	9	10%	25	7	43%	0	0	0
1995	33	SEA	AL	261	978	3.75	586	60%	35%	8%	22%	35%	65%	0%	39%	88%	23%	3%	9	0	16%	41	13	9%	24	11	45%	0	0	0
1996	34	SEA	AL	351	1353	3.85	798	59%	35%	8%	25%	31%	65%	0%	38%	87%	23%	4%	14	0	15%	52	20	11%	40	18	46%	18	0	0
1997	35	SEA	AL	208	759	3.65	484	64%	32%	10%	25%	33%	68%	0%	43%	86%	30%	3%	6	0	12%	25	12	9%	18	10	41%	2	0	0
1998	36	SEA	AL	149	578	3.88	346	60%	38%	11%	19%	32%	62%	0%	37%	82%	25%	3%	5	0	15%	22	8	7%	11	4	46%	0	0	0
1999	37	BAL	AL	156	576	3.69	343	60%	31%	11%	24%	35%	69%	0%	41%	84%	28%	4%	7	1	13%	20	7	6%	10	5	40%	0	0	0
2000	38	BAL	AL	67	257	3.84	151	59%	35%	11%	19%	34%	65%	0%	38%	83%	19%	4%	3	0	18%	12	5	15%	10	7	25%	0	0	0
10 Seasons				2002	7346	3.67	4458	61%	34%	9%	23%	34%	66%	0%	40%	86%	26%	4%	80	1	14%	281	98	9%	174	80	46%	20	0	0
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1991	29	14	18	16	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.063	.167	.063	.229	-33	1	1	1	0	0	0
1992	30	49	127	116	11	25	3	0	1	7	4	2	6	21	.216	.260	.267	.527	48	31	5	1	4	0	0
1993	31	159	548	489	64	133	27	1	2	51	23	13	39	75	.272	.328	.344	.671	83	168	10	4	11	5	0
1994	32	236	810	717	101	193	37	3	6	69	28	14	63	103	.269	.330	.354	.684	82	254	13	5	18	7	1
1995	33	326	1071	955	146	260	51	5	8	88	49	16	84	136	.272	.333	.361	.694	84	345	16	6	19	7	1
1996	34	444	1440	1267	215	351	62	8	9	117	74	22	131	191	.277	.348	.360	.708	86	456	22	11	23	8	1
1997	35	533	1650	1457	249	405	67	8	10	138	86	30	141	225	.278	.345	.356	.701	84	518	29	14	28	10	1
1998	36	606	1799	1591	274	442	73	8	11	142	97	31	154	249	.278	.345	.354	.699	84	564	30	15	28	11	1
1999	37	697	1955	1728	295	480	81	9	11	153	106	37	169	269	.278	.345	.354	.699	84	612	31	16	29	13	1
2000	38	727	2022	1788	305	493	82	10	11	159	112	39	176	277	.276	.344	.351	.695	83	628	37	16	29	13	1

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1991	29	14	18	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	14
1992	30	35	105	100	10	24	3	0	1	7	4	5	16	.240	.276	.300	.576	8	35
1993	31	110	417	375	53	110	24	1	1	44	19	34	54	.293	.353	.371	.723	49	110
1994	32	109	358	321	46	82	14	3	5	22	7	33	40	.255	.324	.364	.689	38	77
1995	33	101	294	269	47	77	16	2	2	20	24	24	37	.286	.347	.383	.730	36	90
1996	34	118	368	314	61	93	11	3	1	26	26	48	55	.296	.397	.360	.757	44	118
1997	35	89	201	187	33	51	5	0	1	20	11	9	34	.273	.313	.316	.629	18	89
1998	36	73	152	136	23	39	6	0	1	4	12	14	24	.287	.355	.353	.708	17	73
1999	37	91	155	137	20	38	8	1	0	11	9	15	20	.277	.348	.350	.699	17	91
2000	38	30	65	59	11	12	1	1	0	6	6	6	8	.203	.277	.254	.531	4	30
10 Seasons		770	2133	1914	304	526	88	11	12	160	118	189	293	.275	.343	.351	.694	231	727
162 Game Avg.		162	449	403	64	111	19	2	3	34	25	40	62	.275	.343	.351	.694	49	727

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1996 AL 25 (8th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1994 AL 7 (10th)

Oldest s c a p y
2000 AL born 1962-04-01 (9th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink Batting - 2 (2092), Average HOFer ≈ 144

Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 7 (2117), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Batters

Compare Stats to Similars

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Jimmy Outlaw (955)
Josh Devore (953)
Dave Gallagher (952)
Ryan Freel (952)
Bernie Neis (945)
Willie Harris (945)
Joe Schultz (943)
Ward Miller (943)
Gus Felix (943)

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Jolbert Cabrera (946) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jimmy Outlaw (943) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Johnny Cooney (926) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
So Taguchi (925) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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Gray Ink	Batting - 2 (2092), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 7 (2117), Average HOFer ≈ 50