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Tucker Ashford

Thomas Steven Ashford

Positions: Third Baseman, Second Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: December 4, 1954 in Memphis, TN
School: University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS)
Drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1974 amateur draft (January). (All Transactions)
Debut: September 21, 1976
Teams (by GP): Padres/Mets/Rangers/Royals/Yankees 1976-1984

Final Game: May 14, 1984
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1976 SDP NL 21 3B 1 1 1 9.0 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 1 93 3.00 3.00 .953 2.90 2.90
1977 SDP NL 22 3B 74 65 50 564.1 189 32 145 12 14 .937 -1 -2 2.82 2.39 .956 2.98 2.98
1977 SDP NL 22 SS 10 4 4 57.0 28 15 11 2 2 .929 -2 -51 4.11 2.60 .963 5.02 5.03
1977 SDP NL 22 2B 4 0 0 10.0 6 2 3 1 0 .833 -1 -120 4.50 1.25 .977 5.22 5.25
1978 SDP NL 23 3B 32 15 8 152.1 36 15 18 3 2 .917 -8 -61 1.95 1.03 .952 3.00 2.97
1978 SDP NL 23 2B 18 13 9 116.2 67 33 32 2 9 .970 -2 -17 5.01 3.61 .977 5.30 5.25
1978 SDP NL 23 1B 14 7 4 65.0 64 60 3 1 11 .984 -2 -28 8.72 4.50 .992 9.98 9.90
1980 TEX AL 25 3B 12 11 7 86.2 35 9 24 2 1 .943 0 3 3.43 2.75 .951 3.01 3.00
1980 TEX AL 25 SS 2 0 0 3.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0 40 6.00 1.00 .965 5.10 5.00
1981 NYY AL 26 2B 2 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -40 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.50
1983 NYM NL 28 3B 15 10 4 90.0 23 5 17 1 2 .957 -0 -7 2.20 1.47 .949 2.70 2.69
1983 NYM NL 28 2B 13 1 0 33.1 22 8 14 0 4 1.000 -0 -7 5.94 1.69 .978 5.32 5.31
1983 NYM NL 28 C 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.00 .980 6.30 6.50 0 0 0 0 0
1984 KCR AL 29 3B 9 4 4 39.2 11 2 8 1 1 .909 -2 -73 2.27 1.11 .950 2.75 2.73
6 Seasons 3B 143 106 74 942.0 297 64 214 19 20 .936 -11 -14 2.66 1.94 .954 2.95 2.93
4 Seasons 2B 37 14 9 163.0 95 43 49 3 13 .968 -3 -22 5.08 2.49 .977 5.30 5.28
1 Season 1B 14 7 4 65.0 64 60 3 1 11 .984 -2 -28 8.72 4.50 .992 9.98 9.90
2 Seasons SS 12 4 4 60.0 30 16 12 2 2 .933 -2 -46 4.20 2.33 .963 5.03 5.02
1 Season C 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.00 .980 6.30 6.50 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons TOT 207 131 91 1231.0 487 184 278 25 46 .949 -17 -17 3.38 2.23 .964 3.74 3.96 0 0 0 0 0
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1976 SDP NL 21 3B 1 93 1 0 1 0
1977 SDP NL 22 3B -1 -2 -1 0 -1 0
1977 SDP NL 22 SS -2 -51 -2 -0 -2 0
1977 SDP NL 22 2B -1 -120 -1 -0 -1 0
1978 SDP NL 23 3B -8 -61 -8 -3 -5 0
1978 SDP NL 23 2B -2 -17 -1 0 -1 -1
1978 SDP NL 23 1B -2 -28 -2 -2 0 0
1980 TEX AL 25 3B 0 3 0 1 -1 0
1980 TEX AL 25 SS 0 40 0 0 0 0
1981 NYY AL 26 2B -0 -40 -0 0 -0 0
1983 NYM NL 28 3B -0 -7 -0 0 -1 0
1983 NYM NL 28 2B -0 -7 -0 -0 -0 0
1983 NYM NL 28 C 0 0 0
1984 KCR AL 29 3B -2 -73 -2 -1 -2 0
6 Seasons 3B -11 -14 -11 -2 -9 0
4 Seasons 2B -3 -22 -2 -0 -2 -1
1 Season 1B -2 -28 -2 -2 0 0
2 Seasons SS -2 -46 -2 0 -2 0
1 Season C 0 0 0
7 Seasons TOT -17 -17 -16 -4 -13 -1 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1976 SDP NL 21 4 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1977 SDP NL 22 81 69 81 80 0 0 0 4 74 10 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1978 SDP NL 23 75 35 75 59 0 0 14 18 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 0
1980 TEX AL 25 15 11 15 14 0 0 0 0 12 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1981 NYY AL 26 3 0 3 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1983 NYM NL 28 35 11 35 26 0 1 0 13 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 1
1984 KCR AL 29 9 4 9 9 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 222 131 222 191 0 1 14 37 143 12 0 0 0 0 0 39 4
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1976 SDP NL 21 39 64% 82% 33% 4 100% 0 2 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1977 SDP NL 22 2466 68% 79% 25% 195 83% 0 32 22 2 8 145 116 22 2 5 12 0 12 0 10 14 8 1 10 2 2 0 9 22%
1978 SDP NL 23 645 67% 81% 24% 35 77% 0 14 9 1 4 19 14 5 0 0 3 0 2 1 3 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 3 67%
1980 TEX AL 25 369 59% 82% 29% 36 89% 0 10 8 1 1 24 22 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1983 NYM NL 28 403 61% 81% 23% 23 91% 0 5 2 3 0 18 14 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0
1984 KCR AL 29 169 65% 84% 25% 8 88% 0 2 1 1 0 8 5 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 100%
6 Seasons 4091 66% 80% 25% 301 84% 0 65 43 9 13 216 173 32 4 6 19 0 17 2 15 20 13 1 15 3 3 0 14 43%
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 89% 70%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1977 SDP NL 22 50 70% 74% 20% 6 83% 0 2 2 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1978 SDP NL 23 478 68% 82% 29% 40 95% 0 31 8 17 6 34 27 5 0 2 2 0 1 1 1 9 1 1 3 2 7 5 2 2 1 1
1981 NYY AL 26 11 55% 73% 27% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1983 NYM NL 28 132 53% 86% 33% 13 85% 0 8 2 4 2 12 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 0 4 1 3 0 0 0
4 Seasons 671 65% 82% 29% 59 92% 0 41 12 21 8 49 40 7 0 2 3 0 2 1 2 13 3 2 4 2 11 6 5 2 1 1
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 94%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1978 SDP NL 23 269 65% 81% 25% 11 82% 0 60 3 57 0 4 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 11 1 0 0 9 1 2 1 1 2 50%
1 Season 269 65% 81% 25% 11 82% 0 60 3 57 0 4 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 11 1 0 0 9 1 2 1 1 2 50%
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 94% 89%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1977 SDP NL 22 260 60% 78% 24% 25 88% 0 17 10 5 2 15 15 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
1980 TEX AL 25 13 23% 85% 23% 1 100% 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 273 59% 78% 24% 26 88% 0 18 10 6 2 16 16 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 91%

Advanced Fielding -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1983 NYM NL 28 3 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 3 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 3.80 4.27 96% 91%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1983 NYM NL 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 34% 1.31 1.29

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 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. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

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