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Bobby Avila

Roberto Francisco (Gonzalez) Avila

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: April 2, 1924 in Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico (All Transactions)
Debut: April 30, 1949
Teams (by GP): Indians/Braves/RedSox/Orioles 1949-1959

Final Game: September 29, 1959
Died: October 26, 2004 in Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico
Buried: San Pedro & San Pablo Church Columbarium, Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 11:58PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #618. Tommy Tucker… #619. George Wright… #620. Justin Upton… #621. BOBBY AVILA… #622. Clete Boyer… #623. Jason Varitek… #624. Phil Garner… 

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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
1949 25 CLE AL 31 15 14 3 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 3 .214 .267 .214 .481 29 3 1 0 0 /4
1950 26 CLE AL 80 239 201 39 60 10 2 1 21 5 0 29 17 .299 .390 .383 .773 101 77 8 1 8 4/6
1951 27 CLE AL 141 615 542 76 165 21 3 10 58 14 8 60 31 .304 .374 .410 .783 116 222 16 0 13 *4 MVP-10
1952 28 CLE AL 150 684 597 102 179 26 11 7 45 12 10 67 36 .300 .371 .415 .787 124 248 16 1 19 *4 AS,MVP-29
1953 29 CLE AL 141 633 559 85 160 22 3 8 55 10 8 58 27 .286 .355 .379 .735 100 212 18 2 14 *4
1954 30 CLE AL 143 638 555 112 189 27 2 15 67 9 7 59 31 .341 .402 .477 .880 139 265 9 1 19 4 *4/6 AS,MVP-3
1955 31 CLE AL 141 643 537 83 146 22 4 13 61 1 4 82 47 .272 .368 .400 .768 104 215 17 2 18 4 1 *4 AS
1956 32 CLE AL 138 597 513 74 115 14 2 10 54 17 4 70 68 .224 .323 .318 .640 68 163 12 5 8 1 0 *4
1957 33 CLE AL 129 528 463 60 124 19 3 5 48 2 4 46 47 .268 .334 .354 .688 89 164 10 1 16 2 2 *45
1958 34 CLE AL 113 445 375 54 95 21 3 5 30 5 7 55 45 .253 .349 .365 .714 98 137 5 1 12 2 0 45
1959 35 TOT MLB 93 306 264 37 60 3 2 6 25 3 0 34 47 .227 .314 .322 .636 76 85 9 0 7 1 0 4/957
1959 35 TOT AL 42 102 92 8 19 0 0 3 6 0 0 10 16 .207 .284 .304 .589 62 28 8 0 0 0 0 4/957
1959 35 MLN NL 51 204 172 29 41 3 2 3 19 3 0 24 31 .238 .330 .331 .661 83 57 1 0 7 1 0 4
1959 35 BAL AL 20 51 47 1 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 .170 .235 .170 .406 15 8 5 0 0 0 0 /9457
1959 35 BOS AL 22 51 45 7 11 0 0 3 6 0 0 6 11 .244 .333 .444 .778 109 20 3 0 0 0 0 4
11 Seasons 1300 5343 4620 725 1296 185 35 80 467 78 52 561 399 .281 .359 .388 .747 103 1791 121 14 134 14 3
162 Game Avg. 162 666 576 90 162 23 4 10 58 10 6 70 50 .281 .359 .388 .747 103 223 15 2 17
CLE (10 yrs) 1207 5037 4356 688 1236 182 33 74 442 75 52 527 352 .284 .362 .392 .754 105 1706 112 14 127 13 3
MLN (1 yr) 51 204 172 29 41 3 2 3 19 3 0 24 31 .238 .330 .331 .661 83 57 1 0 7 1 0
BOS (1 yr) 22 51 45 7 11 0 0 3 6 0 0 6 11 .244 .333 .444 .778 109 20 3 0 0 0 0
BAL (1 yr) 20 51 47 1 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 .170 .235 .170 .406 15 8 5 0 0 0 0
AL (11 yrs) 1249 5139 4448 696 1255 182 33 77 448 75 52 537 368 .282 .360 .390 .750 104 1734 120 14 127 13 3
NL (1 yr) 51 204 172 29 41 3 2 3 19 3 0 24 31 .238 .330 .331 .661 83 57 1 0 7 1 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1949 25 CLE AL 15 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $ /4
1950 26 CLE AL 239 2 2 0 0 -2 3 7 12 1.2 14 1.4 -0.2 $ 4/6
1951 27 CLE AL 615 13 0 0 0 6 6 16 41 4.2 35 3.6 0.6 $ *4 MVP-10
1952 28 CLE AL 684 24 3 0 0 -4 7 17 47 5.0 51 5.4 -0.4 $ *4 AS,MVP-29
1953 29 CLE AL 634 4 1 0 0 0 6 16 46 4.7 27 2.8 1.9 $ *4
1954 30 CLE AL 638 31 6 3 0 4 7 16 67 7.1 63 6.6 0.5 $ *4/6 AS,MVP-3
1955 31 CLE AL 643 2 4 3 -3 -10 6 16 18 1.9 28 3.0 -1.1 $ *4 AS
1956 32 CLE AL 598 -18 6 -1 0 7 4 16 14 1.4 7 0.7 0.7 $ *4
1957 33 CLE AL 528 -2 0 3 0 -5 4 15 15 1.5 20 2.1 -0.6 $ *45
1958 34 CLE AL 445 4 -3 -1 0 -4 3 12 11 1.1 15 1.6 -0.5 $ 45
1959 35 BAL AL 51 -6 -1 -1 -1 0 0 1 -8 -0.8 -8 -0.8 0.0 $ /9457
1959 35 BOS AL 51 1 -1 0 -1 -2 0 1 -2 -0.2 0 0.0 -0.2 $ 4
1959 35 MLN NL 204 -4 1 3 1 -6 2 7 4 0.4 10 1.0 -0.6 $ 4
11 Seasons 5345 50 18 9 -4 -16 48 140 264 27.4 261 27.3 0.1 $
CLE (10 yrs) 5039 59 19 7 -3 -8 46 131 270 28.0 259 27.1 0.9 $
MLN (1 yr) 204 -4 1 3 1 -6 2 7 4 0.4 10 1.0 -0.6 $
BAL (1 yr) 51 -6 -1 -1 -1 0 0 1 -8 -0.8 -8 -0.8 0.0 $
BOS (1 yr) 51 1 -1 0 -1 -2 0 1 -2 -0.2 0 0.0 -0.2 $

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
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
1954 30 CLE AL WS NYG L 4 18 15 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 .133 .235 .133 .369 2 0 0 1 0 0
1 WS 4 18 15 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 .133 .235 .133 .369 2 0 0 1 0 0

Standard Fielding

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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 Awards
1949 CLE AL 25 2B 5 12 5 7 0 1 1.000 2.40 .974 5.48
1950 CLE AL 26 2B 62 293 153 135 5 46 .983 4.65 .976 5.76
1950 CLE AL 26 SS 2 6 4 2 0 1 1.000 3.00 .962 4.95
1951 CLE AL 27 2B 136 780 349 417 14 87 .982 5.63 .978 5.69 MVP-10
1952 CLE AL 28 2B 149 814 355 431 28 81 .966 5.28 .978 5.57 AS,MVP-29
1953 CLE AL 29 2B 140 802 346 445 11 114 .986 5.65 .979 5.57
1954 CLE AL 30 2B 141 781 356 406 19 100 .976 5 5.40 .976 5.33 AS,MVP-3
1954 CLE AL 30 SS 7 11 5 4 2 2 .818 -1 1.29 .960 4.97 AS,MVP-3
1955 CLE AL 31 2B 141 703 348 342 13 108 .982 -10 4.89 .976 5.32 AS
1956 CLE AL 32 2B 135 689 322 351 16 83 .977 7 4.99 .973 5.40
1957 CLE AL 33 2B 107 543 280 254 9 72 .983 -2 4.99 .980 5.41
1957 CLE AL 33 3B 16 31 13 16 2 2 .935 -3 1.81 .951 3.24
1958 CLE AL 34 2B 82 357 175 177 5 62 .986 -3 4.29 .978 5.21
1958 CLE AL 34 3B 33 70 18 48 4 6 .943 -1 2.00 .951 3.08
1959 TOT MLB 35 2B 70 11 10 125.0 302 131 161 10 31 .967 -7 -71 21.02 4.17 .976 50.27 5.23
1959 TOT AL 35 2B 19 11 10 125.0 60 28 30 2 10 .967 -1 -13 4.18 3.05 .976 50.27 5.25
1959 MLN NL 35 2B 51 242 103 131 8 21 .967 -6 4.59 .976 5.22
1959 BAL AL 35 OF 10 9 2 60.0 12 12 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -6 1.80 1.20 .980 46.41 2.21
1959 BAL AL 35 RF 9 9 2 58.0 12 12 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -6 1.86 1.33 .977 1.89 1.88
1959 BAL AL 35 2B 8 2 1 37.0 20 9 10 1 2 .950 0 10 4.62 2.38 .976 50.28 5.25
1959 BAL AL 35 3B 1 0 0 1.1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 270 6.75 1.00 .950 0.00 3.20
1959 BAL AL 35 LF 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.25 2.00
1959 BOS AL 35 2B 11 9 9 88.0 40 19 20 1 8 .975 -2 -23 3.99 3.55 .976 50.27 5.25
11 Seasons 2B 1168 11 10 125.0 6076 2820 3126 130 785 .979 -11 -102 21.02 5.09 .977 50.27 5.45
3 Seasons 3B 50 0 0 1.1 102 31 65 6 8 .941 -3 -3150 6.75 1.92 .951 0.00 3.13
1 Season OF 10 9 2 60.0 12 12 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -6 1.80 1.20 .980 46.41 2.21
2 Seasons SS 9 17 9 6 2 3 .882 -1 1.67 .961 4.97
1 Season RF 9 9 2 58.0 12 12 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -6 1.86 1.33 .977 1.89 1.88
1 Season LF 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.25 2.00
11 Seasons TOT 1237 20 12 186.1 6207 2872 3197 138 796 .978 -16 -101 14.73 4.91 .977 48.67 5.33
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
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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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1952 (2B)
1954 (2B)
1955 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1951 AL (10, 15%)
1952 AL (29, 1%)
1954 AL (3, 60%)
0.76 Career Shares (318th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1954 AL  7.1 (4th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1951 AL  4.2 (8th)
1952 AL  5.0 (5th)
1953 AL  4.7 (7th)
1954 AL  7.1 (4th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1952 AL  5.4 (4th)
1954 AL  6.6 (2nd)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1951 AL  0.6 (6th)
1953 AL  1.9 (1st)
1956 AL  0.7 (6th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1951 AL  .304 (8th)
1952 AL  .300 (8th)
1954 AL  .341 (1st)

On-Base% s c a p y
1954 AL  .402 (6th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1954 AL  .477 (9th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1954 AL  .880 (5th)

At Bats s c a p y
1952 AL  597 (2nd)
1954 AL  555 (10th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1952 AL  684 (3rd)
1955 AL  643 (8th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1952 AL  102 (2nd)
1954 AL  112 (3rd)

Hits s c a p y
1951 AL  165 (6th)
1952 AL  179 (2nd)
1953 AL  160 (9th)
1954 AL  189 (3rd)

Total Bases s c a p y
1952 AL  248 (8th)
1954 AL  265 (7th)

Doubles s c a p y
1952 AL  26 (10th)
1954 AL  27 (7th)

Triples s c a p y
1952 AL  11 (1st)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1955 AL  82 (10th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1951 AL  14 (4th)
1952 AL  12 (6th)
1953 AL  10 (7th)
1954 AL  9 (8th)
1956 AL  17 (3rd)

Singles s c a p y
1951 AL  131 (5th)
1952 AL  135 (3rd)
1953 AL  127 (6th)
1954 AL  145 (4th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1954 AL  139 (5th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1952 AL  90 (6th)
1954 AL  106 (4th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1954 AL  31 (5th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1954 AL  3.1 (5th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1952 AL  247 (6th)
1954 AL  249 (6th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1954 AL  .714 (5th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1951 AL  13 (4th)
1952 AL  19 (2nd)
1953 AL  14 (3rd)
1954 AL  19 (1st)
1955 AL  18 (1st)
1956 AL  8 (7th)
1957 AL  16 (2nd)
1958 AL  12 (2nd)
Career  134 (226th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1951 AL  16 (6th)
1952 AL  16 (9th)
1953 AL  18 (7th)
1955 AL  17 (6th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1951 AL  8 (5th)
1952 AL  10 (3rd)
1953 AL  8 (4th)
1954 AL  7 (9th)
1958 AL  7 (7th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1951 AL  11.7 (4th)
1952 AL  8.8 (6th)
1953 AL  8.9 (7th)
1954 AL  11.3 (4th)
1956 AL  12.6 (5th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1952 AL  16.6 (9th)
1953 AL  20.7 (6th)
1954 AL  17.9 (8th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1952 AL  463 (5th)
1955 AL  434 (8th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
1954 AL  42.30 (7th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1954 AL  4.8 (5th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1954 AL  3.7 (6th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1954 AL  4.2 (7th)

Assists† s c a p y
1952 AL  431 (3rd)
1953 AL  445 (3rd)
1954 AL  410 (3rd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1952 AL  28 (1st)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1951 AL  136 (4th)
1952 AL  149 (2nd)
1953 AL  140 (4th)
1954 AL  141 (2nd)
1955 AL  141 (3rd)
1956 AL  135 (2nd)
1957 AL  107 (4th)
Career  1,168 (83rd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1951 AL  349 (4th)
1952 AL  355 (3rd)
1953 AL  346 (4th)
1954 AL  356 (2nd)
1955 AL  348 (4th)
1956 AL  322 (2nd)
1957 AL  280 (4th)
Career  2,820 (66th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1951 AL  417 (4th)
1952 AL  431 (2nd)
1953 AL  445 (1st)
1954 AL  406 (1st)
1955 AL  342 (4th)
1956 AL  351 (2nd)
1957 AL  254 (4th)
Career  3,126 (98th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1952 AL  28 (1st)
1954 AL  19 (1st)
1955 AL  13 (4th)
1956 AL  16 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1954 AL  5 (4th)
1956 AL  7 (1st)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1951 AL  5.73 (5th)
1952 AL  5.38 (5th)
1953 AL  5.86 (1st)
1954 AL  5.60 (2nd)
1956 AL  5.25 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1951 AL  5.63 (5th)
1952 AL  5.28 (5th)
1953 AL  5.65 (2nd)
1954 AL  5.40 (2nd)
1956 AL  4.99 (3rd)
1957 AL  4.99 (4th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1951 AL  .982 (2nd)
1953 AL  .986 (1st)
1954 AL  .976 (5th)
1955 AL  .982 (2nd)
1956 AL  .977 (4th)
1957 AL  .983 (3rd)
1958 AL  .986 (1st)

                           

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 5 (382), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 52 (486), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 32 (578), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 22 (656), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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