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Larvell Blanks

Larvell Blanks (Sugar Bear)

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 167 lb.

Born: January 28, 1950 in Del Rio, TX
High School: San Felipe HS (Del Rio, TX)
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 3rd round of the 1969 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 19, 1972
Teams (by GP): Braves/Indians/Rangers 1972-1980

Final Game: August 3, 1980
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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 Awards
1972 ATL NL 22 2B 18 15 14 140.0 93 38 55 0 12 1.000 0 1 5.98 5.17 .978 5.36 5.38
1972 ATL NL 22 SS 4 3 3 29.2 21 8 13 0 0 1.000 0 12 6.37 5.25 .967 5.04 5.05
1972 ATL NL 22 3B 2 2 2 18.0 9 3 6 0 0 1.000 1 73 4.50 4.50 .944 2.85 2.90
1973 ATL NL 23 3B 3 1 1 12.0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -80 0.00 0.00 2.85 2.87
1973 ATL NL 23 2B 2 0 0 5.0 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 0 48 5.40 1.50 .980 5.58 5.50
1973 ATL NL 23 SS 2 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 4.50 0.50 .960 4.95 4.95
1974 ATL NL 24 SS 2 2 2 18.0 9 1 7 1 0 .889 -1 -53 4.00 4.00 .961 4.95 4.95
1975 ATL NL 25 SS 129 121 113 1083.0 622 183 414 25 68 .960 -10 -11 4.96 4.63 .963 4.99 4.99
1975 ATL NL 25 2B 12 10 8 96.0 55 29 24 2 7 .964 -5 -59 4.97 4.42 .975 5.54 5.54
1976 CLE AL 26 SS 56 39 25 355.1 172 59 109 4 28 .977 -3 -11 4.26 3.00 .967 4.99 5.01
1976 CLE AL 26 2B 46 40 31 348.1 204 93 104 7 25 .966 -3 -10 5.09 4.28 .975 5.40 5.42
1976 CLE AL 26 DH 3 1
1976 CLE AL 26 3B 2 1 1 10.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -60 0.90 0.50 .950 2.97 2.95
1977 CLE AL 27 SS 66 45 30 418.0 198 74 116 8 21 .960 -8 -22 4.09 2.88 .963 4.82 4.79
1977 CLE AL 27 3B 18 16 16 149.2 56 11 42 3 3 .946 1 6 3.19 2.94 .957 2.97 2.96
1977 CLE AL 27 2B 12 7 7 70.1 38 15 23 0 3 1.000 -0 -9 4.86 3.17 .978 5.41 5.38
1977 CLE AL 27 DH 6 4
1978 CLE AL 28 SS 43 36 28 308.0 176 56 107 13 22 .926 -0 -2 4.76 3.79 .964 4.92 4.87
1978 CLE AL 28 2B 17 10 10 102.0 56 25 31 0 3 1.000 -0 -4 4.94 3.29 .980 5.47 5.42
1978 CLE AL 28 3B 3 2 2 22.2 8 2 6 0 0 1.000 -1 -37 3.18 2.67 .954 3.02 2.97
1978 CLE AL 28 DH 1 1
1979 TEX AL 29 SS 49 27 4 202.0 107 39 65 3 16 .972 -2 -10 4.63 2.12 .965 5.01 4.95
1979 TEX AL 29 2B 16 12 7 106.0 51 26 25 0 6 1.000 -0 -6 4.33 3.19 .978 5.50 5.43
1979 TEX AL 29 DH 1 0
1980 ATL NL 30 SS 56 18 14 233.0 151 43 100 8 21 .947 1 5 5.52 2.55 .966 5.02 5.02
1980 ATL NL 30 3B 43 32 18 284.1 119 21 89 9 10 .924 6 25 3.48 2.56 .948 2.87 2.88
1980 ATL NL 30 2B 1 1 1 9.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -53 1.00 1.00 .980 5.50 5.50
9 Seasons SS 407 291 219 2649.0 1457 463 932 62 176 .957 -22 -10 4.74 3.43 .964 4.96 4.95
8 Seasons 2B 124 95 78 876.2 501 228 264 9 56 .982 -9 -12 5.05 3.97 .977 5.43 5.43
6 Seasons 3B 71 54 40 496.2 193 37 144 12 13 .938 6 14 3.28 2.55 .951 2.91 2.91
9 Seasons TOT 602 440 337 4022.1 2151 728 1340 83 245 .961 -26 -8 4.63 3.44 .966 4.81 4.80
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.
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
1972 ATL NL 22 2B 0 1 -1 0 -1 1
1972 ATL NL 22 SS 0 12 0 0 0 0
1972 ATL NL 22 3B 1 73 1 0 1 0
1973 ATL NL 23 3B -1 -80 -1 -0 -1
1973 ATL NL 23 2B 0 48 0 0 0 0
1973 ATL NL 23 SS 0 0 0 0 0 0
1974 ATL NL 24 SS -1 -53 -1 -1 0 0
1975 ATL NL 25 SS -10 -11 -9 -2 -7 -1
1975 ATL NL 25 2B -5 -59 -5 -3 -2 0
1976 CLE AL 26 SS -3 -11 -3 2 -5 0
1976 CLE AL 26 2B -3 -10 -3 -0 -2 0
1976 CLE AL 26 3B -0 -60 -0 0 -0 0
1977 CLE AL 27 SS -8 -22 -8 -6 -1 0
1977 CLE AL 27 3B 1 6 1 2 -1 0
1977 CLE AL 27 2B -0 -9 -0 0 -1 0
1978 CLE AL 28 SS -0 -2 -2 2 -4 1
1978 CLE AL 28 2B -0 -4 1 1 0 -1
1978 CLE AL 28 3B -1 -37 -1 0 -1 0
1979 TEX AL 29 SS -2 -10 -3 -2 -1 1
1979 TEX AL 29 2B -0 -6 -0 -0 -0 0
1980 ATL NL 30 SS 1 5 0 2 -2 1
1980 ATL NL 30 3B 6 25 6 5 1 0
1980 ATL NL 30 2B -0 -53 -0 0 -0 0
9 Seasons SS -22 -10 -24 -5 -19 2
8 Seasons 2B -9 -12 -9 -2 -7 0
6 Seasons 3B 6 14 6 6 -1 0
9 Seasons TOT -26 -8 -28 -1 -26 2
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1972 ATL NL 22 33 20 33 24 0 0 0 18 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 8 3
1973 ATL NL 23 17 1 17 6 0 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 11 2
1974 ATL NL 24 3 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1975 ATL NL 25 141 131 141 140 0 0 0 12 0 129 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
1976 CLE AL 26 104 81 104 96 0 0 0 46 2 56 0 0 0 0 3 15 2
1977 CLE AL 27 105 72 105 94 0 0 0 12 18 66 0 0 0 0 6 29 0
1978 CLE AL 28 70 49 70 62 0 0 0 17 3 43 0 0 0 0 1 14 0
1979 TEX AL 29 68 39 68 63 0 0 0 16 0 49 0 0 0 0 1 13 5
1980 ATL NL 30 88 51 88 85 0 0 0 1 43 56 0 0 0 0 0 12 2
9 Seasons 629 446 629 572 0 0 0 124 71 407 0 0 0 0 11 105 16
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 -- 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
1972 ATL NL 22 133 60% 86% 23% 15 93% 1 5 4 0 1 10 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1973 ATL NL 23 8 50% 88% 13% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1974 ATL NL 24 80 65% 91% 34% 8 88% 0 1 1 0 0 6 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 ATL NL 25 4719 61% 85% 30% 493 90% 2 189 80 86 23 406 323 69 2 7 25 0 23 2 21 68 22 5 24 5 2 64 28 31 3 1 2
1976 CLE AL 26 1509 58% 79% 24% 124 97% 1 63 25 24 14 107 74 29 1 4 4 0 3 1 1 28 12 1 4 3 2 23 13 9 3 2 1
1977 CLE AL 27 1808 54% 82% 24% 153 89% 3 73 33 28 12 118 90 20 3 3 8 0 8 0 6 21 8 1 8 1 3 21 9 12 0 0 0
1978 CLE AL 28 1309 61% 83% 29% 133 87% 2 53 21 27 5 107 87 15 2 0 13 0 11 2 11 22 8 0 5 1 3 18 8 9 2 2 0
1979 TEX AL 29 854 69% 81% 27% 77 84% 0 33 11 18 4 65 50 11 0 2 3 0 3 0 3 15 4 1 9 0 0 14 5 9 1 0 0
1980 ATL NL 30 1030 60% 84% 28% 134 86% 1 45 19 16 11 99 79 19 1 0 7 1 6 0 6 21 12 2 4 0 0 19 14 4 0 0 0
9 Seasons 11450 60% 83% 28% 1138 90% 10 462 194 199 70 919 717 164 9 16 61 1 55 5 49 175 66 10 54 10 10 159 77 74 9 5 3
MLB Averages 61% 82% 28% 91%

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
1972 ATL NL 22 603 60% 83% 26% 53 92% 0 33 9 22 2 52 47 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 6 3 3 0 12 3 9 0 0 0
1973 ATL NL 23 22 86% 100% 41% 2 100% 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 ATL NL 25 429 56% 83% 25% 32 91% 0 28 9 13 6 25 24 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 7 3 1 0 2 6 2 4 0 0 0
1976 CLE AL 26 1463 58% 79% 26% 133 94% 2 93 36 45 12 103 85 15 1 3 7 0 7 0 4 26 10 3 5 2 21 7 13 3 1 2
1977 CLE AL 27 324 63% 84% 24% 27 96% 1 15 4 8 3 24 21 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 1
1978 CLE AL 28 439 66% 84% 28% 42 95% 0 26 11 10 5 31 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 3 1 2 0 0 0
1979 TEX AL 29 456 59% 77% 25% 33 97% 0 30 11 15 4 27 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 2 0 1 6 1 5 0 0 0
1980 ATL NL 30 40 73% 78% 18% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 3776 60% 81% 26% 322 94% 3 227 80 115 32 264 236 21 1 4 9 0 9 0 5 57 24 9 9 6 50 15 34 4 1 3
MLB Averages 61% 82% 28% 94%

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%
1972 ATL NL 22 70 41% 83% 33% 10 90% 0 3 3 0 0 6 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1973 ATL NL 23 53 57% 87% 32% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1976 CLE AL 26 45 42% 84% 18% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1977 CLE AL 27 650 56% 80% 28% 56 89% 0 12 9 1 2 43 32 9 0 1 3 0 3 0 3 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 2 50%
1978 CLE AL 28 116 65% 91% 27% 8 100% 0 2 1 0 1 7 7 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1980 ATL NL 30 1190 62% 84% 32% 119 89% 1 21 17 2 2 87 68 18 1 0 9 0 9 0 9 9 7 0 7 1 0 1 1 0%
6 Seasons 2124 59% 83% 30% 194 90% 1 38 30 3 5 144 112 29 1 2 12 0 12 0 12 12 10 0 10 1 0 1 4 50%
MLB Averages 61% 82% 28% 89% 68%

* 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1975 NL  25 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1980 NL  6 (3rd)

                           

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