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Bobby Bonner

Robert Averill Bonner

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: August 12, 1956 in Uvalde, TX
High School: CE King HS (Houston, TX)
School: Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)
Drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 3rd round of the 1978 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 12, 1980
Team: Orioles 1980-1983

Final Game: September 28, 1983
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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
1980 BAL AL 23 SS 3 1 1 15.1 9 2 6 1 1 .889 -0 -16 4.70 2.67 .963 4.99 4.97
1981 BAL AL 24 SS 9 7 5 65.0 42 15 26 1 8 .976 3 55 5.68 4.56 .967 4.98 4.98
1982 BAL AL 25 SS 38 22 16 222.2 98 33 61 4 9 .959 -3 -18 3.80 2.47 .965 4.87 4.84
1982 BAL AL 25 2B 3 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.33
1983 BAL AL 26 2B 5 0 0 5.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -24 1.80 0.20 .980 5.40 5.32
1983 BAL AL 26 DH 1 0
3 Seasons SS 50 30 22 303.0 149 50 93 6 18 .960 -1 -2 4.25 2.86 .965 4.90 4.87
2 Seasons 2B 8 0 0 8.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -15 1.12 0.13 .980 5.40 5.32
4 Seasons TOT 58 30 22 311.0 150 51 93 6 18 .960 -1 -3 4.17 2.48 .966 4.91 4.93
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
1980 BAL AL 23 SS -0 -16 -0 1 -1 0
1981 BAL AL 24 SS 3 55 2 0 2 1
1982 BAL AL 25 SS -3 -18 -3 -2 -1 0
1982 BAL AL 25 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1983 BAL AL 26 2B -0 -24 -0 -0 0 0
3 Seasons SS -1 -2 -2 -1 -0 1
2 Seasons 2B -0 -15 -0 -0 0 0
4 Seasons TOT -1 -3 -2 -1 -0 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1980 BAL AL 23 4 1 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1981 BAL AL 24 10 7 10 9 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1982 BAL AL 25 41 22 41 40 0 0 0 3 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
1983 BAL AL 26 6 0 6 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
4 Seasons 61 30 61 57 0 0 0 8 0 50 0 0 0 0 1 0 9
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
1980 BAL AL 23 68 49% 78% 35% 7 71% 0 2 0 1 1 6 5 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1981 BAL AL 24 248 65% 76% 27% 28 100% 0 15 7 7 1 26 23 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 8 2 2 2 2 0 8 4 4 0 0 0
1982 BAL AL 25 953 66% 83% 24% 80 93% 0 32 18 11 3 61 45 14 0 1 4 0 3 1 2 9 6 0 2 0 0 9 6 2 0 0 0
3 Seasons 1269 65% 81% 25% 115 93% 0 49 25 19 5 93 73 16 0 1 6 1 4 1 3 18 8 2 4 2 0 18 10 6 0 0 0
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 90%

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
1982 BAL AL 25 9 78% 89% 44% 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 BAL AL 26 19 58% 74% 21% 1 100% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 28 64% 79% 29% 1 100% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 94%

* 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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