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Nelson Briles

Nelson Kelley Briles

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: August 5, 1943 in Dorris, CA
High School: Chico HS (Chico, CA)
School: Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA)
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1963. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1965 (Age 21)
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Pirates/Rangers/Royals/Orioles 1965-1978

Final Game: September 13, 1978 (Age 35)
Died: February 13, 2005 in Orlando, FL
Buried: St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, PA
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1965 STL NL 21 P 37 2 0 82.1 14 6 8 0 1 1.000 1.53 0.38 .956 2.08 2.08 5 4 44% 36% 1
1966 STL NL 22 P 49 17 0 154.0 39 9 29 1 3 .974 2.22 0.78 .947 1.96 1.96 7 7 50% 40% 3
1967 STL NL 23 P 49 14 4 155.1 30 10 18 2 1 .933 1.62 0.57 .960 2.00 2.00 4 5 56% 40% 2 MVP-15
1968 STL NL 24 P 33 33 13 243.2 48 15 31 2 1 .958 1.70 1.39 .958 2.01 2.02 5 9 64% 40% 1 MVP-20
1969 STL NL 25 P 36 33 10 227.2 50 13 34 3 3 .940 1.86 1.31 .958 1.95 1.94 16 2 11% 40% 2
1970 STL NL 26 P 30 19 1 106.2 13 6 7 0 0 1.000 1.10 0.43 .951 1.85 1.84 11 3 21% 33% 0
1971 PIT NL 27 P 37 14 4 136.0 27 13 13 1 1 .963 1.72 0.70 .954 1.90 1.90 6 3 33% 35% 1
1972 PIT NL 28 P 28 27 9 195.2 38 11 26 1 1 .974 1.70 1.32 .950 1.78 1.78 10 7 41% 37% 0
1973 PIT NL 29 P 33 33 7 218.2 50 14 35 1 3 .980 2.02 1.48 .950 1.88 1.88 9 6 40% 36% 1
1974 KCR AL 30 P 18 17 3 103.0 21 8 12 1 1 .952 1.75 1.11 .947 1.81 1.80 8 7 47% 38% 0
1975 KCR AL 31 P 24 16 3 112.0 27 11 15 1 1 .963 2.09 1.08 .940 1.87 1.86 7 8 53% 38% 2
1976 TEX AL 32 P 32 31 7 210.0 28 10 18 0 0 1.000 1.20 0.88 .950 1.87 1.88 11 12 52% 34% 0
1977 TOT AL 33 P 30 15 2 112.1 16 3 13 0 1 1.000 1.28 0.53 .948 1.95 1.93 5 13 72% 39% 1
1977 TEX AL 33 P 28 15 2 108.1 16 3 13 0 1 1.000 1.33 0.57 .948 1.95 1.93 5 13 72% 39% 1
1977 BAL AL 33 P 2 0 0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.02 1.95 0 0 0
1978 BAL AL 34 P 16 8 1 54.1 7 2 4 1 0 .857 0.99 0.38 .954 1.90 1.88 4 4 50% 38% 0
14 Seasons P 452 279 64 2111.2 408 131 263 14 17 .966 1.68 0.87 .952 1.91 1.92 108 90 45% 37% 14
14 Seasons TOT 452 279 64 2111.2 408 131 263 14 17 .966 1.68 0.87 .952 1.91 1.92 108 90 45% 37% 14
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1965 STL NL 21 P
1966 STL NL 22 P
1967 STL NL 23 P
1968 STL NL 24 P
1969 STL NL 25 P
1970 STL NL 26 P
1971 PIT NL 27 P
1972 PIT NL 28 P
1973 PIT NL 29 P
1974 KCR AL 30 P
1975 KCR AL 31 P
1976 TEX AL 32 P
1977 TEX AL 33 P
1977 BAL AL 33 P
1978 BAL AL 34 P
14 Seasons P
14 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1965 STL NL 21 37 2 37 37 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1966 STL NL 22 49 17 49 49 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1967 STL NL 23 49 14 49 49 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1968 STL NL 24 33 33 33 33 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1969 STL NL 25 36 33 36 36 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1970 STL NL 26 30 19 30 30 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1971 PIT NL 27 37 14 37 37 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1972 PIT NL 28 28 27 28 28 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1973 PIT NL 29 33 33 33 33 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1974 KCR AL 30 18 17 1 18 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 KCR AL 31 24 16 0 24 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1976 TEX AL 32 32 31 0 32 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1977 TEX AL 33 28 15 0 28 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1977 BAL AL 33 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1978 BAL AL 34 16 8 0 16 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Seasons 452 279 333 452 452 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- P*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt 31 Tot 1B 2B Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 163 GB LD bFld bF2O%
1965 STL NL 21 341 79% 27% 11 82% 0 4 0 4 10 6 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 50%
1966 STL NL 22 654 79% 27% 32 88% 0 10 2 4 28 20 3 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 2 0 3 100%
1967 STL NL 23 642 81% 28% 22 86% 0 9 1 7 20 14 2 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 3 100%
1968 STL NL 24 1025 82% 28% 38 79% 0 17 1 12 30 25 3 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 10 70%
1969 STL NL 25 952 84% 27% 34 94% 0 14 2 9 33 23 2 3 0 1 2 0 3 1 2 1 8 88%
1970 STL NL 26 484 84% 25% 10 90% 1 6 0 4 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1971 PIT NL 27 566 82% 29% 15 100% 0 13 1 9 13 10 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 100%
1972 PIT NL 28 802 82% 27% 30 93% 0 13 0 9 27 23 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 5 100%
1973 PIT NL 29 892 86% 30% 40 95% 1 14 4 9 36 23 5 1 0 1 0 0 3 3 3 0 5 80%
1974 KCR AL 30 432 89% 30% 14 93% 1 7 2 3 13 9 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 100%
1975 KCR AL 31 477 83% 29% 13 100% 0 11 0 9 14 9 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 100%
1976 TEX AL 32 879 87% 23% 22 91% 0 10 0 8 19 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 100%
1977 TEX AL 33 456 84% 25% 14 86% 1 3 0 2 12 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 100%
1977 BAL AL 33 17 94% 12% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1978 BAL AL 34 236 81% 25% 4 75% 0 2 0 2 3 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
14 Seasons 8855 83% 27% 299 90% 4 133 13 91 265 194 24 14 1 8 5 5 16 11 14 2 47 87%
MLB Averages 80% 28% 90% 87%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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

Hall of Fame
1984 BBWAA ( 0.2%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1967 NL (15, 7%)
1968 NL (20, 1%)
0.08 Career Shares (982nd)

Fielding % as P s c a p y
1976 AL  1.000 (1st)

             

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