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Chris Brown

John Christopher Brown

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: August 15, 1961 in Jackson, MS
High School: Crenshaw HS (Los Angeles, CA)
Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 2nd round of the 1979 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 3, 1984
Teams (by GP): Giants/Padres/Tigers 1984-1989
Agents: Eric Goldschmidt [*]
Final Game: May 16, 1989
Died: December 26, 2006 in Houston, TX
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All-Star

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
1984 SFG NL 22 3B 23 23 21 200.0 70 23 40 7 3 .900 -5 -29 2.84 2.74 .943 2.79 2.78
1985 SFG NL 23 3B 120 120 106 1020.1 347 94 243 10 15 .971 0 0 2.97 2.81 .948 2.88 2.88 RoY-4
1986 SFG NL 24 3B 111 111 98 951.0 268 73 177 18 17 .933 -1 -1 2.37 2.25 .946 2.72 2.72 AS
1986 SFG NL 24 SS 2 0 0 6.0 4 0 4 0 0 1.000 1 160 6.00 2.00 .962 4.80 4.75 AS
1987 TOT NL 25 3B 80 78 67 665.4 208 60 132 16 17 .923 -4 -7 2.60 2.40 .951 2.82 2.80
1987 SFG NL 25 3B 37 36 30 306.2 105 33 62 10 5 .905 -4 -15 2.79 2.57 .951 2.82 2.80
1987 SFG NL 25 SS 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 4.50 4.70
1987 SDP NL 25 3B 43 42 37 358.2 103 27 70 6 12 .942 0 0 2.43 2.26 .951 2.82 2.80
1988 SDP NL 26 3B 72 70 57 591.1 195 54 131 10 15 .949 3 5 2.82 2.57 .947 2.77 2.78
1989 DET AL 27 3B 17 17 14 134.0 44 15 25 4 4 .909 1 6 2.69 2.35 .943 2.73 2.70
6 Seasons 3B 423 419 363 3562.0 1132 319 748 65 71 .943 -5 -2 2.70 2.52 .947 2.80 2.79
2 Seasons SS 3 0 0 7.0 4 0 4 0 0 1.000 1 120 5.14 1.33 .962 4.76 4.73
6 Seasons TOT 426 419 363 3569.0 1136 319 752 65 71 .943 -5 -2 2.70 2.51 .947 2.80 2.81
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
1984 SFG NL 22 3B -5 -29 -5 -4 -0 0
1985 SFG NL 23 3B 0 0 1 3 -2 -1
1986 SFG NL 24 3B -1 -1 -1 4 -5 0
1986 SFG NL 24 SS 1 160 1 1 0 0
1987 SFG NL 25 3B -4 -15 -4 -1 -3 0
1987 SFG NL 25 SS -0 -120 -0 0 -0 0
1987 SDP NL 25 3B 0 0 -1 -3 2 1
1988 SDP NL 26 3B 3 5 2 4 -2 1
1989 DET AL 27 3B 1 6 1 1 0 0
6 Seasons 3B -5 -2 -6 4 -10 1
2 Seasons SS 1 120 1 1 0 0
6 Seasons TOT -5 -2 -6 4 -10 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1984 SFG NL 22 23 23 23 23 0 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1985 SFG NL 23 131 120 131 120 0 0 0 0 120 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 1
1986 SFG NL 24 116 111 116 112 0 0 0 0 112 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
1987 SDP NL 25 44 42 44 43 0 0 0 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1987 SFG NL 25 38 36 38 37 0 0 0 0 37 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1988 SDP NL 26 80 70 80 72 0 0 0 0 72 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1989 DET AL 27 17 17 17 17 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 449 419 449 424 0 0 0 0 424 3 0 0 0 0 0 22 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%
1984 SFG NL 22 877 65% 86% 27% 63 87% 2 23 13 2 8 40 34 5 0 2 7 0 6 1 5 3 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 100%
1985 SFG NL 23 4336 66% 80% 26% 321 97% 4 94 70 9 15 239 198 35 2 6 10 0 8 2 8 15 9 3 13 2 1 1 11 91%
1986 SFG NL 24 3935 54% 79% 29% 258 89% 5 70 51 2 17 181 153 18 2 5 18 2 14 2 13 17 12 0 12 2 0 1 12 75%
1987 SDP NL 25 1565 48% 79% 32% 105 86% 2 27 19 5 3 70 50 16 1 3 6 0 5 1 5 11 9 1 11 0 0 0 5 80%
1987 SFG NL 25 1298 53% 80% 30% 111 79% 1 33 23 5 5 63 51 10 0 2 10 0 10 0 10 5 4 0 4 1 0 1 9 67%
1988 SDP NL 26 2484 53% 81% 34% 191 87% 1 52 38 5 9 131 109 16 2 4 10 0 6 4 8 15 8 2 13 2 1 1 14 71%
1989 DET AL 27 562 60% 82% 29% 37 89% 2 15 8 2 5 25 20 2 2 4 4 0 3 1 2 4 1 0 1 2 0 2 1 100%
6 Seasons 15057 57% 80% 29% 1086 90% 17 314 222 30 62 749 615 102 9 26 65 2 52 11 51 70 45 6 56 10 3 6 53 77%
MLB Averages 58% 80% 30% 90% 72%

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
1986 SFG NL 24 25 36% 84% 44% 4 100% 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1987 SFG NL 25 4 50% 100% 25% 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 0
2 Seasons 29 38% 86% 41% 4 100% 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 58% 80% 30% 92%

* 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

All-Star Games
1986 *

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1985 NL  94 (4th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1985 NL  243 (4th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1986 NL  18 (5th)
1987 NL  16 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1985 NL  2.97 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1985 NL  2.81 (3rd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1985 NL  .971 (1st)

             

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