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Mike Champion

Robert Michael Champion

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

Born: February 10, 1955 in Montgomery, AL
High School: Foothill HS (Santa Ana, CA)
Drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 2nd round of the 1973 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 14, 1976
Team: Padres 1976-1978

Final Game: September 24, 1978
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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
1976 SDP NL 21 2B 11 10 9 85.2 50 23 24 3 2 .940 -1 -20 4.94 4.27 .975 5.48 5.47
1977 SDP NL 22 2B 149 142 115 1239.2 666 301 348 17 82 .974 -15 -14 4.71 4.36 .977 5.24 5.24
1978 SDP NL 23 2B 20 12 9 117.0 73 24 44 5 12 .932 -3 -27 5.23 3.40 .977 5.30 5.25
1978 SDP NL 23 3B 4 0 0 8.1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -29 1.08 0.25 .950 3.02 2.98
3 Seasons 2B 180 164 133 1442.1 789 348 416 25 96 .968 -19 -15 4.77 4.24 .977 5.26 5.26
1 Season 3B 4 0 0 8.1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -29 1.08 0.25 .950 3.02 2.98
3 Seasons TOT 184 164 133 1450.2 790 348 417 25 96 .968 -19 -16 4.75 4.16 .977 5.25 5.21
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
1976 SDP NL 21 2B -1 -20 -1 -1 -1 0
1977 SDP NL 22 2B -15 -14 -15 -6 -9 0
1978 SDP NL 23 2B -3 -27 -3 0 -3 0
1978 SDP NL 23 3B -0 -29 -0 0 -0 0
3 Seasons 2B -19 -15 -19 -7 -12 0
1 Season 3B -0 -29 -0 0 -0 0
3 Seasons TOT -19 -16 -19 -7 -12 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1976 SDP NL 21 11 10 11 11 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1977 SDP NL 22 150 142 150 149 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1978 SDP NL 23 32 12 32 23 0 0 0 20 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
3 Seasons 193 164 193 183 0 0 0 180 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 1
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 -- 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
1976 SDP NL 21 375 73% 85% 28% 32 88% 0 23 5 6 12 24 23 1 0 1 3 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1977 SDP NL 22 5449 68% 82% 26% 398 93% 1 301 72 167 62 352 298 46 1 8 17 1 15 1 10 82 23 23 21 5 76 28 46 4 0 4
1978 SDP NL 23 494 71% 85% 33% 49 88% 0 26 7 15 4 42 34 6 0 1 5 0 5 0 4 12 4 1 3 3 11 6 5 1 1 0
3 Seasons 6318 69% 82% 27% 479 92% 1 350 84 188 78 418 355 53 1 10 25 2 22 1 15 96 27 25 25 8 89 35 52 5 1 4
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%
1978 SDP NL 23 40 60% 78% 25% 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
1 Season 40 60% 78% 25% 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
MLB Averages 61% 82% 28% 89% 65%

* 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

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1977 NL  149 (4th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1977 NL  301 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1977 NL  17 (3rd)

Youngest s c a p y
1976 NL  born 1955-02-10 (10th)

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