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Ron Clark

Ronald Bruce Clark

Positions: Third Baseman, Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: January 14, 1943 in Fort Worth, TX
High School: Brewer HS (White Settlement, TX)
Signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent in 1961. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 11, 1966
Teams (by GP): Twins/Pilots/Brewers/Athletics/Phillies 1966-1975

Final Game: September 26, 1975
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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
1966 MIN AL 23 3B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -240 0.00 0.00 3.15 3.00
1967 MIN AL 24 3B 16 15 15 135.0 46 7 34 5 0 .891 0 1 2.73 2.56 .955 3.13 3.14
1968 MIN AL 25 3B 52 12 6 185.2 73 17 51 5 4 .932 3 21 3.30 1.31 .951 3.05 3.04
1968 MIN AL 25 SS 43 38 33 348.2 173 56 106 11 14 .936 -1 -3 4.18 3.77 .962 4.79 4.77
1968 MIN AL 25 2B 10 4 1 34.2 27 10 16 1 1 .963 -0 -17 6.75 2.60 .977 5.11 5.08
1969 TOT AL 26 3B 17 15 10 130.2 38 5 30 3 1 .921 -0 -5 2.41 2.06 .955 3.16 3.15
1969 MIN AL 26 3B 2 2 0 13.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -18 0.69 0.50 .960 3.18 3.15
1969 SEP AL 26 SS 38 29 22 281.0 148 63 80 5 14 .966 -9 -40 4.58 3.76 .966 4.96 4.96
1969 SEP AL 26 3B 15 13 10 117.2 37 5 29 3 1 .919 -0 -3 2.60 2.27 .955 3.16 3.15
1969 SEP AL 26 2B 5 4 4 35.2 17 9 7 1 2 .941 -2 -81 4.04 3.20 .976 5.22 5.20
1969 SEP AL 26 1B 1 0 0 1.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 18.00 2.00 .990 9.90 9.60
1972 TOT AL 29 2B 22 9 8 109.2 76 31 43 2 11 .974 1 9 6.07 3.36 .977 5.17 5.14
1972 TOT AL 29 3B 13 8 4 69.0 31 8 18 5 5 .839 -1 -23 3.39 2.00 .954 2.99 2.96
1972 OAK AL 29 2B 11 3 2 36.0 22 12 10 0 5 1.000 -1 -23 5.50 2.00 .977 5.18 5.14
1972 OAK AL 29 3B 3 0 0 9.0 3 0 3 0 1 1.000 0 53 3.00 1.00 .953 3.00 2.97
1972 MIL AL 29 2B 11 6 6 73.2 54 19 33 2 6 .963 2 24 6.35 4.73 .977 5.17 5.14
1972 MIL AL 29 3B 10 8 4 60.0 28 8 15 5 4 .821 -2 -34 3.45 2.30 .954 2.98 2.96
5 Seasons 3B 99 50 35 522.1 188 37 133 18 10 .904 1 3 2.93 1.72 .953 3.09 3.06
2 Seasons SS 81 67 55 629.2 321 119 186 16 28 .950 -10 -20 4.36 3.77 .964 4.87 4.86
3 Seasons 2B 37 17 13 180.0 120 50 66 4 14 .967 -2 -14 5.80 3.14 .977 5.17 5.13
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 1.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 18.00 2.00 .990 9.90 9.60
7 Seasons TOT 218 134 103 1333.0 631 208 385 38 52 .940 -11 -10 4.00 2.72 .963 4.22 4.11
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
1966 MIN AL 23 3B -0 -240 -0 -0 0
1967 MIN AL 24 3B 0 1 0 -1 1 0
1968 MIN AL 25 3B 3 21 3 -0 3 0
1968 MIN AL 25 SS -1 -3 -2 -2 -0 1
1968 MIN AL 25 2B -0 -17 -0 0 -0 0
1969 MIN AL 26 3B -0 -18 -0 0 -0 0
1969 SEP AL 26 SS -9 -40 -7 -2 -5 -2
1969 SEP AL 26 3B -0 -3 -0 -0 -0 0
1969 SEP AL 26 2B -2 -81 -2 -1 -1 0
1969 SEP AL 26 1B 0 0 0 0 0
1972 OAK AL 29 2B -1 -23 -2 -1 -0 1
1972 OAK AL 29 3B 0 53 0 0 0 0
1972 MIL AL 29 2B 2 24 2 2 0 0
1972 MIL AL 29 3B -2 -34 -3 -1 -2 1
5 Seasons 3B 1 3 0 -3 3 1
2 Seasons SS -10 -20 -9 -4 -6 -1
3 Seasons 2B -2 -14 -3 -1 -2 1
1 Season 1B 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons TOT -11 -10 -12 -7 -5 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1966 MIN AL 23 5 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
1967 MIN AL 24 20 15 20 16 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1968 MIN AL 25 104 54 104 92 0 0 0 9 53 44 0 0 0 0 0 14 6
1969 SEP AL 26 57 46 57 56 0 0 1 5 15 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
1969 MIN AL 26 5 2 5 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1971 OAK AL 28 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1972 MIL AL 29 22 14 22 18 0 0 0 11 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
1972 OAK AL 29 14 3 14 14 0 0 0 11 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1975 PHI NL 32 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
7 Seasons 230 134 230 199 0 0 1 36 100 82 0 0 0 0 0 32 14
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%
1966 MIN AL 23 12 50% 92% 17% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1967 MIN AL 24 555 65% 77% 26% 46 87% 0 7 6 0 1 34 31 3 0 0 5 0 5 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 50%
1968 MIN AL 25 755 68% 80% 29% 75 88% 1 17 12 2 3 56 48 6 1 0 5 0 4 1 5 4 2 0 4 0 0 0 0
1969 SEP AL 26 533 51% 78% 28% 38 87% 1 4 4 0 0 30 26 2 1 0 3 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1969 MIN AL 26 57 60% 77% 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
1972 MIL AL 29 264 77% 83% 29% 26 77% 0 8 4 2 2 15 11 4 0 0 5 0 5 0 5 4 4 0 4 0 0 0 1 100%
1972 OAK AL 29 41 63% 83% 32% 3 100% 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 2217 64% 79% 28% 189 86% 2 36 26 4 6 139 119 16 2 0 18 0 15 3 17 9 7 0 9 0 0 0 3 67%
MLB Averages 64% 80% 28% 89% 67%

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
1968 MIN AL 25 1406 72% 79% 27% 150 92% 1 55 38 13 4 109 93 14 0 1 11 0 10 1 10 14 7 0 3 0 3 13 7 6 1 1 0
1969 SEP AL 26 1251 63% 76% 24% 118 92% 1 62 36 19 7 81 46 25 0 4 5 0 4 1 4 15 5 0 3 0 0 9 5 4 6 4 2
2 Seasons 2657 68% 78% 25% 268 92% 2 117 74 32 11 190 139 39 0 5 16 0 14 2 14 29 12 0 6 0 3 22 12 10 7 5 2
MLB Averages 64% 80% 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
1968 MIN AL 25 157 63% 81% 28% 15 87% 0 9 1 3 5 12 12 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0
1969 SEP AL 26 161 55% 81% 26% 8 88% 0 9 2 5 2 7 6 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
1972 MIL AL 29 299 67% 88% 34% 31 94% 0 19 2 11 6 31 27 4 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 6 3 1 2 0 6 2 4 0 0 0
1972 OAK AL 29 147 60% 83% 24% 13 92% 0 12 7 5 0 8 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 3 0 4 3 1 1 1 0
3 Seasons 764 62% 84% 29% 67 91% 0 49 12 24 13 58 48 8 0 0 4 0 4 0 4 15 5 2 5 0 14 5 8 1 1 0
MLB Averages 64% 80% 28% 93%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1969 SEP AL 26 3 67% 67% 33% 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
1 Season 3 67% 67% 33% 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
MLB Averages 64% 80% 28% 94% 89%

* 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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