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Mike Cubbage

Michael Lee Cubbage

Positions: Third Baseman, First Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: July 21, 1950 in Charlottesville, VA
High School: Lane HS (Charlottesville, VA)
School: University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
Drafted by the Washington Senators in the 2nd round of the 1971 amateur draft (June Secondary). (All Transactions)
Debut: April 7, 1974
Teams (by GP): Twins/Rangers/Mets 1974-1981

Final Game: October 3, 1981
Relatives: Cousin of Chris Haney and Cousin of Larry Haney
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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
1974 TEX AL 23 3B 3 1 0 10.0 4 1 3 0 0 1.000 0 12 3.60 1.33 .955 3.15 3.10
1974 TEX AL 23 2B 2 1 1 12.0 13 6 6 1 4 .923 -1 -70 9.00 6.00 .975 5.40 5.35
1974 TEX AL 23 DH 1 0
1975 TEX AL 24 2B 37 32 28 291.2 185 67 111 7 24 .962 -1 -6 5.49 4.81 .975 5.40 5.38
1975 TEX AL 24 3B 3 2 1 18.0 6 1 4 1 1 .833 -1 -47 2.50 1.67 .953 3.15 3.13
1975 TEX AL 24 DH 2 1
1976 TOT AL 25 3B 100 91 80 836.1 298 71 209 18 22 .940 4 5 3.01 2.80 .953 2.94 2.95
1976 TOT AL 25 DH 8 8
1976 TOT AL 25 2B 7 4 2 38.0 19 9 9 1 3 .947 -1 -28 4.26 2.57 .975 5.40 5.41
1976 TEX AL 25 DH 6 6
1976 TEX AL 25 2B 5 4 2 35.0 17 8 9 0 3 1.000 -0 -10 4.37 3.40 .975 5.40 5.42
1976 TEX AL 25 3B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 2.70 3.00
1976 MIN AL 25 3B 99 91 80 835.1 298 71 209 18 22 .940 4 5 3.02 2.83 .953 2.94 2.95
1976 MIN AL 25 2B 2 0 0 3.0 2 1 0 1 0 .500 -1 -240 3.00 0.50 .975 5.40 5.40
1976 MIN AL 25 DH 2 2
1977 MIN AL 26 3B 126 110 90 978.2 374 90 266 18 29 .952 3 4 3.27 2.83 .957 2.97 2.96
1977 MIN AL 26 DH 1 0
1978 MIN AL 27 3B 115 100 80 874.0 307 65 233 9 24 .971 2 3 3.07 2.59 .954 3.00 2.98
1978 MIN AL 27 2B 5 0 0 11.0 8 4 4 0 1 1.000 -0 -44 6.55 1.60 .980 5.48 5.42
1979 MIN AL 28 3B 63 55 18 420.0 138 34 94 10 9 .928 -9 -25 2.74 2.03 .953 3.07 3.03
1979 MIN AL 28 DH 22 15
1979 MIN AL 28 1B 1 0 0 3.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0 120 12.00 4.00 .992 10.20 10.00
1979 MIN AL 28 2B 1 0 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.40
1980 MIN AL 29 1B 72 59 30 494.1 558 512 44 2 56 .996 4 11 10.12 7.72 .992 10.02 10.00
1980 MIN AL 29 3B 32 22 18 208.1 85 29 54 2 6 .976 -0 -2 3.59 2.59 .951 3.01 3.00
1980 MIN AL 29 2B 1 0 0 8.0 6 4 2 0 2 1.000 -1 -90 6.75 6.00 .982 5.62 5.60
1980 MIN AL 29 DH 1 0
1981 NYM NL 30 3B 12 11 6 82.1 27 5 21 1 0 .963 -0 -6 2.84 2.17 .948 2.84 2.85
8 Seasons 3B 454 392 293 3427.2 1239 296 884 59 91 .952 -2 -1 3.10 2.60 .954 2.98 2.97
2 Seasons 1B 73 59 30 497.1 562 516 44 2 56 .996 5 12 10.13 7.67 .992 10.02 10.00
6 Seasons 2B 53 37 31 362.0 231 90 132 9 34 .961 -4 -13 5.52 4.19 .975 5.41 5.39
8 Seasons TOT 580 488 354 4287.0 2032 902 1060 70 181 .966 -1 -0 4.12 3.38 .967 4.00 4.08
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
1974 TEX AL 23 3B 0 12 0 0 0 0
1974 TEX AL 23 2B -1 -70 -1 0 -1 0
1975 TEX AL 24 2B -1 -6 -3 -1 -3 2
1975 TEX AL 24 3B -1 -47 -1 0 -1 0
1976 TEX AL 25 2B -0 -10 -0 0 -1 0
1976 TEX AL 25 3B -0 -120 -0 -0 0
1976 MIN AL 25 3B 4 5 4 2 2 0
1976 MIN AL 25 2B -1 -240 -1 -1 0 0
1977 MIN AL 26 3B 3 4 2 2 0 1
1978 MIN AL 27 3B 2 3 1 4 -4 1
1978 MIN AL 27 2B -0 -44 -0 -0 -0 0
1979 MIN AL 28 3B -9 -25 -10 -2 -7 1
1979 MIN AL 28 1B 0 120 0 0 0 0
1979 MIN AL 28 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1980 MIN AL 29 1B 4 11 4 3 1 1
1980 MIN AL 29 3B -0 -2 -0 0 -1 0
1980 MIN AL 29 2B -1 -90 -1 -1 0 0
1981 NYM NL 30 3B -0 -6 -0 0 -0 0
8 Seasons 3B -2 -1 -5 6 -10 3
2 Seasons 1B 5 12 4 3 1 1
6 Seasons 2B -4 -13 -6 -2 -4 2
8 Seasons TOT -1 -0 -7 7 -14 6
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1974 TEX AL 23 9 2 9 5 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0
1975 TEX AL 24 58 35 58 40 0 0 0 37 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 21 0
1976 MIN AL 25 104 93 104 100 0 0 0 2 99 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 0
1976 TEX AL 25 14 10 14 6 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 1
1977 MIN AL 26 129 110 129 126 0 0 0 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 1 13 0
1978 MIN AL 27 125 100 125 118 0 0 0 5 115 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 0
1979 MIN AL 28 94 70 94 65 0 0 1 1 63 0 0 0 0 0 22 24 0
1980 MIN AL 29 103 81 103 99 0 0 73 1 31 0 0 0 0 0 1 15 1
1981 NYM NL 30 67 11 67 12 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 55 0
8 Seasons 703 512 703 571 0 0 74 53 453 0 0 0 0 0 35 168 2
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%
1974 TEX AL 23 45 69% 82% 40% 4 100% 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 TEX AL 24 77 53% 91% 30% 6 83% 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1976 MIN AL 25 3537 58% 83% 28% 277 92% 4 71 52 7 12 207 163 29 6 9 18 1 16 1 16 22 16 1 17 4 4 0 5 100%
1976 TEX AL 25 6 50% 100% 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
1977 MIN AL 26 4214 56% 84% 30% 348 92% 3 90 61 9 20 264 203 47 4 7 18 0 15 3 16 28 20 1 23 4 3 1 21 57%
1978 MIN AL 27 3724 58% 84% 29% 304 92% 5 65 44 7 14 236 183 43 3 4 9 0 9 0 9 24 15 4 21 1 0 1 19 68%
1979 MIN AL 28 1823 60% 84% 28% 128 88% 2 34 20 7 7 93 74 16 1 6 10 0 10 0 10 10 6 1 7 3 0 3 4 100%
1980 MIN AL 29 892 60% 83% 28% 74 89% 2 24 18 1 5 51 41 6 1 3 2 0 2 0 2 5 3 1 5 0 0 0 5 60%
1981 NYM NL 30 376 61% 81% 26% 27 93% 0 5 4 0 1 21 18 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 100%
8 Seasons 14694 58% 83% 29% 1168 91% 16 291 201 31 59 879 687 146 15 29 59 1 54 4 55 90 61 8 74 12 7 5 56 70%
MLB Averages 61% 82% 28% 89% 68%

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%
1979 MIN AL 28 12 92% 83% 42% 1 100% 0 4 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1980 MIN AL 29 2051 61% 81% 28% 115 98% 0 516 25 484 7 49 45 23 15 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 56 7 1 2 53 10 3 0 3 11 100%
2 Seasons 2063 61% 81% 28% 116 98% 0 520 25 488 7 50 45 23 15 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 56 7 1 2 53 10 3 0 3 11 100%
MLB Averages 61% 82% 28% 94% 88%

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
1974 TEX AL 23 60 60% 78% 25% 5 80% 0 6 0 6 0 6 5 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 4 2 0 1 1 4 2 2 0 0 0
1975 TEX AL 24 1252 48% 83% 28% 124 93% 1 68 22 33 13 111 103 6 1 1 7 0 6 1 6 24 12 3 4 4 24 8 15 0 0 0
1976 TEX AL 25 155 67% 81% 25% 10 100% 0 8 2 4 2 9 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1976 MIN AL 25 12 58% 75% 58% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1978 MIN AL 27 52 48% 83% 29% 3 100% 0 4 0 2 2 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1979 MIN AL 28 5 60% 80% 20% 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
1980 MIN AL 29 33 85% 94% 36% 0 0 4 0 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
6 Seasons 1569 51% 82% 28% 142 93% 1 91 24 50 17 132 121 9 1 1 9 0 8 1 7 34 17 4 6 5 33 11 21 0 0 0
MLB Averages 61% 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1976 AL  4 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1976 AL  3.01 (4th)
1977 AL  3.27 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1976 AL  2.80 (5th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1978 AL  .971 (4th)

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