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Jerry DaVanon

Frank Gerald DaVanon

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: August 21, 1945 in Oceanside, CA
High School: Herbert Hoover HS (San Diego, CA)
School: Westmont College (Santa Barbara, CA)
Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1st round (17th pick) of the 1966 amateur draft (June Secondary). (All Transactions)
Debut: April 11, 1969
Teams (by GP): Astros/Cardinals/Angels/Orioles/Padres 1969-1977

Final Game: May 4, 1977
Relatives: Father of Jeff DaVanon
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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
1969 TOT NL 23 SS 23 13 13 139.1 98 36 58 4 9 .959 1 8 6.07 4.09 .963 4.93 4.90
1969 SDP NL 23 2B 15 9 7 94.1 59 27 28 4 4 .932 -0 -5 5.25 3.67 .974 5.19 5.15
1969 SDP NL 23 SS 7 3 3 34.0 27 7 19 1 3 .963 -1 -42 6.88 3.71 .963 4.92 4.90
1969 STL NL 23 SS 16 10 10 105.1 71 29 39 3 6 .958 2 24 5.81 4.25 .963 4.93 4.90
1970 STL NL 24 3B 5 3 3 30.0 12 6 6 0 3 1.000 0 0 3.60 2.40 .945 2.91 2.90
1970 STL NL 24 2B 3 1 0 11.0 10 2 8 0 0 1.000 1 153 8.18 3.33 .979 5.32 5.30
1971 BAL AL 25 2B 20 11 10 118.2 67 34 31 2 6 .970 1 10 4.93 3.25 .980 5.31 5.28
1971 BAL AL 25 SS 11 9 2 74.0 40 10 28 2 6 .950 1 13 4.62 3.45 .965 4.90 4.88
1971 BAL AL 25 3B 3 1 1 17.2 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -48 0.51 0.33 .960 3.06 3.03
1971 BAL AL 25 1B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 9.90 9.50
1973 CAL AL 27 SS 14 6 4 65.2 41 13 25 3 5 .927 -2 -27 5.21 2.71 .963 5.10 5.07
1973 CAL AL 27 2B 12 6 3 59.0 34 12 20 2 1 .941 -0 -8 4.88 2.67 .980 5.45 5.41
1973 CAL AL 27 3B 7 1 1 20.0 5 4 0 1 0 .800 -1 -84 1.80 0.57 .950 3.02 2.99
1973 CAL AL 27 DH 5 0
1974 STL NL 28 SS 14 3 2 51.1 25 8 13 4 3 .840 -3 -65 3.68 1.50 .961 4.96 4.97
1974 STL NL 28 3B 8 0 0 14.2 6 2 3 1 0 .833 -1 -57 3.07 0.63 .948 3.07 3.04
1974 STL NL 28 2B 7 4 4 47.0 28 9 19 0 5 1.000 0 3 5.36 4.00 .973 5.48 5.47
1974 STL NL 28 OF 1 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -360 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.30
1974 STL NL 28 RF 1 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -360 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.00
1975 HOU NL 29 SS 21 18 17 174.0 108 37 65 6 13 .944 1 6 5.28 4.86 .963 4.99 4.99
1975 HOU NL 29 2B 9 8 4 61.0 41 16 24 1 3 .976 0 8 5.90 4.44 .975 5.53 5.54
1975 HOU NL 29 3B 3 1 1 11.1 6 1 5 0 0 1.000 1 95 4.76 2.00 .945 2.94 2.97
1976 HOU NL 30 2B 17 17 12 141.1 99 30 67 2 7 .980 6 51 6.18 5.71 .975 5.48 5.47
1976 HOU NL 30 SS 17 7 6 85.0 45 20 21 4 8 .911 -2 -25 4.34 2.41 .964 5.05 5.04
1976 HOU NL 30 3B 9 1 1 27.2 10 3 6 1 1 .900 -1 -30 2.93 1.00 .952 2.93 2.92
1977 STL NL 31 2B 5 1 1 19.0 13 4 8 1 0 .923 -0 -25 5.68 2.40 .977 5.26 5.24
6 Seasons SS 100 56 44 589.1 357 124 210 23 44 .936 -3 -7 5.10 3.34 .963 4.98 4.97
8 Seasons 2B 88 57 41 551.1 351 134 205 12 26 .966 8 17 5.53 3.85 .976 5.38 5.35
6 Seasons 3B 35 7 7 121.1 40 17 20 3 4 .925 -3 -26 2.74 1.06 .948 2.97 2.97
1 Season RF 1 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -360 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.00
1 Season OF 1 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -360 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.30
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 9.90 9.50
8 Seasons TOT 225 120 92 1263.2 748 275 435 38 74 .949 1 1 5.06 3.16 .969 4.97 4.82
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
1969 SDP NL 23 2B -0 -5 1 -1 2 -1
1969 SDP NL 23 SS -1 -42 -1 0 -1 0
1969 STL NL 23 SS 2 24 2 0 2 0
1970 STL NL 24 3B 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1970 STL NL 24 2B 1 153 1 1 0 0
1971 BAL AL 25 2B 1 10 1 1 -0 0
1971 BAL AL 25 SS 1 13 1 0 0 0
1971 BAL AL 25 3B -1 -48 -1 0 -1 0
1971 BAL AL 25 1B 0 0 0 0 0
1973 CAL AL 27 SS -2 -27 -2 -0 -1 0
1973 CAL AL 27 2B -0 -8 -0 -1 0 0
1973 CAL AL 27 3B -1 -84 -1 -0 -1 0
1974 STL NL 28 SS -3 -65 -3 -1 -2 0
1974 STL NL 28 3B -1 -57 -1 -1 -0 0
1974 STL NL 28 2B 0 3 0 0 0 0
1974 STL NL 28 RF -0 -360 -0 0 -0 0
1975 HOU NL 29 SS 1 6 -0 1 -1 1
1975 HOU NL 29 2B 0 8 0 0 0 0
1975 HOU NL 29 3B 1 95 1 1 -0 0
1976 HOU NL 30 2B 6 51 6 6 0 0
1976 HOU NL 30 SS -2 -25 -2 0 -2 0
1976 HOU NL 30 3B -1 -30 -1 0 -1 0
1977 STL NL 31 2B -0 -25 -0 0 -0 0
6 Seasons SS -4 -7 -5 0 -5 1
8 Seasons 2B 8 17 9 7 2 -1
6 Seasons 3B -3 -26 -3 0 -3 0
1 Season 1B 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season RF -0 -360 -0 0 -0 0
8 Seasons TOT 1 1 1 8 -6 0 0
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
1969 SDP NL 23 24 12 24 22 0 0 0 16 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 2 4
1969 STL NL 23 16 10 16 16 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1970 STL NL 24 11 4 11 8 0 0 0 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1971 BAL AL 25 38 21 38 34 0 0 1 20 4 11 0 0 0 0 0 1 8
1973 CAL AL 27 41 13 41 32 0 0 0 13 7 14 0 0 0 0 5 0 13
1974 STL NL 28 30 7 30 28 0 0 0 7 8 14 0 0 1 1 0 1 2
1975 HOU NL 29 32 27 32 29 0 0 0 9 3 21 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1976 HOU NL 30 61 25 61 43 0 0 0 18 9 18 0 0 0 0 0 20 8
1977 STL NL 31 9 1 9 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
8 Seasons 262 120 262 217 0 0 1 91 36 100 0 0 1 1 5 31 40
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 -- 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
1969 STL NL 23 434 61% 79% 31% 56 95% 0 27 15 10 2 40 34 6 0 0 3 0 3 0 2 6 1 1 2 1 1 6 2 4 0 0 0
1969 SDP NL 23 166 69% 83% 28% 19 95% 0 6 5 1 0 13 8 5 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
1971 BAL AL 25 300 57% 83% 29% 30 97% 0 10 4 5 1 28 17 10 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 6 3 1 2 0 0 6 4 2 0 0 0
1973 CAL AL 27 295 73% 83% 29% 34 85% 1 14 7 6 1 25 17 6 0 1 3 1 2 0 2 5 1 1 2 0 0 4 2 2 1 1 0
1974 STL NL 28 213 68% 88% 28% 17 76% 0 8 1 5 2 13 12 1 0 0 4 0 4 0 4 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0
1975 HOU NL 29 734 57% 81% 31% 79 90% 0 36 13 18 5 68 51 12 1 1 6 0 6 0 4 13 5 1 6 1 0 13 6 7 0 0 0
1976 HOU NL 30 382 59% 83% 26% 38 79% 1 18 7 8 3 25 20 5 0 0 4 0 2 2 2 8 2 1 2 1 0 7 3 3 1 0 1
6 Seasons 2524 61% 82% 29% 273 89% 2 119 52 53 14 212 159 45 1 3 23 2 19 2 15 43 15 6 15 3 1 41 21 19 2 1 1
MLB Averages 63% 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
1969 SDP NL 23 411 70% 76% 26% 42 90% 0 26 8 13 5 34 27 6 0 1 4 0 3 1 4 5 2 1 0 1 4 1 3 0 0 0
1970 STL NL 24 41 59% 83% 46% 8 100% 0 2 1 1 0 8 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1971 BAL AL 25 480 60% 77% 27% 50 94% 0 32 16 15 1 32 27 4 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 6 1 1 4 0 6 4 2 0 0 0
1973 CAL AL 27 240 52% 84% 26% 28 89% 0 12 7 3 2 22 16 3 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 0
1974 STL NL 28 211 63% 82% 28% 16 100% 0 9 2 6 1 19 18 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 0 1 0 5 2 3 0 0 0
1975 HOU NL 29 268 52% 84% 26% 28 89% 0 15 4 8 3 24 21 3 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 3 3 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0
1976 HOU NL 30 560 54% 85% 34% 77 97% 0 31 12 14 5 66 61 4 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 7 5 0 1 0 6 1 5 1 0 1
1977 STL NL 31 89 57% 88% 36% 10 90% 0 4 1 3 0 8 8 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 2300 59% 81% 29% 259 94% 0 131 51 63 17 213 185 22 0 3 12 0 10 2 11 29 14 2 7 2 27 10 17 1 0 1
MLB Averages 63% 80% 28% 93%

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%
1970 STL NL 24 126 83% 80% 25% 10 90% 0 6 3 3 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 3 0 0 0 0
1971 BAL AL 25 81 49% 80% 22% 5 80% 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1973 CAL AL 27 86 67% 83% 29% 4 75% 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1974 STL NL 28 65 60% 69% 25% 7 86% 0 2 2 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1975 HOU NL 29 53 47% 83% 28% 5 100% 0 1 0 0 1 5 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1976 HOU NL 30 126 65% 83% 24% 10 80% 0 3 3 0 0 6 4 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
6 Seasons 537 65% 80% 25% 41 85% 0 18 12 4 2 22 18 2 1 1 3 0 3 0 3 4 0 3 3 1 1 0 1 100%
MLB Averages 63% 80% 28% 89% 66%

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%
1971 BAL AL 25 3 67% 67% 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
1 Season 3 67% 67% 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
MLB Averages 63% 80% 28% 94% 89%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1974 STL NL 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 66.7% 1 0 0.0% 0 5 40% 100% 20% 2 0%
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 66.7% 1 0 0.0% 0 5 40% 100% 20% 2 0%
MLB Averages 41.5% 3.2% 63% 80% 27% 53%

* 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 2B s c a p y
1976 NL  6 (4th)

                                         

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