Mark Davidson

John Mark Davidson

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: February 15, 1961 in Knoxville, TN
Schools: University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC), Clemson University (Clemson, SC)
Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 11th round of the 1982 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 20, 1986
Teams (by GP): Twins/Astros 1986-1991

Final Game: September 20, 1991
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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
1986	MIN	AL	25	OF	31	17	13	175.2	49	48	0	1	0	.980	0	1	2.46	1.55	.980	2.39	2.37
1986	MIN	AL	25	LF	20	11	9	112.0	31	31	0	0	0	1.000	0	2	2.49	1.55	.977	2.24	2.22
1986	MIN	AL	25	RF	7	3	2	37.0	8	7	0	1	0	.875	0	0	1.70	1.00	.975	2.09	2.09
1986	MIN	AL	25	CF	5	3	2	26.2	10	10	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-5	3.38	2.00	.986	2.84	2.80
1986	MIN	AL	25	DH	3	1
1987	MIN	AL	26	OF	86	40	30	415.0	105	102	3	0	0	1.000	2	5	2.28	1.22	.980	2.31	2.29
1987	MIN	AL	26	LF	36	12	9	145.0	34	32	2	0	0	1.000	-1	-7	2.11	0.94	.974	2.11	2.08
1987	MIN	AL	26	RF	33	18	12	168.0	38	38	0	0	0	1.000	2	16	2.04	1.15	.979	2.12	2.10
1987	MIN	AL	26	CF	20	10	9	102.0	32	32	0	0	0	1.000	0	2	2.82	1.60	.986	2.70	2.68
1987	MIN	AL	26	DH	9	0
1988	MIN	AL	27	OF	91	32	14	320.2	111	103	3	5	1	.955	6	22	2.98	1.16	.979	2.47	2.45
1988	MIN	AL	27	RF	84	30	13	293.2	96	89	3	4	0	.958	6	25	2.82	1.10	.974	2.24	2.22
1988	MIN	AL	27	CF	4	1	0	14.0	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	1	69	3.86	1.50	.985	2.89	2.90
1988	MIN	AL	27	LF	4	1	1	13.0	5	3	1	1	1	.800	-1	-92	2.77	1.00	.976	2.28	2.25
1988	MIN	AL	27	DH	2	0
1988	MIN	AL	27	3B	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.70
1989	HOU	NL	28	OF	23	15	12	146.0	36	36	0	0	0	1.000	1	8	2.22	1.57	.981	2.32	2.32
1989	HOU	NL	28	RF	15	11	9	91.0	20	20	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-3	1.98	1.33	.978	2.12	2.12
1989	HOU	NL	28	LF	7	4	3	46.0	13	13	0	0	0	1.000	1	37	2.54	1.86	.981	2.15	2.14
1989	HOU	NL	28	CF	3	0	0	9.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-27	3.00	1.00	.987	2.70	2.70
1990	HOU	NL	29	OF	51	34	25	315.0	106	103	1	2	0	.981	-2	-8	2.97	2.04	.981	2.39	2.37
1990	HOU	NL	29	RF	27	16	12	153.2	50	49	1	0	0	1.000	-3	-27	2.93	1.85	.981	2.22	2.20
1990	HOU	NL	29	LF	26	17	12	151.2	48	46	0	2	0	.958	1	9	2.73	1.77	.979	2.19	2.18
1990	HOU	NL	29	CF	1	1	1	9.2	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	0	25	2.79	3.00	.983	2.79	2.70
1991	HOU	NL	30	OF	63	27	14	289.0	72	71	1	0	0	1.000	2	10	2.24	1.14	.983	2.28	2.27
1991	HOU	NL	30	LF	32	12	7	143.0	38	38	0	0	0	1.000	1	10	2.39	1.19	.983	2.18	2.17
1991	HOU	NL	30	RF	32	15	7	139.0	32	31	1	0	0	1.000	1	9	2.07	1.00	.980	2.06	2.05
1991	HOU	NL	30	CF	4	0	0	7.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		2.57	2.58
	6 Seasons			OF	345	165	108	1661.1	479	463	8	8	1	.983	9	6	2.55	1.37	.981	2.36	2.35
	6 Seasons			RF	198	93	55	882.1	244	234	5	5	0	.980	6	8	2.44	1.21	.977	2.17	2.16
	6 Seasons			LF	125	57	41	610.2	169	163	3	3	1	.982	2	4	2.45	1.33	.979	2.18	2.16
	6 Seasons			CF	37	15	12	168.1	54	54	0	0	0	1.000	1	6	2.89	1.46	.986	2.74	2.71
	1 Season			3B	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.70
	6 Seasons			TOT	346	165	108	1662.1	479	463	8	8	1	.983	9	6	2.55	1.36	.981	2.36	2.35
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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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.
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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
1986	MIN	AL	25	LF	0	2	0	0	0		0
1986	MIN	AL	25	RF	0	0	0	1	-1		0
1986	MIN	AL	25	CF	-0	-5	-0	-0	0		0
1987	MIN	AL	26	LF	-1	-7	0	1	-0		-1
1987	MIN	AL	26	RF	2	16	2	0	2		0
1987	MIN	AL	26	CF	0	2	-1	-2	2		1
1988	MIN	AL	27	RF	6	25	5	1	4		1
1988	MIN	AL	27	CF	1	69	1	0	1		0
1988	MIN	AL	27	LF	-1	-92	-1	0	-1		0
1988	MIN	AL	27	3B	0	0	0	0	0
1989	HOU	NL	28	RF	-0	-3	-0	-1	1		0
1989	HOU	NL	28	LF	1	37	1	1	0		0
1989	HOU	NL	28	CF	-0	-27	-0	0	-0		0
1990	HOU	NL	29	RF	-3	-27	-2	-2	-0		-1
1990	HOU	NL	29	LF	1	9	2	0	2		-1
1990	HOU	NL	29	CF	0	25	0	0	0		0
1991	HOU	NL	30	LF	1	10	1	1	0		0
1991	HOU	NL	30	RF	1	9	1	1	0		0
1991	HOU	NL	30	CF	0	0	0	0	0
	6 Seasons			RF	6	8	6	0	6		0
	6 Seasons			LF	2	4	4	3	1		-2
	6 Seasons			CF	1	6	-0	-3	3		1
	1 Season			3B	0	0	0	0	0
	6 Seasons			TOT	9	6	10	1	10		-1
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	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR
1986	MIN	AL	25	36	18	36	31	0	20	5	7	32	3	2	8
1987	MIN	AL	26	102	40	102	87	0	36	20	33	89	9	6	20
1988	MIN	AL	27	100	32	100	92	1	4	4	84	92	2	12	24
1989	HOU	NL	28	33	15	33	23	0	7	3	15	25	0	14	1
1990	HOU	NL	29	57	34	57	51	0	26	1	27	54	0	11	0
1991	HOU	NL	30	85	27	85	63	0	32	4	32	68	0	35	0
	6 Seasons			413	166	413	347	1	125	37	198	360	14	80	53

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 -- 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%
1986	MIN	AL	25	1	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		0	0		0	139	59%	81%	37%	12	58%
1987	MIN	AL	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	5	4	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	13	9	69.2%	4	0	0.0%	0	692	57%	79%	34%	67	58%
1988	MIN	AL	27	4	0	4	0	1	3	0	2	0	1	27	14	0	16	3	0	5	3	0	3	2	0	13	10	0	64	32	50.0%	32	0	0.0%	3	1244	53%	81%	47%	177	51%
1989	HOU	NL	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	6	0	3	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	18	9	50.0%	9	0	0.0%	0	429	43%	80%	41%	45	44%
1990	HOU	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	9	3	1	4	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	16	4	25.0%	11	1	6.3%	0	635	49%	81%	45%	90	56%
1991	HOU	NL	30	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	4	1	0	3	1	0	2	1	0	1	1	0	3	2	0	13	6	46.2%	7	0	0.0%	1	571	45%	78%	43%	57	56%
	6 Seasons			5	0	5	0	2	5	0	2	2	1	50	26	1	28	5	0	16	10	0	5	3	0	25	16	0	124	60	48.4%	63	1	0.8%	4	3710	51%	80%	43%	448	53%
	MLB Averages																														42.6%			2.7%			58%	80%	38%		54%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				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%
1986	MIN	AL	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	5	0	4	2	0	6	4	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	19	14	73.7%	5	0	0.0%	0	506	58%	81%	38%	69	45%
1987	MIN	AL	26	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	9	7	1	6	0	1	3	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	21	9	42.9%	10	2	9.5%	0	610	54%	76%	36%	71	48%
1988	MIN	AL	27	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	66.7%	1	0	0.0%	1	61	49%	87%	56%	7	43%
1989	HOU	NL	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	3	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	179	53%	79%	41%	22	59%
1990	HOU	NL	29	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	6	0	5	2	0	4	2	0	1	0	0	6	6	0	23	16	69.6%	7	0	0.0%	0	641	46%	85%	49%	82	56%
1991	HOU	NL	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	5	2	0	3	0	0	5	5	0	16	10	62.5%	6	0	0.0%	0	627	43%	75%	36%	55	69%
	6 Seasons			3	0	3	0	1	3	0	0	1	1	24	20	1	19	8	1	19	10	0	6	0	0	17	16	0	85	54	63.5%	29	2	2.4%	1	2624	50%	79%	40%	306	54%
	MLB Averages																														60.7%			2.6%			58%	80%	38%		51%

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

				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%
1986	MIN	AL	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	40.0%	3	0	0.0%	0	111	68%	88%	24%	18	56%
1987	MIN	AL	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	6	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	11	6	54.5%	5	0	0.0%	0	470	50%	82%	36%	56	57%
1988	MIN	AL	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	5	3	60.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	54	61%	74%	39%	10	60%
1989	HOU	NL	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	39	36%	97%	44%	6	50%
1990	HOU	NL	29	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	0		0	37	81%	81%	38%	4	75%
1991	HOU	NL	30	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	0		0	29	45%	72%	34%	0
	6 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	10	0	5	0	0	2	1	0	4	1	0	1	0	0	22	12	54.5%	10	0	0.0%	0	740	54%	83%	35%	94	57%
	MLB Averages																														42.7%			1.9%			58%	80%	38%		58%

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%
1988	MIN	AL	27	3	67%	100%	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
	1 Season			3	67%	100%	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
	MLB Averages				58%	80%	32%		88%																								68%

* 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 RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1988 AL 6 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1988 AL 2.82 (1st)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1987 AL 1.000 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1988 AL 6 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1988 AL 2.82 (1st)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1987 AL 1.000 (1st)

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