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Steve Decker

Steven Michael Decker

Positions: Catcher and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: October 25, 1965 in Rock Island, IL
Schools: University of Houston (Houston, TX), Lewis-Clark State College (Lewiston, ID)
Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 21st round of the 1988 amateur draft.
Signed June 6, 1988. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 18, 1990
Teams (by GP): Giants/Marlins/Angels/Rockies 1990-1999

Final Game: October 1, 1999
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1990 SFG NL 24 C 15 14 14 124.0 87 75 11 1 2 .989 1 10 6.24 5.73 .987 6.65 6.61 1 3 12 7 37% 29% 0
1991 SFG NL 25 C 78 65 52 578.1 433 385 41 7 5 .984 -1 -2 6.63 5.46 .988 6.78 6.75 7 26 49 28 36% 33% 0
1992 SFG NL 26 C 15 14 10 118.2 98 94 4 0 1 1.000 0 0 7.43 6.53 .991 6.67 6.67 1 6 2 2 50% 32% 0
1993 FLA NL 27 C 5 4 2 33.1 31 28 2 1 0 .968 0 0 8.10 6.00 .989 6.72 6.68 0 0 4 1 20% 31% 0
1995 FLA NL 29 C 46 38 34 346.0 325 296 24 5 3 .985 1 3 8.32 6.96 .989 7.40 7.37 3 10 26 12 32% 30% 0
1995 FLA NL 29 1B 2 0 0 2.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 13.50 1.50 .993 9.90 9.65
1996 TOT NL 30 C 40 33 26 300.2 252 234 18 0 4 1.000 1 4 7.54 6.30 .989 7.50 7.45 5 7 26 11 30% 28% 0
1996 SFG NL 30 C 30 26 22 234.0 195 183 12 0 4 1.000 0 0 7.50 6.50 .989 7.50 7.45 5 7 23 9 28% 28% 0
1996 SFG NL 30 1B 3 3 1 21.1 21 18 3 0 1 1.000 -1 -68 8.86 7.00 .992 9.62 9.57
1996 SFG NL 30 3B 2 1 0 7.0 4 2 2 0 0 1.000 -0 -17 5.14 2.00 .948 2.70 2.70
1996 COL NL 30 C 10 7 4 66.2 57 51 6 0 0 1.000 1 18 7.70 5.70 .989 7.51 7.45 0 0 3 2 40% 28% 0
1999 ANA AL 33 C 17 15 10 122.0 78 73 4 1 0 .987 0 0 5.68 4.53 .991 6.98 6.87 5 2 9 4 31% 33% 0
1999 ANA AL 33 1B 6 4 0 31.0 34 30 4 0 2 1.000 1 27 9.87 5.67 .992 9.49 9.35
1999 ANA AL 33 DH 3 2
7 Seasons C 216 183 148 1623.0 1304 1185 104 15 15 .988 2 1 7.15 5.97 .989 7.04 7.00 22 54 128 65 34% 31% 0
3 Seasons 1B 11 7 1 54.1 58 51 7 0 3 1.000 -1 -11 9.61 5.27 .992 9.56 9.46
1 Season 3B 2 1 0 7.0 4 2 2 0 0 1.000 -0 -17 5.14 2.00 .948 2.70 2.70
7 Seasons TOT 229 191 149 1684.1 1366 1238 113 15 18 .989 1 1 7.22 5.90 .989 7.11 7.08 22 54 128 65 34% 31% 0
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
1990 SFG NL 24 C 1 10 1
1991 SFG NL 25 C -1 -2 -1
1992 SFG NL 26 C 0 0 0
1993 FLA NL 27 C 0 0 0
1995 FLA NL 29 C 1 3 1
1995 FLA NL 29 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1996 SFG NL 30 C 0 0 0
1996 SFG NL 30 1B -1 -68 -1 0 -1 0
1996 SFG NL 30 3B -0 -17 -0 0 -0 0
1996 COL NL 30 C 1 18 1
1999 ANA AL 33 C 0 0 0
1999 ANA AL 33 1B 1 27 1 0 0 0
7 Seasons C 2 1 2
3 Seasons 1B -1 -11 -1 1 -1 0
1 Season 3B -0 -17 -0 0 -0 0
7 Seasons TOT 1 1 -1 1 -1 0 2

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1990 SFG NL 24 15 14 15 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1991 SFG NL 25 79 65 79 78 0 78 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1992 SFG NL 26 15 14 15 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1993 FLA NL 27 8 4 8 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1995 FLA NL 29 51 38 51 47 0 46 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1996 SFG NL 30 57 30 57 35 0 30 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 0
1996 COL NL 30 10 7 10 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1999 ANA AL 33 28 21 28 23 0 17 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0
7 Seasons 263 193 263 228 0 216 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 40 0
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 -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1990 SFG NL 24 547 5.08 5.44 2 100% 0 0 76 2 0 2 72 9 0 0 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
1991 SFG NL 25 2452 3.77 4.11 30 90% 0 0 385 19 4 11 351 41 5 1 0 8 7 0 1 6 1 5 1 0 1 7 71%
1992 SFG NL 26 510 3.87 4.10 5 80% 0 0 94 2 1 0 91 4 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 100%
1993 FLA NL 27 144 3.51 3.51 1 100% 0 0 28 1 0 0 27 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1995 FLA NL 29 1504 3.93 4.71 18 94% 0 0 295 10 1 4 280 25 6 0 1 8 5 0 0 5 0 3 0 0 1 4 100%
1996 SFG NL 30 1037 4.46 5.54 8 100% 0 0 183 6 3 2 172 12 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0
1996 COL NL 30 305 5.40 5.67 4 100% 0 0 52 2 0 1 49 5 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 100%
1999 ANA AL 33 532 4.50 5.24 2 100% 0 0 74 2 0 1 71 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 7031 4.13 4.68 70 93% 0 0 1187 44 9 21 1113 101 17 1 1 28 15 0 2 13 1 15 1 1 3 15 87%
MLB Averages 4.28 4.71 93% 85%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1990 SFG NL 24 1 3 211 12 7 5 37% 11 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 18 7 1.21 1.25
1991 SFG NL 25 7 26 943 49 28 23 36% 44 24 5 1 0 3 0 0 97 32 1.59 1.21
1992 SFG NL 26 1 6 194 2 2 0 50% 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 2 1.26 0.86
1993 FLA NL 27 0 0 50 4 1 1 20% 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 2.01 1.42
1995 FLA NL 29 3 10 591 26 12 9 32% 23 10 3 2 0 0 0 0 56 13 1.15 1.61
1996 SFG NL 30 5 7 400 23 9 7 28% 18 6 4 2 1 1 0 0 43 9 1.60 0.96
1996 COL NL 30 0 0 128 3 2 2 40% 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1.63 0.60
1999 ANA AL 33 5 2 204 9 4 1 31% 7 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 22 5 1.39 1.64
7 Seasons 22 54 2721 128 65 48 34% 111 54 16 6 1 5 0 0 258 71 1.46 1.25
MLB Averages 32% 1.29 1.26

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%
1995 FLA NL 29 6 83% 100% 33% 1 100% 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1996 SFG NL 30 92 62% 70% 33% 3 100% 0 18 0 18 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1999 ANA AL 33 140 54% 77% 33% 8 100% 0 30 3 26 1 2 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 238 58% 75% 33% 12 100% 0 51 4 46 1 3 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 58% 78% 32% 92% 85%

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%
1996 SFG NL 30 27 56% 93% 33% 2 100% 0 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 27 56% 93% 33% 2 100% 0 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 58% 78% 32% 85% 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.

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