Steve Dillard

Stephen Bradley Dillard

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: February 8, 1951 in Memphis, TN
High School: Saltillo HS (Saltillo, MS)
School: University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS)
Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 2nd round of the 1972 amateur draft.
Signed June 30, 1972. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 28, 1975
Teams (by GP): Cubs/RedSox/Tigers/WhiteSox 1975-1982

Final Game: October 3, 1982
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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
1975	BOS	AL	24	2B	1	1	1	9.0	9	5	4	0	1	1.000	-1	-93	9.00	9.00	.976	5.40	5.40
1976	BOS	AL	25	3B	18	14	5	127.0	49	16	29	4	4	.918	-3	-26	3.19	2.50	.953	2.94	2.95
1976	BOS	AL	25	2B	17	17	17	149.2	82	32	48	2	10	.976	3	21	4.81	4.71	.975	5.40	5.42
1976	BOS	AL	25	SS	12	10	5	84.2	40	10	25	5	7	.875	-2	-35	3.72	2.92	.967	5.00	5.01
1976	BOS	AL	25	DH	7	3
1977	BOS	AL	26	2B	45	32	22	282.0	182	74	102	6	20	.967	-3	-11	5.62	3.91	.978	5.42	5.38
1977	BOS	AL	26	SS	9	7	7	68.0	36	16	20	0	3	1.000	0	2	4.76	4.00	.963	4.82	4.79
1977	BOS	AL	26	DH	6	0
1978	DET	AL	27	2B	41	38	23	327.1	215	88	118	9	31	.958	-4	-14	5.66	5.02	.980	5.47	5.42
1978	DET	AL	27	DH	4	0
1979	CHC	NL	28	2B	60	40	32	388.1	246	111	132	3	31	.988	-6	-17	5.63	4.05	.979	5.42	5.40
1979	CHC	NL	28	3B	9	0	0	22.0	10	3	6	1	1	.900	-0	-27	3.68	1.00	.951	2.90	2.88
1980	CHC	NL	29	3B	51	35	27	335.0	120	25	84	11	6	.908	-3	-11	2.93	2.14	.948	2.87	2.88
1980	CHC	NL	29	2B	38	27	18	253.2	152	64	85	3	13	.980	-2	-7	5.29	3.92	.980	5.49	5.49
1980	CHC	NL	29	SS	2	1	0	8.0	5	3	2	0	0	1.000	0	30	5.62	2.50	.966	5.06	5.00
1981	CHC	NL	30	2B	32	22	16	221.1	154	54	96	4	21	.974	3	14	6.10	4.69	.982	5.52	5.54
1981	CHC	NL	30	3B	7	2	0	24.0	5	3	0	2	0	.600	-2	-85	1.12	0.43	.948	2.85	2.86
1981	CHC	NL	30	SS	2	0	0	2.2	2	2	0	0	1	1.000	-0	-135	6.75	1.00	.960	5.06	5.10
1982	CHW	AL	31	2B	16	12	8	108.0	74	29	42	3	5	.959	-0	-2	5.92	4.44	.981	5.35	5.33
	8 Seasons			2B	250	189	137	1739.1	1114	457	627	30	132	.973	-9	-6	5.61	4.34	.979	5.45	5.43
	4 Seasons			3B	85	51	32	508.0	184	47	119	18	11	.902	-8	-19	2.94	1.95	.950	2.89	2.89
	4 Seasons			SS	25	18	12	163.1	83	31	47	5	11	.940	-3	-18	4.30	3.12	.965	4.93	4.94
	8 Seasons			TOT	360	258	181	2410.2	1381	535	793	53	154	.962	-20	-10	4.96	3.69	.975	4.87	4.80
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.

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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.
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
1975	BOS	AL	24	2B	-1	-93	-1	-1	0	0
1976	BOS	AL	25	3B	-3	-26	-3	-3	0	0
1976	BOS	AL	25	2B	3	21	3	3	-1	0
1976	BOS	AL	25	SS	-2	-35	-2	-1	-2	0
1977	BOS	AL	26	2B	-3	-11	-3	-3	1	0
1977	BOS	AL	26	SS	0	2	0	-0	1	0
1978	DET	AL	27	2B	-4	-14	-5	-0	-4	1
1979	CHC	NL	28	2B	-6	-17	-5	1	-5	-1
1979	CHC	NL	28	3B	-0	-27	-0	1	-1	0
1980	CHC	NL	29	3B	-3	-11	-2	-2	0	-1
1980	CHC	NL	29	2B	-2	-7	-0	-0	-0	-1
1980	CHC	NL	29	SS	0	30	0	0	0	0
1981	CHC	NL	30	2B	3	14	2	4	-2	1
1981	CHC	NL	30	3B	-2	-85	-2	-0	-2	0
1981	CHC	NL	30	SS	-0	-135	-0	-0	-0	0
1982	CHW	AL	31	2B	-0	-2	1	-1	1	-1
	8 Seasons			2B	-9	-6	-8	3	-11	-1
	4 Seasons			3B	-8	-19	-7	-4	-3	-1
	4 Seasons			SS	-3	-18	-3	-1	-1	0
	8 Seasons			TOT	-20	-10	-18	-3	-15	-2

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	DH	PH	PR
1975	BOS	AL	24	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
1976	BOS	AL	25	57	44	57	46	17	18	12	7	3	6
1977	BOS	AL	26	66	39	66	54	45	0	9	6	7	12
1978	DET	AL	27	56	38	56	42	41	0	1	4	1	16
1979	CHC	NL	28	89	40	89	68	59	9	0	0	21	13
1980	CHC	NL	29	100	63	100	86	38	51	2	0	15	8
1981	CHC	NL	30	53	24	53	41	32	7	2	0	14	8
1982	CHW	AL	31	16	12	16	16	16	0	0	0	0	0
	8 Seasons			438	261	438	354	249	85	26	17	61	63

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 -- 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
1975	BOS	AL	24	44	27%	91%	34%	5	100%	0	5	2	2	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
1976	BOS	AL	25	617	69%	82%	29%	57	93%	0	31	11	17	3	48	39	8	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	10	3	2	3	1	9	4	5	1	1	0
1977	BOS	AL	26	1185	48%	83%	28%	115	96%	0	74	25	30	19	102	89	11	0	1	6	1	4	1	4	20	8	4	7	0	19	7	12	1	1	0
1978	DET	AL	27	1380	52%	82%	28%	137	91%	2	88	27	45	16	118	103	12	1	1	9	0	9	0	7	31	11	7	7	0	26	7	19	1	1	0
1979	CHC	NL	28	1664	55%	77%	27%	161	93%	1	110	36	49	25	129	108	18	1	2	3	0	3	0	1	30	12	4	7	1	24	8	16	6	2	4
1980	CHC	NL	29	1086	58%	83%	28%	106	91%	0	63	18	18	27	85	76	9	0	2	3	0	3	0	3	12	6	0	5	0	11	5	6	1	0	1
1981	CHC	NL	30	938	62%	85%	37%	116	88%	1	54	17	25	12	94	73	18	2	1	4	0	4	0	4	21	5	4	10	0	20	11	9	1	0	1
1982	CHW	AL	31	443	63%	85%	30%	46	96%	0	30	7	21	2	42	37	4	0	0	3	0	2	1	1	5	3	1	0	0	4	0	4	1	1	0
	8 Seasons			7357	56%	82%	29%	743	92%	4	455	143	207	105	621	528	80	4	7	30	1	26	3	21	130	48	22	39	2	113	42	71	13	6	7
	MLB Averages				60%	82%	28%		94%

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%
1976	BOS	AL	25	552	69%	85%	28%	42	90%	0	15	7	6	2	28	22	6	0	0	4	0	2	2	4	4	3	0	3	1	0	1	1	100%
1979	CHC	NL	28	92	57%	83%	17%	10	80%	1	3	3	0	0	6	4	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	100%
1980	CHC	NL	29	1461	62%	80%	29%	122	85%	2	27	15	4	8	87	75	9	2	4	11	0	11	0	9	6	2	1	4	1	0	1	4	75%
1981	CHC	NL	30	114	65%	86%	29%	8	63%	0	3	2	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			2219	64%	82%	29%	182	85%	3	48	27	11	10	123	103	16	2	4	18	0	15	3	15	11	6	1	8	2	0	2	7	86%
	MLB Averages				60%	82%	28%		89%																								68%

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
1976	BOS	AL	25	365	67%	82%	27%	34	88%	0	10	5	4	1	25	11	14	0	0	5	1	1	3	1	7	7	0	0	0	0	7	7	0	0	0	0
1977	BOS	AL	26	296	53%	84%	27%	26	100%	0	16	8	7	1	20	16	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	1	0	3	1	2	0	0	0
1978	DET	AL	27	5	60%	100%	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
1980	CHC	NL	29	30	63%	70%	23%	3	100%	0	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1981	CHC	NL	30	14	64%	79%	21%	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	0
	5 Seasons			710	61%	82%	26%	63	94%	0	30	14	13	3	47	29	18	0	1	5	1	1	3	1	10	7	1	1	1	0	10	8	2	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				60%	82%	28%		91%

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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

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Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y 1981 NL 3 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1981 NL 3 (4th)

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