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John Donaldson

John David Donaldson

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: May 5, 1943 in Charlotte, NC
High School: Garinger HS (Charlotte, NC)
Signed by the Minnesota Twins as an amateur free agent in 1963. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 26, 1966
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Pilots 1966-1974

Final Game: October 2, 1974
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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
1966 KCA AL 23 2B 9 7 5 59.0 34 22 12 0 2 1.000 -2 -43 5.19 3.78 .975 5.09 5.09
1967 KCA AL 24 2B 101 100 95 877.0 448 210 230 8 40 .982 -6 -8 4.52 4.36 .979 4.95 4.96
1967 KCA AL 24 SS 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 360 0.00 0.00 4.50 4.60
1968 OAK AL 25 2B 98 87 81 793.1 445 169 263 13 48 .971 6 10 4.90 4.41 .977 5.11 5.08
1968 OAK AL 25 3B 5 4 1 38.0 16 9 7 0 1 1.000 -0 -13 3.79 3.20 .951 3.06 3.04
1968 OAK AL 25 SS 1 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 180 4.50 1.00 .960 4.95 4.80
1969 TOT AL 26 2B 91 90 85 809.2 470 211 246 13 57 .972 -8 -12 5.08 5.02 .976 5.21 5.21
1969 OAK AL 26 2B 1 1 1 9.0 7 2 4 1 1 .857 -0 -27 6.00 6.00 .976 5.20 5.20
1969 SEP AL 26 2B 90 89 84 800.2 463 209 242 12 56 .974 -8 -12 5.07 5.01 .976 5.21 5.21
1969 SEP AL 26 3B 2 2 1 9.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 1.00 0.50 .960 3.20 3.15
1969 SEP AL 26 SS 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.00 .970 5.40 5.00
1970 OAK AL 27 2B 21 16 11 147.2 73 24 48 1 7 .986 2 16 4.39 3.43 .979 5.35 5.32
1970 OAK AL 27 SS 6 5 3 45.0 22 7 15 0 1 1.000 1 29 4.40 3.67 .967 4.92 4.92
1970 OAK AL 27 3B 1 0 0 5.0 3 0 3 0 1 1.000 1 144 5.40 3.00 .950 3.06 3.10
1974 OAK AL 31 2B 7 3 2 31.1 26 11 14 1 5 .962 0 15 7.18 3.57 .975 5.37 5.34
1974 OAK AL 31 3B 3 0 0 8.2 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -28 0.00 0.00 3.12 3.10
6 Seasons 2B 327 303 279 2718.0 1496 647 813 36 159 .976 -7 -3 4.83 4.46 .977 5.10 5.10
4 Seasons 3B 11 6 2 60.2 20 9 11 0 2 1.000 0 0 2.97 1.82 .952 3.09 3.08
4 Seasons SS 9 5 3 50.0 24 8 16 0 1 1.000 2 48 4.32 2.67 .967 4.91 4.88
6 Seasons TOT 347 314 284 2828.2 1540 664 840 36 162 .977 -5 -2 4.79 4.33 .977 5.06 5.03
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
1966 KCA AL 23 2B -2 -43 -1 0 -1 -1
1967 KCA AL 24 2B -6 -8 -4 -2 -2 -2
1967 KCA AL 24 SS 1 360 1 1 0 0
1968 OAK AL 25 2B 6 10 5 0 5 1
1968 OAK AL 25 3B -0 -13 -0 -0 -0 0
1968 OAK AL 25 SS 0 180 0 0 0 0
1969 OAK AL 26 2B -0 -27 -0 -0 0 0
1969 SEP AL 26 2B -8 -12 -6 -0 -6 -2
1969 SEP AL 26 3B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1969 SEP AL 26 SS 0 0 0 0 0 0
1970 OAK AL 27 2B 2 16 2 2 0 0
1970 OAK AL 27 SS 1 29 1 0 1 0
1970 OAK AL 27 3B 1 144 1 1 0 0
1974 OAK AL 31 2B 0 15 0 -0 0 0
1974 OAK AL 31 3B -0 -28 -0 -0 0 0
6 Seasons 2B -7 -3 -3 -1 -2 -4
4 Seasons 3B 0 0 0 0 -0 0
4 Seasons SS 2 48 2 1 1 0
6 Seasons TOT -5 -2 -1 -0 -1 -4

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1966 KCA AL 23 15 7 15 9 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
1967 KCA AL 24 105 100 105 102 0 0 0 101 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1968 OAK AL 25 127 91 127 104 0 0 0 98 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 33 1
1969 SEP AL 26 95 91 95 93 0 0 0 90 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1969 OAK AL 26 12 1 12 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1970 OAK AL 27 41 21 41 28 0 0 0 21 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
1974 OAK AL 31 10 3 10 9 0 0 0 7 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
6 Seasons 405 314 405 346 0 0 0 327 11 9 0 0 0 0 0 73 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 -- 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
1966 KCA AL 23 259 68% 71% 15% 23 96% 0 22 13 6 4 13 11 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
1967 KCA AL 24 3678 59% 77% 23% 306 95% 3 210 101 68 43 232 190 22 2 4 9 2 5 2 3 39 12 6 5 1 26 6 20 10 8 1
1968 OAK AL 25 3235 54% 78% 27% 320 95% 5 174 77 69 28 266 219 35 4 6 13 0 13 0 8 48 16 9 16 0 44 17 26 1 0 1
1969 SEP AL 26 3458 63% 79% 26% 292 93% 3 207 74 89 45 241 200 32 2 3 12 1 10 1 8 57 21 8 16 2 51 18 30 5 3 2
1969 OAK AL 26 43 77% 93% 40% 4 75% 0 2 0 2 0 4 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1970 OAK AL 27 608 57% 80% 26% 55 98% 0 25 10 4 11 48 39 8 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 8 2 0 5 0 8 5 2 0 0 0
1974 OAK AL 31 146 90% 87% 29% 9 100% 0 11 0 10 1 13 11 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 1 2 2 0 5 2 3 0 0 0
6 Seasons 11427 59% 78% 25% 1009 95% 11 651 275 248 132 817 674 100 8 14 37 3 30 4 21 160 53 26 44 3 137 48 84 16 11 4
MLB Averages 64% 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%
1968 OAK AL 25 149 57% 77% 22% 10 90% 0 7 5 1 1 5 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
1969 SEP AL 26 48 31% 81% 38% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1970 OAK AL 27 19 74% 89% 26% 3 100% 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1974 OAK AL 31 36 69% 86% 25% 2 100% 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 252 55% 80% 26% 16 94% 0 8 6 1 1 10 7 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 0
MLB Averages 64% 80% 28% 89% 66%

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
1967 KCA AL 24 8 75% 75% 38% 3 100% 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1968 OAK AL 25 7 57% 100% 43% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1969 SEP AL 26 3 33% 100% 0% 1 100% 0 1 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
1970 OAK AL 27 185 54% 79% 26% 20 95% 0 7 4 2 1 15 12 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 203 55% 80% 27% 25 96% 0 8 5 2 1 19 15 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 64% 80% 28% 91%

* 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

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1968 AL  13 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1968 AL  6 (4th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1967 AL  .982 (3rd)

             

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