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Dan Driessen

Daniel Driessen

Positions: First Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 187 lb.

Born: July 29, 1951 in Hilton Head Island, SC
High School: Hardeeville HS (Hardeeville, SC)
Signed by the Cincinnati Reds as an amateur free agent in 1969. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 9, 1973
Teams (by GP): Reds/Expos/Giants/Cardinals/Astros 1973-1987

Final Game: October 3, 1987
Relatives: Uncle of Gerald Perry
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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
1973 CIN NL 21 3B 87 85 35 648.0 224 62 150 12 19 .946 -5 -9 2.94 2.44 .946 2.88 2.88 RoY-3
1973 CIN NL 21 1B 35 5 4 109.1 104 97 7 0 11 1.000 0 1 8.56 2.97 .992 9.83 9.83 RoY-3
1973 CIN NL 21 OF 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 240 9.00 1.00 .980 1.80 2.20 RoY-3
1973 CIN NL 21 RF 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 240 9.00 1.00 .970 1.80 2.00 RoY-3
1974 CIN NL 22 3B 126 122 36 897.0 283 67 192 24 19 .915 -9 -12 2.60 2.06 .948 3.04 3.04
1974 CIN NL 22 1B 47 3 3 125.0 134 118 14 2 18 .985 2 21 9.50 2.81 .991 9.94 9.93
1974 CIN NL 22 OF 3 2 0 12.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0.75 0.33 .980 2.25 2.27
1974 CIN NL 22 RF 3 2 0 12.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0.75 0.33 .980 2.03 2.03
1975 CIN NL 23 1B 41 26 23 266.1 292 268 20 4 34 .986 -2 -8 9.73 7.02 .990 9.97 9.96
1975 CIN NL 23 OF 29 28 4 193.1 42 41 0 1 0 .976 -3 -19 1.91 1.41 .978 2.29 2.28
1975 CIN NL 23 LF 25 25 4 170.1 33 32 0 1 0 .970 -4 -26 1.69 1.28 .973 2.10 2.10
1975 CIN NL 23 RF 4 3 0 23.0 10 10 0 0 0 1.000 1 31 3.91 2.50 .974 2.03 2.02
1976 CIN NL 24 1B 40 32 26 295.0 313 291 21 1 33 .997 2 9 9.52 7.80 .991 9.95 9.93
1976 CIN NL 24 LF 20 20 5 146.0 26 23 2 1 0 .962 -2 -14 1.54 1.25 .976 2.02 2.01
1976 CIN NL 24 OF 20 20 5 146.0 26 23 2 1 0 .962 -2 -14 1.54 1.25 .979 2.34 2.33
1977 CIN NL 25 1B 148 141 137 1252.2 1264 1182 75 7 116 .994 -4 -4 9.03 8.49 .991 9.89 9.89
1978 CIN NL 26 1B 151 142 138 1282.1 1363 1264 93 6 92 .996 6 5 9.52 8.99 .992 9.98 9.90
1979 CIN NL 27 1B 143 138 131 1221.0 1377 1289 79 9 112 .993 -4 -4 10.08 9.57 .992 9.89 9.86
1980 CIN NL 28 1B 151 149 145 1327.0 1441 1349 85 7 115 .995 2 1 9.73 9.50 .992 10.16 10.17
1981 CIN NL 29 1B 74 66 62 585.2 591 558 30 3 54 .995 -4 -8 9.04 7.95 .992 10.22 10.25
1982 CIN NL 30 1B 144 144 141 1285.0 1320 1239 78 3 123 .998 -8 -8 9.22 9.15 .992 10.23 10.26
1983 CIN NL 31 1B 112 110 102 965.0 992 917 71 4 73 .996 -2 -3 9.21 8.82 .992 9.96 9.92
1984 TOT NL 32 1B 115 101 93 910.1 929 870 52 7 69 .992 0 0 9.12 8.02 .992 9.86 9.83
1984 CIN NL 32 1B 70 59 51 526.1 541 507 29 5 31 .991 -4 -8 9.17 7.66 .992 9.86 9.83
1984 MON NL 32 1B 45 42 42 384.0 388 363 23 2 38 .995 4 11 9.05 8.58 .992 9.86 9.83
1985 TOT NL 33 1B 137 131 114 1151.1 1298 1203 91 4 111 .997 -3 -4 10.12 9.45 .993 10.06 10.05
1985 MON NL 33 1B 88 84 74 740.0 871 804 64 3 79 .997 2 3 10.56 9.86 .993 10.06 10.05
1985 SFG NL 33 1B 49 47 40 411.1 427 399 27 1 32 .998 -5 -16 9.32 8.69 .993 10.06 10.05
1986 TOT NL 34 1B 16 6 6 83.2 83 77 6 0 5 1.000 1 10 8.93 5.19 .992 9.94 9.95
1986 SFG NL 34 1B 4 2 2 24.0 28 25 3 0 0 1.000 1 70 10.50 7.00 .992 9.94 9.95
1986 HOU NL 34 1B 12 4 4 59.2 55 52 3 0 5 1.000 -1 -14 8.30 4.58 .992 9.94 9.95
1987 STL NL 35 1B 21 16 9 138.2 152 141 10 1 13 .993 0 3 9.80 7.19 .991 9.88 9.83
15 Seasons 1B 1375 1210 1134 10998.1 11653 10863 732 58 979 .995 -15 -2 9.49 8.43 .992 10.02 9.99
2 Seasons 3B 213 207 71 1545.0 507 129 342 36 38 .929 -14 -11 2.74 2.21 .947 2.97 2.97
4 Seasons OF 53 50 9 352.1 70 66 2 2 0 .971 -5 -16 1.74 1.28 .978 2.31 2.30
2 Seasons LF 45 45 9 316.1 59 55 2 2 0 .966 -5 -20 1.62 1.27 .974 2.06 2.06
3 Seasons RF 8 5 0 36.0 12 12 0 0 0 1.000 1 27 3.00 1.50 .974 2.03 2.02
15 Seasons TOT 1641 1467 1214 12895.2 12230 11058 1076 96 1017 .992 -33 -3 8.47 7.39 .990 8.96 8.83
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
1973 CIN NL 21 3B -5 -9 -5 -1 -4 0
1973 CIN NL 21 1B 0 1 0 0 -0 0
1973 CIN NL 21 RF 0 240 0 0 0 0
1974 CIN NL 22 3B -9 -12 -8 -3 -5 -1
1974 CIN NL 22 1B 2 21 2 1 2 0
1974 CIN NL 22 RF 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 CIN NL 23 1B -2 -8 -2 -1 -1 0
1975 CIN NL 23 LF -4 -26 -4 -2 -2 0
1975 CIN NL 23 RF 1 31 2 2 0 -1
1976 CIN NL 24 1B 2 9 2 -0 3 0
1976 CIN NL 24 LF -2 -14 -3 -0 -2 1
1977 CIN NL 25 1B -4 -4 -4 2 -6 0
1978 CIN NL 26 1B 6 5 5 6 -2 1
1979 CIN NL 27 1B -4 -4 -4 -2 -2 0
1980 CIN NL 28 1B 2 1 2 0 1 0
1981 CIN NL 29 1B -4 -8 -4 -4 -0 0
1982 CIN NL 30 1B -8 -8 -9 -3 -6 1
1983 CIN NL 31 1B -2 -3 -2 0 -2 0
1984 CIN NL 32 1B -4 -8 -4 -3 -0 0
1984 MON NL 32 1B 4 11 4 3 0 0
1985 MON NL 33 1B 2 3 2 1 1 0
1985 SFG NL 33 1B -5 -16 -4 -3 -1 -1
1986 SFG NL 34 1B 1 70 1 1 0 0
1986 HOU NL 34 1B -1 -14 -1 -1 0 0
1987 STL NL 35 1B 0 3 0 0 0 0
15 Seasons 1B -15 -2 -16 -1 -14 1
2 Seasons 3B -14 -11 -13 -4 -9 -1
2 Seasons LF -5 -20 -6 -3 -4 1
3 Seasons RF 1 27 2 2 0 -1
15 Seasons TOT -33 -3 -33 -6 -27 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
1973 CIN NL 21 102 90 102 96 0 0 36 0 87 0 0 0 1 1 0 9 0
1974 CIN NL 22 150 127 150 142 0 0 50 0 126 0 0 0 3 3 0 14 3
1975 CIN NL 23 88 54 88 65 0 0 41 0 0 0 25 0 4 29 0 28 2
1976 CIN NL 24 98 52 98 58 0 0 40 0 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 42 0
1977 CIN NL 25 151 141 151 148 0 0 148 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1978 CIN NL 26 153 142 153 151 0 0 151 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
1979 CIN NL 27 150 138 150 143 0 0 143 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1980 CIN NL 28 154 149 154 151 0 0 151 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1981 CIN NL 29 82 66 82 74 0 0 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 4
1982 CIN NL 30 149 144 149 144 0 0 144 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
1983 CIN NL 31 122 110 122 112 0 0 112 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1984 CIN NL 32 81 59 81 70 0 0 70 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1984 MON NL 32 51 42 51 45 0 0 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1
1985 MON NL 33 91 84 91 88 0 0 88 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1985 SFG NL 33 54 47 54 49 0 0 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1986 HOU NL 34 17 4 17 12 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1986 SFG NL 34 15 2 15 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1987 STL NL 35 24 16 24 21 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
15 Seasons 1732 1467 1732 1573 0 0 1379 0 213 0 45 0 8 53 0 188 12
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
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 -- 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%
1973 CIN NL 21 437 66% 76% 26% 19 100% 1 100 6 94 0 7 6 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 10 0 1 0 1 2 100%
1974 CIN NL 22 524 64% 82% 28% 37 95% 0 118 9 108 1 11 16 12 3 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 18 1 0 0 17 1 1 0 1 1 100%
1975 CIN NL 23 1100 61% 82% 27% 61 93% 0 267 22 245 1 17 19 13 5 0 2 4 1 3 0 3 34 2 0 0 30 2 4 1 3 6 100%
1976 CIN NL 24 1224 66% 82% 27% 66 98% 0 289 19 268 2 28 21 12 6 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 33 2 0 0 29 2 4 1 3 5 100%
1977 CIN NL 25 5373 65% 80% 25% 275 93% 2 1193 94 1086 12 95 75 56 9 0 1 7 1 5 1 6 115 1 1 0 109 2 6 2 4 12 92%
1978 CIN NL 26 5508 62% 80% 27% 296 94% 2 1265 65 1191 9 128 96 68 13 3 4 6 0 5 1 4 92 6 1 1 82 9 10 3 7 18 100%
1979 CIN NL 27 5167 59% 83% 27% 308 94% 1 1287 95 1180 12 124 79 56 15 0 5 9 0 9 0 6 112 3 2 1 103 6 9 1 8 19 100%
1980 CIN NL 28 5593 58% 83% 26% 299 94% 1 1352 83 1258 10 122 87 63 13 2 3 8 0 8 0 5 115 3 0 1 105 5 10 3 7 20 75%
1981 CIN NL 29 2483 54% 80% 26% 126 94% 0 564 36 521 7 53 32 24 2 2 4 4 0 4 0 3 55 1 0 1 51 2 4 0 3 4 75%
1982 CIN NL 30 5474 59% 79% 25% 266 96% 1 1250 94 1144 11 97 76 39 19 3 1 3 0 3 0 3 122 9 0 0 112 11 10 1 9 18 94%
1983 CIN NL 31 4133 53% 80% 24% 223 95% 2 913 57 843 14 98 71 48 7 3 7 4 0 4 0 3 72 2 1 0 65 4 7 4 3 13 100%
1984 CIN NL 32 2285 61% 79% 25% 94 98% 1 505 9 493 3 54 31 24 4 1 2 5 1 4 0 2 31 0 0 0 27 0 4 0 4 7 100%
1984 MON NL 32 1591 64% 82% 25% 86 98% 1 360 25 329 5 39 24 19 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 38 0 0 0 36 1 2 1 1 1 0%
1985 MON NL 33 3058 60% 82% 29% 177 98% 1 806 33 762 11 84 62 48 7 2 3 3 0 2 1 1 78 2 0 0 74 3 4 0 4 8 88%
1985 SFG NL 33 1802 69% 78% 24% 85 99% 0 403 19 377 7 45 23 15 3 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 32 0 0 0 27 1 5 1 4 5 100%
1986 HOU NL 34 256 65% 72% 21% 8 100% 0 54 2 48 4 4 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1986 SFG NL 34 96 40% 82% 29% 7 100% 0 25 0 25 0 5 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1987 STL NL 35 557 67% 80% 36% 25 100% 0 146 5 137 4 12 10 7 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 14 0 1 0 13 1 1 0 1 1 100%
15 Seasons 46661 60% 81% 26% 2458 95% 13 10897 673 10109 113 1023 733 511 110 19 38 60 3 53 4 39 977 32 6 5 895 51 82 18 63 141 93%
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 94% 89%
Lg 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%

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%
1973 CIN NL 21 2741 72% 81% 27% 231 86% 2 62 49 8 5 151 122 21 4 4 12 0 12 0 12 19 9 2 14 4 1 2 10 80%
1974 CIN NL 22 3793 66% 79% 27% 287 85% 3 64 44 7 13 200 154 39 3 5 24 0 22 2 20 19 9 1 13 3 2 0 15 80%
2 Seasons 6534 68% 80% 27% 518 85% 5 126 93 15 18 351 276 60 7 9 36 0 34 2 32 38 18 3 27 7 3 2 25 80%
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 90% 71%

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%
1975 CIN NL 23 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 9 0 7 5 0 6 3 0 2 1 0 4 4 0 30 22 73.3% 8 0 0.0% 0 742 57% 86% 26% 79 41%
1976 CIN NL 24 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 9 8 0 8 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 21 14 66.7% 6 1 4.8% 1 614 64% 80% 30% 59 42%
2 Seasons 2 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 20 17 0 15 8 1 8 4 0 2 1 0 6 6 0 51 36 70.6% 14 1 2.0% 1 1356 60% 83% 28% 138 41%
MLB Averages 59.6% 2.9% 60% 82% 28% 51%

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%
1973 CIN NL 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 5 40% 100% 80% 2 50%
1974 CIN NL 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 50.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 47 64% 83% 28% 3 33%
1975 CIN NL 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 0.0% 4 0 0.0% 0 97 63% 79% 37% 15 67%
3 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 2 28.6% 5 0 0.0% 0 149 62% 81% 36% 20 60%
MLB Averages 41.9% 3.1% 60% 82% 28% 56%

* 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

Putouts† s c a p y
1977 NL  1,182 (5th)
1978 NL  1,264 (4th)
1979 NL  1,289 (4th)
1985 NL  1,203 (4th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1977 NL  148 (3rd)
1978 NL  151 (4th)
1979 NL  143 (4th)
1985 NL  137 (4th)
Career  1,375 (73rd)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1977 NL  1,182 (5th)
1978 NL  1,264 (4th)
1979 NL  1,289 (4th)
1985 NL  1,203 (4th)
Career  10,863 (97th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1977 NL  75 (4th)
1978 NL  93 (4th)
1979 NL  79 (5th)
1985 NL  91 (4th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1974 NL  24 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1978 NL  6 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1979 NL  10.08 (3rd)
1985 NL  10.12 (5th)
Career  9.50 (70th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1979 NL  9.57 (3rd)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1977 NL  .994 (3rd)
1978 NL  .996 (1st)
1980 NL  .995 (3rd)
1982 NL  .998 (1st)
1983 NL  .996 (1st)
1985 NL  .997 (3rd)
Career  .995 (19th)

                                         

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