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Leon Durham

Leon Durham (Bull)

Positions: First Baseman and Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: July 31, 1957 in Cincinnati, OH
High School: Woodward HS (Cincinnati, OH)
Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1st round (15th pick) of the 1976 amateur draft.
Signed June 22, 1976. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 27, 1980
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Cardinals/Reds 1980-1989
Agents: Dick Moss [*]
Final Game: September 17, 1989
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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
1980 STL NL 22 OF 78 69 40 573.2 152 136 14 2 2 .987 6 13 2.35 1.92 .980 2.31 2.31 RoY-7
1980 STL NL 22 RF 43 37 18 308.0 108 95 11 2 2 .981 9 34 3.10 2.47 .977 2.06 2.06 RoY-7
1980 STL NL 22 LF 34 30 21 250.2 48 46 2 0 0 1.000 -3 -13 1.72 1.41 .976 2.06 2.06 RoY-7
1980 STL NL 22 1B 8 4 4 52.2 53 44 8 1 6 .981 2 50 8.89 6.50 .992 10.17 10.18 RoY-7
1980 STL NL 22 CF 2 2 1 15.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 24 1.80 1.50 .983 2.82 2.85 RoY-7
1981 CHC NL 23 OF 83 83 76 721.2 168 159 4 5 1 .970 -8 -14 2.03 1.96 .980 2.33 2.34
1981 CHC NL 23 RF 83 83 76 721.2 165 158 3 4 1 .976 -8 -14 2.01 1.94 .978 2.08 2.08
1981 CHC NL 23 1B 3 1 1 18.0 16 16 0 0 1 1.000 -1 -53 8.00 5.33 .992 10.20 10.27
1982 CHC NL 24 OF 143 142 111 1243.1 324 301 11 12 1 .963 -8 -7 2.26 2.18 .978 2.25 2.26 AS,SS
1982 CHC NL 24 RF 91 71 65 648.0 155 145 6 4 1 .974 -1 -2 2.10 1.66 .978 2.01 2.02 AS,SS
1982 CHC NL 24 CF 73 71 46 595.1 162 149 6 7 0 .957 -6 -12 2.34 2.12 .983 2.66 2.67 AS,SS
1982 CHC NL 24 1B 1 1 1 8.0 11 10 1 0 0 1.000 0 30 12.38 11.00 .992 10.24 10.30 AS,SS
1983 CHC NL 25 OF 95 92 80 794.2 176 168 2 6 0 .966 -12 -17 1.93 1.79 .980 2.27 2.26 AS
1983 CHC NL 25 LF 51 50 41 435.0 77 71 1 5 0 .935 -8 -22 1.49 1.41 .977 2.03 2.02 AS
1983 CHC NL 25 CF 40 40 37 336.2 96 93 1 2 0 .979 -4 -12 2.51 2.35 .983 2.78 2.77 AS
1983 CHC NL 25 1B 6 5 2 31.1 37 35 2 0 2 1.000 -0 -15 10.63 6.17 .992 9.94 9.92 AS
1983 CHC NL 25 RF 4 2 2 23.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 1.57 1.00 .980 2.00 2.00 AS
1984 CHC NL 26 1B 130 126 119 1114.0 1265 1162 96 7 96 .994 1 1 10.16 9.68 .992 9.86 9.83 MVP-12
1985 CHC NL 27 1B 151 144 138 1272.1 1535 1421 107 7 121 .995 1 1 10.81 10.12 .993 10.06 10.05
1986 CHC NL 28 1B 141 133 118 1178.1 1318 1231 80 7 101 .995 -8 -9 10.01 9.30 .992 9.94 9.95
1987 CHC NL 29 1B 123 114 100 1004.0 1117 1049 57 11 90 .990 -6 -8 9.91 8.99 .991 9.88 9.83
1988 TOT NL 30 1B 37 33 25 284.1 319 296 21 2 24 .994 -1 -5 10.03 8.57 .991 9.96 9.98
1988 CHC NL 30 1B 20 19 15 163.0 183 167 15 1 16 .995 0 1 10.05 9.10 .991 9.96 9.98
1988 CIN NL 30 1B 17 14 10 121.1 136 129 6 1 8 .993 -1 -14 10.01 7.94 .991 9.95 9.98
1989 STL NL 31 1B 18 2 2 44.0 51 44 5 2 7 .961 0 8 10.02 2.72 .992 9.76 9.76
10 Seasons 1B 618 563 510 5007.0 5722 5308 377 37 448 .994 -13 -3 10.22 9.20 .992 9.94 9.93
4 Seasons OF 399 386 307 3333.1 820 764 31 25 4 .970 -21 -8 2.15 1.99 .979 2.28 2.29
4 Seasons RF 221 193 161 1700.2 432 402 20 10 4 .977 -1 -1 2.23 1.91 .978 2.05 2.05
3 Seasons CF 115 113 84 947.0 261 245 7 9 0 .966 -9 -12 2.39 2.19 .983 2.70 2.71
2 Seasons LF 85 80 62 685.2 125 117 3 5 0 .960 -11 -19 1.58 1.41 .977 2.04 2.04
10 Seasons TOT 1017 949 817 8340.1 6542 6072 408 62 452 .991 -34 -5 6.99 6.37 .990 6.88 6.93
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
1980 STL NL 22 RF 9 34 7 6 1 2
1980 STL NL 22 LF -3 -13 -4 -0 -3 1
1980 STL NL 22 1B 2 50 1 0 1 1
1980 STL NL 22 CF 0 24 0 0 0 0
1981 CHC NL 23 RF -8 -14 -3 -1 -2 -5
1981 CHC NL 23 1B -1 -53 -1 -1 0 0
1982 CHC NL 24 RF -1 -2 -0 2 -2 -1
1982 CHC NL 24 CF -6 -12 -6 -1 -5 0
1982 CHC NL 24 1B 0 30 0 0 0 0
1983 CHC NL 25 LF -8 -22 -9 -3 -6 1
1983 CHC NL 25 CF -4 -12 -2 -1 -1 -1
1983 CHC NL 25 1B -0 -15 -0 0 -0 0
1983 CHC NL 25 RF 0 0 0 0 0 0
1984 CHC NL 26 1B 1 1 2 2 -0 -1
1985 CHC NL 27 1B 1 1 1 -0 1 0
1986 CHC NL 28 1B -8 -9 -8 -5 -4 0
1987 CHC NL 29 1B -6 -8 -6 -1 -6 0
1988 CHC NL 30 1B 0 1 0 -0 0 0
1988 CIN NL 30 1B -1 -14 -1 -1 -0 0
1989 STL NL 31 1B 0 8 0 2 -1 0
10 Seasons 1B -13 -3 -13 -4 -9 0
4 Seasons RF -1 -1 3 7 -4 -4
3 Seasons CF -9 -12 -8 -2 -6 -1
2 Seasons LF -11 -19 -13 -3 -10 2
10 Seasons TOT -34 -5 -31 -2 -29 0 -3
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
1980 STL NL 22 96 73 96 84 0 0 8 0 0 0 34 2 43 79 0 18 2
1981 CHC NL 23 87 84 87 84 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 83 83 0 3 0
1982 CHC NL 24 148 143 148 144 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 73 91 164 0 5 0
1983 CHC NL 25 100 97 100 99 0 0 6 0 0 0 51 40 4 95 0 2 0
1984 CHC NL 26 137 126 137 130 0 0 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1985 CHC NL 27 153 144 153 151 0 0 151 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1986 CHC NL 28 141 133 141 141 0 0 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
1987 CHC NL 29 131 114 131 123 0 0 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1988 CHC NL 30 24 19 24 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1988 CIN NL 30 21 14 21 17 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1989 STL NL 31 29 2 29 18 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 5
10 Seasons 1067 949 1067 1011 0 0 618 0 0 0 85 115 221 421 0 76 10
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%
1980 STL NL 22 240 75% 86% 21% 22 86% 0 44 5 38 1 4 11 7 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 7 2 1 0 6 4 1 0 1 5 80%
1981 CHC NL 23 88 58% 90% 31% 4 100% 0 16 3 13 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1982 CHC NL 24 32 28% 88% 31% 2 100% 0 9 0 9 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1983 CHC NL 25 129 51% 78% 29% 6 100% 0 35 1 34 0 3 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1984 CHC NL 26 4686 53% 82% 27% 266 98% 2 1163 54 1095 13 116 98 75 13 2 4 7 1 6 0 5 98 1 1 0 89 3 9 1 8 15 93%
1985 CHC NL 27 5501 60% 82% 29% 299 98% 3 1429 48 1354 26 165 101 63 15 2 7 7 0 6 1 7 121 6 0 1 108 7 13 2 11 20 100%
1986 CHC NL 28 5153 58% 81% 26% 275 94% 2 1235 55 1154 25 140 80 46 12 2 5 7 0 7 0 6 102 3 1 0 90 5 12 4 7 17 100%
1987 CHC NL 29 4345 55% 79% 30% 238 94% 1 1053 58 973 19 114 56 39 7 1 3 11 1 10 0 9 90 2 2 0 81 6 9 0 8 15 87%
1988 CHC NL 30 738 54% 83% 34% 41 95% 0 167 6 154 7 19 16 12 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 16 1 0 0 16 1 0 0 0 4 75%
1988 CIN NL 30 513 67% 80% 34% 26 88% 1 129 9 119 1 10 6 4 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 8 1 0 0 8 1 0 0 0 0
1989 STL NL 31 180 63% 81% 39% 13 85% 0 47 2 45 0 4 5 3 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 8 1 0 0 7 2 1 1 0 1 100%
10 Seasons 21605 57% 81% 28% 1192 96% 9 5327 241 4988 92 577 377 251 56 9 21 38 4 33 1 30 453 17 5 1 408 29 45 8 35 78 94%
MLB Averages 59% 81% 29% 95% 88%

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%
1980 STL NL 22 2 0 2 0 1 11 0 2 1 7 25 11 1 19 4 3 9 5 2 8 1 1 16 9 0 77 30 39.0% 40 7 9.1% 4 1292 72% 85% 28% 193 53%
1981 CHC NL 23 4 0 4 0 1 3 0 0 1 1 48 19 1 23 4 1 10 8 0 16 5 0 21 8 0 118 44 37.3% 72 2 1.7% 1 3130 56% 83% 33% 330 48%
1982 CHC NL 24 4 0 4 0 1 6 1 3 1 1 33 12 2 22 4 0 6 4 0 17 5 1 20 10 0 98 35 35.7% 60 3 3.1% 3 2787 55% 85% 25% 251 59%
1983 CHC NL 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 91 40% 78% 21% 7 57%
4 Seasons 10 0 10 0 3 20 1 5 3 9 106 42 4 64 12 4 26 17 2 41 11 2 57 27 0 294 109 37.1% 173 12 4.1% 8 7300 58% 84% 29% 781 53%
MLB Averages 42.2% 2.9% 59% 81% 30% 57%

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%
1980 STL NL 22 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 56 66% 89% 32% 4 75%
1982 CHC NL 24 7 0 7 0 3 6 0 2 2 2 22 14 0 13 1 2 3 0 0 8 3 0 16 8 0 62 26 41.9% 34 2 3.2% 4 2524 53% 85% 25% 269 58%
1983 CHC NL 25 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 10 5 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 15 11 0 36 16 44.4% 19 1 2.8% 0 1444 62% 85% 23% 130 72%
3 Seasons 9 0 9 0 4 7 0 2 3 2 33 20 1 18 1 2 3 0 0 14 3 0 31 19 0 99 43 43.4% 53 3 3.0% 4 4024 56% 85% 24% 403 63%
MLB Averages 43.4% 2.2% 59% 81% 30% 62%

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%
1980 STL NL 22 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 16 11 2 16 4 0 7 5 0 2 0 0 6 6 0 47 26 55.3% 19 2 4.3% 0 1083 71% 83% 25% 133 36%
1983 CHC NL 25 5 0 5 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 15 14 0 13 5 1 2 2 0 4 1 0 6 6 0 40 28 70.0% 11 1 2.5% 0 1861 57% 84% 21% 146 49%
2 Seasons 5 0 5 0 2 3 0 0 1 1 31 25 2 29 9 1 9 7 0 6 1 0 12 12 0 87 54 62.1% 30 3 3.4% 0 2944 62% 84% 22% 279 43%
MLB Averages 60.2% 2.8% 59% 81% 30% 54%

* 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

All-Star Games
1982
1983 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1984 NL (12, 11%)
0.11 Career Shares (885th)

Silver Sluggers
1982 NL (OF)

Putouts† s c a p y
1984 NL  1,162 (4th)
1985 NL  1,421 (2nd)
1986 NL  1,231 (5th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1984 NL  130 (4th)
1985 NL  151 (3rd)
1986 NL  141 (5th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1984 NL  1,162 (4th)
1985 NL  1,421 (2nd)
1986 NL  1,231 (4th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1984 NL  96 (2nd)
1985 NL  107 (2nd)

Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1982 NL  7 (4th)

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1981 NL  83 (3rd)

Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1981 NL  158 (4th)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1980 NL  11 (4th)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1981 NL  4 (4th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1982 NL  12 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1985 NL  10.81 (2nd)
1986 NL  10.01 (4th)
Career  10.22 (10th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1984 NL  9.68 (3rd)
1985 NL  10.12 (2nd)
1986 NL  9.30 (5th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1984 NL  .994 (4th)
1985 NL  .995 (5th)
1986 NL  .995 (4th)
Career  .994 (61st)

Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1980 NL  9 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1982 NL  2.10 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1981 NL  1.94 (5th)

             

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