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Mike Epstein

Michael Peter Epstein (Superjew)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 230 lb.

Born: April 4, 1943 in Bronx, NY
High School: Fairfax HS (Los Angeles, CA)
School: University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Signed by the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent in 1964. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1966
Teams (by GP): Senators/Athletics/Angels/Rangers/Orioles 1966-1974

Final Game: April 28, 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 BAL AL 23 1B 4 2 2 25.0 38 36 2 0 3 1.000 -0 -19 13.68 9.50 .991 9.58 9.57
1967 TOT AL 24 1B 83 79 73 707.0 808 743 55 10 74 .988 -4 -7 10.16 9.61 .991 9.53 9.55
1967 BAL AL 24 1B 3 2 2 23.0 26 25 1 0 2 1.000 -0 -10 10.17 8.67 .991 9.55 9.53
1967 WSA AL 24 1B 80 77 71 684.0 782 718 54 10 72 .987 -4 -6 10.16 9.65 .991 9.53 9.55
1968 WSA AL 25 1B 110 107 84 926.0 1030 947 70 13 83 .987 -11 -14 9.88 9.25 .989 9.59 9.54
1969 WSA AL 26 1B 118 115 86 984.0 1115 1035 69 11 99 .990 -6 -8 10.10 9.36 .992 9.63 9.62 MVP-25
1970 WSA AL 27 1B 122 118 113 1044.1 1180 1100 70 10 104 .992 -7 -8 10.08 9.59 .991 9.59 9.56
1971 TOT AL 28 1B 120 119 83 995.0 1008 938 64 6 123 .994 -9 -11 9.06 8.35 .992 9.59 9.53
1971 WSA AL 28 1B 24 24 21 208.0 238 224 12 2 30 .992 -6 -32 10.21 9.83 .992 9.59 9.53
1971 OAK AL 28 1B 96 95 62 787.0 770 714 52 4 93 .995 -4 -6 8.76 7.98 .992 9.59 9.53
1972 OAK AL 29 1B 137 137 76 1101.2 1196 1111 73 12 101 .990 1 1 9.67 8.64 .991 9.75 9.71 MVP-16
1973 TOT AL 30 1B 111 110 105 946.2 979 910 62 7 80 .993 -0 -1 9.24 8.76 .992 9.86 9.80
1973 TEX AL 30 1B 25 25 24 211.0 214 200 12 2 19 .991 0 1 9.04 8.48 .992 9.86 9.80
1973 CAL AL 30 1B 86 85 81 735.2 765 710 50 5 61 .993 -1 -1 9.30 8.84 .992 9.86 9.80
1974 CAL AL 31 1B 18 18 11 145.2 150 137 12 1 14 .993 0 0 9.21 8.28 .992 9.70 9.66
9 Seasons 1B 823 805 633 6875.1 7504 6957 477 70 681 .991 -38 -7 9.73 9.03 .991 9.65 9.62
9 Seasons TOT 823 805 633 6875.1 7504 6957 477 70 681 .991 -38 -7 9.73 9.03 .991 9.65 9.62
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 BAL AL 23 1B -0 -19 -0 -0 0 0
1967 BAL AL 24 1B -0 -10 -0 -0 0 0
1967 WSA AL 24 1B -4 -6 -4 -1 -2 0
1968 WSA AL 25 1B -11 -14 -10 -3 -7 -1
1969 WSA AL 26 1B -6 -8 -7 -1 -6 1
1970 WSA AL 27 1B -7 -8 -7 -4 -3 0
1971 WSA AL 28 1B -6 -32 -6 -4 -2 0
1971 OAK AL 28 1B -4 -6 -5 -1 -4 1
1972 OAK AL 29 1B 1 1 -0 -3 2 1
1973 TEX AL 30 1B 0 1 0 -0 0 0
1973 CAL AL 30 1B -1 -1 -1 1 -2 0
1974 CAL AL 31 1B 0 0 0 0 -0 0
9 Seasons 1B -38 -7 -40 -17 -23 2
9 Seasons TOT -38 -7 -40 -17 -23 2

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1966 BAL AL 23 6 2 6 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1967 WSA AL 24 96 77 96 80 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
1967 BAL AL 24 9 2 9 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1968 WSA AL 25 123 107 123 110 0 0 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
1969 WSA AL 26 131 115 131 118 0 0 118 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
1970 WSA AL 27 140 118 140 122 0 0 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0
1971 OAK AL 28 104 95 104 96 0 0 96 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1971 WSA AL 28 24 24 24 24 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1972 OAK AL 29 138 137 138 137 0 0 137 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1973 CAL AL 30 91 85 91 86 0 0 86 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1973 TEX AL 30 27 25 27 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1974 CAL AL 31 18 18 18 18 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 907 805 907 823 0 0 823 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 91 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 -- 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%
1966 BAL AL 23 106 56% 83% 37% 4 75% 0 35 1 34 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0
1967 WSA AL 24 2856 64% 80% 29% 134 92% 2 724 27 689 10 51 54 32 8 2 1 10 2 5 3 8 73 3 0 0 64 3 8 0 8 4 100%
1967 BAL AL 24 98 68% 70% 28% 3 100% 0 24 1 23 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
1968 WSA AL 25 3919 59% 81% 27% 211 88% 0 930 50 869 10 69 70 52 14 0 3 13 0 13 0 11 83 0 1 1 72 1 11 2 8 22 82%
1969 WSA AL 26 4207 61% 79% 28% 210 88% 1 1029 52 960 17 72 68 49 10 0 2 11 0 10 1 9 98 4 3 0 87 8 10 1 9 21 76%
1970 WSA AL 27 4483 65% 80% 29% 186 92% 0 1105 49 1037 20 61 70 43 16 1 4 10 3 6 1 7 105 4 1 0 96 5 7 0 6 10 90%
1971 OAK AL 28 3200 61% 78% 25% 153 92% 0 710 47 650 12 47 50 32 11 1 1 4 0 4 0 4 93 5 2 0 87 10 6 2 3 10 90%
1971 WSA AL 28 871 56% 84% 29% 34 85% 0 224 14 209 1 3 14 9 2 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 30 0 1 0 28 2 2 2 0 1 100%
1972 OAK AL 29 4442 70% 80% 28% 219 94% 0 1100 54 1030 17 91 70 41 20 0 2 12 3 9 0 6 101 5 1 1 93 8 8 2 6 23 100%
1973 CAL AL 30 3194 64% 77% 26% 148 93% 1 713 45 652 16 52 52 29 11 0 5 5 1 4 0 3 63 2 0 0 60 2 3 2 1 7 86%
1973 TEX AL 30 943 64% 82% 25% 41 93% 0 201 10 189 2 19 10 7 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 19 1 0 0 17 1 2 0 2 3 67%
1974 CAL AL 31 637 66% 77% 25% 31 100% 0 137 11 125 2 9 12 7 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 14 0 1 0 13 1 1 0 1 1 100%
9 Seasons 28956 64% 80% 28% 1374 91% 4 6932 361 6467 107 477 473 303 98 5 18 70 10 55 5 51 684 24 10 2 621 41 59 12 44 102 87%
MLB Averages 64% 80% 28% 94% 88%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1969 AL (25, 1%)
1972 AL (16, 3%)
0.04 Career Shares (1177th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1969 AL  1,035 (5th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1972 AL  137 (4th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1969 AL  1,035 (5th)
1970 AL  1,100 (5th)
1972 AL  1,111 (5th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1968 AL  70 (5th)
1972 AL  73 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1968 AL  13 (4th)
1969 AL  11 (2nd)
1970 AL  10 (2nd)
1972 AL  12 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1967 AL  10.16 (2nd)
1968 AL  9.88 (4th)
1969 AL  10.10 (4th)
1970 AL  10.08 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1967 AL  9.61 (2nd)
1968 AL  9.25 (3rd)
1969 AL  9.36 (3rd)
1970 AL  9.59 (1st)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1973 AL  .993 (5th)

                                         

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