Mike Fischlin

Michael Thomas Fischlin

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: September 13, 1955 in Sacramento, CA
School: California State University Sacramento (Sacramento, CA)
Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 7th round of the 1975 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 3, 1977
Teams (by GP): Indians/Yankees/Astros/Braves 1977-1987
Agents: Scott Boras [*]
Final Game: May 11, 1987
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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	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1977	HOU	NL	21	SS	12	3	2	42.2	20	3	17	0	1	1.000	1	23	4.22	1.67	.963	5.02	5.03
1978	HOU	NL	22	SS	41	29	16	257.0	125	49	67	9	11	.928	-8	-39	4.06	2.83	.966	4.88	4.84
1980	HOU	NL	24	SS	1	0	0	2.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-60	4.50	1.00	.970	4.95	5.00
1981	CLE	AL	25	SS	19	13	9	121.0	67	29	35	3	7	.955	-3	-27	4.76	3.37	.967	4.99	4.98
1981	CLE	AL	25	2B	1	1	1	9.0	9	4	4	1	1	.889	-0	-40	8.00	8.00	.982	5.50	5.50
1982	CLE	AL	26	SS	101	87	63	755.1	401	136	253	12	42	.970	3	4	4.64	3.85	.965	4.87	4.84
1982	CLE	AL	26	3B	8	0	0	22.0	4	2	1	1	0	.750	-1	-71	1.23	0.38	.955	3.07	3.05
1982	CLE	AL	26	2B	6	0	0	14.1	6	3	3	0	1	1.000	0	33	3.77	1.00	.982	5.34	5.33
1982	CLE	AL	26	C	1	0	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-400	3.00	1.00	.990	5.70	5.70	0	0	3	0	0%	36%	0
1983	CLE	AL	27	2B	71	56	38	505.2	342	151	179	12	46	.965	-4	-9	5.87	4.65	.981	5.36	5.32
1983	CLE	AL	27	SS	15	14	13	118.2	58	16	41	1	12	.983	-0	-3	4.32	3.80	.963	4.75	4.72
1983	CLE	AL	27	3B	4	1	1	24.0	9	2	6	1	1	.889	-0	-10	3.00	2.00	.956	3.08	3.05
1983	CLE	AL	27	DH	1	0
1984	CLE	AL	28	2B	55	40	20	325.2	209	90	115	4	25	.981	0	2	5.67	3.73	.980	5.24	5.21
1984	CLE	AL	28	3B	17	0	0	31.0	15	3	11	1	0	.933	1	23	4.06	0.82	.950	2.76	2.73
1984	CLE	AL	28	SS	15	5	4	65.1	34	11	20	3	5	.912	-1	-22	4.27	2.07	.962	4.75	4.72
1985	CLE	AL	29	2B	31	13	7	143.2	104	44	59	1	15	.990	1	8	6.45	3.32	.982	5.29	5.24
1985	CLE	AL	29	SS	22	5	3	66.0	51	20	28	3	5	.941	-1	-20	6.55	2.18	.964	4.64	4.60
1985	CLE	AL	29	1B	6	0	0	9.1	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	0	51	7.71	1.33	.991	9.74	9.67
1985	CLE	AL	29	DH	5	0
1985	CLE	AL	29	3B	3	0	0	3.0	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	0	120	9.00	1.00	.953	3.00	2.83
1986	NYY	AL	30	SS	42	24	13	216.1	111	33	73	5	13	.955	-2	-12	4.41	2.52	.967	4.53	4.49
1986	NYY	AL	30	2B	27	11	8	121.1	66	30	34	2	5	.970	0	0	4.75	2.37	.981	5.10	5.05
	9 Seasons			SS	268	180	123	1644.1	868	298	534	36	96	.959	-12	-9	4.55	3.10	.965	4.82	4.77
	6 Seasons			2B	191	121	74	1119.2	736	322	394	20	93	.973	-2	-2	5.76	3.75	.981	5.29	5.24
	4 Seasons			3B	32	1	1	80.0	31	8	20	3	1	.903	-1	-9	3.15	0.88	.953	2.95	2.86
	1 Season			1B	6	0	0	9.1	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	0	51	7.71	1.33	.991	9.74	9.67
	1 Season			C	1	0	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-400	3.00	1.00	.990	5.70	5.70	0	0	3	0	0%	36%	0
	10 Seasons			TOT	498	302	198	2856.1	1644	637	948	59	190	.964	-16	-7	4.99	3.18	.972	4.97	4.89	0	0	3	0	0%	36%	0
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	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	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr	RerC	RsbC	RsbP
1977	HOU	NL	21	SS	1	23	1	0	1	0
1978	HOU	NL	22	SS	-8	-39	-7	-3	-4	-1
1980	HOU	NL	24	SS	-0	-60	-0	0	-0	0
1981	CLE	AL	25	SS	-3	-27	-3	0	-3	0
1981	CLE	AL	25	2B	-0	-40	-0	-0	0	0
1982	CLE	AL	26	SS	3	4	5	5	-0	-2
1982	CLE	AL	26	3B	-1	-71	-1	-1	-0	0
1982	CLE	AL	26	2B	0	33	0	0	0	0
1982	CLE	AL	26	C	-1	-400						-1
1983	CLE	AL	27	2B	-4	-9	-4	-1	-3	0
1983	CLE	AL	27	SS	-0	-3	-1	-0	-1	1
1983	CLE	AL	27	3B	-0	-10	-0	0	-0	0
1984	CLE	AL	28	2B	0	2	-0	1	-1	1
1984	CLE	AL	28	3B	1	23	1	0	1	0
1984	CLE	AL	28	SS	-1	-22	-1	-1	0	0
1985	CLE	AL	29	2B	1	8	1	-1	2	0
1985	CLE	AL	29	SS	-1	-20	-1	-1	0	0
1985	CLE	AL	29	1B	0	51	0	0	0	0
1985	CLE	AL	29	3B	0	120	0	0	-0	0
1986	NYY	AL	30	SS	-2	-12	-2	-1	-1	0
1986	NYY	AL	30	2B	0	0	1	1	0	-1
	9 Seasons			SS	-12	-9	-10	-2	-8	-2
	6 Seasons			2B	-2	-2	-2	-0	-2	0
	4 Seasons			3B	-1	-9	-1	-0	-0	0
	1 Season			1B	0	51	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			C	-1	-400						-1
	10 Seasons			TOT	-16	-7	-12	-2	-10	-2		-1
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	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	DH	PH	PR
1977	HOU	NL	21	13	3	13	12	0	0	0	0	12	0	0	3
1978	HOU	NL	22	44	29	44	41	0	0	0	0	41	0	3	4
1980	HOU	NL	24	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
1981	CLE	AL	25	22	14	22	20	0	0	1	0	19	0	0	3
1982	CLE	AL	26	112	87	112	107	1	0	7	8	101	0	2	7
1983	CLE	AL	27	95	71	95	87	0	0	71	4	15	1	1	8
1984	CLE	AL	28	85	45	85	83	0	0	55	17	15	0	2	7
1985	CLE	AL	29	73	18	73	61	0	6	32	3	21	5	1	19
1986	NYY	AL	30	71	35	71	69	0	0	27	0	42	0	0	5
1987	ATL	NL	31	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	10 Seasons			517	302	517	481	1	6	193	32	267	6	9	57

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 -- 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
1977	HOU	NL	21	180	68%	88%	31%	17	94%	0	2	0	2	0	17	15	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
1978	HOU	NL	22	1089	61%	78%	25%	99	87%	0	50	28	17	5	65	52	12	0	1	9	0	9	0	9	11	4	0	3	2	1	11	4	7	0	0	0
1980	HOU	NL	24	8	63%	63%	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
1981	CLE	AL	25	531	50%	78%	23%	46	83%	0	30	10	12	8	35	25	7	0	1	3	0	3	0	3	7	2	0	1	2	1	6	2	4	1	0	1
1982	CLE	AL	26	3227	53%	80%	25%	322	93%	2	136	65	53	18	254	194	49	1	3	12	2	10	0	8	42	20	4	8	2	3	39	24	13	3	1	1
1983	CLE	AL	27	535	56%	83%	25%	46	87%	0	16	8	7	1	39	29	10	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	12	6	0	6	0	0	12	6	6	0	0	0
1984	CLE	AL	28	295	54%	84%	25%	25	88%	0	12	3	6	3	20	14	5	0	1	3	0	3	0	3	7	3	1	1	0	1	7	4	2	0	0	0
1985	CLE	AL	29	316	55%	87%	26%	36	92%	1	18	8	8	2	28	23	2	0	1	3	0	3	0	3	4	1	0	0	0	2	3	1	2	0	0	0
1986	NYY	AL	30	968	66%	81%	26%	94	89%	1	32	18	11	3	73	51	17	0	1	5	0	5	0	5	12	8	1	1	1	1	12	9	3	0	0	0
	9 Seasons			7149	57%	81%	25%	686	90%	4	297	141	116	40	531	403	103	1	8	36	2	34	0	32	96	44	6	21	7	9	91	50	38	4	1	2
	MLB Averages				59%	82%	28%		91%

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
1981	CLE	AL	25	38	55%	89%	37%	6	83%	0	4	2	2	0	4	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
1982	CLE	AL	26	68	44%	62%	19%	4	100%	0	4	0	1	3	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
1983	CLE	AL	27	2180	57%	82%	25%	216	94%	0	148	56	70	22	175	146	21	0	5	12	1	9	2	7	44	10	9	14	3	40	18	19	4	3	1
1984	CLE	AL	28	1404	56%	81%	24%	130	98%	0	89	31	44	14	111	102	8	0	4	4	0	4	0	4	25	9	6	4	3	23	8	15	1	0	1
1985	CLE	AL	29	627	61%	86%	28%	63	98%	0	44	13	23	8	60	55	4	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	16	5	6	3	1	15	4	11	1	1	0
1986	NYY	AL	30	520	70%	82%	27%	46	98%	0	28	13	11	4	35	29	6	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	5	0	3	2	0	5	2	3	0	0	0
	6 Seasons			4837	58%	82%	26%	465	96%	0	317	115	151	51	389	338	41	0	9	20	1	16	3	14	92	25	24	24	7	85	33	49	6	4	2
	MLB Averages				59%	82%	28%		95%

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%
1982	CLE	AL	26	93	54%	86%	25%	4	75%	0	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1983	CLE	AL	27	98	63%	88%	31%	10	90%	0	4	3	0	1	6	5	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
1984	CLE	AL	28	131	50%	87%	33%	12	92%	0	2	2	0	0	9	8	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1985	CLE	AL	29	16	69%	81%	25%	3	100%	0	1	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			338	56%	87%	30%	29	90%	0	9	8	0	1	18	16	2	0	1	3	0	3	0	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				59%	82%	28%		90%																								72%

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%
1985	CLE	AL	29	43	47%	53%	28%	2	100%	0	8	0	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			43	47%	53%	28%	2	100%	0	8	0	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				59%	82%	28%		95%																											89%

Advanced Fielding -- C*

					Pitching Stats						Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	ERA	RAvg	Fld	F2O%	XI	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	SO	Tot	1B	2B	3B	K23	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	263	n23	GB	bFld	bF2O%
1982	CLE	AL	26	13	3.00	3.00	0		0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			13	3.00	3.00	0		0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				3.89	4.36		96%																							91%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PB	WP	SBO	SB	CS	CSctch	CS%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	RBA	RK	SBlev	CSlev
1982	CLE	AL	26	0	0	5	3	0	0	0%	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.11
	1 Season			0	0	5	3	0	0	0%	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.11
	MLB Averages									33%											1.30	1.27

* 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.

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