Al Gallagher

Alan Mitchell Edward George Patrick Henry Gallagher (Dirty Al)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: October 19, 1945 in San Francisco, CA
High School: Mission HS (San Francisco, CA)
Schools: Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ), Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA)
Drafted
by the San Francisco Giants in the 1st round (14th pick) of the 1965 amateur draft.
Signed June 12, 1965. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 7, 1970
Teams (by GP): Giants/Angels 1970-1973

Final Game: September 27, 1973
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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
1970 SFG NL 24 3B 91 64 61 638.0 204 70 128 6 12 .971 -4 -8 2.79 2.18 .945 2.91 2.90
1971 SFG NL 25 3B 128 119 75 996.0 307 88 204 15 18 .951 1 1 2.64 2.28 .949 2.80 2.80
1972 SFG NL 26 3B 69 66 54 577.2 189 64 120 5 7 .974 -4 -8 2.87 2.67 .945 2.87 2.88
1973 TOT MLB 27 3B 103 89 80 793.1 261 63 187 11 13 .958 -2 -3 2.84 2.43 .950 3.00 2.97
1973 SFG NL 27 3B 5 2 2 22.1 6 4 1 1 0 .833 -1 -59 2.01 1.00 .947 2.86 2.88
1973 CAL AL 27 3B 98 87 78 771.0 255 59 186 10 13 .961 -1 -1 2.86 2.50 .950 3.00 2.98
1973 CAL AL 27 2B 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.00 .980 5.40 5.40
1973 CAL AL 27 SS 1 0 0 1.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 360 9.00 1.00 .960 5.40 5.10
4 Seasons 3B 391 338 270 3005.0 961 285 639 37 50 .961 -9 -4 2.77 2.36 .948 2.89 2.88
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.00 .980 5.40 5.40
1 Season SS 1 0 0 1.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 360 9.00 1.00 .960 5.40 5.10
4 Seasons TOT 393 338 270 3007.0 963 286 640 37 50 .962 -8 -3 2.77 2.36 .948 2.89 2.90
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
1970 SFG NL 24 3B -4 -8 -3 -0 -3 -1
1971 SFG NL 25 3B 1 1 2 -1 3 -1
1972 SFG NL 26 3B -4 -8 -4 -3 -1 0
1973 SFG NL 27 3B -1 -59 -1 0 -1 0
1973 CAL AL 27 3B -1 -1 -1 1 -1 0
1973 CAL AL 27 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1973 CAL AL 27 SS 0 360 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 3B -9 -4 -7 -3 -4 -2
1 Season 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season SS 0 360 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons TOT -8 -3 -7 -3 -4 -2

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1970 SFG NL 24 109 64 109 91 0 0 0 0 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 1
1971 SFG NL 25 136 119 136 128 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1972 SFG NL 26 82 66 82 69 0 0 0 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 1
1973 CAL AL 27 110 87 110 100 0 0 0 1 98 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1973 SFG NL 27 5 2 5 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
4 Seasons 442 338 442 393 0 0 0 1 391 1 0 0 0 0 0 55 4
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 -- 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%
1970 SFG NL 24 2801 63% 80% 26% 191 96% 3 68 45 15 8 131 98 28 1 1 6 0 1 5 5 12 6 5 11 1 1 0 6 83%
1971 SFG NL 25 4164 60% 81% 29% 291 92% 2 89 55 24 10 200 154 41 2 4 15 0 6 9 13 18 12 1 15 3 2 1 13 62%
1972 SFG NL 26 2425 65% 83% 29% 186 88% 1 65 42 9 14 117 95 20 1 3 5 0 4 1 4 7 4 1 5 0 0 0 5 40%
1973 CAL AL 27 3322 68% 76% 25% 251 87% 0 56 37 11 8 182 140 37 1 7 10 0 9 1 9 14 11 0 14 0 0 0 7 43%
1973 SFG NL 27 91 46% 86% 25% 7 57% 0 4 3 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 12803 64% 80% 27% 926 90% 6 282 182 59 41 631 488 126 5 16 37 0 21 16 32 51 33 7 45 4 3 1 31 58%
MLB Averages 64% 80% 28% 89% 66%

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
1973 CAL AL 27 5 60% 60% 20% 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 5 60% 60% 20% 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 64% 80% 28% 94%

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
1973 CAL AL 27 3 0% 67% 67% 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
1 Season 3 0% 67% 67% 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
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

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1971 NL  128 (5th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1971 NL  204 (5th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1971 NL  15 (5th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1970 NL  .971 (1st)
1973 AL  .961 (5th)

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