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Brent Gates

Brent Robert Gates

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: March 14, 1970 in Grand Rapids, MI
High School: Grandville HS (Grandville, MI)
School: University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 1st round (26th pick) of the 1991 amateur draft.
Signed June 28, 1991. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 5, 1993
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Twins/Mariners 1993-1999

Final Game: October 3, 1999
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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
1993 OAK AL 23 2B 139 135 132 1211.0 726 281 431 14 88 .981 -4 -4 5.29 5.12 .981 5.15 5.11 RoY-6
1994 OAK AL 24 2B 63 59 57 515.1 272 106 159 7 28 .974 -1 -3 4.63 4.21 .981 5.10 5.06
1994 OAK AL 24 1B 1 1 0 7.0 8 7 0 1 0 .875 -1 -103 9.00 7.00 .992 9.51 9.50
1995 OAK AL 25 2B 132 128 123 1129.0 669 233 424 12 81 .982 11 11 5.24 4.98 .981 5.11 5.06
1995 OAK AL 25 DH 3 3
1995 OAK AL 25 1B 1 1 1 8.0 12 8 4 0 1 1.000 0 0 13.50 12.00 .993 9.56 9.50
1996 OAK AL 26 2B 63 63 57 547.2 332 140 183 9 48 .973 -4 -9 5.31 5.13 .980 5.05 5.02
1997 SEA AL 27 3B 32 25 18 224.1 61 10 47 4 4 .934 -2 -10 2.29 1.78 .953 2.67 2.65
1997 SEA AL 27 2B 21 5 4 93.0 44 13 30 1 4 .977 0 0 4.16 2.05 .980 4.93 4.89
1997 SEA AL 27 SS 5 1 1 19.1 7 2 5 0 2 1.000 -1 -62 3.26 1.40 .974 4.56 4.50
1997 SEA AL 27 1B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 9.00 9.20
1997 SEA AL 27 DH 1 0
1997 SEA AL 27 LF 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 60 4.50 1.00 .980 2.25 2.00
1997 SEA AL 27 OF 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 60 4.50 1.00 .980 2.25 2.30
1998 MIN AL 28 3B 77 66 61 607.1 179 59 113 7 5 .961 -5 -9 2.55 2.23 .948 2.55 2.52
1998 MIN AL 28 2B 21 13 13 131.0 68 23 43 2 8 .971 1 7 4.53 3.14 .978 4.85 4.80
1998 MIN AL 28 DH 2 0
1998 MIN AL 28 1B 1 0 0 1.0 2 2 0 0 1 1.000 0 0 18.00 2.00 .990 9.00 9.30
1998 MIN AL 28 SS 1 0 0 3.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 6.00 2.00 .970 4.80 4.70
1999 MIN AL 29 3B 61 41 29 379.0 109 27 79 3 10 .972 5 16 2.52 1.74 .950 2.58 2.54
1999 MIN AL 29 2B 47 26 21 263.0 139 44 95 0 19 1.000 5 24 4.76 2.96 .981 5.13 5.05
1999 MIN AL 29 1B 5 3 1 27.0 27 27 0 0 2 1.000 -0 -4 9.00 5.40 .992 9.50 9.36
1999 MIN AL 29 DH 1 1
1999 MIN AL 29 SS 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 4.95 4.70
7 Seasons 2B 486 429 407 3890.0 2250 840 1365 45 276 .980 7 2 5.10 4.54 .981 5.10 5.05
3 Seasons 3B 170 132 108 1210.2 349 96 239 14 19 .960 -1 -1 2.49 1.97 .949 2.58 2.55
5 Seasons 1B 9 5 2 44.0 49 44 4 1 4 .980 -1 -19 9.82 5.33 .992 9.49 9.37
3 Seasons SS 7 1 1 24.1 9 3 6 0 2 1.000 -1 -49 3.33 1.29 .973 4.62 4.56
1 Season OF 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 60 4.50 1.00 .980 2.25 2.30
1 Season LF 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 60 4.50 1.00 .980 2.25 2.00
7 Seasons TOT 673 567 518 5171.0 2658 984 1614 60 301 .977 4 1 4.52 3.86 .977 4.54 4.47
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
1993 OAK AL 23 2B -4 -4 -5 -2 -3 1
1994 OAK AL 24 2B -1 -3 -2 1 -4 1
1994 OAK AL 24 1B -1 -103 -1 -1 0 0
1995 OAK AL 25 2B 11 11 10 5 5 1
1995 OAK AL 25 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1996 OAK AL 26 2B -4 -9 -4 -1 -3 0
1997 SEA AL 27 3B -2 -10 -2 0 -2 0
1997 SEA AL 27 2B 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1997 SEA AL 27 SS -1 -62 -1 -1 -0 0
1997 SEA AL 27 1B
1997 SEA AL 27 LF 0 60 0 0 0 0
1998 MIN AL 28 3B -5 -9 -4 -3 -1 -1
1998 MIN AL 28 2B 1 7 1 1 0 0
1998 MIN AL 28 1B 0 0 0 0 0
1998 MIN AL 28 SS 0 0 0 0 0 0
1999 MIN AL 29 3B 5 16 5 5 0 0
1999 MIN AL 29 2B 5 24 4 3 2 1
1999 MIN AL 29 1B -0 -4 -0 -0 0 0
1999 MIN AL 29 SS 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 2B 7 2 3 7 -4 4
3 Seasons 3B -1 -1 -0 3 -3 -1
5 Seasons 1B -1 -19 -1 -1 0 0
3 Seasons SS -1 -49 -1 -1 -0 0
1 Season LF 0 60 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons TOT 4 1 1 8 -7 3 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
1993 OAK AL 23 139 135 139 139 0 0 0 139 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1994 OAK AL 24 64 60 64 63 0 0 1 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1995 OAK AL 25 136 132 136 133 0 0 1 132 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1
1996 OAK AL 26 64 63 64 64 0 0 0 64 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1997 SEA AL 27 65 31 65 57 0 0 1 21 32 5 1 0 0 1 1 17 0
1998 MIN AL 28 107 79 107 98 0 0 1 21 77 1 0 0 0 0 2 17 0
1999 MIN AL 29 110 71 110 98 0 0 5 47 61 1 0 0 0 0 1 31 0
7 Seasons 685 571 685 652 0 0 9 487 170 7 1 0 0 1 7 74 1
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 -- 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
1993 OAK AL 23 5383 53% 79% 31% 521 94% 5 285 110 127 49 433 367 54 4 5 14 1 6 7 8 88 29 17 28 6 81 34 46 4 2 1
1994 OAK AL 24 2260 48% 74% 30% 197 93% 1 103 41 44 18 160 141 16 0 4 7 0 4 3 5 29 7 7 11 1 26 12 14 2 2 0
1995 OAK AL 25 4969 46% 77% 32% 498 92% 2 236 85 115 36 423 358 55 2 3 12 1 9 2 10 81 30 11 24 1 72 26 43 7 5 2
1996 OAK AL 26 2444 59% 79% 32% 219 87% 1 141 38 74 29 183 142 33 0 12 9 0 6 3 6 48 12 11 17 2 42 19 23 6 3 3
1997 SEA AL 27 412 55% 73% 28% 37 89% 1 13 7 4 2 32 26 3 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 4 1 2 0 0 4 0 3 0 0 0
1998 MIN AL 28 547 50% 78% 28% 53 87% 1 22 7 13 2 43 36 6 0 2 2 0 2 0 1 8 1 2 4 1 8 5 3 0 0 0
1999 MIN AL 29 1110 59% 79% 31% 101 99% 0 44 18 22 4 95 81 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 5 5 7 1 18 8 10 1 1 0
7 Seasons 17125 51% 78% 31% 1626 92% 11 844 306 399 140 1369 1151 179 6 28 45 2 28 15 31 277 85 55 91 12 251 104 142 20 13 6
MLB Averages 58% 78% 32% 91%

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%
1997 SEA AL 27 1017 64% 78% 35% 73 81% 1 11 7 1 3 52 40 9 2 1 4 0 2 2 3 4 2 1 4 0 0 0 3 67%
1998 MIN AL 28 2652 56% 80% 31% 192 83% 3 60 49 3 8 112 93 14 2 8 7 0 7 0 5 5 4 0 4 1 0 1 5 40%
1999 MIN AL 29 1707 58% 82% 33% 112 88% 0 27 20 3 4 79 59 16 1 3 3 0 3 0 2 10 7 0 7 3 0 2 7 29%
3 Seasons 5376 58% 80% 32% 377 84% 4 98 76 7 15 243 192 39 5 12 14 0 12 2 10 19 13 1 15 4 0 3 15 40%
MLB Averages 58% 78% 32% 85% 62%

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%
1994 OAK AL 24 32 53% 81% 38% 2 100% 0 7 1 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1995 OAK AL 25 43 60% 77% 30% 4 100% 0 8 1 6 1 1 4 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
1997 SEA AL 27 3 33% 67% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1998 MIN AL 28 3 33% 67% 67% 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1999 MIN AL 29 117 62% 77% 28% 2 100% 0 27 1 26 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 198 59% 77% 30% 8 100% 0 44 3 40 1 3 4 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0
MLB Averages 58% 78% 32% 92% 84%

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
1997 SEA AL 27 93 69% 78% 34% 5 80% 0 2 0 1 1 5 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1998 MIN AL 28 15 33% 73% 33% 3 67% 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1999 MIN AL 29 8 50% 75% 13% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 116 63% 78% 33% 8 75% 0 3 1 1 1 6 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
MLB Averages 58% 78% 32% 88%

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%
1997 SEA AL 27 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 9 44% 78% 44% 2 50%
1 Season 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 9 44% 78% 44% 2 50%
MLB Averages 61.1% 2.7% 58% 78% 40% 47%

* 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

Assists† s c a p y
1995 AL  428 (3rd)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1995 AL  132 (3rd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1993 AL  281 (5th)
1995 AL  233 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1993 AL  431 (3rd)
1995 AL  424 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1993 AL  14 (3rd)
1995 AL  12 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1995 AL  11 (1st)
1999 AL  5 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1993 AL  5.29 (4th)
1995 AL  5.24 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1993 AL  5.12 (2nd)
1995 AL  4.98 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1993 AL  .981 (5th)
1995 AL  .982 (5th)

                                         

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