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Rod Gilbreath

Rodney Joe Gilbreath

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: September 24, 1952 in Laurel, MS
High School: Watkins HS (Laurel, MS)
School: Mesa Community College (Mesa, AZ)
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 3rd round of the 1970 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 17, 1972
Team: Braves 1972-1978

Final Game: October 1, 1978
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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
1972 ATL NL 19 2B 7 6 3 46.1 26 13 13 0 3 1.000 1 26 5.05 3.71 .978 5.36 5.39
1972 ATL NL 19 3B 4 4 4 36.0 17 3 13 1 1 .941 2 80 4.00 4.00 .945 2.88 2.88
1973 ATL NL 20 3B 22 17 14 155.0 50 16 32 2 4 .960 -1 -11 2.79 2.18 .946 2.88 2.88
1974 ATL NL 21 2B 2 2 2 18.0 11 5 6 0 1 1.000 0 13 5.50 5.50 .973 5.45 5.45
1975 ATL NL 22 2B 52 38 33 366.2 251 121 125 5 29 .980 -4 -14 6.04 4.73 .975 5.54 5.54
1975 ATL NL 22 3B 10 8 4 62.0 21 5 15 1 0 .952 -0 -6 2.90 2.00 .945 2.98 2.97
1975 ATL NL 22 SS 1 1 0 6.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -20 3.00 2.00 .965 4.95 5.00
1976 ATL NL 23 2B 104 100 92 865.2 564 239 311 14 76 .975 -6 -9 5.72 5.29 .975 5.48 5.47
1976 ATL NL 23 3B 7 3 2 39.2 12 6 3 3 1 .750 -4 -112 2.04 1.29 .952 2.93 2.91
1976 ATL NL 23 SS 1 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -40 0.00 0.00 5.10 5.00
1977 ATL NL 24 2B 122 112 101 997.1 595 277 305 13 61 .978 -13 -15 5.25 4.77 .977 5.24 5.24
1977 ATL NL 24 3B 1 1 1 9.0 3 0 3 0 0 1.000 1 80 3.00 3.00 .957 3.00 3.00
1978 ATL NL 25 3B 62 52 45 469.0 156 34 117 5 9 .968 1 2 2.90 2.44 .952 3.00 2.97
1978 ATL NL 25 2B 39 35 31 311.1 165 74 87 4 13 .976 -4 -17 4.65 4.13 .977 5.30 5.25
6 Seasons 2B 326 293 262 2605.1 1612 729 847 36 183 .978 -26 -12 5.44 4.83 .976 5.37 5.37
6 Seasons 3B 106 85 70 770.2 259 64 183 12 15 .954 -2 -3 2.88 2.33 .950 2.96 2.94
2 Seasons SS 2 1 0 9.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -27 2.00 1.00 .965 5.00 5.00
7 Seasons TOT 434 379 332 3385.0 1873 794 1031 48 198 .974 -28 -10 4.85 4.21 .972 4.82 4.77
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
1972 ATL NL 19 2B 1 26 1 1 0 0
1972 ATL NL 19 3B 2 80 2 2 1 0
1973 ATL NL 20 3B -1 -11 -1 -1 0 0
1974 ATL NL 21 2B 0 13 0 0 0 0
1975 ATL NL 22 2B -4 -14 -3 -3 -0 -1
1975 ATL NL 22 3B -0 -6 -0 0 -0 0
1975 ATL NL 22 SS -0 -20 -0 0 -0 0
1976 ATL NL 23 2B -6 -9 -6 -4 -2 0
1976 ATL NL 23 3B -4 -112 -4 -4 -0 0
1976 ATL NL 23 SS -0 -40 -0 0 -0 0
1977 ATL NL 24 2B -13 -15 -9 -1 -8 -4
1977 ATL NL 24 3B 1 80 1 0 1 0
1978 ATL NL 25 3B 1 2 2 4 -2 -1
1978 ATL NL 25 2B -4 -17 -3 -3 -0 -1
6 Seasons 2B -26 -12 -20 -10 -10 -6
6 Seasons 3B -2 -3 -1 1 -1 -1
2 Seasons SS -0 -27 -0 0 -0 0
7 Seasons TOT -28 -10 -21 -10 -12 -7

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1972 ATL NL 19 18 10 18 11 0 0 0 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2
1973 ATL NL 20 29 17 29 22 0 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3
1974 ATL NL 21 3 2 3 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1975 ATL NL 22 90 47 90 60 0 0 0 51 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 31 6
1976 ATL NL 23 116 103 116 110 0 0 0 104 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 4
1977 ATL NL 24 128 113 128 123 0 0 0 122 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
1978 ATL NL 25 116 87 116 98 0 0 0 39 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 9
7 Seasons 500 379 500 426 0 0 0 325 107 2 0 0 0 0 0 65 26
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
1972 ATL NL 19 204 80% 86% 25% 20 95% 0 12 6 3 3 14 13 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0
1974 ATL NL 21 80 65% 91% 34% 8 100% 0 5 2 2 1 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
1975 ATL NL 22 1624 61% 86% 30% 168 95% 1 117 46 46 25 125 97 24 1 0 5 1 4 0 3 29 6 3 12 2 25 14 10 4 2 2
1976 ATL NL 23 3736 61% 83% 29% 366 92% 2 241 80 115 46 313 260 42 2 3 14 0 14 0 11 75 30 19 20 1 70 21 49 5 4 1
1977 ATL NL 24 4511 61% 80% 25% 437 92% 2 287 113 111 63 319 256 52 2 7 13 0 12 1 13 61 16 6 23 3 53 28 23 5 3 1
1978 ATL NL 25 1334 67% 83% 27% 113 96% 0 70 30 31 9 87 74 12 0 0 4 0 3 1 3 13 4 4 2 0 11 2 8 2 1 1
6 Seasons 11489 62% 82% 27% 1112 93% 5 732 277 308 147 864 706 131 5 10 36 1 33 2 30 182 56 33 57 8 162 67 91 16 10 5
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 93%

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%
1972 ATL NL 19 155 56% 85% 30% 19 89% 0 3 2 1 0 15 12 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1973 ATL NL 20 661 59% 81% 27% 47 85% 0 16 11 1 4 31 22 7 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 4 3 0 3 0 0 0 2 0%
1975 ATL NL 22 273 60% 85% 29% 20 90% 0 5 3 1 1 14 11 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1976 ATL NL 23 189 63% 79% 27% 12 67% 0 6 3 2 1 3 1 2 0 1 3 0 3 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1977 ATL NL 24 32 56% 75% 22% 3 100% 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1978 ATL NL 25 2019 59% 80% 27% 152 91% 3 32 26 4 2 118 86 21 3 5 5 0 4 1 4 9 6 0 6 3 2 0 5 80%
6 Seasons 3329 59% 81% 27% 253 89% 3 62 45 9 8 184 135 36 3 7 12 0 10 2 11 15 10 0 10 3 2 0 7 57%
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 89% 67%

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
1975 ATL NL 22 28 46% 86% 36% 4 50% 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1976 ATL NL 23 12 67% 117% 50% 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
2 Seasons 40 53% 95% 40% 4 50% 0 1 0 1 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 62% 81% 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

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1976 NL  5.72 (4th)
1977 NL  5.25 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1976 NL  5.29 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1972 NL  2 (4th)

Youngest s c a p y
1972 NL  born 1952-09-24 (2nd)
1973 NL  born 1952-09-24 (4th)

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