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Brian Giles

Brian Jeffrey Giles

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

Born: April 27, 1960 in Manhattan, KS
High School: Kearny HS (San Diego, CA)
Drafted by the New York Mets in the 3rd round of the 1978 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 12, 1981
Teams (by GP): Mets/Mariners/Brewers/WhiteSox 1981-1990

Final Game: July 7, 1990
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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
1981 NYM NL 21 2B 2 0 0 5.0 3 1 2 0 1 1.000 0 48 5.40 1.50 .983 5.58 5.55
1981 NYM NL 21 SS 2 1 1 11.2 10 4 6 0 1 1.000 0 51 7.71 5.00 .960 5.09 5.10
1982 NYM NL 22 2B 45 41 34 360.2 252 121 129 2 27 .992 2 5 6.24 5.56 .978 5.42 5.43
1982 NYM NL 22 SS 2 0 0 4.0 5 1 4 0 1 1.000 0 90 11.25 2.50 .968 4.95 5.00
1983 NYM NL 23 2B 140 120 88 1029.2 693 299 380 14 87 .980 2 3 5.93 4.85 .978 5.33 5.31
1983 NYM NL 23 SS 12 1 0 29.2 20 10 10 0 3 1.000 -0 -4 6.07 1.67 .967 4.85 4.83
1985 MIL AL 25 SS 20 11 4 97.0 54 21 31 2 5 .963 2 25 4.82 2.60 .964 4.64 4.60
1985 MIL AL 25 2B 13 8 7 78.1 54 27 27 0 5 1.000 -0 -8 6.20 4.15 .982 5.29 5.24
1985 MIL AL 25 DH 2 0
1986 CHW AL 26 2B 7 3 1 27.1 26 15 11 0 6 1.000 -0 -13 8.56 3.71 .981 5.10 5.06
1986 CHW AL 26 SS 1 1 0 5.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -24 0.00 0.00 4.50 4.50
1990 SEA AL 30 SS 37 28 22 253.0 134 51 80 3 25 .978 1 3 4.66 3.54 .973 4.74 4.69
1990 SEA AL 30 2B 2 2 2 18.0 11 6 5 0 2 1.000 -0 -13 5.50 5.50 .984 5.25 5.20
1990 SEA AL 30 3B 1 0 0 3.0 3 0 3 0 1 1.000 0 0 9.00 3.00 .943 2.70 2.70
1990 SEA AL 30 DH 1 0
6 Seasons 2B 209 174 132 1519.0 1039 469 554 16 128 .985 3 3 6.06 4.89 .978 5.34 5.32
6 Seasons SS 74 42 27 400.1 223 87 131 5 35 .978 3 10 4.90 2.95 .970 4.73 4.71
1 Season 3B 1 0 0 3.0 3 0 3 0 1 1.000 0 0 9.00 3.00 .943 2.70 2.70
6 Seasons TOT 284 216 159 1922.1 1265 556 688 21 164 .983 7 4 5.82 4.38 .977 5.21 5.15
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
1981 NYM NL 21 2B 0 48 0 0 0 0
1981 NYM NL 21 SS 0 51 0 1 -0 0
1982 NYM NL 22 2B 2 5 3 6 -3 -1
1982 NYM NL 22 SS 0 90 0 0 0 0
1983 NYM NL 23 2B 2 3 2 5 -2 0
1983 NYM NL 23 SS -0 -4 -0 0 -0 0
1985 MIL AL 25 SS 2 25 2 2 -0 0
1985 MIL AL 25 2B -0 -8 -0 -2 1 0
1986 CHW AL 26 2B -0 -13 -1 0 -1 1
1986 CHW AL 26 SS -0 -24 -0 0 -0 0
1990 SEA AL 30 SS 1 3 -0 -0 0 1
1990 SEA AL 30 2B -0 -13 -0 -0 0 0
1990 SEA AL 30 3B 0 0 0
6 Seasons 2B 3 3 3 9 -6 0
6 Seasons SS 3 10 2 3 -1 1
1 Season 3B 0 0 0
6 Seasons TOT 7 4 6 12 -7 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1981 NYM NL 21 9 1 9 4 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
1982 NYM NL 22 45 41 45 45 0 0 0 45 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1983 NYM NL 23 145 121 145 141 0 0 0 140 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 6 5
1985 MIL AL 25 34 19 34 32 0 0 0 13 0 20 0 0 0 0 2 0 2
1986 CHW AL 26 9 4 9 8 0 0 0 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
1990 SEA AL 30 45 30 45 39 0 0 0 2 1 37 0 0 0 0 1 6 4
6 Seasons 287 216 287 269 0 0 0 209 1 73 0 0 0 0 3 16 16
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
1981 NYM NL 21 18 56% 67% 11% 2 100% 0 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1982 NYM NL 22 1560 58% 84% 28% 152 95% 0 120 35 50 36 125 115 8 0 4 2 0 2 0 0 26 9 3 6 3 22 9 12 4 1 3
1983 NYM NL 23 4398 54% 83% 28% 463 93% 1 297 101 136 60 386 329 46 3 4 14 1 13 0 12 88 26 19 22 10 79 32 46 6 4 1
1985 MIL AL 25 354 58% 82% 26% 38 100% 0 27 14 12 1 27 26 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 1 1 1 5 2 3 0 0 0
1986 CHW AL 26 119 71% 81% 20% 10 90% 0 15 5 8 2 11 11 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 5 1 0 0 6 0 6 0 0 0
1990 SEA AL 30 81 60% 70% 26% 5 80% 0 6 2 4 0 5 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
6 Seasons 6530 56% 83% 28% 670 93% 1 466 157 210 100 556 487 56 3 9 16 1 15 0 12 128 44 24 29 14 114 43 69 10 5 4
MLB Averages 59% 81% 29% 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
1981 NYM NL 21 43 56% 79% 28% 6 100% 0 3 1 1 1 6 5 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1982 NYM NL 22 15 73% 107% 20% 6 83% 0 2 2 0 0 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
1983 NYM NL 23 131 47% 77% 22% 14 79% 0 8 3 4 1 10 8 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 0
1985 MIL AL 25 390 53% 85% 30% 44 95% 0 21 13 6 2 32 24 7 0 2 2 0 2 0 2 5 3 0 2 0 0 5 3 2 0 0 0
1986 CHW AL 26 23 22% 70% 22% 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
1990 SEA AL 30 1071 62% 76% 32% 97 90% 0 52 20 24 8 80 64 15 1 0 3 0 1 2 2 25 6 3 11 1 1 24 10 13 0 0 0
6 Seasons 1673 58% 78% 30% 167 90% 0 86 39 35 12 132 102 27 1 3 5 0 3 2 4 35 10 3 16 1 1 33 14 18 1 1 0
MLB Averages 59% 81% 29% 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%
1990 SEA AL 30 14 57% 100% 50% 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
1 Season 14 57% 100% 50% 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
MLB Averages 59% 81% 29% 89% 71%

* 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

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1983 NL  14 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1983 NL  5.93 (2nd)

Youngest s c a p y
1981 NL  born 1960-04-27 (8th)

             

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