Dan Graham

Daniel Jay Graham

Positions: Catcher and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: July 19, 1954 in Ray, AZ
School: University of La Verne (La Verne, CA)
Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 5th round of the 1975 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 8, 1979
Teams (by GP): Orioles/Twins 1979-1981

Final Game: October 3, 1981
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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
1979	MIN	AL	24	DH	1	1
1980	BAL	AL	25	C	73	65	48	567.0	370	328	35	7	3	.981	-1	-2	5.76	4.97	.986	5.48	5.47	6	16	38	22	37%	35%	0
1980	BAL	AL	25	3B	9	5	2	45.0	12	5	7	0	2	1.000	-2	-43	2.40	1.33	.951	3.00	3.00
1980	BAL	AL	25	DH	2	0
1980	BAL	AL	25	LF	1	0	0	1.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0	360	9.00	1.00	.980	2.70	2.40
1980	BAL	AL	25	OF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	360	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.50
1981	BAL	AL	26	C	40	34	14	265.2	162	138	20	4	1	.975	-1	-5	5.35	3.95	.987	5.51	5.49	7	17	20	17	46%	38%	1
1981	BAL	AL	26	DH	7	6
1981	BAL	AL	26	3B	4	4	2	26.0	8	3	4	1	1	.875	-2	-78	2.42	1.75	.950	2.94	2.95
	2 Seasons			C	113	99	62	832.2	532	466	55	11	4	.979	-2	-3	5.63	4.61	.986	5.49	5.48	13	33	58	39	40%	36%	1
	2 Seasons			3B	13	9	4	71.0	20	8	11	1	3	.950	-3	-56	2.41	1.46	.951	2.98	2.98
	1 Season			LF	1	0	0	1.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0	360	9.00	1.00	.980	2.70	2.40
	1 Season			OF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	360	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.50
	3 Seasons			TOT	127	108	66	904.2	552	474	66	12	7	.978	-5	-7	5.37	4.25	.985	5.29	5.20	13	33	58	39	40%	36%	1

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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch
1980	BAL	AL	25	C	-1	-2						-1
1980	BAL	AL	25	3B	-2	-43	-2	-2	0	0
1980	BAL	AL	25	LF	0	360	0	0	0		0
1981	BAL	AL	26	C	-1	-5						-1
1981	BAL	AL	26	3B	-2	-78	-2	-0	-2	0
	2 Seasons			C	-2	-3						-2
	2 Seasons			3B	-3	-56	-3	-2	-1	0
	1 Season			LF	0	360	0	0	0		0
	3 Seasons			TOT	-5	-7	-3	-2	-1	0	0	-2

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	3B	LF	OF	DH	PH	PR
1979	MIN	AL	24	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
1980	BAL	AL	25	86	70	86	80	73	9	1	1	2	7	1
1981	BAL	AL	26	55	44	55	44	40	4	0	0	7	9	0
	3 Seasons			143	115	143	124	113	13	1	1	10	17	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 -- 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%
1980	BAL	AL	25	2366	3.59	3.87	32	100%	3	0	330	24	0	6	300	35	5	1	1	7	7	0	3	4	0	3	1	0	2	4	100%
1981	BAL	AL	26	1155	4.54	5.12	7	86%	0	0	137	6	0	3	128	21	0	0	0	6	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	100%
	2 Seasons			3521	3.89	4.27	39	97%	3	0	467	30	0	9	428	56	5	1	1	13	10	1	4	5	0	3	1	0	2	6	100%
	MLB Averages				3.83	4.29		95%																							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
1980	BAL	AL	25	6	16	862	38	22	18	37%	35	19	3	1	0	2	0	0	73	33	1.38	1.12
1981	BAL	AL	26	6	17	456	20	17	13	46%	18	15	2	1	0	1	1	0	63	20	1.22	0.96
	2 Seasons			12	33	1318	58	39	31	40%	53	34	5	2	0	3	1	0	136	53	1.32	1.05
	MLB Averages									34%											1.30	1.29

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%
1980	BAL	AL	25	196	63%	82%	22%	12	83%	0	5	4	0	1	7	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
1981	BAL	AL	26	118	67%	92%	30%	4	75%	0	3	0	3	0	4	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			314	64%	85%	25%	16	81%	0	8	4	3	1	11	8	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				60%	83%	28%		88%																								69%

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%
1980	BAL	AL	25	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	0		0	8	38%	50%	13%	1	100%
	1 Season			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	0		0	8	38%	50%	13%	1	100%
	MLB Averages																														59.4%			2.7%			60%	83%	27%		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

Passed Balls s c a p y 1980 AL 6 (5th) 1981 AL 7 (2nd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1980 AL 6 (5th)
1981 AL 7 (2nd)

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