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Chip Hale

Walter William Hale

Positions: Pinch Hitter, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: December 2, 1964 in San Jose, CA
School: University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 17th round of the 1987 amateur draft.
Signed June 5, 1987. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 27, 1989
Teams (by GP): Twins/Dodgers 1989-1997

Final Game: May 4, 1997
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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
1989 MIN AL 24 2B 16 11 8 95.2 51 14 36 1 8 .980 2 29 4.70 3.13 .981 5.24 5.18
1989 MIN AL 24 3B 9 3 3 38.0 5 1 4 0 0 1.000 -2 -47 1.18 0.56 .944 2.72 2.70
1989 MIN AL 24 DH 2 2
1990 MIN AL 25 2B 1 1 1 9.0 8 2 6 0 2 1.000 1 107 8.00 8.00 .984 5.20 5.20
1993 MIN AL 28 2B 21 9 8 104.1 62 23 36 3 8 .952 0 2 5.09 2.81 .981 5.15 5.11
1993 MIN AL 28 3B 19 13 8 124.0 38 11 26 1 2 .974 1 8 2.69 1.95 .951 2.69 2.66
1993 MIN AL 28 DH 19 19
1993 MIN AL 28 1B 1 0 0 4.0 6 5 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 13.50 6.00 .993 9.67 9.50
1993 MIN AL 28 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.60
1994 MIN AL 29 3B 21 18 13 147.2 56 9 45 2 2 .964 2 12 3.29 2.57 .948 2.64 2.62
1994 MIN AL 29 DH 10 5
1994 MIN AL 29 1B 7 2 1 31.1 29 28 1 0 3 1.000 -1 -34 8.33 4.14 .992 9.56 9.49
1994 MIN AL 29 2B 5 0 0 16.0 13 7 5 1 2 .923 1 45 6.75 2.40 .981 5.12 5.06
1994 MIN AL 29 OF 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 120 9.00 1.00 .980 2.70 2.40
1994 MIN AL 29 RF 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 120 9.00 1.00 .980 1.80 2.20
1995 MIN AL 30 DH 27 13
1995 MIN AL 30 2B 7 0 0 13.2 7 2 5 0 1 1.000 0 9 4.61 1.00 .981 5.14 5.06
1995 MIN AL 30 3B 5 0 0 8.1 2 1 1 0 1 1.000 0 14 2.16 0.40 .950 2.59 2.58
1995 MIN AL 30 1B 3 0 0 9.1 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -26 12.54 4.33 .993 9.55 9.50
1996 MIN AL 31 2B 14 2 0 39.0 21 8 13 0 2 1.000 2 71 4.85 1.50 .980 5.05 5.02
1996 MIN AL 31 DH 10 1
1996 MIN AL 31 1B 6 0 0 8.0 8 7 1 0 1 1.000 0 15 9.00 1.33 .992 9.22 9.18
1996 MIN AL 31 3B 3 0 0 7.0 4 2 2 0 1 1.000 0 17 5.14 1.33 .955 2.57 2.53
1996 MIN AL 31 OF 3 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -520 0.00 0.00 2.40 2.37
1996 MIN AL 31 RF 3 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -520 0.00 0.00 2.10 2.17
1997 LAD NL 32 3B 2 0 0 5.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -168 1.80 0.50 .950 2.70 2.65
6 Seasons 2B 64 23 17 277.2 162 56 101 5 23 .969 6 27 5.09 2.45 .981 5.17 5.10
6 Seasons 3B 59 34 24 330.0 106 25 78 3 6 .972 0 1 2.81 1.75 .949 2.67 2.64
4 Seasons 1B 17 2 1 52.2 56 53 3 0 5 1.000 -1 -23 9.57 3.29 .992 9.52 9.38
2 Seasons RF 4 0 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -360 2.25 0.25 .980 2.02 2.17
2 Seasons OF 4 0 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -360 2.25 0.25 .980 2.48 2.38
1 Season SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.60
7 Seasons TOT 145 59 42 664.1 325 135 182 8 34 .975 4 8 4.29 2.19 .973 4.25 4.52
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
1989 MIN AL 24 2B 2 29 2 0 2 0
1989 MIN AL 24 3B -2 -47 -2 -1 -0 0
1990 MIN AL 25 2B 1 107 1 1 0 0
1993 MIN AL 28 2B 0 2 0 -1 1 0
1993 MIN AL 28 3B 1 8 1 0 1 0
1993 MIN AL 28 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1993 MIN AL 28 SS
1994 MIN AL 29 3B 2 12 2 1 0 0
1994 MIN AL 29 1B -1 -34 -1 -1 0 0
1994 MIN AL 29 2B 1 45 1 0 0 0
1994 MIN AL 29 RF 0 120 0 0 0 0
1995 MIN AL 30 2B 0 9 0 0 0 0
1995 MIN AL 30 3B 0 14 0 0 0 0
1995 MIN AL 30 1B -0 -26 -0 0 -0 0
1996 MIN AL 31 2B 2 71 2 2 0 0
1996 MIN AL 31 1B 0 15 0 0 0 0
1996 MIN AL 31 3B 0 17 0 0 0 0
1996 MIN AL 31 RF -1 -520 -1 -1 0 0
1997 LAD NL 32 3B -1 -168 -1 0 -1 0
6 Seasons 2B 6 27 6 2 4 0
6 Seasons 3B 0 1 0 0 -0 0
4 Seasons 1B -1 -23 -1 -1 -0 0
2 Seasons RF -1 -360 -1 -1 0 0
1 Season SS
7 Seasons TOT 4 8 4 0 4 0 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
1989 MIN AL 24 28 16 28 24 0 0 0 16 9 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 1
1990 MIN AL 25 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1993 MIN AL 28 69 41 69 39 0 0 1 21 19 0 0 0 0 0 19 21 0
1994 MIN AL 29 67 25 67 32 0 0 7 5 21 0 0 0 1 1 10 34 1
1995 MIN AL 30 69 13 69 14 0 0 3 7 5 0 0 0 0 0 27 51 1
1996 MIN AL 31 85 3 85 24 0 0 6 14 3 0 0 0 3 3 10 77 1
1997 LAD NL 32 14 0 14 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0
7 Seasons 333 99 333 136 0 0 17 64 59 0 0 0 4 4 68 204 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 -- 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
1989 MIN AL 24 411 60% 83% 33% 35 94% 0 15 4 10 1 38 32 3 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 9 3 2 2 0 7 2 5 2 2 0
1990 MIN AL 25 37 54% 84% 41% 4 100% 0 2 0 2 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
1993 MIN AL 28 445 61% 81% 33% 51 86% 0 23 10 10 3 37 29 7 0 0 3 0 2 1 2 9 2 1 3 0 6 3 3 2 1 1
1994 MIN AL 29 80 68% 84% 28% 7 86% 0 7 3 3 1 5 5 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
1995 MIN AL 30 62 53% 82% 32% 4 100% 0 2 0 2 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1996 MIN AL 31 170 59% 78% 26% 16 100% 0 8 5 3 0 13 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
6 Seasons 1205 60% 82% 32% 117 91% 0 57 22 30 5 104 89 11 0 1 5 1 3 1 3 25 9 5 5 0 20 5 15 4 3 1
MLB Averages 58% 79% 33% 90%

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%
1989 MIN AL 24 161 63% 81% 31% 6 67% 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1993 MIN AL 28 540 59% 78% 31% 40 88% 0 11 9 1 1 27 21 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0%
1994 MIN AL 29 667 65% 82% 34% 56 88% 1 9 5 1 3 45 39 2 2 3 2 0 1 1 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 4 25%
1995 MIN AL 30 34 56% 71% 21% 1 100% 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1996 MIN AL 31 32 41% 81% 22% 3 100% 0 2 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 100%
1997 LAD NL 32 26 50% 69% 27% 1 100% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 1460 62% 80% 32% 107 87% 1 25 18 3 4 79 64 7 2 3 3 0 1 2 3 6 5 0 5 1 1 0 6 33%
MLB Averages 58% 79% 33% 86% 66%

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%
1993 MIN AL 28 17 65% 65% 35% 1 100% 0 5 0 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1994 MIN AL 29 130 55% 79% 34% 3 100% 0 28 0 28 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
1995 MIN AL 30 41 66% 83% 46% 2 100% 0 14 0 14 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1996 MIN AL 31 31 58% 94% 29% 1 100% 0 7 0 7 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 219 58% 81% 36% 7 100% 0 54 0 54 0 4 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 100%
MLB Averages 58% 79% 33% 93% 85%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

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%
1994 MIN AL 29 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 3 67% 67% 67% 1 100%
1996 MIN AL 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 18 50% 72% 50% 2 0%
2 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 21 52% 71% 52% 3 33%
MLB Averages 42.9% 2.6% 58% 79% 40% 52%

* 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.

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