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Bob Hamelin

Robert James Hamelin

Positions: Designated Hitter and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: November 29, 1967 in Elizabeth, NJ
High School: Irvine HS (Irvine, CA)
Schools: Rancho Santiago College (Santa Ana, CA), University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 2nd round of the 1988 amateur draft.
Signed June 11, 1988. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 12, 1993 (Age 25)
Teams (by GP): Royals/Tigers/Brewers 1993-1998

Final Game: September 27, 1998 (Age 30)
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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 KCR AL 25 1B 15 14 11 119.0 140 129 9 2 10 .986 1 12 10.44 9.20 .993 9.57 9.48
1994 KCR AL 26 DH 69 67 RoY-1
1994 KCR AL 26 1B 24 24 23 212.1 254 234 18 2 11 .992 -0 -3 10.68 10.50 .992 9.57 9.49 RoY-1
1995 KCR AL 27 DH 56 50
1995 KCR AL 27 1B 8 7 6 63.0 75 66 9 0 11 1.000 0 8 10.71 9.38 .993 9.61 9.50
1996 KCR AL 28 DH 47 41
1996 KCR AL 28 1B 33 28 16 242.0 256 232 20 4 25 .984 -2 -8 9.37 7.64 .992 9.24 9.18
1997 DET AL 29 DH 94 87
1997 DET AL 29 1B 7 3 3 34.0 30 29 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 7.94 4.29 .992 9.32 9.23
1998 MIL NL 30 1B 51 21 13 247.2 239 230 7 2 22 .992 -5 -26 8.61 4.65 .993 9.46 9.41
1998 MIL NL 30 DH 1 0
6 Seasons 1B 138 97 72 918.0 994 920 64 10 80 .990 -6 -8 9.65 7.13 .992 9.45 9.37
6 Seasons TOT 138 97 72 918.0 994 920 64 10 80 .990 -6 -8 9.65 7.13 .992 9.45 9.37
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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 KCR AL 25 1B 1 12 1 -1 2 0
1994 KCR AL 26 1B -0 -3 -0 -1 0 0
1995 KCR AL 27 1B 0 8 0 1 -0 0
1996 KCR AL 28 1B -2 -8 -2 -1 -1 0
1997 DET AL 29 1B 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1998 MIL NL 30 1B -5 -26 -5 0 -5 0
6 Seasons 1B -6 -8 -6 -2 -4 0
6 Seasons TOT -6 -8 -6 -2 -4 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1993 KCR AL 25 16 14 16 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1994 KCR AL 26 101 91 101 24 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 69 10 0
1995 KCR AL 27 72 57 72 8 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 56 14 0
1996 KCR AL 28 89 69 89 33 0 0 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47 19 0
1997 DET AL 29 110 90 110 7 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 94 16 0
1998 MIL NL 30 109 21 109 51 0 0 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 64 2
6 Seasons 497 342 497 138 0 0 138 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 267 124 2
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

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 KCR AL 25 479 48% 79% 34% 39 95% 0 128 8 118 2 20 10 7 2 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 10 0 2 0 9 2 1 0 1 1 100%
1994 KCR AL 26 939 56% 79% 35% 57 88% 2 235 14 218 2 20 16 11 3 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 11 0 0 0 10 0 1 1 0 3 67%
1995 KCR AL 27 278 57% 81% 36% 19 95% 0 67 5 61 1 6 8 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1996 KCR AL 28 1084 56% 79% 31% 67 91% 0 231 17 209 5 27 19 10 7 1 2 4 0 3 1 2 26 0 3 0 25 3 1 0 1 1 100%
1997 DET AL 29 145 57% 81% 30% 7 100% 0 29 2 27 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1998 MIL NL 30 1084 62% 75% 32% 42 90% 0 229 15 210 4 16 7 7 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 22 0 0 0 20 0 2 0 2 0
6 Seasons 4009 56% 78% 33% 231 91% 2 919 61 843 14 93 61 42 14 3 3 10 1 7 2 5 81 0 5 0 76 5 5 1 4 6 83%
MLB Averages 58% 78% 33% 92% 86%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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

Awards (yr lg award)
1994 AL Rookie of the Year

                                         

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