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Toby Harrah

Colbert Dale Harrah

Positions: Third Baseman, Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: October 26, 1948 in Sissonville, WV
High School: Elgin (Elgin, OH)
Signed
by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent in 1966. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 5, 1969
Teams (by GP): Rangers/Indians/Senators/Yankees 1969-1986

Final Game: October 4, 1986
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 6, 2012, 8:07PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #335. Bill Madlock… #336. Bill Buckner… #337. Chili Davis… #338. TOBY HARRAH… #339. Gary Matthews… #340. Edgar Renteria… #341. Derrek Lee… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1969 20 WSA AL 8 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 0 /6
1971 22 WSA AL 127 428 383 45 88 11 3 2 22 10 9 40 48 .230 .300 .290 .590 73 111 8 0 2 3 3 *6/5
1972 23 TEX AL 116 419 374 47 97 14 3 1 31 16 7 34 31 .259 .316 .321 .637 94 120 3 0 5 6 1 *6 AS
1973 24 TEX AL 118 519 461 64 120 16 1 10 50 10 3 46 49 .260 .328 .364 .693 100 168 11 2 7 3 2 65
1974 25 TEX AL 161 639 573 79 149 23 2 21 74 15 14 50 65 .260 .319 .417 .736 114 239 14 2 8 6 2 *6/5
1975 26 TEX AL 151 631 522 81 153 24 1 20 93 23 9 98 71 .293 .403 .458 .861 145 239 7 1 6 4 3 *654 AS,MVP-15
1976 27 TEX AL 155 688 584 64 152 21 1 15 67 8 5 91 59 .260 .360 .377 .737 115 220 17 3 5 5 5 *6/5 AS
1977 28 TEX AL 159 673 539 90 142 25 5 27 87 27 5 109 73 .263 .393 .479 .872 136 258 12 10 9 6 7 *5/6
1978 29 TEX AL 139 547 450 56 103 17 3 12 59 31 8 83 66 .229 .349 .360 .709 101 162 8 2 9 3 3 56
1979 30 CLE AL 149 635 527 99 147 25 1 20 77 20 9 89 60 .279 .389 .444 .833 124 234 8 8 7 4 2 *56
1980 31 CLE AL 160 675 561 100 150 22 4 11 72 17 2 98 60 .267 .379 .380 .759 108 213 16 7 2 7 3 *5/6
1981 32 CLE AL 103 427 361 64 105 12 4 5 44 12 1 57 44 .291 .382 .388 .770 124 140 5 1 0 8 8 *5/6
1982 33 CLE AL 162 708 602 100 183 29 4 25 78 17 3 84 52 .304 .398 .490 .888 143 295 13 12 7 3 7 *5/46 AS,MVP-20
1983 34 CLE AL 138 615 526 81 140 23 1 9 53 16 10 75 49 .266 .363 .365 .728 99 192 13 7 4 3 1 *5/4
1984 35 NYY AL 88 299 253 40 55 9 4 1 26 3 0 42 28 .217 .331 .296 .628 79 75 9 2 0 2 2 5/4
1985 36 TEX AL 126 521 396 65 107 18 1 9 44 11 4 113 60 .270 .432 .389 .820 127 154 4 4 2 6 2 *4/6
1986 37 TEX AL 95 341 289 36 63 18 2 7 41 2 5 44 53 .218 .322 .367 .689 86 106 7 2 3 3 0 4
17 Seasons 2155 8766 7402 1115 1954 307 40 195 918 238 94 1153 868 .264 .365 .395 .760 114 2926 155 63 76 72 51
162 Game Avg. 162 659 556 84 147 23 3 15 69 18 7 87 65 .264 .365 .395 .760 114 220 12 5 6 5 4
G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
TEX (11 yrs) 1355 5407 4572 631 1174 187 22 124 568 153 69 708 575 .257 .357 .389 .745 112 1777 91 26 56 45 28
CLE (5 yrs) 712 3060 2577 444 725 111 14 70 324 82 25 403 265 .281 .383 .417 .799 120 1074 55 35 20 25 21
NYY (1 yr) 88 299 253 40 55 9 4 1 26 3 0 42 28 .217 .331 .296 .628 79 75 9 2 0 2 2

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1969 20 WSA AL 1 0 0 0 0 -0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $ /6
1971 22 WSA AL 428 -12 0 2 1 -8 7 14 4 0.3 12 1.3 -1.0 $ *6/5
1972 23 TEX AL 419 2 2 2 1 -10 7 14 18 2.0 28 3.2 -1.2 $ *6 AS
1973 24 TEX AL 519 0 3 0 0 -3 6 16 22 2.2 25 2.6 -0.4 $ 65
1974 25 TEX AL 639 8 -2 0 0 -8 10 21 29 3.0 37 4.0 -1.0 $ *6/5
1975 26 TEX AL 632 35 -1 -1 0 3 8 20 63 6.6 61 6.3 0.3 $ *654 AS,MVP-15
1976 27 TEX AL 688 14 -1 -1 -2 -9 9 21 31 3.2 40 4.2 -1.0 $100,000 *6/5 AS
1977 28 TEX AL 673 29 7 -1 1 -8 4 21 53 5.5 61 6.2 -0.7 $100,000 *5/6
1978 29 TEX AL 547 2 3 0 1 5 5 18 34 3.5 29 3.1 0.4 $ 56
1979 30 CLE AL 635 27 1 2 2 -23 3 20 32 3.2 55 5.5 -2.3 $ *56
1980 31 CLE AL 675 11 6 0 0 -0 1 20 38 3.9 38 4.0 -0.1 $ *5/6
1981 32 CLE AL 427 13 5 -1 1 -13 1 13 19 2.1 32 3.5 -1.4 $ *5/6
1982 33 CLE AL 708 32 3 1 0 -4 1 21 53 5.4 58 6.0 -0.6 $ *5/46 AS,MVP-20
1983 34 CLE AL 615 5 0 1 -1 -2 1 18 22 2.2 24 2.5 -0.3 $ *5/4
1984 35 NYY AL 299 -6 0 2 1 -4 0 10 4 0.3 7 0.7 -0.4 $500,000 5/4
1985 36 TEX AL 521 17 1 1 1 -3 4 16 37 3.8 40 4.1 -0.3 $650,000 *4/6
1986 37 TEX AL 341 -4 -1 1 -2 -9 3 11 -1 -0.1 8 0.8 -0.9 $700,000 4
17 Seasons 8767 173 26 8 4 -96 70 274 458 47.1 555 58.0 -10.9 $2,050,000
Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
TEX (11 yrs) 5408 91 11 3 1 -50 63 172 290 30.0 341 35.8 -5.8 $1,550,000
CLE (5 yrs) 3060 88 15 3 2 -42 7 92 164 16.8 207 21.5 -4.7 $
NYY (1 yr) 299 -6 0 2 1 -4 0 10 4 0.3 7 0.7 -0.4 $500,000

Standard Fielding

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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
1969 WSA AL 20 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 5.00
1971 WSA AL 22 SS 116 511 181 307 23 69 .955 -8 4.21 .965 4.88
1971 WSA AL 22 3B 7 21 6 14 1 1 .952 -0 2.86 .956 3.03
1972 TEX AL 23 SS 106 494 166 308 20 64 .960 -10 4.47 .967 4.97 AS
1973 TEX AL 24 SS 76 388 116 253 19 41 .951 4 4.86 .963 5.07
1973 TEX AL 24 3B 52 126 39 79 8 4 .937 -8 2.27 .950 2.98
1974 TEX AL 25 SS 158 776 281 466 29 98 .963 -8 4.73 .965 4.96
1974 TEX AL 25 3B 3 10 2 8 0 0 1.000 0 3.33 .954 3.10
1975 TEX AL 26 SS 118 595 198 375 22 68 .963 1 4.86 .959 4.84 AS,MVP-15
1975 TEX AL 26 3B 28 70 16 52 2 4 .971 4 2.43 .954 3.15 AS,MVP-15
1975 TEX AL 26 2B 21 98 39 54 5 10 .949 -3 4.43 .975 5.38 AS,MVP-15
1976 TEX AL 27 SS 146 799 290 473 36 81 .955 -8 5.23 .967 5.01 AS
1976 TEX AL 27 3B 5 13 4 8 1 1 .923 -1 2.40 .953 2.96 AS
1976 TEX AL 27 DH 3 3 AS
1977 TEX AL 28 3B 159 401 108 278 15 20 .963 -8 2.43 .957 2.96
1977 TEX AL 28 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.80
1978 TEX AL 29 3B 91 229 54 167 8 15 .965 1 2.43 .954 2.98
1978 TEX AL 29 SS 49 241 75 163 3 25 .988 4 4.86 .964 4.87
1979 CLE AL 30 3B 127 267 91 160 16 19 .940 -21 1.98 .953 3.03
1979 CLE AL 30 SS 33 80 22 55 3 11 .963 -2 2.33 .965 4.95
1979 CLE AL 30 DH 9 9
1980 CLE AL 31 3B 156 450 120 317 13 27 .971 -0 2.80 .951 3.00
1980 CLE AL 31 SS 2 3 1 2 0 1 1.000 -0 1.50 .963 5.00
1980 CLE AL 31 DH 2 2
1981 CLE AL 32 3B 101 255 63 179 13 12 .949 -12 2.40 .950 2.94
1981 CLE AL 32 SS 3 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 -0 0.67 .965 4.97
1981 CLE AL 32 DH 1 1
1982 CLE AL 33 3B 159 417 126 279 12 25 .971 -4 2.55 .954 3.05 AS,MVP-20
1982 CLE AL 33 2B 3 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 5.33 AS,MVP-20
1982 CLE AL 33 SS 2 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 4.85 AS,MVP-20
1983 CLE AL 34 3B 137 385 101 273 11 32 .971 -2 2.73 .955 3.05
1983 CLE AL 34 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.30
1983 CLE AL 34 DH 1 1
1984 NYY AL 35 3B 74 185 51 128 6 17 .968 -4 2.42 .950 2.73
1984 NYY AL 35 2B 4 5 1 4 0 0 1.000 1 1.25 .980 5.20
1984 NYY AL 35 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 2.50
1984 NYY AL 35 RF 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -60 0.00 0.00 2.25 2.20
1985 TEX AL 36 2B 122 569 212 351 6 71 .989 -3 4.61 .982 5.24
1985 TEX AL 36 SS 2 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 4.60
1986 TEX AL 37 2B 93 384 166 211 7 49 .982 -9 4.05 .981 5.05
13 Seasons 3B 1099 2829 781 1942 106 177 .963 -55 2.48 .953 2.99
14 Seasons SS 813 3889 1331 2403 155 458 .960 -27 4.59 .964 4.94
6 Seasons 2B 244 1056 418 620 18 130 .983 -14 4.25 .981 5.18
1 Season RF 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -60 0.00 0.00 2.25 2.20
1 Season OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 2.50
17 Seasons TOT 2157 7774 2530 4965 279 765 .964 -96 3.47 .963 3.97
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1992 BBWAA ( 0.2%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1975 AL (15, 5%)
1982 AL (20, 2%)
0.07 Career Shares (1016th)

Wins Above Replacements c a p y
1975 AL  6.6 (10th)

WAR Position Playerss c a p y
1975 AL  6.6 (5th)
1977 AL  5.5 (8th)
Career  47.1 (195th)

Offensive WARs c a p y
1975 AL  6.3 (3rd)
1977 AL  6.2 (4th)
1979 AL  5.5 (10th)
1982 AL  6.0 (5th)
Career  58.0 (97th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1982 AL  .304 (9th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1975 AL  .403 (4th)
1977 AL  .393 (6th)
1979 AL  .389 (10th)
1981 AL  .382 (7th)
1982 AL  .398 (2nd)
1985 AL  .432 (3rd)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1975 AL  .861 (7th)
1982 AL  .888 (9th)

Games Played s c a p y
1974 AL  161 (2nd)
1977 AL  159 (7th)
1980 AL  160 (5th)
1982 AL  162 (1st)
Career  2,155 (154th)

At Bats s c a p y
Career  7,402 (202nd)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1974 AL  639 (10th)
1976 AL  688 (6th)
1982 AL  708 (5th)
Career  8,766 (163rd)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1980 AL  100 (7th)
1981 AL  64 (4th)
1982 AL  100 (8th)
Career  1,115 (232nd)

Hits s c a p y
1982 AL  183 (7th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1975 AL  93 (9th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1975 AL  98 (5th)
1976 AL  91 (2nd)
1977 AL  109 (1st)
1978 AL  83 (6th)
1979 AL  89 (6th)
1980 AL  98 (5th)
1981 AL  57 (9th)
1983 AL  75 (9th)
1985 AL  113 (2nd)
Career  1,153 (67th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1977 AL  27 (8th)
1978 AL  31 (10th)
Career  238 (245th)

Singles s c a p y
1982 AL  125 (9th)
Career  1,412 (249th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1975 AL  145 (9th)
1982 AL  142 (9th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1975 AL  105 (5th)
1977 AL  112 (9th)
1982 AL  123 (3rd)
Career  1,151 (218th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1975 AL  36 (6th)
1982 AL  38 (6th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1975 AL  3.6 (6th)
1982 AL  3.7 (6th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1975 AL  252 (4th)
1976 AL  246 (7th)
1977 AL  261 (6th)
1980 AL  255 (9th)
1982 AL  279 (2nd)
Career  3,170 (152nd)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1975 AL  .716 (6th)
1982 AL  .707 (5th)
1985 AL  .685 (7th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1977 AL  10 (5th)
1979 AL  8 (5th)
1980 AL  7 (8th)
1982 AL  12 (2nd)
1983 AL  7 (6th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1972 AL  6 (9th)
1981 AL  8 (3rd)
Career  72 (125th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1981 AL  8 (6th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1976 AL  17 (8th)
Career  155 (245th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1971 AL  9 (7th)
1974 AL  14 (8th)
1983 AL  10 (9th)
Career  94 (140th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1974 AL  17.5 (4th)
1975 AL  21.4 (4th)
1977 AL  27.0 (3rd)
1978 AL  17.3 (7th)
1979 AL  20.0 (5th)
1982 AL  20.2 (3rd)
Career  214.4 (70th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1982 AL  11.6 (10th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1974 AL  466 (8th)
Career  5,845 (164th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)s c a p y
1975 AL  40.86 (4th)
1981 AL  22.84 (8th)
1982 AL  31.63 (10th)
Career  214.71 (176th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)s c a p y
1979 AL  3.7 (8th)
1981 AL  2.8 (4th)
1982 AL  4.1 (4th)
Career  26.2 (119th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)s c a p y
1975 AL  3.6 (4th)
1979 AL  3.0 (10th)
1982 AL  4.1 (3rd)
Career  21.8 (165th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)s c a p y
1975 AL  4.1 (4th)
1981 AL  2.4 (8th)
1982 AL  3.1 (10th)
Career  21.2 (178th)

Assistss c a p y
1975 AL  481 (5th)
1976 AL  481 (5th)
Career  4,965 (90th)

Errors Committeds c a p y
1971 AL  24 (5th)
1973 AL  27 (3rd)
1974 AL  29 (3rd)
1975 AL  29 (2nd)
1976 AL  37 (1st)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1977 AL  159 (1st)
1980 AL  156 (1st)
1981 AL  101 (1st)
1982 AL  159 (1st)
Career  1,099 (82nd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1980 AL  120 (3rd)
1982 AL  126 (3rd)
1983 AL  101 (5th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1977 AL  278 (4th)
1980 AL  317 (3rd)
Career  1,942 (95th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1981 AL  13 (5th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1974 AL  158 (1st)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1974 AL  281 (1st)
1976 AL  290 (1st)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1976 AL  473 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1971 AL  23 (4th)
1974 AL  29 (1st)
1976 AL  36 (1st)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1985 AL  .989 (2nd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1980 AL  .971 (2nd)
1982 AL  .971 (2nd)
1983 AL  .971 (2nd)
Career  .963 (39th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SSs c a p y
1971 AL  4.88 (4th)
1975 AL  5.23 (3rd)
1976 AL  5.21 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1975 AL  4.86 (3rd)
1976 AL  5.23 (1st)

Youngest s c a p y
1969 AL  born 1948-10-26 (10th)

             

Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 3 (523), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 46 (541), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 20 (794), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 33 (239), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
197627Texas Rangers$100,000TSN, 4/17/76
197728Texas Rangers$100,000TSN salary survey, 4/23/77
198435New York Yankees$500,0001/4/85 TSN
198536Texas Rangers$650,0001985 USA Today survey
198637Texas Rangers$700,0001986 USA Today survey
Career to date (may be incomplete)$2,050,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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