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Glenn Hoffman

Glenn Edward Hoffman

Positions: Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: July 7, 1958 in Orange, CA
High School: Savanna HS (Anaheim, CA)
Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 2nd round of the 1976 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 12, 1980
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Angels/Dodgers 1980-1989
Agents: Tony Pennacchia [*]
Final Game: September 23, 1989
Relatives: Brother of Trevor Hoffman
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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
1980 BOS AL 21 3B 110 91 73 826.1 280 72 193 15 17 .946 2 3 2.89 2.41 .951 3.01 3.00
1980 BOS AL 21 SS 5 0 0 21.0 16 5 9 2 2 .875 -0 -17 6.00 2.80 .963 4.97 4.98
1980 BOS AL 21 2B 2 1 1 12.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1 80 0.75 0.50 .980 5.62 5.60
1981 BOS AL 22 SS 78 72 59 628.0 379 131 233 15 52 .960 -3 -6 5.22 4.67 .967 4.99 4.98
1981 BOS AL 22 3B 1 0 0 7.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0 17 2.57 2.00 .950 2.96 2.90
1982 BOS AL 23 SS 150 136 114 1191.1 705 246 439 20 93 .972 -2 -2 5.17 4.57 .965 4.87 4.84
1983 BOS AL 24 SS 143 143 118 1233.1 683 240 417 26 82 .962 -8 -7 4.79 4.59 .963 4.75 4.72
1984 BOS AL 25 SS 56 23 12 233.2 115 39 71 5 17 .957 -4 -23 4.24 1.96 .962 4.76 4.72
1984 BOS AL 25 3B 4 1 1 13.0 4 1 3 0 1 1.000 0 9 2.77 1.00 .950 2.77 2.72
1984 BOS AL 25 2B 2 0 0 5.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -24 5.40 1.50 .980 5.22 5.20
1985 BOS AL 26 SS 93 80 64 712.0 396 155 231 10 61 .975 -2 -4 4.88 4.15 .964 4.64 4.60
1985 BOS AL 26 2B 3 1 1 11.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -109 1.64 0.67 .980 5.32 5.23
1985 BOS AL 26 3B 3 1 0 10.0 2 0 1 1 0 .500 -1 -132 0.90 0.33 .955 2.88 2.83
1986 BOS AL 27 SS 11 6 4 60.0 26 14 10 2 3 .923 -2 -32 3.60 2.18 .967 4.53 4.49
1986 BOS AL 27 3B 1 0 0 4.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -30 4.50 2.00 .950 2.70 2.70
1987 TOT MLB 28 SS 56 54 40 451.1 241 84 150 7 28 .971 6 16 4.67 4.18 .966 4.68 4.65
1987 BOS AL 28 SS 16 14 13 124.1 64 14 49 1 9 .984 4 41 4.56 3.94 .970 4.59 4.54
1987 BOS AL 28 3B 3 0 0 8.1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -86 1.08 0.33 .950 2.81 2.73
1987 BOS AL 28 2B 2 0 0 3.1 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0 72 5.40 1.00 .980 5.13 5.05
1987 LAD NL 28 SS 40 40 27 327.0 177 70 101 6 19 .966 2 7 4.71 4.28 .965 4.72 4.69
1989 CAL AL 30 SS 23 10 7 115.1 56 18 37 1 8 .982 -0 -3 4.29 2.39 .971 4.79 4.74
1989 CAL AL 30 3B 18 15 11 137.1 46 14 30 2 2 .957 3 27 2.88 2.44 .943 2.73 2.70
1989 CAL AL 30 2B 4 2 2 19.0 13 6 7 0 2 1.000 0 32 6.16 3.25 .981 5.26 5.18
1989 CAL AL 30 1B 1 1 0 5.0 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -144 14.40 8.00 .992 9.72 9.70
1989 CAL AL 30 DH 1 1
9 Seasons SS 615 524 418 4646.0 2617 932 1597 88 346 .966 -15 -4 4.90 4.11 .965 4.79 4.76
7 Seasons 3B 140 108 85 1006.0 337 90 229 18 20 .947 3 4 2.85 2.28 .950 2.96 2.94
5 Seasons 2B 13 4 4 50.1 21 12 9 0 2 1.000 0 10 3.75 1.62 .980 5.35 5.24
1 Season 1B 1 1 0 5.0 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -144 14.40 8.00 .992 9.72 9.70
9 Seasons TOT 769 637 507 5707.1 2983 1041 1836 106 368 .964 -12 -3 4.54 3.74 .963 4.48 4.44
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
1980 BOS AL 21 3B 2 3 2 1 1 0
1980 BOS AL 21 SS -0 -17 -0 0 -1 0
1980 BOS AL 21 2B 1 80 1 1 -0 0
1981 BOS AL 22 SS -3 -6 -4 -1 -3 1
1981 BOS AL 22 3B 0 17 0 0 0 0
1982 BOS AL 23 SS -2 -2 -3 2 -4 1
1983 BOS AL 24 SS -8 -7 -7 -2 -4 -1
1984 BOS AL 25 SS -4 -23 -4 -3 -1 0
1984 BOS AL 25 3B 0 9 0 0 -0 0
1984 BOS AL 25 2B -0 -24 -0 -0 0 0
1985 BOS AL 26 SS -2 -4 -2 -1 -2 0
1985 BOS AL 26 2B -1 -109 -1 -1 0 0
1985 BOS AL 26 3B -1 -132 -1 0 -1 0
1986 BOS AL 27 SS -2 -32 -2 -1 -1 0
1986 BOS AL 27 3B -0 -30 -0 -0 0 0
1987 BOS AL 28 SS 4 41 4 3 2 0
1987 BOS AL 28 3B -1 -86 -1 -0 -0 0
1987 BOS AL 28 2B 0 72 0 0 0 0
1987 LAD NL 28 SS 2 7 2 -0 2 0
1989 CAL AL 30 SS -0 -3 -0 0 -0 0
1989 CAL AL 30 3B 3 27 3 4 -1 0
1989 CAL AL 30 2B 0 32 0 1 -0 0
1989 CAL AL 30 1B -1 -144 -1 0 -1 0
9 Seasons SS -15 -4 -16 -4 -13 1
7 Seasons 3B 3 4 3 5 -2 0
5 Seasons 2B 0 10 0 1 -0 0
1 Season 1B -1 -144 -1 0 -1 0
9 Seasons TOT -12 -3 -13 2 -16 1
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
1980 BOS AL 21 114 92 114 113 0 0 0 3 109 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1981 BOS AL 22 78 72 78 78 0 0 0 0 1 78 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1982 BOS AL 23 150 136 150 150 0 0 0 0 0 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1983 BOS AL 24 143 143 143 143 0 0 0 0 0 143 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1984 BOS AL 25 64 24 64 62 0 0 0 2 4 56 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
1985 BOS AL 26 96 82 96 96 0 0 0 3 3 93 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1986 BOS AL 27 12 6 12 12 0 0 0 0 1 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1987 LAD NL 28 40 40 40 40 0 0 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1987 BOS AL 28 21 14 21 20 0 0 0 2 3 16 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1989 CAL AL 30 48 29 48 46 0 0 1 4 18 23 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
9 Seasons 766 638 766 760 0 0 1 14 139 615 0 0 0 0 1 8 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 -- 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
1980 BOS AL 21 94 60% 77% 26% 11 82% 0 4 1 3 0 9 9 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0
1981 BOS AL 22 2678 60% 83% 28% 278 90% 0 133 52 61 20 231 187 37 0 7 15 0 13 2 11 51 14 5 16 11 1 49 19 29 2 2 0
1982 BOS AL 23 5128 61% 82% 28% 531 93% 1 242 108 108 26 441 349 74 2 3 20 2 13 5 12 92 28 12 28 10 6 84 40 44 6 5 1
1983 BOS AL 24 5350 67% 84% 25% 539 89% 3 238 110 103 25 422 330 79 1 3 25 0 22 3 21 83 24 14 26 8 3 76 38 37 5 3 2
1984 BOS AL 25 1044 58% 83% 24% 84 94% 0 39 14 18 7 74 58 14 0 0 5 0 5 0 5 16 3 1 7 1 0 14 5 8 2 0 2
1985 BOS AL 26 3032 57% 80% 28% 274 96% 0 155 65 75 15 228 179 43 1 1 10 0 10 0 9 61 24 5 16 6 5 57 29 27 2 1 1
1986 BOS AL 27 245 56% 75% 24% 21 81% 1 14 8 5 1 10 9 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 1
1987 LAD NL 28 1362 51% 78% 30% 135 90% 1 65 27 28 10 101 81 15 0 0 6 0 5 1 4 20 11 2 5 0 1 19 13 6 1 1 0
1987 BOS AL 28 519 61% 77% 33% 60 95% 0 15 9 3 3 50 36 13 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 9 7 0 1 0 0 8 7 1 1 0 0
1989 CAL AL 30 492 61% 79% 36% 46 83% 1 18 6 12 0 37 31 4 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 8 1 1 3 2 0 7 2 5 1 1 0
9 Seasons 19944 61% 82% 28% 1979 91% 7 923 400 416 107 1603 1269 280 5 16 87 2 74 11 68 345 113 40 103 38 18 318 154 160 21 13 7
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%
1980 BOS AL 21 3523 52% 84% 29% 282 89% 2 72 58 6 8 194 158 29 1 7 15 0 11 4 13 18 14 1 15 3 1 1 10 60%
1981 BOS AL 22 26 77% 73% 23% 2 100% 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1984 BOS AL 25 60 43% 73% 30% 4 100% 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1985 BOS AL 26 43 60% 65% 14% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1986 BOS AL 27 21 33% 81% 24% 2 50% 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0%
1987 BOS AL 28 38 58% 68% 13% 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
1989 CAL AL 30 566 57% 81% 35% 48 92% 1 14 13 0 1 30 23 5 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 50%
7 Seasons 4277 52% 83% 29% 340 89% 3 90 74 6 10 230 185 35 2 8 18 0 13 5 15 21 17 1 18 3 1 1 13 54%
MLB Averages 59% 81% 29% 90% 72%

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
1980 BOS AL 21 51 51% 73% 25% 8 100% 0 3 1 2 0 8 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 3 0 4 3 1 0 0 0
1984 BOS AL 25 24 67% 71% 8% 1 100% 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1985 BOS AL 26 46 43% 65% 17% 1 100% 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1987 BOS AL 28 19 47% 53% 16% 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 0 0 0
1989 CAL AL 30 84 51% 80% 30% 6 100% 0 6 1 5 0 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
5 Seasons 224 51% 72% 23% 17 100% 0 13 4 9 0 16 12 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 3 0 6 3 3 0 0 0
MLB Averages 59% 81% 29% 94%

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%
1989 CAL AL 30 18 67% 78% 67% 1 100% 0 7 0 7 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 18 67% 78% 67% 1 100% 0 7 0 7 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 59% 81% 29% 95% 88%

* 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† s c a p y
1983 AL  26 (5th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1982 AL  150 (4th)
1983 AL  143 (4th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1982 AL  246 (4th)
1983 AL  240 (5th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1982 AL  439 (4th)
1983 AL  417 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1981 AL  15 (3rd)
1983 AL  26 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1987 AL  4 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1981 AL  5.22 (5th)
1982 AL  5.17 (3rd)
1983 AL  4.79 (4th)
1985 AL  4.88 (3rd)
Career  4.90 (20th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1983 AL  4.59 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1982 AL  .972 (5th)
1985 AL  .975 (4th)

                                         

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