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Gail Hopkins

Gail Eason Hopkins

Positions: First Baseman and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 198 lb.

Born: February 19, 1943 in Tulsa, OK
Schools: Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA), University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent in 1965. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 29, 1968
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Royals/Dodgers 1968-1974

Final Game: October 2, 1974
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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 Awards
1968 CHW AL 25 1B 7 5 3 45.0 46 45 1 0 3 1.000 -0 -8 9.20 6.57 .989 9.60 9.54
1969 CHW AL 26 1B 101 94 75 800.0 960 903 51 6 81 .994 1 1 10.73 9.45 .992 9.63 9.62
1970 CHW AL 27 1B 77 69 43 557.0 680 629 42 9 67 .987 -4 -9 10.84 8.71 .991 9.59 9.56
1970 CHW AL 27 C 8 0 0 21.1 16 16 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 6.75 2.00 .988 6.62 6.62 1 0 0 0 0
1971 KCR AL 28 1B 83 81 56 669.1 733 669 57 7 76 .990 1 1 9.76 8.75 .992 9.59 9.53
1972 KCR AL 29 1B 13 11 5 86.0 100 97 2 1 7 .990 0 0 10.36 7.62 .991 9.75 9.71
1972 KCR AL 29 3B 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.00 .950 2.70 3.00
1973 KCR AL 30 DH 38 30
1973 KCR AL 30 1B 10 4 1 40.0 35 32 3 0 3 1.000 -1 -33 7.88 3.50 .992 9.85 9.80
1974 LAD NL 31 1B 2 1 0 12.0 19 17 2 0 0 1.000 1 90 14.25 9.50 .991 9.98 9.95
1974 LAD NL 31 C 2 0 0 4.0 4 3 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 2.00 .985 6.08 6.10 0 2 0 0 0
7 Seasons 1B 293 265 183 2209.1 2573 2392 158 23 237 .991 -4 -2 10.39 8.70 .992 9.62 9.59
2 Seasons C 10 0 0 25.1 20 19 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 7.11 2.00 .988 6.54 6.52 1 2 0 0 0
1 Season 3B 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.00 .950 2.70 3.00
7 Seasons TOT 304 265 183 2235.2 2594 2412 159 23 237 .991 -4 -2 10.35 8.46 .992 9.58 9.47 1 2 0 0 0
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
1968 CHW AL 25 1B -0 -8 -0 -0 -0 0
1969 CHW AL 26 1B 1 1 1 1 -0 0
1970 CHW AL 27 1B -4 -9 -4 -2 -3 0
1970 CHW AL 27 C 0 0 0
1971 KCR AL 28 1B 1 1 2 2 -0 -1
1972 KCR AL 29 1B 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1972 KCR AL 29 3B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1973 KCR AL 30 1B -1 -33 -1 -1 -0 0
1974 LAD NL 31 1B 1 90 1 0 1 0
1974 LAD NL 31 C 0 0 0
7 Seasons 1B -4 -2 -3 1 -3 -1
2 Seasons C 0 0 0
1 Season 3B 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons TOT -4 -2 -3 1 -3 -1 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1968 CHW AL 25 29 5 29 7 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 0
1969 CHW AL 26 124 94 124 101 0 0 101 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 0
1970 CHW AL 27 116 69 116 81 0 8 77 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 0
1971 KCR AL 28 103 81 103 83 0 0 83 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 0
1972 KCR AL 29 53 11 53 14 0 0 13 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 0
1973 KCR AL 30 74 34 74 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38 36 0
1974 LAD NL 31 15 1 15 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
7 Seasons 514 295 514 299 0 10 293 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 38 205 0
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 -- 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%
1968 CHW AL 25 180 67% 81% 28% 4 100% 0 42 0 42 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 100%
1969 CHW AL 26 3458 67% 81% 30% 180 93% 2 903 44 845 14 78 48 33 10 0 2 6 0 5 1 4 82 2 0 0 73 3 9 2 7 7 71%
1970 CHW AL 27 2414 64% 81% 31% 126 90% 2 632 24 601 7 58 39 22 8 1 1 9 1 8 0 7 67 2 0 0 62 2 3 0 3 6 83%
1971 KCR AL 28 2791 65% 81% 28% 157 94% 1 677 45 628 6 59 53 30 12 0 3 7 3 4 0 2 78 0 0 1 69 1 9 3 6 12 83%
1972 KCR AL 29 346 67% 84% 34% 13 100% 0 97 2 96 0 9 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1973 KCR AL 30 194 62% 79% 21% 7 100% 0 32 3 28 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
1974 LAD NL 31 60 52% 78% 42% 4 100% 0 17 0 17 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 9443 65% 81% 29% 491 93% 5 2400 118 2257 28 211 148 90 32 1 6 23 5 17 1 13 240 4 0 1 217 6 21 5 16 28 82%
MLB Averages 64% 80% 28% 94% 88%

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%
1970 CHW AL 27 95 2.95 4.22 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1974 LAD NL 31 17 2.25 2.25 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 112 2.84 3.91 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 19 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 3.53 4.00 95% 90%

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
1970 CHW AL 27 1 0 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1974 LAD NL 31 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
2 Seasons 1 2 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
MLB Averages 37% 1.28 1.23

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%
1972 KCR AL 29 3 0% 67% 0% 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
1 Season 3 0% 67% 0% 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
MLB Averages 64% 80% 28% 89% 66%

* 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

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1969 AL  10.73 (1st)
1971 AL  9.76 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1969 AL  9.45 (2nd)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1969 AL  .994 (4th)

             

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