Bob Horner

James Robert Horner

Positions: Third Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: August 6, 1957 in Junction City, KS
High School: Apollo HS (Glendale, AZ)
School: Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 1978 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 16, 1978
Teams (by GP): Braves/Cardinals 1978-1988
Agents: Bucky Woy,John Boggs [*]
Final Game: June 18, 1988
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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
1978	ATL	NL	20	3B	89	88	84	769.2	293	81	199	13	17	.956	-2	-3	3.27	3.15	.952	3.00	2.97	RoY-1
1979	ATL	NL	21	3B	82	78	75	683.2	214	56	143	15	11	.930	-10	-18	2.62	2.43	.951	2.89	2.88	MVP-28
1979	ATL	NL	21	1B	45	42	33	360.1	445	414	24	7	32	.984	-3	-9	10.94	9.73	.992	9.89	9.86	MVP-28
1980	ATL	NL	22	3B	121	119	66	954.2	352	78	251	23	20	.935	4	5	3.10	2.72	.948	2.87	2.88	MVP-9
1980	ATL	NL	22	1B	1	0	0	2.0	4	2	2	0	0	1.000	0	180	18.00	4.00	.992	10.35	10.20	MVP-9
1981	ATL	NL	23	3B	79	79	55	666.1	192	51	129	12	6	.938	-4	-8	2.43	2.28	.948	2.84	2.85
1982	ATL	NL	24	3B	137	137	99	1173.0	329	102	217	10	20	.970	-13	-14	2.45	2.33	.951	2.77	2.78	AS
1983	ATL	NL	25	3B	104	104	69	870.2	239	76	153	10	18	.958	-13	-18	2.37	2.20	.949	2.70	2.69	MVP-21
1983	ATL	NL	25	1B	1	0	0	1.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	18.00	2.00	.990	9.90	9.90	MVP-21
1984	ATL	NL	26	3B	32	32	29	266.0	85	21	61	3	6	.965	0	1	2.77	2.56	.943	2.79	2.78
1985	ATL	NL	27	1B	87	85	75	746.1	950	892	58	0	105	1.000	-1	-2	11.46	10.92	.993	10.06	10.05
1985	ATL	NL	27	3B	40	40	23	319.0	97	25	61	11	6	.887	-9	-35	2.43	2.15	.948	2.88	2.88
1986	ATL	NL	28	1B	139	137	128	1187.2	1488	1378	102	8	138	.995	-7	-7	11.22	10.65	.992	9.94	9.95
1988	STL	NL	30	1B	57	57	44	488.2	508	463	40	5	39	.990	-3	-8	9.26	8.82	.991	9.96	9.98
	8 Seasons			3B	684	677	500	5703.0	1801	490	1214	97	104	.946	-48	-10	2.69	2.49	.949	2.84	2.83
	6 Seasons			1B	330	321	280	2786.0	3397	3151	226	20	314	.994	-14	-6	10.91	10.23	.992	9.97	9.97
	10 Seasons			TOT	1014	998	780	8489.0	5198	3641	1440	117	418	.977	-62	-9	5.39	5.01	.977	5.18	5.16

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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
1978	ATL	NL	20	3B	-2	-3	-2	-3	1	0
1979	ATL	NL	21	3B	-10	-18	-9	-4	-5	-1
1979	ATL	NL	21	1B	-3	-9	-3	-3	0	0
1980	ATL	NL	22	3B	4	5	3	2	1	1
1980	ATL	NL	22	1B	0	180	0	0	0	0
1981	ATL	NL	23	3B	-4	-8	-4	3	-7	0
1982	ATL	NL	24	3B	-13	-14	-13	-6	-8	0
1983	ATL	NL	25	3B	-13	-18	-13	-9	-4	0
1983	ATL	NL	25	1B	0	0	0	0	0
1984	ATL	NL	26	3B	0	1	0	0	-0	0
1985	ATL	NL	27	1B	-1	-2	-1	0	-2	0
1985	ATL	NL	27	3B	-9	-35	-9	-5	-4	0
1986	ATL	NL	28	1B	-7	-7	-7	-3	-4	0
1988	STL	NL	30	1B	-3	-8	-3	-2	-2	0
	8 Seasons			3B	-48	-10	-48	-22	-26	0
	6 Seasons			1B	-14	-6	-14	-8	-7	0
	10 Seasons			TOT	-62	-9	-62	-29	-33	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	3B	PH
1978	ATL	NL	20	89	88	89	89	0	89	0
1979	ATL	NL	21	121	120	121	121	45	82	1
1980	ATL	NL	22	124	119	124	121	1	121	5
1981	ATL	NL	23	79	79	79	79	0	79	0
1982	ATL	NL	24	140	137	140	137	0	137	3
1983	ATL	NL	25	104	104	104	104	1	104	0
1984	ATL	NL	26	32	32	32	32	0	32	0
1985	ATL	NL	27	130	125	130	127	87	40	5
1986	ATL	NL	28	141	137	141	139	139	0	4
1988	STL	NL	30	60	57	60	57	57	0	3
	10 Seasons			1020	998	1020	1006	330	684	21

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 -- 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%
1978	ATL	NL	20	3356	64%	82%	27%	264	91%	1	79	58	12	9	188	153	24	1	8	13	0	12	1	9	17	8	2	10	7	6	1	7	57%
1979	ATL	NL	21	3004	57%	83%	27%	205	89%	0	56	36	11	9	143	113	24	4	5	15	0	15	0	14	11	10	1	11	0	0	0	8	63%
1980	ATL	NL	22	4024	59%	85%	31%	345	88%	2	79	51	7	21	249	206	39	0	8	21	0	21	0	20	21	19	1	20	1	1	0	20	80%
1981	ATL	NL	23	2755	52%	85%	31%	188	86%	1	50	39	4	7	126	104	16	1	6	12	1	9	2	10	6	3	0	3	2	1	1	6	67%
1982	ATL	NL	24	4999	55%	83%	28%	328	89%	3	100	67	12	22	223	191	26	1	8	10	1	9	0	6	20	12	3	17	2	1	1	17	65%
1983	ATL	NL	25	3695	57%	81%	28%	234	86%	2	76	49	14	13	154	129	19	3	4	10	0	10	0	10	19	6	2	11	6	4	2	9	78%
1984	ATL	NL	26	1151	55%	84%	27%	76	95%	1	22	15	2	5	59	47	8	0	5	3	0	3	0	2	6	4	1	5	1	1	0	2	100%
1985	ATL	NL	27	1413	51%	82%	30%	82	89%	1	27	15	3	9	60	51	6	1	3	11	0	10	1	10	6	2	0	4	2	1	1	5	100%
	8 Seasons			24397	57%	83%	29%	1722	89%	11	489	330	65	95	1202	994	162	11	47	95	2	89	4	81	106	64	10	81	21	15	6	74	73%
	MLB Averages				59%	82%	28%		90%																								72%

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%
1979	ATL	NL	21	1532	59%	84%	31%	77	91%	0	417	15	395	7	37	23	16	2	1	3	7	0	7	0	4	33	1	1	0	30	1	3	1	2	2	100%
1980	ATL	NL	22	10	40%	90%	40%	3	67%	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1983	ATL	NL	25	3	100%	100%	67%	0		0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1985	ATL	NL	27	3262	56%	81%	31%	178	99%	1	883	26	848	9	95	60	47	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	102	2	1	0	98	4	4	0	4	14	100%
1986	ATL	NL	28	5090	55%	80%	36%	264	95%	4	1382	38	1317	26	120	101	70	14	6	2	8	2	4	2	4	138	4	2	0	127	7	11	3	8	16	94%
1988	STL	NL	30	2062	62%	82%	34%	92	92%	0	465	21	439	5	29	39	27	7	1	1	5	1	2	2	0	39	1	1	0	38	2	1	1	0	15	87%
	6 Seasons			11959	57%	81%	34%	614	95%	5	3151	100	3003	47	281	225	162	30	10	8	20	3	13	4	8	312	8	5	0	293	14	19	5	14	47	94%
	MLB Averages				59%	82%	28%		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

Hall of Fame 1994 BBWAA ()	All-Star Games 1982 *	Awards (yr lg award) 1978 NL Rookie of the Year	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1979 NL (28, 0%) 1980 NL (9, 12%) 1983 NL (21, 0%) 0.12 Career Shares (859th)
Putouts† s c a p y 1986 NL 1,378 (1st)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1986 NL 1,378 (1st)	Assists as 1B s c a p y 1986 NL 102 (4th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1986 NL 8 (5th)
Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1982 NL 137 (5th)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1982 NL 102 (4th)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1980 NL 23 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 1985 NL 11.46 (1st) 1986 NL 11.22 (1st)
Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1985 NL 10.92 (1st) 1986 NL 10.65 (1st)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1985 NL 1.000 (1st) 1986 NL .995 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y 1980 NL 4 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y 1978 NL 3.27 (1st) 1980 NL 3.10 (3rd) Career 2.69 (70th)
Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1978 NL 3.15 (2nd) 1980 NL 2.72 (4th)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1982 NL .970 (3rd) 1983 NL .958 (4th)	Salary s c a p y 1985 NL $1,500,000 (7th) 1986 NL $1,800,000 (7th)	Youngest s c a p y 1978 NL born 1957-08-06 (7th)

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