Bobby Knoop

Robert Frank Knoop

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: October 18, 1938 in Sioux City, IA
High School: Montebello HS (Montebello, CA)
Signed by the Milwaukee Braves as an amateur free agent in 1956. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 13, 1964
Teams (by GP): Angels/WhiteSox/Royals 1964-1972

Final Game: September 20, 1972
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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
1964	LAA	AL	25	2B	161	156	131	1358.2	899	357	522	20	123	.978	27	23	5.82	5.46	.980	5.17	5.16
1965	CAL	AL	26	2B	142	131	117	1159.2	755	331	402	22	89	.971	3	3	5.69	5.16	.978	5.07	5.06	MVP-24
1966	CAL	AL	27	2B	161	160	152	1422.2	886	381	488	17	135	.981	16	13	5.50	5.40	.975	5.09	5.09	AS,MVP-18,GG
1967	CAL	AL	28	2B	159	153	138	1346.1	789	386	392	11	91	.986	1	1	5.20	4.89	.979	4.95	4.96	GG
1968	CAL	AL	29	2B	151	146	130	1268.0	790	350	425	15	94	.981	13	12	5.50	5.13	.977	5.11	5.08	GG
1969	TOT	AL	30	2B	131	124	108	1083.1	733	335	386	12	90	.984	11	12	5.99	5.50	.976	5.21	5.21
1969	CAL	AL	30	2B	27	24	19	210.1	133	64	66	3	14	.977	2	13	5.56	4.81	.976	5.21	5.21
1969	CHW	AL	30	2B	104	100	89	873.0	600	271	320	9	76	.985	9	12	6.09	5.68	.976	5.21	5.21
1970	CHW	AL	31	2B	126	117	108	1030.0	690	276	403	11	102	.984	0	0	5.93	5.39	.979	5.35	5.32
1971	KCR	AL	32	2B	52	41	36	398.0	216	89	120	7	31	.968	-2	-6	4.73	4.02	.980	5.31	5.28
1971	KCR	AL	32	3B	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		2.70	3.00
1972	KCR	AL	33	2B	33	22	14	228.0	145	61	80	4	24	.972	-2	-13	5.57	4.27	.977	5.17	5.14
1972	KCR	AL	33	3B	4	0	0	7.0	0	0	0	0	0		-1	-120	0.00	0.00		2.96	2.95
	9 Seasons			2B	1116	1050	934	9294.2	5903	2566	3218	119	779	.980	66	9	5.60	5.18	.978	5.14	5.13
	2 Seasons			3B	5	0	0	8.0	0	0	0	0	0		-1	-105	0.00	0.00		2.92	2.96
	9 Seasons			TOT	1121	1050	934	9302.2	5903	2566	3218	119	779	.980	66	8	5.60	5.16	.978	5.13	5.12

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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp
1964	LAA	AL	25	2B	27	23	25	17	7	2
1965	CAL	AL	26	2B	3	3	3	5	-2	0
1966	CAL	AL	27	2B	16	13	9	0	8	7
1967	CAL	AL	28	2B	1	1	1	8	-6	0
1968	CAL	AL	29	2B	13	12	11	9	2	2
1969	CAL	AL	30	2B	2	13	2	2	0	0
1969	CHW	AL	30	2B	9	12	8	2	5	1
1970	CHW	AL	31	2B	0	0	1	2	-0	-1
1971	KCR	AL	32	2B	-2	-6	-3	-0	-3	1
1971	KCR	AL	32	3B	0	0	0	0	0
1972	KCR	AL	33	2B	-2	-13	-3	-3	-1	1
1972	KCR	AL	33	3B	-1	-120	-1	0	-1
	9 Seasons			2B	66	9	53	42	11	13
	2 Seasons			3B	-1	-105	-1	0	-1
	9 Seasons			TOT	66	8	53	42	11	13

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	PH	PR
1964	LAA	AL	25	162	156	162	161	161	0	1	1
1965	CAL	AL	26	142	131	142	142	142	0	0	0
1966	CAL	AL	27	161	160	161	161	161	0	0	0
1967	CAL	AL	28	159	153	159	159	159	0	1	0
1968	CAL	AL	29	152	146	152	151	151	0	1	0
1969	CHW	AL	30	104	100	104	104	104	0	1	1
1969	CAL	AL	30	27	24	27	27	27	0	0	0
1970	CHW	AL	31	130	117	130	126	126	0	4	0
1971	KCR	AL	32	72	41	72	53	52	1	20	1
1972	KCR	AL	33	44	22	44	37	33	4	9	0
	9 Seasons			1153	1050	1153	1121	1116	5	37	3

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 -- 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
1964	LAA	AL	25	5652	58%	77%	30%	629	95%	0	359	119	195	47	536	455	69	2	7	20	2	16	2	13	126	37	15	42	13	117	56	61	6	2	3
1965	CAL	AL	26	4855	62%	79%	28%	480	94%	0	321	120	146	55	400	339	46	3	8	22	0	20	2	14	90	37	15	22	6	82	28	54	7	5	2
1966	CAL	AL	27	5958	65%	81%	28%	606	94%	0	387	164	169	55	490	407	71	0	3	17	2	13	2	10	135	47	20	44	10	125	54	70	8	4	4
1967	CAL	AL	28	5589	63%	79%	26%	531	94%	2	379	167	132	81	400	346	43	2	4	11	2	8	1	6	93	31	21	20	3	81	23	56	8	6	2
1968	CAL	AL	29	5264	62%	79%	27%	531	92%	0	343	129	138	76	417	355	55	0	6	15	1	13	1	11	93	23	20	26	8	83	35	47	6	2	4
1969	CHW	AL	30	3784	68%	81%	31%	369	93%	1	275	85	146	44	320	276	33	3	1	9	0	9	0	4	77	26	25	10	8	71	18	51	5	3	2
1969	CAL	AL	30	870	66%	81%	29%	89	92%	0	60	24	30	6	66	57	8	0	1	3	0	2	1	2	13	5	3	3	0	12	3	8	1	0	1
1970	CHW	AL	31	4465	64%	82%	32%	441	94%	1	269	87	136	46	396	327	53	4	9	11	0	11	0	7	103	35	17	27	4	90	34	55	8	5	3
1971	KCR	AL	32	1672	61%	82%	30%	145	94%	1	91	29	39	25	123	96	23	0	2	7	2	4	1	5	31	10	3	13	3	30	16	13	1	1	0
1972	KCR	AL	33	986	63%	82%	28%	94	97%	0	62	25	30	6	84	76	6	0	1	4	2	0	2	0	24	8	6	5	3	23	8	15	1	0	1
	9 Seasons			39095	63%	80%	29%	3915	94%	5	2546	949	1161	441	3232	2734	407	14	42	119	11	96	12	72	785	259	145	212	58	714	275	430	51	28	22
	MLB Averages				64%	79%	28%		93%

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%
1971	KCR	AL	32	5	40%	100%	40%	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1972	KCR	AL	33	29	59%	90%	21%	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			34	56%	91%	24%	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				64%	79%	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

All-Star Games 1966 (2B)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1965 AL (24, 1%) 1966 AL (18, 2%) 0.03 Career Shares (1251st)	Gold Gloves 1966 AL (2B) 1967 AL (2B) 1968 AL (2B) All multiple winners	Assists† s c a p y 1964 AL 522 (1st) 1966 AL 488 (3rd)
Total Zone Runs† s c a p y 1964 AL 27 (2nd)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1964 AL 161 (1st) 1965 AL 142 (3rd) 1966 AL 161 (1st) 1967 AL 159 (1st) 1968 AL 151 (1st) 1969 AL 131 (4th) Career 1,116 (96th)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1964 AL 357 (3rd) 1965 AL 331 (3rd) 1966 AL 381 (1st) 1967 AL 386 (1st) 1968 AL 350 (2nd) 1969 AL 335 (4th) Career 2,566 (90th)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1964 AL 522 (1st) 1965 AL 402 (3rd) 1966 AL 488 (1st) 1967 AL 392 (2nd) 1968 AL 425 (2nd) 1969 AL 386 (3rd) 1970 AL 403 (3rd) Career 3,218 (88th)
Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1964 AL 20 (1st) 1965 AL 22 (1st) 1966 AL 17 (2nd) 1967 AL 11 (5th) 1968 AL 15 (4th)	Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y 1964 AL 27 (1st) 1966 AL 16 (1st) 1968 AL 13 (1st) 1969 AL 11 (1st) Career 66 (10th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y 1964 AL 5.82 (1st) 1965 AL 5.69 (1st) 1966 AL 5.50 (2nd) 1967 AL 5.20 (2nd) 1968 AL 5.50 (3rd) 1969 AL 5.99 (1st) 1970 AL 5.93 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1964 AL 5.46 (1st) 1965 AL 5.16 (2nd) 1966 AL 5.40 (1st) 1967 AL 4.89 (2nd) 1968 AL 5.13 (2nd) 1969 AL 5.50 (1st) 1970 AL 5.39 (3rd)
Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1966 AL .981 (4th) 1967 AL .986 (2nd) 1968 AL .981 (4th) 1969 AL .984 (4th) 1970 AL .984 (5th)

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