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Mike Laga

Michael Russell Laga

Positions: First Baseman and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: June 14, 1960 in Ridgewood, NJ
Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 1st round (17th pick) of the 1980 amateur draft (January). (All Transactions)
Debut: September 1, 1982
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Tigers/Giants 1982-1990

Final Game: October 3, 1990
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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
1982 DET AL 22 1B 19 16 13 154.1 168 163 4 1 18 .994 -0 -1 9.74 8.79 .992 9.85 9.81
1982 DET AL 22 DH 8 5
1983 DET AL 23 DH 6 5
1983 DET AL 23 1B 5 1 0 12.0 10 9 1 0 2 1.000 -0 -10 7.50 2.00 .992 9.90 9.82
1984 DET AL 24 1B 4 1 0 11.0 13 12 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 10.64 3.25 .991 9.74 9.68
1984 DET AL 24 DH 4 2
1985 DET AL 25 DH 5 5
1985 DET AL 25 1B 4 4 2 35.0 39 33 5 1 4 .974 1 38 9.77 9.50 .991 9.77 9.68
1986 TOT MLB 26 1B 28 22 17 203.2 228 207 21 0 19 1.000 3 19 10.08 8.14 .992 9.69 9.69
1986 DET AL 26 1B 12 11 10 99.0 105 98 7 0 10 1.000 1 10 9.55 8.75 .991 9.42 9.33
1986 DET AL 26 DH 2 1
1986 STL NL 26 1B 16 11 7 104.2 123 109 14 0 9 1.000 2 29 10.58 7.69 .992 9.94 9.95
1987 STL NL 27 1B 12 7 6 65.0 75 66 7 2 10 .973 -0 -9 10.11 6.08 .991 9.89 9.83
1988 STL NL 28 1B 37 24 23 240.1 310 293 17 0 26 1.000 1 5 11.61 8.38 .991 9.96 9.98
1989 SFG NL 29 1B 4 1 1 20.0 17 16 1 0 0 1.000 1 36 7.65 4.25 .992 9.76 9.75
1990 SFG NL 30 1B 10 3 2 43.0 38 33 5 0 4 1.000 1 31 7.95 3.80 .992 9.59 9.53
9 Seasons 1B 123 79 64 784.1 898 832 62 4 84 .996 7 10 10.26 7.27 .991 9.82 9.80
9 Seasons TOT 123 79 64 784.1 898 832 62 4 84 .996 7 10 10.26 7.27 .991 9.82 9.80
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
1982 DET AL 22 1B -0 -1 -0 -0 0 0
1983 DET AL 23 1B -0 -10 -0 0 -0 0
1984 DET AL 24 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1985 DET AL 25 1B 1 38 1 0 1 0
1986 DET AL 26 1B 1 10 1 1 0 0
1986 STL NL 26 1B 2 29 2 2 1 0
1987 STL NL 27 1B -0 -9 -0 -0 0 0
1988 STL NL 28 1B 1 5 1 1 -0 0
1989 SFG NL 29 1B 1 36 1 1 0 0
1990 SFG NL 30 1B 1 31 1 0 1 0
9 Seasons 1B 7 10 7 4 2 0
9 Seasons TOT 7 10 7 4 2 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1982 DET AL 22 27 21 27 19 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 4 0
1983 DET AL 23 12 6 12 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 0
1984 DET AL 24 9 3 9 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 0
1985 DET AL 25 9 9 9 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0
1986 STL NL 26 18 11 18 16 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1986 DET AL 26 15 12 15 12 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0
1987 STL NL 27 17 7 17 12 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1988 STL NL 28 41 24 41 37 0 0 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2
1989 SFG NL 29 17 1 17 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0
1990 SFG NL 30 23 3 23 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
9 Seasons 188 97 188 123 0 0 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 57 2
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%
1982 DET AL 22 668 56% 77% 28% 40 95% 0 164 16 148 0 18 4 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 18 0 0 0 17 0 1 1 0 0
1983 DET AL 23 56 61% 73% 20% 4 100% 0 9 0 9 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
1984 DET AL 24 50 60% 84% 30% 4 100% 0 12 0 11 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1985 DET AL 25 144 58% 76% 29% 10 100% 0 33 0 33 0 5 5 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1986 STL NL 26 420 67% 80% 31% 30 97% 0 112 7 101 4 10 13 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 1 0 9 1 0 0 0 2 50%
1986 DET AL 26 433 63% 78% 30% 22 95% 0 96 5 88 3 9 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 8 0 2 0 2 0
1987 STL NL 27 279 66% 78% 33% 17 88% 0 66 4 59 4 3 8 4 4 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 10 1 1 0 9 2 1 1 0 0
1988 STL NL 28 974 65% 81% 38% 54 98% 0 293 16 270 6 25 17 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 0 6 100%
1989 SFG NL 29 82 34% 76% 20% 4 100% 0 15 0 14 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1990 SFG NL 30 191 53% 78% 28% 10 90% 0 31 2 29 0 2 5 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 3297 61% 79% 32% 195 96% 0 831 50 762 19 81 62 45 10 0 1 4 1 2 1 2 83 1 3 0 79 4 4 2 2 10 90%
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.

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