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Mike LaValliere

Michael Eugene LaValliere (Spanky)

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: August 18, 1960 in Charlotte, NC
School: University of Massachusetts Lowell (Lowell, MA)
Signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent in 1981. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 9, 1984
Teams (by GP): Pirates/WhiteSox/Cardinals/Phillies 1984-1995
Agents: Randy Hendricks,Alan Hendricks [*]
Final Game: September 22, 1995
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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
1984 PHI NL 23 C 6 2 0 25.0 22 20 2 0 0 1.000 1 48 7.92 3.67 .986 6.52 6.52 0 0 0 1 100% 31% 0
1985 STL NL 24 C 12 11 10 96.0 53 48 5 0 3 1.000 1 12 4.97 4.42 .987 6.42 6.42 0 1 5 2 29% 30% 0
1986 STL NL 25 C 108 93 69 829.1 521 468 47 6 8 .988 7 10 5.59 4.77 .985 6.93 6.94 1 23 49 34 41% 32% 0
1987 PIT NL 26 C 112 99 78 864.1 659 584 70 5 11 .992 15 21 6.81 5.84 .987 6.94 6.90 2 29 68 56 45% 29% 1 GG
1988 PIT NL 27 C 114 105 90 937.2 628 565 55 8 6 .987 6 8 5.95 5.44 .987 6.56 6.57 4 35 88 48 35% 29% 1
1989 PIT NL 28 C 65 59 45 522.2 333 306 24 3 3 .991 -7 -16 5.68 5.08 .986 6.67 6.68 4 19 65 14 18% 32% 0
1990 PIT NL 29 C 95 87 64 751.0 519 478 36 5 6 .990 5 8 6.16 5.41 .987 6.65 6.61 3 21 68 36 35% 29% 0
1991 PIT NL 30 C 105 100 77 852.2 612 565 46 1 4 .998 -1 -1 6.45 5.82 .988 6.78 6.75 5 27 90 39 30% 33% 0
1992 PIT NL 31 C 92 87 67 767.0 486 421 62 3 6 .994 6 9 5.67 5.25 .991 6.67 6.67 4 26 71 44 38% 32% 2
1992 PIT NL 31 3B 1 0 0 1.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 120 9.00 1.00 .950 2.70 2.70
1993 TOT MLB 32 C 38 30 22 268.2 204 176 28 0 2 1.000 7 31 6.83 5.37 .991 6.57 6.51 5 15 9 24 73% 36% 2
1993 PIT NL 32 C 1 1 1 9.0 12 12 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -133 12.00 12.00 .989 6.70 6.70 1 1 1 0 0% 31% 0
1993 CHW AL 32 C 37 29 21 259.2 192 164 28 0 2 1.000 8 37 6.65 5.19 .991 6.56 6.50 4 14 8 24 75% 36% 2
1994 CHW AL 33 C 57 44 24 383.1 329 305 21 3 3 .991 1 3 7.65 5.72 .991 6.79 6.74 5 7 39 16 29% 31% 0
1995 CHW AL 34 C 46 30 18 268.0 223 202 20 1 1 .996 5 22 7.46 4.83 .990 6.74 6.67 1 13 14 16 53% 31% 1
12 Seasons C 850 747 564 6565.2 4589 4138 416 35 53 .992 46 8 6.24 5.36 .988 6.74 6.72 34 216 566 330 37% 31% 7
1 Season 3B 1 0 0 1.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 120 9.00 1.00 .950 2.70 2.70
12 Seasons TOT 851 747 564 6566.2 4590 4138 417 35 53 .992 46 8 6.24 5.35 .988 6.74 6.71 34 216 566 330 37% 31% 7
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
1984 PHI NL 23 C 1 48 1
1985 STL NL 24 C 1 12 1
1986 STL NL 25 C 7 10 7
1987 PIT NL 26 C 15 21 15
1988 PIT NL 27 C 6 8 6
1989 PIT NL 28 C -7 -16 -7
1990 PIT NL 29 C 5 8 5
1991 PIT NL 30 C -1 -1 -1
1992 PIT NL 31 C 6 9 6
1992 PIT NL 31 3B 0 120 0 0 0 0
1993 PIT NL 32 C -1 -133 -1
1993 CHW AL 32 C 8 37 8
1994 CHW AL 33 C 1 3 1
1995 CHW AL 34 C 5 22 5
12 Seasons C 46 8 46
1 Season 3B 0 120 0 0 0 0
12 Seasons TOT 46 8 0 0 0 0 46

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1984 PHI NL 23 6 2 6 6 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1985 STL NL 24 12 11 12 12 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1986 STL NL 25 110 93 110 108 0 108 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1987 PIT NL 26 121 99 121 112 0 112 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
1988 PIT NL 27 120 105 120 114 0 114 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1989 PIT NL 28 68 59 68 65 0 65 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1990 PIT NL 29 96 87 96 95 0 95 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1991 PIT NL 30 108 100 108 105 0 105 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1992 PIT NL 31 95 87 95 93 0 92 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1993 CHW AL 32 37 29 37 37 0 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1993 PIT NL 32 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1994 CHW AL 33 59 44 59 57 0 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1995 CHW AL 34 46 30 46 46 0 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
12 Seasons 879 747 879 851 0 850 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 51 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 -- 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%
1984 PHI NL 23 104 3.60 3.96 1 100% 0 0 19 1 0 0 18 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1985 STL NL 24 399 3.19 4.13 4 100% 0 0 48 2 1 2 43 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 0
1986 STL NL 25 3381 3.24 3.57 31 94% 0 0 467 19 2 15 431 47 10 1 0 8 6 0 2 4 1 8 1 1 2 4 100%
1987 PIT NL 26 3629 3.83 4.20 28 100% 2 0 579 24 1 14 540 68 3 0 0 11 5 0 2 3 0 12 0 1 1 1 100%
1988 PIT NL 27 3886 3.35 3.68 35 100% 1 0 564 25 1 15 523 57 7 1 1 6 8 0 1 7 0 7 1 0 3 7 100%
1989 PIT NL 28 2163 3.24 3.68 30 93% 0 0 309 20 2 6 281 22 7 0 0 2 3 1 1 1 0 3 0 1 1 5 100%
1990 PIT NL 29 3092 3.48 3.85 22 100% 0 0 479 19 1 12 446 34 4 0 0 4 5 0 1 4 0 6 0 1 1 2 100%
1991 PIT NL 30 3548 3.55 4.01 21 95% 0 0 565 13 0 15 537 46 6 1 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 1 5 80%
1992 PIT NL 31 3157 2.98 3.25 24 96% 0 0 421 9 4 2 406 62 11 3 0 7 3 1 0 2 0 6 0 1 1 12 92%
1993 CHW AL 32 1124 4.09 4.58 10 100% 0 0 164 7 0 1 156 28 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 100%
1993 PIT NL 32 40 3.00 4.00 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1994 CHW AL 33 1631 3.87 4.44 19 84% 0 0 305 12 0 4 289 22 3 0 0 1 3 0 2 1 0 3 0 1 1 6 67%
1995 CHW AL 34 1186 4.57 4.80 7 100% 0 0 202 4 0 2 196 20 3 0 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 100%
12 Seasons 27340 3.49 3.88 232 96% 3 0 4134 155 12 88 3878 413 60 6 1 50 35 2 9 24 1 55 2 7 12 48 92%
MLB Averages 3.99 4.44 94% 87%

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
1984 PHI NL 23 0 0 35 0 1 1 100% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1.16
1985 STL NL 24 0 1 153 5 2 2 29% 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 3 1.00 1.12
1986 STL NL 25 1 23 1106 49 34 27 41% 44 30 5 2 0 2 0 0 93 36 1.38 1.36
1987 PIT NL 26 2 29 1302 68 56 50 45% 60 51 8 5 0 0 1 0 127 58 1.44 1.28
1988 PIT NL 27 4 35 1360 88 48 37 35% 80 44 8 4 0 0 1 0 153 60 1.24 1.08
1989 PIT NL 28 4 19 730 65 14 12 18% 58 14 7 0 0 0 0 0 102 21 1.36 1.31
1990 PIT NL 29 3 21 1041 68 36 23 35% 57 32 11 3 0 1 0 0 115 41 1.14 1.50
1991 PIT NL 30 5 27 1266 90 39 28 30% 75 38 15 1 0 0 0 0 145 42 1.33 1.27
1992 PIT NL 31 4 26 1163 71 44 35 38% 60 41 11 2 0 1 2 0 122 49 1.56 1.17
1993 CHW AL 32 4 14 459 8 24 20 75% 8 19 0 3 0 2 2 2 35 23 1.27 1.24
1993 PIT NL 32 1 1 14 1 0 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.44
1994 CHW AL 33 5 7 623 39 16 15 29% 34 13 5 2 0 1 0 0 60 19 1.33 1.34
1995 CHW AL 34 1 13 465 14 16 12 53% 12 12 2 3 0 1 1 1 41 16 1.34 1.58
12 Seasons 34 216 9717 566 330 262 37% 494 297 72 25 0 8 7 3 1006 369 1.34 1.28
MLB Averages 32% 1.29 1.27

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%
1992 PIT NL 31 6 17% 67% 17% 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
1 Season 6 17% 67% 17% 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
MLB Averages 58% 80% 31% 88% 70%

* 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

Gold Gloves
1987 NL (C)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1987 NL  15 (2nd)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
1988 NL  88 (4th)
1991 NL  90 (4th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
1987 NL  56 (2nd)
1988 NL  48 (3rd)
1991 NL  39 (5th)
1992 NL  44 (5th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1986 NL  41.0 (3rd)
1987 NL  45.2 (1st)
1992 NL  38.3 (5th)
1995 AL  53.3 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1986 NL  7 (2nd)
1987 NL  15 (1st)
1988 NL  6 (4th)
1990 NL  5 (3rd)
1992 NL  6 (3rd)
1993 AL  8 (2nd)
1995 AL  5 (5th)
Career  46 (21st)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
1994 AL  7.65 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1986 NL  .988 (5th)
1987 NL  .992 (2nd)
1990 NL  .990 (3rd)
1991 NL  .998 (1st)
1992 NL  .994 (5th)
Career  .992 (34th)

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