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Steve Lombardozzi

Stephen Paul Lombardozzi Sr.

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: April 26, 1960 in Malden, MA
School: University of Florida
Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 9th round of the 1981 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 12, 1985
Teams (by GP): Twins/Astros 1985-1990

Final Game: April 11, 1990
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1. Babe Ruth… #2. Ted Williams… #3. Willie Mays… #4. Ty Cobb… #5. Lou Gehrig… #6. Rogers Hornsby… #7. Stan Musial…

All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1. Babe Ruth… #2. Ted Williams… #3. Willie Mays… #4. Ty Cobb… #5. Lou Gehrig… #6. Rogers Hornsby… #7. Stan Musial…

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos
1981	21	MIN-min	Rk	65	297	246	48	79	13	2	6	38	9	1	46	28	.321	.431	.463	.894		114		2	2	1	2	ELZ · APPY
1982	22	MIN-min	A	122	521	441	81	131	24	1	6	67	14	4	64	41	.297	.380	.397	.777		175		1	5	10	3	VIS · CALL
1983	23	MIN-min	AA	137	593	492	76	143	23	6	3	52	11	6	83	51	.291	.397	.380	.777		187		7	6	5	1	ORL · SOUL
1984	24	MIN-min	AAA	119	432	385	57	96	15	1	9	31	3	0	37	57	.249	.318	.364	.681		140		2	7	1	0	TOL · IL
1985	25	MIN-min	AAA	118	506	451	55	119	21	3	14	48	10	8	48	51	.264	.335	.417	.752		188		0	7	0	2	TOL · IL
1985	25	MIN	AL	28	65	54	10	20	4	1	0	6	3	2	6	6	.370	.426	.481	.908	144	26	0	0	4	1	0	4
1986	26	MIN	AL	156	515	453	53	103	20	5	8	33	3	1	52	76	.227	.308	.347	.655	77	157	8	1	9	0	2	*4
1987	27	MIN	AL	136	479	432	51	103	19	3	8	38	5	1	33	66	.238	.298	.352	.650	70	152	10	4	9	1	1	*4
1988	28	MIN	AL	103	335	287	34	60	15	2	3	27	2	5	35	48	.209	.295	.307	.601	67	88	2	2	6	5	2	46/5
1989	29	HOU-min	AAA	114	464	401	66	103	21	2	5	46	9	3	55	62	.257	.347	.357	.704		143		2	3	3	6	TUC · PCL
1989	29	HOU	NL	21	41	37	5	8	3	1	1	3	0	0	4	9	.216	.293	.432	.725	108	16	0	0	0	0	1	4/5
1990	30	DET-HOU-min	AAA,AA	68	255	230	32	56	11	3	7	25	2	0	19	32	.243	.304	.409	.713		94		1	5	0	1	TOL,CBS · IL,SOUL
1990	30	HOU	NL	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	53	0	0	0	0	0	0
6 Seasons				446	1437	1264	153	294	61	12	20	107	13	9	131	206	.233	.307	.347	.654	76	439	20	7	28	7	6
162 Game Avg.				162	522	459	56	107	22	4	7	39	5	3	48	75	.233	.307	.347	.654	76	159	7	3	10	3	2

MIN (4 yrs)				423	1394	1226	148	286	58	11	19	104	13	9	126	196	.233	.307	.345	.652	75	423	20	7	28	7	5
HOU (2 yrs)				23	43	38	5	8	3	1	1	3	0	0	5	10	.211	.302	.421	.723	108	16	0	0	0	0	1

AL (4 yrs)				423	1394	1226	148	286	58	11	19	104	13	9	126	196	.233	.307	.345	.652	75	423	20	7	28	7	5
NL (2 yrs)				23	43	38	5	8	3	1	1	3	0	0	5	10	.211	.302	.421	.723	108	16	0	0	0	0	1

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos
1985	25	MIN	AL	65	3	0	0	0	9	1	2	15	1.5	6	0.6	0.9	$	4
1986	26	MIN	AL	515	-15	2	-1	-1	0	5	16	6	0.6	6	0.6	0.0	$75,000	*4
1987	27	MIN	AL	479	-17	-1	2	0	10	4	15	13	1.3	3	0.3	1.0	$105,000	*4
1988	28	MIN	AL	335	-13	0	-1	1	1	3	10	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$152,500	46/5
1989	29	HOU	NL	41	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0.2	1	0.1	0.1	$	4/5
1990	30	HOU	NL	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$222,500
6 Seasons				1437	-42	1	0	0	22	13	44	36	3.6	16	1.6	2.0	$555,000

MIN (4 yrs)				1394	-42	1	0	0	21	13	43	34	3.4	15	1.5	1.9	$332,500
HOU (2 yrs)				43	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0.2	1	0.1	0.1	$222,500

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	SH
1987	27	MIN	AL	ALCS	DET	W	5	18	15	2	4	0	0	1	2	2	.267	.353	.267	.620	4	1
1987	27	MIN	AL	WS	STL	W	6	19	17	3	7	1	1	4	2	2	.412	.474	.647	1.121	11	0
1 Season (2 Series)							11	37	32	5	11	1	1	5	4	4	.344	.417	.469	.885	15	1
1 ALCS							5	18	15	2	4	0	0	1	2	2	.267	.353	.267	.620	4	1
1 WS							6	19	17	3	7	1	1	4	2	2	.412	.474	.647	1.121	11	0

Standard Fielding

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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
1985	MIN	AL	25	2B	26	20	14	177.1	113	31	80	2	16	.982	9	62	5.63	4.27	.982	5.29	5.24
1986	MIN	AL	26	2B	155	140	117	1226.2	702	289	407	6	102	.991	0	0	5.11	4.49	.981	5.10	5.05
1987	MIN	AL	27	2B	133	127	106	1086.2	615	245	356	14	77	.977	10	11	4.98	4.52	.980	5.12	5.06
1988	MIN	AL	28	2B	90	74	64	671.0	356	140	211	5	47	.986	2	3	4.71	3.90	.982	5.12	5.08
1988	MIN	AL	28	SS	12	10	3	81.0	35	12	23	0	6	1.000	-0	-7	3.89	2.92	.971	4.69	4.65
1988	MIN	AL	28	3B	5	2	2	20.0	3	0	3	0	1	1.000	0	24	1.35	0.60	.953	2.70	2.68
1989	HOU	NL	29	2B	18	10	7	99.0	51	20	27	4	5	.922	1	10	4.27	2.61	.981	5.12	5.12
1989	HOU	NL	29	3B	1	0	0	2.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0	120	4.50	1.00	.940	2.70	2.70
	5 Seasons			2B	422	371	308	3260.2	1837	725	1081	31	247	.983	22	8	4.98	4.28	.981	5.12	5.07
	1 Season			SS	12	10	3	81.0	35	12	23	0	6	1.000	-0	-7	3.89	2.92	.971	4.69	4.65
	2 Seasons			3B	6	2	2	22.0	4	0	4	0	1	1.000	1	33	1.64	0.67	.950	2.70	2.68
	6 Seasons			TOT	440	383	313	3363.2	1876	737	1108	31	254	.983	22	8	4.94	4.19	.981	5.10	5.03

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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1986 AL 155 (2nd)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1987 AL 14 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y 1985 AL 9 (4th) 1987 AL 10 (2nd) Career 22 (62nd)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1986 AL .991 (1st)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1986 AL 155 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1987 AL 14 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1985 AL  9 (4th)
1987 AL  10 (2nd)
Career  22 (62nd)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1986 AL .991 (1st)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 5 (1535), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 1 (2891), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Batters

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Manny Alexander (971) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

June 8, 1981: Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 9th round of the 1981 amateur draft.
March 21, 1989: Traded by the Minnesota Twins to the Houston Astros for players to be named later. The Houston Astros sent Ramon Cedeno (minors) (September 16, 1989) and Gordon Farmer (minors) (September 16, 1989) to the Minnesota Twins to complete the trade.
May 28, 1990: Released by the Houston Astros.
June 9, 1990: Signed as a Free Agent with the Detroit Tigers.
October 15, 1990: Granted Free Agency.

The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources	Notes
1986	26	Minnesota Twins	$75,000	1986 USA Today survey	Includes $15,000 earned bonus
1987	27	Minnesota Twins	$105,000	Proofing corrections
1988	28	Minnesota Twins	$152,500	USA Today, 4/1/88

1990	30	Houston Astros	$222,500	USA Today

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$555,000

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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