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Barry Lyons

Barry Stephen Lyons

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: June 3, 1960 in Biloxi, MS
School: Delta State University (Cleveland, MS)
Drafted by the New York Mets in the 15th round of the 1982 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1986
Teams (by GP): Mets/WhiteSox/Dodgers/Angels 1986-1995

Final Game: October 1, 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
1986 NYM NL 26 C 3 2 1 20.0 17 16 0 1 0 .941 -1 -60 7.20 5.33 .985 6.93 6.93 0 0 6 0 0% 32% 0
1987 NYM NL 27 C 49 30 27 312.0 244 223 17 4 0 .984 -4 -15 6.92 4.90 .987 6.94 6.90 4 10 39 11 22% 29% 0
1988 NYM NL 28 C 32 14 13 175.1 140 129 8 3 0 .979 -2 -14 7.03 4.28 .987 6.56 6.57 5 9 23 8 26% 29% 1
1988 NYM NL 28 1B 1 0 0 3.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -80 6.00 2.00 .990 9.90 10.00
1989 NYM NL 29 C 76 61 48 556.0 502 463 29 10 4 .980 -5 -11 7.96 6.47 .986 6.67 6.68 5 24 55 20 27% 32% 2
1990 TOT NL 30 C 25 22 17 196.1 199 183 12 4 1 .980 -4 -24 8.94 7.80 .987 6.65 6.61 2 3 36 7 16% 29% 0
1990 NYM NL 30 C 23 22 17 191.1 196 180 12 4 1 .980 -4 -25 9.03 8.35 .987 6.65 6.61 2 3 36 7 16% 29% 0
1990 LAD NL 30 C 2 0 0 5.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 5.40 1.50 .987 6.66 6.60 0 0 0 0 0
1991 LAD NL 31 C 6 1 1 15.2 13 12 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 7.47 2.17 .988 6.78 6.75 0 1 1 0 0% 33% 0
1991 CAL AL 31 1B 2 1 1 10.0 11 10 1 0 0 1.000 0 36 9.90 5.50 .992 9.72 9.75
1995 CHW AL 35 C 16 9 8 84.2 75 64 10 1 2 .987 0 0 7.87 4.63 .990 6.74 6.67 4 2 15 6 29% 31% 2
1995 CHW AL 35 DH 6 3
1995 CHW AL 35 1B 4 4 3 35.0 38 33 4 1 4 .974 0 0 9.51 9.25 .993 9.62 9.50
7 Seasons C 207 139 115 1360.0 1190 1090 77 23 8 .981 -16 -14 7.72 5.64 .987 6.72 6.71 20 49 175 52 23% 30% 5
3 Seasons 1B 7 5 4 48.0 51 44 6 1 4 .980 0 3 9.38 7.14 .993 9.66 9.64
7 Seasons TOT 214 144 119 1408.0 1241 1134 83 24 12 .981 -16 -14 7.78 5.69 .987 6.82 6.81 20 49 175 52 23% 30% 5
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
1986 NYM NL 26 C -1 -60 -1
1987 NYM NL 27 C -4 -15 -4
1988 NYM NL 28 C -2 -14 -2
1988 NYM NL 28 1B -0 -80 -0 0 -0 0
1989 NYM NL 29 C -5 -11 -5
1990 NYM NL 30 C -4 -25 -4
1990 LAD NL 30 C 0 0 0
1991 LAD NL 31 C 0 0 0
1991 CAL AL 31 1B 0 36 0 0 0 0
1995 CHW AL 35 C 0 0 0
1995 CHW AL 35 1B 0 0 0 -0 0 0
7 Seasons C -16 -14 -16
3 Seasons 1B 0 3 0 -0 1 0
7 Seasons TOT -16 -14 0 -0 1 0 -16

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1986 NYM NL 26 6 2 6 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1987 NYM NL 27 53 30 53 49 0 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
1988 NYM NL 28 50 14 50 33 0 32 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 1
1989 NYM NL 29 79 61 79 76 0 76 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1990 NYM NL 30 24 22 24 23 0 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1990 LAD NL 30 3 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1991 LAD NL 31 9 1 9 6 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1991 CAL AL 31 2 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1995 CHW AL 35 27 16 27 20 0 16 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0
7 Seasons 253 147 253 214 0 207 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 52 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%
1986 NYM NL 26 81 0.45 1.35 3 100% 0 0 16 3 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1987 NYM NL 27 1329 3.66 4.21 9 100% 0 0 223 5 0 7 211 17 3 0 0 2 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 100%
1988 NYM NL 28 723 2.16 2.82 11 91% 0 0 128 8 0 4 116 8 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1989 NYM NL 29 2326 3.37 3.74 34 88% 0 1 465 25 0 7 433 29 3 0 0 5 10 0 2 8 0 4 0 1 1 10 90%
1990 NYM NL 30 786 3.20 3.39 11 91% 0 0 180 8 1 1 170 12 1 1 0 4 4 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 100%
1990 LAD NL 30 24 1.80 1.80 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1991 LAD NL 31 72 4.60 4.60 1 100% 0 0 12 1 1 0 10 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
1995 CHW AL 35 417 7.02 7.55 3 67% 0 0 64 0 0 3 61 10 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 2 50%
7 Seasons 5758 3.45 3.88 72 90% 0 1 1091 50 2 22 1017 77 10 1 0 12 23 0 3 20 0 8 0 2 3 19 89%
MLB Averages 4.02 4.46 94% 86%

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
1986 NYM NL 26 0 0 28 6 0 0 0% 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 1.28
1987 NYM NL 27 4 10 501 39 11 10 22% 35 9 4 0 0 2 0 0 62 14 1.25 1.14
1988 NYM NL 28 5 9 258 23 8 7 26% 20 6 3 2 0 0 1 1 42 9 2.01 1.89
1989 NYM NL 29 5 24 827 55 20 17 27% 50 16 4 2 1 2 2 0 112 21 1.53 1.28
1990 NYM NL 30 2 3 280 36 7 6 16% 33 5 3 2 0 0 0 0 47 9 1.47 1.47
1990 LAD NL 30 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1991 LAD NL 31 0 1 32 1 0 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1.49
1995 CHW AL 35 4 2 198 15 6 6 29% 12 6 3 0 0 0 2 0 23 8 1.48 1.09
7 Seasons 20 49 2135 175 52 46 23% 157 42 17 6 1 4 5 1 296 61 1.51 1.35
MLB Averages 32% 1.30 1.27

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%
1988 NYM NL 28 14 43% 79% 21% 1 0% 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1991 CAL AL 31 44 39% 82% 32% 4 100% 0 10 0 9 1 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1995 CHW AL 35 134 69% 79% 31% 9 89% 1 34 3 31 0 1 4 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 1 0 4 2 0 0 0 1 100%
3 Seasons 192 60% 80% 30% 14 86% 1 45 3 41 1 4 6 2 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 1 0 4 2 0 0 0 1 100%
MLB Averages 58% 80% 32% 93% 85%

* 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

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Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1989 NL  10 (5th)

                                         

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