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Don Mason

Donald Stetson Mason

Positions: Second Baseman, Pinch Hitter and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: December 20, 1944 in Boston, MA
Signed by the Washington Senators as an amateur free agent in 1965. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1966
Teams (by GP): Giants/Padres 1966-1973

Final Game: May 30, 1973
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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
1966 SFG NL 21 2B 9 0 0 27.0 21 10 9 2 1 .905 -2 -80 6.33 2.11 .978 5.33 5.33
1967 SFG NL 22 2B 2 1 0 9.0 3 0 3 0 0 1.000 0 53 3.00 1.50 .977 5.30 5.25
1968 SFG NL 23 2B 5 2 2 25.0 11 6 5 0 0 1.000 -0 -5 3.96 2.20 .977 5.22 5.22
1968 SFG NL 23 SS 4 0 0 7.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -86 2.57 0.50 .960 5.01 5.00
1968 SFG NL 23 3B 2 2 1 14.0 5 2 3 0 0 1.000 -0 -17 3.21 2.50 .954 2.96 2.95
1969 SFG NL 24 2B 51 41 37 408.0 273 122 139 12 36 .956 -1 -3 5.76 5.12 .974 5.19 5.15
1969 SFG NL 24 3B 21 15 10 135.0 51 10 35 6 0 .882 -1 -9 3.00 2.14 .946 2.92 2.90
1969 SFG NL 24 SS 7 1 0 19.1 10 3 5 2 1 .800 -1 -74 3.72 1.14 .963 4.93 4.90
1970 SFG NL 25 2B 14 2 1 40.1 20 11 8 1 1 .950 -2 -54 4.24 1.36 .979 5.31 5.30
1971 SDP NL 26 2B 90 75 75 714.2 434 188 231 15 47 .965 -8 -13 5.28 4.66 .978 5.47 5.46
1971 SDP NL 26 3B 3 3 1 17.0 4 1 2 1 0 .750 -0 -28 1.59 1.00 .950 2.81 2.80
1972 SDP NL 27 2B 3 2 2 19.0 13 3 6 4 0 .692 -2 -95 4.26 3.00 .978 5.35 5.37
1973 SDP NL 28 2B 1 0 0 3.0 4 1 2 1 1 .750 0 0 9.00 3.00 .980 5.40 5.50
8 Seasons 2B 175 123 117 1246.0 779 341 403 35 86 .955 -13 -13 5.37 4.25 .977 5.36 5.34
3 Seasons 3B 26 20 12 166.0 60 13 40 7 0 .883 -2 -12 2.87 2.04 .947 2.91 2.89
2 Seasons SS 11 1 0 26.1 12 4 6 2 1 .833 -2 -77 3.42 0.91 .962 4.96 4.94
8 Seasons TOT 212 144 129 1438.1 851 358 449 44 87 .948 -17 -14 5.05 3.81 .974 5.07 5.02
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
1966 SFG NL 21 2B -2 -80 -1 -1 0 -1
1967 SFG NL 22 2B 0 53 0 0 0 0
1968 SFG NL 23 2B -0 -5 -0 -0 0 0
1968 SFG NL 23 SS -0 -86 -0 -0 0 0
1968 SFG NL 23 3B -0 -17 -0 0 -0 0
1969 SFG NL 24 2B -1 -3 -2 -0 -2 1
1969 SFG NL 24 3B -1 -9 -1 -2 1 0
1969 SFG NL 24 SS -1 -74 -1 -1 -0 0
1970 SFG NL 25 2B -2 -54 -2 -0 -2 0
1971 SDP NL 26 2B -8 -13 -8 -2 -6 0
1971 SDP NL 26 3B -0 -28 -0 0 -0 0
1972 SDP NL 27 2B -2 -95 -2 -2 0 0
1973 SDP NL 28 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 2B -13 -13 -13 -5 -8 0
3 Seasons 3B -2 -12 -2 -2 0 0
2 Seasons SS -2 -77 -2 -2 -0 0
8 Seasons TOT -17 -14 -17 -8 -8 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1966 SFG NL 21 42 0 42 10 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 22
1967 SFG NL 22 4 1 4 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
1968 SFG NL 23 10 4 10 10 0 0 0 5 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
1969 SFG NL 24 104 57 104 76 0 0 0 51 21 7 0 0 0 0 0 22 15
1970 SFG NL 25 46 2 46 14 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 16
1971 SDP NL 26 113 78 113 91 0 0 0 90 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 12
1972 SDP NL 27 9 2 9 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3
1973 SDP NL 28 8 0 8 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
8 Seasons 336 144 336 207 0 0 0 176 26 11 0 0 0 0 0 87 74
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
1966 SFG NL 21 128 77% 85% 32% 12 92% 0 11 2 7 2 9 9 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1967 SFG NL 22 33 64% 79% 24% 4 75% 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1968 SFG NL 23 99 63% 91% 24% 12 83% 0 4 4 0 0 6 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1969 SFG NL 24 1744 67% 80% 29% 176 94% 0 112 49 43 20 141 122 15 0 4 12 0 10 2 10 35 16 4 6 3 31 10 21 3 2 1
1970 SFG NL 25 180 60% 83% 29% 12 75% 0 12 2 8 2 8 7 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1971 SDP NL 26 2787 65% 79% 27% 265 92% 1 172 61 74 37 208 176 27 1 3 15 0 15 0 12 45 16 8 12 4 41 17 24 3 1 1
1972 SDP NL 27 84 49% 73% 27% 12 67% 0 3 2 1 0 6 5 1 0 0 4 0 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1973 SDP NL 28 17 53% 71% 24% 4 75% 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 5072 66% 80% 28% 497 91% 1 315 121 133 61 383 327 47 1 7 35 0 30 5 28 83 33 13 19 7 75 28 47 6 3 2
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 94%

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%
1968 SFG NL 23 62 66% 76% 19% 5 100% 0 2 2 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1969 SFG NL 24 567 72% 78% 30% 48 88% 0 10 8 1 1 34 25 9 0 0 6 0 5 1 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1971 SDP NL 26 78 69% 79% 31% 2 100% 0 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 707 71% 78% 29% 55 89% 0 13 10 1 2 39 29 10 0 1 7 0 6 1 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 89% 66%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

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 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1968 SFG NL 23 28 68% 100% 36% 3 100% 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1969 SFG NL 24 79 59% 82% 18% 6 83% 0 3 1 1 1 5 4 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
2 Seasons 107 62% 87% 22% 9 89% 0 6 4 1 1 5 4 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 91%

* 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

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1971 NL  15 (3rd)

                                         

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