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Tommy Matchick

John Thomas Matchick

Positions: Shortstop, Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 173 lb.

Born: September 7, 1943 in Hazleton, PA
High School: Hazle Township (Hazle Township, PA)
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1962. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 2, 1967 (Age 23)
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Royals/Brewers/RedSox/Orioles 1967-1972

Final Game: October 3, 1972 (Age 29)
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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
1967 DET AL 23 SS 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 9.00 1.00 .960 4.50 4.60
1968 DET AL 24 SS 59 48 18 369.0 180 53 118 9 20 .950 1 2 4.17 2.90 .962 4.79 4.77
1968 DET AL 24 2B 13 10 8 93.2 60 25 34 1 7 .983 1 15 5.67 4.54 .977 5.11 5.08
1968 DET AL 24 1B 6 0 0 24.0 30 28 2 0 4 1.000 -0 -10 11.25 5.00 .989 9.60 9.53
1969 DET AL 25 2B 47 45 38 392.2 217 89 122 6 32 .972 5 15 4.84 4.49 .976 5.21 5.21
1969 DET AL 25 3B 27 24 19 210.2 61 15 45 1 2 .984 4 20 2.56 2.22 .955 3.16 3.15
1969 DET AL 25 SS 6 6 5 50.0 15 6 8 1 2 .933 -2 -53 2.52 2.33 .966 4.97 4.97
1969 DET AL 25 1B 2 1 1 12.0 12 11 1 0 0 1.000 0 10 9.00 6.00 .992 9.60 9.60
1970 TOT AL 26 SS 44 37 33 328.2 197 64 130 3 32 .985 7 26 5.31 4.41 .967 4.93 4.91
1970 TOT AL 26 2B 11 6 2 63.0 45 22 23 0 7 1.000 3 55 6.43 4.09 .979 5.36 5.32
1970 TOT AL 26 3B 3 0 0 9.1 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 -0 -13 2.89 1.00 .950 2.99 3.07
1970 BOS AL 26 3B 2 0 0 8.1 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.24 1.50 .950 3.02 3.05
1970 BOS AL 26 2B 1 1 0 8.0 3 1 2 0 1 1.000 0 45 3.38 3.00 .980 5.40 5.30
1970 BOS AL 26 SS 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 4.50 4.90
1970 KCR AL 26 SS 43 37 33 327.2 197 64 130 3 32 .985 7 26 5.33 4.51 .967 4.93 4.91
1970 KCR AL 26 2B 10 5 2 55.0 42 21 21 0 6 1.000 3 57 6.87 4.20 .979 5.35 5.32
1970 KCR AL 26 3B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 2.70 3.10
1971 MIL AL 27 3B 41 32 22 284.1 95 31 62 2 6 .979 4 17 2.94 2.27 .956 3.04 3.03
1971 MIL AL 27 2B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -240 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.30
1972 BAL AL 28 3B 3 2 1 21.0 7 2 4 1 0 .857 -0 -6 2.57 2.00 .954 3.00 2.97
4 Seasons SS 110 91 56 748.2 393 124 256 13 54 .967 5 9 4.57 3.45 .965 4.86 4.83
4 Seasons 3B 74 58 42 525.1 166 49 113 4 8 .976 7 17 2.78 2.19 .955 3.09 3.07
4 Seasons 2B 72 61 48 550.1 322 136 179 7 46 .978 9 19 5.15 4.38 .977 5.21 5.20
2 Seasons 1B 8 1 1 36.0 42 39 3 0 4 1.000 -0 -3 10.50 5.25 .990 9.60 9.55
6 Seasons TOT 264 211 147 1860.1 923 348 551 24 112 .974 22 14 4.35 3.41 .968 4.56 4.58
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1967 DET AL 23 SS 0 0 0 0 0 0
1968 DET AL 24 SS 1 2 1 -2 3 0
1968 DET AL 24 2B 1 15 1 -0 2 0
1968 DET AL 24 1B -0 -10 -0 -0 -0 0
1969 DET AL 25 2B 5 15 4 2 2 1
1969 DET AL 25 3B 4 20 4 0 3 0
1969 DET AL 25 SS -2 -53 -2 -1 -2 0
1969 DET AL 25 1B 0 10 0 0 0 0
1970 BOS AL 26 3B 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1970 BOS AL 26 2B 0 45 0 0 0 0
1970 BOS AL 26 SS -0 -120 -0 0 -0 0
1970 KCR AL 26 SS 7 26 6 4 2 1
1970 KCR AL 26 2B 3 57 3 2 0 0
1970 KCR AL 26 3B -0 -120 -0 0 -0
1971 MIL AL 27 3B 4 17 4 2 2 0
1971 MIL AL 27 2B -0 -240 -0 0 -0 0
1972 BAL AL 28 3B -0 -6 -0 0 -0 0
4 Seasons SS 5 9 4 2 3 1
4 Seasons 3B 7 17 7 2 5 0
4 Seasons 2B 9 19 8 4 4 1
2 Seasons 1B -0 -3 -0 0 -0 0
6 Seasons TOT 22 14 19 8 11 2
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1967 DET AL 23 8 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 2
1968 DET AL 24 80 58 80 73 0 0 6 13 0 59 0 0 0 0 0 16 1
1969 DET AL 25 94 76 94 81 0 0 2 47 27 6 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
1970 KCR AL 26 55 42 55 53 0 0 0 10 1 43 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1970 BOS AL 26 10 1 10 3 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1971 MIL AL 27 42 32 42 41 0 0 0 1 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1972 BAL AL 28 3 2 3 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 292 211 292 255 0 0 8 72 74 110 0 0 0 0 0 54 3
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

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
1967 DET AL 23 4 50% 100% 50% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1968 DET AL 24 1497 62% 72% 24% 139 89% 0 51 20 22 9 114 92 18 0 0 9 0 8 1 8 20 7 1 7 0 1 17 8 8 1 0 1
1969 DET AL 25 217 53% 75% 26% 12 83% 0 7 2 1 4 8 5 3 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
1970 KCR AL 26 1338 64% 79% 25% 151 93% 0 69 28 32 9 129 96 27 0 1 3 0 2 1 3 32 14 2 6 4 0 29 16 11 1 1 0
1970 BOS AL 26 5 40% 60% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 3061 62% 76% 25% 302 91% 0 128 50 56 22 251 193 48 0 3 13 0 11 2 12 54 23 3 13 4 1 48 26 19 2 1 1
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 91%

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
1968 DET AL 24 394 64% 80% 29% 39 95% 0 26 6 12 8 37 32 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 8 3 1 1 2 7 3 4 1 1 0
1969 DET AL 25 1653 64% 77% 23% 143 95% 0 94 31 39 24 125 105 13 0 2 6 0 6 0 5 33 11 5 7 3 27 11 16 5 2 2
1970 KCR AL 26 227 74% 82% 26% 34 100% 0 20 12 4 4 23 19 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 0 3 1 5 4 1 0 0 0
1970 BOS AL 26 33 55% 64% 15% 3 100% 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1971 MIL AL 27 5 60% 100% 40% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 2312 65% 78% 24% 219 96% 0 141 50 55 36 187 157 22 0 2 7 0 6 1 5 48 15 6 12 6 40 19 21 6 3 2
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 93%

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%
1969 DET AL 25 852 66% 75% 26% 68 96% 0 16 13 2 1 50 41 9 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 2 0 3 0 0 0 3 67%
1970 BOS AL 26 37 70% 73% 14% 3 100% 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1970 KCR AL 26 4 75% 50% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1971 MIL AL 27 1160 56% 82% 28% 95 94% 0 32 24 4 4 63 44 19 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 6 6 0 6 0 0 0 3 100%
1972 BAL AL 28 86 48% 81% 24% 7 86% 1 2 2 0 0 4 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 2139 60% 79% 27% 173 94% 1 51 40 6 5 119 88 30 1 1 4 0 4 0 4 9 8 0 9 0 0 0 6 83%
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 89% 65%

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%
1968 DET AL 24 98 54% 85% 28% 6 100% 0 28 2 26 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1969 DET AL 25 57 60% 70% 26% 4 100% 0 11 2 9 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 155 56% 79% 27% 10 100% 0 39 4 35 0 4 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 100%
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 94% 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 1916 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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