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Dave McKay

David Lawrence McKay

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: March 14, 1950 in Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN
School: Creighton University (Omaha, NE)
Signed by the Minnesota Twins as an amateur free agent in 1971. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 22, 1975
Teams (by GP): BlueJays/Athletics/Twins 1975-1982
Agents: Randy Hendricks,Alan Hendricks, previously: Tom Reich [*]
Final Game: October 3, 1982
Relatives: Father of Cody McKay
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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
1975 MIN AL 25 3B 33 33 31 298.0 117 38 70 9 12 .923 -1 -6 3.26 3.27 .954 3.16 3.15
1976 MIN AL 26 3B 41 38 36 341.2 112 25 77 10 13 .911 -4 -12 2.69 2.49 .953 2.94 2.95
1976 MIN AL 26 SS 2 0 0 4.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 60 4.50 1.00 .965 4.95 5.00
1976 MIN AL 26 DH 1 0
1977 TOR AL 27 2B 40 35 33 314.2 188 75 107 6 21 .968 -2 -9 5.21 4.55 .978 5.42 5.38
1977 TOR AL 27 3B 32 31 30 274.1 102 32 65 5 7 .951 -1 -6 3.18 3.03 .957 2.97 2.96
1977 TOR AL 27 SS 20 13 12 127.1 70 34 33 3 8 .957 -4 -36 4.74 3.35 .963 4.82 4.79
1977 TOR AL 27 DH 2 0
1978 TOR AL 28 2B 140 137 133 1213.1 730 310 408 12 96 .984 -3 -3 5.33 5.13 .980 5.47 5.42
1978 TOR AL 28 SS 3 0 0 4.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -60 2.25 0.33 .960 4.95 4.87
1978 TOR AL 28 3B 2 2 2 16.0 5 0 5 0 0 1.000 -0 -23 2.81 2.50 .954 2.98 3.00
1978 TOR AL 28 DH 1 0
1979 TOR AL 29 2B 46 45 42 391.0 274 119 148 7 37 .974 3 9 6.15 5.80 .978 5.50 5.43
1979 TOR AL 29 3B 2 0 0 6.0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0 80 3.00 1.00 .955 3.00 3.05
1980 OAK AL 30 2B 62 45 39 435.0 256 99 151 6 24 .977 -2 -5 5.17 4.03 .981 5.60 5.58
1980 OAK AL 30 3B 54 30 27 303.2 109 39 66 4 5 .963 3 12 3.11 1.94 .951 3.01 3.00
1980 OAK AL 30 SS 10 6 6 70.0 42 17 25 0 4 1.000 2 27 5.40 4.20 .963 4.99 4.98
1981 OAK AL 31 3B 43 32 25 291.0 95 29 59 7 3 .926 1 3 2.72 2.05 .950 2.95 2.94
1981 OAK AL 31 2B 38 33 26 299.0 197 83 108 6 23 .970 -1 -4 5.75 5.03 .982 5.54 5.52
1981 OAK AL 31 SS 7 0 0 13.0 11 6 5 0 0 1.000 -0 -46 7.62 1.57 .967 4.98 4.99
1982 OAK AL 32 2B 59 36 35 380.2 222 99 116 7 22 .968 -6 -20 5.08 3.64 .981 5.35 5.33
1982 OAK AL 32 3B 16 15 13 134.0 58 19 35 4 1 .931 1 7 3.63 3.38 .954 3.07 3.05
1982 OAK AL 32 SS 3 0 0 5.0 4 2 2 0 1 1.000 -0 -24 7.20 1.33 .965 4.86 4.83
6 Seasons 2B 385 331 308 3033.2 1867 785 1038 44 223 .976 -12 -5 5.41 4.74 .980 5.48 5.44
8 Seasons 3B 223 181 164 1664.2 600 182 379 39 41 .935 -2 -1 3.03 2.52 .953 3.01 3.00
6 Seasons SS 45 19 18 223.1 130 61 66 3 13 .977 -3 -15 5.12 2.82 .963 4.89 4.88
8 Seasons TOT 653 531 490 4921.2 2597 1028 1483 86 277 .967 -16 -4 4.59 3.85 .973 4.62 4.57
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-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
1975 MIN AL 25 3B -1 -6 -2 -1 -2 1
1976 MIN AL 26 3B -4 -12 -4 -2 -3 1
1976 MIN AL 26 SS 0 60 0 0 0 0
1977 TOR AL 27 2B -2 -9 -2 -3 1 0
1977 TOR AL 27 3B -1 -6 -1 -1 -1 0
1977 TOR AL 27 SS -4 -36 -4 -2 -2 0
1978 TOR AL 28 2B -3 -3 -4 2 -6 1
1978 TOR AL 28 SS -0 -60 -0 -0 -0 0
1978 TOR AL 28 3B -0 -23 -0 0 -0 0
1979 TOR AL 29 2B 3 9 2 2 -0 1
1979 TOR AL 29 3B 0 80 0 0 0 0
1980 OAK AL 30 2B -2 -5 1 -0 2 -3
1980 OAK AL 30 3B 3 12 3 1 2 0
1980 OAK AL 30 SS 2 27 2 0 1 0
1981 OAK AL 31 3B 1 3 1 -1 2 0
1981 OAK AL 31 2B -1 -4 -0 -1 1 -1
1981 OAK AL 31 SS -0 -46 -0 -1 0 0
1982 OAK AL 32 2B -6 -20 -4 2 -6 -2
1982 OAK AL 32 3B 1 7 1 -0 1 0
1982 OAK AL 32 SS -0 -24 -0 0 -0 0
6 Seasons 2B -12 -5 -8 1 -9 -4
8 Seasons 3B -2 -1 -4 -3 -0 2
6 Seasons SS -3 -15 -3 -2 -0 0
8 Seasons TOT -16 -4 -14 -5 -10 -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
1975 MIN AL 25 33 33 33 33 0 0 0 0 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1976 MIN AL 26 45 38 45 43 0 0 0 0 41 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 2
1977 TOR AL 27 95 79 95 91 0 0 0 40 32 20 0 0 0 0 2 1 5
1978 TOR AL 28 145 139 145 144 0 0 0 140 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
1979 TOR AL 29 47 45 47 47 0 0 0 46 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1980 OAK AL 30 123 81 123 122 0 0 0 63 53 10 0 0 0 0 0 1 6
1981 OAK AL 31 79 65 79 77 0 0 0 39 44 7 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
1982 OAK AL 32 78 51 78 77 0 0 0 59 16 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
8 Seasons 645 531 645 634 0 0 0 387 223 45 0 0 0 0 4 12 19
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
1977 TOR AL 27 1370 59% 81% 27% 124 97% 0 73 29 29 15 106 91 14 0 4 6 0 4 2 3 21 10 3 7 1 21 8 13 0 0 0
1978 TOR AL 28 5304 62% 81% 25% 453 96% 1 307 95 138 75 404 334 59 0 9 12 2 7 3 6 95 33 18 29 3 87 32 53 6 3 3
1979 TOR AL 29 1733 60% 84% 29% 179 96% 2 120 49 52 19 147 117 24 1 5 7 1 5 1 5 39 12 7 16 1 36 17 19 3 1 2
1980 OAK AL 30 1865 47% 83% 26% 186 94% 0 103 42 41 20 153 121 26 0 5 6 1 4 1 4 26 4 5 10 0 21 10 10 5 4 1
1981 OAK AL 31 1261 50% 84% 24% 125 93% 4 82 24 32 26 109 84 19 4 3 6 1 4 1 4 24 10 2 7 0 23 7 14 0 0 0
1982 OAK AL 32 1717 57% 82% 24% 144 94% 1 99 33 48 19 118 96 18 0 0 7 1 6 0 5 22 10 3 6 1 20 7 13 1 0 1
6 Seasons 13250 58% 82% 25% 1211 95% 8 784 272 340 174 1037 843 160 5 26 44 6 30 8 27 227 79 38 75 6 208 81 122 15 8 7
MLB Averages 60% 82% 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%
1975 MIN AL 25 1255 55% 81% 28% 104 90% 2 37 27 4 6 71 48 15 3 2 9 0 8 1 9 12 7 1 10 2 1 1 1 100%
1976 MIN AL 26 1482 60% 81% 27% 109 87% 2 25 18 4 3 78 58 14 2 1 10 0 10 0 9 13 9 2 11 1 0 1 3 67%
1977 TOR AL 27 1196 53% 83% 28% 102 87% 0 31 28 0 3 64 52 9 0 3 5 0 4 1 4 7 4 0 5 1 1 0 2 100%
1978 TOR AL 28 83 71% 83% 16% 5 100% 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1979 TOR AL 29 26 62% 81% 46% 2 100% 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1980 OAK AL 30 1223 49% 82% 27% 96 93% 1 35 28 1 6 63 55 5 1 4 4 0 4 0 4 4 3 0 3 0 0 0 1 0%
1981 OAK AL 31 1239 51% 80% 25% 99 85% 3 30 23 3 4 59 47 10 2 2 7 0 7 0 6 3 2 1 3 0 0 0 2 100%
1982 OAK AL 32 575 60% 84% 27% 53 89% 0 19 12 2 5 34 29 4 0 2 4 0 4 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
8 Seasons 7079 55% 82% 27% 570 89% 8 177 136 14 27 376 296 57 8 14 39 0 37 2 35 40 26 4 33 4 2 2 11 82%
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 89% 68%

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
1976 MIN AL 26 15 60% 67% 13% 1 100% 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1977 TOR AL 27 572 54% 82% 27% 46 91% 0 34 14 12 8 32 24 7 0 1 3 0 3 0 2 8 2 1 2 0 2 7 3 4 0 0 0
1978 TOR AL 28 19 63% 68% 16% 2 50% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1980 OAK AL 30 298 58% 81% 23% 35 97% 0 17 12 4 1 25 17 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 2 0 0 4 2 2 1 1 0
1981 OAK AL 31 56 64% 75% 21% 3 100% 0 4 1 2 1 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1982 OAK AL 32 32 38% 75% 16% 3 67% 0 2 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
6 Seasons 992 56% 80% 25% 90 92% 0 59 28 20 11 63 45 14 0 2 3 0 3 0 2 14 3 1 5 0 2 12 5 7 1 1 0
MLB Averages 60% 82% 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

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1978 AL  140 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1978 AL  .984 (5th)

                           

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