Hensley Meulens

Hensley Filemon Acasio Meulens (Bam-Bam)

Positions: Leftfielder, First Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: June 23, 1967 in Willemstad, Curacao
High School: Curacao (Curacao, AN)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1985. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 23, 1989
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Expos/Diamondbacks 1989-1998
Agents: Dennis Gilbert [*]
Final Game: May 14, 1998
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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
1989	NYY	AL	22	3B	8	8	7	71.0	32	5	23	4	1	.875	2	27	3.55	3.50	.943	2.73	2.70
1990	NYY	AL	23	LF	23	22	17	197.1	55	50	3	2	1	.964	-3	-17	2.42	2.30	.978	2.19	2.16
1990	NYY	AL	23	OF	23	22	17	197.1	54	49	3	2	1	.963	-3	-17	2.37	2.26	.981	2.39	2.36
1991	NYY	AL	24	OF	73	63	52	564.1	153	144	4	5	1	.967	-15	-31	2.36	2.03	.983	2.37	2.37
1991	NYY	AL	24	LF	61	52	43	459.1	123	115	3	5	0	.959	-17	-45	2.31	1.93	.978	2.17	2.16
1991	NYY	AL	24	RF	13	11	9	105.0	30	29	1	0	1	1.000	3	30	2.57	2.31	.980	2.19	2.19
1991	NYY	AL	24	DH	12	12
1991	NYY	AL	24	1B	7	3	1	34.0	37	35	1	1	6	.973	-1	-28	9.53	5.14	.992	9.74	9.74
1992	NYY	AL	25	3B	2	1	1	12.0	3	0	3	0	2	1.000	0	40	2.25	1.50	.950	2.78	2.75
1993	NYY	AL	26	OF	24	14	7	124.2	27	27	0	0	0	1.000	3	27	1.95	1.13	.983	2.41	2.39
1993	NYY	AL	26	LF	23	14	7	123.2	29	28	1	0	1	1.000	3	27	2.11	1.26	.984	2.23	2.21
1993	NYY	AL	26	1B	3	1	0	7.0	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	6.43	1.67	.992	9.51	9.47
1993	NYY	AL	26	3B	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.70
1993	NYY	AL	26	RF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.20
1997	MON	NL	30	LF	8	5	2	43.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-28	0.84	0.50	.980	1.95	1.92
1997	MON	NL	30	OF	8	5	2	43.0	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-28	1.26	0.75	.980	2.13	2.12
1997	MON	NL	30	1B	3	1	0	9.2	9	9	0	0	1	1.000	-0	-25	8.38	3.00	.993	9.59	9.47
1998	ARI	NL	31	OF	4	4	0	25.1	7	6	1	0	0	1.000	1	43	2.49	1.75	.980	2.17	2.15
1998	ARI	NL	31	RF	4	4	0	25.1	6	5	1	0	0	1.000	1	43	2.13	1.50	.977	2.06	2.08
	5 Seasons			OF	132	108	78	954.2	247	232	8	7	2	.972	-15	-18	2.26	1.82	.982	2.36	2.35
	4 Seasons			LF	115	93	69	823.1	211	197	7	7	2	.967	-18	-27	2.23	1.77	.979	2.17	2.15
	3 Seasons			RF	18	15	9	131.1	36	34	2	0	1	1.000	3	32	2.47	2.00	.979	2.16	2.17
	3 Seasons			1B	13	5	1	50.2	51	49	1	1	7	.980	-1	-24	8.88	3.85	.992	9.68	9.62
	3 Seasons			3B	11	9	8	84.0	35	5	26	4	3	.886	2	29	3.32	2.82	.944	2.73	2.71
	7 Seasons			TOT	156	122	87	1089.1	333	286	35	12	12	.964	-14	-15	2.65	2.06	.980	2.73	2.98
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof
1989	NYY	AL	22	3B	2	27	2	2	0	0
1990	NYY	AL	23	LF	-3	-17	-5	-2	-3		2
1991	NYY	AL	24	LF	-17	-45	-15	-9	-7		-2
1991	NYY	AL	24	RF	3	30	2	0	1		1
1991	NYY	AL	24	1B	-1	-28	-1	0	-1	0
1992	NYY	AL	25	3B	0	40	0	0	0	0
1993	NYY	AL	26	LF	3	27	3	2	1		0
1993	NYY	AL	26	1B	0	0	0	0	0
1993	NYY	AL	26	3B	0	0	0	0	0
1993	NYY	AL	26	RF	0	0	0	0	0
1997	MON	NL	30	LF	-1	-28	-1	-2	1		0
1997	MON	NL	30	1B	-0	-25	-0	-0	0	0
1998	ARI	NL	31	RF	1	43	-0	-0	0		1
	4 Seasons			LF	-18	-27	-18	-11	-7		0
	3 Seasons			RF	3	32	2	0	1		2
	3 Seasons			1B	-1	-24	-1	-0	-1	0
	3 Seasons			3B	2	29	2	2	0	0
	7 Seasons			TOT	-14	-15	-16	-9	-7	0	2

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	3B	LF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR
1989	NYY	AL	22	8	8	8	8	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0
1990	NYY	AL	23	23	22	23	23	0	0	23	0	23	0	0	0
1991	NYY	AL	24	96	78	96	80	7	0	61	13	74	12	12	1
1992	NYY	AL	25	2	1	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
1993	NYY	AL	26	30	15	30	28	3	1	23	1	24	0	9	3
1997	MON	NL	30	16	6	16	11	3	0	8	0	8	0	7	1
1998	ARI	NL	31	7	4	7	4	0	0	0	4	4	0	3	0
	7 Seasons			182	134	182	156	13	11	115	18	133	12	31	5

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 -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1990	NYY	AL	23	2	0	2	0	2	3	0	1	0	2	7	7	0	4	1	1	3	3	0	3	0	1	3	2	0	20	13	65.0%	5	2	10.0%	1	834	58%	76%	39%	110	47%
1991	NYY	AL	24	5	0	4	1	1	3	0	1	0	1	15	9	0	9	3	0	12	4	0	8	3	0	12	11	0	56	30	53.6%	26	0	0.0%	3	1976	58%	80%	40%	198	59%
1993	NYY	AL	26	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	8	5	0	3	1	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	1	1	0	15	9	60.0%	6	0	0.0%	1	520	63%	80%	37%	59	47%
1997	MON	NL	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	5	62.5%	3	0	0.0%	0	193	56%	76%	30%	21	19%
	4 Seasons			7	0	6	1	3	7	0	2	0	3	34	25	0	18	6	1	18	8	0	13	4	1	16	14	0	99	57	57.6%	40	2	2.0%	5	3523	58%	79%	39%	388	52%
	MLB Averages																														61.0%			2.7%			58%	79%	40%		50%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1991	NYY	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	4	1	0	1	0	0	4	2	0	2	2	0	13	7	53.8%	6	0	0.0%	1	447	63%	80%	41%	46	63%
1993	NYY	AL	26	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		0	3	67%	67%	67%	0
1998	ARI	NL	31	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	33.3%	1	1	33.3%	0	106	42%	80%	45%	11	55%
	3 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	3	2	1	5	1	0	2	1	0	4	2	0	2	2	0	16	8	50.0%	7	1	6.3%	1	556	59%	80%	42%	57	61%
	MLB Averages																														43.0%			2.5%			58%	79%	40%		53%

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%
1991	NYY	AL	24	145	70%	79%	31%	9	89%	0	35	5	30	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	6	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0
1993	NYY	AL	26	26	77%	77%	31%	0		0	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1997	MON	NL	30	41	54%	63%	24%	1	100%	0	9	1	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
	3 Seasons			212	68%	75%	30%	10	90%	0	49	6	43	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	7	0	0	0	6	0	1	0	1	0
	MLB Averages				58%	79%	33%		92%																											86%

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%
1989	NYY	AL	22	323	75%	81%	35%	36	78%	0	5	5	0	0	23	19	3	1	0	4	0	1	3	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	33%
1992	NYY	AL	25	53	68%	89%	47%	3	100%	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0
1993	NYY	AL	26	3	33%	67%	33%	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	3 Seasons			379	74%	82%	37%	39	79%	0	5	5	0	0	26	20	5	1	0	4	0	1	3	3	3	3	0	3	0	0	0	3	33%
	MLB Averages				58%	79%	33%		86%																								66%

* 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 LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1991 AL 5 (4th)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1991 AL 5 (4th)

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