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Dan Meyer
Daniel Thomas Meyer

Bats: Left , Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11" , Weight: 180 lb.

Born: August 3, 1952 in Hamilton, OH
School: University of Arizona
Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 4th round of the 1972 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 14, 1974
Final Game: May 24, 1985
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Dan Meyer
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Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos
1974	21	DET	AL	13	52	50	5	10	1	1	3	7	1	0	1	1	.200	.231	.440	.671	88	22	2	1	0	0	1	7
1975	22	DET	AL	122	503	470	56	111	17	3	8	47	8	3	26	25	.236	.277	.336	.614	70	158	16	2	2	3	1	73
1976	23	DET	AL	105	315	294	37	74	8	4	2	16	10	0	17	22	.252	.292	.327	.618	79	96	10	0	3	1	0	73/D
1977	24	SEA	AL	159	639	582	75	159	24	4	22	90	11	8	43	51	.273	.320	.442	.762	107	257	19	1	5	8	4	*3
1978	25	SEA	AL	123	477	444	38	101	18	1	8	56	7	3	24	39	.227	.264	.327	.591	66	145	7	0	4	5	6	*3/7D
1979	26	SEA	AL	144	570	525	72	146	21	7	20	74	11	7	29	35	.278	.317	.459	.776	106	241	13	4	6	6	10	573
1980	27	SEA	AL	146	570	531	56	146	25	6	11	71	8	4	31	42	.275	.314	.407	.721	96	216	11	1	4	3	4	*7/D53
1981	28	SEA	AL	83	266	252	26	66	10	1	3	22	4	3	10	16	.262	.291	.345	.636	80	87	6	1	1	2	1	57/3D8
1982	29	OAK	AL	120	409	383	28	92	17	3	8	59	1	1	18	33	.240	.271	.363	.634	77	139	6	0	3	5	3	3D/97
1983	30	OAK	AL	69	191	169	15	32	9	0	1	13	0	0	19	11	.189	.268	.260	.529	51	44	8	0	1	2	2	3D/795
1984	31	OAK	AL	20	22	22	1	7	3	1	0	4	0	0	0	2	.318	.318	.545	.864	142	12	2	0	0	0	0	/3D
1985	32	OAK	AL	14	13	12	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.077	.000	.077	-76	0	1	0	0	0	0	/5D9
12 Seasons				1118	4027	3734	411	944	153	31	86	459	61	29	219	277	.253	.293	.379	.673	86	1417	101	10	29	35	32
162 Game Avg.				162	584	541	60	137	22	4	12	67	9	4	32	40	.253	.293	.379	.673	86	205	15	1	4	5	5

SEA (5 yrs)				655	2522	2334	267	618	98	19	64	313	41	25	137	183	.265	.305	.405	.710	94	946	56	7	20	24	25
OAK (4 yrs)				223	635	586	46	131	29	4	9	76	1	1	38	46	.224	.268	.333	.601	69	195	17	0	4	7	5
DET (3 yrs)				240	870	814	98	195	26	8	13	70	19	3	44	48	.240	.280	.339	.619	75	276	28	3	5	4	2

Advanced Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1974	21	DET	AL	52	42	4	2.6	91	.152	.200	.261	.231	.325	.440	.375	.671	.700	88	.294	-1.4	-0.1	.595	.280	.240	1.5
1975	22	DET	AL	503	383	41	2.9	96	.234	.236	.262	.277	.333	.336	.386	.614	.719	70	.324	-20.5	-2.1	.505	.166	.100	8.0
1976	23	DET	AL	315	234	28	3.2	88	.266	.252	.259	.292	.324	.327	.366	.618	.690	79	.405	-9.0	-1.0	.535	.167	.075	3.3
1977	24	SEA	AL	639	463	77	4.5	99	.265	.273	.265	.320	.329	.442	.403	.762	.732	107	.482	4.4	0.4	.676	.247	.168	14.7
1978	25	SEA	AL	477	362	38	2.8	94	.231	.227	.261	.264	.326	.327	.385	.591	.711	66	.313	-21.2	-2.2	.490	.162	.099	7.5
1979	26	SEA	AL	570	411	72	4.7	104	.265	.278	.272	.317	.337	.459	.412	.776	.749	106	.496	1.5	0.2	.697	.244	.181	14.2
1980	27	SEA	AL	570	407	66	4.4	100	.281	.275	.270	.314	.333	.407	.401	.721	.734	96	.477	-4.7	-0.5	.630	.198	.132	9.3
1981	28	SEA	AL	266	198	24	3.3	93	.268	.262	.262	.291	.327	.345	.381	.636	.708	80	.397	-7.5	-0.8	.508	.127	.083	3.4
1982	29	OAK	AL	409	306	37	3.2	93	.242	.240	.257	.271	.320	.363	.391	.634	.711	77	.347	-12.1	-1.2	.527	.170	.123	1.8
1983	30	OAK	AL	191	148	11	2.0	92	.195	.189	.257	.268	.318	.260	.388	.529	.706	51	.180	-10.2	-1.0	.434	.183	.071	.0
1984	31	OAK	AL	22	17	3	4.7	91	.350	.318	.255	.318	.317	.545	.385	.864	.702	142	.521	1.1	0.1	.706	.227	.227
1985	32	OAK	AL	13	13	0	0.0	92	.000	.000	.252	.077	.316	.000	.391	.077	.707	-76	.000	-2.8	-0.3	.077	.083	.000
12 Seasons				4027	2984	401	3.6	96	.252	.253	.264	.293	.329	.379	.393	.673	.722	86	.404	-82.4	-8.4	.575	.194	.127	71.4
162 Game Avg.				584	432	58	3.6	96	.252	.253	.264	.293	.329	.379	.393	.673	.722	86	.404	-82.4	-8.4	.575	.194	.127	10

SEA (5 yrs)				2522	1841	277	4.0	98	.262	.265	.267	.305	.331	.405	.399	.710	.730	94	.447	-27.6	-2.9	.615	.206	.141	50.0
OAK (4 yrs)				635	484	51	2.8	93	.227	.224	.257	.268	.319	.333	.390	.601	.709	69	.293	-24.0	-2.4	.493	.174	.109	1.8
DET (3 yrs)				870	659	73	3.0	93	.240	.240	.261	.280	.329	.339	.378	.619	.707	75	.350	-30.9	-3.2	.522	.173	.100	15.4

Ratio Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1974	21	DET	AL	52	5.8%	1.9%	1.9%	9.6%	50%	1.00	50.0	16.7	7.1	0.46	88%
1975	22	DET	AL	503	1.6%	5.0%	5.2%	5.6%	25%	0.96	18.8	58.8	10.0	0.93	87%
1976	23	DET	AL	315	0.6%	7.0%	5.4%	4.4%	19%	1.29	13.4	147.0	18.4	0.72	86%
1977	24	SEA	AL	639	3.4%	8.0%	6.7%	7.8%	31%	1.19	11.4	26.5	6.5	0.98	81%
1978	25	SEA	AL	477	1.7%	8.2%	5.0%	5.7%	27%	1.63	11.4	55.5	7.9	0.90	84%
1979	26	SEA	AL	570	3.5%	6.1%	5.1%	8.4%	33%	1.21	15.0	26.3	7.1	0.89	84%
1980	27	SEA	AL	570	1.9%	7.4%	5.4%	7.4%	29%	1.35	12.6	48.3	7.5	1.10	84%
1981	28	SEA	AL	266	1.1%	6.0%	3.8%	5.3%	21%	1.60	15.8	84.0	11.5	0.97	88%
1982	29	OAK	AL	409	2.0%	8.1%	4.4%	6.9%	30%	1.83	11.6	47.9	6.5	1.12	85%
1983	30	OAK	AL	191	0.5%	5.8%	10.0%	5.2%	31%	0.58	15.4	169.0	13.0	0.92	83%
1984	31	OAK	AL	22	0.0%	9.1%	0.0%	18.2%	57%		11.0		5.5	1.14	91%
1985	32	OAK	AL	13	0.0%	0.0%	7.7%	0.0%		0.00				0.86	92%
12 Seasons				4027	2.1%	6.9%	5.4%	6.7%	29%	1.26	13.5	43.4	8.1	0.94	85%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1974	21	DET	AL	0	0	22%	8	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1975	22	DET	AL	8	0	37%	188	8	3	73%	7	3	1	0	0	0	2	0	5	9	28%	27	21	4	1	1	0	12	5	7
1976	23	DET	AL	6	0	39%	133	10	0	100%	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	7	44%	22	17	4	4	2	2	17	4	13
1977	24	SEA	AL	6	3	29%	222	11	8	58%	11	6	0	0	0	2	2	1	8	15	37%	30	23	6	11	3	5	16	6	10
1978	25	SEA	AL	4	1	26%	148	7	3	70%	6	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	5	13	39%	18	11	7	5	5	0	8	2	5
1979	26	SEA	AL	6	1	33%	208	11	7	61%	11	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	8	14	46%	25	17	7	7	4	2	23	5	16
1980	27	SEA	AL	8	0	27%	233	8	4	67%	8	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	6	12	45%	33	23	10	7	4	3	18	5	13
1981	28	SEA	AL	1	0	31%	103	4	3	57%	4	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	44%	15	12	3	3	1	2	9	1	7
1982	29	OAK	AL	3	0	20%	144	1	1	50%	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	10	29%	14	10	4	3	2	0	7	3	3
1983	30	OAK	AL	2	0	28%	78	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	32%	13	11	2	3	1	2	9	4	4
1984	31	OAK	AL	0	0	14%	7	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1985	32	OAK	AL	0	0	200%	5	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33%	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
12 Seasons				44	5	30%	1477	61	29	68%	59	24	1	2	1	3	10	1	43	91	39%	199	147	47	44	23	16	120	35	79
MLB Averages

Situational Hitting*

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						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1974	21	DET	AL	52	60%	10			1	0	0	0	0.84	3	0	1	2	1	1	2	0	0	0		11	2	18%	3	0	0%	29	4	14%	5	2	40%	2	0	0%	0
1975	22	DET	AL	503	69%	111			2	1	1	1	0.80	8	0	5	8	0	8	0	0	2	2	100%	113	16	14%	43	17	40%	301	41	14%	29	20	69%	32	15	47%	0
1976	23	DET	AL	315	93%	74			36	8	1	2	1.63	2	0	5	2	0	2	0	0	3	3	100%	55	10	18%	37	10	27%	174	19	11%	11	3	27%	34	14	41%	0
1977	24	SEA	AL	642	70%	159			2	0	0	0	1.03	22	0	16	17	5	13	9	0	5	5	100%	113	19	17%	57	29	51%	418	72	17%	39	27	69%	55	31	56%	0
1978	25	SEA	AL	478	68%	101			1	0	0	0	1.99	8	0	9	6	2	4	4	0	5	4	80%	99	7	7%	47	21	45%	309	48	16%	28	16	57%	31	14	45%	0
1979	26	SEA	AL	571	74%	146			7	2	1	1	2.28	20	2	10	14	6	11	9	0	6	6	100%	113	13	12%	62	22	35%	358	56	16%	35	16	46%	29	11	38%	0
1980	27	SEA	AL	570	79%	146			16	3	0	0	1.84	11	0	16	11	0	7	4	1	6	4	67%	90	11	12%	38	19	50%	337	66	20%	29	21	72%	42	24	57%	0
1981	28	SEA	AL	266	80%	66			18	3	0	1	1.51	3	0	5	1	2	2	1	0	3	1	33%	49	6	12%	27	6	22%	154	19	12%	15	6	40%	17	6	35%	0
1982	29	OAK	AL	409	89%	92			25	4	0	1	1.79	8	0	11	8	0	3	5	0	3	3	100%	72	6	8%	47	23	49%	270	52	19%	33	21	64%	35	17	49%	0
1983	30	OAK	AL	191	86%	32			7	1	0	1	1.70	1	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	100%	36	8	22%	18	6	33%	116	12	10%	6	5	83%	8	2	25%	0
1984	31	OAK	AL	22	86%	7			15	4	0	0	1.67	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		4	2	50%	1	0	0%	21	4	19%	1	0	0%	0	0		0
1985	32	OAK	AL	13	92%	0			10	0	0	0	0.81	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		5	1	20%	3	0	0%	13	0	0%	1	0	0%	0	0		0
12 Seasons				4032	77%	944			140	26	3	7	1.63	86	2	84	70	16	52	34	1	34	29	85%	760	101	13%	383	153	40%	2500	393	16%	232	137	59%	285	134	47%	0
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1974	21	13	52	50	5	10	1	1	3	7	1	0	1	1	.200	.231	.440	.671	88	22	2	1	0	0	1
1975	22	135	555	520	61	121	18	4	11	54	9	3	27	26	.233	.273	.346	.619	72	180	18	3	2	3	2
1976	23	240	870	814	98	195	26	8	13	70	19	3	44	48	.240	.280	.339	.619	75	276	28	3	5	4	2
1977	24	399	1509	1396	173	354	50	12	35	160	30	11	87	99	.254	.297	.382	.679	88	533	47	4	10	12	6
1978	25	522	1986	1840	211	455	68	13	43	216	37	14	111	138	.247	.289	.368	.658	83	678	54	4	14	17	12
1979	26	666	2556	2365	283	601	89	20	63	290	48	21	140	173	.254	.295	.389	.684	88	919	67	8	20	23	22
1980	27	812	3126	2896	339	747	114	26	74	361	56	25	171	215	.258	.299	.392	.691	90	1135	78	9	24	26	26
1981	28	895	3392	3148	365	813	124	27	77	383	60	28	181	231	.258	.298	.388	.686	89	1222	84	10	25	28	27
1982	29	1015	3801	3531	393	905	141	30	85	442	61	29	199	264	.256	.295	.385	.681	88	1361	90	10	28	33	30
1983	30	1084	3992	3700	408	937	150	30	86	455	61	29	218	275	.253	.294	.380	.674	86	1405	98	10	29	35	32
1984	31	1104	4014	3722	409	944	153	31	86	459	61	29	218	277	.254	.294	.381	.675	86	1417	100	10	29	35	32
1985	32	1118	4027	3734	411	944	153	31	86	459	61	29	219	277	.253	.293	.379	.673	86	1417	101	10	29	35	32

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1974	21	13	52	50	6	10	1	1	3	8	1	1	1	.200	.231	.440	.671	5	13
1975	22	123	503	472	59	111	17	3	8	50	8	26	25	.235	.276	.335	.611	43	122
1976	23	106	320	301	43	80	9	4	2	19	11	18	22	.266	.306	.342	.648	32	105
1977	24	159	631	580	79	157	24	4	22	95	11	42	51	.271	.317	.440	.757	81	159
1978	25	123	480	450	43	107	19	1	8	63	7	25	39	.238	.275	.338	.613	43	123
1979	26	145	561	523	72	142	20	7	19	74	11	28	35	.272	.310	.446	.756	72	144
1980	27	146	566	531	58	146	25	6	11	73	8	31	42	.275	.314	.407	.721	68	146
1981	28	126	404	384	43	102	15	2	5	36	6	15	24	.266	.295	.354	.649	39	83
1982	29	120	412	388	32	97	18	3	8	67	1	19	33	.250	.282	.374	.655	42	120
1983	30	69	193	171	17	34	10	0	1	15	0	20	11	.199	.280	.275	.555	13	69
1984	31	20	22	22	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	3	20
1985	32	14	13	12	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.077	.000	.077	0	14
12 Seasons		1164	4157	3884	455	986	158	31	87	504	64	226	285	.254	.294	.378	.672	441	1118
162 Game Avg.		162	579	541	63	137	22	4	12	70	9	31	40	.254	.294	.378	.672	61	1118

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Games Played s c a p y
1977 AL--159--7th

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1979 AL--10--6th

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1977 AL--19--9th

AB per SO s c a p y
1975 AL--18.8--1st
1979 AL--15.0--3rd
1980 AL--12.6--10th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink Batting - 1 (2323), Average HOFer ≈ 144

Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 6 (2530), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Ken Henderson (955) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ken Henderson (946) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jerry Morales (954) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jerry Morales (957) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jerry Morales (949) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Danny Cater (937) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dave May (941) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Gray Ink	Batting - 1 (2323), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 6 (2530), Average HOFer ≈ 50