Bruce Miller

Charles Bruce Miller

Positions: Third Baseman, Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: March 4, 1947 in Fort Wayne, IN
School: Indiana University-Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 20th round of the 1970 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 4, 1973
Team: Giants 1973-1976

Final Game: August 28, 1976
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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
1973	SFG	NL	26	3B	4	3	3	29.0	10	1	8	1	0	.900	-0	-8	2.79	2.25	.946	2.89	2.88
1973	SFG	NL	26	2B	3	1	0	13.1	11	4	6	1	0	.909	0	0	6.75	3.33	.980	5.53	5.53
1973	SFG	NL	26	SS	1	0	0	2.2	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-45	6.75	2.00	.960	5.06	4.90
1974	SFG	NL	27	3B	41	31	26	297.2	130	26	96	8	3	.938	3	12	3.69	2.98	.948	3.04	3.04
1974	SFG	NL	27	SS	13	12	10	109.0	67	22	42	3	5	.955	-2	-18	5.28	4.92	.961	4.97	4.97
1974	SFG	NL	27	2B	9	5	5	52.0	31	7	23	1	3	.968	2	44	5.19	3.33	.973	5.47	5.47
1975	SFG	NL	28	3B	68	56	55	525.1	196	66	120	10	11	.949	-2	-5	3.19	2.74	.945	2.98	2.97
1975	SFG	NL	28	2B	21	18	12	162.1	107	44	59	4	17	.963	1	7	5.71	4.90	.975	5.54	5.54
1975	SFG	NL	28	SS	6	2	2	25.0	12	4	7	1	3	.917	-3	-139	3.96	1.83	.963	5.00	4.98
1976	SFG	NL	29	2B	8	5	2	46.1	25	8	15	2	3	.920	0	5	4.47	2.88	.975	5.48	5.48
1976	SFG	NL	29	3B	2	1	1	10.2	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	0	0	1.69	1.00	.950	2.95	2.90
	4 Seasons			3B	115	91	85	862.2	338	94	225	19	14	.944	1	1	3.33	2.77	.946	3.00	2.99
	4 Seasons			2B	41	29	19	274.0	174	63	103	8	23	.954	3	13	5.45	4.05	.975	5.51	5.51
	3 Seasons			SS	20	14	12	136.2	81	28	49	4	8	.951	-5	-40	5.07	3.85	.961	4.98	4.97
	4 Seasons			TOT	176	134	116	1273.1	593	185	377	31	45	.948	-1	-1	3.97	3.19	.957	3.75	3.80

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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
1973	SFG	NL	26	3B	-0	-8	-0	-0	0	0
1973	SFG	NL	26	2B	0	0	0	0	0	0
1973	SFG	NL	26	SS	-0	-45	-0	0	-0	0
1974	SFG	NL	27	3B	3	12	4	1	3	-1
1974	SFG	NL	27	SS	-2	-18	-2	-1	-1	0
1974	SFG	NL	27	2B	2	44	2	2	0	0
1975	SFG	NL	28	3B	-2	-5	-1	-0	-1	-1
1975	SFG	NL	28	2B	1	7	1	-1	2	0
1975	SFG	NL	28	SS	-3	-139	-3	-0	-3	0
1976	SFG	NL	29	2B	0	5	0	-0	0	0
1976	SFG	NL	29	3B	0	0	0	-0	0	0
	4 Seasons			3B	1	1	3	0	2	-2
	4 Seasons			2B	3	13	3	1	2	0
	3 Seasons			SS	-5	-40	-5	-1	-4	0
	4 Seasons			TOT	-1	-1	1	0	1	-2

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1973	SFG	NL	26	12	4	12	8	3	4	1	4	1
1974	SFG	NL	27	73	48	73	62	9	42	13	14	1
1975	SFG	NL	28	99	76	99	92	21	68	6	13	0
1976	SFG	NL	29	12	6	12	10	8	2	0	3	1
	4 Seasons			196	134	196	172	41	116	20	34	3

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 -- 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%
1973	SFG	NL	26	119	71%	88%	32%	9	89%	0	1	1	0	0	8	6	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1974	SFG	NL	27	1305	60%	81%	31%	129	87%	1	26	20	4	2	91	71	18	0	1	8	0	6	2	7	3	3	0	3	0	0	0	9	78%
1975	SFG	NL	28	2226	59%	79%	27%	184	90%	0	61	47	8	6	117	92	19	1	6	10	0	7	3	9	11	6	0	7	4	2	2	8	75%
1976	SFG	NL	29	41	51%	71%	22%	3	67%	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			3691	60%	80%	28%	325	88%	1	89	69	12	8	217	170	38	1	7	19	0	14	5	17	14	9	0	10	4	2	2	17	76%
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	28%		89%																								69%

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
1973	SFG	NL	26	65	29%	80%	22%	11	91%	0	5	4	1	0	6	5	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1974	SFG	NL	27	220	52%	76%	28%	24	96%	0	7	2	3	2	23	20	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	3	1	0	2	0	3	2	1	0	0	0
1975	SFG	NL	28	717	60%	80%	27%	83	88%	0	47	19	21	8	61	43	13	1	1	4	1	3	0	2	17	4	2	8	1	15	9	6	2	1	1
1976	SFG	NL	29	193	54%	83%	35%	18	89%	1	6	1	2	3	17	15	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	3	0	2	1	0	3	1	2	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			1195	56%	80%	28%	136	90%	1	65	26	27	13	107	83	18	1	2	8	1	7	0	5	23	5	4	11	1	21	12	9	2	1	1
	MLB Averages				62%	82%	28%		93%

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
1973	SFG	NL	26	10	50%	90%	20%	2	100%	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1974	SFG	NL	27	489	57%	83%	28%	56	86%	0	23	9	12	2	42	35	6	0	0	3	0	1	2	2	5	1	0	3	1	0	5	1	4	0	0	0
1975	SFG	NL	28	133	66%	82%	28%	8	100%	0	4	1	2	1	7	4	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0
	3 Seasons			632	59%	83%	28%	66	88%	0	29	12	14	3	49	39	9	0	0	4	0	2	2	2	8	4	0	3	1	0	8	4	4	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				62%	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

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y 1974 NL 3 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1974 NL 3 (5th)

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