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Don Mincher

Donald Ray Mincher

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: June 24, 1938 in Huntsville, AL
High School: Butler (Huntsville, AL)
Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent in 1956. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1960
Teams (by GP): Twins/Angels/Athletics/Pilots/Senators/... 1960-1972

Final Game: October 4, 1972
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #696. Jeromy Burnitz… #697. Chone Figgins… #698. Buck Freeman… #699. DON MINCHER… #700. Jack Doyle… #701. Claude Ritchey… #702. Jayson Werth…

All-Time Rank (among Batters): #696. Jeromy Burnitz… #697. Chone Figgins… #698. Buck Freeman… #699. DON MINCHER… #700. Jack Doyle… #701. Claude Ritchey… #702. Jayson Werth…

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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	Awards
1956	18	CHW-min	C	78	273	273		77	14	3	2						.282	.282	.377	.659		103						DSU · NORL
1957	19	CHW-min	C	123	448	448		129	21	4	13						.288	.288	.440	.728		197						DSU · NORL
1958	20	CHW-min	B	128	476	476		157	29	2	23						.330	.330	.544	.874		259						DAV · IIIL
1959	21	CHW-min	A	137	591	511	80	139	15	3	22	92	1		67	65	.272	.353	.442	.796		226		1	5	7	8	CHS · SALL
1960	22	MIN-min	AAA	112	449	405	52	124	32	3	12	65	4		44	49	.306	.374	.489	.863		198						CHL · AA
1960	22	WSH	AL	27	92	79	10	19	4	1	2	5	0	1	11	11	.241	.330	.392	.722	94	31	5	0	1	1	0	3
1961	23	PHI-min	AAA	109	422	370	59	95	13	2	24	66	3		52	54	.257	.348	.497	.846		184						BFL · IL
1961	23	MIN	AL	35	123	101	18	19	5	1	5	11	0	1	22	11	.188	.333	.406	.739	92	41	5	0	0	0	0	3
1962	24	MIN	AL	86	157	121	20	29	1	1	9	29	0	0	34	24	.240	.406	.488	.894	136	59	4	0	2	0	3	3
1963	25	MIN	AL	82	262	225	41	58	8	0	17	42	0	0	30	51	.258	.351	.520	.871	139	117	0	3	3	1	0	3
1964	26	MIN	AL	120	320	287	45	68	12	4	23	56	0	0	27	51	.237	.300	.547	.847	129	157	8	0	3	3	2	3
1965	27	MIN	AL	128	403	346	43	87	17	3	22	65	1	3	49	73	.251	.344	.509	.853	135	176	3	2	2	4	15	3/
1966	28	MIN	AL	139	497	431	53	108	30	0	14	62	3	2	58	68	.251	.340	.418	.758	111	180	13	2	3	3	9	*3
1967	29	CAL	AL	147	563	487	81	133	23	3	25	76	0	3	69	69	.273	.367	.487	.854	156	237	11	4	2	1	9	*3/	AS,MVP-21
1968	30	CAL	AL	120	458	399	35	94	12	1	13	48	0	2	43	65	.236	.312	.368	.680	111	147	8	4	6	6	6	*3
1969	31	SEP	AL	140	513	427	53	105	14	0	25	78	10	11	78	69	.246	.366	.454	.821	132	194	8	5	0	3	13	*3	AS
1970	32	OAK	AL	140	533	463	62	114	18	0	27	74	5	4	56	71	.246	.327	.460	.787	118	213	9	3	4	7	11	*3
1971	33	TOT	AL	128	497	415	44	116	21	2	12	53	3	2	73	66	.280	.386	.427	.812	136	177	9	2	2	5	7	*3
1971	33	OAK	AL	28	113	92	9	22	6	1	2	8	1	1	20	14	.239	.375	.391	.766	120	36	2	0	1	0	3	3
1971	33	WSA	AL	100	384	323	35	94	15	1	10	45	2	1	53	52	.291	.389	.437	.826	141	141	7	2	1	5	4	3
1972	34	TOT	AL	108	307	245	25	53	11	0	6	44	2	3	56	39	.216	.363	.335	.697	113	82	6	2	1	3	1	3
1972	34	TEX	AL	61	243	191	23	45	10	0	6	39	2	1	46	23	.236	.384	.382	.766	133	73	2	2	1	3	1	3
1972	34	OAK	AL	47	64	54	2	8	1	0	0	5	0	2	10	16	.148	.281	.167	.448	39	9	4	0	0	0	0	3
13 Seasons				1400	4725	4026	530	1003	176	16	200	643	24	32	606	668	.249	.348	.450	.798	127	1811	89	27	29	37	76
162 Game Avg.				162	547	466	61	116	20	2	23	74	3	4	70	77	.249	.348	.450	.798	127	210	10	3	3	4	9
				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	Awards
MIN (7 yrs)				617	1854	1590	230	388	77	10	92	270	4	7	231	289	.244	.340	.479	.819	123	761	38	7	14	12	29
OAK (3 yrs)				215	710	609	73	144	25	1	29	87	6	7	86	101	.236	.330	.424	.754	112	258	15	3	5	7	14
TEX (2 yrs)				161	627	514	58	139	25	1	16	84	4	2	99	75	.270	.387	.416	.804	138	214	9	4	2	8	5
CAL (2 yrs)				267	1021	886	116	227	35	4	38	124	0	5	112	134	.256	.343	.433	.776	136	384	19	8	8	7	15
SEP (1 yr)				140	513	427	53	105	14	0	25	78	10	11	78	69	.246	.366	.454	.821	132	194	8	5	0	3	13

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
1960	22	WSH	AL	92	0	-1	-1	-1	-2	-1	3	-3	-0.4	-1	-0.1	-0.3	$	3
1961	23	MIN	AL	123	-2	0	0	-1	1	-2	4	0	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$	3
1962	24	MIN	AL	157	7	1	0	0	-1	-1	4	10	1.1	11	1.1	0.0	$	3
1963	25	MIN	AL	262	12	-1	1	1	0	-4	7	16	1.8	16	1.7	0.1	$	3
1964	26	MIN	AL	320	7	0	-1	-1	2	-4	9	12	1.3	10	1.1	0.2	$	3
1965	27	MIN	AL	403	16	-3	0	1	2	-6	11	21	2.3	19	2.0	0.3	$	3/
1966	28	MIN	AL	497	8	-2	0	-2	13	-8	14	23	2.4	10	1.1	1.3	$21,000	*3
1967	29	CAL	AL	563	32	-1	-1	1	0	-9	16	38	4.4	38	4.1	0.3	$22,500	*3/	AS,MVP-21
1968	30	CAL	AL	457	3	-1	-2	-1	-0	-7	13	5	0.5	5	0.6	-0.1	$	*3
1969	31	SEP	AL	514	19	-2	-1	0	2	-8	15	25	2.7	23	2.5	0.2	$36,500	*3	AS
1970	32	OAK	AL	533	10	-1	-3	-1	4	-8	18	19	1.9	15	1.6	0.3	$40,000	*3
1971	33	OAK	AL	113	3	1	1	0	1	-2	4	8	0.9	7	0.7	0.2	$	3
1971	33	WSA	AL	384	20	-2	-2	1	1	-5	13	26	2.8	25	2.7	0.1	$42,500	3
1972	34	TEX	AL	243	12	-1	0	1	6	-3	8	23	2.6	17	1.9	0.7	$	3
1972	34	OAK	AL	64	-4	-1	0	-1	-0	-1	2	-5	-0.6	-5	-0.5	-0.1	$47,000	3
13 Seasons				4725	143	-14	-9	-3	29	-69	141	218	23.6	189	20.4	3.2	$209,500

MIN (7 yrs)				1854	48	-6	-1	-3	16	-26	52	79	8.4	64	6.8	1.6	$21,000
OAK (3 yrs)				710	9	-1	-2	-2	4	-11	24	22	2.2	17	1.8	0.4	$87,000
TEX (2 yrs)				627	32	-3	-2	2	7	-8	21	49	5.4	42	4.6	0.8	$42,500
CAL (2 yrs)				1020	35	-2	-3	0	0	-16	29	43	4.9	43	4.7	0.2	$22,500
SEP (1 yr)				514	19	-2	-1	0	2	-8	15	25	2.7	23	2.5	0.2	$36,500

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1965	27	MIN	AL	WS	LAD	L	7	25	23	3	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	7	.130	.200	.261	.461	6	1	0	0	0	0

1972	34	OAK	AL	ALCS	DET	W	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
1972	34	OAK	AL	WS	CIN	W	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
2 Seasons (3 Series)							11	27	25	3	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	8	.160	.222	.280	.502	7	1	0	0	0	0
1 ALCS							1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
2 WS							10	26	24	3	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	7	.167	.231	.292	.522	7	1	0	0	0	0

Standard Fielding

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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
1960	WSH	AL	22	1B	20				219	209	5	5	14	.977	-2			10.70	.991		9.56
1961	MIN	AL	23	1B	29				260	234	18	8	28	.969	1			8.69	.990		9.34
1962	MIN	AL	24	1B	25				229	211	13	5	17	.978	-1			8.96	.990		9.41
1963	MIN	AL	25	1B	60				481	446	27	8	34	.983	0			7.88	.990		9.49
1964	MIN	AL	26	1B	76				597	549	43	5	50	.992	2			7.79	.991		9.41
1965	MIN	AL	27	1B	99				870	818	45	7	64	.992	2			8.72	.991		9.53
1965	MIN	AL	27	OF	1				0	0	0	0	0		-0			0.00			2.00
1965	MIN	AL	27	LF	1	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-30	0.00	0.00		1.80	1.90
1966	MIN	AL	28	1B	130				1089	995	85	9	62	.992	13			8.31	.991		9.58
1967	CAL	AL	29	1B	142				1273	1177	88	8	92	.994	0			8.91	.991		9.55	AS,MVP-21
1967	CAL	AL	29	OF	1				1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0			1.00	.980		2.10	AS,MVP-21
1967	CAL	AL	29	RF	2	0	0	4.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0	30	2.25	0.50	.980	1.80	1.80	AS,MVP-21
1968	CAL	AL	30	1B	113				1017	949	59	9	90	.991	-0			8.92	.989		9.54
1969	SEP	AL	31	1B	122				1132	1033	93	6	98	.995	2			9.23	.992		9.62	AS
1970	OAK	AL	32	1B	137				1212	1109	91	12	107	.990	4			8.76	.991		9.56
1971	TOT	AL	33	1B	115	112	80	957.0	998	907	82	9	91	.991	2	3	9.30	8.60	.992	55.47	9.53
1971	OAK	AL	33	1B	27	26	23	231.2	226	202	23	1	11	.996	1	5	8.74	8.33	.992	55.48	9.53
1971	WSA	AL	33	1B	88	86	57	725.1	772	705	59	8	80	.990	1	2	9.48	8.68	.992	55.47	9.53
1972	TOT	AL	34	1B	70	65	39	534.0	595	544	47	4	49	.993	6	13	9.96	8.44	.991	74.21	9.71
1972	TEX	AL	34	1B	59	57	37	465.2	514	467	44	3	45	.994	6	15	9.88	8.66	.991	74.22	9.71
1972	OAK	AL	34	1B	11	8	2	68.1	81	77	3	1	4	.988	-0	-2	10.54	7.27	.991	74.18	9.71
	13 Seasons			1B	1138	177	119	1491.0	9972	9181	696	95	796	.990	29	23	9.54	8.68	.991	62.18	9.55
	1 Season			RF	2	0	0	4.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0	30	2.25	0.50	.980	1.80	1.80
	2 Seasons			OF	2				1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0			0.50	.980		2.05
	1 Season			LF	1	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-30	0.00	0.00		1.80	1.90
	13 Seasons			TOT	1140	177	119	1491.0	9973	9182	696	95	796	.990	29	23	9.54	8.66	.991	62.18	9.53
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 1967 * 1969 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1967 AL (21, 1%) 0.01 Career Shares (1498th)	Defensive WAR† s c a p y 1966 AL 1.3 (8th)	Batting Average s c a p y 1967 AL .273 (10th)
On-Base% s c a p y 1967 AL .367 (8th) 1971 AL .386 (9th)**	Slugging % s c a p y 1967 AL .487 (6th)	On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y 1967 AL .854 (5th)	Runs Scored s c a p y 1967 AL 81 (9th)
Doubles s c a p y 1966 AL 30 (6th)	Home Runs s c a p y 1967 AL 25 (5th) 1970 AL 27 (9th)	Runs Batted In s c a p y 1967 AL 76 (10th)	Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y 1967 AL 156 (5th) Career 127 (198th)
Runs Created s c a p y 1967 AL 87 (10th)	Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y 1967 AL 35 (5th)	Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y 1967 AL 3.8 (5th)	Extra Base Hits s c a p y 1967 AL 51 (8th)
Offensive Win % s c a p y 1967 AL .724 (7th)	Sacrifice Flies s c a p y 1968 AL 6 (5th) 1970 AL 7 (7th)	Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y 1965 AL 15 (1st) 1966 AL 9 (8th) 1969 AL 13 (4th) 1970 AL 11 (7th) Career 76 (200th)	Caught Stealing s c a p y 1969 AL 11 (10th)
Power-Speed # s c a p y 1969 AL 14.3 (10th)	AB per HR s c a p y 1967 AL 19.5 (6th) 1969 AL 17.1 (9th) 1970 AL 17.1 (7th) Career 20.1 (122nd)	Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y 1967 AL 33.17 (6th) Career 152.77 (250th)	Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y 1967 AL 4.6 (4th)
Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y 1967 AL 3.1 (10th) Career 15.0 (249th)	Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y 1967 AL 3.7 (6th) Career 16.0 (233rd)	Putouts† s c a p y 1967 AL 1,178 (3rd) 1970 AL 1,109 (4th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1966 AL 130 (5th) 1967 AL 142 (4th) 1970 AL 137 (5th)
Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1967 AL 1,177 (3rd) 1970 AL 1,109 (4th)	Assists as 1B s c a p y 1966 AL 85 (5th) 1967 AL 88 (5th) 1969 AL 93 (5th) 1970 AL 91 (2nd) 1971 AL 82 (2nd)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1963 AL 8 (5th) 1970 AL 12 (1st) 1971 AL 9 (3rd)	Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y 1966 AL 13 (2nd) 1970 AL 4 (3rd) 1972 AL 6 (2nd) Career 29 (32nd)
Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 1965 AL 9.62 (5th) 1967 AL 9.65 (4th) 1968 AL 9.75 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1965 AL 8.72 (5th) 1967 AL 8.91 (5th) 1968 AL 8.92 (5th) 1969 AL 9.23 (5th) 1970 AL 8.76 (5th)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1966 AL .992 (3rd) 1967 AL .994 (2nd) 1968 AL .991 (4th) 1969 AL .995 (2nd)

A ** by the stat's value indicates the player had fewer than the required number of at bats or plate appearances for the BA, OBP, SLG or OPS title that year. In order to rank the player, the necessary number of hitless at bats were added to the player's season total. The value printed here is their actual value and not the value used to rank them, therefore some numbers may appear out of order. Requirements to qualify for rate stats.
† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Batting - 24 (914), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 6 (1409), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 13 (1265), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Andre Thornton (950) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

Before 1956 Season: Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent.
April 4, 1960: Traded by the Chicago White Sox with Earl Battey and $150,000 to the Washington Senators for Roy Sievers.
December 2, 1966: Traded by the Minnesota Twins with Pete Cimino and Jimmie Hall to the California Angels for a player to be named later and Dean Chance. The California Angels sent Jackie Hernandez (April 10, 1967) to the Minnesota Twins to complete the trade.
October 15, 1968: Drafted by the Seattle Pilots from the California Angels as the 2nd pick in the 1968 expansion draft.
January 15, 1970: Traded by the Milwaukee Brewers with Ron Clark to the Oakland Athletics for Mike Hershberger, Lew Krausse, Phil Roof and Ken Sanders.
May 8, 1971: Traded by the Oakland Athletics with Frank Fernandez, Paul Lindblad and cash to the Washington Senators for Mike Epstein and Darold Knowles.
July 20, 1972: Traded by the Texas Rangers with Ted Kubiak to the Oakland Athletics for a player to be named later, Vic Harris and Marty Martinez. The Oakland Athletics sent Steve Lawson (July 26, 1972) to the Texas Rangers to complete the trade.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources
1966	28	Minnesota Twins	$21,000	Noll/Fort/Hylan database
1967	29	California Angels	$22,500	Noll/Fort/Hylan database

1969	31	Seattle Pilots	$36,500	Noll/Fort/Hylan database
1970	32	Oakland Athletics	$40,000	Noll/Fort/Hylan database
1971	33	Washington Senators	$42,500	Noll/Fort/Hylan database
1972	34	Oakland Athletics	$47,000	Noll/Fort/Hylan database

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$209,500

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') 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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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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