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Bobby Mitchell

Robert Van Mitchell

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: April 7, 1955 in Salt Lake City, UT
High School: Chatsworth HS (Chatsworth, CA)
School: University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 7th round of the 1977 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 1, 1980
Teams (by GP): Twins/Dodgers 1980-1983

Final Game: September 21, 1983
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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
1980 LAD NL 25 OF 8 1 0 13.0 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 1 83 3.46 0.63 .980 2.28 2.31
1980 LAD NL 25 CF 7 1 0 9.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1 93 4.00 0.57 .985 2.80 2.83
1980 LAD NL 25 RF 1 0 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 60 2.25 1.00 .980 2.02 2.10
1981 LAD NL 26 OF 7 0 0 19.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 0 13 2.84 0.86 .980 2.32 2.34
1981 LAD NL 26 CF 6 0 0 10.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.60 0.67 .988 2.79 2.82
1981 LAD NL 26 RF 2 0 0 7.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 51 2.57 1.00 .980 2.06 2.10
1981 LAD NL 26 LF 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -60 0.00 0.00 2.25 2.10
1982 MIN AL 27 OF 121 114 100 1016.1 359 350 8 1 3 .997 11 13 3.17 2.96 .982 2.47 2.46
1982 MIN AL 27 CF 115 104 96 934.2 341 331 8 2 2 .994 11 14 3.26 2.95 .985 2.84 2.83
1982 MIN AL 27 RF 6 5 2 41.0 10 10 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 2.20 1.67 .981 2.26 2.27
1982 MIN AL 27 LF 5 5 2 40.2 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 1.55 1.40 .981 2.30 2.28
1983 MIN AL 28 CF 44 36 30 329.0 98 94 3 1 1 .990 -4 -13 2.65 2.20 .987 2.93 2.91
1983 MIN AL 28 OF 44 36 30 330.0 97 94 2 1 1 .990 -4 -13 2.62 2.18 .981 2.50 2.48
1983 MIN AL 28 LF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.30
4 Seasons OF 180 151 130 1378.1 467 455 10 2 4 .996 9 7 3.04 2.58 .982 2.47 2.45
4 Seasons CF 172 141 126 1282.2 447 433 11 3 3 .993 8 8 3.12 2.58 .985 2.86 2.85
3 Seasons RF 9 5 2 52.0 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 1 12 2.25 1.44 .981 2.22 2.21
3 Seasons LF 7 5 2 43.2 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -3 1.44 1.00 .981 2.31 2.26
4 Seasons TOT 180 151 130 1378.1 467 455 10 2 4 .996 9 7 3.04 2.58 .982 2.47 2.45
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
1980 LAD NL 25 CF 1 93 1 1 0 0
1980 LAD NL 25 RF 0 60 0 0 0 0
1981 LAD NL 26 CF 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1981 LAD NL 26 RF 0 51 0 0 -0 0
1981 LAD NL 26 LF -0 -60 -0 0 -0 0
1982 MIN AL 27 CF 11 14 10 8 2 1
1982 MIN AL 27 RF 0 0 0 -0 0 0
1982 MIN AL 27 LF 0 0 0 1 -1 0
1983 MIN AL 28 CF -4 -13 -3 -2 -0 -1
1983 MIN AL 28 LF 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons CF 8 8 8 7 1 0
3 Seasons RF 1 12 1 0 0 0
3 Seasons LF -0 -3 -0 1 -1 0
4 Seasons TOT 9 7 9 8 0 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1980 LAD NL 25 9 1 9 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 8 0 1 2
1981 LAD NL 26 10 0 10 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 2 9 0 3 1
1982 MIN AL 27 124 114 124 121 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 115 6 126 0 3 0
1983 MIN AL 28 59 36 59 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 44 0 45 0 17 4
4 Seasons 202 151 202 182 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 172 9 188 0 24 7
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 -- CF*

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%
1980 LAD NL 25 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 33 55% 79% 42% 4 100%
1981 LAD NL 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 50.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 47 64% 89% 28% 4 100%
1982 MIN AL 27 2 0 2 0 0 8 0 2 2 3 32 22 1 26 5 2 5 2 0 15 0 1 31 16 0 109 45 41.3% 60 4 3.7% 4 4077 67% 81% 30% 468 72%
1983 MIN AL 28 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 1 25 14 0 14 1 1 3 1 0 3 0 0 16 11 1 61 27 44.3% 32 2 3.3% 1 1400 68% 82% 28% 196 48%
4 Seasons 3 0 3 0 0 11 0 3 3 4 57 36 1 40 6 3 8 3 0 19 0 1 48 28 1 172 73 42.4% 93 6 3.5% 5 5557 67% 81% 30% 672 65%
MLB Averages 44.3% 2.2% 60% 82% 27% 56%

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%
1980 LAD NL 25 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 16 75% 69% 25% 4 25%
1981 LAD NL 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 26 42% 69% 23% 3 67%
1982 MIN AL 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 179 63% 80% 23% 10 100%
3 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 221 62% 78% 23% 17 76%
MLB Averages 42.0% 3.0% 60% 82% 27% 51%

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%
1981 LAD NL 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 9 44% 89% 0% 1 0%
1982 MIN AL 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 173 71% 79% 26% 7 100%
1983 MIN AL 28 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 4 75% 75% 25% 0
3 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 186 69% 80% 25% 8 88%
MLB Averages 60.1% 2.8% 60% 82% 27% 47%

* 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 CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1982 AL  11 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1982 AL  3.26 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1982 AL  2.95 (2nd)

Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1982 AL  .994 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y
1982 AL  3.17 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1982 AL  2.96 (2nd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1982 AL  .997 (4th)

             

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