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 (Chatsworth, CA)
School: University of Southern California
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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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1. Babe Ruth… #2. Ted Williams… #3. Willie Mays… #4. Ty Cobb… #5. Lou Gehrig… #6. Rogers Hornsby… #7. Stan Musial…

All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1. Babe Ruth… #2. Ted Williams… #3. Willie Mays… #4. Ty Cobb… #5. Lou Gehrig… #6. Rogers Hornsby… #7. Stan Musial…

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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
1977	22	LAD-min	A	74	282	221	37	72	19	1	3	28	11	3	57	23	.326	.459	.462	.921		102		0	1	3		CLI · MIDW
1978	23	LAD-min	AA	131	572	480	76	140	17	5	1	42	49	13	84	49	.292	.394	.354	.749		170		0	4	4		SAN · TL
1979	24	LAD-min	AAA	123	535	453	104	148	24	8	2	59	18	11	71	35	.327	.418	.428	.846		194		3	4	4		ABQ · PCL
1980	25	LAD-min	AAA	109	438	347	62	111	20	6	3	53	17	11	74	26	.320	.432	.438	.870		152		0	10	7		ABQ · PCL
1980	25	LAD	NL	9	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	139	1	0	0	0	0	0	/89
1981	26	LAD-min	AAA	104	412	341	68	106	17	5	1	63	14	5	58	37	.311	.404	.399	.803		136		0	6	7	11	ABQ · PCL
1981	26	LAD	NL	10	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.125	.222	.125	.347	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	/897
1982	27	MIN-min	AAA	12	54	43	10	15	7	0	1	5	1	0	9	1	.349	.453	.581	1.034		25		0	1	1	0	TOL · IL
1982	27	MIN	AL	124	513	454	48	113	11	6	2	28	8	9	54	53	.249	.331	.313	.643	76	142	6	2	2	1	4	*8/97
1983	28	MIN	AL	59	181	152	26	35	4	2	1	15	1	1	28	21	.230	.354	.303	.656	81	46	3	1	0	0	2	8/7
1984	29	MIN-min	AAA	85	347	276	47	75	19	4	0	26	10	5	64	37	.272	.408	.370	.777		102		0	6	1	6	TOL · IL
1985	30	DET-min	AAA	111	374	325	47	80	16	3	3	29	5	9	45	50	.246	.339	.342	.680		111		1	2	1	0	NVL · AA
1986	31	TOR-min	AAA	93	280	228	43	63	12	1	5	25	6	5	48	29	.276	.399	.404	.803		92		0	2	2	3	SYR · IL
4 Seasons				202	707	617	75	150	15	8	3	43	9	10	84	78	.243	.336	.308	.644	77	190	9	3	2	1	6
162 Game Avg.				162	567	495	60	120	12	6	2	34	7	8	67	63	.243	.336	.308	.644	77	152	7	2	2	1	5

MIN (2 yrs)				183	694	606	74	148	15	8	3	43	9	10	82	74	.244	.337	.310	.647	77	188	9	3	2	1	6
LAD (2 yrs)				19	13	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.182	.308	.182	.490	43	2	0	0	0	0	0

AL (2 yrs)				183	694	606	74	148	15	8	3	43	9	10	82	74	.244	.337	.310	.647	77	188	9	3	2	1	6
NL (2 yrs)				19	13	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.182	.308	.182	.490	43	2	0	0	0	0	0

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
1980	25	LAD	NL	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.1	$	/89
1981	26	LAD	NL	9	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$	/897
1982	27	MIN	AL	513	-16	-1	-3	2	11	0	16	9	0.8	-2	-0.2	1.0	$	*8/97
1983	28	MIN	AL	181	-3	1	-1	1	-4	0	6	0	0.0	4	0.4	-0.4	$	8/7
4 Seasons				707	-20	0	-4	3	9	0	22	9	0.8	1	0.1	0.7	$

MIN (2 yrs)				694	-19	0	-4	3	7	0	22	9	0.8	2	0.2	0.6	$
LAD (2 yrs)				13	-1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	-1	-0.1	0.1	$

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
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	.985	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.

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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

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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Transactions

June 5, 1973: Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 5th round of the 1973 amateur draft, but did not sign.
June 7, 1977: Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 7th round of the 1977 amateur draft.
January 6, 1982: Traded by the Los Angeles Dodgers with Bobby Castillo to the Minnesota Twins for Paul Voight (minors) and Scotti Madison.

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