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Bobby Murcer

Bobby Ray Murcer

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: May 20, 1946 in Oklahoma City, OK
High School: Southeast (Oklahoma City, OK)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1964. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 8, 1965
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Cubs/Giants 1965-1983

Final Game: June 11, 1983
Died: July 12, 2008 in Oklahoma City, OK
Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Oklahoma City, OK
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:15AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #283. Wally Berger… #284. George Burns… #285. Herman Long… #286. BOBBY MURCER… #287. Ken Singleton… #288. Maury Wills… #289. Evan Longoria… 

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 Awards
1965 19 NYY AL 11 42 37 2 9 0 1 1 4 0 0 5 12 .243 .333 .378 .712 103 14 0 0 0 0 0 6
1966 20 NYY AL 21 73 69 3 12 1 1 0 5 2 2 4 5 .174 .219 .217 .437 29 15 0 0 0 0 0 6
1969 23 NYY AL 152 625 564 82 146 24 4 26 82 7 5 50 103 .259 .319 .454 .773 119 256 8 3 2 6 2 *5
1970 24 NYY AL 159 680 581 95 146 23 3 23 78 15 10 87 100 .251 .348 .420 .768 116 244 7 2 4 6 5 *
1971 25 NYY AL 146 624 529 94 175 25 6 25 94 14 8 91 60 .331 .427 .543 .969 181 287 9 0 1 3 13 * AS,MVP-7
1972 26 NYY AL 153 654 585 102 171 30 7 33 96 11 9 63 67 .292 .361 .537 .898 169 314 6 2 0 4 7 * AS,MVP-5,GG
1973 27 NYY AL 160 672 616 83 187 29 2 22 95 6 7 50 67 .304 .357 .464 .821 134 286 11 3 0 3 6 * AS,MVP-9
1974 28 NYY AL 156 679 606 69 166 25 4 10 88 14 5 57 59 .274 .332 .378 .710 106 229 11 2 2 12 10 * AS,MVP-21
1975 29 SFG NL 147 632 526 80 157 29 4 11 91 9 5 91 45 .298 .396 .432 .828 127 227 11 2 1 12 6 * AS
1976 30 SFG NL 147 624 533 73 138 20 2 23 90 12 7 84 78 .259 .362 .433 .796 123 231 11 4 0 3 10 *
1977 31 CHC NL 154 649 554 90 147 18 3 27 89 16 7 80 77 .265 .355 .455 .810 107 252 6 3 2 10 13 */46
1978 32 CHC NL 146 585 499 66 140 22 6 9 64 14 5 80 57 .281 .376 .403 .779 108 201 12 0 0 6 15 *
1979 33 TOT MLB 132 525 454 64 121 16 1 15 55 3 4 61 52 .267 .354 .405 .760 104 184 13 3 3 4 4 *987
1979 33 NYY AL 74 294 264 42 72 12 0 8 33 1 1 25 32 .273 .339 .409 .748 103 108 10 2 2 1 2
1979 33 CHC NL 58 231 190 22 49 4 1 7 22 2 3 36 20 .258 .374 .400 .774 104 76 3 1 1 3 2
1980 34 NYY AL 100 345 297 41 80 9 1 13 57 2 0 34 28 .269 .339 .438 .777 114 130 9 2 3 9 2
1981 35 NYY AL 50 130 117 14 31 6 0 6 24 0 0 12 15 .265 .331 .470 .801 132 55 3 0 0 1 1
1982 36 NYY AL 65 156 141 12 32 6 0 7 30 2 1 12 15 .227 .288 .418 .707 94 59 4 1 0 2 2
1983 37 NYY AL 9 23 22 2 4 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 .182 .217 .409 .626 72 9 3 0 0 0 0
17 Seasons 1908 7718 6730 972 1862 285 45 252 1043 127 75 862 841 .277 .357 .445 .802 124 2993 124 27 18 81 96
162 Game Avg. 162 655 571 83 158 24 4 21 89 11 6 73 71 .277 .357 .445 .802 124 254 11 2 2 7 8
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
NYY (13 yrs) 1256 4997 4428 641 1231 192 29 175 687 74 48 491 564 .278 .349 .453 .802 129 2006 81 17 14 47 50
CHC (3 yrs) 358 1465 1243 178 336 44 10 43 175 32 15 196 154 .270 .367 .426 .792 107 529 21 4 3 19 30
SFG (2 yrs) 294 1256 1059 153 295 49 6 34 181 21 12 175 123 .279 .379 .432 .812 125 458 22 6 1 15 16
AL (13 yrs) 1256 4997 4428 641 1231 192 29 175 687 74 48 491 564 .278 .349 .453 .802 129 2006 81 17 14 47 50
NL (5 yrs) 652 2721 2302 331 631 93 16 77 356 53 27 371 277 .274 .372 .429 .801 115 987 43 10 4 34 46

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
1965 19 NYY AL 42 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.3 2 0.2 0.1 $ 6
1966 20 NYY AL 73 -6 0 0 1 0 1 2 -2 -0.3 -2 -0.2 -0.1 $ 6
1969 23 NYY AL 625 10 -2 0 0 -4 -5 18 18 1.8 21 2.3 -0.5 $27,500 *5
1970 24 NYY AL 680 17 0 0 3 4 -2 21 43 4.5 39 4.2 0.3 $27,500 *
1971 25 NYY AL 624 58 1 -2 1 -13 -2 20 63 7.2 76 8.3 -1.1 $ * AS,MVP-7
1972 26 NYY AL 654 42 2 -1 2 2 -2 21 66 7.7 64 7.1 0.6 $ * AS,MVP-5,GG
1973 27 NYY AL 672 22 1 -3 3 -2 -2 22 41 4.2 43 4.6 -0.4 $100,000 * AS,MVP-9
1974 28 NYY AL 679 3 2 -1 2 -11 -6 21 10 1.1 21 2.2 -1.1 $110,000 * AS,MVP-21
1975 29 SFG NL 632 23 4 -1 0 -22 -7 18 15 1.8 37 4.0 -2.2 $ * AS
1976 30 SFG NL 624 17 2 -1 1 -10 -8 18 19 2.1 29 3.1 -1.0 $175,000 *
1977 31 CHC NL 649 5 2 -2 2 -15 -8 19 3 0.3 18 1.9 -1.6 $320,000 */46
1978 32 CHC NL 585 9 2 -2 0 -16 -6 18 5 0.6 21 2.3 -1.7 $320,000 *
1979 33 CHC NL 231 3 0 -1 0 2 -3 7 8 0.8 6 0.6 0.2 $320,000
1979 33 NYY AL 294 3 -1 -1 -2 -5 -1 10 3 0.3 8 0.8 -0.5 $
1980 34 NYY AL 345 6 -1 -1 0 -8 -5 11 2 0.2 10 1.0 -0.8 $320,000
1981 35 NYY AL 130 3 0 -1 0 0 -3 4 3 0.3 3 0.3 0.0 $320,000
1982 36 NYY AL 156 -1 0 -1 0 0 -5 5 -2 -0.2 -2 -0.2 0.0 $
1983 37 NYY AL 23 -1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $
17 Seasons 7718 213 12 -18 13 -98 -63 237 298 32.7 394 42.5 -9.8 $2,040,000
Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
NYY (13 yrs) 4997 156 2 -11 10 -37 -31 157 248 27.1 283 30.6 -3.5 $905,000
CHC (3 yrs) 1465 17 4 -5 2 -29 -17 44 16 1.7 45 4.8 -3.1 $960,000
SFG (2 yrs) 1256 40 6 -2 1 -32 -15 36 34 3.9 66 7.1 -3.2 $175,000

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
1980 34 NYY AL ALCS KCR L 1 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
1981 35 NYY AL ALDS MIL W 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .500 .000 .500 0 0 0 0 0 0
1981 35 NYY AL ALCS OAK W 1 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .333 .500 .333 .833 1 0 0 0 0 0
1981 35 NYY AL WS LAD L 4 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0
2 Seasons (4 Series) 8 14 11 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 .091 .231 .091 .322 1 0 0 1 0 0
1 ALDS 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .500 .000 .500 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 ALCS 2 8 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .143 .250 .143 .393 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 WS 4 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 1 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
1965 NYY AL 19 SS 11 74 28 41 5 14 .932 1 6.27 .962 4.73
1966 NYY AL 20 SS 18 87 31 50 6 4 .931 0 4.50 .960 4.78
1969 NYY AL 23 OF 118 224 212 4 8 0 .964 -2 1.83 .978 2.13
1969 NYY AL 23 3B 31 114 23 77 14 11 .877 -2 3.23 .955 3.15
1969 NYY AL 23 RF 102 88 85 814.2 161 152 4 5 0 .969 -0 -0 1.72 1.53 .974 1.91 1.91
1969 NYY AL 23 CF 27 27 16 212.1 60 57 0 3 0 .950 -2 -8 2.42 2.11 .982 2.50 2.50
1970 NYY AL 24 OF 155 393 375 15 3 3 .992 4 2.52 .980 2.13
1970 NYY AL 24 CF 155 152 149 1382.1 394 376 15 3 3 .992 4 3 2.55 2.52 .985 2.62 2.61
1971 NYY AL 25 OF 143 332 317 10 5 1 .985 -13 2.29 .982 2.22 AS,MVP-7
1971 NYY AL 25 CF 143 140 136 1258.1 332 317 10 5 1 .985 -13 -13 2.34 2.29 .983 2.73 2.72 AS,MVP-7
1972 NYY AL 26 OF 151 396 382 11 3 1 .992 2 2.60 .983 2.21 AS,MVP-5,GG
1972 NYY AL 26 CF 151 150 149 1328.1 390 376 11 3 2 .992 2 2 2.62 2.56 .987 2.65 2.64 AS,MVP-5,GG
1973 NYY AL 27 OF 160 400 380 14 6 2 .985 -2 2.46 .979 2.27 AS,MVP-9
1973 NYY AL 27 CF 160 160 154 1385.2 403 383 14 6 2 .985 -2 -2 2.58 2.48 .983 2.78 2.77 AS,MVP-9
1974 NYY AL 28 OF 156 325 297 21 7 2 .978 -11 2.04 .980 2.40 AS,MVP-21
1974 NYY AL 28 RF 102 100 93 883.2 210 187 18 5 2 .976 -0 -0 2.09 2.01 .976 2.18 2.17 AS,MVP-21
1974 NYY AL 28 CF 59 53 49 479.1 114 109 3 2 0 .982 -11 -27 2.10 1.90 .986 2.93 2.92 AS,MVP-21
1975 SFG NL 29 OF 144 215 201 10 4 3 .981 -22 1.47 .978 2.28 AS
1975 SFG NL 29 RF 143 142 121 1212.2 215 202 9 4 3 .981 -22 -21 1.57 1.48 .974 2.03 2.03 AS
1975 SFG NL 29 CF 2 1 1 9.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -53 1.00 0.50 .980 2.70 2.70 AS
1976 SFG NL 30 OF 146 305 282 11 12 2 .961 -10 2.01 .979 2.33
1976 SFG NL 30 RF 146 145 130 1278.1 307 284 11 12 2 .961 -10 -9 2.08 2.02 .974 2.15 2.15
1977 CHC NL 31 OF 150 253 237 11 5 5 .980 -15 1.65 .978 2.26
1977 CHC NL 31 2B 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 1.00 .980 5.20
1977 CHC NL 31 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.00
1977 CHC NL 31 RF 150 148 140 1330.1 248 232 11 5 5 .980 -15 -13 1.64 1.62 .974 2.11 2.11
1978 CHC NL 32 OF 138 238 225 8 5 0 .979 -16 1.69 .980 2.29
1978 CHC NL 32 RF 121 106 94 955.2 172 165 5 2 0 .988 -13 -16 1.60 1.40 .977 2.13 2.11
1978 CHC NL 32 CF 33 27 14 223.2 64 59 2 3 0 .953 -3 -17 2.45 1.85 .983 2.80 2.77
1979 TOT MLB 33 OF 124 290 279 8 3 0 .990 -4 2.31 .980 2.38
1979 TOT MLB 33 RF 62 58 51 514.4 119 114 4 1 0 .992 -2 -4 2.06 1.90 .979 2.19 2.19
1979 TOT MLB 33 CF 60 53 37 448.1 154 148 4 2 0 .987 -2 -4 3.05 2.53 .983 2.92 2.88
1979 NYY AL 33 OF 70 176 169 4 3 0 .983 -5 2.47 .981 2.43
1979 CHC NL 33 OF 54 114 110 4 0 0 1.000 2 2.11 .979 2.32
1979 CHC NL 33 RF 54 53 47 452.2 112 108 4 0 0 1.000 2 4 2.23 2.07 .979 2.18 2.18
1979 CHC NL 33 CF 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 180 4.50 1.00 .990 2.70 2.80
1979 NYY AL 33 CF 59 53 37 446.1 153 147 4 2 0 .987 -2 -5 3.04 2.56 .983 2.92 2.88
1979 NYY AL 33 LF 13 7 5 71.0 14 14 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -5 1.77 1.08 .980 2.22 2.20
1979 NYY AL 33 RF 8 5 4 61.2 7 6 0 1 0 .857 -3 -62 0.88 0.75 .980 2.25 2.22
1980 NYY AL 34 OF 59 88 82 2 4 0 .955 -8 1.42 .979 2.46
1980 NYY AL 34 LF 44 31 19 276.2 64 59 2 3 0 .953 -4 -18 1.98 1.39 .980 2.35 2.35
1980 NYY AL 34 DH 28 28
1980 NYY AL 34 RF 18 13 6 116.0 25 23 1 1 0 .960 -4 -40 1.86 1.33 .975 2.13 2.12
1981 NYY AL 35 DH 25 25
1982 NYY AL 36 DH 29 29
1983 NYY AL 37 DH 5 5
12 Seasons OF 1644 3459 3269 125 65 19 .981 -97 2.06 .980 2.27
8 Seasons RF 844 800 720 7105.2 1457 1359 63 35 12 .976 -65 -11 1.80 1.68 .975 2.10 2.09
9 Seasons CF 790 763 705 6727.1 1912 1826 59 27 8 .986 -27 -5 2.52 2.39 .984 2.72 2.71
2 Seasons LF 57 38 24 347.2 78 73 2 3 0 .962 -4 -15 1.94 1.32 .980 2.32 2.32
1 Season 3B 31 114 23 77 14 11 .877 -2 3.23 .955 3.15
3 Seasons SS 30 161 59 91 11 18 .932 1 5.00 .961 4.77
1 Season 2B 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 1.00 .980 5.20
17 Seasons TOT 1706 3735 3352 293 90 48 .976 -98 2.14 .978 2.33
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
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-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.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 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

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1989 BBWAA ( 0.7%)

All-Star Games
1971 (CF)
1972 (CF)
1973 (LF)
1974 (CF)
1975 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1971 AL (7, 21%)
1972 AL (5, 26%)
1973 AL (9, 16%)
1974 AL (21, 3%)
0.66 Career Shares (361st)

Gold Gloves
1972 AL (OF)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1971 AL  7.2 (5th)
1972 AL  7.7 (4th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1971 AL  7.2 (2nd)
1972 AL  7.7 (2nd)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1971 AL  8.3 (1st)
1972 AL  7.1 (2nd)
1973 AL  4.6 (9th)
Career  42.5 (228th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1971 AL  .331 (2nd)
1972 AL  .292 (10th)
1973 AL  .304 (4th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1971 AL  .427 (1st)
1975 NL  .396 (7th)
1978 NL  .376 (10th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1971 AL  .543 (2nd)
1972 AL  .537 (3rd)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1971 AL  .969 (1st)
1972 AL  .898 (4th)

Games Played s c a p y
1970 AL  159 (8th)
1972 AL  153 (4th)
1973 AL  160 (5th)

At Bats s c a p y
1972 AL  585 (5th)
1973 AL  616 (5th)
1974 AL  606 (4th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1972 AL  654 (4th)
1973 AL  672 (7th)
1974 AL  679 (5th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1970 AL  95 (10th)
1971 AL  94 (2nd)
1972 AL  102 (1st)

Hits s c a p y
1971 AL  175 (4th)
1972 AL  171 (3rd)
1973 AL  187 (3rd)
1974 AL  166 (9th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1971 AL  287 (3rd)
1972 AL  314 (1st)
1973 AL  286 (4th)

Doubles s c a p y
1972 AL  30 (3rd)
1973 AL  29 (6th)

Triples s c a p y
1971 AL  6 (8th)
1972 AL  7 (4th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1971 AL  25 (10th)
1972 AL  33 (2nd)
1976 NL  23 (6th)
Career  252 (196th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1971 AL  94 (4th)
1972 AL  96 (3rd)
1973 AL  95 (7th)
1974 AL  88 (7th)
1976 NL  90 (7th)
Career  1,043 (242nd)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1970 AL  87 (9th)
1971 AL  91 (4th)
1975 NL  91 (5th)
1976 NL  84 (6th)
1977 NL  80 (9th)
1978 NL  80 (9th)
Career  862 (189th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1969 AL  103 (5th)

Singles s c a p y
1971 AL  119 (7th)
1973 AL  134 (6th)
1974 AL  127 (7th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1971 AL  181 (1st)
1972 AL  169 (2nd)

Runs Created s c a p y
1971 AL  126 (1st)
1972 AL  114 (2nd)
1973 AL  100 (8th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1971 AL  59 (1st)
1972 AL  47 (2nd)
Career  228 (212th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1971 AL  6.1 (1st)
1972 AL  5.2 (2nd)
Career  23.5 (197th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1971 AL  56 (3rd)
1972 AL  70 (1st)
1973 AL  53 (5th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1971 AL  266 (1st)
1972 AL  236 (4th)
1973 AL  240 (9th)
1974 AL  225 (10th)
1975 NL  250 (8th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1971 AL  .814 (1st)
1972 AL  .773 (4th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1974 AL  12 (2nd)
1975 NL  12 (1st)
1977 NL  10 (1st)
1980 AL  9 (5th)
Career  81 (83rd)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1971 AL  13 (5th)
1974 AL  10 (9th)
1977 NL  13 (8th)
1978 NL  15 (8th)
Career  96 (128th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1970 AL  10 (10th)
Career  75 (247th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1970 AL  18.2 (7th)
1971 AL  17.9 (3rd)
1972 AL  16.5 (5th)
1976 NL  15.8 (7th)
1977 NL  20.1 (9th)
Career  168.9 (124th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1972 AL  17.7 (4th)
1976 NL  23.2 (9th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1970 AL  462 (10th)
1974 AL  470 (5th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
1971 AL  67.37 (1st)
1972 AL  52.35 (3rd)
1975 NL  43.82 (5th)
Career  269.12 (123rd)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1971 AL  7.2 (1st)
1972 AL  5.6 (3rd)
1974 AL  2.4 (9th)
Career  32.0 (79th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1971 AL  6.1 (1st)
1972 AL  6.3 (2nd)
Career  26.0 (120th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1971 AL  7.1 (1st)
1972 AL  5.8 (3rd)
1975 NL  4.3 (5th)
Career  27.8 (113th)

Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  59 (88th)

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  844 (85th)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  63 (97th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1970 AL  155 (5th)
1972 AL  151 (2nd)
1973 AL  160 (2nd)
1974 AL  156 (2nd)
1976 NL  146 (4th)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1970 AL  375 (2nd)
1972 AL  382 (1st)
1973 AL  380 (4th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1970 AL  15 (1st)
1972 AL  11 (3rd)
1973 AL  14 (1st)
1974 AL  21 (1st)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1976 NL  12 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1970 AL  2.52 (4th)
1972 AL  2.56 (4th)

Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1970 AL  .992 (3rd)
1972 AL  .992 (4th)
Career  .986 (90th)

Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y
Career  1.81 (98th)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1974 AL  2.01 (5th)
1976 NL  2.02 (5th)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1975 NL  .981 (4th)
1977 NL  .980 (3rd)
1978 NL  .988 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1970 AL  2.52 (5th)
1972 AL  2.60 (3rd)

Youngest s c a p y
1965 AL  born 1946-05-20 (7th)
1966 AL  born 1946-05-20 (4th)

             

† 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 (·)

Black InkBatting - 3 (523), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 95 (238), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 29 (622), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 26 (426), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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  8. George Hendrick (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Reggie Smith (952)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Gary Matthews (937)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  11. Chili Davis (942)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  12. Chili Davis (943)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  13. George Hendrick (952)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  14. Dusty Baker (946)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  15. Dusty Baker (941)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

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Salaries

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Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
196923New York Yankees$27,5002/28/70 NYT
197024New York Yankees$27,5003/14/70 TSN
197327New York Yankees$100,0003/24/73 TSN
197428New York Yankees$110,000Noll/Fort/Hylan database3/23/74 TSN: $120,000
197630San Francisco Giants$175,0004/24/76 TSN
197731Chicago Cubs$320,0008/20/81 NY Times
197832Chicago Cubs$320,0008/20/81 NY Times
197933Chicago Cubs$320,0008/20/81 NY Times
198034New York Yankees$320,0008/20/81 NY Times
198135New York Yankees$320,0008/20/81 NY Times
Career to date (may be incomplete)$2,040,000
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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