Danny Napoleon

Daniel Napoleon

Positions: Pinch Hitter, Leftfielder and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: January 11, 1942 in Claysburg, PA
High School: Central (Trenton, NJ)
School: Rider University
Signed by the New York Mets as an amateur free agent in 1964. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1965
Team: Mets 1965-1966

Final Game: October 2, 1966
Died: April 26, 2003 in Trenton, NJ
Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Trenton, NJ
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Fine Details · Last Updated Dec 23, 2011, 9:06AM

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…

Standard Batting

More Stats

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
1964	22	NYM-min	A	126	499	499		175	24	6	36						.351	.351	.639	.990		319						AUB · NYPL
1965	23	NYM-min	AAA	30	120	113	14	31	5	2	1	9	2	2	6	21	.274	.317	.381	.697		43		1	0	0		BFL · IL
1965	23	NYM	NL	68	108	97	5	14	1	1	0	7	0	0	8	23	.144	.222	.175	.397	16	17	4	2	0	1	1	7/59
1966	24	NYM-min	AAA	134	474	421	59	110	23	2	15	53	3	2	48	97	.261	.335	.432	.767		182		0	2	3		JCK · IL
1966	24	NYM	NL	12	34	33	2	7	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	10	.212	.235	.273	.508	43	9	1	0	0	0	0	7
1967	25	STL-min	AAA	117	419	384	46	103	20	1	11	44	2	1	33	64	.268	.328	.411	.739		158		1	1	0		TUL · PCL
1968	26	CHW-MIN-min	AAA	96	305	271	38	75	9	5	9	35	3	3	27	47	.277	.339	.446	.785		121		1	1	5		HAW,DEN · PCL
1969	27	STL-min	AA	79	297	277	39	87	16	3	5	42	3	2	20	31	.314	.360	.448	.808		124						ARK · TL
1970	28	STL-min	AA	105	364	364		106	16	5	12						.291	.291	.462	.753		168						ARK · TL
1971	29	STL-min	AA	111	370	322	41	84	19	1	10	44	0	0	42	62	.261	.345	.419	.764		135		1	2	3		ARK · TL
2 Seasons				80	142	130	7	21	3	1	0	7	0	1	9	33	.162	.225	.200	.425	23	26	5	2	0	1	1
162 Game Avg.				162	288	263	14	43	6	2	0	14	0	2	18	67	.162	.225	.200	.425	23	53	10	4	0	2	2

Player Value--Batters

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

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos
1965	23	NYM	NL	108	-10	1	-1	4	-6	-0.8	-7	-0.7	-0.1	$	7/59
1966	24	NYM	NL	34	-2	-2	0	1	-3	-0.3	-1	-0.1	-0.2	$	7
2 Seasons				142	-12	-1	-1	5	-9	-1.1	-8	-0.8	-0.3	$

Standard Fielding

More Stats

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG
1965	NYM	NL	23	OF	15	12	5	115.1	34	32	0	2	.941	2	21	2.50	2.13	.975	2.00	2.00
1965	NYM	NL	23	LF	14	11	4	106.1	33	31	0	2	.939	2	27	2.62	2.21	.966	1.71	1.71
1965	NYM	NL	23	3B	7	1	1	22.0	2	1	1	0	1.000	-1	-44	0.82	0.29	.950	2.82	2.81
1965	NYM	NL	23	RF	1	1	1	9.0	0	0	0	0		-0	-53	0.00	0.00		2.00	2.00
1966	NYM	NL	24	LF	10	9	6	74.0	14	12	1	1	.929	-2	-29	1.58	1.30	.963	1.74	1.74
1966	NYM	NL	24	OF	10	9	6	74.0	14	12	1	1	.929	-2	-29	1.58	1.30	.974	2.03	2.03
	2 Seasons			OF	25	21	11	189.1	48	44	1	3	.938	0	1	2.14	1.80	.975	2.01	2.01
	2 Seasons			LF	24	20	10	180.1	47	43	1	3	.936	1	4	2.20	1.83	.965	1.72	1.72
	1 Season			3B	7	1	1	22.0	2	1	1	0	1.000	-1	-44	0.82	0.29	.950	2.82	2.81
	1 Season			RF	1	1	1	9.0	0	0	0	0		-0	-53	0.00	0.00		2.00	2.00
	2 Seasons			TOT	32	22	12	211.1	50	45	2	3	.940	-1	-3	2.00	1.47	.974	2.10	2.19

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.
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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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Transactions

Before 1964 Season: Signed by the New York Mets as an amateur free agent.
April 1, 1967: Traded by the New York Mets with Eddie Bressoud and cash to the St. Louis Cardinals for Jerry Buchek, Art Mahaffey and Tony Martinez.

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