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Charlie Neal

Charles Lenard Neal

Positions: Second Baseman, Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: January 30, 1931 in Longview, TX
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1950. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 17, 1956
Teams (by GP): Dodgers/Mets/Reds 1956-1963

Final Game: September 29, 1963
Died: November 18, 1996 in Dallas, TX
Buried: Grace Hill Cemetery, Longview, TX
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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
1956 BRO NL 25 2B 51 34 31 332.0 178 70 103 5 24 .972 -0 -2 4.69 3.39 .980 5.34 5.28
1956 BRO NL 25 SS 1 0 0 3.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.00 1.00 .960 4.80 4.90
1957 BRO NL 26 SS 100 100 97 889.1 473 151 298 24 60 .949 1 1 4.54 4.49 .958 4.82 4.85
1957 BRO NL 26 3B 23 21 20 200.0 60 23 34 3 5 .950 -1 -6 2.56 2.48 .952 2.96 2.98
1957 BRO NL 26 2B 3 1 1 21.0 16 8 8 0 1 1.000 1 57 6.86 5.33 .977 5.36 5.40
1958 LAD NL 27 2B 132 128 120 1119.1 694 334 343 17 121 .976 -6 -6 5.44 5.13 .975 5.33 5.30
1958 LAD NL 27 SS 9 7 6 66.0 30 10 18 2 2 .933 -1 -13 3.82 3.11 .964 5.11 5.08
1959 LAD NL 28 2B 151 150 147 1346.2 808 386 413 9 110 .989 4 4 5.34 5.29 .976 5.27 5.22 AS,MVP-8,GG
1959 LAD NL 28 SS 1 0 0 8.0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0 0 2.25 2.00 .965 5.06 5.10 AS,MVP-8,GG
1960 LAD NL 29 2B 136 130 121 1151.2 554 250 291 13 78 .977 -9 -9 4.23 3.98 .974 5.20 5.19 AS
1960 LAD NL 29 SS 3 0 0 7.0 6 1 5 0 1 1.000 1 120 7.71 2.00 .960 4.76 4.80 AS
1961 LAD NL 30 2B 104 88 83 820.1 468 211 246 11 63 .976 -10 -15 5.01 4.39 .976 5.51 5.45
1962 NYM NL 31 2B 85 84 79 727.1 440 187 240 13 54 .970 -9 -15 5.28 5.02 .974 5.30 5.25
1962 NYM NL 31 SS 39 37 35 339.2 193 63 118 12 30 .938 -4 -12 4.80 4.64 .963 5.05 5.01
1962 NYM NL 31 3B 12 12 11 101.2 40 6 31 3 1 .925 -2 -24 3.28 3.08 .949 2.95 2.92
1963 TOT NL 32 3B 85 78 66 693.0 245 82 152 11 10 .955 -4 -6 3.04 2.75 .941 2.93 2.92
1963 TOT NL 32 SS 9 5 4 45.2 31 16 14 1 6 .968 -1 -24 5.91 3.33 .961 4.85 4.82
1963 NYM NL 32 3B 66 64 55 556.1 204 61 135 8 10 .961 -1 -2 3.17 2.97 .941 2.93 2.92
1963 NYM NL 32 SS 8 5 4 43.2 30 15 14 1 6 .967 -0 -5 5.98 3.63 .961 4.84 4.82
1963 CIN NL 32 3B 19 14 11 136.2 41 21 17 3 0 .927 -3 -25 2.50 2.00 .941 2.93 2.92
1963 CIN NL 32 2B 1 0 0 1.1 1 0 1 0 1 1.000 -0 -90 6.75 1.00 .970 5.40 5.20
1963 CIN NL 32 SS 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -420 4.50 1.00 .960 4.95 4.80
8 Seasons 2B 663 615 582 5519.2 3159 1446 1645 68 452 .978 -29 -6 5.04 4.66 .975 5.31 5.27
7 Seasons SS 162 149 142 1358.2 736 241 456 39 99 .947 -4 -3 4.62 4.30 .960 4.89 4.90
3 Seasons 3B 120 111 97 994.2 345 111 217 17 16 .951 -7 -8 2.97 2.73 .944 2.94 2.93
8 Seasons TOT 945 875 821 7873.0 4240 1798 2318 124 567 .971 -40 -6 4.71 4.36 .970 4.94 4.91
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-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
1956 BRO NL 25 2B -0 -2 0 -1 1 -1
1956 BRO NL 25 SS 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 BRO NL 26 SS 1 1 1 1 -0 0
1957 BRO NL 26 3B -1 -6 -1 -1 0 0
1957 BRO NL 26 2B 1 57 1 0 1 0
1958 LAD NL 27 2B -6 -6 -11 -7 -4 5
1958 LAD NL 27 SS -1 -13 0 0 0 -1
1959 LAD NL 28 2B 4 4 4 8 -3 0
1959 LAD NL 28 SS 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 LAD NL 29 2B -9 -9 -9 -2 -7 0
1960 LAD NL 29 SS 1 120 1 1 0 0
1961 LAD NL 30 2B -10 -15 -9 -6 -4 -1
1962 NYM NL 31 2B -9 -15 -9 -3 -6 0
1962 NYM NL 31 SS -4 -12 -2 -3 1 -1
1962 NYM NL 31 3B -2 -24 -2 -0 -2 0
1963 NYM NL 32 3B -1 -2 -1 -2 1 0
1963 NYM NL 32 SS -0 -5 -1 -1 -1 1
1963 CIN NL 32 3B -3 -25 -3 -2 -1 0
1963 CIN NL 32 2B -0 -90 -0 0 -0 0
1963 CIN NL 32 SS -1 -420 -1 -1 0 0
8 Seasons 2B -29 -6 -32 -11 -22 3
7 Seasons SS -4 -3 -3 -3 -0 -1
3 Seasons 3B -7 -8 -7 -6 -1 0
8 Seasons TOT -40 -6 -42 -19 -23 2
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1956 BRO NL 25 62 34 62 52 0 0 0 51 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 8
1957 BRO NL 26 128 122 128 125 0 0 0 3 23 100 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
1958 LAD NL 27 140 135 140 138 0 0 0 132 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1959 LAD NL 28 151 150 151 151 0 0 0 151 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 LAD NL 29 139 130 139 136 0 0 0 136 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1961 LAD NL 30 108 88 108 104 0 0 0 104 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3
1962 NYM NL 31 136 133 136 135 0 0 0 85 12 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1963 NYM NL 32 72 69 72 70 0 0 0 0 66 8 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1963 CIN NL 32 34 14 34 20 0 0 0 1 19 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 2
8 Seasons 970 875 970 931 0 0 0 663 120 162 0 0 0 0 0 36 19
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 -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1956 BRO NL 25 1413 62% 80% 30% 131 92% 0 72 29 32 11 102 78 22 0 2 5 1 3 1 3 26 8 1 10 1 22 11 11 2 1 1
1957 BRO NL 26 76 66% 80% 38% 10 90% 0 8 3 4 1 7 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1958 LAD NL 27 4894 68% 78% 29% 396 92% 4 329 102 163 64 336 257 64 0 8 17 2 10 5 11 122 25 31 41 4 110 46 60 10 4 6
1959 LAD NL 28 5793 65% 73% 29% 525 92% 2 387 131 187 69 417 353 53 0 13 9 1 8 0 8 112 32 15 26 13 95 39 52 11 2 9
1960 LAD NL 29 4838 63% 74% 30% 368 91% 1 261 80 133 48 298 237 51 1 6 13 0 9 4 8 80 23 14 28 3 72 31 40 7 4 3
1961 LAD NL 30 3603 67% 74% 28% 284 91% 1 217 58 112 47 242 203 29 0 5 11 1 8 2 7 66 23 10 13 3 54 17 36 7 2 3
1962 NYM NL 31 3204 63% 82% 29% 284 89% 0 195 54 96 45 237 194 35 0 6 13 0 10 3 11 56 20 13 11 5 49 16 33 4 1 3
1963 CIN NL 32 8 75% 100% 25% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons 23829 65% 76% 29% 1999 91% 8 1469 457 727 285 1640 1328 256 1 40 68 5 48 15 48 464 132 84 130 29 404 161 233 41 14 25
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 93%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1957 BRO NL 26 807 65% 80% 28% 57 88% 0 23 16 3 4 34 24 9 0 2 3 0 3 0 2 5 3 0 4 0 0 0 5 80%
1962 NYM NL 31 471 66% 81% 28% 36 83% 2 6 3 1 2 26 20 4 2 1 3 0 2 1 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1963 NYM NL 32 2424 62% 80% 27% 197 89% 2 56 45 5 6 134 97 30 1 2 8 0 6 2 7 10 7 0 9 1 1 0 5 80%
1963 CIN NL 32 556 65% 76% 25% 35 94% 0 21 15 4 2 17 14 3 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
3 Seasons 4258 63% 80% 27% 325 89% 4 106 79 13 14 211 155 46 3 5 16 0 13 3 14 17 11 0 15 1 1 0 12 83%
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 89% 60%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1956 BRO NL 25 13 85% 85% 46% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 BRO NL 26 3759 66% 79% 32% 381 88% 2 143 62 68 13 299 209 83 0 4 24 1 18 5 19 63 27 4 13 6 5 59 31 24 4 3 1
1958 LAD NL 27 293 64% 79% 29% 28 86% 0 11 3 6 2 22 16 6 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1959 LAD NL 28 37 65% 73% 19% 3 67% 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960 LAD NL 29 30 50% 80% 33% 4 100% 0 1 0 1 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1962 NYM NL 31 1511 60% 81% 29% 146 90% 2 61 25 30 6 121 81 35 0 3 12 3 6 3 8 30 14 1 6 2 3 29 15 12 1 1 0
1963 NYM NL 32 187 50% 76% 32% 15 93% 1 15 6 9 0 14 9 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 6 1 0 3 0 1 6 1 5 0 0 0
1963 CIN NL 32 16 63% 88% 31% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 5846 63% 79% 31% 578 89% 5 231 96 114 21 464 322 128 0 7 40 5 25 10 29 102 42 5 23 9 9 96 47 43 5 4 1
MLB Averages 63% 80% 27% 90%

* 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

All-Star Games
1959-2 *
1960-1 *
1960-2 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1959 NL (8, 19%)
0.19 Career Shares (759th)

Gold Gloves
1959 NL (2B)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1957 NL  27 (3rd)
1962 NL  28 (5th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1958 NL  132 (5th)
1959 NL  151 (2nd)
1960 NL  136 (3rd)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1958 NL  334 (3rd)
1959 NL  386 (1st)
1960 NL  250 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1958 NL  343 (5th)
1959 NL  413 (3rd)
1960 NL  291 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1958 NL  17 (3rd)
1960 NL  13 (4th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1957 NL  24 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1959 NL  4 (1st)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1958 NL  5.44 (5th)
1959 NL  5.34 (4th)
1962 NL  5.28 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1958 NL  5.13 (3rd)
1959 NL  5.29 (3rd)
1962 NL  5.02 (4th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1958 NL  .976 (5th)
1959 NL  .989 (1st)
1960 NL  .977 (3rd)
1961 NL  .976 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1963 NL  3.04 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1963 NL  2.75 (5th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1963 NL  .955 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1957 NL  4.49 (5th)

                                         

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