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Lance Niekro

Lance Joseph Niekro

Positions: First Baseman and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: January 29, 1979 in Winter Haven, FL
High School: George Jenkins HS (Lakeland, FL)
School: Florida Southern College (Lakeland, FL)
Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 2nd round of the 2000 amateur draft.
Signed July 3, 2000. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 5, 2003
Team: Giants 2003-2007

Final Game: May 2, 2007
Relatives: Son of Joe Niekro and Nephew of Phil Niekro
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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 Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
2003 SFG NL 24 1B 3 0 0 7.0 4 4 0 0 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 5.14 1.33 .992 9.64 9.50
2005 SFG NL 26 1B 74 57 42 529.0 587 544 38 5 56 .991 -2 7 -4 16 9.90 7.86 .993 9.65 9.52
2005 SFG NL 26 DH 1 1
2006 SFG NL 27 1B 58 48 42 431.1 460 419 36 5 38 .989 6 4 16 11 9.49 7.84 .994 9.43 9.36
2007 SFG NL 28 1B 3 3 0 22.0 26 24 2 0 4 1.000 0 0 22 0 10.64 8.67 .993 9.20 9.17
4 Seasons 1B 138 108 84 989.1 1077 991 76 10 99 .991 4 11 5 13 9.71 7.73 .993 9.54 9.44
4 Seasons TOT 138 108 84 989.1 1077 991 76 10 99 .991 4 11 5 13 9.71 7.73 .993 9.54 9.44
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
2003 SFG NL 24 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2005 SFG NL 26 1B -2 -4 -2 0 -2 0 7 16 7 -1
2006 SFG NL 27 1B 6 16 6 1 5 0 4 11 2 1
2007 SFG NL 28 1B 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 1B 4 5 4 1 4 0 11 13 9 0
4 Seasons TOT 4 5 4 1 4 0 11 13 9 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2003 SFG NL 24 5 0 5 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
2005 SFG NL 26 113 58 113 74 0 0 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 45 1
2006 SFG NL 27 66 48 66 58 0 0 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
2007 SFG NL 28 11 3 11 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
4 Seasons 195 109 195 138 0 0 138 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 64 2
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 -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
2003 SFG NL 24 27 74% 67% 19% 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
2005 SFG NL 26 2253 56% 77% 32% 140 95% 2 543 47 480 16 57 39 22 6 1 5 5 0 3 2 3 56 0 1 2 48 4 8 0 8 3 33%
2006 SFG NL 27 1846 57% 77% 31% 107 92% 0 419 24 385 10 40 36 25 8 0 1 5 0 0 5 5 38 1 1 0 36 2 2 1 1 11 91%
2007 SFG NL 28 94 60% 79% 34% 4 100% 0 24 1 23 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 4220 57% 77% 31% 251 94% 2 990 72 892 26 99 77 48 14 1 7 10 0 3 7 8 99 1 2 2 89 6 10 1 9 14 79%
MLB Averages 58% 77% 32% 94% 84%

* 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 1B s c a p y
2006 NL  6 (3rd)

                                         

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