Tom Nieto

Thomas Andrew Nieto

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 193 lb.

Born: October 27, 1960 in Downey, CA
School: Oral Roberts University (Tulsa, OK)
Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 3rd round of the 1981 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 10, 1984
Teams (by GP): Cardinals/Twins/Expos/Phillies 1984-1990

Final Game: September 29, 1990
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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	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO
1984	STL	NL	23	C	32	28	19	241.1	154	135	18	1	0	.994	3	15	5.71	4.78	.986	6.53	6.51	2	4	19	10	34%	31%	1
1985	STL	NL	24	C	95	80	56	694.1	416	384	28	4	3	.990	-5	-9	5.34	4.34	.987	6.42	6.42	10	21	50	12	19%	30%	1
1986	MON	NL	25	C	30	20	13	181.1	137	123	11	3	1	.978	-7	-46	6.65	4.47	.985	6.93	6.94	5	5	39	4	9%	32%	0
1987	MIN	AL	26	C	40	36	25	304.1	228	210	17	1	5	.996	-1	-4	6.71	5.68	.988	6.74	6.67	0	4	39	9	19%	31%	0
1987	MIN	AL	26	DH	1	0
1988	MIN	AL	27	C	24	18	13	164.0	115	108	6	1	1	.991	0	0	6.26	4.75	.989	6.22	6.16	2	1	10	3	23%	31%	0
1989	PHI	NL	28	C	11	10	4	77.1	65	63	2	0	0	1.000	-1	-16	7.56	5.91	.986	6.67	6.68	1	4	8	1	11%	32%	0
1990	PHI	NL	29	C	17	9	4	89.0	63	57	5	1	1	.984	0	0	6.27	3.65	.987	6.65	6.61	0	0	10	3	23%	29%	0
	7 Seasons			C	249	201	134	1751.2	1178	1080	87	11	11	.991	-11	-8	6.00	4.69	.987	6.55	6.53	20	39	175	42	19%	31%	2
	7 Seasons			TOT	249	201	134	1751.2	1178	1080	87	11	11	.991	-11	-8	6.00	4.69	.987	6.55	6.53	20	39	175	42	19%	31%	2

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-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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rctch
1984	STL	NL	23	C	3	15	3
1985	STL	NL	24	C	-5	-9	-5
1986	MON	NL	25	C	-7	-46	-7
1987	MIN	AL	26	C	-1	-4	-1
1988	MIN	AL	27	C	0	0	0
1989	PHI	NL	28	C	-1	-16	-1
1990	PHI	NL	29	C	0	0	0
	7 Seasons			C	-11	-8	-11
	7 Seasons			TOT	-11	-8	-11

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	DH	PH
1984	STL	NL	23	33	28	33	32	32	0	4
1985	STL	NL	24	95	80	95	95	95	0	2
1986	MON	NL	25	30	20	30	30	30	0	1
1987	MIN	AL	26	41	36	41	40	40	1	1
1988	MIN	AL	27	24	18	24	24	24	0	0
1989	PHI	NL	28	11	10	11	11	11	0	0
1990	PHI	NL	29	17	9	17	17	17	0	1
	7 Seasons			251	201	251	249	249	1	9

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 -- C*

					Pitching Stats						Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	ERA	RAvg	Fld	F2O%	XI	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	SO	Tot	1B	2B	3B	K23	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	263	n23	GB	bFld	bF2O%
1984	STL	NL	23	1023	3.92	4.11	6	100%	0	0	136	1	0	6	129	16	3	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	100%
1985	STL	NL	24	2865	3.20	3.55	25	100%	0	0	385	14	0	14	357	24	8	0	0	4	4	0	3	1	0	2	0	0	1	4	100%
1986	MON	NL	25	794	4.22	4.72	8	100%	0	0	124	3	2	6	113	9	4	0	0	2	3	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	2	100%
1987	MIN	AL	26	1272	4.08	4.44	19	95%	0	0	212	11	1	4	196	16	6	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	5	1	1	2	5	80%
1988	MIN	AL	27	679	3.79	4.01	5	80%	0	0	108	4	0	1	103	6	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	50%
1989	PHI	NL	28	322	2.79	3.14	3	100%	0	0	64	3	0	2	59	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1990	PHI	NL	29	370	3.64	3.84	6	100%	0	0	57	4	1	0	52	5	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	100%
	7 Seasons			7325	3.62	3.94	72	97%	0	0	1086	40	4	33	1009	78	22	2	1	11	11	0	4	7	0	10	1	2	6	15	87%
	MLB Averages				3.89	4.35		95%																							88%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PB	WP	SBO	SB	CS	CSctch	CS%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	RBA	RK	SBlev	CSlev
1984	STL	NL	23	2	4	391	19	10	8	34%	18	10	1	0	0	0	1	0	31	12	1.23	0.83
1985	STL	NL	24	10	21	1019	50	12	9	19%	44	12	6	0	0	0	1	0	97	18	1.36	1.46
1986	MON	NL	25	5	5	301	39	4	3	9%	35	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	61	7	0.98	1.70
1987	MIN	AL	26	0	4	445	39	9	6	19%	36	6	3	2	0	1	0	0	51	8	1.28	1.17
1988	MIN	AL	27	2	1	248	10	3	2	23%	10	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	3	1.66	1.17
1989	PHI	NL	28	1	4	125	8	1	1	11%	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	16	4	1.96	1.26
1990	PHI	NL	29	0	0	143	10	3	3	23%	8	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	12	3	1.23	1.09
	7 Seasons			20	39	2672	175	42	32	19%	158	37	17	4	0	1	2	0	281	55	1.28	1.22
	MLB Averages									32%											1.29	1.27

* 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

Fielding % as C s c a p y 1985 NL .990 (3rd)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1985 NL .990 (3rd)

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