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Ron Oester
Ronald John Oester

Bats: Both , Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2" , Weight: 190 lb.

Born: May 5, 1956 in Cincinnati, OH
High School: Withrow (Cincinnati, OH)
Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 9th round of the 1974 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 10, 1978
Final Game: October 3, 1990
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Standard Batting

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Minors
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- 1987
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- 1989
- 1983
- 1990
- 1984
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- 1978
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- 1989
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- 1990
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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
1978	22	CIN	NL	6	9	8	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.375	.375	.375	.750	111	3	0	0	1	0	0	/6
1979	23	CIN	NL	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	/6
1980	24	CIN	NL	100	335	303	40	84	16	2	2	20	6	2	26	44	.277	.336	.363	.699	95	110	7	1	5	0	7	46/5	RoY-4
1981	25	CIN	NL	105	408	354	45	96	16	7	5	42	2	5	42	49	.271	.342	.398	.741	109	141	8	0	5	7	8	*4/6
1982	26	CIN	NL	151	595	549	63	143	19	4	9	47	5	6	35	82	.260	.303	.359	.662	84	197	16	0	8	3	8	*465
1983	27	CIN	NL	157	612	549	63	145	23	5	11	58	2	2	49	106	.264	.322	.384	.707	93	211	17	1	7	6	14	*4
1984	28	CIN	NL	150	601	553	54	134	26	3	3	38	7	2	41	97	.242	.295	.316	.612	70	175	16	1	5	1	7	*4/6
1985	29	CIN	NL	152	584	526	59	155	26	3	1	34	5	0	51	65	.295	.354	.361	.715	98	190	13	0	2	5	17	*4
1986	30	CIN	NL	153	586	523	52	135	23	2	8	44	9	2	52	84	.258	.325	.356	.680	85	186	18	1	7	3	16	*4
1987	31	CIN	NL	69	261	237	28	60	9	6	2	23	2	3	22	51	.253	.317	.367	.684	78	87	8	0	2	0	4	4
1988	32	CIN	NL	54	163	150	20	42	7	0	0	10	0	2	9	24	.280	.319	.327	.645	83	49	2	0	3	1	3	4/6
1989	33	CIN	NL	109	337	305	23	75	15	0	1	14	1	0	32	47	.246	.318	.305	.622	77	93	10	0	0	0	8	4/6
1990	34	CIN	NL	64	171	154	10	46	10	1	0	13	1	2	10	29	.299	.339	.377	.716	94	58	1	0	6	1	1	4/5
13 Seasons				1276	4665	4214	458	1118	190	33	42	344	40	26	369	681	.265	.323	.356	.679	87	1500	116	4	51	27	93
162 Game Avg.				162	592	535	58	142	24	4	5	44	5	3	47	86	.265	.323	.356	.679	87	190	15	1	6	3	12

Postseason Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB
1990	34	CIN	NL	NLCS	PIT	W	4	3	3	1	1	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1
1990	34	CIN	NL	WS	OAK	W	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1
1 Season (2 Series)							5	4	4	1	2	1	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2
1 NLCS							4	3	3	1	1	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1
1 WS							1	1	1	0	1	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1

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Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rdp	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1978	CIN	NL	22	SS	6	1	22.0	12	3	9	0	2	1.000	-0.2	-10.9	-0.2	-0.1	-0.1	0	4.91	2.00	.967	4.87	4.25
1979	CIN	NL	23	SS	2	0	5.0	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	-0.1	-24.0	-0.1	-0.3	0.2	0	5.40	1.50	.967	5.04	4.50
1980	CIN	NL	24	2B	79	71	617.1	345	144	194	7	42	.980	-1.3	-2.5	-2.3	-0.3	-1.9	1	4.93	4.28	.980	5.49	4.71	RoY-4
1980	CIN	NL	24	SS	17	8	93.1	45	16	27	2	4	.956	-0.9	-11.6	-0.9	-1.5	0.6	0	4.15	2.53	.967	5.01	4.30	RoY-4
1980	CIN	NL	24	3B	3	1	16.0	5	1	3	1	0	.800	-0.4	-30.0	-0.4	-0.1	-0.3	0	2.25	1.33	.960	2.87	2.40	RoY-4
1981	CIN	NL	25	2B	103	100	874.2	541	202	328	11	61	.980	8.0	11.0	7.0	4.3	2.7	1	5.45	5.15	.982	5.52	4.72
1981	CIN	NL	25	SS	9	2	35.2	24	11	13	0	3	1.000	1.7	57.2	1.7	-0.1	1.8	0	6.06	2.67	.958	5.10	4.44
1982	CIN	NL	26	2B	118	109	952.0	600	258	325	17	72	.972	-4.5	-5.7	-4.5	-8.0	3.5	0	5.51	4.94	.978	5.42	4.75
1982	CIN	NL	26	SS	29	20	203.2	99	37	60	2	11	.980	-2.5	-14.7	-2.5	-1.9	-0.6	0	4.29	3.34	.967	5.01	4.38
1982	CIN	NL	26	3B	13	10	90.0	30	9	18	3	4	.900	-1.8	-24.0	-1.8	-1.1	-0.6	0	2.70	2.08	.953	2.77	2.43
1983	CIN	NL	27	2B	154	152	1344.1	745	315	413	17	80	.977	-5.2	-4.6	-6.2	-4.0	-2.3	1	4.87	4.73	.978	5.34	4.46
1984	CIN	NL	28	2B	147	140	1256.0	760	357	388	15	75	.980	-9.5	-9.1	-5.5	-8.8	3.3	-4	5.34	5.07	.979	5.41	4.71
1984	CIN	NL	28	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.00	0.00		4.50	4.00
1985	CIN	NL	29	2B	149	148	1321.1	832	366	457	9	100	.989	13.8	12.5	12.8	5.2	7.6	1	5.61	5.52	.982	5.47	4.82
1986	CIN	NL	30	2B	151	148	1333.0	861	367	475	19	100	.978	4.4	4.0	6.4	2.4	3.9	-2	5.68	5.58	.980	5.21	4.54
1987	CIN	NL	31	2B	69	66	593.0	379	183	186	10	37	.974	-1.2	-2.4	-1.2	-1.4	0.1	0	5.60	5.35	.982	5.19	4.44
1988	CIN	NL	32	2B	49	40	359.2	213	108	104	1	24	.995	2.2	7.3	3.2	2.5	0.7	-1	5.30	4.33	.980	5.22	4.58
1988	CIN	NL	32	SS	5	2	29.0	11	2	9	0	2	1.000	0.2	8.3	0.2	-0.2	0.4	0	3.41	2.20	.964	4.62	4.00
1989	CIN	NL	33	2B	102	85	763.2	457	211	239	7	42	.985	-0.6	-0.9	1.4	1.1	0.3	-2	5.30	4.41	.981	5.12	4.43
1989	CIN	NL	33	SS	2	2	18.0	14	4	10	0	2	1.000	0.2	13.3	0.2	0.0	0.2	0	7.00	7.00	.964	4.50	3.90
1990	CIN	NL	34	2B	50	33	338.1	171	80	88	3	14	.982	-3.8	-13.5	-1.8	-2.7	0.9	-2	4.47	3.36	.983	5.01	4.28
1990	CIN	NL	34	3B	3	1	15.0	3	0	2	1	0	.667	-0.5	-40.0	-0.5	0.0	-0.5	0	1.20	0.67	.967	2.76	2.30
11 Seasons				2B	1171	1092	9753.1	5904	2591	3197	116	647	.980	2.3	0.3	9.3	-9.7	18.8	-7	5.34	4.94	.980	5.34	4.61
8 Seasons				SS	71	35	407.2	208	74	130	4	24	.981	-1.6	-4.7	-1.6	-4.1	2.5	0	4.50	2.87	.965	4.96	4.32
3 Seasons				3B	19	12	121.0	38	10	23	5	4	.868	-2.7	-26.8	-2.7	-1.2	-1.4	0	2.45	1.74	.955	2.78	2.41
13 Seasons				TOT	1261	1139	10282.0	6150	2675	3350	125	675	.980	-2.0	-0.2	5.0	-15.0	19.9	-7	5.27	4.78	.959	5.30	4.56
				Pos	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rdp	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Awards (yr-lg-award) 1988-ML-Hutch Award	Games Played s c a p y 1983 NL--157--10th	Triples s c a p y 1981 NL--7--8th	Singles s c a p y 1985 NL--125--9th
Sacrifice Flies s c a p y 1981 NL--7--2nd	Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y 1981 NL--8--8th 1983 NL--14--9th 1985 NL--17--4th 1986 NL--16--5th Career--93--135th	Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y 1982 NL--16--7th 1983 NL--17--6th 1984 NL--16--7th 1986 NL--18--6th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Gray Ink Batting - 2 (2000), Average HOFer ≈ 144

Hall of Fame Monitor Batting - 1 (2159), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 14 (1148), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Similar Batters

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Johnny Ray (987) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Charlie Moore (975) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Charlie Moore (974) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Charlie Moore (974) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Charlie Moore (972) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Charlie Moore (972) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Charlie Moore (969) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

June 5, 1974: Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 9th round of the 1974 amateur draft.

October 21, 1987: Released by the Cincinnati Reds.

January 29, 1988: Signed as a Free Agent with the Cincinnati Reds.

November 4, 1988: Granted Free Agency.

December 2, 1988: Signed as a Free Agent with the Cincinnati Reds.

November 5, 1990: Granted Free Agency.

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Salaries

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1985	Cincinnati Reds	$550,000
1986	Cincinnati Reds	$650,000
1987	Cincinnati Reds	$750,000
1989	Cincinnati Reds	$650,000
1990	Cincinnati Reds	$650,000
Career (may be incomplete)		$3,250,000

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, member of SABR.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

Uniforms

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Name and misspellings: Ronald John Ron ronnie Oester

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Gray Ink	Batting - 2 (2000), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 1 (2159), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 14 (1148), Average HOFer ≈ 50