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Steve Ontiveros

Steven Robert Ontiveros

Positions: Third Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: October 26, 1951 in Bakersfield, CA
High School: Bakersfield HS (Bakersfield, CA)
Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 6th round of the 1969 amateur draft.
Signed June 26, 1969. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 5, 1973
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Giants 1973-1980
Agents: Alan Meersand [*]
Final Game: June 21, 1980
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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 Awards
1973 SFG NL 21 1B 5 4 3 40.0 41 35 6 0 2 1.000 1 39 9.22 8.20 .992 9.83 9.84
1973 SFG NL 21 OF 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 360 9.00 1.00 .980 1.80 2.20
1973 SFG NL 21 RF 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 360 9.00 1.00 .970 1.80 2.00
1974 SFG NL 22 3B 75 72 70 643.1 224 64 144 16 16 .929 -7 -13 2.91 2.77 .948 3.04 3.04
1974 SFG NL 22 1B 19 18 14 150.2 177 160 14 3 14 .983 0 1 10.39 9.16 .991 9.94 9.93
1974 SFG NL 22 OF 2 1 0 9.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 1.00 0.50 .980 2.30 2.25
1974 SFG NL 22 RF 2 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 120 4.50 0.50 .980 2.25 2.05
1974 SFG NL 22 LF 1 1 0 7.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -34 0.00 0.00 1.93 2.00
1975 SFG NL 23 3B 89 88 73 748.2 273 64 188 21 14 .923 -3 -5 3.03 2.83 .945 2.98 2.97
1975 SFG NL 23 OF 8 5 4 54.0 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -11 1.17 0.88 .979 2.28 2.28
1975 SFG NL 23 RF 7 4 3 44.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 0 3 1.23 0.86 .973 2.02 2.03
1975 SFG NL 23 1B 4 0 0 9.1 10 9 1 0 1 1.000 1 90 9.64 2.50 .990 9.93 9.95
1975 SFG NL 23 LF 2 1 1 10.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -72 0.90 0.50 .970 2.07 2.10
1976 SFG NL 24 3B 7 2 2 24.1 10 4 6 0 1 1.000 0 10 3.70 1.43 .952 2.92 2.91
1976 SFG NL 24 OF 7 3 2 36.0 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -27 0.75 0.43 .980 2.35 2.33
1976 SFG NL 24 1B 4 0 0 11.2 15 12 1 2 1 .867 -1 -144 10.03 3.25 .991 9.95 9.93
1976 SFG NL 24 LF 4 2 2 23.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -26 0.39 0.25 .980 2.03 2.00
1976 SFG NL 24 CF 3 0 0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -60 0.00 0.00 2.85 2.83
1976 SFG NL 24 RF 2 1 0 7.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 2.57 1.00 .975 2.19 2.15
1977 CHC NL 25 3B 155 153 141 1359.2 444 100 324 20 24 .955 -4 -3 2.81 2.74 .956 2.98 2.98
1978 CHC NL 26 3B 77 75 71 676.1 260 57 194 9 16 .965 3 6 3.34 3.26 .952 3.00 2.97
1978 CHC NL 26 1B 1 1 1 9.0 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -27 7.00 7.00 .991 10.00 9.90
1979 CHC NL 27 3B 142 140 123 1213.1 389 98 268 23 27 .941 -10 -10 2.71 2.58 .951 2.89 2.88
1979 CHC NL 27 1B 1 0 0 8.0 8 7 1 0 1 1.000 0 15 9.00 8.00 .992 9.90 9.90
1980 CHC NL 28 3B 24 23 6 167.0 56 13 39 4 1 .929 -5 -33 2.80 2.17 .948 2.87 2.88
7 Seasons 3B 569 553 486 4832.2 1656 400 1163 93 99 .944 -25 -6 2.91 2.75 .951 2.96 2.96
6 Seasons 1B 34 23 18 228.2 258 230 23 5 19 .981 1 3 9.96 7.44 .991 9.92 9.92
4 Seasons OF 18 9 6 100.0 12 11 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -12 1.08 0.67 .979 2.30 2.29
4 Seasons RF 12 5 3 54.0 10 9 1 0 0 1.000 1 13 1.67 0.83 .974 2.05 2.05
3 Seasons LF 7 4 3 40.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -39 0.45 0.29 .975 2.02 2.03
1 Season CF 3 0 0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -60 0.00 0.00 2.85 2.83
8 Seasons TOT 621 585 510 5161.1 1926 641 1187 98 118 .949 -25 -6 3.19 2.94 .957 3.26 3.32
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
1973 SFG NL 21 1B 1 39 1 0 1 0
1973 SFG NL 21 RF 0 360 0 0 0 0
1974 SFG NL 22 3B -7 -13 -7 -8 1 0
1974 SFG NL 22 1B 0 1 0 -1 1 0
1974 SFG NL 22 RF 0 120 0 0 0 0
1974 SFG NL 22 LF -0 -34 -0 -0 0
1975 SFG NL 23 3B -3 -5 -3 -6 3 0
1975 SFG NL 23 RF 0 3 0 0 0 0
1975 SFG NL 23 1B 1 90 1 0 1 0
1975 SFG NL 23 LF -1 -72 -1 0 -1 0
1976 SFG NL 24 3B 0 10 0 1 -0 0
1976 SFG NL 24 1B -1 -144 -1 -1 -0 0
1976 SFG NL 24 LF -0 -26 -0 -0 -0 0
1976 SFG NL 24 CF -0 -60 -0 0 -0 0
1976 SFG NL 24 RF 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1977 CHC NL 25 3B -4 -3 -3 -3 0 -1
1978 CHC NL 26 3B 3 6 4 4 0 -1
1978 CHC NL 26 1B -0 -27 -0 0 -0 0
1979 CHC NL 27 3B -10 -10 -10 -8 -2 0
1979 CHC NL 27 1B 0 15 0 0 0 0
1980 CHC NL 28 3B -5 -33 -4 -3 -1 -1
7 Seasons 3B -25 -6 -22 -23 1 -3
6 Seasons 1B 1 3 1 -2 2 0
4 Seasons RF 1 13 1 0 0 0
3 Seasons LF -1 -39 -1 -1 -1 0
1 Season CF -0 -60 -0 0 -0 0
8 Seasons TOT -25 -6 -22 -25 2 -3 0
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
1973 SFG NL 21 24 4 24 6 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 18 0
1974 SFG NL 22 120 91 120 97 0 0 19 0 75 0 1 0 2 3 0 27 0
1975 SFG NL 23 108 93 108 97 0 0 4 0 89 0 2 0 7 9 0 13 0
1976 SFG NL 24 59 5 59 17 0 0 4 0 7 0 4 3 2 9 0 48 1
1977 CHC NL 25 156 153 156 155 0 0 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1978 CHC NL 26 82 76 82 78 0 0 1 0 77 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1979 CHC NL 27 152 140 152 143 0 0 2 0 143 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1980 CHC NL 28 31 23 31 24 0 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
8 Seasons 732 585 732 617 0 0 35 0 570 0 7 3 12 22 0 134 1
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 -- 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%
1974 SFG NL 22 2772 62% 82% 29% 221 86% 2 63 43 10 10 148 121 23 1 3 16 0 9 7 12 15 10 2 13 2 2 0 9 78%
1975 SFG NL 23 3297 62% 80% 27% 273 88% 4 66 46 11 9 192 156 27 3 5 21 0 14 7 18 14 9 2 12 2 2 0 12 75%
1976 SFG NL 24 108 71% 87% 33% 10 100% 0 4 4 0 0 6 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1977 CHC NL 25 5805 59% 82% 39% 448 88% 3 104 74 9 21 325 272 39 3 6 20 1 18 1 16 24 16 2 20 2 1 1 24 79%
1978 CHC NL 26 2888 63% 83% 38% 259 89% 2 54 44 5 5 190 154 29 1 5 9 0 7 2 9 15 11 1 13 1 1 0 16 50%
1979 CHC NL 27 5207 58% 80% 29% 376 89% 2 103 71 14 18 268 218 38 3 14 23 0 21 2 20 27 14 2 21 6 5 1 17 76%
1980 CHC NL 28 744 64% 81% 29% 52 87% 1 15 8 2 5 36 29 6 0 2 4 0 4 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 100%
7 Seasons 20821 60% 81% 33% 1639 88% 14 409 290 51 68 1165 953 165 11 35 93 1 73 19 78 97 61 10 81 13 11 2 81 73%
MLB Averages 61% 82% 28% 89% 68%

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%
1973 SFG NL 21 177 44% 83% 28% 13 100% 0 35 2 33 0 6 6 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
1974 SFG NL 22 643 60% 82% 32% 32 91% 0 162 4 158 0 11 14 12 2 0 0 3 0 3 0 1 14 1 1 0 14 2 0 0 0 2 100%
1975 SFG NL 23 41 85% 88% 32% 5 100% 0 11 1 10 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1976 SFG NL 24 50 46% 90% 32% 1 100% 0 11 0 12 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1978 CHC NL 26 41 46% 85% 22% 1 100% 0 7 0 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1979 CHC NL 27 31 61% 84% 23% 1 100% 0 7 0 7 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 983 57% 83% 30% 53 94% 0 233 7 227 0 21 23 19 3 1 0 5 1 4 0 1 19 1 1 0 19 2 0 0 0 2 100%
MLB Averages 61% 82% 28% 94% 88%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1973 SFG NL 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0% 67% 33% 1 100%
1974 SFG NL 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 60% 70% 10% 1 100%
1975 SFG NL 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 171 67% 71% 23% 10 60%
1976 SFG NL 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0% 0 1 100.0% 0 31 68% 84% 35% 3 67%
4 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 50.0% 0 1 50.0% 0 215 66% 73% 24% 15 67%
MLB Averages 41.6% 3.1% 61% 82% 27% 52%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1974 SFG NL 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 77% 81% 15% 0
1975 SFG NL 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 4 2 50.0% 2 0 0.0% 0 42 62% 90% 29% 4 25%
1976 SFG NL 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 93 54% 82% 27% 2 50%
3 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 4 2 50.0% 2 0 0.0% 0 161 60% 84% 25% 6 33%
MLB Averages 59.3% 2.8% 61% 82% 27% 47%

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1976 SFG NL 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 63% 83% 29% 2 0%
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 63% 83% 29% 2 0%
MLB Averages 44.8% 2.5% 61% 82% 27% 58%

* 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

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1977 NL  155 (3rd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1977 NL  100 (5th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1977 NL  324 (3rd)
1979 NL  268 (5th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1975 NL  21 (5th)
1977 NL  20 (3rd)
1979 NL  23 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1978 NL  3 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1975 NL  3.03 (5th)
Career  2.91 (24th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1975 NL  2.83 (5th)

             

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