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Bob Robertson

Robert Eugene Robertson

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: October 2, 1946 in Frostburg, MD
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1964. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 18, 1967
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Mariners/BlueJays 1967-1979

Final Game: June 23, 1979
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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
1967 PIT NL 20 1B 9 9 8 78.2 97 91 5 1 9 .990 -0 -5 10.98 10.67 .991 9.96 9.96
1969 PIT NL 22 1B 26 23 21 213.0 231 214 16 1 19 .996 -3 -19 9.72 8.85 .992 9.83 9.76
1970 PIT NL 23 1B 99 96 82 853.0 990 907 78 5 107 .995 7 10 10.39 9.95 .992 9.68 9.64 MVP-27
1970 PIT NL 23 3B 5 5 2 34.0 8 4 3 1 1 .875 -1 -42 1.85 1.40 .945 2.91 2.90 MVP-27
1970 PIT NL 23 LF 3 3 2 27.0 6 4 0 2 0 .667 -0 -22 1.33 1.33 .972 1.73 1.73 MVP-27
1970 PIT NL 23 OF 3 3 2 27.0 6 4 0 2 0 .667 -0 -22 1.33 1.33 .977 2.07 2.07 MVP-27
1971 PIT NL 24 1B 126 126 122 1122.1 1226 1089 128 9 107 .993 2 2 9.76 9.66 .992 9.88 9.87
1972 PIT NL 25 1B 89 51 49 531.1 566 502 60 4 57 .993 6 14 9.52 6.31 .992 9.73 9.76
1972 PIT NL 25 LF 23 22 8 168.0 38 35 2 1 0 .974 0 1 1.98 1.61 .974 1.92 1.93
1972 PIT NL 25 OF 23 22 8 168.0 38 35 2 1 0 .974 0 1 1.98 1.61 .978 2.18 2.19
1972 PIT NL 25 3B 11 10 7 95.0 28 6 20 2 2 .929 -2 -23 2.46 2.36 .945 2.87 2.88
1973 PIT NL 26 1B 107 106 102 945.1 1041 957 79 5 91 .995 1 2 9.86 9.68 .992 9.83 9.83
1974 PIT NL 27 1B 63 56 48 507.2 536 494 37 5 44 .991 -1 -2 9.41 8.43 .991 9.94 9.93
1975 PIT NL 28 1B 27 25 16 206.2 228 209 18 1 10 .996 0 2 9.89 8.41 .990 9.97 9.96
1976 PIT NL 29 1B 29 28 25 250.1 275 257 17 1 28 .996 -3 -16 9.85 9.45 .991 9.95 9.93
1978 SEA AL 31 DH 29 28
1978 SEA AL 31 1B 18 16 11 136.0 149 141 8 0 16 1.000 -3 -26 9.86 8.28 .992 10.05 9.95
1979 TOR AL 32 1B 9 5 4 51.0 61 54 7 0 6 1.000 2 54 10.76 6.78 .992 10.08 9.96
1979 TOR AL 32 DH 4 1
11 Seasons 1B 602 541 488 4895.1 5400 4915 453 32 494 .994 9 2 9.87 8.92 .992 9.84 9.82
2 Seasons OF 26 25 10 195.0 44 39 2 3 0 .932 -0 -2 1.89 1.58 .978 2.16 2.18
2 Seasons LF 26 25 10 195.0 44 39 2 3 0 .932 -0 -2 1.89 1.58 .974 1.89 1.91
2 Seasons 3B 16 15 9 129.0 36 10 23 3 3 .917 -3 -28 2.30 2.06 .945 2.88 2.89
11 Seasons TOT 644 581 507 5219.1 5480 4964 478 38 497 .993 5 1 9.38 8.45 .991 9.38 9.34
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
1967 PIT NL 20 1B -0 -5 -0 0 -0 0
1969 PIT NL 22 1B -3 -19 -3 -1 -2 0
1970 PIT NL 23 1B 7 10 7 3 4 0
1970 PIT NL 23 3B -1 -42 -1 -1 -1 0
1970 PIT NL 23 LF -0 -22 -0 -0 -0 0
1971 PIT NL 24 1B 2 2 2 2 0 0
1972 PIT NL 25 1B 6 14 6 5 1 0
1972 PIT NL 25 LF 0 1 0 -1 1 0
1972 PIT NL 25 3B -2 -23 -2 -1 -1 0
1973 PIT NL 26 1B 1 2 2 1 2 -1
1974 PIT NL 27 1B -1 -2 -1 -2 1 0
1975 PIT NL 28 1B 0 2 0 1 -0 0
1976 PIT NL 29 1B -3 -16 -3 -1 -2 0
1978 SEA AL 31 1B -3 -26 -3 -2 -1 0
1979 TOR AL 32 1B 2 54 2 2 1 0
11 Seasons 1B 9 2 10 7 3 -1
2 Seasons LF -0 -2 -0 -1 1 0
2 Seasons 3B -3 -28 -3 -2 -2 0
11 Seasons TOT 5 1 6 4 3 -1 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1967 PIT NL 20 9 9 9 9 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1969 PIT NL 22 32 23 32 26 0 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1970 PIT NL 23 117 104 117 106 0 0 99 0 5 0 3 0 0 3 0 11 0
1971 PIT NL 24 131 126 131 126 0 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1972 PIT NL 25 115 83 115 111 0 0 89 0 11 0 23 0 0 23 0 5 3
1973 PIT NL 26 119 106 119 107 0 0 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1974 PIT NL 27 91 56 91 63 0 0 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 0
1975 PIT NL 28 75 25 75 28 0 0 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48 0
1976 PIT NL 29 61 28 61 29 0 0 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0
1978 SEA AL 31 64 44 64 18 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 18 0
1979 TOR AL 32 15 6 15 9 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 0
11 Seasons 829 610 829 632 0 0 603 0 16 0 26 0 0 26 33 174 3
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%
1967 PIT NL 20 250 63% 78% 28% 12 100% 0 64 2 61 1 7 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1969 PIT NL 22 882 60% 75% 26% 32 97% 0 193 5 182 6 12 15 10 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 21 0 0 0 18 0 3 0 3 4 100%
1970 PIT NL 23 3629 64% 78% 30% 203 95% 1 906 32 867 7 90 78 48 17 2 2 5 0 5 0 4 109 6 1 0 102 7 7 1 6 18 83%
1971 PIT NL 24 4751 57% 81% 28% 276 96% 3 1081 37 1027 17 116 125 81 25 2 7 9 1 8 0 6 107 2 3 1 98 7 8 0 8 21 95%
1972 PIT NL 25 2231 54% 80% 28% 154 94% 0 507 28 474 5 57 61 44 13 1 0 4 0 4 0 3 57 0 4 0 54 5 3 1 2 12 92%
1973 PIT NL 26 4079 58% 79% 28% 216 94% 0 966 52 903 11 80 78 50 20 2 5 5 0 5 0 5 91 1 3 0 82 4 8 1 7 12 83%
1974 PIT NL 27 2162 68% 84% 27% 105 92% 0 488 24 461 3 37 39 24 9 0 0 5 0 5 0 5 44 1 1 0 41 2 3 1 2 6 100%
1975 PIT NL 28 874 62% 82% 29% 41 98% 1 208 11 193 4 13 18 14 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 10 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 2 100%
1976 PIT NL 29 1034 64% 83% 29% 43 88% 0 257 11 240 5 13 15 13 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 28 0 0 0 26 0 2 0 2 4 100%
1978 SEA AL 31 607 60% 86% 26% 24 92% 0 141 7 133 2 8 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 3 67%
1979 TOR AL 32 224 64% 83% 31% 13 100% 0 54 1 53 0 6 7 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0 0 6 2 0 0 0 0
11 Seasons 20723 60% 80% 28% 1119 95% 5 4865 210 4594 61 439 446 296 92 8 18 32 1 31 0 26 494 12 12 1 458 27 34 4 30 83 90%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 28% 94% 88%

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%
1970 PIT NL 23 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 117 65% 79% 19% 10 40%
1972 PIT NL 25 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 8 5 1 9 3 0 7 5 0 1 0 0 5 5 0 30 18 60.0% 12 1 3.3% 1 700 54% 82% 25% 74 50%
2 Seasons 3 0 3 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 8 5 1 9 3 0 8 6 0 1 0 0 5 5 0 31 19 61.3% 12 1 3.2% 1 817 55% 81% 24% 84 49%
MLB Averages 59.1% 2.9% 63% 81% 27% 47%

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%
1970 PIT NL 23 146 68% 73% 16% 7 71% 0 4 2 1 1 3 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1972 PIT NL 25 398 63% 80% 29% 30 73% 0 6 5 1 0 16 12 3 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0%
2 Seasons 544 64% 78% 26% 37 73% 0 10 7 2 1 19 14 3 1 1 3 0 3 0 2 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 28% 89% 66%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1970 NL (27, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1497th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1973 NL  957 (5th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1971 NL  128 (1st)
1973 NL  79 (4th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1971 NL  9 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1970 NL  7 (3rd)
1972 NL  6 (1st)
Career  9 (89th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1970 NL  10.39 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1970 NL  9.95 (2nd)
1971 NL  9.66 (3rd)
1973 NL  9.68 (3rd)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1970 NL  .995 (4th)
1973 NL  .995 (3rd)
Career  .994 (42nd)

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