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Ryne Sandberg

Ryne Dee Sandberg (Ryno)

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: September 18, 1959 in Spokane, WA
High School: North Central HS (Spokane, WA)
Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 20th round of the 1978 amateur draft.
Signed June 15, 1978. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 2, 1981
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Phillies 1981-1997
Agents: Jim Turner,Richie Bry [*]
Final Game: September 28, 1997
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by BBWAA as Player in 2005 (393/516 ballots).
   View Ryne Sandberg Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).
Relatives: Uncle of Jared Sandberg
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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
1981 PHI NL 21 SS 5 0 0 16.0 11 6 5 0 0 1.000 -0 -30 6.19 2.20 .960 5.12 5.12
1981 PHI NL 21 2B 1 0 0 4.0 3 1 2 0 1 1.000 -0 -60 6.75 3.00 .983 5.62 5.50
1982 CHC NL 22 3B 133 131 128 1172.1 368 79 278 11 19 .970 3 3 2.74 2.68 .951 2.77 2.78 RoY-6
1982 CHC NL 22 2B 24 24 21 205.0 153 57 95 1 9 .993 3 16 6.67 6.33 .978 5.42 5.43 RoY-6
1983 CHC NL 23 2B 157 153 149 1348.1 914 330 571 13 126 .986 12 11 6.01 5.74 .978 5.33 5.31 GG
1983 CHC NL 23 SS 1 0 0 1.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 360 9.00 1.00 .970 4.50 4.80 GG
1984 CHC NL 24 2B 156 156 147 1363.2 870 314 550 6 102 .993 12 11 5.70 5.54 .979 5.41 5.39 AS,MVP-1,GG,SS
1985 CHC NL 25 2B 153 152 145 1334.1 865 353 500 12 99 .986 -4 -4 5.75 5.58 .982 5.47 5.47 AS,MVP-13,GG,SS
1985 CHC NL 25 SS 1 0 0 1.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 360 9.00 1.00 .960 4.50 4.90 AS,MVP-13,GG,SS
1986 CHC NL 26 2B 153 153 148 1370.0 806 309 492 5 86 .994 3 3 5.26 5.24 .980 5.21 5.22 AS,GG
1987 CHC NL 27 2B 131 130 117 1134.1 679 294 375 10 84 .985 -13 -14 5.31 5.11 .982 5.19 5.16 AS,GG
1988 CHC NL 28 2B 153 151 149 1357.1 824 291 522 11 79 .987 8 7 5.39 5.31 .980 5.22 5.23 AS,GG,SS
1989 CHC NL 29 2B 155 154 145 1341.1 766 294 466 6 80 .992 -2 -1 5.10 4.90 .981 5.12 5.12 AS,MVP-4,GG,SS
1990 CHC NL 30 2B 154 152 141 1316.0 755 278 469 8 81 .989 0 0 5.11 4.85 .983 5.01 4.98 AS,MVP-4,GG,SS
1991 CHC NL 31 2B 157 154 144 1374.2 786 267 515 4 66 .995 6 5 5.12 4.98 .982 5.14 5.12 AS,MVP-17,GG,SS
1992 CHC NL 32 2B 157 157 138 1379.1 830 283 539 8 94 .990 9 8 5.36 5.24 .981 5.18 5.18 AS,MVP-12,SS
1993 CHC NL 33 2B 115 114 101 989.0 563 209 347 7 76 .988 -1 -1 5.06 4.83 .980 5.16 5.13 AS
1994 CHC NL 34 2B 57 56 50 489.2 302 96 202 4 35 .987 6 15 5.48 5.23 .981 5.26 5.23
1996 CHC NL 36 2B 146 144 123 1234.0 655 228 421 6 82 .991 15 15 4.73 4.45 .981 5.09 5.06
1997 CHC NL 37 2B 126 115 102 991.2 508 203 297 8 58 .984 3 4 4.54 3.97 .980 5.07 5.03
1997 CHC NL 37 DH 1 1
16 Seasons 2B 1995 1965 1820 17232.2 10279 3807 6363 109 1158 .989 57 4 5.31 5.10 .981 5.21 5.19
1 Season 3B 133 131 128 1172.1 368 79 278 11 19 .970 3 3 2.74 2.68 .951 2.77 2.78
3 Seasons SS 7 0 0 18.0 13 6 7 0 0 1.000 0 13 6.50 1.86 .961 5.05 5.04
16 Seasons TOT 2135 2096 1948 18423.0 10660 3892 6648 120 1177 .989 60 4 5.15 4.94 .980 5.05 5.04
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.
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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
  • 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
1981 PHI NL 21 SS -0 -30 -0 -0 0 0
1981 PHI NL 21 2B -0 -60 -0 -0 0 0
1982 CHC NL 22 3B 3 3 3 3 0 0
1982 CHC NL 22 2B 3 16 4 2 2 -1
1983 CHC NL 23 2B 12 11 10 8 2 2
1983 CHC NL 23 SS 0 360 0 0 0 0
1984 CHC NL 24 2B 12 11 13 10 3 -1
1985 CHC NL 25 2B -4 -4 -0 -0 -0 -4
1985 CHC NL 25 SS 0 360 0 0 0 0
1986 CHC NL 26 2B 3 3 4 2 2 -1
1987 CHC NL 27 2B -13 -14 -10 1 -12 -3
1988 CHC NL 28 2B 8 7 10 8 2 -2
1989 CHC NL 29 2B -2 -1 -1 5 -6 -1
1990 CHC NL 30 2B 0 0 1 5 -4 -1
1991 CHC NL 31 2B 6 5 8 4 5 -3
1992 CHC NL 32 2B 9 8 10 5 5 -1
1993 CHC NL 33 2B -1 -1 -2 4 -6 1
1994 CHC NL 34 2B 6 15 5 6 -1 1
1996 CHC NL 36 2B 15 15 14 4 10 1
1997 CHC NL 37 2B 3 4 4 3 1 -1
16 Seasons 2B 57 4 71 67 4 -14
1 Season 3B 3 3 3 3 0 0
3 Seasons SS 0 13 0 0 0 0
16 Seasons TOT 60 4 74 70 4 -14
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
1981 PHI NL 21 13 0 13 6 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
1982 CHC NL 22 156 155 156 155 0 0 0 24 133 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1983 CHC NL 23 158 153 158 158 0 0 0 157 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1984 CHC NL 24 156 156 156 156 0 0 0 156 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1985 CHC NL 25 153 152 153 153 0 0 0 153 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1986 CHC NL 26 154 153 154 153 0 0 0 153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1987 CHC NL 27 132 130 132 131 0 0 0 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1988 CHC NL 28 155 151 155 153 0 0 0 153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1989 CHC NL 29 157 154 157 155 0 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1990 CHC NL 30 155 152 155 154 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1991 CHC NL 31 158 154 158 157 0 0 0 157 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1992 CHC NL 32 158 157 158 157 0 0 0 157 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1993 CHC NL 33 117 114 117 115 0 0 0 115 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1994 CHC NL 34 57 56 57 57 0 0 0 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1996 CHC NL 36 150 144 150 146 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1997 CHC NL 37 135 116 135 126 0 0 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 0
16 Seasons 2164 2097 2164 2132 0 0 0 1995 133 7 0 0 0 0 1 38 8
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 -- 2B*

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 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1981 PHI NL 21 20 85% 85% 20% 1 100% 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1982 CHC NL 22 890 51% 84% 28% 115 97% 0 57 19 23 15 95 84 9 0 4 1 0 1 0 1 9 1 2 5 0 8 5 3 1 1 0
1983 CHC NL 23 5747 55% 83% 30% 629 95% 0 323 101 140 83 573 489 72 1 7 13 1 11 1 10 124 49 10 43 8 113 51 62 10 5 3
1984 CHC NL 24 5736 53% 82% 28% 599 99% 0 315 108 145 62 549 469 72 0 3 6 0 5 1 4 100 37 16 33 4 94 37 56 5 4 1
1985 CHC NL 25 5761 60% 82% 29% 559 98% 2 353 116 163 73 500 419 68 1 4 12 0 10 2 10 100 32 18 33 2 89 36 53 6 3 2
1986 CHC NL 26 5927 57% 81% 26% 570 96% 3 306 114 112 80 493 426 55 0 2 5 0 5 0 4 86 32 11 27 2 73 29 43 12 5 7
1987 CHC NL 27 4999 56% 79% 29% 443 93% 0 296 95 133 68 378 310 53 0 4 10 1 8 1 8 84 28 16 27 1 74 28 44 8 6 2
1988 CHC NL 28 5826 54% 82% 35% 608 94% 2 287 88 129 70 522 450 63 1 1 11 2 9 0 9 80 22 15 33 1 72 34 37 5 2 3
1989 CHC NL 29 5647 53% 80% 33% 546 94% 1 291 107 136 48 468 408 52 2 2 6 0 4 2 4 80 40 9 21 2 74 24 49 4 2 2
1990 CHC NL 30 5770 49% 81% 33% 548 94% 3 280 92 111 77 470 394 68 1 2 8 0 6 2 6 82 24 10 35 4 77 40 37 4 3 1
1991 CHC NL 31 5866 49% 80% 35% 654 85% 1 267 82 106 79 516 435 69 0 5 4 0 4 0 4 66 16 14 29 1 61 30 31 5 3 2
1992 CHC NL 32 5798 49% 80% 35% 661 82% 1 283 68 133 82 539 460 68 0 5 8 0 8 0 8 94 35 14 31 3 87 34 49 5 5 0
1993 CHC NL 33 4229 58% 81% 35% 371 91% 1 207 40 110 57 346 293 45 0 5 7 0 6 1 6 76 21 14 30 2 71 32 36 4 2 2
1994 CHC NL 34 2140 55% 77% 36% 213 94% 0 97 28 42 27 202 176 20 0 1 4 0 1 3 1 35 12 8 13 0 34 13 20 1 1 0
1996 CHC NL 36 5268 60% 78% 33% 475 93% 0 230 76 107 47 418 352 58 0 2 6 1 5 0 5 82 25 15 30 0 73 30 40 8 5 3
1997 CHC NL 37 4298 56% 78% 30% 350 92% 0 204 60 89 55 298 239 49 0 3 8 0 8 0 7 58 15 10 25 1 55 27 26 3 2 1
16 Seasons 73922 54% 81% 32% 7342 93% 14 3797 1194 1680 923 6369 5406 821 6 50 109 5 91 13 87 1157 389 183 415 31 1056 450 587 81 49 29
MLB Averages 58% 80% 31% 92%

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%
1982 CHC NL 22 4986 53% 85% 29% 374 90% 4 86 65 2 19 279 226 38 5 16 12 0 12 0 8 19 12 0 14 3 1 2 16 81%
1 Season 4986 53% 85% 29% 374 90% 4 86 65 2 19 279 226 38 5 16 12 0 12 0 8 19 12 0 14 3 1 2 16 81%
MLB Averages 58% 80% 31% 88% 69%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

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 643 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1981 PHI NL 21 68 72% 76% 22% 9 100% 0 6 4 2 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1983 CHC NL 23 3 67% 67% 67% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1985 CHC NL 25 5 60% 80% 20% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 76 71% 76% 24% 11 100% 0 6 4 2 0 7 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 58% 80% 31% 89%

* 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

Hall of Fame
2003 BBWAA (49.2%)
2004 BBWAA (61.1%)
2005 BBWAA (76.2%)
Selected to HOF in 2005 by BBWAA

All-Star Games
1984 (2B)
1985 *
1986 (2B)
1987 (2B)
1988 (2B)
1989 (2B)
1990 (2B)
1991 (2B)
1992 (2B)
1993 (2B)

Awards (yr lg award)
1984 ML Major League Player of the Year
1984 NL MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1984 NL (1, 97%)
1985 NL (13, 4%)
1989 NL (4, 47%)
1990 NL (4, 45%)
1991 NL (17, 1%)
1992 NL (12, 4%)
1 MVP
1.98 Career Shares (91st)

Gold Gloves
1983 NL (2B)
1984 NL (2B)
1985 NL (2B)
1986 NL (2B)
1987 NL (2B)
1988 NL (2B)
1989 NL (2B)
1990 NL (2B)
1991 NL (2B)
All multiple winners

Silver Sluggers
1984 NL (2B)
1985 NL (2B)
1988 NL (2B)
1989 NL (2B)
1990 NL (2B)
1991 NL (2B)
1992 NL (2B)
All multiple winners

Assists† s c a p y
1983 NL  572 (1st)
1984 NL  550 (1st)
1985 NL  501 (3rd)
1986 NL  492 (1st)
1988 NL  522 (1st)
1989 NL  466 (4th)
1990 NL  469 (1st)
1991 NL  515 (1st)
1992 NL  539 (1st)
Career  6,648 (22nd)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1996 NL  15 (5th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1983 NL  157 (1st)
1984 NL  156 (3rd)
1985 NL  153 (3rd)
1986 NL  153 (2nd)
1988 NL  153 (2nd)
1989 NL  155 (3rd)
1990 NL  154 (1st)
1991 NL  157 (1st)
1992 NL  157 (2nd)
1996 NL  146 (4th)
Career  1,995 (13th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1983 NL  330 (4th)
1985 NL  353 (3rd)
1986 NL  309 (4th)
1987 NL  294 (5th)
1988 NL  291 (5th)
1989 NL  294 (5th)
1990 NL  278 (5th)
1991 NL  267 (5th)
1992 NL  283 (4th)
Career  3,807 (23rd)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1983 NL  571 (1st)
1984 NL  550 (1st)
1985 NL  500 (2nd)
1986 NL  492 (1st)
1987 NL  375 (5th)
1988 NL  522 (1st)
1989 NL  466 (3rd)
1990 NL  469 (1st)
1991 NL  515 (1st)
1992 NL  539 (1st)
1996 NL  421 (3rd)
Career  6,363 (9th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1982 NL  3 (5th)
1983 NL  12 (2nd)
1984 NL  12 (1st)
1986 NL  3 (4th)
1988 NL  8 (3rd)
1991 NL  6 (3rd)
1992 NL  9 (1st)
1994 NL  6 (1st)
1996 NL  15 (1st)
Career  57 (17th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1983 NL  6.01 (1st)
1984 NL  5.70 (2nd)
1985 NL  5.75 (2nd)
1987 NL  5.31 (3rd)
1992 NL  5.36 (5th)
1994 NL  5.48 (3rd)
Career  5.31 (28th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1983 NL  5.74 (1st)
1984 NL  5.54 (1st)
1985 NL  5.58 (2nd)
1986 NL  5.24 (3rd)
1987 NL  5.11 (2nd)
1988 NL  5.31 (3rd)
1990 NL  4.85 (5th)
1991 NL  4.98 (4th)
1992 NL  5.24 (3rd)
1994 NL  5.23 (2nd)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1983 NL  .986 (3rd)
1984 NL  .993 (1st)
1985 NL  .986 (4th)
1986 NL  .994 (1st)
1987 NL  .985 (5th)
1988 NL  .987 (3rd)
1989 NL  .992 (2nd)
1990 NL  .989 (3rd)
1991 NL  .995 (1st)
1992 NL  .990 (3rd)
1993 NL  .988 (4th)
1994 NL  .987 (4th)
1996 NL  .991 (2nd)
1997 NL  .984 (5th)
Career  .989 (9th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1982 NL  .970 (2nd)

Salary s c a p y
1993 NL  $5,975,000 (2nd)
1994 NL  $5,975,000 (2nd)

                                         

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