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Dick Schofield

Richard Craig Schofield

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: November 21, 1962 in Springfield, IL
High School: Griffin HS (Springfield, IL)
Drafted by the California Angels in the 1st round (3rd pick) of the 1981 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 8, 1983 (Age 20)
Teams (by GP): Angels/Mets/BlueJays/Dodgers 1983-1996
Agents: Dan Grigsby [*]
Final Game: September 29, 1996 (Age 33)
Relatives: Son of Dick Schofield and Uncle of Jayson Werth
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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
1983 CAL AL 20 SS 21 19 12 172.1 98 24 67 7 10 .929 -4 -31 4.75 4.33 .963 4.75 4.72
1984 CAL AL 21 SS 140 136 94 1156.1 650 218 420 12 95 .982 -1 -1 4.97 4.56 .962 4.76 4.72
1985 CAL AL 22 SS 147 132 109 1188.1 683 261 397 25 108 .963 -0 -0 4.98 4.48 .964 4.64 4.60
1986 CAL AL 23 SS 137 132 123 1189.1 653 246 389 18 103 .972 11 11 4.81 4.64 .967 4.53 4.49 MVP-22
1987 CAL AL 24 SS 131 131 116 1161.2 561 204 348 9 76 .984 1 1 4.28 4.21 .970 4.59 4.54
1987 CAL AL 24 2B 2 2 1 18.0 4 1 3 0 0 1.000 -1 -40 2.00 2.00 .980 5.10 5.05
1987 CAL AL 24 DH 1 1
1988 CAL AL 25 SS 155 154 136 1351.2 783 278 492 13 125 .983 8 7 5.13 4.97 .971 4.69 4.65
1989 CAL AL 26 SS 90 87 83 774.2 401 118 276 7 56 .983 12 19 4.58 4.38 .971 4.79 4.74
1990 CAL AL 27 SS 99 97 94 865.1 505 170 318 17 77 .966 5 7 5.08 4.93 .973 4.74 4.69
1991 CAL AL 28 SS 133 128 121 1140.0 599 186 398 15 83 .975 -1 -1 4.61 4.39 .971 4.67 4.66
1992 TOT MLB 29 SS 142 131 111 1153.2 607 208 392 7 78 .988 12 12 4.68 4.23 .969 4.59 4.60
1992 CAL AL 29 SS 1 1 1 9.0 4 3 1 0 0 1.000 0 27 4.00 4.00 .970 4.70 4.70
1992 NYM NL 29 SS 141 130 110 1144.2 603 205 391 7 78 .988 11 12 4.69 4.23 .969 4.59 4.60
1993 TOR AL 30 SS 36 34 33 307.0 171 61 106 4 23 .977 4 15 4.90 4.64 .973 4.69 4.64
1994 TOR AL 31 SS 95 94 93 834.1 396 150 235 11 60 .972 -7 -9 4.15 4.05 .969 4.64 4.60
1995 TOT MLB 32 SS 15 11 5 91.2 43 11 32 0 5 1.000 2 33 4.22 2.87 .972 4.69 4.62
1995 LAD NL 32 SS 3 1 1 11.2 12 3 9 0 3 1.000 0 21 9.26 4.00 .968 4.55 4.50
1995 LAD NL 32 3B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.80
1995 CAL AL 32 SS 12 10 4 80.0 31 8 23 0 2 1.000 2 34 3.49 2.58 .974 4.71 4.65
1996 CAL AL 33 SS 7 2 1 24.2 9 5 3 1 1 .889 -0 -24 2.92 1.14 .971 4.67 4.64
1996 CAL AL 33 2B 2 2 2 16.0 10 4 6 0 1 1.000 1 60 5.62 5.00 .980 5.06 5.00
1996 CAL AL 33 3B 1 0 0 7.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 17 1.29 1.00 .960 2.57 2.60
1996 CAL AL 33 DH 1 0
14 Seasons SS 1348 1288 1131 11411.0 6159 2140 3873 146 900 .976 43 4 4.74 4.46 .969 4.66 4.63
2 Seasons 2B 4 4 3 34.0 14 5 9 0 1 1.000 0 7 3.71 3.50 .980 5.08 5.03
2 Seasons 3B 2 0 0 9.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -13 1.00 0.50 .960 2.60 2.70
14 Seasons TOT 1354 1292 1134 11454.0 6174 2145 3883 146 901 .976 43 4 4.74 4.45 .969 4.66 4.62
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1983 CAL AL 20 SS -4 -31 -4 -3 -2 0
1984 CAL AL 21 SS -1 -1 -2 -1 -1 1
1985 CAL AL 22 SS -0 -0 -3 -1 -2 3
1986 CAL AL 23 SS 11 11 8 4 5 3
1987 CAL AL 24 SS 1 1 0 2 -1 1
1987 CAL AL 24 2B -1 -40 -1 -1 0 0
1988 CAL AL 25 SS 8 7 3 0 3 5
1989 CAL AL 26 SS 12 19 10 7 4 2
1990 CAL AL 27 SS 5 7 4 -1 5 1
1991 CAL AL 28 SS -1 -1 -3 -3 0 2
1992 CAL AL 29 SS 0 27 0 0 0 0
1992 NYM NL 29 SS 11 12 10 4 6 1
1993 TOR AL 30 SS 4 15 4 5 -1 0
1994 TOR AL 31 SS -7 -9 -8 -4 -4 1
1995 LAD NL 32 SS 0 21 0 0 0 0
1995 LAD NL 32 3B -0 -120 -0 0 -0
1995 CAL AL 32 SS 2 34 2 2 0 0
1996 CAL AL 33 SS -0 -24 -0 -1 0 0
1996 CAL AL 33 2B 1 60 1 0 1 0
1996 CAL AL 33 3B 0 17 0 0 0 0
14 Seasons SS 43 4 23 11 12 20
2 Seasons 2B 0 7 0 -1 1 0
2 Seasons 3B -0 -13 -0 0 -0 0
14 Seasons TOT 43 4 23 10 13 20
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
1983 CAL AL 20 21 19 21 21 0 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1984 CAL AL 21 140 135 140 140 0 0 0 0 0 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1985 CAL AL 22 147 132 147 147 0 0 0 0 0 147 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1986 CAL AL 23 139 132 139 137 0 0 0 0 0 137 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
1987 CAL AL 24 134 133 134 133 0 0 0 2 0 131 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
1988 CAL AL 25 155 154 155 155 0 0 0 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1989 CAL AL 26 91 87 91 90 0 0 0 0 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1990 CAL AL 27 99 97 99 99 0 0 0 0 0 99 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1991 CAL AL 28 134 128 134 133 0 0 0 0 0 133 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1992 NYM NL 29 142 130 142 141 0 0 0 0 0 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
1992 CAL AL 29 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1993 TOR AL 30 36 34 36 36 0 0 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1994 TOR AL 31 95 94 95 95 0 0 0 0 0 95 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1995 CAL AL 32 12 10 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1995 LAD NL 32 9 1 9 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1996 CAL AL 33 13 4 13 10 0 0 0 2 1 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 4
14 Seasons 1368 1291 1368 1354 0 0 0 4 2 1348 0 0 0 0 2 11 13
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

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
1983 CAL AL 20 727 68% 85% 32% 71 85% 2 24 6 15 3 68 47 15 0 2 7 0 7 0 4 11 2 0 6 2 1 11 2 9 0 0 0
1984 CAL AL 21 4942 57% 83% 28% 470 98% 3 217 86 106 25 423 319 91 1 9 12 0 11 1 9 94 35 9 27 9 7 89 45 43 4 3 1
1985 CAL AL 22 5049 51% 82% 27% 454 95% 0 258 105 129 24 392 310 71 0 4 25 1 20 4 21 103 39 7 34 9 6 99 46 52 4 3 1
1986 CAL AL 23 4952 49% 79% 28% 441 93% 7 246 80 128 39 393 317 65 0 5 18 0 13 5 13 102 24 7 39 10 8 92 31 59 4 1 3
1987 CAL AL 24 4923 55% 79% 28% 423 95% 4 199 82 84 33 347 278 60 0 5 9 1 8 0 7 75 31 6 20 3 5 68 37 28 3 0 3
1988 CAL AL 25 5843 53% 81% 33% 560 94% 3 275 108 128 39 491 382 95 1 8 13 0 10 3 12 125 47 4 44 6 13 116 51 63 5 0 5
1989 CAL AL 26 3228 60% 80% 34% 321 94% 3 112 56 49 7 278 211 54 0 4 7 0 4 3 4 55 26 3 14 3 2 51 29 20 4 2 2
1990 CAL AL 27 3672 68% 80% 35% 386 91% 5 170 62 83 25 316 239 69 1 2 17 0 11 6 15 78 34 6 19 4 4 71 40 27 5 1 4
1991 CAL AL 28 4818 70% 78% 34% 524 81% 7 189 67 82 40 398 300 78 4 7 15 0 5 10 12 83 35 4 18 7 4 74 40 29 7 1 4
1992 NYM NL 29 4845 56% 79% 33% 531 81% 5 204 77 95 32 391 300 78 2 2 7 1 2 4 3 78 31 8 27 8 0 74 39 35 2 1 1
1992 CAL AL 29 43 47% 86% 30% 2 100% 0 3 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1993 TOR AL 30 1371 49% 79% 35% 135 91% 0 61 26 23 12 106 85 20 0 1 4 0 0 4 3 23 10 2 7 1 0 21 13 8 1 0 1
1994 TOR AL 31 3697 57% 75% 30% 325 86% 6 150 80 49 22 235 169 53 1 2 11 1 5 5 7 61 28 2 18 2 4 54 30 24 5 3 2
1995 CAL AL 32 351 71% 73% 29% 27 96% 0 8 2 3 3 23 20 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
1995 LAD NL 32 46 48% 70% 46% 10 90% 0 3 2 1 0 9 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0
1996 CAL AL 33 106 47% 77% 24% 7 86% 0 5 3 0 2 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
14 Seasons 48613 57% 80% 31% 4687 91% 45 2124 843 977 306 3874 2985 756 10 51 146 4 97 45 111 894 347 58 274 64 54 826 408 398 44 15 27
MLB Averages 58% 80% 31% 89%

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
1987 CAL AL 24 82 66% 73% 24% 2 100% 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1996 CAL AL 33 75 67% 63% 24% 7 100% 0 4 2 1 1 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
2 Seasons 157 66% 68% 24% 9 100% 0 4 2 1 1 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
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%
1995 LAD NL 32 8 63% 75% 38% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1996 CAL AL 33 28 36% 61% 18% 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
2 Seasons 36 42% 64% 22% 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
MLB Averages 58% 80% 31% 88% 69%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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))
1986 AL (22, 0%)
0.00 Career Shares (1736th)

Assists† s c a p y
1988 AL  492 (2nd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1985 AL  25 (5th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1984 AL  140 (5th)
1988 AL  155 (3rd)
1992 NL  141 (4th)
Career  1,348 (78th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1984 AL  218 (5th)
1985 AL  261 (4th)
1986 AL  246 (5th)
1988 AL  278 (2nd)
1994 AL  150 (4th)
Career  2,140 (91st)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1984 AL  420 (4th)
1988 AL  492 (2nd)
1991 AL  398 (5th)
Career  3,873 (83rd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1985 AL  25 (5th)
1990 AL  17 (3rd)

Double Plays Turned as SS s c a p y
1984 AL  95 (3rd)
1985 AL  108 (3rd)
1986 AL  103 (3rd)
1988 AL  125 (1st)
1992 NL  78 (3rd)
1994 AL  60 (5th)
Career  900 (51st)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1986 AL  11 (3rd)
1988 AL  8 (5th)
1989 AL  12 (5th)
1992 NL  11 (2nd)
Career  43 (43rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1984 AL  4.97 (4th)
1985 AL  4.98 (2nd)
1986 AL  4.81 (4th)
1988 AL  5.13 (2nd)
1990 AL  5.08 (2nd)
1992 NL  4.69 (4th)
Career  4.74 (47th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1984 AL  4.56 (5th)
1985 AL  4.48 (4th)
1986 AL  4.64 (2nd)
1988 AL  4.97 (2nd)
1990 AL  4.93 (1st)
1992 NL  4.23 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1984 AL  .982 (1st)
1985 AL  .963 (5th)
1987 AL  .984 (1st)
1988 AL  .983 (1st)
1991 AL  .975 (5th)
1992 NL  .988 (1st)
Career  .976 (30th)

Youngest s c a p y
1983 AL  born 1962-11-21 (2nd)
1984 AL  born 1962-11-21 (9th)

                                         

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