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Bob Sheldon

Bob Mitchell Sheldon

Positions: Second Baseman and Designated Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: November 27, 1950 in Montebello, CA
High School: Montebello HS (Montebello, CA)
School: Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA)
Drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 22nd round of the 1972 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 10, 1974 (Age 23)
Team: Brewers 1974-1977

Final Game: July 17, 1977 (Age 26)
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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
1974 MIL AL 23 DH 4 3
1974 MIL AL 23 2B 3 1 1 13.0 5 1 4 0 0 1.000 0 37 3.46 1.67 .976 5.40 5.33
1975 MIL AL 24 2B 44 39 34 341.2 214 87 122 5 33 .977 1 2 5.51 4.75 .975 5.40 5.38
1975 MIL AL 24 DH 6 6
1977 MIL AL 26 DH 17 13
1977 MIL AL 26 2B 5 3 3 33.0 16 7 9 0 2 1.000 0 7 4.36 3.20 .978 5.43 5.38
3 Seasons 2B 52 43 38 387.2 235 95 135 5 35 .979 1 4 5.34 4.42 .975 5.40 5.38
3 Seasons TOT 52 43 38 387.2 235 95 135 5 35 .979 1 4 5.34 4.42 .975 5.40 5.38
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
1974 MIL AL 23 2B 0 37 0 1 -0 0
1975 MIL AL 24 2B 1 2 -0 -1 1 1
1977 MIL AL 26 2B 0 7 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 2B 1 4 0 -0 1 1
3 Seasons TOT 1 4 0 -0 1 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1974 MIL AL 23 10 4 10 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 1
1975 MIL AL 24 53 45 53 44 0 0 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 5 1
1977 MIL AL 26 31 16 31 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 10 3
3 Seasons 94 65 94 52 0 0 0 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 18 5
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 -- 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
1974 MIL AL 23 58 67% 76% 22% 5 80% 0 2 0 2 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 MIL AL 24 1528 56% 83% 26% 132 98% 0 87 25 44 18 126 99 23 0 1 5 1 2 2 2 33 10 6 12 1 30 13 17 3 1 2
1977 MIL AL 26 129 57% 83% 25% 10 100% 0 7 3 2 2 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
3 Seasons 1715 56% 83% 26% 147 97% 0 96 28 48 20 139 112 23 0 1 5 1 2 2 2 35 11 6 12 1 32 13 19 3 1 2
MLB Averages 62% 82% 28% 93%



* - Disclaimer & Completeness Note

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1945 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary of data completeness) 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.

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