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Pat Sheridan

Patrick Arthur Sheridan

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: December 4, 1957 in Ann Arbor, MI
High School: Wayne Memorial (Wayne, MI)
School: Eastern Michigan University
Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 3rd round of the 1979 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1981
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Royals/Giants/Yankees 1981-1991
Agents: Randy Hendricks,Alan Hendricks [*]
Final Game: October 5, 1991
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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos
1979	21	KCR-min	A	67	235	235		66	4	3	0						.281	.281	.323	.604		76						FTM · FLOR
1980	22	KCR-min	AA,A	117	492	446	80	144	18	7	6	55	22	6	40	71	.323	.378	.435	.813		194		0	5	1		JCK,FTM · SOUL,FLOR
1981	23	KCR-min	AAA	86	353	315	49	94	15	8	5	31	12	5	32	61	.298	.365	.444	.809		140		1	5	0	0	OMA · AA
1981	23	KCR	AL	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	/97

1983	25	KCR-min	AAA	20	86	75	16	23	4	5	4	14	2	1	9	12	.307	.388	.653	1.042		49		1	1	0	0	OMA · AA
1983	25	KCR	AL	109	357	333	43	90	12	2	7	36	12	3	20	64	.270	.312	.381	.693	90	127	3	0	4	0	0	987
1984	26	KCR	AL	138	531	481	64	136	24	4	8	53	19	6	41	91	.283	.338	.399	.738	104	192	6	1	5	3	3	*98
1985	27	KCR-min	AAA	8	34	28	1	10	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	7	.357	.471	.393	.863		11		1	0	0	0	OMA · AA
1985	27	KCR	AL	78	234	206	18	47	9	2	3	17	11	3	23	38	.228	.307	.335	.642	77	69	4	1	3	1	2	9
1986	28	DET-min	AAA	9	40	35	4	10	2	0	1	5	2	0	5	7	.286	.375	.429	.804		15		0	0	0	0	NVL · AA
1986	28	DET	AL	98	262	236	41	56	9	1	6	19	9	2	21	57	.237	.300	.360	.660	79	85	3	1	2	2	4	897
1987	29	DET	AL	141	473	421	57	109	19	3	6	49	18	13	44	90	.259	.327	.361	.688	86	152	7	1	2	5	4	*98
1988	30	DET	AL	127	402	347	47	88	9	5	11	47	8	6	44	64	.254	.339	.403	.743	111	140	6	2	7	2	4	*79/8
1989	31	TOT	MLB	120	313	281	36	62	6	4	6	29	8	1	30	66	.221	.295	.335	.629	81	94	3	0	1	1	1	978/D
1989	31	DET	AL	50	139	120	16	29	3	0	3	15	4	0	17	21	.242	.333	.342	.675	93	41	2	0	1	1	0	7/9D8
1989	31	SFG	NL	70	174	161	20	33	3	4	3	14	4	1	13	45	.205	.264	.329	.594	72	53	1	0	0	0	1	9/78

1991	33	NYY-min	AAA	21	80	70	15	19	3	2	2	12	2	0	10	26	.271	.363	.457	.820		32		0	0	0	0	CLB · IL
1991	33	NYY	AL	62	127	113	13	23	3	0	4	7	1	1	13	30	.204	.286	.336	.622	72	38	6	0	1	0	1	9/87D
9 Seasons				876	2700	2419	319	611	91	21	51	257	86	35	236	501	.253	.319	.371	.690	91	897	38	6	25	14	19
162 Game Avg.				162	499	447	59	113	17	4	9	48	16	6	44	93	.253	.319	.371	.690	91	166	7	1	5	3	4

KCR (4 yrs)				328	1123	1021	125	273	45	8	18	106	42	12	84	194	.267	.323	.380	.703	94	388	13	2	12	4	5
DET (4 yrs)				416	1276	1124	161	282	40	9	26	130	39	21	126	232	.251	.326	.372	.698	93	418	18	4	12	10	12
SFG (1 yr)				70	174	161	20	33	3	4	3	14	4	1	13	45	.205	.264	.329	.594	72	53	1	0	0	0	1
NYY (1 yr)				62	127	113	13	23	3	0	4	7	1	1	13	30	.204	.286	.336	.622	72	38	6	0	1	0	1

AL (9 yrs)				806	2526	2258	299	578	88	17	48	243	82	34	223	456	.256	.323	.374	.696	92	844	37	6	25	14	18
NL (1 yr)				70	174	161	20	33	3	4	3	14	4	1	13	45	.205	.264	.329	.594	72	53	1	0	0	0	1

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos
1981	23	KCR	AL	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$	/97

1983	25	KCR	AL	357	-6	2	0	2	3	-3	11	9	0.9	6	0.6	0.3	$	987
1984	26	KCR	AL	532	1	0	-2	2	0	-5	17	13	1.3	13	1.3	0.0	$	*98
1985	27	KCR	AL	234	-7	0	-1	1	2	-3	7	-1	-0.1	-3	-0.3	0.2	$175,000	9
1986	28	DET	AL	262	-8	2	-1	1	1	-2	8	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.1	$150,000	897
1987	29	DET	AL	473	-8	-1	-2	3	0	-5	15	3	0.3	2	0.2	0.1	$190,000	*98
1988	30	DET	AL	402	5	0	-2	1	2	-4	13	15	1.5	13	1.3	0.2	$343,000	*79/8
1989	31	DET	AL	139	-1	2	-1	0	-3	-2	4	-2	-0.2	2	0.2	-0.4	$430,000	7/9D8
1989	31	SFG	NL	175	-7	1	2	0	5	-2	6	5	0.4	0	0.0	0.4	$	9/78

1991	33	NYY	AL	127	-5	-1	-1	-1	-2	-1	4	-7	-0.7	-5	-0.5	-0.2	$	9/87D
9 Seasons				2702	-36	5	-8	9	9	-27	85	36	3.5	28	2.8	0.7	$1,288,000

KCR (4 yrs)				1124	-12	2	-3	5	6	-11	35	21	2.1	16	1.6	0.5	$175,000
DET (4 yrs)				1276	-12	3	-6	5	1	-13	40	17	1.7	17	1.7	0.0	$1,113,000
SFG (1 yr)				175	-7	1	2	0	5	-2	6	5	0.4	0	0.0	0.4	$
NYY (1 yr)				127	-5	-1	-1	-1	-2	-1	4	-7	-0.7	-5	-0.5	-0.2	$

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1984	26	KCR	AL	ALCS	DET	L	3	9	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
1985	27	KCR	AL	ALCS	TOR	W	7	22	20	4	3	0	0	2	3	0	0	2	3	.150	.227	.450	.677	9	0	0	0	0	1
1985	27	KCR	AL	WS	STL	W	5	18	18	0	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	.222	.222	.333	.556	6	0	0	0	0	0

1987	29	DET	AL	ALCS	MIN	L	5	12	10	2	3	1	0	1	2	1	0	0	2	.300	.417	.700	1.117	7	0	2	0	0	0

1989	31	SFG	NL	NLCS	CHC	W	5	13	13	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	.154	.154	.308	.462	4	0	0	0	0	0
1989	31	SFG	NL	WS	OAK	L	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
4 Seasons (6 Series)							26	76	69	8	12	3	1	3	6	1	1	5	19	.174	.250	.377	.627	26	0	2	0	0	1
1 NLCS							5	13	13	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	.154	.154	.308	.462	4	0	0	0	0	0
3 ALCS							15	43	36	7	6	1	0	3	5	1	0	5	8	.167	.302	.444	.747	16	0	2	0	0	1
2 WS							6	20	20	0	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	.200	.200	.300	.500	6	0	0	0	0	0

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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	KCR	AL	23	OF	3	0	0	5.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	96	3.60	0.67	.985	2.52	2.47
1981	KCR	AL	23	RF	2	0	0	2.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0	120	4.50	0.50	.980	2.25	2.15
1981	KCR	AL	23	LF	1	0	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0	80	3.00	1.00	.980	2.40	2.40
1983	KCR	AL	25	OF	100	81	63	741.2	246	237	6	3	2	.988	3	5	2.95	2.43	.981	2.50	2.48
1983	KCR	AL	25	RF	48	34	28	320.1	99	95	2	2	0	.980	3	10	2.73	2.02	.978	2.25	2.23
1983	KCR	AL	25	CF	36	26	22	240.2	101	97	4	0	2	1.000	4	22	3.78	2.81	.987	2.93	2.91
1983	KCR	AL	25	LF	27	21	13	180.2	42	41	1	0	0	1.000	-4	-27	2.09	1.56	.977	2.32	2.30
1984	KCR	AL	26	OF	134	120	109	1089.2	285	273	8	4	1	.986	0	0	2.32	2.10	.983	2.51	2.49
1984	KCR	AL	26	RF	101	90	80	811.2	209	199	7	3	2	.986	1	2	2.28	2.04	.979	2.23	2.21
1984	KCR	AL	26	CF	35	30	29	278.0	80	79	0	1	0	.988	-1	-4	2.56	2.26	.986	3.01	2.99
1985	KCR	AL	27	OF	69	53	41	498.1	121	116	3	2	0	.983	2	5	2.15	1.72	.982	2.44	2.42
1985	KCR	AL	27	RF	69	53	41	498.1	121	116	3	2	1	.983	2	5	2.15	1.72	.980	2.17	2.15
1986	DET	AL	28	OF	90	67	50	616.0	177	172	1	4	0	.977	1	2	2.53	1.92	.980	2.39	2.37
1986	DET	AL	28	CF	51	44	31	373.0	123	121	0	2	0	.984	2	6	2.92	2.37	.986	2.83	2.80
1986	DET	AL	28	RF	32	20	17	203.0	46	43	1	2	0	.957	0	2	1.95	1.38	.975	2.10	2.08
1986	DET	AL	28	LF	11	3	2	40.0	7	7	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-39	1.58	0.64	.977	2.25	2.22
1987	DET	AL	29	OF	137	101	81	983.2	248	236	6	6	1	.976	0	0	2.21	1.77	.980	2.31	2.29
1987	DET	AL	29	RF	124	86	73	839.1	199	189	4	6	1	.970	-2	-3	2.07	1.56	.979	2.12	2.10
1987	DET	AL	29	CF	26	15	8	144.1	48	46	2	0	0	1.000	3	22	2.99	1.85	.986	2.70	2.68
1988	DET	AL	30	OF	111	90	68	799.2	209	203	2	4	0	.981	2	4	2.31	1.85	.979	2.47	2.45
1988	DET	AL	30	LF	92	77	59	673.2	187	183	1	3	0	.984	5	9	2.46	2.00	.977	2.26	2.24
1988	DET	AL	30	RF	13	8	5	74.0	15	13	1	1	0	.933	0	0	1.70	1.08	.974	2.24	2.22
1988	DET	AL	30	CF	9	5	4	52.0	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	-3	-65	1.38	0.89	.985	2.91	2.89
1989	TOT	MLB	31	OF	101	74	33	627.1	170	163	4	3	1	.982	2	3	2.40	1.65	.981	2.36	2.34
1989	TOT	MLB	31	RF	67	52	20	405.2	107	104	1	2	0	.981	3	10	2.33	1.57	.978	2.15	2.14
1989	TOT	MLB	31	LF	27	14	9	148.2	37	35	1	1	0	.973	-2	-16	2.18	1.33	.978	2.16	2.14
1989	TOT	MLB	31	CF	10	8	4	73.0	25	23	2	0	1	1.000	0	5	3.08	2.50	.985	2.76	2.73
1989	DET	AL	31	OF	35	25	16	231.1	55	52	2	1	1	.982	-3	-15	2.10	1.54	.980	2.42	2.39
1989	DET	AL	31	LF	19	12	7	117.2	31	29	1	1	0	.968	-2	-16	2.29	1.58	.977	2.16	2.14
1989	DET	AL	31	RF	9	7	5	58.2	10	10	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-14	1.53	1.11	.979	2.33	2.30
1989	DET	AL	31	DH	8	8
1989	DET	AL	31	CF	7	6	4	55.0	14	13	1	0	1	1.000	-1	-13	2.29	2.00	.984	2.78	2.74
1989	SFG	NL	31	OF	66	49	17	396.0	115	111	2	2	0	.983	5	14	2.57	1.71	.981	2.32	2.32
1989	SFG	NL	31	RF	58	45	15	347.0	97	94	1	2	0	.979	4	14	2.46	1.64	.978	2.12	2.12
1989	SFG	NL	31	LF	8	2	2	31.0	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-15	1.74	0.75	.982	2.15	2.15
1989	SFG	NL	31	CF	3	2	0	18.0	11	10	1	0	0	1.000	1	60	5.50	3.67	.985	2.70	2.70
1991	NYY	AL	33	OF	34	21	15	211.1	49	46	3	0	0	1.000	-2	-13	2.09	1.44	.983	2.37	2.37
1991	NYY	AL	33	RF	26	16	11	161.2	32	30	2	0	0	1.000	-2	-14	1.78	1.23	.980	2.19	2.19
1991	NYY	AL	33	CF	6	4	3	37.2	16	15	1	0	0	1.000	-0	-3	3.82	2.67	.989	2.77	2.77
1991	NYY	AL	33	LF	3	1	1	12.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-30	0.75	0.33	.980	2.17	2.17
1991	NYY	AL	33	DH	1	1
	9 Seasons			OF	779	607	460	5572.2	1507	1448	33	26	5	.983	9	2	2.39	1.90	.981	2.43	2.40
	9 Seasons			RF	482	359	275	3316.0	829	790	21	18	4	.978	6	2	2.20	1.68	.979	2.18	2.16
	7 Seasons			CF	173	132	101	1198.2	401	389	9	3	3	.993	5	5	2.99	2.30	.986	2.87	2.84
	6 Seasons			LF	161	116	84	1058.0	275	268	3	4	0	.985	-2	-2	2.31	1.68	.977	2.26	2.23
	9 Seasons			TOT	779	607	460	5572.2	1507	1448	33	26	5	.983	9	2	2.39	1.90	.981	2.43	2.40
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Caught Stealing s c a p y 1987 AL 13 (5th)	Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1988 AL 2.46 (3rd)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1988 AL .984 (5th)	Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1984 AL 2.28 (4th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1987 AL 13 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1988 AL 2.46 (3rd)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1988 AL .984 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1984 AL 2.28 (4th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Hall of Fame Standards

Batting - 3 (2527), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Transactions

June 8, 1976: Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 36th round of the 1976 amateur draft, but did not sign.
June 5, 1979: Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 3rd round of the 1979 amateur draft.
March 28, 1986: Released by the Kansas City Royals.
April 25, 1986: Signed as a Free Agent with the Detroit Tigers.
June 16, 1989: Traded by the Detroit Tigers to the San Francisco Giants for Tracy Jones.
November 13, 1989: Granted Free Agency.
February 15, 1990: Signed as a Free Agent with the Kansas City Royals.
April 3, 1990: Released by the Kansas City Royals.
April 25, 1990: Signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago Cubs.
October 15, 1990: Granted Free Agency.
January 24, 1991: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.
October 15, 1991: Released by the New York Yankees.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources
1985	27	Kansas City Royals	$175,000	1985 USA Today survey
1986	28	Detroit Tigers	$150,000	1986 USA Today survey
1987	29	Detroit Tigers	$190,000	1987 USA Today survey
1988	30	Detroit Tigers	$343,000	USA Today, 4/1/88
1989	31	Detroit Tigers	$430,000	1989 USA Today survey

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$1,288,000

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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