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Tony Solaita

Tolia Solaita

Positions: First Baseman and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: January 15, 1947 in Nuuuli, American Samoa
High School: Jefferson HS (Daly City, CA)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1965. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 16, 1968
Teams (by GP): Angels/Royals/BlueJays/Expos/Yankees 1968-1979

Final Game: September 30, 1979
Died: February 10, 1990 in Tafuna, American Samoa
Buried: Immediately outside his home,in Nuuuli, American Samoa
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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
1968 NYY AL 21 1B 1 0 0 3.0 5 5 0 0 1 1.000 -0 -120 15.00 5.00 .988 9.60 9.50
1974 KCR AL 27 1B 65 53 44 493.0 553 508 40 5 36 .991 7 17 10.00 8.43 .992 9.70 9.66
1974 KCR AL 27 DH 14 13
1974 KCR AL 27 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.40
1975 KCR AL 28 DH 37 35
1975 KCR AL 28 1B 35 29 24 258.2 312 282 28 2 24 .994 6 30 10.79 8.86 .990 9.84 9.81
1976 TOT AL 29 1B 59 54 45 501.2 544 485 57 2 33 .996 5 12 9.72 9.19 .992 9.85 9.89
1976 TOT AL 29 DH 21 20
1976 KCR AL 29 DH 14 13
1976 KCR AL 29 1B 5 2 1 30.0 38 34 3 1 1 .974 0 8 11.10 7.40 .992 9.84 9.88
1976 CAL AL 29 1B 54 52 44 471.2 506 451 54 1 32 .998 5 12 9.64 9.35 .992 9.85 9.89
1976 CAL AL 29 DH 7 7
1977 CAL AL 30 1B 91 82 53 679.0 705 641 57 7 50 .990 -1 -2 9.25 7.67 .990 10.02 9.95
1977 CAL AL 30 DH 7 5
1978 CAL AL 31 DH 18 10
1978 CAL AL 31 1B 11 8 6 70.0 92 85 7 0 7 1.000 2 34 11.83 8.36 .992 10.05 9.95
1979 TOT MLB 32 1B 19 12 10 121.0 133 122 10 1 15 .992 -2 -15 9.82 6.95 .992 9.94 9.89
1979 MON NL 32 1B 13 8 6 84.0 90 83 6 1 7 .989 -1 -16 9.54 6.85 .992 9.89 9.86
1979 TOR AL 32 DH 26 26
1979 TOR AL 32 1B 6 4 4 37.0 43 39 4 0 8 1.000 -0 -13 10.46 7.17 .992 10.07 9.97
7 Seasons 1B 281 238 182 2126.1 2344 2128 199 17 166 .993 17 10 9.85 8.28 .991 9.88 9.85
1 Season OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.40
7 Seasons TOT 282 238 182 2126.1 2344 2128 199 17 166 .993 17 10 9.85 8.25 .991 9.88 9.82
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
1968 NYY AL 21 1B -0 -120 -0 0 -0
1974 KCR AL 27 1B 7 17 8 4 4 -1
1975 KCR AL 28 1B 6 30 6 6 1 0
1976 KCR AL 29 1B 0 8 0 0 -0 0
1976 CAL AL 29 1B 5 12 5 2 3 0
1977 CAL AL 30 1B -1 -2 -1 0 -1 0
1978 CAL AL 31 1B 2 34 2 0 2 0
1979 MON NL 32 1B -1 -16 -1 -0 -1 0
1979 TOR AL 32 1B -0 -13 -0 0 -0 0
7 Seasons 1B 17 10 18 12 6 -1
7 Seasons TOT 17 10 18 12 6 -1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1968 NYY AL 21 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1974 KCR AL 27 96 66 96 65 0 0 65 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 18 2
1975 KCR AL 28 93 64 93 35 0 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 24 0
1976 CAL AL 29 63 59 63 54 0 0 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 0
1976 KCR AL 29 31 15 31 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 13 0
1977 CAL AL 30 116 87 116 91 0 0 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 28 0
1978 CAL AL 31 60 18 60 11 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 41 0
1979 TOR AL 32 36 30 36 6 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 5 0
1979 MON NL 32 29 8 29 13 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0
7 Seasons 525 347 525 281 0 0 281 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 123 148 2
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%
1968 NYY AL 21 13 54% 100% 38% 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1974 KCR AL 27 2042 56% 85% 32% 136 93% 3 511 27 478 6 62 42 36 2 2 2 5 0 2 3 3 36 0 0 0 32 0 4 1 3 6 83%
1975 KCR AL 28 1098 53% 81% 30% 83 96% 1 281 11 266 4 42 28 23 4 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 24 1 0 0 21 1 3 0 3 3 100%
1976 CAL AL 29 1957 58% 80% 28% 117 97% 2 457 24 427 7 43 54 36 10 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 32 3 0 0 29 3 3 0 3 4 75%
1976 KCR AL 29 127 61% 89% 31% 7 71% 0 34 0 34 0 3 3 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1977 CAL AL 30 2919 57% 78% 25% 154 92% 1 642 37 592 11 54 58 34 10 5 1 7 1 6 0 2 50 3 0 0 43 3 7 3 4 7 57%
1978 CAL AL 31 280 52% 85% 35% 23 100% 0 85 6 79 0 10 8 7 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 6 0 1 0 1 0
1979 MON NL 32 362 59% 84% 24% 21 81% 0 82 4 78 0 7 6 3 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 8 0 0 0 8 1 0 0 0 0
1979 TOR AL 32 164 59% 87% 32% 6 100% 0 39 1 38 0 1 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 0 0 8 2 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 8962 57% 81% 28% 547 94% 7 2136 110 1997 28 222 203 143 31 7 5 17 2 12 3 8 167 9 0 0 149 10 18 4 14 21 76%
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 94% 88%

* 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

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1974 AL  7 (2nd)
1975 AL  6 (4th)
Career  17 (51st)

                                         

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