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Ed Spiezio

Edward Wayne Spiezio

Positions: Third Baseman, Pinch Hitter and Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: October 31, 1941 in Joliet, IL
High School: Joliet Township HS (Joliet, IL)
Schools: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL), Lewis University (Romeoville, IL)
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1963. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 23, 1964
Teams (by GP): Padres/Cardinals/WhiteSox 1964-1972

Final Game: September 27, 1972
Relatives: Father of Scott Spiezio
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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
1965 STL NL 23 3B 3 3 3 25.0 8 1 7 0 0 1.000 1 43 2.88 2.67 .951 2.81 2.83
1966 STL NL 24 3B 19 19 12 162.1 52 14 32 6 3 .885 -1 -10 2.55 2.42 .954 3.04 3.04
1967 STL NL 25 3B 19 16 13 142.0 52 15 35 2 4 .962 2 20 3.17 2.63 .950 2.96 2.96
1967 STL NL 25 OF 7 5 2 45.0 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -37 1.80 1.29 .976 2.02 2.03
1967 STL NL 25 RF 5 3 1 33.0 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -47 1.36 1.00 .976 2.02 2.02
1967 STL NL 25 LF 2 2 1 12.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -10 1.50 1.00 .970 1.72 1.75
1968 STL NL 26 OF 11 10 6 86.2 20 19 1 0 1 1.000 -2 -30 2.08 1.82 .975 2.02 2.03
1968 STL NL 26 RF 9 8 4 62.0 15 14 1 0 1 1.000 -1 -14 2.18 1.67 .981 2.00 2.02
1968 STL NL 26 LF 3 2 2 24.2 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 -2 -73 2.19 2.00 .963 1.64 1.63
1968 STL NL 26 3B 2 1 1 12.0 5 1 4 0 0 1.000 0 10 3.75 2.50 .954 2.92 2.95
1969 SDP NL 27 3B 98 92 88 832.1 310 93 198 19 10 .939 -5 -7 3.15 2.97 .946 2.92 2.90
1969 SDP NL 27 LF 1 1 1 9.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -53 0.00 0.00 1.70 1.70
1969 SDP NL 27 OF 1 1 1 9.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -53 0.00 0.00 2.00 2.00
1970 SDP NL 28 3B 93 83 72 742.1 256 66 178 12 10 .953 1 1 2.96 2.62 .945 2.91 2.90
1971 SDP NL 29 3B 91 87 63 728.0 234 57 168 9 12 .962 1 1 2.78 2.47 .949 2.80 2.80
1971 SDP NL 29 LF 1 0 0 2.2 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -45 0.00 0.00 2.02 1.90
1971 SDP NL 29 OF 1 0 0 2.2 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -45 0.00 0.00 2.36 2.20
1972 TOT MLB 30 3B 79 77 72 692.0 257 69 176 12 12 .953 -3 -5 3.19 3.10 .954 2.98 2.95
1972 SDP NL 30 3B 5 3 2 31.0 6 2 4 0 1 1.000 -1 -46 1.74 1.20 .945 2.87 2.88
1972 CHW AL 30 3B 74 74 70 661.0 251 67 172 12 11 .952 -2 -3 3.25 3.23 .954 2.98 2.96
8 Seasons 3B 404 378 324 3336.0 1174 316 798 60 51 .949 -4 -2 3.01 2.76 .949 2.91 2.90
4 Seasons OF 20 16 9 143.1 29 28 1 0 1 1.000 -4 -34 1.82 1.45 .975 2.03 2.04
2 Seasons RF 14 11 5 95.0 20 19 1 0 1 1.000 -2 -25 1.89 1.43 .980 2.01 2.02
4 Seasons LF 7 5 4 48.1 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 -2 -52 1.49 1.14 .965 1.69 1.71
9 Seasons TOT 424 394 333 3479.1 1203 344 799 60 52 .950 -8 -3 2.96 2.70 .949 2.87 2.86
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
1965 STL NL 23 3B 1 43 1 0 1 0
1966 STL NL 24 3B -1 -10 -1 -1 -1 0
1967 STL NL 25 3B 2 20 2 -0 3 0
1967 STL NL 25 RF -1 -47 -0 -0 0 -1
1967 STL NL 25 LF -0 -10 -0 0 -0 0
1968 STL NL 26 RF -1 -14 0 -0 0 -1
1968 STL NL 26 LF -2 -73 -0 -0 -0 -1
1968 STL NL 26 3B 0 10 0 0 0 0
1969 SDP NL 27 3B -5 -7 -4 -4 0 -1
1969 SDP NL 27 LF -0 -53 -0 0 -0 0
1970 SDP NL 28 3B 1 1 2 -2 3 -1
1971 SDP NL 29 3B 1 1 2 3 -1 -1
1971 SDP NL 29 LF -0 -45 -0 0 -0
1972 SDP NL 30 3B -1 -46 -1 -1 0 0
1972 CHW AL 30 3B -2 -3 -1 0 -1 -1
8 Seasons 3B -4 -2 -0 -6 5 -4
2 Seasons RF -2 -25 0 -1 1 -2
4 Seasons LF -2 -52 -1 -0 -1 -1
9 Seasons TOT -8 -3 -1 -6 5 -4 -3

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1964 STL NL 22 12 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1965 STL NL 23 10 3 10 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1966 STL NL 24 26 19 26 19 0 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1967 STL NL 25 55 21 55 25 0 0 0 0 19 0 2 0 5 7 0 30 0
1968 STL NL 26 29 11 29 13 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 9 11 0 17 0
1969 SDP NL 27 121 93 121 99 0 0 0 0 98 0 1 0 0 1 0 26 0
1970 SDP NL 28 110 83 110 94 0 0 0 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
1971 SDP NL 29 97 87 97 92 0 0 0 0 91 0 1 0 0 1 0 7 0
1972 CHW AL 30 74 74 74 74 0 0 0 0 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1972 SDP NL 30 20 3 20 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0
9 Seasons 554 394 554 424 0 0 0 0 405 0 7 0 14 20 0 148 0
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 -- 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%
1965 STL NL 23 110 61% 76% 23% 8 100% 0 1 1 0 0 7 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1966 STL NL 24 658 64% 79% 30% 47 85% 0 14 9 3 2 32 27 5 0 1 6 0 4 2 5 3 2 0 3 0 0 0 0
1967 STL NL 25 556 71% 83% 28% 52 88% 1 16 12 2 2 34 31 2 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 4 2 1 3 1 0 0 2 100%
1968 STL NL 26 53 74% 81% 23% 4 100% 0 1 0 1 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1969 SDP NL 27 3441 64% 80% 26% 290 86% 2 85 65 9 11 184 152 25 2 4 19 0 15 4 14 11 8 1 10 1 1 0 15 60%
1970 SDP NL 28 3150 63% 79% 27% 258 86% 1 65 47 8 10 170 130 39 0 2 12 0 10 2 9 11 9 1 10 0 0 0 6 67%
1971 SDP NL 29 3013 63% 77% 29% 232 89% 2 58 42 9 7 166 131 26 3 4 9 0 8 1 8 11 9 0 9 2 0 2 9 67%
1972 CHW AL 30 2732 70% 80% 29% 258 88% 0 68 50 13 5 172 140 28 1 0 12 0 10 2 9 11 5 2 9 2 1 1 13 85%
1972 SDP NL 30 134 72% 74% 19% 9 67% 0 3 2 0 1 4 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0%
8 Seasons 13847 65% 79% 28% 1158 87% 6 311 228 45 38 773 625 126 6 15 60 0 49 11 45 52 35 5 44 7 2 4 46 70%
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 89% 66%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1967 STL NL 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0.0% 7 0 0.0% 0 140 78% 78% 25% 10 50%
1968 STL NL 26 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 0 0.0% 6 1 14.3% 0 242 67% 79% 26% 25 56%
2 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 8 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 14 0 0.0% 13 1 7.1% 0 382 71% 78% 26% 35 54%
MLB Averages 40.7% 3.3% 64% 79% 26% 53%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1967 STL NL 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 49 98% 57% 14% 8 25%
1968 STL NL 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 3 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 3 3 0 13 6 46.2% 7 0 0.0% 0 119 65% 74% 19% 16 38%
1969 SDP NL 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 48% 79% 15% 2 0%
1971 SDP NL 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 64% 91% 36% 0
4 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 3 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 3 3 0 13 6 46.2% 7 0 0.0% 0 212 70% 72% 18% 26 31%
MLB Averages 58.7% 2.8% 64% 79% 26% 47%

* 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 3B s c a p y
1967 NL  2 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1969 NL  3.15 (1st)
1971 NL  2.78 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1969 NL  2.97 (4th)
1971 NL  2.47 (5th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1971 NL  .962 (2nd)

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