Dave Stapleton
David Leslie Stapleton
Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1" , Weight: 178 lb.

Born: January 16, 1954 in Fairhope, AL
School: University of South Alabama
Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 10th round of the 1975 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 30, 1980
Final Game: October 5, 1986
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Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzrd Rtzhm Rof Rdp RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1980 BOS AL 26 2B 94 88 784.0 516 178 327 11 90 .979 4.9 7.5 0.9 3.0 -2.1 4 5.80 5.37 .981 5.60 4.91 RoY-2
1980 BOS AL 26 1B 8 7 71.0 94 84 9 1 11 .989 1.3 22.0 1.3 0.8 0.5 0 11.79 11.63 .991 10.01 8.40 RoY-2
1980 BOS AL 26 OF 6 3 27.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 -0.2 -8.9 -0.2 0.0 -0.2 0 2.00 1.00 .983 2.47 2.15 RoY-2
1980 BOS AL 26 LF 4 3 24.0 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 -0.3 -15.0 -0.3 0.2 -0.5 0 1.88 1.25 .980 2.36 1.92 RoY-2
1980 BOS AL 26 DH 3 RoY-2
1980 BOS AL 26 3B 2 1 13.0 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 0.8 73.8 0.8 0.3 0.5 0 2.08 1.50 .933 2.98 2.60 RoY-2
1980 BOS AL 26 RF 2 0 3.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.1 40.0 0.1 -0.2 0.3 0 3.00 0.50 1.000 2.10 1.75 RoY-2
1981 BOS AL 27 SS 33 32 287.0 153 52 93 8 18 .948 -2.3 -9.6 -2.3 -1.5 -0.8 0 4.55 4.39 .968 4.99 4.19
1981 BOS AL 27 3B 25 23 200.1 74 21 49 4 3 .946 -1.2 -7.2 -1.2 -0.9 -0.3 0 3.14 2.80 .950 2.95 2.52
1981 BOS AL 27 2B 23 18 176.0 123 61 58 4 19 .967 -3.4 -23.2 -4.4 -2.4 -1.9 1 6.09 5.17 .982 5.54 4.93
1981 BOS AL 27 1B 12 11 102.0 131 126 4 1 10 .992 1.9 22.4 1.9 1.7 0.2 0 11.47 10.83 .993 10.06 8.57
1981 BOS AL 27 DH 3
1982 BOS AL 28 1B 106 105 918.0 1050 964 77 9 98 .991 7.0 9.2 7.0 4.0 3.0 0 10.21 9.82 .992 9.80 8.51
1982 BOS AL 28 SS 27 25 196.0 111 35 73 3 14 .973 0.3 1.8 -0.7 1.8 -2.5 1 4.96 4.00 .965 4.87 4.17
1982 BOS AL 28 2B 9 6 72.1 51 28 22 1 3 .980 -1.3 -21.6 -0.3 -0.9 0.6 -1 6.22 5.56 .980 5.35 4.70
1982 BOS AL 28 3B 5 4 39.0 12 5 7 0 1 1.000 -0.1 -3.1 -0.1 0.0 -0.1 0 2.77 2.40 .950 3.07 2.62
1982 BOS AL 28 DH 4
1982 BOS AL 28 LF 1 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.00 0.00 2.70 1.90
1982 BOS AL 28 OF 1 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.20
1983 BOS AL 29 1B 145 141 1265.1 1346 1242 95 9 129 .993 1.2 1.1 1.2 0.1 1.1 0 9.51 9.22 .992 7.11 6.90
1983 BOS AL 29 2B 5 3 36.0 18 7 10 1 3 .944 -1.0 -33.3 -1.0 -1.5 0.6 0 4.25 3.40 .983 5.35 4.76
1984 BOS AL 30 1B 10 10 85.2 94 86 8 0 5 1.000 1.0 14.0 1.0 0.6 0.4 0 9.88 9.40 .990 9.75 8.25
1984 BOS AL 30 DH 1
1985 BOS AL 31 2B 14 12 110.2 64 29 35 0 8 1.000 -0.5 -5.4 0.5 1.0 -0.6 -1 5.20 4.57 .981 5.29 4.48
1985 BOS AL 31 1B 8 1 20.0 14 12 1 1 3 .929 -0.6 -36.0 -0.6 -0.1 -0.4 0 5.85 1.63 .993 9.76 8.68
1985 BOS AL 31 DH 5
1986 BOS AL 32 1B 29 5 85.0 86 79 7 0 10 1.000 -0.9 -12.7 -0.9 -0.9 0.0 0 9.11 2.97 .991 9.42 8.62
1986 BOS AL 32 2B 6 2 23.0 13 6 7 0 3 1.000 -1.7 -88.7 -1.7 -0.4 -1.3 0 5.09 2.17 .977 5.09 4.33
1986 BOS AL 32 3B 2 1 10.0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0.5 60.0 0.5 0.5 0.0 0 1.80 1.00 .950 2.70 2.35
7 Seasons 1B 318 280 2547.0 2815 2593 201 21 266 .993 10.9 5.1 10.9 6.2 4.8 0 9.87 8.79 .992 8.47 7.78
6 Seasons 2B 151 129 1202.0 785 309 459 17 126 .978 -3.0 -3.0 -6.0 -1.2 -4.7 3 5.75 5.09 .981 5.53 4.83
2 Seasons SS 60 57 483.0 264 87 166 11 32 .958 -2.0 -5.0 -3.0 0.3 -3.3 1 4.71 4.22 .967 4.94 4.18
4 Seasons 3B 34 29 262.1 91 27 60 4 4 .956 -0.0 -0.0 -0.0 -0.1 0.1 0 2.98 2.56 .949 2.96 2.53
5 Seasons DH 16
2 Seasons OF 7 3 27.1 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 -0.2 -8.8 -0.2 0.0 -0.2 0 1.98 0.86 .983 2.47 2.16
2 Seasons LF 5 3 24.1 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 -0.3 -14.8 -0.3 0.2 -0.5 0 1.85 1.00 .980 2.37 1.92
1 Season RF 2 0 3.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.1 40.0 0.1 -0.2 0.3 0 3.00 0.50 1.000 2.10 1.75
7 Seasons TOT 570 498 4521.2 3961 3022 886 53 428 .987 5.7 1.5 1.7 5.2 -3.3 0 4 7.78 6.86 .974 6.95 6.24
Pos G GS Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzrd Rtzhm Rof Rdp RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards

Appearances

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Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1980 BOS AL 26 106 101 106 103 0 0 8 93 3 0 4 0 2 6 2 4 1
1981 BOS AL 27 93 87 93 87 0 0 12 23 25 33 0 0 0 0 3 5 1
1982 BOS AL 28 150 141 150 144 0 0 107 9 5 27 1 0 0 1 1 5 1
1983 BOS AL 29 151 144 151 150 0 0 145 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1984 BOS AL 30 13 11 13 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0
1985 BOS AL 31 30 14 30 21 0 0 8 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 4
1986 BOS AL 32 39 8 39 37 0 0 29 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11
7 Seasons 582 506 582 552 0 0 319 150 35 60 5 0 2 7 8 25 18
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1954 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

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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%
1980 BOS AL 26 286 41% 84% 36% 26 96% 0 85 5 80 0 11 10 7 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 11 0 1 1 11 2 0 0 0 0
1981 BOS AL 27 432 57% 81% 29% 36 97% 0 127 14 111 2 17 4 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 9 0 0 0 7 0 2 1 1 1 100%
1982 BOS AL 28 4060 60% 79% 27% 241 95% 1 984 38 937 10 122 76 55 12 2 2 9 3 5 1 3 101 4 0 0 92 5 9 3 6 8 88%
1983 BOS AL 29 5674 64% 80% 24% 313 96% 2 1241 97 1126 17 121 94 68 14 2 2 9 2 7 0 2 130 3 0 1 119 6 10 4 6 9 100%
1984 BOS AL 30 398 64% 79% 23% 21 100% 0 86 7 77 2 8 8 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 1 100%
1985 BOS AL 31 84 77% 74% 18% 4 75% 0 11 0 11 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
1986 BOS AL 32 373 51% 78% 24% 23 96% 0 78 7 70 1 9 6 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 9 0 1 1 0 1 100%
7 Seasons 11307 61% 80% 26% 664 95% 3 2612 168 2412 32 290 199 145 31 4 5 21 5 14 2 7 268 7 1 2 243 13 24 10 14 20 95%
MLB Averages 57% 78% 26% 95% 91%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

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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
1980 BOS AL 26 3456 50% 82% 27% 342 96% 1 175 59 76 40 320 267 48 0 8 11 1 7 3 7 85 24 16 37 0 78 37 40 6 3 3
1981 BOS AL 27 813 62% 76% 25% 68 91% 0 62 20 30 12 54 49 5 0 1 4 0 4 0 4 17 6 5 4 1 16 5 11 1 0 1
1982 BOS AL 28 330 64% 82% 32% 35 94% 0 28 13 11 4 22 20 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 2 0 3 2 1 0 0 0
1983 BOS AL 29 174 56% 75% 22% 11 91% 0 6 1 3 2 10 6 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 2 1 3 3 0 0 0 0
1985 BOS AL 31 477 58% 76% 25% 41 100% 0 29 11 11 7 36 32 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 5 0 1 0 6 1 5 2 1 1
1986 BOS AL 32 114 36% 83% 20% 8 88% 1 6 2 3 1 7 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 1
6 Seasons 5364 53% 80% 27% 505 95% 2 306 106 134 66 449 377 64 0 11 17 1 12 4 12 119 37 21 47 2 108 49 58 10 4 6
MLB Averages 57% 78% 26% 95%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

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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
1981 BOS AL 27 1270 54% 78% 29% 108 90% 0 52 16 25 11 93 74 19 0 0 8 0 7 1 7 18 7 0 6 3 1 18 7 11 0 0 0
1982 BOS AL 28 851 61% 80% 28% 84 93% 0 36 14 14 8 73 58 14 0 2 3 0 3 0 2 14 6 0 5 1 2 14 6 8 0 0 0
2 Seasons 2121 57% 79% 28% 192 91% 0 88 30 39 19 166 132 33 0 2 11 0 10 1 9 32 13 0 11 4 3 32 13 19 0 0 0
MLB Averages 57% 78% 26% 92%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

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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%
1980 BOS AL 26 47 55% 77% 38% 5 100% 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1981 BOS AL 27 884 58% 80% 27% 73 86% 0 21 16 2 3 46 39 6 0 2 4 0 4 0 3 3 2 1 3 0 0 0 1 100%
1982 BOS AL 28 171 47% 75% 26% 14 71% 0 5 2 3 0 7 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 100%
1986 BOS AL 32 40 50% 68% 40% 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
4 Seasons 1142 56% 79% 28% 94 85% 0 27 19 5 3 59 48 9 0 2 4 0 4 0 3 5 2 1 3 2 1 1 2 100%
MLB Averages 57% 78% 26% 90% 76%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

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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%
1980 BOS AL 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 107 44% 80% 22% 11 45%
1982 BOS AL 28 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 4 75% 75% 25% 0
2 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 111 45% 80% 22% 11 45%
MLB Averages 58.6% 2.7% 57% 78% 26% 56%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

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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%
1980 BOS AL 26 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 14 57% 79% 43% 1 100%
1 Season 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 14 57% 79% 43% 1 100%
MLB Averages 43.4% 3.1% 57% 78% 26% 59%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 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.

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