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Frank Taveras

Franklin Crisostomo (Fabian) Taveras

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 155 lb.

Born: December 24, 1949 in Las Matas de Santa Cruz, Monte Cristi, D.R.
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1968. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 25, 1971
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Mets/Expos 1971-1982

Final Game: July 25, 1982
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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
1972 PIT NL 22 SS 4 0 0 10.0 4 2 2 0 1 1.000 -0 -24 3.60 1.00 .968 5.04 5.05
1974 PIT NL 24 SS 124 107 63 915.2 522 170 321 31 60 .941 -13 -17 4.83 3.96 .961 4.97 4.97
1975 PIT NL 25 SS 132 122 75 1022.2 597 200 369 28 74 .953 -3 -4 5.01 4.31 .963 4.99 4.99
1976 PIT NL 26 SS 141 137 113 1180.1 726 210 481 35 74 .952 4 4 5.27 4.90 .964 5.05 5.04
1977 PIT NL 27 SS 146 143 111 1225.2 652 178 449 25 62 .962 6 5 4.60 4.29 .963 5.02 5.03
1978 PIT NL 28 SS 157 157 145 1368.1 702 216 448 38 80 .946 -10 -9 4.37 4.23 .966 4.88 4.84
1979 TOT NL 29 SS 164 161 147 1412.1 779 287 464 28 92 .964 -12 -10 4.79 4.58 .965 5.00 4.98
1979 PIT NL 29 SS 11 11 9 90.0 46 17 26 3 4 .935 -3 -44 4.30 3.91 .965 5.00 4.98
1979 NYM NL 29 SS 153 150 138 1322.1 733 270 438 25 88 .966 -8 -8 4.82 4.63 .965 5.00 4.98
1980 NYM NL 30 SS 140 131 124 1162.1 609 237 347 25 63 .959 -17 -18 4.52 4.17 .966 5.02 5.02
1981 NYM NL 31 SS 79 73 62 627.1 346 120 202 24 44 .931 -15 -29 4.62 4.08 .960 5.10 5.12
1982 MON NL 32 SS 26 6 4 80.1 38 20 16 2 5 .947 -5 -79 4.03 1.38 .967 5.01 5.02
1982 MON NL 32 2B 19 17 9 147.0 96 38 54 4 13 .958 -1 -7 5.63 4.84 .978 5.42 5.43
10 Seasons SS 1113 1037 844 9005.0 4975 1640 3099 236 555 .953 -67 -9 4.74 4.26 .964 5.00 4.99
1 Season 2B 19 17 9 147.0 96 38 54 4 13 .958 -1 -7 5.63 4.84 .978 5.42 5.43
11 Seasons TOT 1132 1054 853 9152.0 5071 1678 3153 240 568 .953 -68 -9 4.75 4.27 .964 5.00 5.00
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
1972 PIT NL 22 SS -0 -24 -0 0 -0 0
1974 PIT NL 24 SS -13 -17 -11 -5 -6 -2
1975 PIT NL 25 SS -3 -4 -4 -3 -2 1
1976 PIT NL 26 SS 4 4 5 13 -8 -1
1977 PIT NL 27 SS 6 5 7 9 -2 -1
1978 PIT NL 28 SS -10 -9 -11 -5 -6 1
1979 PIT NL 29 SS -3 -44 -2 -1 -2 -1
1979 NYM NL 29 SS -8 -8 -8 0 -8 0
1980 NYM NL 30 SS -17 -18 -14 -3 -11 -3
1981 NYM NL 31 SS -15 -29 -15 -5 -10 0
1982 MON NL 32 SS -5 -79 -4 -1 -3 -1
1982 MON NL 32 2B -1 -7 -1 -1 -0 0
10 Seasons SS -67 -9 -60 -0 -59 -7
1 Season 2B -1 -7 -1 -1 -0 0
11 Seasons TOT -68 -9 -61 -1 -60 -7

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1971 PIT NL 21 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1972 PIT NL 22 4 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1974 PIT NL 24 126 107 126 124 0 0 0 0 0 124 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
1975 PIT NL 25 134 122 134 132 0 0 0 0 0 132 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
1976 PIT NL 26 144 137 144 141 0 0 0 0 0 141 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
1977 PIT NL 27 147 143 147 146 0 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1978 PIT NL 28 157 157 157 157 0 0 0 0 0 157 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1979 NYM NL 29 153 150 153 152 0 0 0 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1979 PIT NL 29 11 11 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1980 NYM NL 30 141 131 141 140 0 0 0 0 0 140 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
1981 NYM NL 31 84 73 84 79 0 0 0 0 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
1982 MON NL 32 48 23 48 45 0 0 0 19 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 2 6
11 Seasons 1150 1054 1150 1131 0 0 0 19 0 1112 0 0 0 0 0 13 30
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 -- SS*

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
1972 PIT NL 22 40 68% 83% 20% 3 100% 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1974 PIT NL 24 3910 68% 82% 28% 442 89% 2 173 92 61 20 330 232 88 0 4 31 3 25 3 25 60 27 2 14 2 4 50 30 20 7 3 3
1975 PIT NL 25 4329 68% 80% 28% 501 88% 4 199 105 78 16 370 266 93 1 3 28 0 28 0 25 74 31 6 17 9 2 71 38 29 3 3 0
1976 PIT NL 26 4952 70% 84% 29% 617 89% 2 207 100 70 38 481 362 106 0 4 35 1 31 3 27 74 35 5 20 5 3 69 40 29 2 2 0
1977 PIT NL 27 5146 73% 82% 27% 566 89% 3 177 82 74 21 454 359 81 3 3 25 1 24 0 21 62 21 7 23 4 0 57 29 28 3 1 2
1978 PIT NL 28 5815 66% 81% 27% 599 87% 4 217 110 87 20 447 342 85 3 8 38 0 38 0 32 80 33 9 20 5 2 72 42 28 7 4 2
1979 NYM NL 29 5652 62% 82% 25% 560 91% 4 268 119 109 40 441 336 85 3 5 24 0 24 0 20 90 31 7 30 5 4 81 38 41 5 1 3
1979 PIT NL 29 393 55% 79% 25% 31 87% 0 17 6 9 2 26 19 6 0 0 3 0 3 0 3 5 1 0 3 0 0 4 1 3 0 0 0
1980 NYM NL 30 4973 57% 82% 25% 486 87% 1 240 116 82 42 342 265 66 0 9 24 0 19 5 20 62 19 7 18 4 3 52 26 25 10 5 5
1981 NYM NL 31 2690 59% 83% 29% 253 87% 0 122 51 54 17 203 158 35 0 4 24 1 21 2 21 43 12 0 15 4 4 37 12 25 3 0 3
1982 MON NL 32 352 53% 78% 22% 27 85% 0 21 10 9 2 16 8 7 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 5 2 0 2 0 0 4 2 2 1 1 0
10 Seasons 38252 65% 82% 27% 4085 88% 20 1642 792 633 218 3112 2348 653 10 41 234 6 215 13 196 556 213 43 162 38 22 498 259 230 41 20 18
MLB Averages 61% 82% 28% 91%

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
1982 MON NL 32 611 48% 82% 26% 61 90% 0 38 12 17 9 53 45 5 0 1 4 0 4 0 3 13 4 2 3 2 11 5 6 1 1 0
1 Season 611 48% 82% 26% 61 90% 0 38 12 17 9 53 45 5 0 1 4 0 4 0 3 13 4 2 3 2 11 5 6 1 1 0
MLB Averages 61% 82% 28% 94%

* 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

Assists† s c a p y
1976 NL  481 (5th)
1979 NL  464 (5th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1974 NL  31 (3rd)
1975 NL  28 (5th)
1976 NL  35 (2nd)
1978 NL  38 (2nd)
1981 NL  24 (2nd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1975 NL  132 (5th)
1978 NL  157 (3rd)
1979 NL  164 (1st)
1980 NL  140 (5th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1979 NL  287 (2nd)
1980 NL  237 (3rd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1976 NL  481 (3rd)
1979 NL  464 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1974 NL  31 (3rd)
1975 NL  28 (2nd)
1976 NL  35 (2nd)
1977 NL  25 (5th)
1978 NL  38 (2nd)
1979 NL  28 (5th)
1980 NL  25 (3rd)
1981 NL  24 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1976 NL  5.27 (4th)
Career  4.74 (48th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1976 NL  4.90 (5th)

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