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Ron Theobald

Ronald Merrill Theobald

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: July 28, 1943 in Oakland, CA
High School: Ells HS (Richmond, CA)
School: University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in 1964. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 12, 1971
Team: Brewers 1971-1972

Final Game: October 4, 1972
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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
1971 MIL AL 27 2B 111 102 94 896.2 559 233 311 15 81 .973 9 12 5.46 4.90 .980 5.31 5.28
1971 MIL AL 27 3B 1 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 60 4.50 1.00 .960 3.15 3.00
1971 MIL AL 27 SS 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 4.50 4.90
1972 MIL AL 28 2B 113 105 92 918.0 498 193 299 6 68 .988 3 4 4.82 4.35 .977 5.17 5.14
2 Seasons 2B 224 207 186 1814.2 1057 426 610 21 149 .980 12 8 5.14 4.63 .979 5.24 5.21
1 Season SS 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 4.50 4.90
1 Season 3B 1 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 60 4.50 1.00 .960 3.15 3.00
2 Seasons TOT 226 207 186 1817.2 1058 426 611 21 149 .980 12 8 5.13 4.59 .979 5.24 5.20
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
1971 MIL AL 27 2B 9 12 5 0 5 4
1971 MIL AL 27 3B 0 60 0 0 0 0
1971 MIL AL 27 SS -0 -120 -0 0 -0 0
1972 MIL AL 28 2B 3 4 2 4 -1 1
2 Seasons 2B 12 8 7 4 4 5
1 Season 3B 0 60 0 0 0 0
1 Season SS -0 -120 -0 0 -0 0
2 Seasons TOT 12 8 7 4 4 5

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1971 MIL AL 27 126 102 126 113 0 0 0 111 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 5
1972 MIL AL 28 125 105 125 113 0 0 0 113 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 17 0
2 Seasons 251 207 251 226 0 0 0 224 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 32 5
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 -- 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
1971 MIL AL 27 3769 58% 80% 27% 361 94% 2 227 84 103 40 309 258 41 2 4 15 2 12 1 9 80 26 15 23 2 74 26 44 3 1 1
1972 MIL AL 28 3862 62% 81% 27% 324 96% 1 191 54 100 37 300 246 47 0 6 6 0 6 0 5 71 22 14 22 3 63 26 37 5 1 4
2 Seasons 7631 60% 80% 27% 685 95% 3 418 138 203 77 609 504 88 2 10 21 2 18 1 14 151 48 29 45 5 137 52 81 8 2 5
MLB Averages 63% 80% 28% 93%

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%
1971 MIL AL 27 10 60% 80% 20% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 10 60% 80% 20% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 80% 28% 89% 67%

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
1971 MIL AL 27 4 50% 75% 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
1972 MIL AL 28 6 67% 50% 33% 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
2 Seasons 10 60% 60% 20% 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
MLB Averages 63% 80% 28% 91%

* 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

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1971 AL  15 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1971 AL  9 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1971 AL  5.46 (4th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1972 AL  .988 (2nd)

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