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John Thomson    \TOM-son\

John Carl Thomson

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: October 1, 1973 in Vicksburg, MS
High School: Sulphur HS (Sulphur, LA)
Schools: Blinn College (Brenham, TX), McNeese State University (Lake Charles, LA)
Drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 7th round of the 1993 amateur draft.
Signed June 9, 1993. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 11, 1997 (Age 23)
Teams (by GP): Rockies/Braves/Rangers/Mets/Royals 1997-2007
Agents: Chris Arnold [*]
Final Game: July 1, 2007 (Age 33)
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rdrs Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1997 COL NL 23 P 27 27 2 166.1 35 9 24 2 2 .943 1.79 1.22 .953 1.85 1.84 15 8 35% 32% 0
1998 COL NL 24 P 26 26 2 161.0 30 15 15 0 3 1.000 1.68 1.15 .961 1.85 1.84 10 3 23% 32% 1
1999 COL NL 25 P 14 13 1 62.2 19 9 10 0 1 1.000 2.73 1.36 .951 1.72 1.71 7 2 22% 29% 0
2001 COL NL 27 P 14 14 1 93.2 26 17 8 1 3 .962 2.40 1.79 .959 1.75 1.73 6 0 0% 33% 0
2002 TOT NL 28 P 30 30 0 181.2 57 20 36 1 0 .982 2.77 1.87 .963 1.83 1.81 19 4 17% 32% 0
2002 COL NL 28 P 21 21 0 127.1 38 16 22 0 0 1.000 2.69 1.81 .963 1.83 1.81 9 3 25% 32% 0
2002 NYM NL 28 P 9 9 0 54.1 19 4 14 1 0 .947 2.98 2.00 .963 1.82 1.81 10 1 9% 32% 0
2003 TEX AL 29 P 35 35 3 217.0 55 17 36 2 2 .964 4 4 2.20 1.51 .957 1.73 1.71 13 4 24% 30% 0
2004 ATL NL 30 P 33 33 0 198.1 40 12 27 1 2 .975 0 0 1.77 1.18 .965 1.84 1.82 14 4 22% 28% 0
2005 ATL NL 31 P 17 17 1 98.2 20 6 14 0 2 1.000 -1 -2 1.82 1.18 .960 1.75 1.73 9 6 40% 29% 1
2006 ATL NL 32 P 18 15 0 80.1 23 7 16 0 0 1.000 2 5 2.58 1.28 .958 1.71 1.71 11 4 27% 28% 0
2007 KCR AL 33 P 2 2 0 10.2 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 1.69 1.00 .955 1.60 1.60 1 0 0% 27% 0
10 Seasons P 216 212 10 1270.1 307 113 187 7 15 .977 5 1 2.13 1.39 .959 1.79 1.77 105 35 25% 30% 2
10 Seasons TOT 216 212 10 1270.1 307 113 187 7 15 .977 5 9 2.13 1.39 .959 1.79 1.77 105 35 25% 30% 2
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1997 COL NL 23 P
1998 COL NL 24 P
1999 COL NL 25 P
2001 COL NL 27 P
2002 COL NL 28 P
2002 NYM NL 28 P
2003 TEX AL 29 P 4 4 5 0 -1
2004 ATL NL 30 P 0 0 2 -1 -1
2005 ATL NL 31 P -1 -2 -1 0 0
2006 ATL NL 32 P 2 5 2 1 -1
2007 KCR AL 33 P 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons P 5 1 8 0 -3
10 Seasons TOT 5 9 8 0 -3

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1997 COL NL 23 27 27 25 27 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1998 COL NL 24 26 26 26 26 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1999 COL NL 25 14 13 14 14 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2001 COL NL 27 14 14 14 14 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2002 COL NL 28 21 21 19 21 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2002 NYM NL 28 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2003 TEX AL 29 35 35 1 35 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2004 ATL NL 30 33 33 31 33 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2005 ATL NL 31 17 17 17 17 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2006 ATL NL 32 18 15 18 18 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2007 KCR AL 33 2 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons 216 212 174 216 216 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- P*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt 31 Tot 1B 2B Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 163 GB LD bFld bF2O%
1997 COL NL 23 721 81% 37% 29 83% 0 9 1 7 24 19 3 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 2 0 7 57%
1998 COL NL 24 680 80% 33% 18 94% 0 15 2 9 15 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 1 4 75%
1999 COL NL 25 305 80% 33% 11 100% 0 9 0 7 10 8 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0
2001 COL NL 27 386 77% 28% 9 100% 0 17 2 13 8 6 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 2 1 3 100%
2002 COL NL 28 550 83% 28% 23 96% 1 2 1 1 21 18 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 88%
2002 NYM NL 28 250 85% 24% 17 94% 0 3 2 1 14 14 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 75%
2003 TEX AL 29 910 82% 37% 41 95% 2 17 3 14 36 30 3 2 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 0 5 60%
2004 ATL NL 30 834 80% 35% 34 82% 0 12 0 10 27 22 2 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 2 0 13 62%
2005 ATL NL 31 427 82% 35% 14 93% 1 6 0 4 14 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 4 75%
2006 ATL NL 32 361 81% 33% 18 94% 0 7 1 6 16 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 100%
2007 KCR AL 33 46 91% 50% 2 50% 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Seasons 5470 81% 33% 216 91% 4 98 12 73 186 154 15 7 2 4 1 5 15 8 13 2 51 73%
MLB Averages 77% 31% 90% 83%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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

Putouts as P s c a p y
2001 NL  17 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as P† s c a p y
2002 NL  2.77 (5th)

                           

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