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Dickie Thon

Richard William Thon

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: June 20, 1958 in South Bend, IN
Signed by the California Angels as an amateur free agent in 1975. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 22, 1979
Teams (by GP): Astros/Phillies/Angels/Rangers/Padres/... 1979-1993
Agents: Bill Landman,Tom Reich [*]
Final Game: October 3, 1993
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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
1979 CAL AL 21 2B 24 10 8 125.0 78 34 38 6 12 .923 -2 -16 5.18 3.00 .978 5.50 5.43
1979 CAL AL 21 SS 8 2 2 24.1 13 3 8 2 1 .846 -2 -94 4.07 1.38 .965 4.99 4.95
1979 CAL AL 21 DH 2 0
1979 CAL AL 21 3B 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -120 9.00 1.00 .950 2.70 3.00
1980 CAL AL 22 SS 22 22 19 186.0 97 24 66 7 12 .928 -4 -26 4.35 4.09 .963 4.99 4.98
1980 CAL AL 22 2B 21 18 13 164.2 86 39 46 1 15 .988 -3 -22 4.65 4.05 .981 5.60 5.58
1980 CAL AL 22 DH 15 14
1980 CAL AL 22 3B 10 7 7 72.0 22 4 16 2 1 .909 -0 -7 2.50 2.00 .951 3.01 3.00
1980 CAL AL 22 1B 1 0 0 2.2 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 10.12 3.00 .993 10.12 10.00
1981 HOU NL 23 2B 28 18 11 170.2 80 37 39 4 10 .950 -4 -25 4.01 2.71 .982 5.52 5.54
1981 HOU NL 23 SS 13 5 4 54.2 31 12 17 2 2 .935 -1 -24 4.77 2.23 .960 5.10 5.12
1981 HOU NL 23 3B 5 2 2 27.1 11 4 7 0 1 1.000 1 40 3.62 2.20 .948 2.83 2.84
1982 HOU NL 24 SS 119 114 110 1018.1 591 177 399 15 80 .975 15 17 5.09 4.84 .967 5.01 5.02
1982 HOU NL 24 3B 8 6 6 57.1 21 6 13 2 2 .905 -1 -25 2.98 2.38 .951 2.76 2.78
1982 HOU NL 24 2B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -60 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.40
1983 HOU NL 25 SS 154 154 150 1382.1 819 258 533 28 114 .966 19 16 5.15 5.14 .967 4.85 4.83 AS,MVP-7,SS
1984 HOU NL 26 SS 5 5 4 39.0 21 8 13 0 1 1.000 -0 -3 4.85 4.20 .965 4.87 4.86
1985 HOU NL 27 SS 79 68 57 606.0 335 106 218 11 48 .967 -2 -4 4.81 4.10 .963 4.88 4.88
1986 HOU NL 28 SS 104 76 59 702.0 362 142 210 10 39 .972 4 7 4.51 3.38 .963 4.75 4.76
1987 HOU NL 29 SS 31 18 15 178.2 80 21 53 6 7 .925 -1 -4 3.73 2.39 .965 4.72 4.69
1988 SDP NL 30 SS 70 62 55 549.1 262 82 168 12 28 .954 -2 -4 4.10 3.57 .967 4.63 4.64
1988 SDP NL 30 2B 2 1 1 10.0 4 2 2 0 1 1.000 -1 -84 3.60 2.00 .980 5.22 5.25
1988 SDP NL 30 3B 1 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 180 4.50 1.00 .950 2.70 2.80
1989 PHI NL 31 SS 129 118 100 1024.0 570 174 380 16 65 .972 -6 -8 4.87 4.29 .966 4.51 4.52
1990 PHI NL 32 SS 148 141 135 1262.0 686 222 439 25 86 .964 1 1 4.71 4.47 .967 4.59 4.56
1991 PHI NL 33 SS 146 143 134 1277.0 667 234 412 21 65 .969 -3 -3 4.55 4.42 .966 4.67 4.65
1992 TEX AL 34 SS 87 75 56 678.2 357 117 225 15 38 .958 0 1 4.54 3.93 .969 4.71 4.69
1993 MIL AL 35 SS 28 19 14 176.1 88 28 57 3 8 .966 -3 -19 4.34 3.04 .973 4.69 4.64
1993 MIL AL 35 3B 25 16 12 153.1 43 12 30 1 2 .977 5 37 2.47 1.68 .951 2.69 2.66
1993 MIL AL 35 2B 22 14 7 126.0 75 40 32 3 9 .960 -4 -33 5.14 3.27 .981 5.15 5.11
1993 MIL AL 35 DH 14 10
15 Seasons SS 1143 1022 914 9158.2 4979 1608 3198 173 594 .965 15 2 4.72 4.20 .966 4.74 4.73
6 Seasons 2B 98 61 40 598.1 323 152 157 14 47 .957 -13 -25 4.65 3.15 .980 5.46 5.42
6 Seasons 3B 50 31 27 313.0 99 27 67 5 6 .949 4 16 2.70 1.88 .951 2.79 2.77
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 2.2 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 10.12 3.00 .993 10.12 10.00
15 Seasons TOT 1292 1114 981 10072.2 5404 1790 3422 192 647 .964 7 1 4.66 4.03 .967 4.72 4.71
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
1979 CAL AL 21 2B -2 -16 -2 -2 0 0
1979 CAL AL 21 SS -2 -94 -2 0 -2 0
1979 CAL AL 21 3B -0 -120 -0 0 -0 0
1980 CAL AL 22 SS -4 -26 -3 -1 -2 -1
1980 CAL AL 22 2B -3 -22 -3 -1 -2 0
1980 CAL AL 22 3B -0 -7 -0 0 -0 0
1980 CAL AL 22 1B 0 0 0 0 0
1981 HOU NL 23 2B -4 -25 -3 -3 0 -1
1981 HOU NL 23 SS -1 -24 -0 1 -1 -1
1981 HOU NL 23 3B 1 40 1 1 0 0
1982 HOU NL 24 SS 15 17 14 8 6 1
1982 HOU NL 24 3B -1 -25 -1 0 -1 0
1982 HOU NL 24 2B -0 -60 -0 0 -0 0
1983 HOU NL 25 SS 19 16 14 4 10 5
1984 HOU NL 26 SS -0 -3 -0 -0 0 0
1985 HOU NL 27 SS -2 -4 -2 4 -6 0
1986 HOU NL 28 SS 4 7 4 4 1 0
1987 HOU NL 29 SS -1 -4 -1 1 -2 0
1988 SDP NL 30 SS -2 -4 -1 2 -3 -1
1988 SDP NL 30 2B -1 -84 -1 -1 0 0
1988 SDP NL 30 3B 0 180 0 0 0 0
1989 PHI NL 31 SS -6 -8 -4 -8 4 -2
1990 PHI NL 32 SS 1 1 0 6 -6 1
1991 PHI NL 33 SS -3 -3 -0 -0 0 -3
1992 TEX AL 34 SS 0 1 2 -1 2 -1
1993 MIL AL 35 SS -3 -19 -1 -0 -0 -2
1993 MIL AL 35 3B 5 37 5 2 2 0
1993 MIL AL 35 2B -4 -33 -4 -4 0 0
15 Seasons SS 15 2 19 18 1 -4
6 Seasons 2B -13 -25 -12 -10 -2 -1
6 Seasons 3B 4 16 4 3 1 0
1 Season 1B 0 0 0 0 0
15 Seasons TOT 7 1 12 11 0 -5
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1979 CAL AL 21 35 12 35 33 0 0 0 24 1 8 0 0 0 0 2 0 3
1980 CAL AL 22 80 61 80 53 0 0 2 21 10 22 0 0 0 0 15 13 3
1981 HOU NL 23 49 25 49 43 0 0 0 29 5 13 0 0 0 0 0 2 10
1982 HOU NL 24 136 120 136 127 0 0 0 1 8 119 0 0 0 0 0 9 3
1983 HOU NL 25 154 154 154 154 0 0 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1984 HOU NL 26 5 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1985 HOU NL 27 84 68 84 79 0 0 0 0 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 6 4
1986 HOU NL 28 106 76 106 104 0 0 0 0 0 104 0 0 0 0 0 24 1
1987 HOU NL 29 32 18 32 31 0 0 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1988 SDP NL 30 95 63 95 73 0 0 0 2 1 70 0 0 0 0 0 20 5
1989 PHI NL 31 136 118 136 129 0 0 0 0 0 129 0 0 0 0 0 10 1
1990 PHI NL 32 149 141 149 148 0 0 0 0 0 148 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1991 PHI NL 33 146 143 146 146 0 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1992 TEX AL 34 95 75 95 87 0 0 0 0 0 87 0 0 0 0 0 11 2
1993 MIL AL 35 85 59 85 63 0 0 0 22 25 28 0 0 0 0 14 19 2
15 Seasons 1387 1138 1387 1275 0 0 2 99 50 1143 0 0 0 0 31 132 34
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
1979 CAL AL 21 124 70% 82% 20% 12 83% 0 3 3 0 0 8 3 4 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
1980 CAL AL 22 824 56% 85% 24% 89 83% 0 23 12 10 1 70 52 16 0 1 7 0 6 1 7 12 4 0 4 0 1 9 4 5 2 1 0
1981 HOU NL 23 230 51% 77% 24% 24 88% 0 11 4 4 4 18 14 3 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1982 HOU NL 24 4215 55% 82% 29% 473 90% 3 174 69 77 29 391 311 64 1 4 15 0 12 3 10 78 30 5 25 4 1 73 35 32 4 3 1
1983 HOU NL 25 5780 59% 81% 29% 657 91% 4 255 116 107 32 538 415 106 1 1 28 1 26 1 22 114 47 8 34 4 8 107 55 48 6 4 2
1984 HOU NL 26 166 57% 81% 27% 18 100% 2 9 6 1 2 13 10 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
1985 HOU NL 27 2622 58% 80% 27% 251 97% 0 105 49 47 9 222 165 47 0 4 11 0 9 2 8 49 22 2 15 1 1 44 25 17 5 3 1
1986 HOU NL 28 2898 59% 76% 25% 274 95% 2 136 68 49 19 214 167 37 0 2 10 1 7 2 6 39 16 1 12 4 1 37 17 17 1 1 0
1987 HOU NL 29 749 55% 73% 22% 62 89% 1 19 8 7 4 51 43 6 0 0 6 2 4 0 4 6 1 0 2 1 1 6 1 4 0 0 0
1988 SDP NL 30 2261 55% 80% 33% 239 87% 2 90 57 23 10 165 116 43 1 0 12 1 6 5 9 27 16 0 3 2 2 26 16 8 0 0 0
1989 PHI NL 31 4445 64% 80% 34% 477 90% 2 177 77 71 29 385 298 75 1 6 16 0 9 7 14 65 29 4 16 8 1 58 33 25 5 1 2
1990 PHI NL 32 5459 62% 80% 34% 561 88% 6 219 101 93 25 441 347 79 2 5 25 1 17 7 20 87 37 2 26 7 4 80 39 37 5 4 1
1991 PHI NL 33 5514 58% 78% 31% 584 82% 0 237 114 92 31 410 323 76 0 7 21 2 15 4 18 65 18 3 24 5 7 58 21 37 5 1 3
1992 TEX AL 34 2952 57% 78% 30% 319 78% 3 117 50 44 23 225 166 47 1 2 15 0 10 5 12 38 16 4 11 3 2 37 20 16 1 1 0
1993 MIL AL 35 800 58% 81% 32% 72 90% 1 28 13 9 6 56 38 16 0 1 3 0 1 2 1 9 4 0 0 3 0 7 4 3 0 0 0
15 Seasons 39039 59% 80% 30% 4112 88% 26 1603 747 634 224 3207 2468 620 8 34 173 9 125 39 133 593 241 29 172 43 30 545 271 251 35 20 10
MLB Averages 59% 81% 30% 89%

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
1979 CAL AL 21 543 55% 82% 25% 55 85% 1 33 12 15 6 42 33 8 0 1 6 1 4 1 4 12 3 3 5 0 11 5 6 1 0 1
1980 CAL AL 22 742 54% 84% 21% 57 95% 0 39 16 15 8 48 37 11 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 16 6 0 8 1 16 9 6 0 0 0
1981 HOU NL 23 657 62% 85% 30% 48 94% 0 37 10 19 8 42 38 4 0 0 4 0 3 1 1 10 3 4 2 0 9 2 7 0 0 0
1982 HOU NL 24 7 71% 100% 57% 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
1988 SDP NL 30 49 31% 86% 20% 4 50% 0 2 0 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1993 MIL AL 35 591 54% 81% 32% 49 90% 1 38 17 17 4 33 27 5 0 0 3 0 1 2 1 9 3 3 3 0 9 3 6 0 0 0
6 Seasons 2589 56% 83% 27% 213 90% 2 149 55 66 28 167 136 29 0 2 14 1 9 4 7 48 15 10 19 1 46 20 25 1 0 1
MLB Averages 59% 81% 30% 92%

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%
1979 CAL AL 21 4 100% 100% 25% 2 50% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1980 CAL AL 22 320 51% 83% 24% 22 86% 0 4 4 0 0 16 13 2 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0%
1981 HOU NL 23 109 56% 76% 21% 12 92% 0 4 3 1 0 7 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1982 HOU NL 24 238 56% 82% 32% 20 75% 0 6 3 0 3 14 11 1 0 2 2 0 0 2 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1988 SDP NL 30 8 63% 50% 25% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1993 MIL AL 35 646 57% 83% 34% 46 89% 0 12 11 0 1 30 26 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 50%
6 Seasons 1325 55% 82% 30% 103 85% 0 27 22 1 4 68 55 9 1 3 5 0 3 2 4 6 5 0 5 0 0 0 4 50%
MLB Averages 59% 81% 30% 89% 71%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

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 CAL AL 22 10 70% 80% 20% 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 10 70% 80% 20% 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 59% 81% 30% 94% 88%

* 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

All-Star Games
1983 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1983 NL (7, 20%)
0.20 Career Shares (738th)

Silver Sluggers
1983 NL (SS)

Assists† s c a p y
1983 NL  533 (2nd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1983 NL  28 (5th)
1990 NL  25 (5th)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1983 NL  19 (3rd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1983 NL  154 (4th)
1990 NL  148 (3rd)
1991 NL  146 (3rd)
Career  1,143 (97th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1983 NL  258 (3rd)
1990 NL  222 (4th)
1991 NL  234 (5th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1983 NL  533 (1st)
1990 NL  439 (3rd)
1991 NL  412 (3rd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1983 NL  28 (3rd)
1990 NL  25 (3rd)
1991 NL  21 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1982 NL  15 (2nd)
1983 NL  19 (1st)
Career  15 (88th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1982 NL  5.09 (5th)
1983 NL  5.15 (3rd)
1989 NL  4.87 (3rd)
1990 NL  4.71 (3rd)
Career  4.72 (52nd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1982 NL  4.84 (4th)
1983 NL  5.14 (2nd)
1990 NL  4.47 (4th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1982 NL  .975 (4th)
1983 NL  .966 (5th)
1986 NL  .972 (5th)

                           

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