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Bob Walk

Robert Vernon Walk

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: November 26, 1956 in Van Nuys, CA
High School: Hart HS (Newhall, CA)
School: College of the Canyons (Santa Clarita, CA)
Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 3rd round of the 1976 amateur draft (June Secondary). Player signed September 7, 1976. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 26, 1980 (Age 23)
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Braves/Phillies 1980-1993

Final Game: September 29, 1993 (Age 36)
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1980 PHI NL 23 P 27 27 2 151.2 33 17 15 1 2 .970 1.90 1.19 .952 1.91 1.91 27 7 21% 31% 2 RoY-7
1981 ATL NL 24 P 12 8 0 43.1 7 3 4 0 0 1.000 1.45 0.58 .959 1.97 1.98 6 2 25% 33% 0
1982 ATL NL 25 P 32 27 3 164.1 35 12 17 6 2 .829 1.59 0.91 .952 1.96 1.97 27 8 23% 32% 3
1983 ATL NL 26 P 1 1 0 3.2 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 4.91 2.00 .950 1.96 1.90 3 1 25% 33% 1
1984 PIT NL 27 P 2 2 0 10.1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 1.92 1.85 1 0 0% 31% 0
1985 PIT NL 28 P 9 9 1 58.2 9 7 2 0 0 1.000 1.38 1.00 .953 1.92 1.92 5 5 50% 30% 0
1986 PIT NL 29 P 44 15 1 141.2 52 21 28 3 4 .942 3.11 1.11 .955 1.94 1.94 10 9 47% 32% 5
1987 PIT NL 30 P 39 12 1 117.0 33 9 22 2 2 .939 2.38 0.79 .955 1.91 1.90 12 7 37% 29% 5
1988 PIT NL 31 P 32 32 1 212.2 60 23 34 3 3 .950 2.41 1.78 .955 1.96 1.96 12 1 8% 29% 3 AS
1989 PIT NL 32 P 33 31 2 196.0 53 19 31 3 3 .943 2.30 1.52 .947 1.87 1.87 24 11 31% 32% 6
1990 PIT NL 33 P 26 24 1 129.2 26 12 11 3 0 .885 1.60 0.88 .957 1.80 1.79 13 9 41% 29% 1
1991 PIT NL 34 P 25 20 0 115.0 26 9 15 2 1 .923 1.88 0.96 .955 1.86 1.85 7 4 36% 33% 1
1992 PIT NL 35 P 36 19 1 135.0 39 10 28 1 1 .974 2.53 1.06 .954 1.94 1.94 19 5 21% 32% 1
1993 PIT NL 36 P 32 32 3 187.0 37 12 23 2 4 .946 1.68 1.09 .953 1.84 1.83 19 6 24% 31% 1
14 Seasons P 350 259 16 1666.0 412 154 232 26 22 .937 2.09 1.10 .953 1.90 1.90 185 75 29% 31% 29
14 Seasons TOT 350 259 16 1666.0 412 154 232 26 22 .937 2.09 1.10 .953 1.90 1.90 185 75 29% 31% 29
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
1980 PHI NL 23 P
1981 ATL NL 24 P
1982 ATL NL 25 P
1983 ATL NL 26 P
1984 PIT NL 27 P
1985 PIT NL 28 P
1986 PIT NL 29 P
1987 PIT NL 30 P
1988 PIT NL 31 P
1989 PIT NL 32 P
1990 PIT NL 33 P
1991 PIT NL 34 P
1992 PIT NL 35 P
1993 PIT NL 36 P
14 Seasons P
14 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1980 PHI NL 23 27 27 27 27 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1981 ATL NL 24 12 8 12 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1982 ATL NL 25 32 27 32 32 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1983 ATL NL 26 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1984 PIT NL 27 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1985 PIT NL 28 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1986 PIT NL 29 44 15 44 44 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1987 PIT NL 30 39 12 39 39 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1988 PIT NL 31 34 32 34 32 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1989 PIT NL 32 33 31 33 33 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1990 PIT NL 33 26 24 26 26 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1991 PIT NL 34 25 20 25 25 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1992 PIT NL 35 36 19 36 36 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1993 PIT NL 36 32 32 32 32 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Seasons 352 259 352 350 350 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
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%
1980 PHI NL 23 673 82% 21% 18 89% 1 17 2 14 16 9 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 3 100%
1981 ATL NL 24 189 84% 30% 4 100% 0 4 0 4 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1982 ATL NL 25 717 86% 24% 20 75% 0 13 0 10 18 11 4 6 0 3 3 2 3 2 3 0 6 100%
1983 ATL NL 26 20 85% 20% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1984 PIT NL 27 44 70% 23% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1985 PIT NL 28 248 83% 34% 2 100% 0 7 0 7 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1986 PIT NL 29 592 82% 38% 26 88% 1 20 1 16 30 17 2 3 0 1 2 1 4 1 3 1 4 75%
1987 PIT NL 30 498 80% 35% 17 94% 2 9 0 8 21 12 1 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 0 2 100%
1988 PIT NL 31 880 88% 43% 34 94% 1 22 1 18 33 25 2 3 0 0 3 0 2 0 1 1 6 83%
1989 PIT NL 32 843 88% 37% 33 88% 1 19 6 10 31 17 3 3 0 0 3 1 3 1 1 2 9 89%
1990 PIT NL 33 549 85% 37% 14 86% 0 11 1 9 12 9 1 3 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 3 100%
1991 PIT NL 34 483 84% 36% 18 94% 0 9 3 4 15 13 1 2 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 5 80%
1992 PIT NL 35 567 86% 41% 28 100% 1 10 3 7 28 21 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 10 100%
1993 PIT NL 36 822 85% 38% 32 78% 3 13 3 8 24 17 2 2 0 0 2 0 4 2 3 1 9 78%
14 Seasons 7125 85% 35% 247 89% 10 154 20 115 238 156 20 26 0 5 21 7 22 9 15 7 58 90%
MLB Averages 81% 30% 91% 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 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

All-Star Games
1988 *

Errors Committed as P s c a p y
1982 NL  6 (1st)
1990 NL  3 (4th)

                           

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