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Neil Walker

Neil Martin Walker (twitter: @NeilWalker18)

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: September 10, 1985 in Pittsburgh, PA
High School: Pine-Richland HS (Gibsonia, PA)
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1st round (11th pick) of the 2004 amateur draft.
Signed June 18, 2004. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 1, 2009
Team: Pirates 2009-2012
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$500k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 1.166, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2017 [*], Agents: DSchaer, KChristman / Diamond Talent [*]
Relatives: Son of Tom Walker and Nephew of Chip Lang
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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 Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
2009 PIT NL 23 3B 9 8 6 69.2 22 6 15 1 1 .955 -2 -3 -38 -52 2.71 2.33 .957 2.57 2.56
2010 PIT NL 24 2B 105 104 98 894.2 463 222 234 7 62 .985 -10 -8 -13 -11 4.59 4.34 .984 4.78 4.73 RoY-5
2010 PIT NL 24 3B 6 5 4 40.0 15 4 10 1 0 .933 1 2 36 60 3.15 2.33 .951 2.54 2.52 RoY-5
2011 PIT NL 25 2B 159 155 150 1382.1 781 333 442 6 108 .992 -4 -3 -3 -3 5.05 4.87 .985 4.76 4.75
2012 PIT NL 26 2B 48 47 45 411.0 250 96 151 3 35 .988 5 0 14 0 5.41 5.15 .984 4.85 4.80
2012 PIT NL 26 DH 1 1
3 Seasons 2B 312 306 293 2688.0 1494 651 827 16 205 .989 -9 -11 -4 -4 4.95 4.74 .985 4.78 4.75
2 Seasons 3B 15 13 10 109.2 37 10 25 2 1 .946 -1 -1 -11 -10 2.87 2.33 .954 2.56 2.54
4 Seasons TOT 327 319 303 2797.2 1531 661 852 18 206 .988 -10 -12 -4 -5 4.87 4.63 .984 4.69 4.65
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
2009 PIT NL 23 3B -2 -38 -1 -1 -0 -1 -3 -52 -3 0 0
2010 PIT NL 24 2B -10 -13 -11 -2 -9 1 -8 -11 -10 2
2010 PIT NL 24 3B 1 36 0 0 0 1 2 60 2 0 0
2011 PIT NL 25 2B -4 -3 -2 6 -7 -2 -3 -3 -5 -1
2012 PIT NL 26 2B 5 14 4 3 1 1 0 0 -1 1
3 Seasons 2B -9 -4 -8 6 -14 -0 -11 -4 -16 2
2 Seasons 3B -1 -11 -1 -1 -0 0 -1 -10 -1 0 0
4 Seasons TOT -10 -4 -9 6 -15 -0 -12 -5 -17 2 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2009 PIT NL 23 17 8 17 9 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
2010 PIT NL 24 110 109 110 109 0 0 0 105 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2011 PIT NL 25 159 155 159 159 0 0 0 159 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
2012 PIT NL 26 49 48 49 48 0 0 0 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
4 Seasons 335 320 335 325 0 0 0 312 15 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 0
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
2010 PIT NL 24 3996 64% 78% 32% 315 92% 2 222 97 88 37 234 198 27 1 5 7 0 7 0 7 62 16 15 17 6 56 23 31 6 4 2
2011 PIT NL 25 6029 62% 78% 33% 512 92% 4 333 100 180 53 442 376 52 2 9 6 0 1 5 4 108 38 26 25 7 100 32 66 8 1 4
2012 PIT NL 26 1719 54% 75% 33% 156 93% 0 96 24 57 16 151 138 8 0 5 3 1 2 0 2 35 13 12 5 1 31 6 25 4 1 3
3 Seasons 11744 61% 78% 33% 983 92% 6 651 221 325 106 827 712 87 3 19 16 1 10 5 13 205 67 53 47 14 187 61 122 18 6 9
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 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%
2009 PIT NL 23 313 59% 79% 33% 20 90% 0 6 4 2 0 15 10 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 50%
2010 PIT NL 24 185 69% 81% 30% 14 93% 0 4 2 1 1 10 9 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 100%
2 Seasons 498 63% 80% 32% 34 91% 0 10 6 3 1 25 19 2 1 2 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 75%
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 86% 65%

* 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
2011 NL  442 (4th)
2012 NL  151 (5th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  159 (1st)
2012 NL  48 (4th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  333 (1st)
2012 NL  96 (1st)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  442 (3rd)
2012 NL  151 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
2011 NL  5.05 (3rd)
2012 NL  5.41 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  4.87 (2nd)
2012 NL  5.15 (3rd)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
2011 NL  .992 (2nd)
2012 NL  .988 (5th)

             

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