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Larry Whisenton

Larry Whisenton

Positions: Pinch Hitter and Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: July 3, 1956 in St. Louis, MO
High School: St. Louis Central HS (St. Louis, MO)
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 2nd round of the 1975 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 17, 1977
Team: Braves 1977-1982

Final Game: September 30, 1982
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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
1978 ATL NL 21 OF 4 3 3 33.2 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 1.34 1.25 .980 2.30 2.30
1978 ATL NL 21 RF 4 3 3 33.2 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 1.34 1.25 .976 2.14 2.10
1979 ATL NL 22 OF 13 10 8 90.0 31 28 3 0 0 1.000 5 68 3.10 2.38 .979 2.33 2.32
1979 ATL NL 22 LF 8 7 5 59.0 19 17 2 0 0 1.000 4 85 2.90 2.38 .970 2.01 2.00
1979 ATL NL 22 RF 5 3 3 31.0 13 12 1 0 0 1.000 1 35 3.77 2.60 .979 2.18 2.18
1981 ATL NL 24 OF 2 0 0 4.0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 -1 -240 0.00 0.00 .980 2.25 2.35
1981 ATL NL 24 LF 1 0 0 2.0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 -1 -360 0.00 0.00 .980 2.25 2.10
1981 ATL NL 24 RF 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 2.25 2.10
1982 ATL NL 25 OF 34 28 21 254.2 56 53 1 2 0 .964 -3 -14 1.91 1.59 .978 2.25 2.26
1982 ATL NL 25 LF 31 25 19 229.2 48 46 0 2 0 .958 -3 -18 1.80 1.48 .973 2.08 2.08
1982 ATL NL 25 RF 4 3 2 25.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 0 24 2.16 1.50 .978 2.02 2.02
4 Seasons OF 53 41 32 382.1 93 86 4 3 0 .968 1 4 2.12 1.70 .978 2.27 2.28
3 Seasons LF 40 32 24 290.2 68 63 2 3 0 .956 0 1 2.01 1.63 .972 2.07 2.06
4 Seasons RF 14 9 8 91.2 24 23 1 0 0 1.000 1 16 2.36 1.71 .978 2.12 2.11
5 Seasons TOT 53 41 32 382.1 93 86 4 3 0 .968 1 4 2.12 1.70 .978 2.27 2.28
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
1978 ATL NL 21 RF 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1979 ATL NL 22 LF 4 85 2 0 2 2
1979 ATL NL 22 RF 1 35 1 -0 1 0
1981 ATL NL 24 LF -1 -360 -1 -1 0 0
1981 ATL NL 24 RF -0 -120 -0 -0 0 0
1982 ATL NL 25 LF -3 -18 -2 -2 -0 -1
1982 ATL NL 25 RF 0 24 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons LF 0 1 -1 -2 1 1
4 Seasons RF 1 16 1 -0 2 0
5 Seasons TOT 1 4 0 -2 3 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1977 ATL NL 20 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1978 ATL NL 21 6 3 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 1 1
1979 ATL NL 22 13 10 13 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 5 13 0 0 0
1981 ATL NL 24 9 0 9 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 6 2
1982 ATL NL 25 84 28 84 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 0 4 35 0 54 0
5 Seasons 116 41 116 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 0 14 54 0 65 3
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 -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1979 ATL NL 22 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 4 4 0 4 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 11 8 72.7% 2 1 9.1% 1 254 67% 82% 32% 31 61%
1981 ATL NL 24 1 0 1 0 1 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 9 67% 56% 22% 1 0%
1982 ATL NL 25 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 13 10 0 9 4 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 7 6 0 34 21 61.8% 13 0 0.0% 0 983 56% 83% 27% 103 45%
3 Seasons 3 0 3 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 17 14 0 13 5 1 4 2 0 3 1 0 8 7 0 45 29 64.4% 15 1 2.2% 1 1246 59% 83% 28% 135 48%
MLB Averages 59.4% 2.8% 60% 82% 27% 47%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
1978 ATL NL 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 144 62% 72% 22% 8 63%
1979 ATL NL 22 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 3 3 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 1 134 62% 87% 31% 13 92%
1981 ATL NL 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 10 40% 70% 0% 2 0%
1982 ATL NL 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 50.0% 2 0 0.0% 0 107 67% 80% 25% 12 50%
4 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 3 0 9 5 55.6% 4 0 0.0% 1 395 63% 79% 25% 35 66%
MLB Averages 41.7% 3.0% 60% 82% 27% 51%

* 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

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1977 NL  born 1956-07-03 (7th)

                                         

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