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Gerald Young

Gerald Anthony Young

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: October 22, 1964 in Tele, Honduras
High School: Santa Ana Valley (Santa Ana Valley, CA)
Drafted by the New York Mets in the 5th round of the 1982 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 8, 1987
Teams (by GP): Astros/Rockies/Cardinals 1987-1994

Final Game: August 11, 1994
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Dec 23, 2011, 10:06AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1. Babe Ruth… #2. Ted Williams… #3. Willie Mays… #4. Ty Cobb… #5. Lou Gehrig… #6. Rogers Hornsby… #7. Stan Musial… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1987 22 HOU NL 71 303 274 44 88 9 2 1 15 26 9 26 27 .321 .380 .380 .759 106 104 1 1 0 2 0 8 RoY-5
1988 23 HOU NL 149 655 576 79 148 21 9 0 37 65 27 66 66 .257 .334 .325 .658 94 187 10 3 5 5 1 *8
1989 24 HOU NL 146 620 533 71 124 17 3 0 38 34 25 74 60 .233 .326 .276 .602 77 147 7 2 6 5 4 *8
1990 25 HOU NL 57 179 154 15 27 4 1 1 4 6 3 20 23 .175 .269 .234 .502 42 36 3 0 4 1 0 8
1991 26 HOU NL 108 169 142 26 31 3 1 1 11 16 5 24 17 .218 .327 .275 .602 77 39 3 0 1 2 0 8/79
1992 27 HOU NL 74 90 76 14 14 1 1 0 4 6 2 10 11 .184 .279 .224 .503 48 17 2 0 4 0 0 98/7
1993 28 COL NL 19 23 19 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 1 .053 .217 .053 .270 -27 1 2 0 0 0 0 /978
1994 29 STL NL 16 44 41 5 13 3 2 0 3 2 1 3 8 .317 .364 .488 .851 122 20 1 0 0 0 0 /879
8 Seasons 640 2083 1815 259 446 58 19 3 113 155 73 227 213 .246 .329 .304 .633 82 551 29 6 20 15 5
162 Game Avg. 162 527 459 66 113 15 5 1 29 39 18 57 54 .246 .329 .304 .633 82 139 7 2 5 4 1
HOU (6 yrs) 605 2016 1755 249 432 55 17 3 109 153 71 220 204 .246 .330 .302 .632 83 530 26 6 20 15 5
COL (1 yr) 19 23 19 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 1 .053 .217 .053 .270 -27 1 2 0 0 0 0
STL (1 yr) 16 44 41 5 13 3 2 0 3 2 1 3 8 .317 .364 .488 .851 122 20 1 0 0 0 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1987 22 HOU NL 303 4 0 2 1 -7 0 9 9 0.9 16 1.7 -0.8 $62,500 8 RoY-5
1988 23 HOU NL 655 0 0 1 0 -6 0 19 14 1.4 20 2.2 -0.8 $85,000 *8
1989 24 HOU NL 620 -9 0 5 1 13 0 19 29 2.8 16 1.7 1.1 $150,000 *8
1990 25 HOU NL 179 -12 0 2 0 -1 1 5 -5 -0.6 -4 -0.4 -0.2 $280,000 8
1991 26 HOU NL 169 -4 1 0 0 4 0 5 6 0.5 2 0.2 0.3 $340,000 8/79
1992 27 HOU NL 90 -5 1 0 0 1 0 2 -1 -0.1 -2 -0.2 0.1 $420,000 98/7
1993 28 COL NL 23 -3 1 0 0 -1 0 1 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $310,000 /978
1994 29 STL NL 44 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0.3 2 0.2 0.1 $ /879
8 Seasons 2083 -28 3 10 2 5 1 61 54 5.1 49 5.3 -0.2 $1,647,500
HOU (6 yrs) 2016 -26 2 10 2 5 1 59 52 4.9 48 5.2 -0.3 $1,337,500
COL (1 yr) 23 -3 1 0 0 -1 0 1 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $310,000
STL (1 yr) 44 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0.3 2 0.2 0.1 $

Standard Fielding

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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
1987 HOU NL 22 CF 67 64 62 572.1 149 141 5 3 1 .980 -7 -14 2.30 2.18 .984 2.53 2.52 RoY-5
1987 HOU NL 22 OF 67 64 62 572.1 151 143 5 3 1 .980 -7 -14 2.33 2.21 .981 2.19 2.18 RoY-5
1988 HOU NL 23 CF 145 144 131 1280.1 375 361 11 3 2 .992 -6 -5 2.61 2.57 .986 2.66 2.67
1988 HOU NL 23 OF 145 144 131 1280.1 370 357 10 3 1 .992 -6 -5 2.58 2.53 .982 2.28 2.29
1989 HOU NL 24 CF 143 136 130 1253.2 424 407 16 1 6 .998 13 13 3.04 2.96 .985 2.69 2.70
1989 HOU NL 24 OF 143 136 130 1253.2 428 412 15 1 5 .998 13 13 3.07 2.99 .981 2.32 2.32
1990 HOU NL 25 CF 50 36 33 352.1 107 102 4 1 1 .991 -1 -4 2.71 2.12 .984 2.74 2.73
1990 HOU NL 25 OF 50 36 33 352.1 104 99 4 1 1 .990 -1 -4 2.63 2.06 .981 2.39 2.37
1991 HOU NL 26 OF 84 21 16 337.2 100 96 4 0 1 1.000 4 16 2.67 1.19 .983 2.28 2.27
1991 HOU NL 26 CF 78 20 16 315.1 93 89 4 0 1 1.000 4 16 2.65 1.19 .985 2.59 2.58
1991 HOU NL 26 LF 6 1 0 18.1 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 0 13 3.44 1.17 .983 2.16 2.17
1991 HOU NL 26 RF 2 0 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 2.25 0.50 .980 2.02 2.05
1992 HOU NL 27 OF 57 9 3 180.0 55 53 0 2 0 .964 1 8 2.65 0.93 .983 2.34 2.34
1992 HOU NL 27 RF 43 0 0 82.1 18 18 0 0 0 1.000 2 32 1.97 0.42 .979 2.08 2.08
1992 HOU NL 27 CF 14 8 2 82.2 33 31 0 2 0 .939 -2 -23 3.38 2.21 .989 2.80 2.80
1992 HOU NL 27 LF 6 1 1 15.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1 48 2.40 0.67 .980 2.16 2.17
1993 COL NL 28 OF 11 2 1 44.2 17 15 0 2 0 .882 -1 -21 3.02 1.36 .979 2.34 2.33
1993 COL NL 28 RF 5 2 1 22.0 9 7 0 2 0 .778 -1 -65 2.86 1.40 .976 2.17 2.16
1993 COL NL 28 LF 4 0 0 13.2 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 1 53 3.29 1.25 .976 2.11 2.10
1993 COL NL 28 CF 3 0 0 9.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -27 4.00 1.33 .985 2.80 2.73
1994 STL NL 29 OF 11 8 7 75.2 19 19 0 0 0 1.000 1 16 2.26 1.73 .980 2.24 2.23
1994 STL NL 29 CF 6 5 4 47.0 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 0 5 2.49 2.17 .982 2.62 2.62
1994 STL NL 29 LF 3 2 2 18.2 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 1 39 2.41 1.67 .980 1.93 1.90
1994 STL NL 29 RF 2 1 1 10.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 24 0.90 0.50 .980 2.16 2.15
8 Seasons OF 568 420 383 4096.2 1244 1194 38 12 9 .990 5 2 2.71 2.17 .981 2.29 2.29
8 Seasons CF 506 413 378 3912.2 1198 1148 40 10 11 .992 2 1 2.73 2.35 .985 2.65 2.65
4 Seasons RF 52 3 2 118.1 29 27 0 2 0 .931 1 12 2.05 0.52 .978 2.10 2.09
4 Seasons LF 19 4 3 65.2 21 21 0 0 0 1.000 2 37 2.88 1.11 .980 2.08 2.11
8 Seasons TOT 568 420 383 4096.2 1244 1194 38 12 9 .990 5 2 2.71 2.17 .981 2.29 2.29
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Triples s c a p y
1988 NL  9 (3rd)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1988 NL  65 (2nd)
1989 NL  34 (8th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1988 NL  27 (1st)
1989 NL  25 (1st)

Outs Made s c a p y
1988 NL  475 (8th)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1988 NL  357 (3rd)
1989 NL  412 (1st)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1989 NL  15 (1st)

Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1989 NL  3.04 (1st)
Career  2.73 (51st)

Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1988 NL  2.57 (3rd)
1989 NL  2.96 (1st)

Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1988 NL  .992 (2nd)
1989 NL  .998 (1st)
Career  .992 (15th)

Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y
1989 NL  3.07 (1st)
Career  2.71 (44th)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1988 NL  2.53 (4th)
1989 NL  2.99 (1st)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1988 NL  .992 (4th)
1989 NL  .998 (2nd)
1991 NL  1.000 (1st)
Career  .990 (38th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 5 (1764), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 3 (2527), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  5. Ty Cline (959)
  6. Charlie Jones (954)
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  8. Jose Tartabull (953)
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  10. Chuck Carr (949)
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  1. Davy Jones (981)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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  3. Nemo Leibold (978)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Darren Lewis (974)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Darren Lewis (966)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Jake Evans (963)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Gary Pettis (966)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
198722Houston Astros$62,5001987 USA Today survey
198823Houston Astros$85,000USA Today, 4/1/88
198924Houston Astros$150,0001989 USA Today survey
199025Houston Astros$280,000USA Today
199126Houston Astros$340,000USA Today survey
199227Houston Astros$420,00011/4/92 Toronto SunIncludes $110,000 earned bonus
199328Colorado Rockies$310,000USA Today
Career to date (may be incomplete)$1,647,500
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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