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Paul Zuvella

Paul Zuvella

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 173 lb.

Born: October 31, 1958 in San Mateo, CA
High School: Samuel Ayer HS (Milpitas, CA)
School: Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 15th round of the 1980 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 4, 1982
Teams (by GP): Braves/Indians/Yankees/Royals 1982-1991

Final Game: May 2, 1991
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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
1982 ATL NL 23 SS 1 0 0 5.0 5 0 4 1 0 .800 0 48 7.20 4.00 .968 5.04 5.00
1983 ATL NL 24 SS 2 1 1 15.1 4 1 2 1 0 .750 -1 -70 1.76 1.50 .968 4.81 4.85
1984 ATL NL 25 2B 6 3 2 28.2 19 7 12 0 3 1.000 -1 -54 5.97 3.17 .979 5.43 5.38
1984 ATL NL 25 SS 6 4 2 35.0 15 6 9 0 3 1.000 1 34 3.86 2.50 .965 4.86 4.87
1985 ATL NL 26 2B 42 20 11 222.0 145 55 88 2 15 .986 -1 -5 5.80 3.40 .982 5.47 5.47
1985 ATL NL 26 SS 33 27 19 233.0 144 57 81 6 23 .958 -5 -28 5.33 4.18 .963 4.88 4.88
1985 ATL NL 26 3B 5 2 1 29.0 4 0 4 0 1 1.000 -0 -12 1.24 0.80 .948 2.89 2.88
1986 NYY AL 27 SS 21 18 12 151.0 87 30 54 3 12 .966 -1 -5 5.01 4.00 .967 4.53 4.49
1987 NYY AL 28 2B 7 6 6 56.0 35 17 18 0 5 1.000 -1 -19 5.62 5.00 .980 5.13 5.06
1987 NYY AL 28 SS 6 1 1 23.1 10 3 7 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.86 1.67 .970 4.59 4.53
1987 NYY AL 28 3B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.70
1988 CLE AL 29 SS 49 44 37 379.2 197 77 112 8 21 .959 -6 -18 4.48 3.86 .971 4.69 4.65
1989 CLE AL 30 SS 15 5 3 56.2 27 10 16 1 1 .963 -1 -21 4.13 1.73 .971 4.80 4.74
1989 CLE AL 30 3B 5 5 5 43.2 13 4 8 1 0 .923 0 5 2.47 2.40 .943 2.74 2.70
1989 CLE AL 30 DH 3 2
1991 KCR AL 32 3B 2 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -360 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.80
8 Seasons SS 133 100 75 899.0 489 184 285 20 60 .959 -13 -17 4.70 3.53 .968 4.73 4.70
3 Seasons 2B 55 29 19 306.2 199 79 118 2 23 .990 -3 -13 5.78 3.58 .981 5.40 5.41
4 Seasons 3B 13 7 6 75.2 17 4 12 1 1 .941 -1 -11 1.90 1.23 .944 2.80 2.78
9 Seasons TOT 201 136 100 1281.1 705 267 415 23 84 .967 -16 -15 4.79 3.39 .971 4.77 4.77
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
1982 ATL NL 23 SS 0 48 0 0 0 0
1983 ATL NL 24 SS -1 -70 -1 0 -1 0
1984 ATL NL 25 2B -1 -54 -1 -1 -0 0
1984 ATL NL 25 SS 1 34 1 1 -0 0
1985 ATL NL 26 2B -1 -5 0 -1 1 -1
1985 ATL NL 26 SS -5 -28 -6 -4 -2 1
1985 ATL NL 26 3B -0 -12 -0 1 -1 0
1986 NYY AL 27 SS -1 -5 -1 -1 0 0
1987 NYY AL 28 2B -1 -19 -1 -0 -0 0
1987 NYY AL 28 SS 0 0 0 1 -1 0
1987 NYY AL 28 3B 0 0 0 0 0
1988 CLE AL 29 SS -6 -18 -5 -1 -4 -1
1989 CLE AL 30 SS -1 -21 -1 -1 -0 0
1989 CLE AL 30 3B 0 5 0 0 0 0
1991 KCR AL 32 3B -1 -360 -1 -1 0 0
8 Seasons SS -13 -17 -13 -5 -7 0
3 Seasons 2B -3 -13 -2 -2 -0 -1
4 Seasons 3B -1 -11 -1 0 -1 0
9 Seasons TOT -16 -15 -15 -7 -8 -1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1982 ATL NL 23 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1983 ATL NL 24 3 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1984 ATL NL 25 11 7 11 11 0 0 0 6 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1985 ATL NL 26 81 49 81 77 0 0 0 42 6 33 0 0 0 0 0 5 2
1986 NYY AL 27 21 18 21 21 0 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1987 NYY AL 28 14 7 14 14 0 0 0 7 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1988 CLE AL 29 51 44 51 49 0 0 0 0 0 49 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
1989 CLE AL 30 24 12 24 20 0 0 0 0 5 15 0 0 0 0 3 3 2
1991 KCR AL 32 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 209 138 209 197 0 0 0 55 14 133 0 0 0 0 3 14 9
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
1982 ATL NL 23 23 52% 91% 43% 5 80% 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1983 ATL NL 24 63 76% 83% 17% 4 75% 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1984 ATL NL 25 141 56% 81% 33% 13 100% 0 6 3 2 1 11 5 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0
1985 ATL NL 26 1050 50% 82% 30% 91 95% 0 56 22 29 5 83 62 17 0 0 6 0 5 1 5 23 4 1 13 0 3 21 5 16 1 0 0
1986 NYY AL 27 645 60% 80% 28% 68 91% 0 29 15 8 6 54 40 13 0 1 3 0 3 0 3 12 4 0 3 1 2 11 5 6 1 0 1
1987 NYY AL 28 98 85% 79% 35% 10 80% 1 3 0 1 2 8 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1988 CLE AL 29 1597 57% 84% 35% 146 86% 0 79 32 36 11 114 97 13 0 3 8 0 6 2 5 21 3 0 8 1 7 19 3 16 2 1 0
1989 CLE AL 30 236 54% 79% 32% 22 86% 0 10 5 4 1 16 14 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
8 Seasons 3853 56% 82% 32% 359 89% 1 184 77 81 26 292 229 53 0 4 20 0 17 3 16 60 13 1 26 2 12 55 15 40 4 1 1
MLB Averages 59% 81% 30% 90%

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
1984 ATL NL 25 115 58% 92% 37% 9 100% 0 6 2 2 2 10 8 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 0 3 1 2 0 0 0
1985 ATL NL 26 955 53% 80% 31% 94 99% 0 55 15 29 11 91 77 12 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 15 7 4 3 1 15 4 11 0 0 0
1987 NYY AL 28 258 68% 77% 29% 18 94% 0 17 4 12 1 18 16 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 2 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0
3 Seasons 1328 56% 81% 31% 121 98% 0 78 21 43 14 119 101 16 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 23 12 6 4 1 23 5 18 0 0 0
MLB Averages 59% 81% 30% 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%
1985 ATL NL 26 120 37% 89% 37% 4 100% 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1987 NYY AL 28 3 33% 67% 33% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1989 CLE AL 30 181 65% 81% 27% 9 78% 0 3 1 0 2 7 6 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0%
1991 KCR AL 32 9 44% 78% 33% 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
4 Seasons 313 53% 84% 31% 14 79% 0 3 1 0 2 13 9 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0%
MLB Averages 59% 81% 30% 89% 72%

* 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.

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