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High Level

Major Leagues

Proper Name

Joseph Charles Sambito

Stat Years

1973-1988 [mlb] 1976-1987

Height/Weight

6-1 / 190

Bats/Throws

Left / Left

Positions

P (522)

Draft Position

Born Date/Place

1952-06-28 in Brooklyn, New York [68.211]

High School

Bethpage (Bethpage,NY)

Colleges

Adelphi University (Garden City, New York)

Draft

Selected by the Houston Astros in Round #17 (#404 overall) of the 1973 Amateur Entry Draft (June-Reg Phase)

Bonus

Signing Scouts

MLB Debut

1976-07-20 - Boxscore (Age: 24.022)

Service Time

Organizations

HOU [9] BOS [2] NYN [1]

ID Numbers

tbc id: 17525 ... retro id: sambj001 ... mlbam id: 121645

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Glossary:
Year Context-dependent but usually self-evident. (Season, Draft Year etc) Team Name Contextual to the grid but usually self-evident. Draft = Drafted team. Lg League Org Major League Parent Organization. For college teams, might include RPI (Ratings Percentage Index) Unif Uniform Number, if available Age Player's age for the selected season or as of a current date if in YY.DDD format. Exp Experience in # of years. For Player stats, refers to nth PRO season. Count is ontextual to the purpose of the grid Detail Includes links to additional MLB stat detail including Game Logs, Splits and Extended Statistics W Wins (Pitcher or Team) L Losses (Pitcher or Team) ERA Earned Run Average ( (9/IP)*ER ) G Games Played (or Pitched) GS Games Started CG Complete Games SHO Shutouts GF Games Finished GR Games Relieved SV Saves IP Innings Pitched H Hits R Runs ER Earned Runs HR Home Runs BB Walks SO Strikeouts WP Wild Pitches BK Balks HB Hit Batsmen from pitcher perspective WHIP Walks and Hits per Inning Pitched ( (H+BB) / IP ) H9 Hits allowed per 9 innings ( (9/IP) * H ) HR9 Home Runs allowed per 9 innings ( (9/IP) * HR ) BB9 Walks per 9 innings ( (9/IP) * BB ) SO9 Strikeouts per 9 innings ( (9/IP) * SO ) RA9 Runs Against per 9 innings ( (9/IP) * R ) SO BB Strikeouts to Walk ratio ( SO/BB ) WPct Winning Percentage (W/(W+L))

Glossary:
Year Context-dependent but usually self-evident. (Season, Draft Year etc) Team Name Contextual to the grid but usually self-evident. Draft = Drafted team. Lg League Org Major League Parent Organization. For college teams, might include RPI (Ratings Percentage Index) Unif Uniform Number, if available Age Player's age for the selected season or as of a current date if in YY.DDD format. Pos Defensive Position Detail Includes links to additional MLB stat detail including Game Logs, Splits and Extended Statistics Exp Experience in # of years. For Player stats, refers to nth PRO season. Count is ontextual to the purpose of the grid G Games Played (or Pitched) AB At Bats R Runs H Hits 2B Doubles 3B Triples HR Home Runs RBI Runs Batted In SB Stolen Bases (Total) CS Caught Stealings BB Walks SO Strikeouts HP Hit by Pitch SH Sacrifice Hits SF Sacrifice Flies IW Intentional Walks DP Grounded into Double Play (Offense) Double Plays Participation (Defense) AVG Batting Average ( H/AB ) OBP On Base Percentage ( H+BB+HBP / (AB+BB+HBP+SF) SLG Slugging Percentage ( TB / AB ) OPS On Base Plus Slugging (OBP + SLG) PA Plate Appearances TB Total Bases (Singles + (2*Doubles) + (3*Triples) + (4*Home Runs)) XBH Extra Base Hits (Doubles+Triples+Home Runs) secA Seconday Average. Measures extra bases earned by player (BB+(TB-H)+(SB-CS) / AB ISO Isolated Power. Measures the portion of a slugging percentage that is for extra base hits. (SLG-BAVG). babip Batting Average on Balls Put in Play. (H/(AB-SO)) XBH% Extra Base Hit Percentage (XBH/H)

Glossary:
Year Context-dependent but usually self-evident. (Season, Draft Year etc) Team Name Contextual to the grid but usually self-evident. Draft = Drafted team. Lg League Age Player's age for the selected season or as of a current date if in YY.DDD format. G Games Played (or Pitched) GS Games Started Inn Innings in a game or Innings played at position PO Putouts A Fielding assists E Errors DP Grounded into Double Play (Offense) Double Plays Participation (Defense) TC Total Chances (PO+A+E) TSC Total Successful Chances (PO+A) FPCT Fielding Percentage (TSC/TC) RFg Range Factor by Game (Total Successful Chances/Games) Rfi Range Factor by Inning (Total Successful Chances/Innings) Team Share Share of team's games played at that position. Will add up to more than 100% since the formula is player games at position / team games. Player Share Share of player's games played at that position Team Rank Rank of games for team at that position.

Fielding Positional Grid by Year

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Year	Category	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH
1976	MLB	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1977	MLB	54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1978	MLB	62	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1979	MLB	63	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1980	MLB	64	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1981	MLB	49	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1982	MLB	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1984	MLB	32	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1984	Minor	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1985	MLB	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1985	Minor	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986	MLB	53	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1987	MLB	47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1988	Minor	34	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Totals		522	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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Grid Filters		MLB Minors Full Season Short Season AAA AA A+ A A- Rookie College Indy/Intl/+
Year	Team Name	Lg	Lvl	Org	Unif	Age	Exp	Detail	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	GF	GR	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	BK	HB	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	RA9	SO BB	WPCT
1973	Covington	App	Rk	---	-	21	1	---	4	2	1.47	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	55.0	32	19	9	0	13	57	0	0	0	0.82	5.24	0.00	2.13	9.33	3.11	4.38	.667
1973	Columbus	Sou	AA	---	-	21	1	---	0	0	18.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	4	4	4	0	1	2	0	0	0	2.50	18.00	0.00	4.50	9.00	18.00	2.00	.000
1974	Cedar Rapids	Midw	A	---	-	22	2	---	11	8	3.00	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	156.0	133	59	52	0	49	182	0	0	0	1.17	7.67	0.00	2.83	10.50	3.40	3.71	.579
1975	Columbus	Sou	AA	---	-	23	3	---	12	9	3.01	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	209.0	200	85	70	0	85	140	0	0	0	1.36	8.61	0.00	3.66	6.03	3.66	1.65	.571
1976	Columbus	Sou	AA	---	-	24	4	---	8	2	1.80	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	100.0	77	27	20	0	23	61	0	0	0	1.00	6.93	0.00	2.07	5.49	2.43	2.65	.800
1976	Memphis	IL	AAA	---	-	24	4	---	3	0	6.33	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	27.0	37	19	19	0	13	17	0	0	0	1.85	12.33	0.00	4.33	5.67	6.33	1.31	1.000
1976	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	24	4	Log - Sp - Ext - Perf	3	2	3.54	20	4	1	1	8	16	1	53.1	45	21	21	4	14	26	2	0	0	1.11	7.59	0.68	2.36	4.39	3.54	1.86	.600
1977	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	25	5	Log - Sp - Ext - Perf	5	5	2.33	54	1	0	0	32	53	7	89.0	77	34	23	6	24	67	2	1	0	1.13	7.79	0.61	2.43	6.78	3.44	2.79	.500
1978	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	26	6	Log - Sp - Ext - Perf	4	9	3.07	62	0	0	0	45	62	11	88.0	85	32	30	5	32	96	1	0	0	1.33	8.69	0.51	3.27	9.82	3.27	3.00	.308
1979	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	27	7	Log - Sp - Ext - Perf	8	7	1.77	63	0	0	0	51	63	22	91.1	80	20	18	8	23	83	0	0	4	1.13	7.88	0.79	2.27	8.18	1.97	3.61	.533
1980	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	28	8	Log - Sp - Ext - Perf	8	4	2.19	64	0	0	0	40	64	17	90.1	65	26	22	3	22	75	3	0	2	0.96	6.48	0.30	2.19	7.47	2.59	3.41	.667
1981	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	29	9	Log - Sp - Ext - Perf	5	5	1.84	49	0	0	0	32	49	10	63.2	43	17	13	4	22	41	0	0	2	1.02	6.08	0.57	3.11	5.80	2.40	1.86	.500
1982	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	30	10	Log - Sp - Ext - Perf	0	0	0.71	9	0	0	0	7	9	4	12.2	7	2	1	0	2	7	0	0	0	0.71	4.97	0.00	1.42	4.97	1.42	3.50	.000
1984	Tucson Toros	PCL	AAA	hou	-	32	11	---	0	0	2.25	8	0	0	0	4	8	0	8.0	5	2	2	1	4	5	1	0	1	1.13	5.63	1.13	4.50	5.63	2.25	1.25	.000
1984	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	32	11	Log - Sp - Ext - Perf	0	0	3.02	32	0	0	0	14	32	0	47.2	39	16	16	5	16	26	3	0	0	1.15	7.36	0.94	3.02	4.91	3.02	1.63	.000
1985	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	nyn	-	33	12	---	0	3	4.35	19	0	0	0	10	19	0	20.2	31	15	10	1	11	12	1	0	0	2.03	13.50	0.44	4.79	5.23	6.53	1.09	.000
1985	New York Mets	NL	MLB	nyn	35	33	12	Log - Sp - Ext - Perf	0	0	12.66	8	0	0	0	2	8	0	10.2	21	18	15	1	8	3	0	0	0	2.72	17.72	0.84	6.75	2.53	15.19	0.38	.000
1986	Boston Red Sox	AL	MLB	bos	43	34	13	Log - Sp - Ext - Perf	2	0	4.84	53	0	0	0	27	53	12	44.2	54	26	24	4	16	30	4	0	2	1.57	10.88	0.81	3.22	6.04	5.24	1.88	1.000
1987	Boston Red Sox	AL	MLB	bos	43	35	14	Log - Sp - Ext - Perf	2	6	6.93	47	0	0	0	16	47	0	37.2	46	29	29	8	16	35	3	0	0	1.65	10.99	1.91	3.82	8.36	6.93	2.19	.250
1988	Tucson Toros	PCL	AAA	hou	-	36	15	---	2	2	2.82	34	1	0	0	15	33	5	54.1	57	17	17	1	13	43	1	0	0	1.29	9.44	0.17	2.15	7.12	2.82	3.31	.500
MLB Totals (11 yrs)									37	38	3.03	461	5	1	1	274	456	84	629.0	562	241	212	48	195	489	18	1	10	1.20	8.04	0.69	2.79	7.00	3.45	2.51	.493
National League Totals (9 yrs)									33	32	2.62	361	5	1	1	231	356	72	546.7	462	186	159	36	163	424	11	1	8	1.14	7.61	0.59	2.69	6.99	3.06	2.60	.508
American League Totals (2 yrs)									4	6	5.81	100	0	0	0	43	100	12	82.3	100	55	53	12	32	65	7	0	2	1.61	10.96	1.32	3.51	7.13	6.03	2.03	.400
Houston Astros Totals (8 yrs)									33	32	2.42	353	5	1	1	229	348	72	536.0	441	168	144	35	155	421	11	1	8	1.11	7.40	0.59	2.60	7.07	2.82	2.72	.508
Boston Red Sox Totals (2 yrs)									4	6	5.81	100	0	0	0	43	100	12	82.3	100	55	53	12	32	65	7	0	2	1.61	10.96	1.32	3.51	7.13	6.03	2.03	.400
New York Mets Totals (1 yrs)									0	0	13.24	8	0	0	0	2	8	0	10.7	21	18	15	1	8	3	0	0	0	2.84	18.53	0.88	7.06	2.65	15.88	0.38	.000

Grid Filters		MLB Minors Full Season Short Season AAA AA A+ A A- Rookie College Indy/Intl/+
Year	Team Name	Lg	Lvl	Org	Unif	Age	Pos	Detail	Exp	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HP	SH	SF	IW	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	PA	TB	XBH	secA	ISO	babip	BB%	SO%	SOBB	ABHR	HR%	XBH%
1976	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	24	p	L-S-E-P	1	20	9	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	.222	.417	.222	.639	12	2	0	.333	.000	.286	25.00	16.67	0.67	0.0	0.00	0.0
1977	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	25	p	L-S-E-P	2	54	13	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	13	2	0	.000	.000	.286	0.00	46.15	0.00	0.0	0.00	0.0
1978	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	26	p	L-S-E-P	3	62	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	.167	.286	.167	.453	8	1	0	.167	.000	.250	12.50	25.00	2.00	0.0	0.00	0.0
1979	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	27	p	L-S-E-P	4	63	7	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.286	.583	.429	1.012	12	3	1	.857	.143	.286	41.67	0.00	0.00	0.0	0.00	50.0
1980	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	28	p	L-S-E-P	5	64	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.100	.000	.100	10	0	0	.111	.000	.000	10.00	50.00	5.00	0.0	0.00	0.0
1981	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	29	p	L-S-E-P	6	49	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	5	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0.00	60.00	0.00	0.0	0.00	0.0
1982	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	30	p	L-S-E-P	7	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.0	0.00	0.0
1984	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	hou	35	32	p	L-S-E-P	8	32	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.0	0.00	0.0
1985	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	nyn	-	33	p	---	9	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.0	0.00	0.0
1988	Tucson Toros	PCL	AAA	hou	-	36	p	---	10	34	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	1	0	.000	.000	1.000	0.00	50.00	0.00	0.0	0.00	0.0
MLB Totals (8 yrs)										354	52	4	7	1	0	0	4	0	0	10	19	0	1	0	0	0	.135	.274	.154	.428	63	8	1	.212	.019	.212	15.87	30.16	1.90	0.0	0.00	14.3
National League Totals (8 yrs)										354	52	4	7	1	0	0	4	0	0	10	19	0	1	0	0	0	.135	.274	.154	.428	63	8	1	.212	.019	.212	15.87	30.16	1.90	0.0	0.00	14.3
Minor League Totals										53	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	3	1	0	.000	.000	1.000	0.00	33.33	0.00	0.0	0.00	0.0
Minor: AAA Totals										53	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	3	1	0	.000	.000	1.000	0.00	33.33	0.00	0.0	0.00	0.0
Houston Astros Totals (8 yrs)										354	52	4	7	1	0	0	4	0	0	10	19	0	1	0	0	0	.135	.274	.154	.428	63	8	1	.212	.019	.212	15.87	30.16	1.90	0.0	0.00	14.3

Grid Filters		MLB Minors Full Season Short Season AAA AA A+ A A- Rookie
Year	Team Name	Lg	Lvl	Age	posit	G	GS	INN	PO	A	E	DP	TC	TSC	FPCT	RFG	RFI	Team Share	Player Share	Team Rank
1976	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	24	P	20	0	53.1	4	10	0	1	14	14	1.000	0.70	0.26	12.3	100.0	8
1977	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	25	P	54	0	89.0	4	17	2	1	23	21	.913	0.40	0.24	33.3	100.0	1
1978	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	26	P	62	0	88.0	6	16	2	3	24	22	.917	0.40	0.25	38.3	100.0	1
1979	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	27	P	63	0	91.1	5	14	2	2	21	19	.905	0.30	0.21	38.9	100.0	1
1980	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	28	P	64	0	90.1	7	13	2	2	22	20	.909	0.30	0.22	39.3	100.0	1
1981	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	29	P	49	0	63.2	5	12	0	2	17	17	1.000	0.30	0.27	44.5	100.0	1
1982	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	30	P	9	0	12.2	0	4	1	1	5	4	.800	0.40	0.33	5.6	90.0	13
1984	Tucson Toros	PCL	AAA	32	P	8	0	0.0	0	1	0	0	1	1	1.000	0.10	0.00	5.7	100.0	13
1984	Houston Astros	NL	MLB	32	P	32	0	47.2	1	3	0	0	4	4	1.000	0.10	0.08	19.8	100.0	8
1985	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	33	P	19	0	0.0	0	6	0	1	6	6	1.000	0.30	0.00	13.7	100.0	9
1985	New York Mets	NL	MLB	33	P	8	0	10.2	1	3	0	0	4	4	1.000	0.50	0.39	4.9	100.0	13
1986	Boston Red Sox	AL	MLB	34	P	53	0	44.2	1	8	0	1	9	9	1.000	0.20	0.20	32.9	100.0	2
1987	Boston Red Sox	AL	MLB	35	P	47	0	37.2	1	4	0	0	5	5	1.000	0.10	0.13	29.0	100.0	3
1988	Tucson Toros	PCL	AAA	36	P	34	0	0.0	4	9	0	0	13	13	1.000	0.40	0.00	23.8	100.0	5
MLB Totals - (P)						461	0	626	35	104	9	13	1	0	.000	0.00	0.00	---	---	---
AAA Totals - (P)						61	0	0	4	16	0	1	1	0	.000	0.00	0.00	---	---	---

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