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Proper Name

Walter Wayne Backman

Stat Years

1977-1993 [mlb] 1980-1993

Height/Weight

5-9 / 168

Bats/Throws

Both / Right

Positions

2B (1021) ... SS (292) ... 3B (120) ... DH (1)

Draft Position

Born Date/Place

1959-09-22 in Hillsboro, Oregon [60.284]

High School

Aloha (Aloha,OR)

Colleges

Draft

Selected by the New York Mets in Round #1 (#16 overall) of the 1977 Amateur Entry Draft (June-Reg Phase)

Bonus

Signing Scouts

Marvin Scott

MLB Debut

1980-09-02 - Boxscore (Age: 20.346)

Service Time

Organizations

NYN [12] PHI [2] MIN [1] PIT [1] SEA [1]

ID Numbers

tbc id: 8350 ... retro id: backw001 ... mlbam id: 110419

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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.

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Year	Category	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH
1978	Minor	-	-	-	-	-	131	-	-	-	-	-
1979	Minor	-	-	-	5	-	104	-	-	-	-	-
1980	MLB	-	-	-	20	-	8	-	-	-	-	-
1980	Minor	-	-	-	103	-	21	-	-	-	-	-
1981	MLB	-	-	-	11	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
1981	Minor	-	-	-	2	5	6	-	-	-	-	-
1982	MLB	-	-	-	88	6	1	-	-	-	-	-
1983	MLB	-	-	-	14	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
1983	Minor	-	-	-	85	4	12	-	-	-	-	-
1984	MLB	-	-	-	115	-	8	-	-	-	-	-
1985	MLB	-	-	-	140	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
1986	MLB	-	-	-	113	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1987	MLB	-	-	-	87	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1988	MLB	-	-	-	92	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1989	MLB	-	-	-	84	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
1990	MLB	-	-	-	15	71	-	-	-	-	-	-
1991	MLB	-	-	-	36	20	-	-	-	-	-	-
1992	MLB	-	-	-	10	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
1993	MLB	-	-	-	1	9	-	-	-	-	-	-
Totals		-	-	-	1021	120	292	-	-	-	-	1

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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	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%
1977	Little Falls Mets	NYPL	A-	nyn	-	17	2b	---	1	69	255	44	83	10	2	6	30	20	7	28	53	1	2	1	0	0	.325	.393	.451	.844	287	115	18	.286	.126	.391	9.76	18.47	1.89	42.5	2.09	21.7
1978	Lynchburg Mets	Caro	A+	nyn	-	18	ss	---	2	132	494	86	149	19	9	3	38	42	17	74	99	5	6	2	0	0	.302	.397	.395	.792	581	195	31	.294	.093	.371	12.74	17.04	1.34	164.7	0.52	20.8
1979	Jackson Mets	Tex	AA	nyn	-	19	ss	---	3	110	404	63	114	11	5	2	19	23	5	35	50	5	3	1	0	0	.282	.346	.349	.695	448	141	18	.198	.067	.317	7.81	11.16	1.43	202.0	0.45	15.8
1980	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	nyn	-	20	2b	---	4	125	400	53	117	15	5	1	51	11	7	87	67	0	7	4	0	0	.293	.415	.363	.778	498	145	21	.298	.070	.345	17.47	13.45	0.77	400.0	0.20	18.0
1980	New York Mets	NL	MLB	nyn	28	20	2b	L-S-E-P	4	27	93	12	30	1	1	0	9	2	3	11	14	1	4	1	1	3	.323	.396	.355	.751	110	33	2	.140	.032	.375	10.00	12.73	1.27	0.0	0.00	6.7
1981	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	nyn	-	21	ss-3b	---	5	21	59	6	9	3	1	0	6	2	2	10	8	0	1	0	1	0	.153	.275	.237	.512	70	14	4	.254	.084	.176	14.29	11.43	0.80	0.0	0.00	44.4
1981	New York Mets	NL	MLB	nyn	6	21	2b	L-S-E-P	5	26	36	5	10	2	0	0	0	1	0	4	7	0	2	0	0	0	.278	.350	.333	.683	42	12	2	.194	.055	.345	9.52	16.67	1.75	0.0	0.00	20.0
1982	New York Mets	NL	MLB	nyn	6	22	2b	L-S-E-P	6	96	261	37	71	13	2	3	22	8	7	49	47	0	2	0	1	6	.272	.387	.372	.759	312	97	18	.291	.100	.322	15.71	15.06	0.96	87.0	0.96	25.4
1983	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	nyn	-	23	2b	---	7	101	361	69	114	11	3	1	28	37	15	68	47	0	0	2	2	0	.316	.422	.371	.793	431	134	15	.305	.055	.359	15.78	10.90	0.69	361.0	0.23	13.2
1983	New York Mets	NL	MLB	nyn	6	23	2b	L-S-E-P	7	26	42	6	7	0	1	0	3	0	0	2	8	0	1	0	0	2	.167	.205	.214	.419	45	9	1	.095	.047	.206	4.44	17.78	4.00	0.0	0.00	14.3
1984	New York Mets	NL	MLB	nyn	6	24	2b	L-S-E-P	8	128	436	68	122	19	2	1	26	32	9	56	63	0	5	2	2	13	.280	.360	.339	.699	499	148	22	.241	.059	.324	11.22	12.63	1.13	436.0	0.20	18.0
1985	New York Mets	NL	MLB	nyn	6	25	2b	L-S-E-P	9	145	520	77	142	24	5	1	38	30	12	36	72	1	14	3	1	3	.273	.320	.344	.664	574	179	30	.175	.071	.313	6.27	12.54	2.00	520.0	0.17	21.1
1986	New York Mets	NL	MLB	nyn	6	26	2b	L-S-E-P	10	124	387	67	124	18	2	1	27	13	7	36	32	0	14	3	1	3	.320	.376	.385	.761	440	149	21	.173	.065	.345	8.18	7.27	0.89	387.0	0.23	16.9
1987	New York Mets	NL	MLB	nyn	6	27	2b	L-S-E-P	11	94	300	43	75	6	1	1	23	11	3	25	43	0	9	1	0	5	.250	.307	.287	.594	335	86	8	.147	.037	.288	7.46	12.84	1.72	300.0	0.30	10.7
1988	New York Mets	NL	MLB	nyn	6	28	2b	L-S-E-P	12	99	294	44	89	12	0	0	17	9	5	41	49	1	9	2	1	6	.303	.388	.344	.732	347	101	12	.194	.041	.360	11.82	14.12	1.20	0.0	0.00	13.5
1989	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	2	29	2b	L-S-E-P	13	87	299	33	69	9	2	1	26	1	1	32	45	1	4	1	0	4	.231	.306	.284	.590	337	85	12	.161	.053	.268	9.50	13.35	1.41	299.0	0.30	17.4
1990	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	MLB	pit	19	30	3b	L-S-E-P	14	104	315	62	92	21	3	2	28	6	3	42	53	1	0	3	1	5	.292	.374	.397	.771	361	125	26	.248	.105	.342	11.63	14.68	1.26	157.5	0.55	28.3
1991	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	MLB	phi	6	31	2b-3b	L-S-E-P	15	94	185	20	45	12	0	0	15	3	2	30	30	0	2	3	0	2	.243	.344	.308	.652	220	57	12	.232	.065	.285	13.64	13.64	1.00	0.0	0.00	26.7
1992	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	MLB	phi	6	32	2b	L-S-E-P	16	42	48	6	13	1	0	0	6	1	0	6	9	0	1	0	1	3	.271	.352	.292	.644	55	14	1	.167	.021	.333	10.91	16.36	1.50	0.0	0.00	7.7
1993	Seattle Mariners	AL	MLB	sea	22	33	3b	L-S-E-P	17	10	29	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	0	1	0	0	0	.138	.167	.138	.305	31	4	0	.034	.000	.190	3.23	25.81	8.00	0.0	0.00	0.0
MLB Totals (14 yrs)										1102	3245	482	893	138	19	10	240	117	52	371	480	5	68	19	9	55	.275	.349	.339	.688	3708	1099	167	.198	.064	.318	10.01	12.94	1.29	324.5	0.27	18.7
National League Totals (12 yrs)										1005	2917	447	820	129	17	9	214	116	51	338	427	4	63	18	9	51	.281	.355	.346	.701	3340	1010	155	.203	.065	.325	10.12	12.78	1.26	324.1	0.27	18.9
American League Totals (2 yrs)										97	328	35	73	9	2	1	26	1	1	33	53	1	5	1	0	4	.223	.295	.271	.566	368	89	12	.149	.048	.262	8.97	14.40	1.61	328.0	0.27	16.4
Minor League Totals										558	1973	321	586	69	25	13	172	135	53	302	324	11	19	10	3	0	.297	.392	.377	.769	2315	744	107	.275	.080	.348	13.05	14.00	1.07	151.8	0.56	18.3
Minor: A- Totals										69	255	44	83	10	2	6	30	20	7	28	53	1	2	1	0	0	.325	.393	.451	.844	287	115	18	.286	.126	.391	9.76	18.47	1.89	42.5	2.09	21.7
Minor: A+ Totals										132	494	86	149	19	9	3	38	42	17	74	99	5	6	2	0	0	.302	.397	.395	.792	581	195	31	.294	.093	.371	12.74	17.04	1.34	164.7	0.52	20.8
Minor: AA Totals										110	404	63	114	11	5	2	19	23	5	35	50	5	3	1	0	0	.282	.346	.349	.695	448	141	18	.198	.067	.317	7.81	11.16	1.43	202.0	0.45	15.8
Minor: AAA Totals										247	820	128	240	29	9	2	85	50	24	165	122	0	8	6	3	0	.293	.409	.357	.766	999	293	40	.298	.064	.339	16.52	12.21	0.74	410.0	0.20	16.7
New York Mets Totals (9 yrs)										765	2369	359	670	95	14	7	165	106	46	260	335	3	60	12	7	41	.283	.353	.344	.697	2704	814	116	.196	.061	.325	9.62	12.39	1.29	338.4	0.26	17.3
Philadelphia Phillies Totals (2 yrs)										136	233	26	58	13	0	0	21	4	2	36	39	0	3	3	1	5	.249	.346	.305	.651	275	71	13	.219	.056	.294	13.09	14.18	1.08	0.0	0.00	22.4
Pittsburgh Pirates Totals (1 yrs)										104	315	62	92	21	3	2	28	6	3	42	53	1	0	3	1	5	.292	.374	.397	.771	361	125	26	.248	.105	.342	11.63	14.68	1.26	157.5	0.55	28.3
Minnesota Twins Totals (1 yrs)										87	299	33	69	9	2	1	26	1	1	32	45	1	4	1	0	4	.231	.306	.284	.590	337	85	12	.161	.053	.268	9.50	13.35	1.41	299.0	0.30	17.4
Seattle Mariners Totals (1 yrs)										10	29	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	0	1	0	0	0	.138	.167	.138	.305	31	4	0	.034	.000	.190	3.23	25.81	8.00	0.0	0.00	0.0

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
1978	Lynchburg Mets	Caro	A+	18	SS	131	0	0.0	202	329	30	49	561	531	.947	4.10	0.00	95.6	99.2	1
1979	Jackson Mets	Tex	AA	19	2B	5	0	0.0	14	8	1	1	23	22	.957	4.40	0.00	3.7	4.5	2
1979	Jackson Mets	Tex	AA	19	SS	104	0	0.0	170	251	30	46	451	421	.933	4.00	0.00	77.0	94.5	1
1980	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	20	2B	103	0	0.0	297	263	17	42	577	560	.971	5.40	0.00	74.1	82.4	1
1980	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	20	SS	21	0	0.0	30	37	5	5	72	67	.931	3.20	0.00	15.1	16.8	2
1980	New York Mets	NL	MLB	20	2B	20	0	0.0	48	43	0	7	91	91	1.000	4.60	0.00	12.3	74.1	2
1980	New York Mets	NL	MLB	20	SS	8	0	0.0	14	12	1	4	27	26	.963	3.30	0.00	4.9	29.6	3
1981	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	21	2B	2	0	0.0	3	7	0	2	10	10	1.000	5.00	0.00	1.4	9.5	5
1981	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	21	3B	5	0	0.0	4	10	0	0	14	14	1.000	2.80	0.00	3.6	23.8	5
1981	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	21	SS	6	0	0.0	5	21	1	4	27	26	.963	4.30	0.00	4.3	28.6	3
1981	New York Mets	NL	MLB	21	2B	11	0	0.0	14	21	2	2	37	35	.946	3.20	0.00	10.7	42.3	3
1981	New York Mets	NL	MLB	21	3B	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	0.00	1.0	3.8	4
1982	New York Mets	NL	MLB	22	2B	88	0	0.0	169	202	14	30	385	371	.964	4.20	0.00	54.3	91.7	1
1982	New York Mets	NL	MLB	22	3B	6	0	0.0	4	7	2	0	13	11	.846	1.80	0.00	3.7	6.3	5
1982	New York Mets	NL	MLB	22	SS	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	0.00	0.6	1.0	5
1983	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	23	2B	85	0	0.0	154	233	10	51	397	387	.975	4.60	0.00	61.2	84.2	1
1983	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	23	3B	4	0	0.0	3	6	1	1	10	9	.900	2.30	0.00	2.9	4.0	5
1983	Tidewater Tides	IL	AAA	23	SS	12	0	0.0	18	39	2	13	59	57	.966	4.80	0.00	8.6	11.9	4
1983	New York Mets	NL	MLB	23	2B	14	0	0.0	11	12	0	2	23	23	1.000	1.60	0.00	8.6	53.8	3
1983	New York Mets	NL	MLB	23	3B	2	0	0.0	5	3	2	0	10	8	.800	4.00	0.00	1.2	7.7	5
1984	New York Mets	NL	MLB	24	2B	115	0	0.0	218	294	10	72	522	512	.981	4.50	0.00	71.0	89.8	1
1984	New York Mets	NL	MLB	24	SS	8	0	0.0	5	12	0	1	17	17	1.000	2.10	0.00	4.9	6.3	5
1985	New York Mets	NL	MLB	25	2B	140	0	0.0	272	370	7	76	649	642	.989	4.60	0.00	86.4	96.6	1
1985	New York Mets	NL	MLB	25	SS	1	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1.000	1.00	0.00	0.6	0.7	5
1986	New York Mets	NL	MLB	26	2B	113	0	0.0	186	290	17	56	493	476	.966	4.20	0.00	69.8	91.1	1
1987	New York Mets	NL	MLB	27	2B	87	0	0.0	131	210	6	44	347	341	.983	3.90	0.00	53.7	92.6	2
1988	New York Mets	NL	MLB	28	2B	92	0	0.0	128	219	4	36	351	347	.989	3.80	0.00	57.5	92.9	1
1989	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	29	2B	84	0	0.0	146	187	6	37	339	333	.982	4.00	0.00	51.9	96.6	1
1989	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	29	DH	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	0.00	0.6	1.1	15
1990	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	MLB	30	2B	15	0	0.0	22	32	0	5	54	54	1.000	3.60	0.00	9.3	14.4	3
1990	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	MLB	30	3B	71	0	0.0	34	104	12	5	150	138	.920	1.90	0.00	43.8	68.3	2
1991	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	MLB	31	2B	36	0	0.0	50	52	2	12	104	102	.981	2.80	0.00	22.2	38.3	3
1991	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	MLB	31	3B	20	0	0.0	4	27	2	1	33	31	.939	1.60	0.00	12.3	21.3	3
1992	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	MLB	32	2B	10	0	0.0	10	20	1	4	31	30	.968	3.00	0.00	6.2	23.8	3
1992	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	MLB	32	3B	2	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	0.00	1.2	4.8	5
1993	Seattle Mariners	AL	MLB	33	2B	1	0	0.0	0	1	0	0	1	1	1.000	1.00	0.00	0.6	10.0	5
1993	Seattle Mariners	AL	MLB	33	3B	9	0	0.0	4	14	3	0	21	18	.857	2.00	0.00	5.6	90.0	5
MLB Totals - (2B)						826	0	0	1405	1953	69	383	3427	3358	.980	4.10	0.00	0.0	0.0	0
MLB Totals - (3B)						111	0	0	51	155	21	6	227	206	.907	1.90	0.00	0.0	0.0	0
MLB Totals - (SS)						18	0	0	20	24	1	5	45	44	.978	2.40	0.00	0.0	0.0	0
MLB Totals - (DH)						1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	0.00	0.0	0.0	0
AAA Totals - (2B)						190	0	0	454	503	27	95	984	957	.973	5.00	0.00	0.0	0.0	0
AAA Totals - (3B)						9	0	0	7	16	1	1	24	23	.958	2.60	0.00	0.0	0.0	0
AAA Totals - (SS)						39	0	0	53	97	8	22	158	150	.949	3.80	0.00	0.0	0.0	0
AA Totals - (2B)						5	0	0	14	8	1	1	23	22	.957	4.40	0.00	0.0	0.0	0
AA Totals - (SS)						104	0	0	170	251	30	46	451	421	.933	4.00	0.00	0.0	0.0	0
A+ Totals - (SS)						131	0	0	202	329	30	49	561	531	.947	4.10	0.00	0.0	0.0	0

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Career Batting Statistics

Career Fielding Statistics

Fielding Positional Grid by Year