Roger Metzger

Position: Shortstop

Bats: Both • Throws: Right

6-0, 165lb (183cm, 74kg)

Born: October 10, 1947 in Fredericksburg, TX us

Draft: Drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 1st round (16th) of the 1969 MLB June Amateur Draft from St. Edward's University (Austin, TX).

High School: Holy Cross HS (San Antonio, TX)

Schools: Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ), St. Edward's University (Austin, TX)

Debut: June 16, 1970 (Age 22-249d, 13,004th in major league history)
vs. SFG 2 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: August 10, 1980 (Age 32-305d)
vs. ATL 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1971 season

Full Name: Roger Henry Metzger

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

3.4

4201

972

.231

453

RBI

254

OBP

.291

SLG

.293

OPS

.584

OPS+

Fielding stats are given overall and by position. In some cases, they will be identical.

1979 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1979 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 4	SFG	@	CIN	W,11-5	CG	39	9.0	2	2	0	4	1	SS
2	2	Apr 6	SFG	@	CIN	W,7-2	GS	22	5.2	0	1	0	1	0	SS
3	3	Apr 7	SFG	@	CIN	W,4-2	CG	36	9.0	4	1	0	5	1	SS
4	4	Apr 8	SFG	@	CIN	L,6-7	CG	48	9.2	2	4	1	7	0	SS
5	5	Apr 10	SFG		SDP	W,4-2	CG	36	9.0	2	0	0	2	0	SS
6	7 (1)	Apr 12	SFG		SDP	W,4-3	CG	41	9.0	1	2	0	3	1	SS
7	8	Apr 13	SFG		HOU	W,8-7	CG	41	9.0	2	4	1	7	0	SS
8	9	Apr 14	SFG		HOU	W,2-1	CG	35	9.0	3	3	0	6	1	SS
9	10	Apr 15 (1)	SFG		HOU	L,3-4	CG	35	9.0	1	4	0	5	2	SS
10	12 (1)	Apr 17	SFG	@	SDP	L,3-4	CG	35	8.0	3	2	1	6	0	SS
11	15 (2)	Apr 20	SFG		LAD	W,3-2	CG	36	9.0	1	4	0	5	1	SS
12	16	Apr 21	SFG		LAD	L,1-2	CG	43	10.0	1	3	0	4	0	SS
13	17	Apr 22	SFG		LAD	L,2-9	CG	47	9.0	2	3	0	5	0	SS
14	18	Apr 24	SFG	@	NYM	L,3-10	CG	39	8.0	2	3	1	6	0	SS
15	19	Apr 25	SFG	@	NYM	L,0-2	CG	29	8.0	0	0	0	0	0	SS
16	21 (1)	Apr 28	SFG	@	MON	L,4-6	CG	36	8.0	2	2	0	4	0	SS
17	22	Apr 29	SFG	@	MON	L,5-7	GF	15	3.0	0	0	0	0	0	PR SS
18	23	Apr 30	SFG	@	PHI	L,1-4	CG	32	8.0	2	2	0	4	1	SS
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
19	24	May 1	SFG	@	PHI	W,7-0	CG	35	9.0	0	3	0	3	0	SS
20	26 (1)	May 4	SFG		NYM	W,4-3	CG	32	9.0	1	6	0	7	2	SS
21	27	May 5	SFG		NYM	W,6-4	CG	38	9.0	2	2	0	4	0	SS
22	28	May 6	SFG		NYM	L,4-5	GF	4	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	PH SS
23	29	May 8	SFG		MON	L,0-4	CG	36	9.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
24	31 (1)	May 10	SFG		MON	L,0-3	CG	32	9.0	0	4	1	5	1	SS
25	34 (2)	May 13	SFG		PHI	L,3-12	CG	48	9.0	0	2	1	3	0	SS
26	35	May 15	SFG	@	HOU	W,8-1	CG	34	9.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
27	36	May 16	SFG	@	HOU	W,8-4	GS	32	7.0	3	7	0	10	0	SS
28	37	May 17	SFG	@	HOU	W,3-0	CG	34	9.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
29	39 (1)	May 19 (1)	SFG	@	ATL	W,4-2	CG	39	9.0	1	5	0	6	1	SS
30	41 (1)	May 20	SFG	@	ATL	W,8-1	CG	32	9.0	0	6	0	6	0	SS
31	42	May 22	SFG		CIN	W,12-2	CG	38	9.0	0	4	0	4	0	SS
32	43	May 23	SFG		CIN	L,0-5	CG	36	9.0	0	6	0	6	0	SS
33	44	May 24	SFG		CIN	W,2-1	CG	37	9.0	4	3	1	8	1	SS
34	46 (1)	May 26	SFG		ATL	L,4-5	CG	42	9.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
35	47	May 27	SFG		ATL	L,8-10	CG	43	9.0	0	4	0	4	0	SS
36	49 (1)	May 29	SFG	@	LAD	L,5-6	GS	22	5.0	1	1	0	2	0	SS
37	50	May 30	SFG	@	LAD	L,5-6	CG	36	8.0	1	1	1	3	0	SS
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
38	52 (1)	Jun 1	SFG	@	CHC	L,2-8	CG	39	8.0	1	7	1	9	3	SS
39	53	Jun 2	SFG	@	CHC	W,8-6	GF	11	3.0	0	2	0	2	1	SS
40	54	Jun 3	SFG	@	CHC	L,1-2	CG	33	8.0	2	4	0	6	0	SS
41	55	Jun 5	SFG	@	STL	L,4-5	GS	33	7.0	1	1	0	2	0	SS
42	56	Jun 6	SFG	@	STL	L,5-6	GF	13	2.0	2	1	0	3	0	SS
43	59 (2)	Jun 9	SFG	@	PIT	W,6-2	GF	7	2.0	0	2	0	2	1	SS
44	60	Jun 10	SFG	@	PIT	W,7-4	CG	38	9.0	3	2	0	5	0	SS
45	62 (1)	Jun 13	SFG		CHC	L,2-3	CG	45	10.0	4	3	0	7	2	SS
46	63	Jun 14	SFG		CHC	L,6-8	GS	24	5.0	1	7	1	9	2	SS
47	69 (5)	Jun 22	SFG	@	CIN	W,3-2	CG	35	9.0	3	5	0	8	1	SS
48	70	Jun 23	SFG	@	CIN	W,5-2	GF	7	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	SS
49	72 (1)	Jun 25	SFG		ATL	L,1-6	CG	38	9.0	1	3	0	4	0	SS
50	73	Jun 26	SFG		ATL	W,6-5	GF	18	3.0	1	1	0	2	0	2B
51	74	Jun 27	SFG		HOU	W,6-3	CG	36	9.0	1	2	0	3	0	2B
52	75	Jun 28	SFG		HOU	L,5-6	GS	43	9.0	3	3	0	6	0	SS 2B
53	77 (1)	Jun 30	SFG		CIN	L,0-2	CG	37	9.0	3	5	0	8	2	SS
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
54	78	Jul 1 (1)	SFG		CIN	W,2-1	CG	36	9.0	4	3	2	9	1	SS
55	79	Jul 1 (2)	SFG		CIN	W,7-3	GF	12	3.1	0	1	0	1	0	SS
56	82 (2)	Jul 5	SFG	@	ATL	L,4-5	GF	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	3B
57	85 (2)	Jul 8	SFG	@	PHI	L,3-5	GF	6	1.0	0	1	0	1	0	SS
58	87 (1)	Jul 10	SFG	@	MON	W,11-7	CG	55	13.0	0	6	0	6	0	SS
59	89 (1)	Jul 12	SFG	@	MON	W,5-3	CG	40	9.0	1	1	0	2	0	SS
60	90	Jul 13 (1)	SFG	@	NYM	L,6-7		4	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	PR 2B
61	91	Jul 13 (2)	SFG	@	NYM	L,2-5	CG	33	8.0	4	1	0	5	0	2B
62	92	Jul 14	SFG	@	NYM	L,2-3	CG	32	8.0	1	7	0	8	2	2B
63	93	Jul 15	SFG	@	NYM	W,4-0	CG	39	9.0	3	3	0	6	0	2B
64	98 (4)	Jul 22 (2)	SFG		MON	L,5-15	CG	53	9.0	0	2	0	2	0	SS
65	100 (1)	Jul 24	SFG		NYM	L,5-6	GF	19	4.0	1	3	0	4	1	SS
66	101	Jul 25	SFG		NYM	L,0-3	CG	35	9.0	1	3	0	4	0	SS
67	102	Jul 26	SFG	@	SDP	W,6-2	CG	37	9.0	1	2	0	3	0	SS
68	104 (1)	Jul 28	SFG	@	SDP	L,3-4	CG	41	8.2	2	4	0	6	0	SS
69	106 (1)	Jul 30	SFG	@	HOU	W,8-0	CG	32	9.0	2	2	1	5	1	SS
70	107	Jul 31	SFG	@	HOU	L,4-6	GS	30	7.0	2	2	0	4	0	SS
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
71	108	Aug 1	SFG	@	HOU	L,4-5	CG	37	8.0	1	3	0	4	0	SS
72	109	Aug 3	SFG	@	LAD	L,3-11	CG	46	8.0	0	2	0	2	0	SS
73	110	Aug 4	SFG	@	LAD	L,3-4	GS	20	5.0	1	5	0	6	1	SS
74	117 (6)	Aug 11	SFG		LAD	L,4-7	CG	38	9.0	0	4	2	6	0	SS
75	120 (2)	Aug 15	SFG	@	CHC	L,5-6	GF	6	1.2	0	0	0	0	0	SS
76	123 (2)	Aug 18	SFG	@	STL	L,4-5	CG	36	8.1	2	6	0	8	1	SS
77	124	Aug 19	SFG	@	STL	L,0-4	CG	33	8.0	2	3	0	5	1	SS
78	125	Aug 20	SFG	@	PIT	L,5-6	GS	27	6.0	0	1	0	1	0	SS
79	131 (5)	Aug 28	SFG		STL	L,1-2	CG	37	9.0	1	6	0	7	1	SS
80	132	Aug 29	SFG		STL	L,1-5	GS	31	7.0	3	1	0	4	0	SS
81	133	Aug 30	SFG		STL	W,3-2	CG	32	9.0	1	3	1	5	1	SS
82	134	Aug 31	SFG		PIT	L,4-6	CG	39	9.0	0	5	0	5	0	SS
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
83	135	Sep 1 (1)	SFG		PIT	L,3-5	CG	37	9.0	2	3	0	5	0	SS
84	150 (14)	Sep 16	SFG		HOU	W,2-1	GS	31	7.0	2	2	0	4	1	SS
85	151	Sep 17	SFG		CIN	W,7-4	GS	31	7.0	1	3	0	4	0	SS
86	156 (4)	Sep 23	SFG	@	ATL	W,2-1	GF	10	3.0	1	1	0	2	1	2B
87	161 (4)	Sep 29	SFG		SDP	W,6-5	GF	17	3.0	1	0	0	1	0	PR 2B
88	162	Sep 30	SFG		SDP	L,3-5	CG	41	10.0	3	4	0	7	1	2B
							89gm		653.1	122	237	15	374	38