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Name	Team	Age
Billy Chappel	Retired (1987, Age 36)	Died (2012, Age 61)
Drafted	Position	Bats/Throws
Round 1, Pick 12 (1974)	1B	L/R
League	Option Years	Majors Service Time
Jumbo Brown League	0	10 years (119 games)
Total Rating	Arm	Range
B	B-	C+
Contact vs R	Contact vs L	Speed
B-	B	C+
Power vs R	Power vs L	Bunting
A	A-	A
Endurance	Velocity	Control
B-	C+	F
Leadership	Mentor vs RHP	Mentor vs LHP
B	A+	A+
Health	Injured Days	Birthday
F	0	5/21/1951
WS Rings	WS Appearances	LCS Appearances
1	1	1
Alt Pos (LF)	Alt Pos (RF)	Alt Pos (---)
C- (29.1 %)	D+ (22.5 %)	F  (0.0 %)

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Year

Type

Chances

Active

GS

Injured

Contact vs R

Power vs R

Contact vs L

Power vs L

Speed

Arm

Range

Total

1974

Minors

12.00

0 / 0

0 / 1

1 / 2

0 / 0

2 / 4

1 / 2

3 / 3

7 / 12

1975

Minors

39.00

0 / 1

3 / 5

1 / 9

0 / 2

3 / 7

3 / 7

4 / 8

14 / 39

1976

Minors

44.00

0 / 4

1 / 5

1 / 4

3 / 9

2 / 7

7 / 9

3 / 6

17 / 44

1976

Majors

11.52

27

21

0

2 / 2

0 / 1

2 / 2

0 / 0

1 / 1

0 / 4

0 / 1

5 / 11

1977

Minors

14.00

0 / 2

0 / 2

0 / 2

0 / 2

0 / 4

0 / 1

0 / 1

0 / 14

1977

Majors

40.51

118

56

0

2 / 6

0 / 2

1 / 5

4 / 10

3 / 8

3 / 3

4 / 6

17 / 40

1978

Majors

49.62

133

72

23

0 / 10

0 / 4

4 / 11

2 / 7

3 / 6

3 / 5

4 / 6

16 / 49

1979

Majors

62.97

162

95

0

0 / 13

1 / 8

0 / 5

0 / 6

2 / 11

3 / 9

5 / 10

11 / 62

1980

Majors

54.17

133

92

29

1 / 5

0 / 8

2 / 9

0 / 6

1 / 13

2 / 6

0 / 7

6 / 54

1981

Majors

65.24

162

130

0

0 / 7

0 / 8

1 / 7

0 / 11

1 / 11

0 / 12

0 / 9

2 / 65

1982

Majors

59.67

162

100

0

0 / 6

0 / 6

0 / 11

0 / 7

0 / 11

1 / 9

1 / 9

2 / 59

1983

Majors

62.14

145

117

17

2 / 11

0 / 4

0 / 5

1 / 10

1 / 17

0 / 7

0 / 8

4 / 62

1984

Majors

68.94

162

130

0

0 / 11

0 / 10

0 / 8

0 / 13

0 / 8

1 / 11

0 / 7

1 / 68

1985

Majors

58.95

138

111

24

-2 / 7

-3 / 9

-2 / 10

-3 / 9

-3 / 10

-2 / 7

0 / 6

-15 / 58

1986

Majors

52.79

123

100

39

-1 / 11

-2 / 9

-1 / 6

-5 / 3

-5 / 7

-3 / 8

-1 / 8

-18 / 52

1987

Majors

47.40

149

72

13

-3 / 8

-6 / 7

-1 / 10

-5 / 7

-8 / 6

-2 / 2

-4 / 7

-29 / 47

Total

1614

1096

145

1 / 104

-6 / 89

9 / 106

-3 / 102

3 / 131

17 / 102

19 / 102

40 / 736

Career Transactions

Date	Transaction
1987-11-01	Billy Chappel has retired from the Arizona TumbleWeeds
1987-05-08	Billy Chappel of the Arizona TumbleWeeds is injured and is expected to be out 15 days.
1986-09-30	Billy Chappel of the Arizona TumbleWeeds is injured and is expected to be out 9 days.
1986-07-17	Billy Chappel of the Arizona TumbleWeeds is injured and is expected to be out 23 days.
1986-05-24	Billy Chappel of the Arizona TumbleWeeds is injured and is expected to be out 11 days.
1986-04-03	Billy Chappel of the Arizona TumbleWeeds is injured and is expected to be out 10 days.
1985-09-20	Billy Chappel of the Arizona TumbleWeeds is injured and is expected to be out 23 days.
1985-05-12	Billy Chappel of the Arizona TumbleWeeds is injured and is expected to be out 15 days.
1983-09-18	Billy Chappel of the Arizona TumbleWeeds is injured and is expected to be out 14 days.
1983-05-02	Billy Chappel of the Arizona TumbleWeeds is injured and is expected to be out 6 days.
1980-10-19	Trade #1374627 has been completed between the Arizona TumbleWeeds and the Washington Gridlock. The Washington Gridlock receive Draft Pick 1982 Round 3 MIN (Ken Yerkes), Draft Pick 1981 Round 3 ARI (Joe Conigliaro), Draft Pick 1981 Round 1 ARI (Ollie Maas) from the Arizona TumbleWeeds in exchange for Phil Traxler, Billy Chappel.
1980-08-23	Billy Chappel of the Washington Gridlock is injured and is expected to be out 8 days.
1980-07-11	Billy Chappel of the Washington Gridlock is injured and is expected to be out 25 days.
1980-05-25	The Washington Gridlock have placed Billy Chappel on the trade block.
1978-08-13	Billy Chappel of the Washington Gridlock is injured and is expected to be out 25 days.
1977-06-13	Trade #1358087 has been completed between the Washington Gridlock and the New York Nachos. The New York Nachos receive Luke Giel from the Washington Gridlock in exchange for Billy Chappel, Draft Pick 1978 Round 1 NYN (Johnny Wright), Draft Pick 1978 Round 1 SD (Dick Washburn).
1977-05-21	Trade #1357617 has been completed between the New York Nachos and the Texas Bullfrogs. The Texas Bullfrogs receive Draft Pick 1978 Round 3 NYN (Al Garibaldi), Draft Pick 1978 Round 2 STL (Chick Obradovich) from the New York Nachos in exchange for Billy Chappel.
1976-06-01	The Texas Bullfrogs have promoted Benjamin Zipporah to the major league team. The Texas Bullfrogs have sent Billy Chappel to the minors.
1976-05-01	Trade #1352558 has been completed between the Texas Bullfrogs and the San Diego Submarines. The San Diego Submarines receive Ox Stephenson, Yonder Clark, Draft Pick 1979 Round 3 TEX (Tim Leary) from the Texas Bullfrogs in exchange for Dave PLOFF, Billy Chappel, Draft Pick 1978 Round 1 SD (Dick Washburn).
1975-07-23	The San Diego Submarines have placed Billy Chappel on the trade block.
1974-04-01	The San Diego Submarines have renamed Jeff Lerchen to Billy Chappel.