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Name	Team	Age
B.J. Neale	Retired (1995, Age 35)	Died (2026, Age 67)
Drafted	Position	Bats/Throws
Round 1, Pick 7 (1981)	2B	B/R
League	Option Years	Majors Service Time
Mark Fidrych League	0	8 years (78 games)
Total Rating	Arm	Range
C+	D+	C-
Contact vs R	Contact vs L	Speed
C+	B-	D
Power vs R	Power vs L	Bunting
B	B+	C
Endurance	Velocity	Control
B-	D-	D-
Leadership	Mentor vs RHP	Mentor vs LHP
A-	B-	B
Health	Injured Days	Birthday
D-	0	11/5/1959
WS Rings	WS Appearances	LCS Appearances
0	0	0
Alt Pos (SS)	Alt Pos (3B)	Alt Pos (---)
A  (89.8 %)	F  (0.6 %)	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

1981

Minors

18.00

1 / 4

0 / 1

0 / 4

1 / 4

0 / 0

2 / 2

3 / 3

7 / 18

1982

Minors

18.00

3 / 4

2 / 3

1 / 2

3 / 4

4 / 4

0 / 0

1 / 1

14 / 18

1983

Minors

13.00

1 / 3

2 / 2

1 / 2

0 / 1

1 / 1

1 / 3

0 / 1

6 / 13

1984

Minors

22.00

1 / 3

1 / 4

2 / 5

4 / 4

2 / 3

2 / 2

1 / 1

13 / 22

1985

Minors

7.00

0 / 2

0 / 0

0 / 0

0 / 0

0 / 0

2 / 2

2 / 3

4 / 7

1986

Majors

63.65

162

135

0

2 / 13

0 / 9

3 / 12

1 / 4

3 / 6

4 / 9

5 / 10

18 / 63

1987

Majors

43.42

162

70

0

2 / 5

2 / 6

2 / 5

4 / 9

4 / 8

2 / 4

2 / 6

18 / 43

1988

Majors

67.12

162

135

0

0 / 9

0 / 5

1 / 6

1 / 10

1 / 13

0 / 9

0 / 15

3 / 67

1989

Majors

67.22

162

135

0

1 / 7

0 / 8

0 / 8

0 / 15

1 / 6

2 / 10

0 / 13

4 / 67

1990

Majors

67.32

162

135

0

1 / 10

0 / 13

0 / 8

0 / 3

0 / 12

0 / 10

0 / 11

1 / 67

1991

Majors

56.00

162

101

0

0 / 7

0 / 7

0 / 11

0 / 10

0 / 7

0 / 5

0 / 9

0 / 56

1992

Majors

25.04

162

18

0

0 / 5

0 / 3

0 / 3

0 / 5

0 / 3

0 / 3

0 / 3

0 / 25

1993

Majors

44.77

162

58

0

-4 / 6

-7 / 3

-3 / 7

-7 / 8

-7 / 11

-3 / 6

-3 / 3

-34 / 44

1994

Minors

11.00

0 / 3

0 / 2

0 / 0

0 / 1

0 / 1

0 / 0

0 / 4

0 / 11

1994

Majors

18.09

78

21

0

-4 / 3

-2 / 2

-2 / 4

-3 / 0

-5 / 3

-2 / 4

-3 / 2

-21 / 18

1995

Majors

19.00

0 / 4

0 / 2

0 / 3

0 / 2

0 / 4

0 / 3

0 / 1

0 / 19

Total

1374

808

0

4 / 88

-2 / 70

5 / 80

4 / 80

4 / 82

10 / 72

8 / 86

33 / 558

Career Transactions

Date	Transaction
1995-11-01	B.J. Neale has retired from the Free Agency Pool
1994-09-07	The Kansas City Athletics have acquired Tom Burdette from the waiver wire. The Kansas City Athletics have waived B.J. Neale.
1994-06-28	The Kansas City Athletics have designated B.J. Neale for assignment.
1986-04-01	The Kansas City Athletics have promoted B.J. Neale to the major league team. The Kansas City Athletics have promoted Fred Harper to the major league team. The Kansas City Athletics have promoted Jim Byrd to the major league team.