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Fielding Stats Glossary

The player, team and league statlines are now dramatically different than when the site first launched, so a comprehensive list of the stats would take far longer and would likely be much less useful than previously. So we have implemented a tooltip solution that shows you a description of the statistic when you hold your mouse over the header abbreviation for the stat. You can try it below.

We also have implemented a sorting feature. When the header abbreviation is red (and this is true of all red text), you can click the header to sort by that column. In many cases the table contains partial season (for a traded player) and full season data, their full season summary. When this is the case, we hide the partial seasons in the sorted results, and provide another tooltip to bring the partial seasons back. Occasionally, there is a select box toggle that allows you to hide or show players who may not have met some minimum qualification such as 502 PA's for the batting title. This only comes into play when sorting on ratio stats like on-base percentage, but not counting stats like home runs.

The CSV and PRE tooltips provide a means to get comma-separated values suitable for loading into excel and pre-formatted text that might work better in things like message boards and e-mails.

In some cases, a player's career may span seasons for which a stat like strikeouts or sacrifice flies are not available and seasons for which they are. In those cases we attempt to mark the statistic as shown 162. This means that this career total does not include all seasons the player played and therefore we do not know the exact number.

For the most common stats found in our leaderboards, we denote league leading stats with bold text and major league leading totals are further marked with italics. For career statistics, all-time leaders are marked with **'s and active leaders with italics.

When a stat is unavailable its season entry should be blank, rather than zero. This may not always be the case, but it is what we've tried to do.

Standard Fielding

Glossary · Click stat headers to sort · CSV · PRE · Hide Partial Seasons ·  ·
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS Inn Ch PO A E DP Field% RF/9 RF/G lgField% lgRF/9 lgRF/G PB WP SB CS CS% Awards
1964 KCA AL 22 SS 38 34 320.0 155 58 94 3 14 .981 4.28 4.00 .968 4.78 4.55
1964 KCA AL 22 LF 27 27 206.0 43 39 2 2 0 .953 1.79 1.52 .974 1.81 1.46
1964 KCA AL 22 OF 27 27 206.0 43 39 2 2 0 .953 1.79 1.52 .981 2.04 1.79
1964 KCA AL 22 3B 6 5 44.0 20 5 12 3 2 .850 3.48 2.83 .960 3.03 2.77
1965 KCA AL 23 SS 109 103 896.1 486 187 269 30 50 .938 4.58 4.18 .963 4.74 4.38 MVP-29
1965 KCA AL 23 OF 39 38 326.1 78 68 5 5 3 .936 2.01 1.87 .979 2.04 1.78 MVP-29
1965 KCA AL 23 LF 38 37 318.1 79 70 5 4 3 .949 2.12 1.97 .980 1.87 1.49 MVP-29
1965 KCA AL 23 CF 2 1 7.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.29 0.50 1.000 2.44 2.05 MVP-29
1965 KCA AL 23 1B 1 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 9.00 1.00 1.000 9.90 7.90 MVP-29
1965 KCA AL 23 2B 1 0 1.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 9.00 1.00 1.000 5.40 4.40 MVP-29
1965 KCA AL 23 3B 1 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.90 MVP-29
1965 KCA AL 23 C 1 0 1.0 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 27.00 3.00 1.000 7.20 5.70 0 0 1 0 0% MVP-29
1965 KCA AL 23 P 1 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 1.80 0.80 MVP-29
1965 KCA AL 23 RF 1 0 1.0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 0.00 0.00 1.000 1.80 1.60 MVP-29
1966 KCA AL 24 SS 138 137 1205.1 652 283 350 19 80 .971 4.73 4.59 .960 4.79 4.41 MVP-10
1967 KCA AL 25 SS 145 145 1278.0 654 259 365 30 75 .954 4.39 4.30 .963 4.62 4.09
1968 OAK AL 26 SS 155 154 1364.2 771 279 458 34 86 .956 4.86 4.75 .962 4.79 4.07 MVP-11
1968 OAK AL 26 LF 3 3 27.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1.33 1.33 .975 1.87 1.47 MVP-11
1968 OAK AL 26 OF 3 3 27.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1.33 1.33 .975 2.07 1.80 MVP-11
1969 OAK AL 27 SS 125 125 1117.1 632 220 391 21 72 .967 4.92 4.89 .966 4.96 4.43
1970 OAK AL 28 SS 143 141 1240.2 700 267 414 19 92 .973 4.94 4.76 .967 4.94 4.39 MVP-24
1971 OAK AL 29 SS 133 131 1162.1 656 231 399 26 85 .960 4.88 4.74 .965 4.90 4.32
1972 OAK AL 30 SS 148 148 1337.1 795 283 494 18 93 .977 5.23 5.25 .967 4.99 4.51 MVP-16
1973 OAK AL 31 SS 149 149 1272.1 747 228 496 23 87 .969 5.12 4.86 .963 5.10 4.43 MVP-26
1974 OAK AL 32 SS 133 132 1142.1 652 207 423 22 76 .966 4.96 4.74 .965 4.98 4.24 MVP-15
1974 OAK AL 32 DH 1 MVP-15
1975 OAK AL 33 SS 137 133 1140.2 600 199 378 23 58 .962 4.55 4.21 .959 4.85 4.09 MVP-20
1976 OAK AL 34 SS 149 147 1292.1 744 231 490 23 66 .969 5.02 4.84 .967 4.99 4.40
1977 TEX AL 35 SS 149 145 1284.1 777 269 483 25 91 .968 5.27 5.05 .963 4.82 4.07
1978 TEX AL 36 SS 89 87 728.2 434 151 263 20 44 .954 5.11 4.65 .964 4.92 4.19
1978 TEX AL 36 DH 4
1979 TOT AL 37 SS 90 74 643.1 398 148 233 17 74 .957 5.33 4.23 .965 5.01 4.10
1979 TEX AL 37 SS 8 3 31.0 26 12 13 1 5 .962 7.26 3.13 .965 5.02 4.10
1979 CAL AL 37 SS 82 71 612.1 372 136 220 16 69 .957 5.23 4.34 .965 5.01 4.10
1979 CAL AL 37 DH 1
1980 CAL AL 38 SS 64 56 511.1 277 108 157 12 41 .957 4.66 4.14 .963 4.99 4.26
1980 CAL AL 38 DH 2
1980 CAL AL 38 2B 1 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 4.90
1981 CAL AL 39 3B 45 21 226.1 60 10 44 6 5 .900 2.15 1.20 .953 2.95 2.52
1981 CAL AL 39 SS 3 1 14.0 3 0 3 0 2 1.000 1.93 1.00 .967 5.01 4.20
1981 CAL AL 39 2B 2 0 7.0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 2.57 1.00 1.000 5.53 4.95
1983 NYY AL 41 2B 32 17 180.1 111 40 67 4 18 .964 5.34 3.34 .981 5.36 4.77
1983 NYY AL 41 3B 24 17 147.2 44 12 29 3 1 .932 2.50 1.71 .957 3.07 2.57
18 Seasons SS 2097 2042 17951.1 10133 3608 6160 365 1186 .964 4.90 4.66 .964 4.89 4.28
4 Seasons 3B 76 43 419.0 124 27 85 12 8 .903 2.41 1.47 .956 3.00 2.56
3 Seasons OF 69 68 559.1 125 111 7 7 3 .944 1.90 1.71 .980 2.04 1.78
3 Seasons LF 68 67 551.1 126 113 7 6 3 .952 1.96 1.76 .978 1.85 1.48
4 Seasons 2B 36 17 190.1 114 40 70 4 18 .965 5.20 3.06 .982 5.37 4.77
4 Seasons DH 8
1 Season CF 2 1 7.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.29 0.50 1.000 2.44 2.05
1 Season C 1 0 1.0 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 27.00 3.00 1.000 7.20 5.70 0 0 1 0 0%
1 Season P 1 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 1.80 0.80
1 Season RF 1 0 1.0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 0.00 0.00 1.000 1.80 1.60
1 Season 1B 1 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 9.00 1.00 1.000 9.90 7.90
19 Seasons TOT 2352 2238 19682.2 10628 3903 6330 395 1218 .963 4.68 4.35 .927 4.69 4.08 0 0 1 0 0%
Pos G GS Inn Ch PO A E DP Field% RF/9 RF/G lgField% lgRF/9 lgRF/G PB WP SB CS CS% Awards

Appearances

For years that Retrosheet has complete game played data, we provide a full position-by-position accounting of games played. This handles the DH issue appropriately and shows both offensive (games in the lineup) and defensive (games in the field) games played.

Appearances

Glossary · Click stat headers to sort · CSV · PRE · Hide Partial Seasons ·  ·
Year Age Tm Lg G Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1973 31 OAK AL 151 151 149 0 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1974 32 OAK AL 134 134 133 0 0 0 0 0 133 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
1975 33 OAK AL 137 137 137 0 0 0 0 0 137 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1976 34 OAK AL 149 149 149 0 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1977 35 TEX AL 150 150 149 0 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1978 36 TEX AL 98 98 90 0 0 0 0 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 2 8
1979 37 CAL AL 85 85 82 0 0 0 0 0 82 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
1979 37 TEX AL 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
1980 38 CAL AL 77 77 65 0 0 0 1 0 64 0 0 0 0 0 4 12
1981 39 CAL AL 55 55 52 0 0 0 2 47 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 14
1983 41 NYY AL 60 60 55 0 0 0 32 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7
10 Seasons 1104 1104 1069 0 0 0 35 71 964 0 0 0 0 1 13 51

Appearances table is calculated from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available after the 1973 season.

Range Factor

Ideally range factor would always be computed using innings played or the second calculation above. But for right now we only have innings data for the 2000 season on. Naturally, we are always working to add new data to the site. In order to reduce confusion we have listed both range factors, so that players can be compared across eras.

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