Willie Aikens

Willie Mays Aikens

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: October 14, 1954 in Seneca, SC
High School: Seneca HS (Seneca, SC)
School: South Carolina State University (Orangeburg, SC)
Drafted by the California Angels in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1975 amateur draft (January). (All Transactions)
Debut: May 17, 1977
Teams (by GP): Royals/Angels/BlueJays 1977-1985
Agents: Ron Shapiro [*]
Final Game: April 27, 1985
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG
1977	CAL	AL	22	1B	13	12	6	99.0	105	94	8	3	10	.971	-0	-2	9.27	7.85	.990	10.02	9.95
1977	CAL	AL	22	DH	13	11
1979	CAL	AL	24	1B	55	55	54	492.2	495	462	31	2	49	.996	2	5	9.01	8.96	.992	10.08	9.96
1979	CAL	AL	24	DH	51	47
1980	KCR	AL	25	1B	138	137	64	1088.0	1158	1081	65	12	95	.990	-2	-2	9.48	8.30	.992	10.02	10.00
1980	KCR	AL	25	DH	13	13
1981	KCR	AL	26	1B	99	96	86	854.1	907	844	56	7	79	.992	-5	-7	9.48	9.09	.993	10.06	10.03
1982	KCR	AL	27	1B	128	122	93	1057.2	1130	1048	75	7	95	.994	1	1	9.56	8.77	.992	9.85	9.81
1983	KCR	AL	28	1B	112	109	55	865.0	959	884	64	11	101	.989	-9	-12	9.86	8.46	.992	9.90	9.82
1983	KCR	AL	28	DH	6	6
1984	TOR	AL	29	DH	81	73
1984	TOR	AL	29	1B	2	1	0	11.0	13	12	1	0	1	1.000	1	65	10.64	6.50	.991	9.74	9.70
1985	TOR	AL	30	DH	11	6
	7 Seasons			1B	547	532	358	4467.2	4767	4425	300	42	430	.991	-12	-3	9.52	8.64	.992	9.97	9.92
	8 Seasons			TOT	547	532	358	4467.2	4767	4425	300	42	430	.991	-12	-3	9.52	8.64	.992	9.97	9.92

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp
1977	CAL	AL	22	1B	-0	-2	-0	-0	0	0
1979	CAL	AL	24	1B	2	5	1	1	0	1
1980	KCR	AL	25	1B	-2	-2	-1	-0	-1	-1
1981	KCR	AL	26	1B	-5	-7	-6	-5	-0	1
1982	KCR	AL	27	1B	1	1	1	1	-0	0
1983	KCR	AL	28	1B	-9	-12	-9	-3	-6	0
1984	TOR	AL	29	1B	1	65	1	0	1	0
	7 Seasons			1B	-12	-3	-13	-7	-6	1
	8 Seasons			TOT	-12	-3	-13	-7	-6	1

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	DH	PH
1977	CAL	AL	22	42	23	42	13	13	13	18
1979	CAL	AL	24	116	102	116	55	55	51	14
1980	KCR	AL	25	151	150	151	138	138	13	0
1981	KCR	AL	26	101	96	101	99	99	0	4
1982	KCR	AL	27	134	122	134	128	128	0	12
1983	KCR	AL	28	125	115	125	113	113	6	10
1984	TOR	AL	29	93	74	93	2	2	81	18
1985	TOR	AL	30	12	6	12	0	0	11	6
	8 Seasons			774	688	774	548	548	175	82

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1977	CAL	AL	22	438	46%	81%	28%	26	85%	1	96	2	94	0	14	8	4	2	1	0	2	0	2	0	2	10	0	0	1	10	1	0	0	0	1	100%
1979	CAL	AL	24	2105	54%	81%	24%	121	92%	3	466	31	431	4	53	28	19	6	1	2	2	0	1	1	1	49	4	1	0	44	5	5	0	5	8	75%
1980	KCR	AL	25	4607	59%	85%	27%	222	93%	0	1081	59	1013	9	97	67	39	12	0	2	12	1	11	0	7	95	1	0	0	87	1	8	5	3	14	64%
1981	KCR	AL	26	3598	63%	85%	26%	169	95%	4	841	47	787	7	66	56	37	9	1	2	8	0	5	3	4	78	3	2	0	70	6	8	1	7	7	100%
1982	KCR	AL	27	4504	71%	84%	26%	208	96%	2	1047	59	972	15	77	77	50	9	1	3	7	1	6	0	4	98	2	1	0	91	2	7	1	5	4	100%
1983	KCR	AL	28	3790	71%	85%	26%	173	92%	1	881	61	808	12	61	62	28	8	2	1	10	1	8	1	8	102	3	0	0	94	3	7	6	1	3	67%
1984	TOR	AL	29	43	53%	86%	40%	3	100%	0	12	0	12	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	7 Seasons			19085	64%	85%	26%	922	93%	11	4424	259	4117	47	370	299	178	46	6	10	41	3	33	5	26	433	13	4	1	397	18	35	13	21	37	78%
	MLB Averages				60%	82%	27%		95%																											89%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Putouts† s c a p y 1981 AL 844 (4th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1980 AL 138 (4th) 1981 AL 99 (2nd)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1981 AL 844 (4th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1980 AL 12 (1st) 1981 AL 7 (3rd) 1983 AL 11 (3rd)
Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y Career 9.52 (68th)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1982 AL .994 (5th)

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