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Brian Anderson

Brian Nikola Anderson

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: March 11, 1982 in Tucson, AZ
High School: Canyon de Oro HS (Oro Valley, AZ)
School: University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 1st round (15th pick) of the 2003 amateur draft.
Signed June 19, 2003. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 16, 2005
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/RedSox 2005-2009
Agents: Gaylord Sports, previously: Alan Nero [*]
Final Game: October 4, 2009
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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 Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
2005 CHW AL 23 OF 12 7 3 85.0 20 19 1 0 1 1.000 -2 3 -23 42 2.12 1.67 .986 2.30 2.28
2005 CHW AL 23 LF 9 3 3 42.0 11 10 1 0 1 1.000 -0 1 -11 29 2.36 1.22 .988 2.10 2.08
2005 CHW AL 23 CF 5 3 0 36.0 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 -1 1 -47 33 1.75 1.40 .989 2.70 2.66
2005 CHW AL 23 RF 1 1 0 7.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 1 34 171 2.57 2.00 .980 2.06 2.10
2006 CHW AL 24 CF 134 106 90 966.0 310 305 3 2 1 .994 6 -1 7 -1 2.87 2.30 .989 2.65 2.61
2006 CHW AL 24 OF 134 106 90 966.0 310 305 3 2 1 .994 6 -1 7 -1 2.87 2.30 .986 2.30 2.27
2007 CHW AL 25 OF 8 3 2 35.1 10 9 0 1 0 .900 -2 -3 -54 -102 2.29 1.13 .987 2.29 2.28
2007 CHW AL 25 LF 5 0 0 11.1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -1 -64 -106 0.79 0.20 .980 2.06 2.08
2007 CHW AL 25 CF 3 3 2 24.0 9 8 0 1 0 .889 -1 -2 -50 -100 3.00 2.67 .989 2.70 2.67
2007 CHW AL 25 DH 2 1
2008 CHW AL 26 OF 98 39 33 469.1 105 105 0 0 0 1.000 -2 2 -5 5 2.01 1.07 .986 2.31 2.28
2008 CHW AL 26 CF 94 37 32 447.1 102 102 0 0 0 1.000 -2 2 -6 5 2.05 1.09 .989 2.71 2.69
2008 CHW AL 26 DH 3 0
2008 CHW AL 26 LF 3 2 1 16.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 30 0 1.69 1.00 .983 2.02 2.03
2008 CHW AL 26 RF 2 0 0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.10 2.15
2009 TOT AL 27 OF 83 54 47 530.0 129 124 3 2 1 .984 1 -5 1 -11 2.16 1.53 .987 2.33 2.30
2009 TOT AL 27 CF 67 48 42 450.0 114 110 2 2 1 .982 0 -2 0 -5 2.24 1.67 .992 2.73 2.70
2009 TOT AL 27 RF 17 5 5 69.0 15 14 1 0 0 1.000 1 -3 14 -52 1.96 0.88 .982 2.13 2.10
2009 CHW AL 27 OF 64 50 44 466.0 123 118 3 2 1 .984 0 -5 1 -12 2.34 1.89 .987 2.33 2.30
2009 CHW AL 27 CF 61 48 42 438.0 112 108 2 2 1 .982 0 -1 1 -3 2.26 1.80 .992 2.73 2.70
2009 CHW AL 27 RF 6 2 2 28.0 11 10 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -1 -4 -43 3.54 1.83 .982 2.12 2.10
2009 BOS AL 27 OF 19 4 3 64.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 0 -5 4 -93 0.84 0.32 .987 2.33 2.30
2009 BOS AL 27 RF 11 3 3 41.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1 -2 26 -59 0.88 0.36 .982 2.13 2.10
2009 BOS AL 27 CF 6 0 0 12.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -1 -40 -100 1.50 0.33 .990 2.70 2.70
2009 BOS AL 27 LF 4 1 0 11.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0 -33 0 0.00 0.00 2.13 2.10
5 Seasons OF 335 209 175 2085.2 574 562 7 5 3 .991 1 -4 1 -2 2.46 1.70 .986 2.31 2.28
5 Seasons CF 303 197 166 1923.1 542 532 5 5 2 .991 1 -2 1 -1 2.51 1.77 .990 2.68 2.66
4 Seasons LF 21 6 4 80.1 15 14 1 0 1 1.000 -1 0 -13 0 1.68 0.71 .987 2.08 2.08
3 Seasons RF 20 6 5 82.0 17 16 1 0 0 1.000 1 -2 15 -29 1.87 0.85 .982 2.12 2.10
5 Seasons TOT 335 209 175 2085.2 574 562 7 5 3 .991 1 -8 1 -4 2.46 1.70 .986 2.31 2.28
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
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 Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
2005 CHW AL 23 LF -0 -11 -0 0 -1 0 1 29 1 0
2005 CHW AL 23 CF -1 -47 -1 0 -1 0 1 33 1 0
2005 CHW AL 23 RF 0 34 0 0 0 0 1 171 1 0
2006 CHW AL 24 CF 6 7 6 -2 7 0 -1 -1 2 0
2007 CHW AL 25 LF -1 -64 -1 0 -1 0 -1 -106 -1 0
2007 CHW AL 25 CF -1 -50 -1 0 -1 0 -2 -100 -1 0
2008 CHW AL 26 CF -2 -6 -3 1 -4 1 2 5 2 0
2008 CHW AL 26 LF 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2008 CHW AL 26 RF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 CHW AL 27 CF 0 1 0 -3 3 0 -1 -3 -2 1
2009 CHW AL 27 RF -0 -4 -0 -0 0 0 -1 -43 -1 0
2009 BOS AL 27 RF 1 26 1 0 0 0 -2 -59 -1 0
2009 BOS AL 27 CF -0 -40 -0 -1 0 0 -1 -100 -1 0
2009 BOS AL 27 LF -0 -33 -0 0 -0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons CF 1 1 -0 -4 4 1 -2 -1 1 1
4 Seasons LF -1 -13 -1 1 -2 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons RF 1 15 1 0 1 0 -2 -29 -1 0
5 Seasons TOT 2 1 1 -6 7 1 -8 -4 0 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2005 CHW AL 23 13 7 13 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 5 1 15 0 3 2
2006 CHW AL 24 134 106 134 134 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 134 0 134 0 7 0
2007 CHW AL 25 13 4 13 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 0 8 2 3 2
2008 CHW AL 26 109 39 109 98 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 94 2 99 3 13 20
2009 CHW AL 27 65 50 65 64 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 61 6 67 0 8 1
2009 BOS AL 27 21 4 21 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 11 21 0 2 5
5 Seasons 355 210 355 335 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 303 20 344 5 36 30
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 -- CF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
2005 CHW AL 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 66.7% 1 0 0.0% 0 137 59% 72% 39% 17 41%
2006 CHW AL 24 2 0 2 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 66 39 0 44 13 0 17 5 0 11 1 0 35 24 0 173 82 47.4% 91 0 0.0% 3 4173 61% 78% 42% 567 54%
2007 CHW AL 25 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 1 33.3% 2 0 0.0% 0 103 59% 72% 40% 14 57%
2008 CHW AL 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 13 0 18 6 0 3 1 0 3 2 0 7 5 0 51 27 52.9% 24 0 0.0% 0 1855 61% 77% 38% 210 49%
2009 CHW AL 27 2 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 18 13 1 11 2 0 3 1 0 5 2 0 8 5 0 45 23 51.1% 20 1 2.2% 1 1853 59% 77% 38% 207 53%
2009 BOS AL 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50 54% 72% 48% 4 50%
5 Seasons 5 0 5 0 0 5 2 2 1 0 106 67 1 74 21 0 24 7 0 19 5 0 52 35 0 275 135 49.1% 138 1 0.4% 4 8171 61% 77% 40% 1019 53%
MLB Averages 45.1% 1.8% 58% 76% 40% 52%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
2005 CHW AL 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 55% 93% 28% 3 67%
2008 CHW AL 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 67% 48% 10% 0
2009 BOS AL 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 4 57.1% 3 0 0.0% 0 189 52% 75% 39% 15 27%
2009 CHW AL 27 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 60.0% 2 0 0.0% 1 125 63% 83% 53% 21 52%
3 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 8 5 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 7 58.3% 5 0 0.0% 1 364 57% 78% 41% 39 44%
MLB Averages 47.4% 2.2% 58% 76% 40% 50%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
2005 CHW AL 23 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 4 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 10 6 60.0% 4 0 0.0% 1 186 56% 84% 45% 23 43%
2007 CHW AL 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 50.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 48 69% 77% 48% 3 33%
2008 CHW AL 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 50.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 64 59% 70% 30% 6 50%
2009 BOS AL 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 51 33% 76% 43% 2 0%
4 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 7 7 0 5 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 15 9 60.0% 6 0 0.0% 1 349 55% 79% 42% 34 41%
MLB Averages 64.0% 2.2% 58% 76% 40% 46%

* 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

Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y
2006 AL  2.87 (3rd)

Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
2006 AL  .994 (3rd)
2008 AL  1.000 (1st)

Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y
2006 AL  2.87 (3rd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
2008 AL  1.000 (1st)

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