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Ken Aspromonte

Kenneth Joseph Aspromonte

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: September 22, 1931 in Brooklyn, NY
High School: Lafayette HS (Brooklyn, NY)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1950. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 2, 1957
Teams (by GP): Senators/Indians/Angels/Braves/RedSox/... 1957-1963

Final Game: June 21, 1963
Relatives: Brother of Bob Aspromonte
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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 Awards
1957 BOS AL 25 2B 24 23 23 211.2 115 46 65 4 14 .965 -5 -26 4.72 4.63 .980 5.39 5.41
1958 TOT AL 26 2B 78 74 61 634.0 356 152 191 13 52 .963 -11 -21 4.87 4.40 .978 5.26 5.21
1958 BOS AL 26 2B 6 5 5 45.1 21 13 7 1 3 .952 -1 -21 3.97 3.33 .978 5.26 5.22
1958 WSH AL 26 2B 72 69 56 588.2 335 139 184 12 49 .964 -10 -21 4.94 4.49 .978 5.26 5.21
1958 WSH AL 26 3B 11 5 4 62.0 19 6 13 0 1 1.000 -0 -4 2.76 1.73 .951 3.11 3.08
1958 WSH AL 26 SS 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 4.50 1.00 .960 4.95 4.90
1959 WSH AL 27 2B 52 49 43 410.0 248 101 137 10 25 .960 -1 -2 5.22 4.58 .976 5.29 5.25
1959 WSH AL 27 SS 12 9 8 89.0 45 15 27 3 5 .933 -2 -30 4.25 3.50 .959 4.87 4.84
1959 WSH AL 27 1B 1 1 1 9.0 10 10 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -13 10.00 10.00 .990 9.80 9.80
1959 WSH AL 27 LF 1 0 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 30 2.25 1.00 .980 2.02 2.00
1959 WSH AL 27 OF 1 0 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 30 2.25 1.00 .980 2.25 2.20
1960 CLE AL 28 2B 80 78 76 701.2 417 192 215 10 63 .976 6 10 5.22 5.09 .979 5.46 5.45
1960 CLE AL 28 3B 36 35 29 291.0 111 46 53 12 8 .892 -10 -40 3.06 2.75 .952 3.14 3.14
1961 TOT AL 29 2B 83 75 74 688.0 445 185 246 14 63 .969 7 13 5.64 5.19 .978 5.24 5.18
1961 LAA AL 29 2B 62 61 60 537.0 363 156 196 11 55 .970 6 14 5.90 5.68 .978 5.24 5.18
1961 CLE AL 29 2B 21 14 14 151.0 82 29 50 3 8 .963 1 9 4.71 3.76 .978 5.24 5.18
1962 TOT MLB 30 2B 18 14 7 129.2 69 34 35 0 8 1.000 -1 -12 4.79 3.83 .975 5.29 5.24
1962 TOT MLB 30 3B 9 7 7 70.0 31 12 17 2 2 .935 -1 -10 3.73 3.22 .950 2.98 2.97
1962 CLE AL 30 2B 6 3 2 35.0 16 10 6 0 2 1.000 -1 -31 4.11 2.67 .980 5.25 5.23
1962 CLE AL 30 3B 3 2 2 19.0 9 3 5 1 1 .889 0 0 3.79 2.67 .952 3.08 3.07
1962 MLN NL 30 2B 12 11 5 94.2 53 24 29 0 6 1.000 -0 -5 5.04 4.42 .974 5.30 5.25
1962 MLN NL 30 3B 6 5 5 51.0 22 9 12 1 1 .955 -1 -14 3.71 3.50 .949 2.95 2.92
1963 CHC NL 31 2B 7 6 4 58.0 41 14 25 2 4 .951 -0 -2 6.05 5.57 .974 5.21 5.19
1963 CHC NL 31 1B 2 0 0 5.0 6 5 1 0 0 1.000 0 48 10.80 3.00 .988 9.72 9.80
7 Seasons 2B 342 319 288 2833.0 1691 724 914 53 229 .969 -5 -2 5.20 4.79 .978 5.32 5.28
3 Seasons 3B 56 47 40 423.0 161 64 83 14 11 .913 -10 -30 3.13 2.63 .951 3.11 3.10
2 Seasons SS 13 9 8 91.0 46 16 27 3 5 .935 -2 -29 4.25 3.31 .959 4.88 4.85
2 Seasons 1B 3 1 1 14.0 16 15 1 0 0 1.000 0 9 10.29 5.33 .989 9.77 9.80
1 Season OF 1 0 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 30 2.25 1.00 .980 2.25 2.20
1 Season LF 1 0 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 30 2.25 1.00 .980 2.02 2.00
7 Seasons TOT 415 376 337 3365.0 1915 820 1025 70 245 .963 -17 -6 4.93 4.45 .975 5.04 5.00
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/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
1957 BOS AL 25 2B -5 -26 -5 -3 -2 0
1958 BOS AL 26 2B -1 -21 -1 -1 -0 0
1958 WSH AL 26 2B -10 -21 -8 -4 -4 -2
1958 WSH AL 26 3B -0 -4 -0 0 -0 0
1958 WSH AL 26 SS 0 0 0 0 0 0
1959 WSH AL 27 2B -1 -2 1 -2 3 -2
1959 WSH AL 27 SS -2 -30 -2 -2 -1 0
1959 WSH AL 27 1B -0 -13 -0 -0 0 0
1959 WSH AL 27 LF 0 30 0 0 0 0
1960 CLE AL 28 2B 6 10 4 4 -1 2
1960 CLE AL 28 3B -10 -40 -10 -4 -5 0
1961 LAA AL 29 2B 6 14 5 3 2 1
1961 CLE AL 29 2B 1 9 1 -0 2 0
1962 CLE AL 30 2B -1 -31 -1 -0 -1 0
1962 CLE AL 30 3B 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1962 MLN NL 30 2B -0 -5 -0 -1 0 0
1962 MLN NL 30 3B -1 -14 -1 0 -1 0
1963 CHC NL 31 2B -0 -2 1 1 -0 -1
1963 CHC NL 31 1B 0 48 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 2B -5 -2 -3 -2 -0 -2
3 Seasons 3B -10 -30 -10 -4 -6 0
2 Seasons SS -2 -29 -2 -2 -1 0
2 Seasons 1B 0 9 0 0 0 0
1 Season LF 0 30 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons TOT -17 -6 -15 -7 -7 -2 0
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1957 BOS AL 25 24 23 24 24 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1958 WSH AL 26 92 74 92 82 0 0 0 71 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 1
1958 BOS AL 26 6 5 6 6 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1959 WSH AL 27 70 59 70 65 0 0 1 52 0 12 1 0 0 1 0 5 2
1960 CLE AL 28 117 113 117 113 0 0 0 82 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1960 WSH AL 28 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1961 LAA AL 29 66 61 66 62 0 0 0 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1961 CLE AL 29 22 14 22 21 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1962 MLN NL 30 34 16 34 18 0 0 0 12 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0
1962 CLE AL 30 20 5 20 9 0 0 0 6 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 2
1963 CHC NL 31 20 6 20 9 0 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
7 Seasons 475 376 475 409 0 0 3 343 56 13 1 0 0 1 0 66 6
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 -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1957 BOS AL 25 935 61% 78% 30% 77 92% 1 47 19 20 8 62 48 12 0 2 4 0 3 1 3 14 6 2 5 0 13 5 8 0 0 0
1958 WSH AL 26 2586 61% 82% 27% 220 90% 0 138 48 67 23 179 151 23 0 3 12 1 11 0 9 48 17 7 9 2 40 14 26 5 2 3
1958 BOS AL 26 187 67% 80% 27% 11 100% 0 13 6 5 2 7 5 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 0 3 1 2 0 0 0
1959 WSH AL 27 1766 65% 82% 31% 178 92% 2 101 42 45 16 137 112 20 1 3 10 3 6 1 6 25 5 4 9 3 23 12 11 1 0 1
1960 CLE AL 28 3037 65% 79% 25% 268 91% 1 190 68 97 25 219 180 33 1 2 10 1 6 3 6 63 26 12 16 3 60 20 39 2 1 1
1961 LAA AL 29 2359 65% 75% 28% 217 91% 0 157 49 81 27 191 153 32 0 2 11 0 8 3 9 55 24 10 13 1 51 15 35 4 3 1
1961 CLE AL 29 658 55% 81% 23% 57 96% 0 30 11 14 5 49 40 8 0 1 3 1 1 1 1 9 3 0 4 0 7 4 3 2 0 1
1962 MLN NL 30 410 67% 84% 24% 38 92% 1 24 11 8 5 29 27 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 1 2 0 6 2 4 0 0 0
1962 CLE AL 30 149 64% 81% 19% 9 100% 0 10 4 4 2 6 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1963 CHC NL 31 230 63% 81% 35% 29 86% 0 14 3 5 6 25 20 3 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
7 Seasons 12317 63% 80% 27% 1104 92% 5 724 261 346 119 904 740 137 2 15 53 7 36 10 36 229 87 37 60 9 206 74 130 14 6 7
MLB Averages 63% 80% 28% 93%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1958 WSH AL 26 272 74% 79% 25% 24 92% 0 8 7 1 0 15 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0
1960 CLE AL 28 1262 68% 83% 24% 109 80% 2 46 41 1 4 50 34 11 1 3 12 0 9 3 10 8 3 0 5 2 1 1 7 43%
1962 MLN NL 30 228 69% 83% 30% 24 83% 0 8 8 0 0 12 9 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1962 CLE AL 30 83 72% 81% 24% 9 89% 0 3 3 0 0 5 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 1845 70% 82% 25% 166 83% 2 65 59 2 4 82 57 20 1 3 14 0 11 3 11 12 5 1 9 2 1 1 7 43%
MLB Averages 63% 80% 28% 89% 59%

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1958 WSH AL 26 9 78% 67% 11% 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
1959 WSH AL 27 401 60% 81% 30% 39 90% 0 15 9 5 2 29 24 5 0 0 3 1 2 0 2 5 1 1 2 1 0 5 2 3 0 0 0
2 Seasons 410 60% 81% 30% 39 90% 0 15 9 5 2 29 24 5 0 0 3 1 2 0 2 5 1 1 2 1 0 5 2 3 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 80% 28% 91%

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%
1959 WSH AL 27 39 79% 82% 28% 1 100% 0 10 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1963 CHC NL 31 23 52% 74% 26% 1 100% 0 5 0 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 62 69% 79% 27% 2 100% 0 15 1 14 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 80% 28% 94% 85%

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%
1959 WSH 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 17 47% 76% 29% 1 100%
1 Season 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 17 47% 76% 29% 1 100%
MLB Averages 58.2% 2.5% 63% 80% 29% 48%

* 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

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1958 AL  13 (2nd)
1959 AL  10 (4th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1960 AL  12 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1960 AL  6 (5th)
1961 AL  7 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1961 AL  5.64 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1961 AL  5.19 (4th)

                                         

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