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Gordon Beckham

James Gordon Beckham (twitter: @gordonbeckham)

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: September 16, 1986 in Atlanta, GA
High School: Westminster HS (Atlanta, GA)
School: University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 1st round (8th pick) of the 2008 amateur draft.
Signed August 13, 2008. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 4, 2009
Team: WhiteSox 2009-2012
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$520k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 2.123, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2016 [*],
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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
2009 CHW AL 22 3B 102 102 97 885.0 292 73 205 14 21 .952 -10 -1 -13 -1 2.83 2.73 .957 2.68 2.65 RoY-5
2010 CHW AL 23 2B 126 125 122 1111.1 632 245 375 12 100 .981 -11 -7 -12 -8 5.02 4.92 .984 4.80 4.75
2010 CHW AL 23 DH 4 1
2011 CHW AL 24 2B 149 147 141 1307.2 723 272 443 8 84 .989 5 3 4 3 4.92 4.80 .984 4.76 4.73
2011 CHW AL 24 DH 1 0
2012 CHW AL 25 2B 47 47 46 415.1 214 92 119 3 31 .986 -2 -5 -6 -14 4.57 4.49 .982 4.59 4.57
2012 CHW AL 25 DH 1 0
3 Seasons 2B 322 319 309 2834.1 1569 609 937 23 215 .985 -8 -9 -3 -3 4.91 4.80 .984 4.75 4.71
1 Season 3B 102 102 97 885.0 292 73 205 14 21 .952 -10 -1 -13 -1 2.83 2.73 .957 2.68 2.65
4 Seasons TOT 424 421 406 3719.1 1861 682 1142 37 236 .980 -18 -10 -6 -3 4.41 4.30 .980 4.26 4.22
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
2009 CHW AL 22 3B -10 -13 -10 -8 -2 0 -1 -1 -2 1 1
2010 CHW AL 23 2B -11 -12 -15 -8 -7 4 -7 -8 -9 1
2011 CHW AL 24 2B 5 4 4 2 2 1 3 3 4 0
2012 CHW AL 25 2B -2 -6 -3 -2 -2 1 -5 -14 -5 0
3 Seasons 2B -8 -3 -14 -8 -7 6 -9 -3 -10 1
1 Season 3B -10 -13 -10 -8 -2 0 -1 -1 -2 1 1
4 Seasons TOT -18 -6 -24 -16 -9 6 -10 -3 -12 2 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2009 CHW AL 22 103 102 103 102 0 0 0 0 102 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2010 CHW AL 23 131 126 131 126 0 0 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4
2011 CHW AL 24 150 147 150 149 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
2012 CHW AL 25 49 47 49 47 0 0 0 47 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
4 Seasons 433 422 433 424 0 0 0 322 102 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 8
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
2010 CHW AL 23 4729 55% 76% 32% 441 90% 6 245 100 123 22 375 303 56 2 7 12 0 6 6 7 100 32 23 33 0 94 34 59 5 2 2
2011 CHW AL 24 5512 53% 76% 32% 530 93% 1 272 114 118 42 443 385 48 0 2 8 2 4 2 5 83 36 10 25 2 79 29 49 4 3 0
2012 CHW AL 25 1737 51% 74% 29% 157 94% 1 92 46 40 6 119 103 15 0 3 3 0 2 1 2 31 13 5 11 1 30 12 18 0 0 0
3 Seasons 11978 54% 76% 31% 1128 92% 8 609 260 281 70 937 791 119 2 12 23 2 12 9 14 214 81 38 69 3 203 75 126 9 5 2
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 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%
2009 CHW AL 22 3744 60% 78% 32% 296 90% 2 73 65 4 4 204 160 40 2 2 14 1 8 5 9 21 18 2 21 0 0 0 14 64%
1 Season 3744 60% 78% 32% 296 90% 2 73 65 4 4 204 160 40 2 2 14 1 8 5 9 21 18 2 21 0 0 0 14 64%
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 86% 65%

* 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

Assists† s c a p y
2011 AL  443 (4th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
2010 AL  126 (5th)
2011 AL  149 (3rd)
2012 AL  47 (4th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
2010 AL  245 (5th)
2011 AL  272 (3rd)
2012 AL  92 (1st)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
2010 AL  375 (4th)
2011 AL  443 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
2010 AL  12 (2nd)
2011 AL  8 (5th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
2009 AL  14 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
2010 AL  5.02 (3rd)
2011 AL  4.92 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
2010 AL  4.92 (3rd)
2011 AL  4.80 (2nd)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
2011 AL  .989 (4th)

                                         

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