Brennan Boesch

Brennan Philip Boesch

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 235 lb.

Born: April 12, 1985 in Santa Monica, CA
High School: Harvard-Westlake HS (Los Angeles, CA)
Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 3rd round of the 2006 amateur draft.
Signed June 19, 2006. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 23, 2010
Team: Tigers 2010-2012
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$503k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 2.000, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: CAA Sports (Brodie Van Wagenen) [*]
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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
2010	DET	AL	25	OF	118	111	76	937.2	235	216	9	10	2	.957	1	-2	1	-2	2.16	1.91	.986	2.30	2.28	RoY-5
2010	DET	AL	25	RF	79	67	48	587.1	142	130	6	6	1	.958	0	-9	1	-18	2.08	1.72	.984	2.10	2.08	RoY-5
2010	DET	AL	25	LF	44	44	28	350.1	93	86	3	4	1	.957	-0	7	-1	24	2.29	2.02	.983	2.07	2.05	RoY-5
2010	DET	AL	25	DH	14	13																		RoY-5
2011	DET	AL	26	OF	101	99	43	790.2	200	190	7	3	1	.985	-5	4	-8	6	2.24	1.95	.986	2.28	2.26
2011	DET	AL	26	LF	57	54	24	424.0	108	102	4	2	1	.981	-3	5	-9	14	2.25	1.86	.982	2.13	2.11
2011	DET	AL	26	RF	51	45	19	366.2	92	88	3	1	0	.989	-2	-1	-7	-3	2.23	1.78	.986	2.09	2.07
2011	DET	AL	26	DH	11	9
2012	DET	AL	27	OF	45	45	29	367.1	67	65	2	0	1	1.000	-6	-4	-21	-13	1.64	1.49	.988	2.15	2.14
2012	DET	AL	27	RF	45	45	29	367.1	67	65	2	0	1	1.000	-6	-4	-21	-13	1.64	1.49	.989	1.95	1.94
2012	DET	AL	27	DH	3	2
	3 Seasons			OF	264	255	148	2095.2	502	471	18	13	4	.974	-10	-2	-6	-1	2.10	1.85	.986	2.27	2.25
	3 Seasons			RF	175	157	96	1321.1	301	283	11	7	2	.977	-8	-14	-7	-12	2.00	1.68	.986	2.06	2.04
	2 Seasons			LF	101	98	52	774.1	201	188	7	6	2	.970	-3	12	-5	18	2.27	1.93	.982	2.10	2.08
	3 Seasons			TOT	264	255	148	2095.2	502	471	18	13	4	.974	-10	-4	-6	-2	2.10	1.85	.986	2.27	2.25

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rof
2010	DET	AL	25	RF	0	1	-2	4	-6	2	-9	-18	-9	2
2010	DET	AL	25	LF	-0	-1	-0	3	-3	0	7	24	7	0
2011	DET	AL	26	LF	-3	-9	-5	-9	4	2	5	14	1	2
2011	DET	AL	26	RF	-2	-7	1	-1	2	-3	-1	-3	0	-1
2012	DET	AL	27	RF	-6	-21	-6	-3	-3	-0	-4	-13	-6	1
	3 Seasons			RF	-8	-7	-7	1	-7	-1	-14	-12	-15	2
	2 Seasons			LF	-3	-5	-5	-6	0	2	12	18	8	2
	3 Seasons			TOT	-10	-6	-12	-5	-7	2	-4	-2	-7	4

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR
2010	DET	AL	25	133	124	133	118	44	79	123	14	5	2
2011	DET	AL	26	115	108	115	101	57	51	101	11	6	1
2012	DET	AL	27	48	47	48	45	0	45	45	3	1	0
	3 Seasons			296	279	296	264	101	175	269	28	12	3

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 -- 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%
2010	DET	AL	25	6	0	6	0	3	6	0	5	0	1	24	15	0	18	8	1	7	6	0	7	2	0	16	9	1	72	40	55.6%	30	2	2.8%	4	2487	50%	78%	41%	257	53%
2011	DET	AL	26	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	1	1	0	22	8	1	9	3	0	5	2	0	8	2	0	11	2	0	55	17	30.9%	37	1	1.8%	2	1576	47%	76%	40%	178	51%
2012	DET	AL	27	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	18	7	0	10	5	0	7	4	1	5	2	1	8	2	0	48	20	41.7%	26	2	4.2%	0	1550	53%	73%	37%	148	45%
	3 Seasons			7	0	7	0	3	11	0	6	1	3	64	30	1	37	16	1	19	12	1	20	6	1	35	13	1	175	77	44.0%	93	5	2.9%	6	5613	50%	76%	40%	583	50%
	MLB Averages																														46.3%			2.4%			57%	76%	39%		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%
2010	DET	AL	25	4	0	4	0	3	3	1	1	0	1	28	23	0	16	6	1	9	8	0	4	1	0	7	5	0	64	43	67.2%	20	1	1.6%	2	1547	55%	78%	40%	197	45%
2011	DET	AL	26	2	0	1	1	0	4	0	1	1	2	27	24	1	25	8	1	12	10	0	2	0	1	7	7	0	73	49	67.1%	21	3	4.1%	1	1823	51%	79%	41%	227	46%
	2 Seasons			6	0	5	1	3	7	1	2	1	3	55	47	1	41	14	2	21	18	0	6	1	1	14	12	0	137	92	67.2%	41	4	2.9%	3	3370	53%	79%	41%	424	46%
	MLB Averages																														63.7%			2.4%			57%	76%	39%		47%

* 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 LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 AL 4 (3rd)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 AL 6 (2nd)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 2010 AL 10 (1st)	Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2012 AL 1.000 (1st)
Fielding % as OF s c a p y 2012 AL 1.000 (1st)

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