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Ray Boone

Raymond Otis Boone (Ike)

Positions: Third Baseman, Shortstop and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 172 lb.

Born: July 27, 1923 in San Diego, CA
High School: Herbert Hoover HS (San Diego, CA)
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1942. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 3, 1948 (Age 25)
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Indians/WhiteSox/Athletics/RedSox/... 1948-1960

Final Game: August 11, 1960 (Age 37)
Died: October 17, 2004 in San Diego, CA
Buried: El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego, CA
Relatives: Father of Bob Boone, Grandfather of Aaron Boone and Grandfather of Bret Boone
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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
1948 CLE AL 24 SS 4 0 0 9 3 5 1 0 .889 2.00 .964 5.18
1949 CLE AL 25 SS 76 68 64 393 162 210 21 58 .947 4.89 .963 5.17
1950 CLE AL 26 SS 102 94 94 863.1 471 178 267 26 64 .945 4.64 4.36 .961 5.05 4.96
1951 CLE AL 27 SS 151 149 139 1317.1 769 311 425 33 108 .957 5.03 4.87 .961 5.20 5.17
1952 CLE AL 28 SS 96 90 77 787.0 455 177 251 27 55 .941 4.89 4.46 .962 4.94 4.94
1952 CLE AL 28 3B 2 2 2 18.0 5 2 2 1 2 .800 2.00 2.00 .952 3.30 3.30
1952 CLE AL 28 2B 1 0 0 5.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 3.60 2.00 .980 5.58 5.60
1953 TOT AL 29 SS 34 33 33 294.0 179 68 102 9 26 .950 2 8 5.20 5.00 .966 5.11 5.08 MVP-8
1953 CLE AL 29 SS 31 30 30 269.0 166 64 94 8 24 .952 3 13 5.29 5.10 .966 5.11 5.08
1953 DET AL 29 3B 97 97 87 835.1 336 111 211 14 32 .958 -4 -6 3.47 3.32 .957 3.38 3.36 MVP-8
1953 DET AL 29 SS 3 3 3 25.0 13 4 8 1 2 .923 -1 -48 4.32 4.00 .966 5.11 5.07
1954 DET AL 30 3B 148 148 132 1272.1 521 170 332 19 22 .964 3 3 3.55 3.39 .959 3.48 3.46 AS,MVP-26
1954 DET AL 30 SS 1 0 0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 0.00 0.00 4.95 5.00 AS,MVP-26
1955 DET AL 31 3B 126 126 121 1107.1 406 135 252 19 33 .953 3 3 3.15 3.07 .950 3.17 3.14 MVP-16
1956 DET AL 32 3B 130 130 122 1127.1 411 151 243 17 23 .959 -12 -12 3.15 3.03 .949 3.22 3.19 AS
1957 DET AL 33 1B 117 117 103 1035.1 1027 972 45 10 103 .990 -6 -7 8.84 8.69 .992 9.67 9.70
1957 DET AL 33 3B 4 4 3 35.0 19 5 12 2 0 .895 0 14 4.37 4.25 .951 3.24 3.25
1958 TOT AL 34 1B 95 92 74 778.1 807 747 49 11 71 .986 -1 -1 9.20 8.38 .991 9.60 9.50
1958 DET AL 34 1B 32 32 24 254.0 254 236 15 3 26 .988 -2 -9 8.89 7.84 .991 9.60 9.50
1958 CHW AL 34 1B 63 60 50 524.1 553 511 34 8 45 .986 1 3 9.35 8.65 .991 9.60 9.50
1959 TOT MLB 35 1B 47 38 19 323.0 367 331 29 7 26 .981 0 1 10.03 7.66 .990 9.82 9.75
1959 TOT AL 35 1B 44 35 18 302.0 347 312 28 7 22 .980 -0 -2 10.13 7.73 .990 9.84 9.77
1959 CHW AL 35 1B 6 5 3 49.0 44 37 5 2 2 .955 -1 -24 7.71 7.00 .990 9.84 9.77
1959 KCA AL 35 1B 38 30 15 253.0 303 275 23 5 20 .983 1 3 10.60 7.84 .990 9.84 9.77
1959 KCA AL 35 3B 3 1 1 12.0 8 2 6 0 0 1.000 1 60 6.00 2.67 .952 3.22 3.20
1959 MLN NL 35 1B 3 3 1 21.0 20 19 1 0 4 1.000 1 40 8.57 6.67 .988 9.60 9.47
1960 TOT MLB 36 1B 26 23 15 186.0 214 199 14 1 22 .995 2 11 10.31 8.19 .991 9.58 9.56
1960 MLN NL 36 1B 4 4 2 31.0 36 33 3 0 3 1.000 1 46 10.45 9.00 .990 9.58 9.55
1960 BOS AL 36 1B 22 19 13 155.0 178 166 11 1 19 .994 0 4 10.28 8.05 .991 9.58 9.56
7 Seasons 3B 510 508 468 4407.1 1706 576 1058 72 112 .958 -9 -2 3.34 3.20 .954 3.31 3.29
7 Seasons SS 464 434 407 3265.2 2276 899 1260 117 311 .949 2 1 4.90 4.65 .962 5.09 5.07
4 Seasons 1B 285 270 211 2322.2 2415 2249 137 29 222 .988 -5 -3 9.25 8.37 .991 9.66 9.63
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 5.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 3.60 2.00 .980 5.58 5.60
13 Seasons TOT 1260 1212 1086 10000.2 6399 3725 2456 218 645 .966 -12 -1 5.22 4.91 .971 5.37 5.38
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1948 CLE AL 24 SS
1949 CLE AL 25 SS
1950 CLE AL 26 SS
1951 CLE AL 27 SS
1952 CLE AL 28 SS
1952 CLE AL 28 3B
1952 CLE AL 28 2B
1953 CLE AL 29 SS 3 13 2 2 0 1
1953 DET AL 29 3B -4 -6 -5 -2 -3 1
1953 DET AL 29 SS -1 -48 -1 0 -1 0
1954 DET AL 30 3B 3 3 3 -1 4 0
1954 DET AL 30 SS 0 30 0 0 0 0
1955 DET AL 31 3B 3 3 -0 -0 0 3
1956 DET AL 32 3B -12 -12 -11 -8 -2 -1
1957 DET AL 33 1B -6 -7 -6 -3 -3 0
1957 DET AL 33 3B 0 14 0 1 -0 0
1958 DET AL 34 1B -2 -9 -2 -1 -0 0
1958 CHW AL 34 1B 1 3 2 1 1 -1
1959 CHW AL 35 1B -1 -24 -1 -1 -0 0
1959 KCA AL 35 1B 1 3 1 1 -0 0
1959 KCA AL 35 3B 1 60 1 1 0 0
1959 MLN NL 35 1B 1 40 1 0 1 0
1960 MLN NL 36 1B 1 46 1 0 1 0
1960 BOS AL 36 1B 0 4 0 -1 1 0
7 Seasons 3B -9 -2 -12 -10 -2 3
7 Seasons SS 2 1 1 2 -1 1
4 Seasons 1B -5 -3 -4 -4 0 -1
1 Season 2B
13 Seasons TOT -12 -1 -15 -12 -2 3
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
1948 CLE AL 24 6 0 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1949 CLE AL 25 86 68 86 76 0 0 0 0 0 76 0 0 0 0 0 12 3
1950 CLE AL 26 109 94 109 103 0 0 0 0 0 103 0 0 0 0 0 6 2
1951 CLE AL 27 151 149 151 151 0 0 0 0 0 151 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1952 CLE AL 28 103 92 103 99 0 0 0 1 2 96 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1953 DET AL 29 101 100 101 100 0 0 0 0 97 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1953 CLE AL 29 34 30 34 31 0 0 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1954 DET AL 30 148 148 148 148 0 0 0 0 148 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1955 DET AL 31 135 126 135 126 0 0 0 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1956 DET AL 32 131 130 131 130 0 0 0 0 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1957 DET AL 33 129 121 129 121 0 0 117 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0
1958 CHW AL 34 77 60 77 63 0 0 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
1958 DET AL 34 39 32 39 32 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1959 KCA AL 35 61 31 61 41 0 0 38 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 0
1959 MLN NL 35 13 3 13 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1959 CHW AL 35 9 5 9 6 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1960 BOS AL 36 34 19 34 22 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0
1960 MLN NL 36 7 4 7 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
13 Seasons 1373 1212 1373 1260 0 0 285 1 510 465 0 0 0 0 0 130 6
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

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%
1952 CLE AL 28 76 66% 79% 24% 4 75% 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0
1953 DET AL 29 3741 64% 82% 23% 334 89% 4 109 86 10 13 208 152 49 2 4 14 0 10 4 9 31 26 0 28 2 2 0 29 55%
1954 DET AL 30 5459 65% 82% 26% 506 91% 9 166 117 15 34 331 267 54 4 18 19 1 14 4 17 23 18 0 18 1 0 1 34 68%
1955 DET AL 31 4755 62% 82% 26% 393 90% 0 133 106 10 17 249 193 53 0 12 19 1 13 5 15 33 28 2 31 2 2 0 15 47%
1956 DET AL 32 4990 64% 78% 23% 385 91% 2 147 115 16 16 232 181 43 2 13 17 0 15 2 16 23 17 2 20 2 2 0 21 67%
1957 DET AL 33 157 68% 78% 24% 20 80% 0 5 4 0 1 12 8 3 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1959 KCA AL 35 52 85% 83% 23% 7 100% 0 2 2 0 0 5 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 19230 64% 81% 25% 1649 90% 15 562 430 51 81 1041 806 205 8 47 72 2 55 15 60 112 91 4 99 7 6 1 99 61%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 89% 65%

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
1948 CLE AL 24 34 50% 82% 32% 6 83% 0 3 2 1 0 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1949 CLE AL 25 2633 54% 79% 29% 280 89% 2 161 75 71 16 204 163 34 0 5 21 2 19 0 16 57 18 5 18 5 4 51 23 28 3 1 1
1950 CLE AL 26 3717 58% 79% 24% 358 87% 1 177 85 78 14 268 202 56 2 2 26 1 25 0 22 66 20 6 21 9 2 59 27 32 5 4 0
1951 CLE AL 27 5617 53% 81% 27% 604 89% 7 311 163 119 28 428 316 98 0 2 33 1 32 0 28 108 38 9 34 12 4 101 47 51 4 2 2
1952 CLE AL 28 3337 54% 82% 27% 349 87% 2 174 84 71 20 252 189 52 0 2 27 1 23 3 21 55 18 10 11 4 6 51 28 23 1 1 0
1953 CLE AL 29 1165 61% 82% 30% 124 91% 0 63 28 30 6 96 67 27 0 1 8 2 6 0 3 24 9 1 7 1 4 23 10 12 1 1 0
1953 DET AL 29 108 57% 82% 24% 9 78% 0 4 1 1 2 8 3 4 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1954 DET AL 30 21 67% 71% 14% 2 100% 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 16632 55% 81% 27% 1732 88% 12 894 439 371 86 1260 943 272 2 14 117 7 107 3 92 312 104 31 92 31 20 287 136 147 14 9 3
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 90%

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%
1957 DET AL 33 4331 64% 80% 25% 218 96% 0 975 92 871 13 74 47 33 10 0 6 10 1 6 3 8 103 2 0 1 93 3 10 4 6 14 93%
1958 CHW AL 34 2214 66% 80% 26% 127 93% 2 517 26 484 8 62 32 22 5 0 1 8 2 5 1 4 45 0 0 0 40 0 5 3 2 13 92%
1958 DET AL 34 1088 66% 79% 26% 48 96% 0 236 11 225 0 23 12 9 3 0 1 3 1 2 0 1 26 1 0 0 26 1 0 0 0 3 100%
1959 KCA AL 35 1074 64% 81% 30% 66 92% 1 265 20 242 4 25 20 15 1 0 2 5 2 2 1 3 20 0 0 0 18 0 2 1 1 7 86%
1959 CHW AL 35 210 72% 80% 23% 12 83% 0 37 2 35 0 3 5 4 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 100%
1959 MLN NL 35 90 60% 78% 24% 6 100% 0 19 2 17 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
1960 BOS AL 36 726 68% 82% 26% 39 90% 2 165 13 150 1 12 11 7 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 19 0 0 0 17 1 2 1 1 2 50%
1960 MLN NL 36 127 43% 81% 29% 11 100% 0 31 2 28 1 6 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 100%
4 Seasons 9860 65% 80% 26% 527 94% 5 2245 168 2052 27 208 131 94 22 1 10 29 6 18 5 19 222 3 0 1 203 5 19 9 10 43 91%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 93% 86%

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
1952 CLE AL 28 21 62% 86% 14% 2 100% 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 21 62% 86% 14% 2 100% 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 63% 81% 27% 93%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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

All-Star Games
1954 (3B)
1956 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1953 AL (8, 18%)
1954 AL (26, 0%)
1955 AL (16, 5%)
0.23 Career Shares (699th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1957 AL  977 (5th)

Assists† s c a p y
1951 AL  425 (5th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1951 AL  33 (1st)
1952 AL  28 (1st)
1953 AL  23 (4th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1957 AL  117 (3rd)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1957 AL  972 (4th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1957 AL  10 (2nd)
1958 AL  11 (2nd)
1959 AL  7 (5th)

Double Plays Turned as 1B s c a p y
1957 AL  103 (4th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1954 AL  148 (2nd)
1955 AL  126 (2nd)
1956 AL  130 (3rd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1954 AL  170 (1st)
1955 AL  135 (2nd)
1956 AL  151 (3rd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1953 AL  211 (5th)
1954 AL  332 (2nd)
1955 AL  252 (2nd)
1956 AL  243 (4th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1953 AL  14 (5th)
1954 AL  19 (2nd)
1955 AL  19 (3rd)

Double Plays Turned as 3B s c a p y
1953 AL  32 (3rd)
1954 AL  22 (4th)
1955 AL  33 (2nd)
1956 AL  23 (3rd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1951 AL  151 (1st)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1951 AL  311 (3rd)
1952 AL  177 (5th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1951 AL  425 (2nd)
1952 AL  251 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1951 AL  33 (1st)
1952 AL  27 (2nd)

Double Plays Turned as SS s c a p y
1951 AL  108 (3rd)
1952 AL  55 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1957 AL  8.84 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1957 AL  8.69 (3rd)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1957 AL  .990 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1955 AL  3 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1953 AL  3.47 (3rd)
1954 AL  3.55 (3rd)
1955 AL  3.15 (5th)
1956 AL  3.15 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1953 AL  3.32 (3rd)
1954 AL  3.39 (2nd)
1955 AL  3.07 (3rd)
1956 AL  3.03 (4th)
Career  3.20 (47th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1954 AL  .964 (4th)
1955 AL  .953 (5th)
1956 AL  .959 (3rd)
Career  .958 (77th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1951 AL  5.03 (5th)
1952 AL  4.89 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1951 AL  4.87 (5th)
1952 AL  4.46 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1951 AL  .957 (5th)

                                         

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