Michael Bourn

Michael Ray Bourn

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: December 27, 1982 in Houston, TX
High School: Nimitz HS (Houston, TX)
School: University of Houston (Houston, TX)
Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 4th round of the 2003 amateur draft.
Signed July 24, 2003. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 30, 2006
Teams (by GP): Astros/Phillies/Braves 2006-2012
2012 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$6.85M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 5.028, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: Scott Boras, previously: SFX [*]
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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
2006	PHI	NL	23	OF	15	0	0	36.1	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	-1	0	-23	0	1.98	0.53	.984	2.23	2.20
2006	PHI	NL	23	RF	14	0	0	34.1	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	-1	0	-21	0	2.10	0.57	.980	2.10	2.09
2006	PHI	NL	23	LF	1	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	0	-60	0	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.00
2007	PHI	NL	24	OF	90	15	6	304.0	76	76	0	0	0	1.000	2	6	10	23	2.25	0.84	.984	2.30	2.29
2007	PHI	NL	24	LF	79	6	4	217.2	52	52	0	0	0	1.000	0	2	2	11	2.15	0.66	.984	2.00	1.99
2007	PHI	NL	24	CF	12	6	1	56.2	16	16	0	0	0	1.000	1	3	30	63	2.54	1.33	.987	2.72	2.70
2007	PHI	NL	24	RF	6	3	1	29.2	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	1	1	28	40	2.43	1.33	.981	2.18	2.17
2008	HOU	NL	25	CF	130	111	108	1009.0	305	291	9	5	2	.984	-12	1	-14	1	2.68	2.31	.990	2.61	2.59
2008	HOU	NL	25	OF	130	111	108	1009.0	305	291	9	5	2	.984	-12	1	-14	1	2.68	2.31	.985	2.21	2.20
2009	HOU	NL	26	CF	154	150	148	1326.0	385	371	11	3	0	.992	-5	11	-5	10	2.59	2.48	.989	2.60	2.57	GG
2009	HOU	NL	26	OF	154	150	148	1326.0	385	371	11	3	0	.992	-5	11	-5	9	2.59	2.48	.986	2.20	2.18	GG
2010	HOU	NL	27	CF	138	133	128	1189.1	370	359	8	3	2	.992	25	30	25	30	2.78	2.66	.989	2.59	2.56	AS,GG
2010	HOU	NL	27	OF	138	133	128	1189.1	370	359	8	3	2	.992	25	30	25	30	2.78	2.66	.987	2.17	2.15	AS,GG
2011	TOT	NL	28	CF	156	154	151	1359.0	376	367	6	3	2	.992	6	-3	5	-2	2.47	2.39	.988	2.55	2.54
2011	TOT	NL	28	OF	156	154	151	1359.0	376	367	6	3	2	.992	6	-3	5	-2	2.47	2.39	.986	2.16	2.15
2011	HOU	NL	28	CF	103	101	99	883.1	261	256	3	2	0	.992	8	-6	10	-8	2.64	2.51	.988	2.55	2.54
2011	HOU	NL	28	OF	103	101	99	883.1	261	256	3	2	0	.992	8	-3	10	-4	2.64	2.51	.986	2.16	2.15
2011	ATL	NL	28	CF	53	53	52	475.2	115	111	3	1	2	.991	-1	3	-4	8	2.16	2.15	.988	2.55	2.54
2011	ATL	NL	28	OF	53	53	52	475.2	115	111	3	1	2	.991	-1	-3	-4	-7	2.16	2.15	.986	2.16	2.15
2012	ATL	NL	29	CF	51	51	51	453.1	131	130	1	0	0	1.000	13	10	36	26	2.60	2.57	.985	2.46	2.44
2012	ATL	NL	29	OF	51	51	51	453.1	131	130	1	0	0	1.000	13	10	36	26	2.60	2.57	.983	2.09	2.07
	7 Seasons			OF	734	614	592	5677.0	1651	1602	35	14	6	.992	30	55	6	11	2.60	2.23	.986	2.18	2.18
	6 Seasons			CF	641	605	587	5393.1	1583	1534	35	14	6	.991	29	52	7	11	2.62	2.45	.989	2.58	2.56
	2 Seasons			LF	80	6	4	219.2	52	52	0	0	0	1.000	0	2	2	10	2.13	0.65	.984	2.00	1.99
	2 Seasons			RF	20	3	1	64.0	16	16	0	0	0	1.000	0	1	2	18	2.25	0.80	.981	2.14	2.11
	7 Seasons			TOT	734	614	592	5677.0	1651	1602	35	14	6	.992	30	110	6	23	2.60	2.23	.986	2.18	2.18
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

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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.
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rof
2006	PHI	NL	23	RF	-1	-21	-1	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0
2006	PHI	NL	23	LF	-0	-60	-0	-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2007	PHI	NL	24	LF	0	2	-1	1	-2	1	2	11	1	1
2007	PHI	NL	24	CF	1	30	1	-1	2	0	3	63	3	0
2007	PHI	NL	24	RF	1	28	1	1	-0	0	1	40	1	0
2008	HOU	NL	25	CF	-12	-14	-12	-15	4	0	1	1	2	-2
2009	HOU	NL	26	CF	-5	-5	-3	2	-5	-2	11	10	7	3
2010	HOU	NL	27	CF	25	25	23	20	3	2	30	30	27	2
2011	HOU	NL	28	CF	8	10	10	8	1	-2	-6	-8	-1	-3
2011	ATL	NL	28	CF	-1	-4	-1	-0	-1	0	3	8	3	0
2012	ATL	NL	29	CF	13	36	14	6	8	-1	10	26	9	0
	6 Seasons			CF	29	7	32	20	12	-3	52	11	50	0
	2 Seasons			LF	0	2	-1	1	-2	1	2	10	1	1
	2 Seasons			RF	0	2	0	1	-1	0	1	18	1	0
	7 Seasons			TOT	36	6	40	31	9	-4	110	23	52	1

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
2006	PHI	NL	23	17	0	17	15	1	0	14	15	2	6
2007	PHI	NL	24	105	15	105	90	79	12	6	97	12	34
2008	HOU	NL	25	138	111	138	130	0	130	0	130	11	3
2009	HOU	NL	26	157	150	157	154	0	154	0	154	2	2
2010	HOU	NL	27	141	133	141	138	0	138	0	138	4	2
2011	HOU	NL	28	105	101	105	103	0	103	0	103	2	1
2011	ATL	NL	28	53	53	53	53	0	53	0	53	0	0
2012	ATL	NL	29	52	51	52	51	0	51	0	51	1	0
	7 Seasons			768	614	768	734	80	641	20	741	34	48

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%
2007	PHI	NL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	5	0	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	6	54.5%	5	0	0.0%	0	251	61%	76%	42%	30	53%
2008	HOU	NL	25	5	0	4	1	2	9	0	1	3	3	62	42	3	45	9	1	13	0	1	18	4	0	25	14	1	163	69	42.3%	88	6	3.7%	3	4382	58%	75%	40%	566	53%
2009	HOU	NL	26	3	0	3	0	2	11	0	1	1	9	87	54	0	62	14	7	18	2	1	27	4	0	38	20	0	232	94	40.5%	130	8	3.4%	3	5778	59%	75%	38%	759	50%
2010	HOU	NL	27	3	0	2	1	0	8	2	2	1	3	66	46	1	51	9	2	9	3	1	12	4	0	33	23	0	171	85	49.7%	81	4	2.3%	4	5091	62%	75%	38%	665	55%
2011	HOU	NL	28	2	0	2	0	1	3	0	0	2	1	43	27	1	26	6	0	18	4	1	11	1	0	26	14	0	124	52	41.9%	70	2	1.6%	1	3863	63%	75%	40%	481	54%
2011	ATL	NL	28	1	0	1	0	1	3	1	0	1	1	31	19	1	25	7	0	5	1	0	10	1	1	11	6	0	82	34	41.5%	46	2	2.4%	1	2032	60%	72%	37%	242	46%
2012	ATL	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	33	20	0	15	4	0	5	1	0	5	0	0	10	6	0	68	31	45.6%	37	0	0.0%	1	1939	56%	74%	36%	250	52%
	6 Seasons			14	0	12	2	6	35	3	5	8	17	328	213	6	228	49	10	69	12	4	83	14	1	143	83	1	851	371	43.6%	457	22	2.6%	13	23336	60%	74%	39%	2993	52%
	MLB Averages																														45.1%			1.8%			58%	76%	40%		52%

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%
2006	PHI	NL	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	7	86%	100%	57%	1	0%
2007	PHI	NL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	0	8	5	0	5	4	0	3	0	0	12	12	0	33	26	78.8%	7	0	0.0%	0	930	61%	75%	38%	109	48%
	2 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	0	8	5	0	5	4	0	3	0	0	12	12	0	33	26	78.8%	7	0	0.0%	0	937	61%	76%	38%	110	47%
	MLB Averages																														63.7%			2.2%			58%	76%	40%		46%

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%
2006	PHI	NL	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	7	4	57.1%	3	0	0.0%	0	152	62%	73%	31%	17	47%
2007	PHI	NL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	140	59%	72%	36%	12	67%
	2 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	8	5	62.5%	3	0	0.0%	0	292	60%	73%	34%	29	55%
	MLB Averages																														47.2%			2.3%			58%	76%	40%		50%

* 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

All-Star Games 2010 *	Gold Gloves 2009 NL (OF) 2010 NL (OF) All multiple winners	Total Zone Runs† s c a p y 2010 NL 25 (1st)	Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2009 NL 154 (2nd) 2011 NL 156 (3rd) 2012 NL 51 (2nd) Active 641 (17th)
Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2009 NL 371 (2nd) 2011 NL 367 (3rd) 2012 NL 130 (1st) Active 1,534 (17th)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2008 NL 9 (2nd) 2009 NL 11 (2nd) 2010 NL 8 (3rd) Active 35 (16th)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2008 NL 5 (3rd) Active 14 (24th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 2011 NL 156 (4th) 2012 NL 51 (2nd)
Putouts as OF s c a p y 2009 NL 371 (3rd) 2011 NL 367 (3rd) 2012 NL 130 (1st)	Assists as OF s c a p y 2009 NL 11 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 NL 25 (1st) 2012 NL 13 (3rd) Active 29 (10th) Career 29 (48th)	Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y 2008 NL 2.68 (5th) 2009 NL 2.59 (4th) 2010 NL 2.78 (4th) 2012 NL 2.60 (5th) Active 2.62 (11th) Career 2.62 (79th)
Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 NL 2.66 (3rd) 2012 NL 2.57 (1st) Active 2.45 (11th)	Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2012 NL 1.000 (1st) Active .991 (10th) Career .991 (21st)	Total Zone Runs as OF s c a p y 2010 NL 25 (1st)	Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y 2008 NL 2.68 (5th) 2009 NL 2.59 (5th) 2010 NL 2.78 (3rd) 2012 NL 2.60 (5th) Active 2.60 (12th) Career 2.60 (65th)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 2010 NL 2.66 (2nd) 2012 NL 2.57 (1st) Active 2.23 (22nd)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 2012 NL 1.000 (1st) Active .992 (12th) Career .992 (23rd)

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