Jay Bruce

Jay Allen Bruce (twitter: @JayABruce)

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 225 lb.

Born: April 3, 1987 in Beaumont, TX
High School: West Brook HS (Beaumont, TX)
Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 1st round (12th pick) of the 2005 amateur draft.
Signed June 10, 2005. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 27, 2008
Team: Reds 2008-2012
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2016, 6 yrs/$51M (11-16) & 17 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 3.125, Free Agent: 2017 [*], Agents: Matt Sosnick [*]
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All-Star

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
2008	CIN	NL	21	OF	105	103	81	916.0	242	223	8	11	4	.955	-11	1	-14	1	2.27	2.20	.985	2.21	2.20	RoY-5
2008	CIN	NL	21	RF	78	64	61	590.0	157	143	5	9	3	.943	-7	-2	-15	-4	2.26	1.90	.982	2.12	2.11	RoY-5
2008	CIN	NL	21	CF	35	35	17	285.0	82	77	3	2	1	.976	-2	6	-9	25	2.53	2.29	.990	2.61	2.59	RoY-5
2008	CIN	NL	21	LF	11	4	3	41.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-3	-35	-88	0.66	0.27	.983	1.91	1.89	RoY-5
2009	CIN	NL	22	OF	98	89	87	810.1	213	200	11	2	2	.991	3	5	4	7	2.34	2.15	.986	2.20	2.18
2009	CIN	NL	22	RF	98	89	87	810.1	213	200	11	2	2	.991	3	5	4	7	2.34	2.15	.986	2.08	2.06
2010	CIN	NL	23	OF	146	133	126	1199.1	353	343	7	3	1	.992	18	17	18	17	2.63	2.40	.987	2.17	2.15
2010	CIN	NL	23	RF	146	133	126	1199.1	353	343	7	3	1	.992	18	17	18	17	2.63	2.40	.986	2.10	2.07
2011	CIN	NL	24	OF	155	151	148	1371.0	320	306	10	4	1	.988	-11	-2	-9	-1	2.07	2.04	.986	2.16	2.15	AS
2011	CIN	NL	24	RF	155	151	148	1371.0	320	306	10	4	1	.988	-11	-2	-9	-2	2.07	2.04	.983	2.05	2.04	AS
2012	CIN	NL	25	OF	48	47	45	420.1	116	112	3	1	1	.991	4	3	11	8	2.46	2.40	.983	2.09	2.07
2012	CIN	NL	25	RF	48	47	45	420.1	116	112	3	1	1	.991	4	3	11	9	2.46	2.40	.979	1.96	1.95
	5 Seasons			OF	552	523	487	4717.0	1244	1184	39	21	9	.983	3	24	1	6	2.33	2.22	.986	2.17	2.16
	5 Seasons			RF	525	484	467	4391.0	1159	1104	36	19	8	.984	6	21	2	5	2.34	2.17	.984	2.07	2.05
	1 Season			CF	35	35	17	285.0	82	77	3	2	1	.976	-2	6	-9	25	2.53	2.29	.990	2.61	2.59
	1 Season			LF	11	4	3	41.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-3	-35	-87	0.66	0.27	.983	1.91	1.89
	5 Seasons			TOT	552	523	487	4717.0	1244	1184	39	21	9	.983	3	48	1	12	2.33	2.22	.986	2.17	2.16

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	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rof
2008	CIN	NL	21	RF	-7	-15	-8	-4	-4	1	-2	-4	-2	1
2008	CIN	NL	21	CF	-2	-9	-3	-2	-2	1	6	25	3	3
2008	CIN	NL	21	LF	-1	-35	-0	-1	0	-1	-3	-88	-2	-1
2009	CIN	NL	22	RF	3	4	-1	-2	0	4	5	7	-2	5
2010	CIN	NL	23	RF	18	18	16	12	4	2	17	17	18	-2
2011	CIN	NL	24	RF	-11	-9	-12	-3	-9	1	-2	-2	0	-2
2012	CIN	NL	25	RF	4	11	6	2	4	-2	3	9	3	-1
	5 Seasons			RF	6	2	0	6	-6	6	21	5	17	1
	1 Season			CF	-2	-9	-3	-2	-2	1	6	25	3	3
	1 Season			LF	-1	-35	-0	-1	0	-1	-3	-87	-2	-1
	5 Seasons			TOT	3	1	-3	3	-7	6	48	12	18	3

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
2008	CIN	NL	21	108	103	108	105	11	35	78	124	4	1
2009	CIN	NL	22	101	89	101	98	0	0	98	98	4	1
2010	CIN	NL	23	148	133	148	146	0	0	146	146	9	0
2011	CIN	NL	24	157	151	157	155	0	0	155	155	4	0
2012	CIN	NL	25	48	47	48	48	0	0	48	48	1	0
	5 Seasons			562	523	562	552	11	35	525	571	22	2

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%
2008	CIN	NL	21	9	0	6	3	4	5	2	2	0	1	32	18	0	16	6	0	12	8	0	8	3	1	17	9	0	85	44	51.8%	40	1	1.2%	4	2581	57%	76%	40%	278	52%
2009	CIN	NL	22	2	0	2	0	0	11	1	4	0	5	56	32	1	29	11	4	15	8	0	6	1	1	20	13	0	126	65	51.6%	56	6	4.8%	5	3468	54%	75%	41%	397	53%
2010	CIN	NL	23	3	0	3	0	1	7	1	4	0	1	64	33	0	27	10	2	25	13	0	10	3	0	28	22	0	154	81	52.6%	71	2	1.3%	5	5128	60%	75%	40%	635	55%
2011	CIN	NL	24	4	0	4	0	1	10	0	3	3	2	71	37	2	39	14	1	30	16	1	12	2	0	29	17	1	181	86	47.5%	90	5	2.8%	5	5847	60%	76%	38%	626	50%
2012	CIN	NL	25	1	0	1	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	19	7	0	11	3	0	8	3	0	6	1	0	13	8	0	57	22	38.6%	35	0	0.0%	3	1756	52%	74%	41%	208	55%
	5 Seasons			19	0	16	3	6	36	5	15	3	9	242	127	3	122	44	7	90	48	1	42	10	2	107	69	1	603	298	49.4%	292	14	2.3%	22	18780	58%	75%	40%	2144	53%
	MLB Averages																														47.2%			2.3%			57%	76%	39%		50%

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%
2008	CIN	NL	21	2	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	0	2	17	11	0	15	5	1	4	1	1	6	1	0	11	8	0	53	26	49.1%	25	2	3.8%	1	1266	57%	74%	40%	152	52%
	1 Season			2	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	0	2	17	11	0	15	5	1	4	1	1	6	1	0	11	8	0	53	26	49.1%	25	2	3.8%	1	1266	57%	74%	40%	152	52%
	MLB Averages																														45.6%			1.8%			57%	76%	39%		53%

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%
2008	CIN	NL	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	50.0%	3	0	0.0%	0	178	61%	72%	40%	15	20%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	50.0%	3	0	0.0%	0	178	61%	72%	40%	15	20%
	MLB Averages																														63.8%			2.2%			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

All-Star Games 2011 *	Total Zone Runs† s c a p y 2010 NL 18 (4th)	Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 NL 146 (2nd) 2011 NL 155 (2nd) 2012 NL 48 (2nd) Active 525 (18th)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 NL 343 (1st) 2011 NL 306 (2nd) 2012 NL 112 (1st) Active 1,104 (18th)
Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2009 NL 11 (2nd) 2010 NL 7 (5th) 2011 NL 10 (2nd) 2012 NL 3 (2nd) Active 36 (16th)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2008 NL 9 (2nd) Active 19 (14th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 2011 NL 155 (5th)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 2012 NL 112 (4th)
Assists as OF s c a p y 2009 NL 11 (5th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 2008 NL 11 (1st)	Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 NL 18 (1st)	Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y 2009 NL 2.34 (2nd) 2010 NL 2.63 (1st) 2012 NL 2.46 (1st) Active 2.34 (3rd) Career 2.34 (10th)
Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2009 NL 2.15 (3rd) 2010 NL 2.40 (1st) 2011 NL 2.04 (4th) 2012 NL 2.40 (1st) Active 2.17 (4th) Career 2.17 (17th)	Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2009 NL .991 (5th) 2011 NL .988 (5th) 2012 NL .991 (5th) Active .984 (12th) Career .984 (51st)	Total Zone Runs as OF s c a p y 2010 NL 18 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 2012 NL 2.40 (5th)
Youngest s c a p y 2008 NL born 1987-04-03 (5th) 2009 NL born 1987-04-03 (10th)

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