Shane Costa

Shane Jeremy Costa

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: December 12, 1981 in Visalia, CA
High School: Golden West HS (Visalia, CA)
School: California State University Fullerton (Fullerton, CA)
Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 2nd round of the 2003 amateur draft.
Signed July 17, 2003. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 2, 2005
Team: Royals 2005-2007
Agents: Nick Lampost [*]
Final Game: September 30, 2007
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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
2005	KCR	AL	23	LF	20	18	17	162.0	31	30	1	0	0	1.000	-3	-2	-20	-15	1.72	1.55	.988	2.10	2.08
2005	KCR	AL	23	OF	20	18	17	162.0	31	30	1	0	0	1.000	-3	-2	-20	-14	1.72	1.55	.986	2.30	2.28
2005	KCR	AL	23	DH	4	4
2006	KCR	AL	24	OF	65	57	50	508.0	148	142	0	6	0	.959	-0	-1	-0	-2	2.52	2.18	.986	2.30	2.27
2006	KCR	AL	24	RF	39	34	30	307.0	88	83	0	5	0	.943	-0	1	-2	4	2.43	2.13	.984	2.20	2.17
2006	KCR	AL	24	CF	21	18	15	159.0	50	49	0	1	0	.980	-0	-3	-2	-23	2.77	2.33	.989	2.65	2.61
2006	KCR	AL	24	LF	5	5	5	42.0	10	10	0	0	0	1.000	1	1	17	29	2.14	2.00	.986	2.06	2.02
2006	KCR	AL	24	DH	1	1
2007	KCR	AL	25	OF	27	18	15	171.0	55	54	0	1	0	.982	3	4	22	28	2.84	2.00	.987	2.30	2.28
2007	KCR	AL	25	LF	15	11	9	98.0	32	31	0	1	0	.969	3	1	33	12	2.85	2.07	.985	2.11	2.09
2007	KCR	AL	25	RF	13	7	6	73.0	23	23	0	0	0	1.000	0	3	8	49	2.84	1.77	.985	2.08	2.06
2007	KCR	AL	25	DH	8	3
	3 Seasons			OF	112	93	82	841.0	234	226	1	7	0	.970	0	1	0	1	2.43	2.03	.986	2.30	2.28
	2 Seasons			RF	52	41	36	380.0	111	106	0	5	0	.955	0	4	0	12	2.51	2.04	.984	2.18	2.14
	3 Seasons			LF	40	34	31	302.0	73	71	1	1	0	.986	1	0	2	0	2.15	1.80	.986	2.10	2.08
	1 Season			CF	21	18	15	159.0	50	49	0	1	0	.980	-0	-3	-2	-22	2.77	2.33	.989	2.65	2.61
	3 Seasons			TOT	112	93	82	841.0	234	226	1	7	0	.970	0	2	0	2	2.43	2.03	.986	2.30	2.28

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
2005	KCR	AL	23	LF	-3	-20	-4	-1	-2	1	-2	-15	-2	0
2006	KCR	AL	24	RF	-0	-2	2	1	1	-3	1	4	3	-1
2006	KCR	AL	24	CF	-0	-2	2	4	-2	-2	-3	-23	-2	-1
2006	KCR	AL	24	LF	1	17	1	0	1	0	1	29	1	0
2007	KCR	AL	25	LF	3	33	3	0	2	0	1	12	2	-1
2007	KCR	AL	25	RF	0	8	2	1	1	-1	3	49	3	0
	2 Seasons			RF	0	0	4	2	2	-4	4	12	6	-1
	3 Seasons			LF	1	2	-0	-1	1	1	0	0	1	-1
	1 Season			CF	-0	-2	2	4	-2	-2	-3	-22	-2	-1
	3 Seasons			TOT	0	0	5	5	0	-5	2	2	5	-3

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR
2005	KCR	AL	23	27	22	27	20	20	0	0	20	4	4	0
2006	KCR	AL	24	72	58	72	65	5	21	39	65	1	7	1
2007	KCR	AL	25	55	21	55	27	15	0	13	28	8	25	3
	3 Seasons			154	101	154	112	40	21	52	113	13	36	4

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%
2006	KCR	AL	24	5	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	16	8	0	8	3	0	4	2	0	8	1	0	8	2	0	44	16	36.4%	28	0	0.0%	0	1408	63%	77%	41%	147	56%
2007	KCR	AL	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	1	0	3	2	0	2	0	0	3	1	0	14	4	28.6%	10	0	0.0%	0	313	55%	77%	46%	38	61%
	2 Seasons			5	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	20	8	0	10	4	0	7	4	0	10	1	0	11	3	0	58	20	34.5%	38	0	0.0%	0	1721	61%	77%	42%	185	57%
	MLB Averages																														47.0%			2.2%			59%	77%	40%		49%

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%
2005	KCR	AL	23	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	9	9	0	7	2	0	4	4	0	2	0	0	4	4	0	26	19	73.1%	7	0	0.0%	1	711	57%	80%	40%	80	39%
2006	KCR	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	9	6	66.7%	3	0	0.0%	0	176	53%	80%	39%	24	42%
2007	KCR	AL	25	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	5	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	11	7	63.6%	4	0	0.0%	0	423	57%	79%	46%	57	54%
	3 Seasons			1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	13	13	0	14	3	0	8	8	0	3	0	0	8	8	0	46	32	69.6%	14	0	0.0%	1	1310	57%	80%	42%	161	45%
	MLB Averages																														64.0%			2.3%			59%	77%	40%		46%

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%
2006	KCR	AL	24	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	4	0	7	1	0	3	2	0	2	0	0	8	2	0	29	9	31.0%	20	0	0.0%	0	715	62%	79%	42%	91	54%
	1 Season			1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	4	0	7	1	0	3	2	0	2	0	0	8	2	0	29	9	31.0%	20	0	0.0%	0	715	62%	79%	42%	91	54%
	MLB Averages																														44.7%			1.8%			59%	77%	40%		51%

* 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 RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2006 AL 5 (4th)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
2006 AL 5 (4th)

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