Julio Cruz

Julio Louis Cruz

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: December 2, 1954 in Brooklyn, NY
Signed by the California Angels as an amateur free agent in 1974. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 4, 1977
Teams (by GP): Mariners/WhiteSox 1977-1986
Agents: Brian David [*]
Final Game: August 31, 1986
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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
1977	SEA	AL	22	2B	54	52	51	465.2	290	114	171	5	29	.983	4	10	5.51	5.28	.978	5.42	5.38
1977	SEA	AL	22	DH	3	0
1978	SEA	AL	23	2B	141	136	131	1188.0	768	286	472	10	101	.987	7	7	5.74	5.38	.980	5.47	5.42
1978	SEA	AL	23	SS	5	3	2	30.0	20	9	10	1	3	.950	-2	-72	5.70	3.80	.964	4.92	4.88
1978	SEA	AL	23	DH	1	0
1979	SEA	AL	24	2B	107	107	98	933.2	632	258	361	13	87	.979	7	9	5.97	5.79	.978	5.50	5.43
1980	SEA	AL	25	2B	115	110	99	954.0	635	269	355	11	85	.983	2	3	5.89	5.43	.981	5.60	5.58
1980	SEA	AL	25	DH	3	2
1981	SEA	AL	26	2B	92	86	80	776.0	543	239	294	10	72	.982	-0	-0	6.18	5.79	.982	5.54	5.52
1981	SEA	AL	26	SS	1	1	1	9.0	5	1	3	1	0	.800	0	0	4.00	4.00	.968	5.00	5.00
1982	SEA	AL	27	2B	151	146	132	1316.1	764	320	434	10	98	.987	1	1	5.16	4.99	.981	5.35	5.33
1982	SEA	AL	27	DH	2	0
1982	SEA	AL	27	SS	2	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	-0	-60	9.00	1.00	.965	4.95	4.85
1982	SEA	AL	27	3B	1				4	1	3	0	0	1.000				4.00	.955		3.00
1983	TOT	AL	28	2B	157	154	145	1350.2	829	344	471	14	112	.983	12	10	5.43	5.19	.981	5.36	5.32	MVP-24
1983	SEA	AL	28	2B	60	58	57	507.0	309	131	173	5	41	.984	-2	-5	5.40	5.07	.981	5.36	5.32
1983	SEA	AL	28	DH	1	0																MVP-24
1983	CHW	AL	28	2B	97	96	88	843.2	520	213	298	9	71	.983	14	19	5.45	5.27	.981	5.36	5.32
1984	CHW	AL	29	2B	141	128	112	1144.1	743	273	452	18	92	.976	23	24	5.70	5.14	.980	5.24	5.21
1985	CHW	AL	30	2B	87	74	59	647.1	385	158	220	7	59	.982	6	11	5.26	4.34	.982	5.29	5.24
1985	CHW	AL	30	DH	2	0
1986	CHW	AL	31	2B	78	72	58	633.1	342	132	205	5	45	.985	-1	-2	4.79	4.32	.981	5.10	5.05
1986	CHW	AL	31	DH	3	0
	10 Seasons			2B	1123	1065	965	9409.1	5931	2393	3435	103	780	.983	60	8	5.57	5.19	.980	5.39	5.35
	3 Seasons			SS	8	4	3	41.0	27	11	14	2	3	.926	-2	-56	5.49	3.13	.965	4.94	4.89
	1 Season			3B	1				4	1	3	0	0	1.000				4.00	.955		3.00
	10 Seasons			TOT	1132	1069	968	9450.1	5962	2405	3452	105	783	.982	58	7	5.57	5.17	.980	5.39	5.35
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.

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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
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
1977	SEA	AL	22	2B	4	10	5	7	-2	-1
1978	SEA	AL	23	2B	7	7	9	8	1	-2
1978	SEA	AL	23	SS	-2	-72	-2	-1	-1	0
1979	SEA	AL	24	2B	7	9	7	7	0	0
1980	SEA	AL	25	2B	2	3	0	1	-1	2
1981	SEA	AL	26	2B	-0	-0	-2	0	-2	2
1981	SEA	AL	26	SS	0	0	0	0	0	0
1982	SEA	AL	27	2B	1	1	1	-7	8	0
1982	SEA	AL	27	SS	-0	-60	-0	-0	0	0
1982	SEA	AL	27	3B
1983	SEA	AL	28	2B	-2	-5	-2	0	-2	0
1983	CHW	AL	28	2B	14	19	12	11	1	1
1984	CHW	AL	29	2B	23	24	22	11	11	1
1985	CHW	AL	30	2B	6	11	4	3	1	2
1986	CHW	AL	31	2B	-1	-2	-1	4	-5	0
	10 Seasons			2B	60	8	55	46	9	5
	3 Seasons			SS	-2	-56	-2	-1	-1	0
	1 Season			3B
	10 Seasons			TOT	58	7	53	45	8	5

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	SS	DH	PH	PR
1977	SEA	AL	22	60	52	60	54	54	0	3	0	6
1978	SEA	AL	23	147	139	147	144	142	5	1	0	6
1979	SEA	AL	24	107	107	107	107	107	0	0	0	0
1980	SEA	AL	25	119	112	119	115	115	0	3	0	4
1981	SEA	AL	26	94	87	94	93	92	1	0	1	4
1982	SEA	AL	27	154	146	154	152	152	2	2	0	3
1983	CHW	AL	28	99	96	99	98	98	0	0	2	0
1983	SEA	AL	28	61	58	61	60	60	0	1	0	2
1984	CHW	AL	29	143	128	143	142	142	0	0	0	4
1985	CHW	AL	30	91	74	91	87	87	0	2	7	10
1986	CHW	AL	31	81	72	81	78	78	0	3	0	3
	10 Seasons			1156	1071	1156	1130	1127	8	15	10	42

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 -- 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
1977	SEA	AL	22	2011	54%	82%	26%	207	95%	1	114	47	51	16	169	139	21	0	1	5	0	4	1	5	28	9	5	9	1	26	11	14	2	2	0
1978	SEA	AL	23	5226	56%	84%	28%	522	97%	2	290	87	157	46	475	395	69	2	8	10	0	3	7	4	102	29	15	37	6	88	43	45	11	4	4
1979	SEA	AL	24	4096	61%	83%	28%	394	95%	3	253	67	126	60	364	311	41	3	6	13	3	9	1	9	86	26	20	23	6	79	30	48	5	2	3
1980	SEA	AL	25	4149	61%	83%	29%	386	96%	5	266	71	140	55	356	310	37	1	9	10	1	4	5	6	84	33	15	23	6	79	29	48	4	2	0
1981	SEA	AL	26	3341	62%	85%	29%	339	96%	3	237	79	126	32	293	256	33	1	8	10	1	5	4	4	73	30	15	17	5	68	22	45	4	2	2
1982	SEA	AL	27	5597	61%	79%	26%	505	95%	3	320	121	149	50	436	380	49	2	7	10	0	9	1	7	99	44	17	22	5	95	30	62	2	0	2
1983	CHW	AL	28	3458	68%	80%	29%	348	94%	1	220	79	114	27	301	262	27	1	5	9	0	9	0	7	70	25	16	15	5	64	20	43	5	5	0
1983	SEA	AL	28	2170	62%	79%	27%	203	93%	1	132	44	68	20	174	148	21	1	3	5	0	5	0	4	42	17	6	11	2	39	14	24	3	1	2
1984	CHW	AL	29	4840	56%	82%	26%	526	96%	0	267	100	126	41	458	390	60	0	4	18	1	16	1	15	92	28	15	33	7	85	40	44	5	3	1
1985	CHW	AL	30	2779	64%	77%	24%	245	97%	0	160	56	85	19	223	194	25	0	3	7	0	5	2	5	60	25	13	13	3	55	16	39	4	2	2
1986	CHW	AL	31	2727	54%	81%	25%	226	95%	0	136	40	75	21	203	170	29	0	5	5	0	5	0	4	44	15	7	13	1	38	14	23	5	3	2
	10 Seasons			40394	60%	81%	27%	3901	96%	19	2395	791	1217	387	3452	2955	412	11	59	102	6	74	22	70	780	281	144	216	47	716	269	435	50	26	18
	MLB Averages				59%	82%	28%		95%

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
1978	SEA	AL	23	155	63%	78%	35%	13	85%	0	9	2	5	2	9	5	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	1	0
1981	SEA	AL	26	39	44%	87%	26%	4	100%	0	1	1	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1982	SEA	AL	27	13	69%	62%	15%	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
	3 Seasons			207	59%	79%	32%	19	89%	0	11	4	5	2	13	8	4	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	1	0
	MLB Averages				59%	82%	28%		91%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1983 AL (24, 0%) 0.00 Career Shares (1712th)	Assists† s c a p y 1978 AL 482 (3rd) 1983 AL 471 (3rd)	Total Zone Runs† s c a p y 1984 AL 23 (3rd)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1978 AL 141 (4th) 1982 AL 151 (2nd) 1983 AL 157 (3rd) Career 1,123 (93rd)
Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1981 AL 239 (3rd) 1983 AL 344 (3rd) Career 2,393 (98th)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1978 AL 472 (2nd) 1982 AL 434 (5th) 1983 AL 471 (2nd) 1984 AL 452 (3rd) Career 3,435 (75th)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1979 AL 13 (5th) 1981 AL 10 (2nd) 1983 AL 14 (4th) 1984 AL 18 (2nd)	Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y 1979 AL 7 (5th) 1983 AL 12 (1st) 1984 AL 23 (1st) Career 60 (15th)
Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y 1978 AL 5.74 (4th) 1979 AL 5.97 (2nd) 1980 AL 5.89 (3rd) 1981 AL 6.18 (1st) 1984 AL 5.70 (2nd) Career 5.57 (10th)	Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1978 AL 5.38 (4th) 1979 AL 5.79 (1st) 1981 AL 5.79 (2nd) 1984 AL 5.14 (4th)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1978 AL .987 (2nd) 1982 AL .987 (5th) Career .983 (66th)	Salary s c a p y 1985 AL $1,242,333 (5th)

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