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Ian Desmond

Ian M. Desmond

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: September 20, 1985 in Sarasota, FL
High School: Sarasota HS (Sarasota, FL)
Drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 3rd round of the 2004 amateur draft.
Signed June 16, 2004. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 10, 2009
Team: Nationals 2009-2012
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$513k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 2.027, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2016 [*],
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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
2009 WSN NL 23 SS 17 14 14 136.1 84 37 43 4 14 .952 -1 -3 -7 -26 5.28 4.71 .974 4.38 4.34
2009 WSN NL 23 2B 5 5 3 39.2 26 12 12 2 2 .923 -2 -3 -76 -91 5.45 4.80 .984 4.86 4.82
2009 WSN NL 23 OF 1 1 0 7.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 3.86 3.00 .987 2.19 2.20
2009 WSN NL 23 RF 1 1 0 7.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 3.86 3.00 .987 2.06 2.10
2010 WSN NL 24 SS 149 136 126 1208.0 637 221 382 34 87 .947 -9 -7 -9 -7 4.49 4.05 .971 4.31 4.27
2010 WSN NL 24 OF 1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.20
2010 WSN NL 24 RF 1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.10
2011 WSN NL 25 SS 152 146 143 1317.2 686 226 437 23 85 .966 -5 -3 -4 -3 4.53 4.36 .971 4.41 4.40
2012 WSN NL 26 SS 48 48 48 434.1 187 58 122 7 18 .963 -1 -5 -1 -14 3.73 3.75 .968 4.28 4.23
4 Seasons SS 366 344 331 3096.1 1594 542 984 68 204 .957 -15 -18 -6 -6 4.44 4.17 .971 4.35 4.32
1 Season 2B 5 5 3 39.2 26 12 12 2 2 .923 -2 -3 -76 -90 5.45 4.80 .984 4.86 4.82
2 Seasons RF 2 1 0 7.1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 3.68 1.50 .987 2.09 2.10
2 Seasons OF 2 1 0 7.1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 3.68 1.50 .987 2.21 2.20
4 Seasons TOT 373 350 334 3143.1 1623 557 996 70 206 .957 -18 -21 -7 -8 4.45 4.16 .971 4.35 4.32
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 Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
2009 WSN NL 23 SS -1 -7 -1 1 -2 0 -3 -26 -2 0
2009 WSN NL 23 2B -2 -76 -2 -1 -2 0 -3 -91 -2 -1
2009 WSN NL 23 RF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 WSN NL 24 SS -9 -9 -7 2 -9 -2 -7 -7 -3 -1
2010 WSN NL 24 RF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2011 WSN NL 25 SS -5 -4 -2 -2 0 -3 -3 -3 -2 -1
2012 WSN NL 26 SS -1 -1 -0 -1 1 -0 -5 -14 -5 0
4 Seasons SS -15 -6 -10 1 -10 -5 -18 -6 -12 -2
1 Season 2B -2 -76 -2 -1 -2 0 -3 -90 -2 -1
2 Seasons RF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons TOT -18 -7 -12 -0 -12 -5 0 -21 -8 -14 -3 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2009 WSN NL 23 21 20 21 20 0 0 0 5 0 17 0 0 1 1 0 1 0
2010 WSN NL 24 154 136 154 149 0 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 1 1 0 10 2
2011 WSN NL 25 154 146 154 152 0 0 0 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
2012 WSN NL 26 48 48 48 48 0 0 0 0 0 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 377 350 377 369 0 0 0 5 0 366 0 0 2 2 0 15 3
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 -- 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
2009 WSN NL 23 602 51% 78% 34% 55 91% 0 37 16 19 2 43 35 7 0 0 4 0 1 3 3 14 4 1 8 0 0 14 5 8 0 0 0
2010 WSN NL 24 5217 59% 77% 32% 499 89% 1 221 107 91 24 382 296 77 2 2 34 4 18 12 23 87 29 7 32 7 2 83 37 42 4 2 2
2011 WSN NL 25 5578 61% 77% 33% 559 88% 6 226 108 103 15 437 348 70 1 4 23 3 15 5 17 85 29 6 25 8 5 79 35 41 4 4 0
2012 WSN NL 26 1774 61% 72% 31% 161 88% 1 58 31 22 5 122 101 18 0 2 7 0 5 2 6 18 5 3 8 0 1 17 8 9 1 1 0
4 Seasons 13171 60% 76% 32% 1274 88% 8 542 262 235 46 984 780 172 3 8 68 7 39 22 49 204 67 17 73 15 8 193 85 100 9 7 2
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 89%

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
2009 WSN NL 23 182 57% 79% 37% 18 83% 0 12 4 6 2 12 9 3 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1 Season 182 57% 79% 37% 18 83% 0 12 4 6 2 12 9 3 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 93%

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%
2009 WSN NL 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 26 77% 92% 46% 5 60%
2010 WSN NL 24 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 4 75% 25% 0% 0
2 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 30 77% 83% 40% 5 60%
MLB Averages 46.9% 2.4% 57% 76% 39% 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

Errors Committed† s c a p y
2010 NL  34 (1st)
2011 NL  23 (2nd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
2010 NL  149 (1st)
2011 NL  152 (2nd)
2012 NL  48 (3rd)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
2010 NL  221 (1st)
2011 NL  226 (3rd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
2010 NL  382 (4th)
2011 NL  437 (2nd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
2010 NL  34 (1st)
2011 NL  23 (2nd)
2012 NL  7 (5th)
Active  68 (22nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
2010 NL  4.49 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
2011 NL  4.36 (5th)

             

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