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Matt Downs

Russell Matt Downs

Positions: Pinch Hitter, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: March 19, 1984 in Tuscaloosa, AL
High School: Bibb County HS (Centreville, AL)
School: University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL)
Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 36th round of the 2006 amateur draft.
Signed June 16, 2006. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 16, 2009
Teams (by GP): Astros/Giants 2009-2012
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$488k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 1.111, Arb Eligible: 2014, Free Agent: 2017 [*],
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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 SFG NL 25 2B 17 16 16 143.0 73 31 42 0 13 1.000 1 1 12 8 4.59 4.29 .984 4.86 4.82
2010 TOT NL 26 2B 21 19 18 186.0 80 32 47 1 12 .988 -1 3 -7 19 3.82 3.76 .984 4.78 4.73
2010 SFG NL 26 2B 19 18 17 174.1 78 30 47 1 12 .987 -1 3 -6 21 3.98 4.05 .984 4.78 4.73
2010 SFG NL 26 DH 1 1
2010 HOU NL 26 2B 2 1 1 11.2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -0 0 -31 0 1.54 1.00 .985 4.78 4.75
2010 HOU NL 26 3B 2 1 1 11.0 3 0 3 0 1 1.000 1 1 65 109 2.45 1.50 .950 2.54 2.50
2010 HOU NL 26 SS 2 1 0 10.0 4 2 2 0 1 1.000 -0 0 -48 0 3.60 2.00 .970 4.32 4.25
2011 HOU NL 27 2B 27 16 12 162.0 86 37 46 3 9 .965 -4 -6 -26 -44 4.61 3.07 .985 4.76 4.75
2011 HOU NL 27 3B 19 12 11 126.0 25 4 19 2 4 .920 -4 -2 -38 -19 1.64 1.21 .954 2.53 2.53
2011 HOU NL 27 1B 13 3 2 42.0 41 37 4 0 4 1.000 0 1 6 29 8.79 3.15 .994 9.32 9.31
2011 HOU NL 27 OF 3 3 1 25.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1 0 67 0 1.44 1.33 .985 2.16 2.13
2011 HOU NL 27 RF 3 3 1 25.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1 0 67 0 1.44 1.33 .982 2.05 2.03
2011 HOU NL 27 SS 2 1 1 10.0 5 3 1 1 0 .800 -1 0 -72 0 3.60 2.00 .972 4.41 4.40
2012 HOU NL 28 1B 8 3 3 42.1 50 43 7 0 1 1.000 -1 0 -40 0 10.63 6.25 .993 9.40 9.32
2012 HOU NL 28 3B 7 5 3 46.1 12 3 8 1 1 .917 1 0 20 0 2.14 1.57 .952 2.45 2.41
2012 HOU NL 28 OF 4 4 0 28.0 4 3 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -1 -26 -42 1.29 1.00 .982 2.09 2.08
2012 HOU NL 28 RF 4 4 0 28.0 4 3 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -1 -26 -43 1.29 1.00 .980 1.96 1.95
3 Seasons 2B 65 51 46 491.0 239 100 135 4 34 .983 -3 -2 -8 -4 4.31 3.62 .984 4.80 4.76
3 Seasons 3B 28 18 15 183.1 40 7 30 3 6 .925 -3 -1 -17 -6 1.82 1.32 .953 2.51 2.50
2 Seasons 1B 21 6 5 84.1 91 80 11 0 5 1.000 -1 1 -17 14 9.71 4.33 .993 9.36 9.31
2 Seasons RF 7 7 1 53.0 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 1 -1 18 -22 1.36 1.14 .981 2.00 1.99
2 Seasons OF 7 7 1 53.0 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 1 -1 18 -22 1.36 1.14 .984 2.12 2.10
2 Seasons SS 4 2 1 20.0 9 5 3 1 1 .889 -1 0 -60 0 3.60 2.00 .971 4.36 4.32
4 Seasons TOT 125 84 68 831.2 387 199 180 8 46 .979 -7 -4 -10 -5 4.10 3.03 .983 4.57 4.86
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
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 SFG NL 25 2B 1 12 0 1 -0 1 1 8 0 1
2010 SFG NL 26 2B -1 -6 -1 -0 -0 0 3 21 1 1
2010 HOU NL 26 2B -0 -31 -0 -0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 HOU NL 26 3B 1 65 1 0 0 0 1 109 1 0
2010 HOU NL 26 SS -0 -48 -0 -0 -0 0 0 0 0 0
2011 HOU NL 27 2B -4 -26 -4 -1 -3 0 -6 -44 -6 0
2011 HOU NL 27 3B -4 -38 -4 1 -5 0 -2 -19 -2 0 0
2011 HOU NL 27 1B 0 6 0 1 -0 0 1 29 1 0 0
2011 HOU NL 27 RF 1 67 0 -0 1 1 0 0 0 0
2011 HOU NL 27 SS -1 -72 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0
2012 HOU NL 28 1B -1 -40 -1 -1 -0 -0 0 0 0 0 0
2012 HOU NL 28 3B 1 20 1 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0
2012 HOU NL 28 RF -1 -26 -2 0 -2 1 -1 -43 -2 1
3 Seasons 2B -3 -8 -4 -1 -4 1 -2 -4 -5 2
3 Seasons 3B -3 -17 -3 3 -5 0 -1 -6 -1 0 0
2 Seasons 1B -1 -17 -1 -1 -0 -0 1 14 1 0 0
2 Seasons RF 1 18 -1 -0 -1 2 -1 -22 -2 1
2 Seasons SS -1 -60 -1 -1 -0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons TOT -8 -10 -11 -0 -11 1 2 -4 -5 -7 2 0 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2009 SFG NL 25 17 16 17 17 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 SFG NL 26 29 19 29 19 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 0
2010 HOU NL 26 11 3 11 6 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
2011 HOU NL 27 106 35 106 60 0 0 13 27 19 2 0 0 3 3 0 52 2
2012 HOU NL 28 32 12 32 18 0 0 8 0 7 0 0 0 4 4 0 15 0
4 Seasons 195 85 195 120 0 0 21 65 28 4 0 0 7 7 1 83 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 -- 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 SFG NL 25 591 58% 70% 29% 50 90% 0 31 11 13 7 42 34 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 4 3 3 2 12 5 7 0 0 0
2010 SFG NL 26 737 66% 72% 27% 55 96% 0 30 13 6 11 47 39 7 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 12 3 2 5 1 11 6 5 0 0 0
2010 HOU NL 26 52 77% 65% 15% 1 100% 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2011 HOU NL 27 716 64% 72% 31% 63 87% 1 37 15 19 3 46 40 5 1 0 3 0 3 0 3 9 5 2 1 0 8 1 7 1 0 1
3 Seasons 2096 63% 72% 29% 169 91% 1 100 40 38 22 135 113 20 1 1 4 0 4 0 4 34 12 7 9 3 31 12 19 1 0 1
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 93%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

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 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
2010 HOU NL 26 46 63% 80% 26% 3 100% 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
2011 HOU NL 27 551 64% 70% 28% 27 78% 0 4 3 0 1 19 14 4 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 4 3 0 4 0 0 0 1 0%
2012 HOU NL 28 201 60% 74% 34% 12 92% 0 3 3 0 0 8 7 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 50%
3 Seasons 798 63% 72% 30% 42 83% 0 7 6 0 1 30 23 6 1 0 3 0 2 1 2 6 5 0 6 0 0 0 3 33%
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 86% 65%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
2011 HOU NL 27 185 69% 72% 30% 9 100% 0 37 0 36 1 5 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 100%
2012 HOU NL 28 188 62% 77% 33% 13 85% 0 43 2 39 2 4 7 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 100%
2 Seasons 373 66% 75% 32% 22 91% 0 80 2 75 3 9 11 7 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 3 100%
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 93% 83%

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%
2011 HOU NL 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 3 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 105 72% 72% 29% 6 67%
2012 HOU NL 28 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 3 60.0% 1 1 20.0% 0 119 40% 77% 29% 10 40%
2 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 8 6 75.0% 1 1 12.5% 0 224 55% 75% 29% 16 50%
MLB Averages 46.9% 2.4% 57% 76% 39% 50%

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
2010 HOU NL 26 41 63% 78% 32% 1 100% 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
2011 HOU NL 27 47 36% 72% 26% 4 75% 0 3 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 88 49% 75% 28% 5 80% 0 5 2 3 0 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 89%

* 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.

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