Edwin Encarnación

Edwin Elpidio Encarnacion (twitter: @Encadwin)

Positions: Third Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 230 lb.

Born: January 7, 1983 in La Romana, La Romana, D.R.
High School: Manuela Toro HS (Caguas, PR)
Drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 9th round of the 2000 amateur draft.
Signed June 12, 2000. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 24, 2005
Teams (by GP): Reds/BlueJays 2005-2012
2012 Contract Status: Free Agent, 2 yrs/$6M (11-12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 6.085, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: Arn Tellem [*]
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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	CIN	NL	22	3B	56	55	51	478.0	180	54	116	10	10	.944	-2	4	-4	10	3.20	3.04	.958	2.77	2.74
2006	CIN	NL	23	3B	111	109	84	931.1	296	74	197	25	17	.916	-12	-13	-16	-17	2.62	2.44	.954	2.70	2.68
2006	CIN	NL	23	1B	2	1	1	9.0	9	9	0	0	1	1.000	-0	0	-53	0	9.00	4.50	.994	9.40	9.35
2007	CIN	NL	24	3B	137	134	116	1168.0	340	112	212	16	21	.953	-22	-11	-23	-11	2.50	2.36	.954	2.68	2.67
2008	CIN	NL	25	3B	143	141	133	1237.0	330	91	216	23	23	.930	-14	-17	-13	-16	2.23	2.15	.956	2.60	2.58
2009	TOT	MLB	26	3B	85	84	81	726.1	209	52	146	11	14	.947	-7	-7	-12	-11	2.45	2.33	.957	2.63	2.60
2009	CIN	NL	26	3B	43	42	41	362.1	98	25	69	4	8	.959	-6	-8	-19	-26	2.33	2.19	.957	2.57	2.55
2009	TOR	AL	26	3B	42	42	40	364.0	111	27	77	7	6	.937	-2	1	-5	3	2.57	2.48	.957	2.68	2.65
2010	TOR	AL	27	3B	95	95	88	841.2	263	71	174	18	16	.932	-2	-3	-3	-4	2.62	2.58	.956	2.64	2.61
2010	TOR	AL	27	DH	1	1
2011	TOR	AL	28	DH	70	70
2011	TOR	AL	28	3B	36	30	20	274.2	74	23	43	8	2	.892	-2	-4	-8	-17	2.16	1.83	.954	2.62	2.60
2011	TOR	AL	28	1B	25	22	15	190.0	205	192	9	4	16	.980	-2	-3	-11	-19	9.52	8.04	.993	9.30	9.24
2012	TOR	AL	29	DH	35	35
2012	TOR	AL	29	1B	15	15	15	132.0	151	143	8	0	16	1.000	-1	0	-6	0	10.30	10.07	.995	9.49	9.46
2012	TOR	AL	29	3B	1	1	1	8.0	3	2	0	1	0	.667	-1	-1	-150	-150	2.25	2.00	.943	2.59	2.60
	8 Seasons			3B	664	649	574	5665.0	1695	479	1104	112	103	.934	-62	-52	-13	-11	2.51	2.38	.955	2.66	2.64
	3 Seasons			1B	42	38	31	331.0	365	344	17	4	33	.989	-3	-3	-10	-10	9.82	8.60	.994	9.38	9.32
	8 Seasons			TOT	706	687	605	5996.0	2060	823	1121	116	136	.944	-64	-55	-13	-11	2.92	2.75	.962	3.03	3.03

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	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt
2005	CIN	NL	22	3B	-2	-4	-2	2	-4	0	4	10	4		0
2006	CIN	NL	23	3B	-12	-16	-11	-6	-5	-1	-13	-17	-11		-2
2006	CIN	NL	23	1B	-0	-53	-0	0	-1	0	0	0	0
2007	CIN	NL	24	3B	-22	-23	-22	-24	2	0	-11	-11	-11		-1
2008	CIN	NL	25	3B	-14	-13	-14	-3	-11	0	-17	-16	-16		0
2009	CIN	NL	26	3B	-6	-19	-6	-3	-3	0	-8	-26	-8	0	1
2009	TOR	AL	26	3B	-2	-5	-2	-1	-0	0	1	3	0	0	0
2010	TOR	AL	27	3B	-2	-3	-2	1	-3	0	-3	-4	-1	0	-1
2011	TOR	AL	28	3B	-2	-8	-2	-3	1	0	-4	-17	-4	0
2011	TOR	AL	28	1B	-2	-11	-2	-2	0	0	-3	-19	-1	0	-1
2012	TOR	AL	29	1B	-1	-6	-1	0	-1	0	0	0	-1	0
2012	TOR	AL	29	3B	-1	-150	-1		-1		-1	-150	-1	0
	8 Seasons			3B	-62	-13	-61	-36	-25	-1	-52	-11	-48	0	-3
	3 Seasons			1B	-3	-10	-3	-1	-2	0	-3	-10	-2	0	-1
	8 Seasons			TOT	-72	-13	-71	-42	-29	-1	-55	-11	-50	0	-4

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	3B	DH	PH	PR
2005	CIN	NL	22	69	55	69	56	0	56	0	13	0
2006	CIN	NL	23	117	110	117	112	2	111	0	6	0
2007	CIN	NL	24	139	134	139	137	0	137	0	3	0
2008	CIN	NL	25	146	141	146	143	0	143	0	2	1
2009	CIN	NL	26	43	42	43	43	0	43	0	0	0
2009	TOR	AL	26	42	42	42	42	0	42	0	0	0
2010	TOR	AL	27	96	96	96	95	0	95	1	0	0
2011	TOR	AL	28	134	122	134	57	25	36	70	11	0
2012	TOR	AL	29	51	51	51	16	15	1	35	0	0
	8 Seasons			837	793	837	701	42	664	106	35	1

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 -- 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%
2005	CIN	NL	22	2094	64%	80%	31%	181	88%	0	54	44	5	5	116	97	19	0	1	10	0	3	7	9	10	6	3	10	0	0	0	7	57%
2006	CIN	NL	23	4059	64%	77%	31%	308	82%	2	74	60	5	9	197	155	31	3	3	25	0	9	16	21	17	11	1	14	2	1	1	14	50%
2007	CIN	NL	24	5101	60%	77%	29%	349	88%	2	112	93	8	11	212	168	40	1	4	16	0	8	8	14	21	14	1	18	2	1	1	18	50%
2008	CIN	NL	25	5444	57%	74%	29%	357	81%	2	91	71	10	10	216	166	45	1	4	23	0	8	15	21	23	17	3	20	1	0	1	14	71%
2009	CIN	NL	26	1631	51%	75%	30%	103	83%	2	25	18	4	3	69	52	12	0	1	4	0	1	3	3	8	4	1	5	2	1	1	9	89%
2009	TOR	AL	26	1615	55%	77%	33%	115	87%	1	27	22	1	4	77	55	21	1	1	7	0	2	5	5	6	6	0	6	0	0	0	1	100%
2010	TOR	AL	27	3572	60%	74%	31%	273	85%	3	71	52	10	9	174	142	28	2	2	18	0	8	10	17	16	9	2	13	2	0	2	7	57%
2011	TOR	AL	28	1149	54%	76%	30%	79	78%	0	23	18	3	2	43	38	5	0	1	8	0	3	5	8	2	1	1	2	0	0	0	0
2012	TOR	AL	29	32	38%	72%	41%	4	50%	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	8 Seasons			24697	59%	76%	30%	1769	84%	12	479	380	46	53	1104	873	201	8	17	112	0	43	69	99	103	68	12	88	9	3	6	70	61%
	MLB Averages				58%	76%	32%		87%																								66%

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%
2006	CIN	NL	23	40	80%	80%	40%	2	100%	0	9	1	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
2011	TOR	AL	28	808	52%	75%	31%	32	81%	0	192	7	178	8	13	9	6	0	0	2	4	1	2	1	3	16	0	0	0	16	0	0	0	0	2	50%
2012	TOR	AL	29	539	49%	74%	35%	25	88%	0	143	6	131	6	12	8	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	0	0	1	16	1	0	0	0	0
	3 Seasons			1387	52%	75%	33%	59	85%	0	344	14	317	14	26	17	12	1	0	2	4	1	2	1	3	33	0	0	1	33	1	0	0	0	2	50%
	MLB Averages				58%	76%	32%		94%																											83%

* 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 2006 NL 25 (5th) 2008 NL 23 (2nd) Active 116 (24th)	Def. Games as 3B s c a p y Active 664 (12th)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 2007 NL 112 (2nd) 2008 NL 91 (5th) Active 479 (10th)	Assists as 3B s c a p y Active 1,104 (13th)
Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 2006 NL 25 (1st) 2008 NL 23 (2nd) 2010 AL 18 (3rd) Active 112 (8th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y Active 2.51 (13th) Career 2.51 (97th)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y Active 2.38 (10th)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y Active .934 (16th)

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