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Yunel Escobar    \you-nell\

Yunel Escobar

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: November 2, 1982 in La Habana, La Habana, Cuba
High School: Matires de Barbados (La Habana, CU)
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 2nd round of the 2005 amateur draft.
Signed June 7, 2005. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 2, 2007 (Age 24)
Teams (by GP): Braves/BlueJays/Rays 2007-2013
2013 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible (team option), 2 yrs/$10M (12-13) & 14-15 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 5.121, Free Agent: 2014 [*], Agents: Wasserman Media Group [*]
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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
2007 ATL NL 24 SS 53 36 35 363.0 176 59 113 4 22 .977 2 1 6 3 4.26 3.25 .975 4.44 4.42 RoY-6
2007 ATL NL 24 3B 22 19 15 159.1 52 20 28 4 4 .923 -2 -1 -14 -8 2.71 2.18 .954 2.68 2.67 RoY-6
2007 ATL NL 24 2B 21 20 14 164.1 80 28 49 3 10 .963 2 -3 11 -23 4.22 3.67 .984 4.86 4.84 RoY-6
2008 ATL NL 25 SS 126 125 121 1105.2 605 193 396 16 78 .974 9 8 10 9 4.79 4.67 .976 4.43 4.40
2009 ATL NL 26 SS 139 138 130 1208.2 613 191 409 13 83 .979 22 7 22 7 4.47 4.32 .974 4.38 4.34 MVP-20
2010 TOT MLB 27 SS 134 133 130 1179.1 645 204 423 18 110 .972 8 9 8 9 4.78 4.68 .972 4.35 4.31
2010 ATL NL 27 SS 74 73 72 646.2 358 99 250 9 62 .975 6 8 12 15 4.86 4.72 .971 4.31 4.27
2010 TOR AL 27 SS 60 60 58 532.2 287 105 173 9 48 .969 2 1 4 2 4.70 4.63 .973 4.40 4.36
2011 TOR AL 28 SS 132 131 116 1121.0 539 182 343 14 73 .974 10 7 11 8 4.21 3.98 .972 4.36 4.33
2011 TOR AL 28 DH 1 0
2012 TOR AL 29 SS 143 140 135 1250.2 683 240 431 12 100 .982 16 15 16 14 4.83 4.69 .977 4.43 4.40
2012 TOR AL 29 DH 2 1
2013 TBR AL 30 SS 41 40 38 348.1 153 48 101 4 17 .974 0 -1 1 -3 3.85 3.63 .971 4.09 4.06
7 Seasons SS 768 743 705 6576.2 3414 1117 2216 81 483 .976 67 46 12 8 4.56 4.34 .974 4.38 4.34
1 Season 3B 22 19 15 159.1 52 20 28 4 4 .923 -2 -1 -14 -7 2.71 2.18 .954 2.68 2.67
1 Season 2B 21 20 14 164.1 80 28 49 3 10 .963 2 -3 11 -21 4.22 3.67 .984 4.86 4.84
7 Seasons TOT 811 782 734 6900.1 3546 1165 2293 88 497 .975 67 42 12 6 4.51 4.26 .974 4.35 4.31
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
2007 ATL NL 24 SS 2 6 1 1 -1 1 1 3 0 1
2007 ATL NL 24 3B -2 -14 -2 -2 -0 0 -1 -8 -1 0
2007 ATL NL 24 2B 2 11 2 1 2 -1 -3 -23 0 -1
2008 ATL NL 25 SS 9 10 11 7 4 -2 8 9 15 -3
2009 ATL NL 26 SS 22 22 23 12 11 -1 7 7 13 -1
2010 ATL NL 27 SS 6 12 3 1 2 3 8 15 9 1
2010 TOR AL 27 SS 2 4 -1 -4 2 3 1 2 -2 2
2011 TOR AL 28 SS 10 11 8 1 7 2 7 8 8 0
2012 TOR AL 29 SS 16 16 15 3 12 1 15 14 17 0
2013 TBR AL 30 SS 0 1 1 1 0 -1 -1 -3 1 -1
7 Seasons SS 67 12 61 23 38 6 46 8 61 -1
1 Season 3B -2 -14 -2 -2 -0 0 -1 -7 -1 0
1 Season 2B 2 11 2 1 2 -1 -3 -21 0 -1
7 Seasons TOT 74 11 63 20 44 11 42 6 60 -2 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2007 ATL NL 24 94 74 94 85 0 0 0 21 22 53 0 0 0 0 0 12 2
2008 ATL NL 25 136 126 136 126 0 0 0 0 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 8 1
2009 ATL NL 26 141 138 141 139 0 0 0 0 0 139 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
2010 ATL NL 27 75 73 75 74 0 0 0 0 0 74 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2010 TOR AL 27 60 60 60 60 0 0 0 0 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2011 TOR AL 28 133 131 133 132 0 0 0 0 0 132 0 0 0 0 1 2 0
2012 TOR AL 29 145 141 145 143 0 0 0 0 0 143 0 0 0 0 2 3 0
2013 TBR AL 30 41 40 41 41 0 0 0 0 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Seasons 825 783 825 800 0 0 0 21 22 768 0 0 0 0 3 28 3
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 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
2007 ATL NL 24 1572 57% 76% 32% 150 90% 0 59 35 22 2 113 95 17 0 1 4 1 1 2 2 22 7 1 10 2 0 21 8 13 0 0 0
2008 ATL NL 25 4794 62% 76% 34% 484 91% 1 193 77 97 17 396 315 73 0 5 16 0 6 10 11 78 28 11 23 5 1 75 41 30 3 0 3
2009 ATL NL 26 5119 52% 74% 32% 483 93% 7 191 84 88 19 409 326 64 3 6 13 0 7 6 10 83 34 9 20 6 6 77 44 33 4 3 1
2010 ATL NL 27 2710 57% 74% 34% 280 90% 2 99 32 62 5 250 214 28 2 1 9 1 4 4 8 62 16 17 18 2 3 57 34 23 5 2 1
2010 TOR AL 27 2288 62% 75% 31% 212 89% 1 105 44 53 8 173 143 26 0 2 9 0 3 6 6 48 15 7 14 3 6 48 22 23 0 0 0
2011 TOR AL 28 4864 55% 75% 31% 417 91% 4 182 73 91 18 343 277 57 1 4 14 0 6 8 9 73 22 9 30 3 3 68 32 36 3 2 1
2012 TOR AL 29 5386 55% 75% 33% 532 92% 3 240 104 113 23 431 341 77 0 8 12 1 4 7 6 100 37 14 29 5 1 93 51 38 6 3 3
2013 TBR AL 30 1477 53% 73% 30% 127 88% 1 48 23 22 3 101 80 16 0 2 4 0 1 3 1 17 3 4 6 1 1 16 7 8 1 1 0
7 Seasons 28210 57% 75% 32% 2685 91% 19 1117 472 548 95 2216 1791 358 6 29 81 3 32 46 53 483 162 72 150 27 21 455 239 204 22 11 9
MLB Averages 57% 76% 32% 89%

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%
2007 ATL NL 24 672 60% 77% 32% 45 87% 1 20 8 5 7 28 24 4 0 3 4 0 2 2 2 4 1 1 4 0 0 0 2 100%
1 Season 672 60% 77% 32% 45 87% 1 20 8 5 7 28 24 4 0 3 4 0 2 2 2 4 1 1 4 0 0 0 2 100%
MLB Averages 57% 76% 32% 87% 65%

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
2007 ATL NL 24 702 61% 76% 31% 54 94% 0 28 8 15 5 49 44 5 0 0 3 1 0 2 1 10 7 0 3 0 10 3 7 0 0 0
1 Season 702 61% 76% 31% 54 94% 0 28 8 15 5 49 44 5 0 0 3 1 0 2 1 10 7 0 3 0 10 3 7 0 0 0
MLB Averages 57% 76% 32% 93%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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))
2009 NL (20, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (1521st)

Assists† s c a p y
2012 AL  431 (5th)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
2009 NL  22 (4th)
2012 AL  16 (5th)
Active  67 (14th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
2013 AL  41 (5th)
Active  768 (17th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
2008 NL  193 (5th)
2012 AL  240 (3rd)
Active  1,117 (16th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
2008 NL  396 (5th)
2009 NL  409 (5th)
2012 AL  431 (3rd)
Active  2,216 (16th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
2008 NL  16 (4th)
Active  81 (18th)

Double Plays Turned as SS s c a p y
2009 NL  83 (4th)
2012 AL  100 (3rd)
Active  483 (17th)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
2008 NL  9 (5th)
2009 NL  22 (1st)
2010 NL  6 (4th)
2011 AL  10 (1st)
2012 AL  16 (2nd)
Active  67 (2nd)
Career  67 (18th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
2008 NL  4.79 (3rd)
2012 AL  4.83 (4th)
Active  4.56 (10th)
Career  4.56 (85th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
2008 NL  4.67 (2nd)
2009 NL  4.32 (5th)
2012 AL  4.69 (3rd)
Active  4.34 (10th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
2012 AL  .982 (4th)
Active  .976 (11th)
Career  .976 (30th)

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