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Tony Fernandez

Octavio Antonio (Castro) Fernandez
born Octavio Antonio Fernando Castro

Positions: Shortstop, Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: June 30, 1962 in San Pedro de Macoris, San Pedro de Macoris, D.R.
High School: San Pedro de Macoris (San Pedro de Macoris, DO)
Signed by the Toronto Blue Jays as an amateur free agent in 1979. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 2, 1983
Teams (by GP): BlueJays/Padres/Indians/Yankees/Reds/... 1983-2001
Agents: Joe Maenza,Tom Reich, previously: Bruce Weinstein,Chuck Berry,Joe Maenza,John Davimos,Tom Reich [*]
Final Game: October 7, 2001
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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
1983 TOR AL 21 SS 13 7 5 79.1 33 16 17 0 6 1.000 -1 -14 3.74 2.54 .963 4.75 4.72
1983 TOR AL 21 DH 1 0
1984 TOR AL 22 SS 73 50 48 504.0 302 116 178 8 40 .974 4 9 5.25 4.03 .962 4.76 4.72
1984 TOR AL 22 3B 10 3 2 45.1 21 3 17 1 1 .952 2 45 3.97 2.00 .950 2.74 2.73
1984 TOR AL 22 DH 2 0
1985 TOR AL 23 SS 160 158 154 1416.0 791 283 478 30 109 .962 12 10 4.84 4.76 .964 4.64 4.60
1986 TOR AL 24 SS 163 162 151 1443.0 752 294 445 13 103 .983 4 3 4.61 4.53 .967 4.53 4.49 AS,MVP-14,GG
1987 TOR AL 25 SS 146 142 115 1210.1 680 270 396 14 88 .979 6 6 4.95 4.56 .970 4.59 4.54 AS,MVP-8,GG
1988 TOR AL 26 SS 154 154 136 1334.2 731 247 470 14 106 .981 8 7 4.83 4.66 .971 4.69 4.65 MVP-26,GG
1989 TOR AL 27 SS 140 140 129 1243.0 741 260 475 6 93 .992 13 12 5.32 5.25 .971 4.79 4.74 AS,MVP-19,GG
1990 TOR AL 28 SS 161 161 148 1384.0 786 297 480 9 93 .989 8 7 5.05 4.83 .973 4.74 4.69
1991 SDP NL 29 SS 145 143 132 1262.2 707 247 440 20 78 .972 -4 -4 4.90 4.74 .966 4.67 4.65
1992 SDP NL 30 SS 154 155 139 1348.2 656 240 405 11 65 .983 -12 -10 4.30 4.19 .969 4.59 4.60 AS
1993 TOT MLB 31 SS 142 142 135 1235.4 702 279 410 13 90 .981 3 3 5.02 4.85 .970 4.69 4.65
1993 NYM NL 31 SS 48 48 44 413.2 239 83 150 6 28 .975 -1 -2 5.07 4.85 .965 4.69 4.66
1993 TOR AL 31 SS 94 94 91 821.2 463 196 260 7 62 .985 4 6 4.99 4.85 .973 4.69 4.64
1994 CIN NL 32 3B 93 87 74 762.0 222 54 166 2 12 .991 -0 -0 2.60 2.37 .951 2.65 2.63
1994 CIN NL 32 SS 9 6 2 50.0 25 6 17 2 2 .920 0 2 4.14 2.56 .966 4.54 4.50
1994 CIN NL 32 2B 5 5 3 33.2 19 7 12 0 1 1.000 -1 -36 5.08 3.80 .981 5.27 5.24
1995 NYY AL 33 SS 103 101 93 887.2 425 141 274 10 63 .976 0 0 4.21 4.03 .974 4.71 4.65
1995 NYY AL 33 2B 4 4 4 36.0 16 7 9 0 2 1.000 -1 -20 4.00 4.00 .981 5.10 5.05
1997 CLE AL 35 2B 109 94 87 840.1 512 207 295 10 59 .980 9 13 5.38 4.61 .980 4.93 4.89
1997 CLE AL 35 SS 10 8 5 65.2 39 12 26 1 7 .974 1 22 5.21 3.80 .974 4.55 4.51
1997 CLE AL 35 DH 1 0
1998 TOR AL 36 2B 82 81 68 692.2 359 128 222 9 43 .975 -8 -14 4.55 4.27 .978 4.85 4.80
1998 TOR AL 36 3B 54 52 42 452.2 109 32 73 4 3 .963 0 0 2.09 1.94 .948 2.55 2.52
1998 TOR AL 36 DH 1 1
1999 TOR AL 37 3B 132 130 115 1108.2 295 65 212 18 21 .939 -11 -12 2.25 2.10 .950 2.58 2.54 AS
1999 TOR AL 37 DH 9 5 AS
1999 TOR AL 37 2B 1 0 0 3.0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0 160 6.00 2.00 .980 5.10 5.00 AS
2001 MIL NL 39 3B 13 13 10 111.1 29 3 25 1 4 .966 -1 -13 2.26 2.15 .950 2.57 2.54
2001 TOR AL 39 DH 13 3
14 Seasons SS 1573 1529 1392 13464.1 7370 2708 4511 151 943 .980 42 4 4.83 4.59 .969 4.66 4.63
5 Seasons 3B 302 285 243 2480.0 676 157 493 26 41 .962 -10 -5 2.36 2.15 .950 2.60 2.57
5 Seasons 2B 201 184 162 1605.2 908 349 540 19 105 .979 -0 -0 4.98 4.42 .979 4.91 4.87
17 Seasons TOT 2076 1998 1797 17550.0 8954 3214 5544 196 1089 .978 31 2 4.49 4.22 .969 4.39 4.35
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.
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
1983 TOR AL 21 SS -1 -14 -2 -2 -0 1
1984 TOR AL 22 SS 4 9 4 5 -1 0
1984 TOR AL 22 3B 2 45 2 -1 2 0
1985 TOR AL 23 SS 12 10 10 7 3 2
1986 TOR AL 24 SS 4 3 3 -2 5 1
1987 TOR AL 25 SS 6 6 5 8 -3 1
1988 TOR AL 26 SS 8 7 7 6 0 1
1989 TOR AL 27 SS 13 12 12 9 3 1
1990 TOR AL 28 SS 8 7 6 -3 10 2
1991 SDP NL 29 SS -4 -4 -3 -1 -3 -1
1992 SDP NL 30 SS -12 -10 -8 -10 3 -4
1993 NYM NL 31 SS -1 -2 0 -4 4 -1
1993 TOR AL 31 SS 4 6 4 4 -0 0
1994 CIN NL 32 3B -0 -0 1 3 -2 -1
1994 CIN NL 32 SS 0 2 0 0 -0 0
1994 CIN NL 32 2B -1 -36 -1 -0 -1 0
1995 NYY AL 33 SS 0 0 -1 2 -3 1
1995 NYY AL 33 2B -1 -20 -1 -1 0 0
1997 CLE AL 35 2B 9 13 9 5 4 0
1997 CLE AL 35 SS 1 22 1 0 1 0
1998 TOR AL 36 2B -8 -14 -7 -10 3 -1
1998 TOR AL 36 3B 0 0 1 0 1 -1
1999 TOR AL 37 3B -11 -12 -11 -4 -7 0
1999 TOR AL 37 2B 0 160 0 0 0 0
2001 MIL NL 39 3B -1 -13 -1 -2 1 0
14 Seasons SS 42 4 38 20 18 4
5 Seasons 3B -10 -5 -8 -4 -5 -2
5 Seasons 2B -0 -0 1 -6 7 -1
17 Seasons TOT 31 2 30 10 21 1
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1983 TOR AL 21 15 7 15 13 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
1984 TOR AL 22 88 53 88 81 0 0 0 0 10 73 0 0 0 0 2 8 8
1985 TOR AL 23 161 158 161 160 0 0 0 0 0 160 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1986 TOR AL 24 163 162 163 163 0 0 0 0 0 163 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1987 TOR AL 25 146 142 146 146 0 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1988 TOR AL 26 154 154 154 154 0 0 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1989 TOR AL 27 140 140 140 140 0 0 0 0 0 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1990 TOR AL 28 161 161 161 161 0 0 0 0 0 161 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1991 SDP NL 29 145 143 145 145 0 0 0 0 0 145 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1992 SDP NL 30 155 155 155 155 0 0 0 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1993 TOR AL 31 94 94 94 94 0 0 0 0 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1993 NYM NL 31 48 48 48 48 0 0 0 0 0 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1994 CIN NL 32 104 98 104 104 0 0 0 5 93 9 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1995 NYY AL 33 108 105 108 107 0 0 0 4 0 103 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
1997 CLE AL 35 120 102 120 116 0 0 0 109 0 10 0 0 0 0 1 6 0
1998 TOR AL 36 138 134 138 135 0 0 0 82 54 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0
1999 TOR AL 37 142 135 142 132 0 0 0 1 132 0 0 0 0 0 9 5 0
2001 TOR AL 39 48 3 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 45 0
2001 MIL NL 39 28 13 28 13 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
17 Seasons 2158 2007 2158 2067 0 0 0 201 302 1574 0 0 0 0 27 98 11
Lg G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
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
1983 TOR AL 21 338 47% 83% 27% 27 81% 0 17 9 8 0 16 15 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 1 3 0 0 6 2 3 0 0 0
1984 TOR AL 22 2148 51% 81% 26% 225 97% 2 110 59 35 16 181 133 37 2 2 8 1 7 0 6 39 12 4 12 2 2 33 17 16 5 4 1
1985 TOR AL 23 5869 54% 81% 27% 565 96% 4 274 122 104 48 481 369 95 0 4 30 1 21 8 21 107 41 7 33 10 4 99 49 48 5 1 4
1986 TOR AL 24 6121 56% 79% 28% 581 91% 7 295 135 125 35 456 363 74 2 10 13 2 11 0 11 103 24 18 31 9 12 99 43 52 3 1 2
1987 TOR AL 25 5068 62% 77% 27% 474 95% 6 267 106 112 49 393 315 60 3 8 14 0 12 2 12 86 18 10 28 12 6 78 29 46 5 3 1
1988 TOR AL 26 5631 64% 80% 33% 588 90% 5 245 111 104 31 468 351 102 0 3 14 1 9 4 12 107 44 15 30 7 3 100 59 40 3 1 2
1989 TOR AL 27 5221 68% 82% 34% 611 90% 9 258 125 99 35 478 366 86 7 7 6 1 2 3 3 93 26 17 29 9 1 85 43 39 7 6 1
1990 TOR AL 28 5800 63% 81% 33% 623 92% 6 301 142 118 41 483 383 88 1 2 9 0 4 5 7 94 29 12 31 8 5 89 43 44 3 1 2
1991 SDP NL 29 5273 60% 81% 33% 625 81% 5 247 115 101 31 438 343 80 1 4 20 1 14 5 18 78 23 6 33 4 5 72 29 42 3 1 1
1992 SDP NL 30 5648 59% 81% 32% 615 78% 3 241 107 96 38 405 315 70 1 15 11 1 8 2 10 64 23 3 22 2 1 52 26 26 8 1 5
1993 TOR AL 31 3533 53% 77% 31% 368 89% 4 194 101 69 24 259 193 54 0 4 7 0 6 1 7 62 16 6 24 1 2 54 22 28 6 4 0
1993 NYM NL 31 1834 64% 81% 34% 199 83% 0 82 34 39 9 150 117 28 0 1 6 0 3 3 5 27 7 2 11 3 1 25 9 15 1 1 0
1994 CIN NL 32 227 70% 82% 32% 26 85% 0 5 5 0 0 17 15 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
1995 NYY AL 33 3896 57% 77% 30% 340 91% 0 143 68 58 17 276 206 61 0 3 10 0 4 6 10 63 25 3 15 4 8 58 28 28 3 0 3
1997 CLE AL 35 284 56% 76% 32% 32 88% 1 12 5 5 2 26 20 6 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 7 3 1 2 1 0 7 4 3 0 0 0
14 Seasons 56891 60% 80% 31% 5899 89% 52 2691 1244 1073 376 4527 3504 844 17 63 151 8 102 41 123 938 294 105 304 72 50 859 405 430 52 24 22
MLB Averages 58% 79% 31% 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%
1984 TOR AL 22 198 59% 82% 28% 21 95% 0 3 3 0 0 17 13 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1994 CIN NL 32 3265 62% 78% 32% 222 89% 1 54 33 9 12 165 130 26 3 8 2 0 2 0 2 11 5 2 10 0 0 0 13 85%
1998 TOR AL 36 1925 49% 74% 29% 117 83% 0 33 29 2 2 72 59 11 0 3 4 0 4 0 3 3 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 60%
1999 TOR AL 37 4890 57% 78% 33% 318 80% 1 65 44 8 14 212 159 45 3 7 18 1 15 2 13 21 12 2 15 3 1 2 23 35%
2001 MIL NL 39 505 64% 73% 28% 28 96% 0 3 2 0 1 25 18 7 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 4 4 0 4 0 0 0 1 100%
5 Seasons 10783 58% 77% 32% 706 84% 2 158 111 19 29 491 379 93 6 18 26 1 23 2 20 40 24 4 33 3 1 2 42 55%
MLB Averages 58% 79% 31% 88% 66%

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
1994 CIN NL 32 142 49% 80% 40% 17 88% 0 7 3 2 2 12 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1995 NYY AL 33 168 60% 79% 32% 13 77% 0 8 3 4 1 9 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0
1997 CLE AL 35 3660 55% 77% 33% 343 94% 2 204 64 110 31 296 264 25 2 6 10 1 3 6 6 59 21 11 13 6 54 19 35 4 1 3
1998 TOR AL 36 3081 49% 76% 31% 315 79% 2 127 50 54 23 221 184 32 0 1 9 0 9 0 7 43 16 3 15 2 40 17 21 2 0 1
1999 TOR AL 37 12 58% 75% 33% 2 100% 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 7063 52% 77% 32% 690 87% 4 346 120 170 57 540 467 60 2 7 19 1 12 6 13 105 38 14 29 8 96 37 57 7 2 4
MLB Averages 58% 79% 31% 92%

* 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

Hall of Fame
2007 BBWAA ( 0.7%)

All-Star Games
1986 *
1987 *
1989 *
1992 *
1999 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1986 AL (14, 4%)
1987 AL (8, 20%)
1988 AL (26, 0%)
1989 AL (19, 2%)
0.26 Career Shares (652nd)

Gold Gloves
1986 AL (SS)
1987 AL (SS)
1988 AL (SS)
1989 AL (SS)
All multiple winners

Assists† s c a p y
1985 AL  478 (3rd)
1986 AL  445 (5th)
1988 AL  470 (5th)
1989 AL  475 (5th)
1990 AL  480 (2nd)
1991 NL  440 (4th)
Career  5,544 (61st)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1985 AL  30 (2nd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1999 AL  132 (5th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1985 AL  160 (3rd)
1986 AL  163 (1st)
1987 AL  146 (5th)
1988 AL  154 (4th)
1990 AL  161 (1st)
1991 NL  145 (4th)
1992 NL  154 (2nd)
Career  1,573 (51st)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1985 AL  283 (2nd)
1986 AL  294 (1st)
1987 AL  270 (1st)
1988 AL  247 (5th)
1989 AL  260 (3rd)
1990 AL  297 (1st)
1991 NL  247 (2nd)
1992 NL  240 (2nd)
Career  2,708 (59th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1985 AL  478 (1st)
1986 AL  445 (4th)
1987 AL  396 (5th)
1988 AL  470 (4th)
1989 AL  475 (4th)
1990 AL  480 (1st)
1991 NL  440 (2nd)
1992 NL  405 (4th)
Career  4,511 (62nd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1985 AL  30 (2nd)
1991 NL  20 (5th)
1992 NL  11 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1997 AL  9 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1997 AL  5.38 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1997 AL  4.61 (4th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1994 NL  .991 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1985 AL  12 (1st)
1987 AL  6 (4th)
1989 AL  13 (3rd)
Career  42 (45th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1985 AL  4.84 (4th)
1987 AL  4.95 (3rd)
1988 AL  4.83 (5th)
1989 AL  5.32 (1st)
1990 AL  5.05 (3rd)
1991 NL  4.90 (3rd)
1993 AL  4.99 (1st)
Career  4.83 (30th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1985 AL  4.76 (2nd)
1986 AL  4.53 (5th)
1987 AL  4.56 (3rd)
1988 AL  4.66 (5th)
1989 AL  5.25 (1st)
1990 AL  4.83 (2nd)
1991 NL  4.74 (3rd)
1993 AL  4.85 (1st)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1986 AL  .983 (1st)
1987 AL  .979 (3rd)
1988 AL  .981 (3rd)
1989 AL  .992 (1st)
1990 AL  .989 (2nd)
1991 NL  .972 (4th)
1992 NL  .983 (3rd)
1993 AL  .985 (2nd)
Career  .980 (9th)

Oldest s c a p y
2001 AL  born 1962-06-30 (7th)

Youngest s c a p y
1983 AL  born 1962-06-30 (4th)

                                         

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