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Cecil Fielder

Cecil Grant Fielder (Big Daddy)

Positions: First Baseman and Designated Hitter
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 230 lb.

Born: September 21, 1963 in Los Angeles, CA
High School: Nogales HS (La Puente, CA)
School: University of Nevada-Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV)
Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 4th round of the 1982 amateur draft (June Secondary). Player signed June 15, 1982. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 20, 1985
Teams (by GP): Tigers/BlueJays/Yankees/Angels/Indians 1985-1998
Agents: Bob Gilhooley,Jim Bronner [*]
Final Game: September 13, 1998
Relatives: Father of Prince Fielder
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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
1985 TOR AL 21 1B 25 24 4 164.0 192 171 17 4 21 .979 2 15 10.32 7.52 .991 9.76 9.67
1986 TOR AL 22 DH 22 15
1986 TOR AL 22 1B 7 5 2 40.0 40 37 3 0 3 1.000 -0 -6 9.00 5.71 .991 9.43 9.33
1986 TOR AL 22 3B 2 0 0 2.0 2 0 1 1 0 .500 -0 -180 4.50 0.50 .950 2.70 2.70
1986 TOR AL 22 LF 1 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.10 2.20
1986 TOR AL 22 OF 1 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.40 2.40
1987 TOR AL 23 DH 52 34
1987 TOR AL 23 1B 16 15 4 102.0 104 98 6 0 12 1.000 -1 -13 9.18 6.50 .992 9.58 9.48
1987 TOR AL 23 3B 2 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -60 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.75
1988 TOR AL 24 DH 49 28
1988 TOR AL 24 1B 17 14 7 113.0 110 99 10 1 10 .991 -1 -7 8.68 6.41 .992 9.57 9.49
1988 TOR AL 24 3B 3 1 0 5.2 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -42 3.18 0.67 .955 2.70 2.70
1988 TOR AL 24 2B 2 0 0 5.1 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -68 3.38 1.00 .980 5.06 5.10
1990 DET AL 26 1B 143 139 134 1226.1 1315 1190 111 14 137 .989 1 1 9.55 9.10 .992 9.63 9.53 AS,MVP-2,SS
1990 DET AL 26 DH 15 15 AS,MVP-2,SS
1991 DET AL 27 1B 122 120 106 1037.0 1146 1055 83 8 110 .993 -2 -2 9.88 9.33 .992 9.75 9.74 AS,MVP-2,SS
1991 DET AL 27 DH 42 42 AS,MVP-2,SS
1992 DET AL 28 1B 114 112 92 954.1 1059 957 92 10 98 .991 2 3 9.89 9.20 .993 9.68 9.64 MVP-9
1992 DET AL 28 DH 43 43 MVP-9
1993 DET AL 29 1B 119 118 81 962.1 1059 971 78 10 84 .991 -14 -17 9.81 8.82 .993 9.57 9.48 AS,MVP-24
1993 DET AL 29 DH 36 35 AS,MVP-24
1994 DET AL 30 1B 102 102 71 852.0 1002 887 108 7 73 .993 4 5 10.51 9.75 .992 9.57 9.49
1994 DET AL 30 DH 7 7
1995 DET AL 31 1B 77 77 52 635.2 709 631 73 5 66 .993 -7 -13 9.97 9.14 .993 9.61 9.50
1995 DET AL 31 DH 58 58
1996 TOT AL 32 1B 80 80 71 687.2 733 663 63 7 59 .990 -3 -6 9.50 9.08 .992 9.24 9.18
1996 TOT AL 32 DH 79 78
1996 DET AL 32 1B 71 71 62 609.2 655 589 59 7 51 .989 -2 -4 9.57 9.13 .992 9.24 9.18
1996 DET AL 32 DH 36 36
1996 NYY AL 32 DH 43 42
1996 NYY AL 32 1B 9 9 9 78.0 78 74 4 0 8 1.000 -1 -15 9.00 8.67 .992 9.24 9.18
1997 NYY AL 33 DH 89 88
1997 NYY AL 33 1B 8 8 6 67.1 65 59 6 0 8 1.000 1 25 8.69 8.13 .992 9.30 9.22
1998 TOT AL 34 1B 75 74 58 633.1 606 562 41 3 61 .995 -10 -18 8.57 8.04 .992 9.43 9.33
1998 TOT AL 34 DH 41 38
1998 ANA AL 34 1B 72 72 56 613.1 591 550 39 2 60 .997 -8 -16 8.64 8.18 .992 9.43 9.33
1998 ANA AL 34 DH 31 31
1998 CLE AL 34 DH 10 7
1998 CLE AL 34 1B 3 2 2 20.0 15 12 2 1 1 .933 -1 -78 6.30 4.67 .992 9.45 9.33
13 Seasons 1B 905 888 688 7475.0 8140 7380 691 69 742 .992 -27 -4 9.72 8.92 .992 9.58 9.51
3 Seasons 3B 7 1 0 9.2 4 1 2 1 0 .750 -1 -74 2.79 0.43 .952 2.70 2.71
1 Season 2B 2 0 0 5.1 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -68 3.38 1.00 .980 5.06 5.10
1 Season OF 1 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.40 2.40
1 Season LF 1 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.10 2.20
13 Seasons TOT 915 889 688 7493.0 8146 7382 694 70 742 .991 -28 -4 9.70 8.83 .992 9.57 9.44
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
1985 TOR AL 21 1B 2 15 2 2 0 0
1986 TOR AL 22 1B -0 -6 -0 -0 0 0
1986 TOR AL 22 3B -0 -180 -0 -0 0 0
1986 TOR AL 22 LF 0 0 0 0 0
1987 TOR AL 23 1B -1 -13 -1 -1 -0 0
1987 TOR AL 23 3B -0 -60 -0 0 -0
1988 TOR AL 24 1B -1 -7 -1 -1 -0 0
1988 TOR AL 24 3B -0 -42 -0 0 -0 0
1988 TOR AL 24 2B -0 -68 -0 0 -0 0
1990 DET AL 26 1B 1 1 2 2 -0 -1
1991 DET AL 27 1B -2 -2 -2 -0 -1 0
1992 DET AL 28 1B 2 3 2 1 2 0
1993 DET AL 29 1B -14 -17 -14 -6 -8 0
1994 DET AL 30 1B 4 5 4 -0 5 -1
1995 DET AL 31 1B -7 -13 -6 -3 -3 -1
1996 DET AL 32 1B -2 -4 -1 -1 -1 -1
1996 NYY AL 32 1B -1 -15 -1 -0 -1 0
1997 NYY AL 33 1B 1 25 1 0 1 0
1998 ANA AL 34 1B -8 -16 -8 -8 -0 0
1998 CLE AL 34 1B -1 -78 -1 -1 -0 0
13 Seasons 1B -27 -4 -23 -16 -7 -4
3 Seasons 3B -1 -74 -1 0 -1 0
1 Season 2B -0 -68 -0 0 -0 0
1 Season LF 0 0 0 0 0
13 Seasons TOT -28 -4 -24 -16 -8 -4
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
1985 TOR AL 21 30 24 30 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1986 TOR AL 22 34 20 34 10 0 0 7 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 22 11 0
1987 TOR AL 23 82 49 82 17 0 0 16 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 52 33 0
1988 TOR AL 24 74 43 74 20 0 0 17 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 49 28 0
1990 DET AL 26 159 154 159 143 0 0 143 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 4 0
1991 DET AL 27 162 162 162 122 0 0 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 0 0
1992 DET AL 28 155 155 155 114 0 0 114 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 0 0
1993 DET AL 29 154 153 154 119 0 0 119 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36 1 0
1994 DET AL 30 109 109 109 102 0 0 102 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0
1995 DET AL 31 136 135 136 77 0 0 77 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 1 0
1996 DET AL 32 107 107 107 71 0 0 71 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36 0 0
1996 NYY AL 32 53 51 53 9 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 2 0
1997 NYY AL 33 98 96 98 8 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 89 2 0
1998 ANA AL 34 103 103 103 72 0 0 72 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 0 0
1998 CLE AL 34 14 9 14 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 4 0
13 Seasons 1470 1370 1470 912 0 0 905 2 7 0 1 0 0 1 533 91 0
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 -- 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%
1985 TOR AL 21 669 56% 82% 30% 41 93% 0 174 5 168 1 20 17 9 4 0 0 4 1 3 0 2 21 1 0 1 19 2 2 0 2 6 50%
1986 TOR AL 22 171 48% 77% 27% 11 100% 0 37 4 32 0 5 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
1987 TOR AL 23 460 60% 80% 24% 21 100% 0 96 9 86 1 7 6 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 13 1 0 0 0 1 100%
1988 TOR AL 24 492 64% 80% 34% 15 93% 0 99 0 97 1 5 11 9 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 9 0 1 0 1 0
1990 DET AL 26 5364 62% 79% 32% 275 92% 2 1187 66 1103 20 102 108 79 10 0 2 14 2 8 4 7 137 1 1 1 130 3 6 2 4 14 71%
1991 DET AL 27 4536 62% 82% 33% 235 90% 0 1054 58 979 18 87 84 56 12 1 3 8 1 6 1 5 110 3 2 1 103 6 7 1 6 14 93%
1992 DET AL 28 4177 63% 83% 33% 237 92% 0 957 65 880 13 79 92 67 11 0 6 10 2 7 1 6 98 1 2 0 90 3 8 1 7 7 71%
1993 DET AL 29 4249 61% 81% 33% 204 91% 0 969 65 886 20 57 78 60 3 0 3 10 3 6 1 5 84 1 0 0 78 1 6 1 5 14 57%
1994 DET AL 30 3806 54% 82% 34% 238 94% 3 889 54 822 14 78 104 79 10 3 1 7 1 2 4 4 73 0 1 0 66 1 7 3 4 11 64%
1995 DET AL 31 2876 53% 81% 34% 169 92% 2 631 40 581 9 51 73 57 7 2 2 5 0 3 2 4 66 0 1 0 61 1 5 1 4 9 67%
1996 DET AL 32 2911 51% 77% 31% 142 92% 0 590 32 548 11 46 57 43 9 1 3 7 1 2 4 2 51 0 1 0 47 1 4 0 3 11 82%
1996 NYY AL 32 359 64% 71% 30% 15 100% 0 75 7 67 2 5 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 6 0 2 1 1 0
1997 NYY AL 33 292 60% 73% 31% 14 100% 0 59 3 55 1 9 6 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 8 1 0 0 0 0
1998 ANA AL 34 2727 62% 77% 32% 113 82% 0 552 27 517 7 32 38 30 4 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 60 0 1 1 54 2 6 4 2 4 75%
1998 CLE AL 34 94 51% 78% 24% 3 33% 0 12 0 12 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
13 Seasons 33183 59% 80% 33% 1733 92% 7 7381 435 6833 118 583 682 501 72 8 22 69 12 40 17 38 743 7 9 4 688 22 54 14 39 91 71%
MLB Averages 58% 79% 32% 93% 86%

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%
1986 TOR AL 22 9 56% 67% 33% 2 50% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1987 TOR AL 23 8 25% 88% 38% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1988 TOR AL 24 24 71% 88% 21% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 41 59% 83% 27% 3 67% 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 58% 79% 32% 87% 68%

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
1988 TOR AL 24 27 100% 81% 26% 2 50% 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
1 Season 27 100% 81% 26% 2 50% 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
MLB Averages 58% 79% 32% 91%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

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%
1986 TOR AL 22 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 10 80% 80% 30% 0
1 Season 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 10 80% 80% 30% 0
MLB Averages 60.8% 2.7% 58% 79% 38% 52%

* 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
2004 BBWAA ( 0.2%)

All-Star Games
1990 *
1991 (1B)
1993 *

Awards (yr lg award)
1996 AL Babe Ruth Award

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1990 AL (2, 73%)
1991 AL (2, 73%)
1992 AL (9, 21%)
1993 AL (24, 0%)
1.67 Career Shares (121st)

Silver Sluggers
1990 AL (1B)
1991 AL (1B)
All multiple winners

Putouts† s c a p y
1990 AL  1,190 (4th)
1994 AL  887 (4th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1990 AL  143 (5th)
1994 AL  102 (5th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1990 AL  1,190 (4th)
1994 AL  887 (4th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1990 AL  111 (3rd)
1992 AL  92 (4th)
1994 AL  108 (1st)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1990 AL  14 (2nd)
1991 AL  8 (3rd)
1992 AL  10 (3rd)
1993 AL  10 (3rd)
1994 AL  7 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1991 AL  9.88 (5th)
1992 AL  9.89 (4th)
1993 AL  9.81 (3rd)
1994 AL  10.51 (2nd)
1995 AL  9.97 (4th)
Career  9.72 (50th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1994 AL  9.75 (4th)

Salary s c a p y
1992 AL  $4,500,000 (5th)
1995 AL  $9,237,500 (1st)
1996 AL  $9,237,500 (1st)
1997 AL  $9,237,500 (2nd)

                                         

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