Prince Fielder

Prince Semien Fielder

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 275 lb.

Born: May 9, 1984 in Ontario, CA
High School: Eau Gallie HS (Melbourne, FL)
Drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1st round (7th pick) of the 2002 amateur draft.
Signed June 17, 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 13, 2005
Teams (by GP): Brewers/Tigers 2005-2012
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2020, 9 yrs/$214M (12-20) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 6.068, Free Agent: 2021 [*], Agents: Scott Boras [*]
Relatives: Son of Cecil Fielder
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All-Star

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
2005	MIL	NL	21	1B	7	3	1	34.0	30	26	4	0	2	1.000	0	0	18	0	7.94	4.29	.993	9.66	9.51
2005	MIL	NL	21	DH	5	4
2006	MIL	NL	22	1B	152	150	147	1319.1	1358	1259	88	11	113	.992	-14	-22	-13	-20	9.19	8.86	.994	9.43	9.36	RoY-7
2006	MIL	NL	22	DH	1	1																		RoY-7
2007	MIL	NL	23	1B	153	151	146	1338.0	1276	1163	99	14	115	.989	-11	-15	-10	-13	8.49	8.25	.993	9.21	9.17	AS,MVP-3,SS
2007	MIL	NL	23	DH	4	4																		AS,MVP-3,SS
2008	MIL	NL	24	1B	155	155	150	1383.2	1475	1369	89	17	132	.988	-4	-12	-3	-10	9.48	9.41	.992	9.34	9.28	MVP-20
2008	MIL	NL	24	DH	4	4																		MVP-20
2009	MIL	NL	25	1B	162	162	159	1431.0	1460	1387	66	7	142	.995	-4	0	-3	0	9.14	8.97	.993	9.29	9.21	AS,MVP-4
2010	MIL	NL	26	1B	160	160	154	1411.0	1341	1251	86	4	116	.997	-8	-17	-7	-14	8.53	8.36	.993	9.23	9.13
2010	MIL	NL	26	DH	1	1
2011	MIL	NL	27	1B	159	159	143	1394.2	1431	1332	84	15	113	.990	-6	-9	-6	-8	9.14	8.91	.994	9.33	9.31	AS,MVP-3,SS
2011	MIL	NL	27	DH	3	3																		AS,MVP-3,SS
2012	DET	AL	28	1B	48	48	47	420.0	406	368	32	6	24	.985	-2	-5	-7	-14	8.57	8.33	.995	9.49	9.47
2012	DET	AL	28	DH	1	1
	8 Seasons			1B	996	988	947	8731.2	8777	8155	548	74	757	.992	-48	-80	-7	-10	8.97	8.74	.993	9.31	9.26
	8 Seasons			TOT	996	988	947	8731.2	8777	8155	548	74	757	.992	-48	-80	-7	-10	8.97	8.74	.993	9.31	9.26

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	MIL	NL	21	1B	0	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0
2006	MIL	NL	22	1B	-14	-13	-13	-2	-11	-1	-22	-20	-13		-3
2007	MIL	NL	23	1B	-11	-10	-10	-4	-6	-1	-15	-13	-11		-3
2008	MIL	NL	24	1B	-4	-3	-3	-4	1	-1	-12	-10	-9		1
2009	MIL	NL	25	1B	-4	-3	-4	-2	-2	0	0	0	-1	0	-1
2010	MIL	NL	26	1B	-8	-7	-7	2	-9	-1	-17	-14	-15	0	0
2011	MIL	NL	27	1B	-6	-6	-6	-4	-2	0	-9	-8	-7	0	0
2012	DET	AL	28	1B	-2	-7	-2	3	-4	-1	-5	-14	-1	0	0
	8 Seasons			1B	-48	-7	-44	-12	-32	-5	-80	-10	-57	0	-6
	8 Seasons			TOT	-48	-7	-44	-12	-32	-5	-80	-10	-57	0	-6

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	DH	PH
2005	MIL	NL	21	39	7	39	7	7	5	30
2006	MIL	NL	22	157	151	157	152	152	1	5
2007	MIL	NL	23	158	155	158	153	153	4	2
2008	MIL	NL	24	159	159	159	155	155	4	0
2009	MIL	NL	25	162	162	162	162	162	0	0
2010	MIL	NL	26	161	161	161	160	160	1	0
2011	MIL	NL	27	162	162	162	159	159	3	0
2012	DET	AL	28	49	49	49	48	48	1	0
	8 Seasons			1047	1006	1047	996	996	19	37

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%
2005	MIL	NL	21	139	63%	73%	33%	8	88%	0	26	1	25	0	2	4	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	100%
2006	MIL	NL	22	5771	64%	75%	29%	294	92%	0	1259	110	1101	52	82	88	66	11	1	6	11	6	5	0	5	113	2	2	0	106	4	7	2	5	37	76%
2007	MIL	NL	23	5807	61%	76%	30%	295	90%	2	1163	102	1032	29	76	99	80	7	0	8	14	2	9	3	10	115	0	3	0	109	3	6	1	5	19	79%
2008	MIL	NL	24	5887	59%	76%	32%	313	90%	0	1369	88	1257	25	117	89	65	10	1	5	17	3	13	1	12	132	1	0	1	120	4	11	6	5	28	86%
2009	MIL	NL	25	6335	56%	75%	30%	292	92%	2	1387	84	1263	39	130	66	43	12	4	4	7	1	5	1	5	142	3	2	1	135	6	7	1	6	16	69%
2010	MIL	NL	26	6208	64%	73%	29%	291	93%	2	1251	98	1124	28	100	86	55	15	1	8	4	0	4	0	4	116	0	2	0	106	4	10	0	10	15	87%
2011	MIL	NL	27	5841	61%	75%	31%	302	91%	4	1332	86	1207	38	118	84	54	17	4	2	15	5	9	1	9	113	3	3	1	105	8	8	3	5	12	92%
2012	DET	AL	28	1805	50%	74%	30%	101	91%	1	368	26	333	12	38	32	24	4	0	1	6	4	1	1	1	24	1	0	0	23	1	1	0	1	3	67%
	8 Seasons			37793	60%	75%	30%	1896	91%	11	8155	595	7342	223	663	548	391	76	11	35	74	21	46	7	46	757	10	12	3	705	30	51	13	38	131	80%
	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

All-Star Games 2007 (1B) 2009 * 2011 (1B)	Awards (yr lg award) 2007 NL Hank Aaron Award 2011 ML AS MVP	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2007 NL (3, 63%) 2008 NL (20, 2%) 2009 NL (4, 45%) 2011 NL (3, 51%) 1.61 Career Shares (129th)	Silver Sluggers 2007 NL (1B) 2011 NL (1B) All multiple winners
Putouts† s c a p y 2006 NL 1,259 (4th) 2008 NL 1,369 (2nd) 2009 NL 1,387 (2nd) 2010 NL 1,251 (5th) 2011 NL 1,332 (2nd) Active 8,155 (14th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 2006 NL 152 (3rd) 2007 NL 153 (3rd) 2008 NL 155 (4th) 2009 NL 162 (1st) 2010 NL 160 (1st) 2011 NL 159 (2nd) 2012 AL 48 (2nd) Active 996 (11th)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 2006 NL 1,259 (4th) 2008 NL 1,369 (2nd) 2009 NL 1,387 (2nd) 2010 NL 1,251 (5th) 2011 NL 1,332 (2nd) Active 8,155 (12th)	Assists as 1B s c a p y 2007 NL 99 (5th) 2012 AL 32 (5th) Active 548 (14th)
Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 2006 NL 11 (4th) 2007 NL 14 (1st) 2008 NL 17 (2nd) 2011 NL 15 (1st) 2012 AL 6 (1st) Active 74 (6th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y Active 8.97 (20th)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 2008 NL 9.41 (5th) 2009 NL 8.97 (5th) Active 8.74 (12th)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 2009 NL .995 (5th) 2010 NL .997 (4th) Active .992 (19th)
Youngest s c a p y 2005 NL born 1984-05-09 (6th)

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