Ted Ford

Theodore Henry Ford

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: February 7, 1947 in Vineland, NJ
High School: Richland HS (Richland, NJ)
Drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 1st round (11th pick) of the 1966 amateur draft (January). (All Transactions)
Debut: April 7, 1970
Teams (by GP): Rangers/Indians 1970-1973

Final Game: September 29, 1973
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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
1970	CLE	AL	23	OF	12	9	8	81.0	25	24	1	0	0	1.000	1	9	2.78	2.08	.980	2.14	2.13
1970	CLE	AL	23	RF	10	8	7	68.0	21	20	1	0	0	1.000	0	2	2.78	2.10	.975	1.99	1.97
1970	CLE	AL	23	LF	2	0	0	5.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	1	240	7.20	2.00	.978	1.80	1.80
1970	CLE	AL	23	CF	1	1	1	8.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-75	2.25	2.00	.985	2.59	2.60
1971	CLE	AL	24	OF	55	43	32	382.1	111	107	4	0	0	1.000	5	17	2.61	2.02	.982	2.24	2.22
1971	CLE	AL	24	RF	29	20	17	180.2	41	39	2	0	0	1.000	1	5	2.04	1.41	.980	2.05	2.04
1971	CLE	AL	24	CF	21	19	13	159.0	60	58	2	0	0	1.000	3	23	3.40	2.86	.983	2.73	2.72
1971	CLE	AL	24	LF	11	4	2	42.2	7	7	0	0	0	1.000	1	39	1.48	0.64	.981	1.94	1.92
1972	TEX	AL	25	OF	119	114	105	993.1	259	242	11	6	2	.977	5	6	2.29	2.13	.983	2.22	2.21
1972	TEX	AL	25	RF	102	97	89	844.1	222	207	10	5	2	.977	5	7	2.31	2.13	.980	2.12	2.11
1972	TEX	AL	25	LF	18	17	16	149.0	31	29	1	1	0	.968	-0	-2	1.81	1.67	.980	1.89	1.89
1973	CLE	AL	26	OF	10	9	6	87.0	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	-5	-68	0.62	0.60	.978	2.29	2.27
1973	CLE	AL	26	RF	7	3	3	40.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	-2	-57	0.90	0.57	.975	2.09	2.07
1973	CLE	AL	26	CF	6	6	3	47.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-3	-77	0.57	0.50	.983	2.78	2.77
	4 Seasons			OF	196	175	151	1543.2	401	379	16	6	2	.985	6	5	2.30	2.02	.982	2.22	2.21
	4 Seasons			RF	148	128	116	1133.0	288	270	13	5	2	.983	4	4	2.25	1.91	.980	2.10	2.09
	3 Seasons			LF	31	21	18	196.2	42	40	1	1	0	.976	2	13	1.88	1.32	.980	1.90	1.89
	3 Seasons			CF	28	26	17	214.0	65	63	2	0	0	1.000	-0	-2	2.73	2.32	.983	2.73	2.73
	4 Seasons			TOT	196	175	151	1543.2	401	379	16	6	2	.985	6	5	2.30	2.02	.982	2.22	2.21

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	Rof
1970	CLE	AL	23	RF	0	2	1	0	1	-1
1970	CLE	AL	23	LF	1	240	1	1	0	0
1970	CLE	AL	23	CF	-0	-75	-0	0	-0	0
1971	CLE	AL	24	RF	1	5	1	1	0	0
1971	CLE	AL	24	CF	3	23	3	2	2	0
1971	CLE	AL	24	LF	1	39	0	1	-0	1
1972	TEX	AL	25	RF	5	7	5	8	-2	0
1972	TEX	AL	25	LF	-0	-2	-0	1	-1	0
1973	CLE	AL	26	RF	-2	-57	-1	-0	-1	-1
1973	CLE	AL	26	CF	-3	-77	-3	-2	-1	0
	4 Seasons			RF	4	4	6	8	-2	-2
	3 Seasons			LF	2	13	1	2	-1	1
	3 Seasons			CF	-0	-2	-0	-1	0	0
	4 Seasons			TOT	6	5	7	10	-3	-1

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1970	CLE	AL	23	26	9	26	12	2	1	10	12	13	3
1971	CLE	AL	24	74	43	74	55	11	21	29	55	20	4
1972	TEX	AL	25	129	114	129	119	18	0	102	119	13	0
1973	CLE	AL	26	11	9	11	10	0	6	7	13	1	0
	4 Seasons			240	175	240	196	31	28	148	199	47	7

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 -- RF*

				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%
1970	CLE	AL	23	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	5	0	0	5	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	13	3	23.1%	10	0	0.0%	1	303	64%	76%	22%	40	53%
1971	CLE	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	10	1	0	7	2	1	6	4	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	26	10	38.5%	15	1	3.8%	1	813	63%	75%	24%	79	52%
1972	TEX	AL	25	5	0	5	0	2	10	0	5	2	3	50	19	1	27	2	2	16	11	1	12	1	1	24	15	1	129	48	37.2%	75	6	4.7%	4	3683	61%	78%	26%	378	57%
1973	CLE	AL	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	0	0.0%	6	0	0.0%	0	178	71%	78%	24%	9	44%
	4 Seasons			5	0	5	0	2	13	0	6	3	4	67	20	1	41	6	3	23	15	1	14	2	1	29	18	1	174	61	35.1%	106	7	4.0%	6	4977	62%	77%	26%	506	56%
	MLB Averages																														41.7%			3.3%			64%	80%	27%		53%

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%
1970	CLE	AL	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	21	67%	81%	43%	5	80%
1971	CLE	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	185	75%	71%	24%	17	41%
1972	TEX	AL	25	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	7	5	1	5	1	0	5	4	0	3	1	0	3	1	0	23	12	52.2%	10	1	4.3%	0	628	68%	76%	24%	64	47%
	3 Seasons			1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	9	7	1	6	2	0	7	6	0	3	1	0	4	2	0	29	18	62.1%	10	1	3.4%	0	834	70%	75%	24%	86	48%
	MLB Averages																														59.4%			2.7%			64%	80%	27%		47%

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

				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%
1970	CLE	AL	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	36	89%	81%	25%	4	50%
1971	CLE	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	12	5	0	6	1	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	6	4	0	28	11	39.3%	17	0	0.0%	2	693	56%	76%	28%	105	57%
1973	CLE	AL	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	60.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	196	52%	81%	21%	12	25%
	3 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	17	8	0	7	1	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	6	4	0	34	14	41.2%	20	0	0.0%	2	925	56%	77%	26%	121	54%
	MLB Averages																														44.2%			2.3%			64%	80%	27%		56%

* 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

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1972 AL 102 (5th)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1972 AL 207 (5th)	Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1972 AL 10 (1st)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1972 AL 5 (3rd)
Assists as OF s c a p y 1972 AL 11 (3rd)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1972 AL 6 (5th)	Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1972 AL 2.31 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1972 AL 2.13 (2nd)

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