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Roy Foster

Roy Foster

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: July 29, 1945 in Bixby, OK
High School: Booker T. Washington HS (Tulsa, OK)
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1963. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 7, 1970
Team: Indians 1970-1972

Final Game: October 1, 1972
Died: March 21, 2008 in Tulsa, OK
Buried: North Heights Cemetery, Sapulpa, OK
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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
1970 CLE AL 24 OF 131 129 99 1101.2 201 188 6 7 0 .965 -10 -11 1.58 1.48 .980 2.14 2.13 RoY-2
1970 CLE AL 24 LF 110 108 82 928.1 165 155 4 6 0 .964 -6 -8 1.54 1.45 .978 1.81 1.80 RoY-2
1970 CLE AL 24 RF 21 21 17 173.1 29 26 2 1 0 .966 -4 -25 1.45 1.33 .975 1.98 1.97 RoY-2
1971 CLE AL 25 OF 107 98 80 875.1 189 174 9 6 2 .968 -4 -6 1.88 1.71 .982 2.24 2.22
1971 CLE AL 25 RF 65 60 48 521.0 119 110 5 4 1 .966 -3 -7 1.99 1.77 .980 2.05 2.04
1971 CLE AL 25 LF 47 38 32 354.1 72 66 4 2 1 .972 -2 -5 1.78 1.49 .981 1.93 1.92
1972 CLE AL 26 OF 45 36 15 282.1 58 54 2 2 0 .966 -1 -6 1.79 1.24 .983 2.22 2.21
1972 CLE AL 26 RF 30 25 12 182.2 39 38 0 1 0 .974 -1 -8 1.87 1.27 .980 2.12 2.11
1972 CLE AL 26 LF 17 11 3 99.2 18 16 1 1 0 .944 -0 -2 1.54 1.00 .980 1.89 1.89
3 Seasons OF 283 263 194 2259.1 448 416 17 15 2 .967 -16 -8 1.72 1.53 .981 2.19 2.18
3 Seasons LF 174 157 117 1382.1 255 237 9 9 1 .965 -8 -7 1.60 1.41 .979 1.85 1.84
3 Seasons RF 116 106 77 877.0 187 174 7 6 1 .968 -8 -11 1.86 1.56 .979 2.05 2.05
3 Seasons TOT 283 263 194 2259.1 448 416 17 15 2 .967 -16 -8 1.72 1.53 .981 2.19 2.18
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
1970 CLE AL 24 LF -6 -8 -4 -4 -0 -2
1970 CLE AL 24 RF -4 -25 -3 -1 -2 -1
1971 CLE AL 25 RF -3 -7 -1 -2 1 -2
1971 CLE AL 25 LF -2 -5 -2 -1 -1 0
1972 CLE AL 26 RF -1 -8 1 2 -2 -2
1972 CLE AL 26 LF -0 -2 -0 1 -1 0
3 Seasons LF -8 -7 -6 -4 -2 -2
3 Seasons RF -8 -11 -3 -0 -2 -5
3 Seasons TOT -16 -8 -9 -4 -4 -7

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1970 CLE AL 24 139 129 139 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 110 0 21 131 0 9 0
1971 CLE AL 25 125 98 125 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 47 0 65 107 0 24 3
1972 CLE AL 26 73 36 73 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 30 44 0 32 0
3 Seasons 337 263 337 282 0 0 0 0 0 0 174 0 116 282 0 65 3
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 -- 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 24 6 0 6 0 1 4 0 3 1 0 57 39 1 27 3 0 19 16 0 10 3 0 16 16 0 129 77 59.7% 51 1 0.8% 3 3999 67% 74% 24% 392 41%
1971 CLE AL 25 2 0 2 0 2 4 0 2 0 2 24 17 0 15 5 1 10 5 0 2 0 1 7 5 0 58 32 55.2% 24 2 3.4% 2 1566 59% 75% 27% 156 44%
1972 CLE AL 26 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 7 5 71.4% 2 0 0.0% 1 394 55% 81% 33% 36 47%
3 Seasons 9 0 9 0 4 9 0 5 1 2 86 60 1 42 8 1 30 21 0 12 3 1 24 22 0 194 114 58.8% 77 3 1.5% 6 5959 64% 75% 25% 584 42%
MLB Averages 59.4% 2.9% 64% 79% 27% 46%

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 24 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 6 1 0 4 1 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 17 4 23.5% 12 1 5.9% 1 728 65% 77% 28% 58 48%
1971 CLE AL 25 4 0 4 0 1 5 0 1 1 2 40 9 2 26 10 1 8 6 0 6 0 0 11 5 0 91 30 33.0% 58 3 3.3% 2 2254 63% 77% 26% 239 48%
1972 CLE AL 26 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 3 0 3 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 19 6 31.6% 13 0 0.0% 0 734 58% 83% 28% 82 46%
3 Seasons 6 0 6 0 2 7 0 2 1 3 55 13 2 33 11 1 16 8 1 6 0 0 17 8 0 127 40 31.5% 83 4 3.1% 3 3716 62% 78% 27% 379 47%
MLB Averages 42.0% 3.2% 64% 79% 27% 53%

* 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

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1970 AL  6 (2nd)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1971 AL  4 (5th)

                           

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