Álex González

Alexander Gonzalez (Sea Bass)

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: February 15, 1977 in Cagua, Aragua, Venezuela
High School: Turmero (Turmero, VE)
Signed by the Florida Marlins as an amateur free agent in 1994. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 25, 1998
Teams (by GP): Marlins/Braves/Reds/RedSox/BlueJays 1998-2011
2012 Contract Status: Free Agent (vesting option), 2 yrs/$5.25M (10-11), 1 yr/$4.25M (12) & 13 vesting option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 13.034, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: Eric Goldschmidt [*]
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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
1998	FLA	NL	21	SS	25				89	29	58	2	17	.978	-2					3.48	.968		4.50
1999	FLA	NL	22	SS	135				603	237	339	27	85	.955	-12					4.27	.967		4.39	AS
2000	FLA	NL	23	SS	104				446	139	288	19	63	.957	-4					4.11	.967		4.47
2001	FLA	NL	24	SS	142				642	220	396	26	101	.960	-2					4.34	.968		4.42
2002	FLA	NL	25	SS	42				188	72	113	3	32	.984	2					4.40	.970		4.49
2003	FLA	NL	26	SS	150				679	237	426	16	109	.976	1	-3				4.42	.973		4.48
2004	FLA	NL	27	SS	158				666	225	425	16	99	.976	-0	8				4.11	.973		4.42
2005	FLA	NL	28	SS	124				604	221	367	16	102	.974	4	2				4.74	.976		4.45
2006	BOS	AL	29	SS	111				475	163	305	7	68	.985	2	3				4.22	.970		4.42
2007	CIN	NL	30	SS	103				427	147	264	16	73	.963	1	5				3.99	.975		4.42
2009	TOT	MLB	32	SS	112				425	148	270	7	59	.984	-0	-5				3.73	.973		4.33
2009	CIN	NL	32	SS	68				266	97	163	6	42	.977	1	0				3.82	.974		4.34
2009	BOS	AL	32	SS	44				159	51	107	1	17	.994	-1	-5				3.59	.972		4.31
2010	TOT	MLB	33	SS	157				700	195	486	19	116	.973	12	16				4.34	.972		4.32
2010	TOR	AL	33	SS	85				387	104	272	11	67	.972	7	9				4.42	.973		4.36
2010	ATL	NL	33	SS	72				313	91	214	8	49	.974	5	7				4.24	.971		4.27
2011	ATL	NL	34	SS	149	146	138	1316.0	633	187	434	12	79	.981	11	15	10	14	4.25	4.17	.971	4.41	4.40
	13 Seasons			SS	1512	146	138	1316.0	6577	2220	4171	186	1003	.972	11	41	10	37	4.25	4.23	.971	4.41	4.41
	13 Seasons			TOT	1512	146	138	1316.0	6577	2220	4171	186	1003	.972	11	41	10	37	4.25	4.23	.971	4.41	4.41
Lg				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

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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
1998	FLA	NL	21	SS	-2		-2	1	-3	0
1999	FLA	NL	22	SS	-12		-13	2	-15	1
2000	FLA	NL	23	SS	-4		-5	-8	3	1
2001	FLA	NL	24	SS	-2		-4	1	-5	2
2002	FLA	NL	25	SS	2		2	1	1	0
2003	FLA	NL	26	SS	1		-3	3	-6	4	-3		-7	4	0
2004	FLA	NL	27	SS	-0		-1	4	-5	1	8		7	1	0
2005	FLA	NL	28	SS	4		2	0	2	2	2		-1	3	0
2006	BOS	AL	29	SS	2		0	0	0	1	3		3	0	0
2007	CIN	NL	30	SS	1		-0	2	-2	1	5		3	2	0
2009	CIN	NL	32	SS	1		-0	6	-6	1	0		-1	1	0
2009	BOS	AL	32	SS	-1		-1	2	-3	0	-5		-5	0	0
2010	TOR	AL	33	SS	7		6	3	3	1	9		7	2	0
2010	ATL	NL	33	SS	5		5	1	4	0	7		5	2	0
2011	ATL	NL	34	SS	11	10	13	0	13	-3	15	14	17	-2
	13 Seasons			SS	11	10	-1	20	-21	12	41	37	28	13	0
	13 Seasons			TOT	23	21	9	32	-23	14	41	37	28	13	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	SS	PH	PR
1998	FLA	NL	21	25	23	25	25	25	0	1
1999	FLA	NL	22	136	130	136	135	135	1	1
2000	FLA	NL	23	109	98	109	104	104	2	4
2001	FLA	NL	24	145	139	145	142	142	2	1
2002	FLA	NL	25	42	41	42	42	42	0	1
2003	FLA	NL	26	150	150	150	150	150	0	0
2004	FLA	NL	27	159	155	159	158	158	1	0
2005	FLA	NL	28	130	124	130	124	124	1	5
2006	BOS	AL	29	111	110	111	111	111	0	0
2007	CIN	NL	30	110	98	110	103	103	8	0
2009	CIN	NL	32	68	67	68	68	68	0	0
2009	BOS	AL	32	44	43	44	44	44	0	0
2010	TOR	AL	33	85	85	85	85	85	0	0
2010	ATL	NL	33	72	71	72	72	72	0	0
2011	ATL	NL	34	149	146	149	149	149	2	0
	13 Seasons			1535	1480	1535	1512	1512	17	13

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1919 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
1998	FLA	NL	21	1000	65%	76%	29%	84	74%	1	28	12	14	2	57	40	13	0	1	2	0	2	0	2	17	9	2	4	0	0	16	11	5	1	0	1
1999	FLA	NL	22	5090	55%	78%	31%	433	90%	8	237	104	104	30	339	258	61	5	10	27	1	25	1	20	85	29	6	27	9	8	81	35	44	3	1	2
2000	FLA	NL	23	3813	61%	76%	29%	329	95%	4	134	65	53	16	289	234	41	2	9	19	0	9	10	16	62	21	7	21	5	2	58	28	28	2	0	2
2001	FLA	NL	24	5301	52%	74%	29%	465	95%	6	220	103	95	22	396	312	65	2	6	26	2	17	7	21	101	38	9	29	10	4	94	47	45	7	5	2
2002	FLA	NL	25	1501	55%	76%	27%	132	98%	1	70	32	25	13	111	83	26	0	2	3	1	1	1	2	32	12	2	8	2	2	27	14	13	2	0	2
2003	FLA	NL	26	5583	64%	75%	31%	533	90%	4	238	110	103	25	425	333	82	3	4	16	1	6	9	14	109	37	10	34	5	12	100	48	51	7	2	4
2004	FLA	NL	27	5748	57%	76%	31%	541	89%	2	225	106	99	21	425	341	73	1	5	16	2	5	9	8	99	34	9	34	5	6	90	43	46	6	2	4
2005	FLA	NL	28	4676	59%	75%	32%	448	91%	7	221	88	106	27	368	300	55	1	3	16	1	8	7	9	102	37	10	33	5	6	94	48	46	5	1	4
2006	BOS	AL	29	4185	56%	78%	32%	387	91%	3	163	81	69	13	305	245	50	1	8	7	1	3	3	5	68	28	9	13	6	6	63	38	25	4	0	2
2007	CIN	NL	30	3787	57%	78%	30%	344	89%	1	147	62	65	20	264	203	60	0	1	16	1	12	3	13	73	32	9	18	1	2	65	43	22	5	1	4
2009	CIN	NL	32	2507	53%	76%	31%	205	93%	1	97	46	42	9	163	127	30	1	3	6	0	4	2	3	42	17	7	11	2	2	40	24	16	2	0	0
2009	BOS	AL	32	1614	53%	75%	28%	135	87%	0	51	24	23	4	107	91	11	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	17	6	1	7	0	2	16	7	9	1	0	1
2010	TOR	AL	33	3145	60%	74%	33%	336	91%	5	104	56	35	13	272	185	76	4	3	11	1	2	8	6	67	39	6	9	4	3	63	46	16	2	1	1
2010	ATL	NL	33	2656	57%	72%	34%	263	90%	2	91	41	35	15	214	165	45	0	2	8	1	3	4	5	49	24	4	10	1	1	42	30	12	3	0	3
2011	ATL	NL	34	5525	58%	73%	32%	542	91%	5	187	96	73	19	434	350	71	1	2	12	2	7	3	8	79	35	8	14	7	1	69	43	25	8	4	4
	13 Seasons			56131	58%	75%	31%	5177	91%	50	2213	1026	941	249	4169	3267	759	21	63	186	14	104	68	132	1002	398	99	272	62	57	918	505	403	58	17	36
	MLB Averages				58%	77%	31%		90%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1919 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 1999 *	Assists† s c a p y 2004 NL 425 (5th) Active 4,171 (10th)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1999 NL 27 (4th) 2001 NL 26 (2nd) Active 186 (11th)	Def. Games as SS s c a p y 2004 NL 158 (2nd) 2011 NL 149 (3rd) Active 1,512 (7th) Career 1,512 (60th)
Putouts as SS s c a p y 1999 NL 237 (2nd) 2001 NL 220 (3rd) 2003 NL 237 (2nd) 2004 NL 225 (3rd) Active 2,220 (6th) Career 2,220 (83rd)	Assists as SS s c a p y 2001 NL 396 (5th) 2004 NL 425 (3rd) 2011 NL 434 (3rd) Active 4,171 (8th) Career 4,171 (72nd)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1999 NL 27 (2nd) 2001 NL 26 (1st) 2003 NL 16 (5th) 2004 NL 16 (5th) 2005 NL 16 (4th) Active 186 (6th)	Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y 2011 NL 11 (5th) Active 11 (23rd) Career 11 (98th)
Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y 2003 NL 4.54 (5th) 2005 NL 4.87 (4th) Active 4.25 (18th) Career 4.25 (43rd)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 1999 NL 4.27 (4th) 2003 NL 4.42 (3rd) 2005 NL 4.74 (4th) 2010 AL 4.42 (4th) Active 4.23 (14th)	Fielding % as SS s c a p y 2006 AL .985 (1st) 2011 NL .981 (3rd) Active .972 (21st) Career .972 (58th)

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