Carlos González

Carlos Eduardo Gonzalez (Cargo)

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: October 17, 1985 in Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela
High School: Liceo Udon Perez (Maracaibo, VE)
Signed by the Arizona Diamondbacks as an amateur free agent in 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 30, 2008
Teams (by GP): Rockies/Athletics 2008-2012
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2017, 7 yrs/$80M (11-17) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 3.059, Free Agent: 2018 [*], Agents: Scott Boras, previously: Lenny Strelitz [*]
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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	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
2008	OAK	AL	22	OF	81	76	51	689.1	226	219	5	2	1	.991	11	10	19	17	2.92	2.77	.986	2.31	2.28
2008	OAK	AL	22	CF	69	66	41	528.2	183	176	5	2	1	.989	7	6	15	14	3.08	2.62	.989	2.71	2.69
2008	OAK	AL	22	RF	36	10	10	160.2	43	43	0	0	0	1.000	4	4	34	30	2.41	1.19	.985	2.15	2.13
2009	COL	NL	23	OF	80	70	49	632.2	160	152	6	2	0	.988	5	2	10	3	2.25	1.98	.986	2.20	2.18
2009	COL	NL	23	LF	47	30	26	294.1	69	67	2	0	0	1.000	4	0	17	0	2.11	1.47	.982	1.93	1.91
2009	COL	NL	23	CF	43	38	21	309.2	87	82	3	2	0	.977	4	2	15	8	2.47	1.98	.989	2.60	2.57
2009	COL	NL	23	RF	8	2	2	28.2	4	3	1	0	0	1.000	-3	0	-121	0	1.26	0.50	.985	2.07	2.06
2010	COL	NL	24	OF	142	140	111	1224.2	268	259	8	1	1	.996	-2	2	-2	1	1.96	1.88	.987	2.17	2.15	MVP-3,GG,SS
2010	COL	NL	24	LF	63	51	45	472.1	83	77	5	1	0	.988	3	3	8	8	1.56	1.30	.985	1.82	1.80	MVP-3,GG,SS
2010	COL	NL	24	CF	58	55	37	452.2	127	126	1	0	0	1.000	-2	-1	-5	-3	2.53	2.19	.989	2.59	2.56	MVP-3,GG,SS
2010	COL	NL	24	RF	40	34	29	299.2	58	56	2	0	1	1.000	-4	0	-15	0	1.74	1.45	.986	2.10	2.07	MVP-3,GG,SS
2011	COL	NL	25	OF	125	122	109	1061.2	232	219	12	1	2	.996	-3	8	-4	9	1.96	1.85	.986	2.16	2.15
2011	COL	NL	25	LF	61	60	53	518.0	99	93	5	1	0	.990	-5	2	-12	5	1.70	1.61	.985	1.87	1.87
2011	COL	NL	25	RF	34	34	31	295.1	67	63	4	0	1	1.000	0	4	0	16	2.04	1.97	.983	2.05	2.04
2011	COL	NL	25	CF	30	28	25	248.1	66	63	3	0	1	1.000	2	2	8	10	2.39	2.20	.988	2.55	2.54
2012	COL	NL	26	LF	46	46	43	399.0	65	62	1	2	0	.969	-7	-12	-20	-36	1.42	1.37	.983	1.85	1.83
2012	COL	NL	26	OF	46	46	43	399.0	65	62	1	2	0	.969	-7	-12	-20	-36	1.42	1.37	.983	2.09	2.07
	5 Seasons			OF	474	454	363	4007.1	951	911	32	8	4	.992	4	10	1	2	2.12	1.99	.986	2.19	2.17
	4 Seasons			LF	217	187	167	1683.2	316	299	13	4	0	.987	-4	-7	-3	-4	1.67	1.44	.984	1.86	1.85
	4 Seasons			CF	200	187	124	1539.1	463	447	12	4	2	.991	10	9	8	7	2.68	2.30	.989	2.63	2.60
	4 Seasons			RF	118	80	72	784.1	172	165	7	0	2	1.000	-2	8	-3	12	1.97	1.46	.985	2.09	2.08
	5 Seasons			TOT	474	454	363	4007.1	951	911	32	8	4	.992	4	20	1	5	2.12	1.99	.986	2.19	2.17
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-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	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rof
2008	OAK	AL	22	CF	7	15	6	4	1	1	6	14	3	3
2008	OAK	AL	22	RF	4	34	4	-0	4	1	4	30	3	1
2009	COL	NL	23	LF	4	17	3	2	1	1	0	0	-1	1
2009	COL	NL	23	CF	4	15	3	2	0	1	2	8	0	1
2009	COL	NL	23	RF	-3	-121	-3	-0	-3	0	0	0	-1	1
2010	COL	NL	24	LF	3	8	4	3	2	-1	3	8	1	0
2010	COL	NL	24	CF	-2	-5	0	3	-3	-2	-1	-3	0	-1
2010	COL	NL	24	RF	-4	-15	-4	-0	-3	0	0	0	0	0
2011	COL	NL	25	LF	-5	-12	-8	-4	-4	3	2	5	-1	2
2011	COL	NL	25	RF	0	0	0	-1	1	0	4	16	4	0
2011	COL	NL	25	CF	2	8	-0	-1	1	2	2	10	0	2
2012	COL	NL	26	LF	-7	-20	-6	-0	-6	-1	-12	-36	-7	-2
	4 Seasons			LF	-4	-3	-7	1	-7	2	-7	-4	-8	1
	4 Seasons			CF	10	8	8	9	-1	2	9	7	3	5
	4 Seasons			RF	-2	-3	-3	-2	-1	1	8	12	6	2
	5 Seasons			TOT	4	1	-2	8	-10	5	20	5	1	8

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
2008	OAK	AL	22	85	76	85	81	0	69	36	105	6	0
2009	COL	NL	23	89	70	89	80	47	43	8	98	10	2
2010	COL	NL	24	145	140	145	142	63	58	40	161	2	1
2011	COL	NL	25	127	122	127	125	61	30	34	125	2	0
2012	COL	NL	26	46	46	46	46	46	0	0	46	0	0
	5 Seasons			492	454	492	474	217	200	118	535	20	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%
2009	COL	NL	23	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	13	12	0	6	5	0	4	1	0	2	0	0	6	4	0	31	22	71.0%	9	0	0.0%	2	1240	56%	74%	35%	133	52%
2010	COL	NL	24	1	0	1	0	0	5	0	2	1	2	15	13	0	10	1	1	15	6	0	3	0	0	5	5	0	48	25	52.1%	22	1	2.1%	4	2018	61%	75%	37%	178	46%
2011	COL	NL	25	1	0	0	1	0	5	0	2	2	0	32	28	1	10	5	0	8	4	1	5	3	0	8	7	0	63	47	74.6%	14	2	3.2%	3	2171	55%	76%	37%	227	43%
2012	COL	NL	26	2	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	22	20	0	18	5	0	14	7	1	4	1	0	5	5	0	63	38	60.3%	24	1	1.6%	0	1801	56%	74%	39%	175	36%
	4 Seasons			4	0	3	1	2	13	0	6	3	3	82	73	1	44	16	1	41	18	2	14	4	0	24	21	0	205	132	64.4%	69	4	2.0%	9	7230	57%	75%	37%	713	44%
	MLB Averages																														63.8%			2.2%			57%	76%	39%		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%
2008	OAK	AL	22	2	0	2	0	1	5	0	1	2	2	29	19	1	24	6	2	6	2	0	12	0	0	26	16	1	97	43	44.3%	50	4	4.1%	1	2273	58%	75%	42%	307	59%
2009	COL	NL	23	2	0	1	1	0	3	0	2	0	1	15	11	0	11	2	1	3	2	0	5	1	0	4	3	0	38	19	50.0%	18	1	2.6%	2	1303	60%	72%	34%	161	53%
2010	COL	NL	24	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	23	17	0	19	3	1	5	0	0	5	0	0	14	6	0	66	26	39.4%	39	1	1.5%	0	1931	63%	75%	38%	244	52%
2011	COL	NL	25	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	1	21	15	1	13	2	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	9	6	1	46	24	52.2%	19	3	6.5%	0	1086	49%	78%	38%	129	50%
	4 Seasons			4	0	3	1	1	12	0	3	4	5	88	62	2	67	13	5	16	5	0	23	1	0	53	31	2	247	112	45.3%	126	9	3.6%	3	6593	58%	75%	39%	841	54%
	MLB Averages																														45.6%			1.8%			57%	76%	39%		53%

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%
2008	OAK	AL	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	3	3	0	2	2	0	5	3	0	7	4	0	19	13	68.4%	6	0	0.0%	0	678	60%	78%	42%	66	65%
2009	COL	NL	23	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	2	28.6%	5	0	0.0%	1	132	42%	71%	41%	13	31%
2010	COL	NL	24	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	12	8	0	12	2	1	5	3	0	1	0	0	4	1	1	34	14	41.2%	18	2	5.9%	0	1265	59%	73%	35%	115	50%
2011	COL	NL	25	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	2	21	10	0	13	3	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	6	3	0	42	18	42.9%	23	1	2.4%	3	1273	62%	77%	39%	132	49%
	4 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	7	0	1	2	3	37	20	0	31	9	2	10	7	0	6	3	0	18	8	1	102	47	46.1%	52	3	2.9%	4	3348	60%	75%	38%	326	52%
	MLB Averages																														47.2%			2.3%			57%	76%	39%		50%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2010 NL (3, 54%) 0.54 Career Shares (423rd)	Gold Gloves 2010 NL (OF)	Silver Sluggers 2010 NL (OF)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2012 NL 46 (3rd)
Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2012 NL 2 (3rd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 2011 NL 12 (1st)	Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y 2008 AL 2.92 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 2008 AL 2.77 (2nd)
Fielding % as OF s c a p y 2010 NL .996 (5th)

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