Curtis Granderson

Curtis Granderson

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: March 16, 1981 in Blue Island, IL
High School: Thornton Fractional South (Lansing, IL)
School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 3rd round of the 2002 amateur draft.
Signed June 28, 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 13, 2004
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Yankees 2004-2011
2012 Contract Status: Free Agent (team option), 5 yrs/$30.25M (08-12) & 13 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 6.077, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: Matt Brown [*]
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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
2004	DET	AL	23	OF	8				17	16	1	0	0	1.000	-1	-1				2.13	.985		2.28
2004	DET	AL	23	CF	8	7	6	61.0	17	16	1	0	0	1.000	-1	-1	-26	-20	2.51	2.13	.988	2.64	2.62
2005	DET	AL	24	OF	45				131	129	2	0	0	1.000	4	13				2.91	.986		2.28
2005	DET	AL	24	CF	41	39	23	320.0	121	119	2	0	0	1.000	4	11	15	41	3.40	2.95	.989	2.69	2.66
2005	DET	AL	24	LF	20	3	2	54.2	10	10	0	0	0	1.000	0	2	2	44	1.65	0.50	.988	2.11	2.08
2006	DET	AL	25	OF	157				389	385	3	1	0	.997	3	5				2.47	.986		2.27
2006	DET	AL	25	CF	157	143	138	1312.0	389	385	3	1	0	.997	3	5	3	5	2.66	2.47	.989	2.65	2.61
2007	DET	AL	26	OF	157				443	428	10	5	4	.989	4	16				2.79	.987		2.28	MVP-10
2007	DET	AL	26	CF	157	140	131	1285.0	439	424	10	5	4	.989	3	16	2	15	3.04	2.76	.989	2.71	2.68	MVP-10
2007	DET	AL	26	LF	2	0	0	5.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	1	0	240	0	7.20	2.00	.985	2.16	2.10	MVP-10
2008	DET	AL	27	OF	140				375	366	5	4	1	.989	6	-7				2.65	.986		2.28
2008	DET	AL	27	CF	140	131	127	1188.0	375	366	5	4	1	.989	6	-7	6	-7	2.81	2.65	.989	2.71	2.69
2009	DET	AL	28	OF	160				407	400	4	3	2	.993	4	14				2.53	.987		2.30	AS
2009	DET	AL	28	CF	160	155	149	1384.0	407	400	4	3	2	.993	4	14	3	12	2.63	2.53	.992	2.73	2.70	AS
2010	NYY	AL	29	OF	134				323	316	5	2	2	.994	-1	4				2.40	.986		2.28
2010	NYY	AL	29	CF	134	123	116	1120.1	323	316	5	2	2	.994	-1	4	-1	4	2.58	2.40	.990	2.73	2.71
2011	NYY	AL	30	CF	155	150	142	1348.0	368	354	11	3	1	.992	-2	-15	-2	-13	2.44	2.35	.990	2.61	2.59	AS,MVP-4,SS
2011	NYY	AL	30	OF	155	150	142	1348.0	368	354	11	3	1	.992	-2	-15	-2	-13	2.44	2.35	.986	2.28	2.26	AS,MVP-4,SS
2011	NYY	AL	30	DH	1	1																		AS,MVP-4,SS
	8 Seasons			OF	956	150	142	1348.0	2453	2394	41	18	10	.993	16	29	15	4	2.44	2.55	.986	2.28	2.28
	8 Seasons			CF	952	888	832	8018.1	2439	2380	41	18	10	.993	15	27	2	4	2.72	2.54	.990	2.69	2.66
	2 Seasons			LF	22	3	2	59.2	14	14	0	0	0	1.000	1	2	22	40	2.11	0.64	.987	2.11	2.08
	8 Seasons			TOT	956	150	142	1348.0	2453	2394	41	18	10	.993	16	58	15	51	2.44	2.55	.986	2.28	2.28
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.

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-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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr
2004	DET	AL	23	CF	-1	-26	-0	-0	-0	-1	-1	-20	-1	0	0
2005	DET	AL	24	CF	4	15	5	4	2	-1	11	41	7	0	1	3
2005	DET	AL	24	LF	0	2	0	0	-0	0	2	44	0	0	0	2
2006	DET	AL	25	CF	3	3	6	4	2	-3	5	5	7	0	-2
2007	DET	AL	26	CF	3	2	4	1	2	-1	16	15	11	0	3	2
2007	DET	AL	26	LF	1	240	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2008	DET	AL	27	CF	6	6	9	9	0	-3	-7	-7	-6	0	-1
2009	DET	AL	28	CF	4	3	6	9	-3	-2	14	12	9	0	3	2
2010	NYY	AL	29	CF	-1	-1	0	-0	1	-1	4	4	2	0	2
2011	NYY	AL	30	CF	-2	-2	-5	2	-7	3	-15	-13	-19		4
	8 Seasons			CF	15	2	24	27	-3	-9	27	4	10	0	10	7
	2 Seasons			LF	1	22	1	1	0	0	2	40	0	0	0	2
	8 Seasons			TOT	16	15	25	28	-3	-9	58	51	10	0	10	9

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	OF	DH	PH	PR
2004	DET	AL	23	9	7	9	8	0	8	8	0	1	1
2005	DET	AL	24	47	42	47	45	20	41	61	0	3	0
2006	DET	AL	25	159	143	159	157	0	157	157	0	6	2
2007	DET	AL	26	158	140	158	157	2	157	159	0	6	1
2008	DET	AL	27	141	131	141	140	0	140	140	0	3	0
2009	DET	AL	28	160	155	160	160	0	160	160	0	1	1
2010	NYY	AL	29	136	123	136	134	0	134	134	0	8	2
2011	NYY	AL	30	156	151	156	155	0	155	155	1	4	0
	8 Seasons			966	892	966	956	22	952	974	1	32	7

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 -- 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%
2004	DET	AL	23	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	5	1	1	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	12	3	25.0%	8	1	8.3%	0	266	58%	77%	37%	41	41%
2005	DET	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	24	14	0	10	4	0	7	2	0	12	3	0	11	5	0	64	28	43.8%	36	0	0.0%	2	1383	58%	81%	41%	222	54%
2006	DET	AL	25	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	1	1	1	79	52	0	35	8	1	22	6	0	17	1	0	34	17	0	187	84	44.9%	102	1	0.5%	2	5561	64%	77%	40%	745	52%
2007	DET	AL	26	5	0	1	4	0	10	2	3	2	3	95	62	2	55	10	2	26	7	0	29	4	1	53	35	1	258	118	45.7%	137	6	2.3%	4	5635	58%	77%	40%	822	52%
2008	DET	AL	27	4	0	4	0	0	5	1	2	1	1	77	54	1	49	7	0	16	4	1	26	6	0	43	29	0	211	100	47.4%	113	2	0.9%	3	5292	56%	77%	41%	663	56%
2009	DET	AL	28	3	0	1	2	0	4	0	1	1	1	74	49	0	42	16	0	17	4	0	26	3	1	37	18	0	196	90	45.9%	106	1	0.5%	3	5970	49%	75%	40%	759	53%
2010	NYY	AL	29	2	0	2	0	1	5	1	0	1	2	56	37	0	38	7	2	11	6	0	17	1	0	34	22	1	156	73	46.8%	81	3	1.9%	2	4745	55%	75%	39%	590	54%
2011	NYY	AL	30	3	0	0	3	0	11	1	3	2	4	71	52	1	40	10	2	21	5	2	23	2	0	38	21	0	193	90	46.6%	98	5	2.6%	6	5733	53%	76%	39%	708	51%
	8 Seasons			18	0	8	10	1	41	5	11	10	12	481	321	5	272	62	7	121	34	3	151	21	2	252	148	2	1277	586	45.9%	681	19	1.5%	22	34585	56%	76%	40%	4550	53%
	MLB Averages																														45.6%			1.9%			58%	76%	40%		52%

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%
2005	DET	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	6	5	83.3%	1	0	0.0%	0	239	61%	80%	44%	21	48%
2007	DET	AL	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	24	50%	83%	58%	5	80%
	2 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	6	5	83.3%	1	0	0.0%	0	263	60%	80%	45%	26	54%
	MLB Averages																														64.6%			2.3%			58%	76%	40%		46%

* 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 2009 * 2011 (CF)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2007 AL (10, 13%) 2011 AL (4, 55%) 0.68 Career Shares (350th)	Silver Sluggers 2011 AL (OF)	Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 952 (11th) Career 952 (89th)
Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 2,380 (10th) Career 2,380 (87th)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 41 (11th)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 18 (17th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 2006 AL 157 (3rd) 2007 AL 157 (5th) 2009 AL 160 (2nd) 2011 AL 155 (3rd)
Putouts as OF s c a p y 2006 AL 385 (2nd) 2007 AL 428 (1st) 2008 AL 366 (5th) 2009 AL 400 (2nd) 2011 AL 354 (5th) Active 2,394 (19th)	Total Zone Runs as CF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 15 (23rd) Career 15 (88th)	Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y 2007 AL 3.04 (2nd) 2008 AL 2.81 (4th) Active 2.72 (8th) Career 2.72 (55th)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2007 AL 2.76 (3rd) 2008 AL 2.65 (3rd) Active 2.54 (7th) Career 2.54 (88th)
Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2006 AL .997 (1st) 2010 AL .994 (4th) Active .993 (5th) Career .993 (10th)	Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y 2007 AL 3.06 (2nd) Active 2.44 (10th) Career 2.44 (50th)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 2007 AL 2.79 (2nd) 2008 AL 2.65 (4th) Active 2.55 (6th) Career 2.55 (64th)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 2006 AL .997 (2nd) Active .993 (5th) Career .993 (12th)

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