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Carlos Guillén

Carlos Alfonso Guillen

Positions: Shortstop, Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: September 30, 1975 in Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela
High School: Aragua (Aragua, VE)
Signed by the Houston Astros as an amateur free agent in 1992. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 6, 1998
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Mariners 1998-2011
Agents: Peter Greenberg, previously: Scott Boras [*]
Final Game: September 18, 2011   vs. OAK 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
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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 SEA AL 22 2B 10 10 9 81.0 44 15 29 0 5 1.000 2 36 4.89 4.40 .978 4.84 4.80
1999 SEA AL 23 SS 3 3 2 20.1 16 6 9 1 1 .938 1 59 6.64 5.00 .970 4.74 4.67
1999 SEA AL 23 2B 2 2 2 18.0 12 6 6 0 5 1.000 -0 -20 6.00 6.00 .981 5.15 5.05
2000 SEA AL 24 3B 68 64 53 551.1 190 57 116 17 7 .911 -2 -5 2.82 2.54 .947 2.67 2.64
2000 SEA AL 24 SS 23 14 13 148.0 76 28 44 4 14 .947 0 1 4.38 3.13 .973 4.71 4.66
2001 SEA AL 25 SS 137 123 115 1120.0 510 187 313 10 75 .980 10 11 4.02 3.65 .973 4.49 4.45
2001 SEA AL 25 DH 1 0
2002 SEA AL 26 SS 130 127 117 1113.0 522 200 304 18 68 .966 -5 -5 4.08 3.88 .975 4.56 4.51
2002 SEA AL 26 DH 3 2
2003 SEA AL 27 SS 76 70 64 620.0 295 122 162 11 56 .963 -10 -1 -19 -2 4.12 3.74 .971 4.54 4.49
2003 SEA AL 27 3B 32 32 29 280.2 86 38 45 3 3 .965 -3 1 -13 4 2.66 2.59 .955 2.67 2.64
2003 SEA AL 27 DH 1 1
2004 DET AL 28 SS 135 133 120 1151.0 654 219 418 17 90 .974 -17 -14 -17 -15 4.98 4.72 .972 4.56 4.53 AS,MVP-24
2005 DET AL 29 SS 75 74 59 625.0 320 85 228 7 44 .978 -6 -1 -11 -2 4.51 4.17 .972 4.60 4.55
2005 DET AL 29 DH 10 8
2006 DET AL 30 SS 145 144 118 1235.0 634 178 428 28 88 .956 3 -2 3 -2 4.42 4.18 .970 4.49 4.42 MVP-10
2006 DET AL 30 1B 8 4 3 39.0 34 30 4 0 4 1.000 0 0 3 0 7.85 4.25 .994 9.53 9.40 MVP-10
2006 DET AL 30 DH 4 3 MVP-10
2007 DET AL 31 SS 132 129 95 1074.0 536 160 352 24 79 .955 -15 -12 -17 -13 4.29 3.88 .970 4.47 4.42 AS
2007 DET AL 31 1B 36 15 13 178.2 203 185 17 1 15 .995 5 4 31 27 10.18 5.61 .995 9.37 9.27 AS
2007 DET AL 31 DH 3 3 AS
2008 DET AL 32 3B 89 87 71 749.2 277 68 195 14 15 .949 2 -9 4 -14 3.16 2.96 .958 2.74 2.71 AS
2008 DET AL 32 1B 24 18 13 162.0 155 142 11 2 22 .987 -2 -2 -14 -15 8.50 6.38 .994 9.26 9.18 AS
2008 DET AL 32 DH 4 4 AS
2008 DET AL 32 LF 2 2 1 17.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 28 0 3.18 3.00 .983 2.06 2.05 AS
2008 DET AL 32 OF 2 2 1 17.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 28 0 3.18 3.00 .987 2.33 2.30 AS
2009 DET AL 33 LF 42 42 21 322.2 81 79 0 2 0 .975 1 -3 5 -11 2.20 1.88 .987 2.12 2.09
2009 DET AL 33 OF 42 42 21 322.2 81 79 0 2 0 .975 1 -3 5 -11 2.20 1.88 .987 2.33 2.30
2009 DET AL 33 DH 36 33
2009 DET AL 33 1B 2 2 2 18.0 19 19 0 0 2 1.000 0 -1 13 -67 9.50 9.50 .994 9.15 9.00
2010 DET AL 34 2B 47 45 41 393.1 227 86 138 3 32 .987 0 0 0 0 5.13 4.77 .984 4.80 4.75
2010 DET AL 34 DH 16 16
2010 DET AL 34 LF 4 4 2 28.0 7 6 0 1 0 .857 -1 -2 -60 -86 1.93 1.50 .983 2.06 2.05
2010 DET AL 34 OF 4 4 2 28.0 7 6 0 1 0 .857 -1 -2 -60 -85 1.93 1.50 .986 2.31 2.28
2011 DET AL 35 2B 25 25 20 215.2 119 48 69 2 20 .983 1 -1 3 -6 4.88 4.68 .984 4.76 4.73
2011 DET AL 35 1B 1 0 0 2.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 120 0 9.00 2.00 .995 9.45 9.20
2011 DET AL 35 DH 1 0
9 Seasons SS 856 817 703 7106.1 3563 1185 2258 120 515 .966 -39 -30 -7 -7 4.36 4.02 .972 4.53 4.48
3 Seasons 3B 189 183 153 1581.2 553 163 356 34 25 .939 -3 -8 -2 -9 2.95 2.75 .954 2.70 2.67
4 Seasons 2B 84 82 72 708.0 402 155 242 5 62 .988 3 -1 5 -1 5.05 4.73 .983 4.80 4.76
5 Seasons 1B 71 39 31 399.2 413 378 32 3 43 .993 3 1 10 3 9.23 5.77 .995 9.33 9.25
3 Seasons OF 48 48 24 367.2 94 91 0 3 0 .968 0 -5 1 -16 2.23 1.90 .987 2.33 2.30
3 Seasons LF 48 48 24 367.2 94 91 0 3 0 .968 0 -5 1 -16 2.23 1.90 .986 2.11 2.09
14 Seasons TOT 1248 1169 983 10163.1 5025 1972 2888 165 645 .967 -35 -48 -4 -8 4.30 3.89 .973 4.37 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.
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
1998 SEA AL 22 2B 2 36 2 0 2 0
1999 SEA AL 23 SS 1 59 1 1 0 0
1999 SEA AL 23 2B -0 -20 -0 -0 0 0
2000 SEA AL 24 3B -2 -5 -1 1 -2 -1
2000 SEA AL 24 SS 0 1 0 2 -2 0
2001 SEA AL 25 SS 10 11 7 -0 7 3
2002 SEA AL 26 SS -5 -5 -5 -2 -3 0
2003 SEA AL 27 SS -10 -19 -10 -9 -1 0 -1 -2 -3 2
2003 SEA AL 27 3B -3 -13 -3 -0 -3 0 1 4 1 0
2004 DET AL 28 SS -17 -17 -17 -9 -8 0 -14 -15 -14 1
2005 DET AL 29 SS -6 -11 -6 -3 -2 0 -1 -2 2 -1
2006 DET AL 30 SS 3 3 2 5 -3 1 -2 -2 -2 2
2006 DET AL 30 1B 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2007 DET AL 31 SS -15 -17 -14 -8 -6 -1 -12 -13 -9 -1
2007 DET AL 31 1B 5 31 5 2 2 0 4 27 4 0
2008 DET AL 32 3B 2 4 2 10 -8 0 -9 -14 -7 0
2008 DET AL 32 1B -2 -14 -2 -1 -1 0 -2 -15 -1 0
2008 DET AL 32 LF 0 28 0 -1 1 0 0 0 0 0
2009 DET AL 33 LF 1 5 2 -0 3 -1 -3 -11 -2 -2
2009 DET AL 33 1B 0 13 0 0 0 0 -1 -67 0 0
2010 DET AL 34 2B 0 0 0 -1 1 0 0 0 -1 1
2010 DET AL 34 LF -1 -60 -0 -1 0 -1 -2 -86 0 -1
2011 DET AL 35 2B 1 3 -0 -2 2 1 -1 -6 -2 1
2011 DET AL 35 1B 0 120 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons SS -39 -7 -42 -23 -18 3 -30 -7 -26 3
3 Seasons 3B -3 -2 -2 11 -12 -1 -8 -9 -6 0
4 Seasons 2B 3 5 2 -3 5 1 -1 -1 -3 2
5 Seasons 1B 3 10 3 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 0
3 Seasons LF 0 1 2 -2 4 -2 -5 -16 -2 -3
14 Seasons TOT -35 -4 -36 -16 -20 3 -2 -48 -8 -34 5 0 -3
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1998 SEA AL 22 10 10 10 10 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1999 SEA AL 23 5 5 5 5 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2000 SEA AL 24 90 78 90 86 0 0 0 0 68 23 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
2001 SEA AL 25 140 123 140 137 0 0 0 0 0 137 0 0 0 0 1 6 1
2002 SEA AL 26 134 129 134 130 0 0 0 0 0 130 0 0 0 0 3 2 1
2003 SEA AL 27 109 103 109 108 0 0 0 0 32 76 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
2004 DET AL 28 136 133 136 135 0 0 0 0 0 135 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
2005 DET AL 29 87 82 87 75 0 0 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 0 10 5 0
2006 DET AL 30 153 151 153 148 0 0 8 0 0 145 0 0 0 0 4 2 0
2007 DET AL 31 151 147 151 147 0 0 36 0 0 132 0 0 0 0 3 4 0
2008 DET AL 32 113 111 113 109 0 0 24 0 89 0 2 0 0 2 4 2 0
2009 DET AL 33 81 77 81 44 0 0 2 0 0 0 42 0 0 42 36 4 0
2010 DET AL 34 68 65 68 51 0 0 0 47 0 0 4 0 0 4 16 3 0
2011 DET AL 35 28 25 28 26 0 0 1 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0
14 Seasons 1305 1239 1305 1211 0 0 71 84 189 856 48 0 0 48 79 38 2
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 -- 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
1999 SEA AL 23 82 54% 78% 28% 13 92% 0 6 4 1 1 9 7 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
2000 SEA AL 24 617 57% 76% 30% 54 93% 0 28 10 16 2 44 34 10 0 0 4 0 4 0 4 14 6 3 5 0 0 14 9 5 0 0 0
2001 SEA AL 25 4712 55% 76% 28% 405 98% 1 187 116 55 14 313 239 66 1 4 10 0 2 8 8 75 30 7 16 5 7 68 39 28 6 3 2
2002 SEA AL 26 4737 52% 77% 27% 391 96% 2 201 110 76 15 300 225 70 1 3 18 0 11 7 15 68 23 7 19 6 8 66 31 33 0 0 0
2003 SEA AL 27 2576 50% 77% 30% 243 84% 0 122 68 38 16 162 116 42 0 3 11 0 7 4 9 56 16 4 14 3 4 44 20 21 7 3 3
2004 DET AL 28 5016 59% 78% 34% 569 86% 4 219 122 84 13 418 329 79 2 5 17 0 7 10 12 90 33 6 32 6 6 85 39 44 5 2 2
2005 DET AL 29 2680 58% 79% 35% 275 87% 2 85 36 43 6 228 176 48 0 1 7 1 1 5 3 44 17 5 15 3 2 43 22 20 1 0 1
2006 DET AL 30 5265 64% 77% 34% 529 88% 1 178 83 78 18 428 344 75 1 4 28 3 12 13 19 88 36 9 32 4 1 85 45 37 1 0 1
2007 DET AL 31 4733 59% 77% 33% 450 87% 1 160 78 68 14 352 276 66 0 7 24 0 16 8 20 79 31 5 30 2 0 70 36 33 5 1 3
9 Seasons 30418 57% 77% 31% 2929 89% 11 1186 627 459 99 2254 1746 457 5 27 120 4 61 55 91 515 192 47 163 29 28 476 242 221 25 9 12
MLB Averages 58% 77% 31% 90%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

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 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
2000 SEA AL 24 2409 55% 77% 29% 182 90% 1 56 47 5 4 111 92 18 0 2 17 0 11 6 14 7 5 1 6 1 1 0 13 54%
2003 SEA AL 27 1182 49% 78% 29% 86 93% 0 38 35 2 1 45 36 7 0 1 3 0 0 3 2 3 2 0 2 1 1 0 0
2008 DET AL 32 3301 58% 78% 32% 278 89% 4 68 55 4 9 195 151 37 2 3 14 0 8 6 11 15 12 1 15 0 0 0 11 64%
3 Seasons 6892 55% 78% 30% 546 90% 5 162 137 11 14 351 279 62 2 6 34 0 19 15 27 25 19 2 23 2 2 0 24 58%
MLB Averages 58% 77% 31% 88% 63%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

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 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1998 SEA AL 22 323 61% 76% 33% 30 90% 1 14 3 9 2 28 25 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 2 0 0 4 0 4 1 0 1
1999 SEA AL 23 84 82% 77% 35% 3 100% 0 6 0 5 1 6 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 2 1 0 4 1 3 0 0 0
2010 DET AL 34 1715 52% 77% 32% 157 91% 2 86 26 42 18 138 117 16 1 0 3 0 0 3 2 32 9 8 10 3 30 13 17 0 0 0
2011 DET AL 35 884 54% 79% 36% 82 94% 0 48 19 20 9 69 60 8 0 2 2 0 2 0 2 20 5 5 8 0 18 8 10 1 0 0
4 Seasons 3006 54% 78% 33% 272 92% 3 154 48 76 30 241 207 27 1 3 5 0 2 3 4 62 16 17 19 3 56 22 34 2 0 1
MLB Averages 58% 77% 31% 93%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
2006 DET AL 30 174 43% 70% 30% 9 100% 0 30 2 27 1 3 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0
2007 DET AL 31 750 52% 78% 34% 50 96% 0 185 11 172 2 20 17 15 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 15 1 0 0 15 1 0 0 0 2 100%
2008 DET AL 32 722 63% 74% 32% 26 100% 0 142 6 133 4 11 11 8 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 2 100%
2009 DET AL 33 81 42% 73% 30% 2 100% 0 19 1 18 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
2011 DET AL 35 9 67% 89% 22% 1 100% 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 1736 55% 76% 32% 88 98% 0 378 20 352 7 36 32 25 4 1 1 3 2 1 0 0 43 2 0 0 43 2 0 0 0 4 100%
MLB Averages 58% 77% 31% 93% 83%

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%
2008 DET AL 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 66.7% 1 0 0.0% 0 76 55% 74% 46% 12 50%
2009 DET AL 33 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 12 0 12 4 0 9 6 0 2 0 0 6 5 0 43 27 62.8% 16 0 0.0% 0 1381 51% 75% 41% 159 50%
2010 DET AL 34 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 0 5 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 5 45.5% 6 0 0.0% 0 128 45% 82% 45% 21 29%
3 Seasons 3 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 20 15 0 18 6 0 11 8 0 2 0 0 6 5 0 57 34 59.6% 23 0 0.0% 0 1585 51% 75% 42% 192 47%
MLB Averages 63.6% 2.4% 58% 77% 40% 47%

* 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

All-Star Games
2004
2007 *
2008 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2004 AL (24, 1%)
2006 AL (10, 9%)
0.10 Career Shares (916th)

Assists† s c a p y
2006 AL  432 (4th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
2006 AL  28 (1st)
2007 AL  25 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
2008 AL  14 (3rd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
2006 AL  428 (4th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
2002 AL  18 (4th)
2006 AL  28 (1st)
2007 AL  24 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
2007 AL  5 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
2008 AL  3.16 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
2008 AL  2.96 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
2001 AL  10 (3rd)
2006 AL  3 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
2004 AL  4.98 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
2004 AL  4.72 (3rd)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
2001 AL  .980 (5th)

                           

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