Josh Hamilton

Joshua Holt Hamilton

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: May 21, 1981 in Raleigh, NC
High School: Athens Drive (Raleigh, NC)
Drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 1999 amateur draft.
Signed June 3, 1999. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 2, 2007
Teams (by GP): Rangers/Reds 2007-2011
2012 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible, 2 yrs/$24M (11-12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 5.000, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: Michael Moye, previously: Casey Close,Matt Sosnick,Paul Cobbe [*]
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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
2007	CIN	NL	26	OF	84				211	200	7	4	2	.981	5	2				2.46	.984		2.29
2007	CIN	NL	26	CF	71	64	54	555.2	178	168	6	4	2	.978	3	1	7	2	2.82	2.45	.987	2.71	2.70
2007	CIN	NL	26	RF	10	9	9	81.0	28	27	1	0	0	1.000	3	2	44	30	3.11	2.80	.981	2.18	2.17
2007	CIN	NL	26	LF	9	2	2	27.0	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-1	-44	-44	1.67	0.56	.984	2.00	1.99
2008	TEX	AL	27	OF	141				358	345	7	6	5	.983	-3	-3				2.50	.986		2.28	AS,MVP-7,SS
2008	TEX	AL	27	CF	111	107	91	912.0	276	268	3	5	3	.982	-1	-5	-1	-7	2.67	2.44	.989	2.71	2.69	AS,MVP-7,SS
2008	TEX	AL	27	RF	34	33	28	289.0	82	77	4	1	2	.988	-2	2	-8	8	2.52	2.38	.985	2.15	2.13	AS,MVP-7,SS
2008	TEX	AL	27	DH	15	15																		AS,MVP-7,SS
2009	TEX	AL	28	OF	79				190	185	4	1	1	.995	8	8				2.39	.987		2.30	AS
2009	TEX	AL	28	CF	56	55	50	472.2	134	132	2	0	1	1.000	7	9	18	23	2.55	2.39	.992	2.73	2.70	AS
2009	TEX	AL	28	RF	24	24	23	210.0	56	53	2	1	0	.982	1	-1	7	-6	2.36	2.29	.982	2.13	2.10	AS
2009	TEX	AL	28	DH	6	6																		AS
2010	TEX	AL	29	OF	119				267	254	9	4	2	.985	-2	7				2.21	.986		2.28	AS,MVP-1,SS
2010	TEX	AL	29	LF	92	87	72	772.2	190	179	7	4	1	.979	-4	3	-6	5	2.17	2.02	.983	2.07	2.05	AS,MVP-1,SS
2010	TEX	AL	29	CF	40	29	24	262.0	77	75	2	0	1	1.000	2	4	8	18	2.65	1.93	.990	2.73	2.71	AS,MVP-1,SS
2010	TEX	AL	29	DH	13	13																		AS,MVP-1,SS
2011	TEX	AL	30	OF	112	111	91	968.0	234	224	5	5	1	.979	2	3	2	3	2.13	2.04	.986	2.28	2.26	AS,MVP-22
2011	TEX	AL	30	LF	85	81	67	709.0	161	153	4	4	1	.975	4	4	7	7	1.99	1.85	.982	2.13	2.11	AS,MVP-22
2011	TEX	AL	30	CF	35	30	24	259.0	73	71	1	1	0	.986	-3	-1	-12	-5	2.50	2.06	.990	2.61	2.59	AS,MVP-22
2011	TEX	AL	30	DH	9	9																		AS,MVP-22
	5 Seasons			OF	535	111	91	968.0	1260	1208	32	20	11	.984	10	17	13	4	2.13	2.32	.986	2.28	2.28
	5 Seasons			CF	313	285	243	2461.1	738	714	14	10	7	.986	9	8	4	3	2.66	2.33	.989	2.71	2.69
	3 Seasons			LF	186	170	141	1508.2	356	337	11	8	2	.978	-1	6	-0	4	2.08	1.87	.983	2.10	2.07
	3 Seasons			RF	68	66	60	580.0	166	157	7	2	2	.988	2	3	5	6	2.54	2.41	.983	2.15	2.12
	5 Seasons			TOT	535	111	91	968.0	1260	1208	32	20	11	.984	10	34	13	42	2.13	2.32	.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.

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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	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rbnt	Rof	Rhr
2007	CIN	NL	26	CF	3	7	2	5	-3	1	1	2	-1	0	2
2007	CIN	NL	26	RF	3	44	2	0	2	1	2	30	0	0	2
2007	CIN	NL	26	LF	-1	-44	-1	0	-2	0	-1	-44	-1	0	0
2008	TEX	AL	27	CF	-1	-1	-1	2	-3	0	-5	-7	-7	0	0	2
2008	TEX	AL	27	RF	-2	-8	-3	-1	-2	1	2	8	1	0	1
2009	TEX	AL	28	CF	7	18	5	-0	5	2	9	23	7	0	2
2009	TEX	AL	28	RF	1	7	0	-3	3	1	-1	-6	-1	0	0
2010	TEX	AL	29	LF	-4	-6	-6	-6	0	2	3	5	2	0	1
2010	TEX	AL	29	CF	2	8	-1	1	-2	3	4	18	1	0	3
2011	TEX	AL	30	LF	4	7	4	-2	6	0	4	7	2		0	2
2011	TEX	AL	30	CF	-3	-12	-4	-3	-1	1	-1	-5	-1		0
	5 Seasons			CF	9	4	2	5	-4	7	8	3	-1	0	7	2
	3 Seasons			LF	-1	-0	-3	-7	4	2	6	4	3	0	1	2
	3 Seasons			RF	2	5	-1	-3	3	3	3	6	0	0	3
	5 Seasons			TOT	10	13	-2	-5	4	12	34	42	2	0	11	4

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH
2007	CIN	NL	26	90	75	90	84	9	71	10	90	0	10
2008	TEX	AL	27	156	155	156	141	0	111	34	145	15	1
2009	TEX	AL	28	89	85	89	79	0	56	24	80	6	4
2010	TEX	AL	29	133	129	133	119	92	40	0	132	13	4
2011	TEX	AL	30	121	120	121	112	85	35	0	112	9	0
	5 Seasons			589	564	589	535	186	313	68	559	43	19

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%
2007	CIN	NL	26	4	0	3	1	0	6	1	0	1	4	28	19	1	19	3	1	11	0	2	3	0	1	13	11	0	74	33	44.6%	36	5	6.8%	1	2409	58%	77%	43%	313	55%
2008	TEX	AL	27	5	0	3	2	1	3	1	0	0	2	55	31	0	50	14	0	22	9	0	13	5	2	21	18	0	161	77	47.8%	84	2	1.2%	1	4131	52%	78%	41%	541	50%
2009	TEX	AL	28	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	17	14	0	14	4	1	13	4	0	4	2	0	9	9	0	57	33	57.9%	25	1	1.8%	1	2015	53%	77%	42%	245	54%
2010	TEX	AL	29	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	17	13	0	8	3	1	3	1	0	5	2	0	9	10	0	42	29	69.0%	14	1	2.4%	1	1123	57%	78%	43%	135	56%
2011	TEX	AL	30	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	11	8	0	6	2	0	1	0	0	5	3	0	8	6	0	31	19	61.3%	12	0	0.0%	1	1062	62%	74%	40%	126	56%
	5 Seasons			10	0	6	4	1	14	4	0	1	9	128	85	1	97	26	3	50	14	2	30	12	3	60	54	0	365	191	52.3%	171	9	2.5%	5	10740	55%	77%	42%	1360	53%
	MLB Averages																														46.1%			1.9%			58%	76%	40%		53%

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%
2007	CIN	NL	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	5	83.3%	1	0	0.0%	0	114	57%	78%	41%	18	28%
2010	TEX	AL	29	4	0	3	1	0	7	1	2	1	2	38	25	2	20	10	1	18	11	1	10	7	0	13	16	0	99	69	69.7%	30	4	4.0%	3	3302	59%	75%	40%	362	51%
2011	TEX	AL	30	4	0	2	2	1	4	1	2	1	0	35	28	1	19	7	0	18	12	0	1	1	0	10	9	0	83	57	68.7%	25	1	1.2%	3	2942	57%	74%	39%	313	50%
	3 Seasons			8	0	5	3	1	11	2	4	2	2	77	57	3	41	18	1	36	23	1	11	8	0	23	25	0	188	131	69.7%	56	5	2.7%	6	6358	58%	75%	40%	693	50%
	MLB Averages																														64.4%			2.2%			58%	76%	40%		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%
2007	CIN	NL	26	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	5	3	0	3	2	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	13	7	53.8%	5	1	7.7%	0	334	58%	81%	45%	50	56%
2008	TEX	AL	27	1	0	1	0	1	4	0	0	2	1	20	10	1	9	3	0	10	8	0	3	0	0	11	7	1	53	28	52.8%	23	2	3.8%	2	1294	55%	78%	43%	165	48%
2009	TEX	AL	28	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	10	8	0	7	3	0	6	1	1	3	0	0	6	5	0	32	17	53.1%	14	1	3.1%	1	930	53%	75%	42%	109	50%
	3 Seasons			2	0	2	0	1	7	0	1	2	3	35	21	1	19	8	1	18	10	1	7	0	0	19	13	1	98	52	53.1%	42	4	4.1%	3	2558	55%	77%	43%	324	50%
	MLB Averages																														48.2%			2.4%			58%	76%	40%		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 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 2008 (CF) 2009 (CF) 2010 (CF) 2011 (LF)	Awards (yr lg award) 2010 AL ALCS MVP 2010 ML Major League Player of the Year 2010 AL MVP	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2008 AL (7, 28%) 2010 AL (1, 91%) 2011 AL (22, 0%) 1 MVP 1.20 Career Shares (197th)	Silver Sluggers 2008 AL (OF) 2010 AL (OF) All multiple winners
Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y 2010 AL 2.17 (5th) 2011 AL 1.99 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 AL 2.02 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y Active 2.32 (17th)

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