Jason Heyward

Jason Adenolith Heyward (The J-Hey Kid) (twitter: @JasonHeyward)

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 5", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: August 9, 1989 in Ridgewood, NJ
High School: Henry County HS (McDonough, GA)
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 1st round (14th pick) of the 2007 amateur draft.
Signed August 12, 2007. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 5, 2010
Team: Braves 2010-2012
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$565k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 2.000, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Career Sports Mgmt [*]
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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
2010	ATL	NL	20	OF	140	136	133	1196.1	246	235	5	6	1	.976	7	15	7	15	1.81	1.71	.987	2.17	2.15	AS,MVP-20,RoY-2
2010	ATL	NL	20	RF	140	136	133	1196.1	246	235	5	6	1	.976	7	15	7	15	1.81	1.71	.986	2.10	2.07	AS,MVP-20,RoY-2
2011	ATL	NL	21	OF	122	106	100	990.1	228	218	4	6	0	.974	10	15	13	18	2.02	1.82	.986	2.16	2.15
2011	ATL	NL	21	RF	122	106	100	990.1	228	218	4	6	0	.974	10	15	13	18	2.02	1.82	.983	2.05	2.04
2012	ATL	NL	22	OF	49	46	45	414.0	95	92	2	1	1	.989	1	4	4	11	2.04	1.92	.983	2.09	2.07
2012	ATL	NL	22	RF	48	45	44	405.0	92	89	2	1	1	.989	3	4	8	12	2.02	1.90	.979	1.96	1.95
2012	ATL	NL	22	CF	1	1	1	9.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-1	0	-172	0	3.00	3.00	.987	2.50	2.40
	3 Seasons			OF	311	288	278	2600.2	569	545	11	13	2	.977	18	34	8	15	1.92	1.79	.986	2.15	2.14
	3 Seasons			RF	310	287	277	2591.2	566	542	11	13	2	.977	20	34	9	15	1.92	1.78	.984	2.06	2.04
	1 Season			CF	1	1	1	9.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-1	0	-172	0	3.00	3.00	.987	2.50	2.40
	3 Seasons			TOT	311	288	278	2600.2	569	545	11	13	2	.977	18	68	8	31	1.92	1.79	.986	2.15	2.14

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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rof
2010	ATL	NL	20	RF	7	7	12	10	1	-5	15	15	19	-5
2011	ATL	NL	21	RF	10	13	12	6	6	-2	15	18	19	-2
2012	ATL	NL	22	RF	3	8	4	5	-1	-1	4	12	6	-1
2012	ATL	NL	22	CF	-1	-172	-0	-0		-1	0	0	0	0
	3 Seasons			RF	20	9	28	21	7	-8	34	15	44	-8
	1 Season			CF	-1	-172	-0	-0		-1	0	0	0	0
	3 Seasons			TOT	18	8	27	21	7	-9	68	31	44	-8

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
2010	ATL	NL	20	142	136	142	140	0	140	140	4	1
2011	ATL	NL	21	128	106	128	122	0	122	122	7	6
2012	ATL	NL	22	50	46	50	49	1	48	49	2	0
	3 Seasons			320	288	320	311	1	310	311	13	7

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 -- 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%
2010	ATL	NL	20	6	0	4	2	2	5	1	2	1	1	66	32	1	33	9	1	19	8	0	5	2	0	25	14	0	148	65	43.9%	81	2	1.4%	3	5048	57%	73%	34%	489	49%
2011	ATL	NL	21	6	0	5	1	0	4	0	1	1	2	64	34	1	23	5	1	8	5	0	9	2	0	21	9	0	125	55	44.0%	68	2	1.6%	2	4105	60%	73%	34%	428	52%
2012	ATL	NL	22	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	17	6	0	15	4	0	6	3	0	4	1	1	8	5	0	50	19	38.0%	30	1	2.0%	1	1724	55%	74%	37%	180	50%
	3 Seasons			13	0	10	3	2	11	1	3	2	5	147	72	2	71	18	2	33	16	0	18	5	1	54	28	0	323	139	43.0%	179	5	1.5%	6	10877	57%	73%	34%	1097	50%
	MLB Averages																														46.3%			2.4%			57%	76%	39%		50%

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%
2012	ATL	NL	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	0	0.0%	5	0	0.0%	0	41	78%	76%	51%	5	60%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	0	0.0%	5	0	0.0%	0	41	78%	76%	51%	5	60%
	MLB Averages																														45.4%			1.9%			57%	76%	39%		53%

* 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 2010	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2010 NL (20, 2%) 0.02 Career Shares (1361st)	Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 NL 140 (4th) 2012 NL 48 (2nd)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2012 NL 89 (5th)
Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2012 NL 2 (5th)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 NL 6 (1st) 2011 NL 6 (3rd) Active 13 (23rd)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 2010 NL 6 (3rd)	Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2010 NL 7 (4th) 2011 NL 10 (3rd) Active 20 (14th) Career 20 (63rd)
Youngest s c a p y 2010 NL born 1989-08-09 (6th)

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