Cleo James

Cleo Joel James

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 176 lb.

Born: August 31, 1940 in Clarksdale, MS
High School: Palm Springs HS (Palm Springs, CA)
Signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1961. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 15, 1968
Teams (by GP): Cubs/Dodgers 1968-1973

Final Game: September 26, 1973
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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	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG
1968	LAD	NL	27	LF	2	1	1	12.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	1.50	1.00	.965	1.65	1.65
1968	LAD	NL	27	OF	2	1	1	12.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	1.50	1.00	.975	2.03	2.05
1970	CHC	NL	29	OF	90	48	41	495.2	120	115	5	0	1	1.000	-3	-8	2.18	1.33	.976	2.07	2.06
1970	CHC	NL	29	CF	83	47	40	472.2	115	112	3	0	1	1.000	-3	-8	2.19	1.39	.978	2.34	2.33
1970	CHC	NL	29	LF	6	1	1	22.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-5	0.41	0.17	.970	1.76	1.75
1970	CHC	NL	29	RF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-120	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.00
1971	CHC	NL	30	OF	48	37	34	351.1	95	89	4	2	2	.979	-3	-11	2.38	1.94	.979	2.19	2.19
1971	CHC	NL	30	CF	35	31	28	276.0	79	73	4	2	2	.975	-3	-15	2.51	2.20	.982	2.64	2.64
1971	CHC	NL	30	RF	14	5	5	66.1	16	16	0	0	0	1.000	0	5	2.17	1.14	.982	2.06	2.06
1971	CHC	NL	30	3B	2	1	1	10.0	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	-1	-72	1.80	1.00	.950	2.79	2.80
1971	CHC	NL	30	LF	1	1	1	9.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	2.00	2.00	.970	1.90	1.90
1973	CHC	NL	32	OF	22	7	3	88.1	25	23	1	1	0	.960	0	1	2.45	1.09	.977	2.23	2.23
1973	CHC	NL	32	LF	14	1	0	37.0	11	10	1	0	0	1.000	0	13	2.68	0.79	.977	2.04	2.05
1973	CHC	NL	32	CF	8	6	3	50.1	15	14	0	1	0	.933	-0	-7	2.50	1.75	.980	2.63	2.62
1973	CHC	NL	32	RF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.00
	4 Seasons			OF	162	93	79	947.1	242	229	10	3	3	.988	-6	-8	2.27	1.48	.977	2.13	2.12
	3 Seasons			CF	126	84	71	799.0	209	199	7	3	3	.986	-7	-10	2.32	1.63	.980	2.46	2.43
	4 Seasons			LF	23	4	3	80.0	16	15	1	0	0	1.000	0	5	1.80	0.70	.974	1.89	1.93
	3 Seasons			RF	16	5	5	68.1	16	16	0	0	0	1.000	0	4	2.11	1.00	.982	2.05	2.05
	1 Season			3B	2	1	1	10.0	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	-1	-72	1.80	1.00	.950	2.79	2.80
	4 Seasons			TOT	164	94	80	957.1	244	230	11	3	3	.988	-7	-9	2.27	1.47	.977	2.14	2.13

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
1968	LAD	NL	27	LF	0	0	0	0	0		0
1970	CHC	NL	29	CF	-3	-8	-3	-4	1		0
1970	CHC	NL	29	LF	-0	-5	-0	-0	0		0
1970	CHC	NL	29	RF	-0	-120	-0	-0	0		0
1971	CHC	NL	30	CF	-3	-15	-2	-1	-1		-1
1971	CHC	NL	30	RF	0	5	0	-0	0		0
1971	CHC	NL	30	3B	-1	-72	-1	0	-1	0
1971	CHC	NL	30	LF	0	0	0	0	0		0
1973	CHC	NL	32	LF	0	13	0	-0	1		0
1973	CHC	NL	32	CF	-0	-7	1	-1	2		-1
1973	CHC	NL	32	RF	0	0	0	0	0
	3 Seasons			CF	-7	-10	-5	-6	2		-2
	4 Seasons			LF	0	5	0	-0	1		0
	3 Seasons			RF	0	4	0	-0	0		0
	1 Season			3B	-1	-72	-1	0	-1	0
	4 Seasons			TOT	-7	-9	-5	-7	2	0	-2

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1968	LAD	NL	27	10	1	10	2	0	2	0	0	2	6	2
1970	CHC	NL	29	100	48	100	90	0	6	83	1	90	6	17
1971	CHC	NL	30	54	38	54	50	2	1	35	14	48	4	7
1973	CHC	NL	32	44	7	44	22	0	14	8	1	22	11	20
	4 Seasons			208	94	208	164	2	23	126	16	162	27	46

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 -- 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%
1970	CHC	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	1	0	29	14	0	23	2	0	2	1	0	10	2	0	12	8	1	76	27	35.5%	48	1	1.3%	2	2042	65%	77%	24%	227	50%
1971	CHC	NL	30	2	0	2	0	0	4	0	1	0	2	10	4	0	10	1	0	3	1	1	6	1	1	8	2	1	37	9	24.3%	25	3	8.1%	1	1149	61%	81%	27%	148	51%
1973	CHC	NL	32	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	10	2	20.0%	8	0	0.0%	0	205	49%	79%	27%	25	56%
	3 Seasons			3	0	3	0	1	7	0	3	1	2	43	19	0	35	3	0	8	2	1	16	3	1	21	11	2	123	38	30.9%	81	4	3.3%	3	3396	63%	78%	25%	400	51%
	MLB Averages																														43.4%			2.4%			64%	79%	26%		56%

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%
1968	LAD	NL	27	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	43	63%	91%	19%	4	50%
1970	CHC	NL	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	3	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	80	74%	71%	25%	3	33%
1971	CHC	NL	30	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	38	18%	89%	37%	3	67%
1973	CHC	NL	32	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	6	4	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	12	7	58.3%	4	1	8.3%	0	163	63%	78%	28%	19	58%
	4 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	7	5	0	2	0	1	2	2	0	1	1	0	3	2	0	15	10	66.7%	4	1	6.7%	0	324	60%	79%	27%	29	55%
	MLB Averages																														59.1%			2.8%			64%	79%	26%		47%

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%
1970	CHC	NL	29	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	4	75%	100%	50%	1	0%
1971	CHC	NL	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	50.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	280	66%	78%	29%	26	62%
1973	CHC	NL	32	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	3	67%	67%	33%	0
	3 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	50.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	287	66%	78%	29%	27	59%
	MLB Averages																														41.1%			3.3%			64%	79%	26%		53%

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%
1971	CHC	NL	30	48	71%	83%	29%	1	100%	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			48	71%	83%	29%	1	100%	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				64%	79%	28%		89%																								65%

* 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

Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1970 NL 1.000 (1st)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1970 NL 1.000 (1st)

Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1970 NL 1.000 (1st)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1970 NL 1.000 (1st)

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