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Houston Jiménez

Alfonso (Gonzalez) Jimenez

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 144 lb.

Born: October 30, 1957 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Signed as a Free Agent with the Minnesota Twins in 1980. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 13, 1983
Teams (by GP): Twins/Indians/Pirates 1983-1988

Final Game: September 12, 1988
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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 Awards
1983 MIN AL 25 SS 36 27 21 243.1 130 43 83 4 20 .969 2 9 4.66 3.50 .963 4.75 4.72
1984 MIN AL 26 SS 107 101 64 843.0 436 145 273 18 59 .959 1 2 4.46 3.91 .962 4.76 4.72
1987 PIT NL 29 2B 2 0 0 2.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -60 9.00 1.00 .980 5.40 5.15
1987 PIT NL 29 SS 2 1 1 14.0 9 1 8 0 1 1.000 2 146 5.79 4.50 .964 4.69 4.70
1988 CLE AL 30 2B 7 4 4 46.0 37 10 26 1 3 .973 3 78 7.04 5.14 .982 5.13 5.09
1988 CLE AL 30 SS 2 0 0 6.0 5 3 2 0 2 1.000 -0 -20 7.50 2.50 .972 4.65 4.65
4 Seasons SS 147 129 86 1106.1 580 192 366 22 82 .962 5 5 4.54 3.80 .962 4.76 4.72
2 Seasons 2B 9 4 4 48.0 39 12 26 1 3 .974 3 72 7.12 4.22 .982 5.14 5.10
4 Seasons TOT 156 133 90 1154.1 619 204 392 23 85 .963 8 8 4.65 3.82 .964 4.77 4.74
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
1983 MIN AL 25 SS 2 9 2 3 -1 0
1984 MIN AL 26 SS 1 2 0 -0 1 1
1987 PIT NL 29 2B -0 -60 -0 -0 0 0
1987 PIT NL 29 SS 2 146 2 0 2 0
1988 CLE AL 30 2B 3 78 3 2 1 0
1988 CLE AL 30 SS -0 -20 -0 0 0 0
4 Seasons SS 5 5 4 2 2 1
2 Seasons 2B 3 72 3 2 1 0
4 Seasons TOT 8 8 7 4 3 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1983 MIN AL 25 36 27 36 36 0 0 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1984 MIN AL 26 108 101 108 107 0 0 0 0 0 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1987 PIT NL 29 5 1 5 4 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1988 CLE AL 30 9 4 9 9 0 0 0 7 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 158 133 158 156 0 0 0 9 0 147 0 0 0 0 0 1 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
1983 MIN AL 25 1055 59% 82% 27% 110 94% 1 45 23 15 7 85 60 22 0 1 4 0 4 0 3 21 12 2 1 1 2 18 14 4 3 1 1
1984 MIN AL 26 3564 54% 84% 26% 317 95% 5 144 64 53 27 274 201 56 3 8 18 1 15 2 13 58 22 3 14 4 5 52 25 23 5 2 2
1987 PIT NL 29 60 42% 72% 25% 10 100% 0 1 1 0 0 9 6 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1988 CLE AL 30 21 52% 71% 38% 2 100% 0 3 1 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0
4 Seasons 4700 55% 83% 26% 439 95% 6 193 89 70 34 370 269 81 3 9 22 1 19 2 16 82 35 5 16 5 7 73 40 28 8 3 3
MLB Averages 58% 81% 29% 92%

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
1987 PIT NL 29 10 70% 90% 50% 1 100% 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1988 CLE AL 30 194 54% 87% 36% 32 94% 0 8 5 3 0 27 22 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 3 2 1 0 0 0
2 Seasons 204 55% 87% 37% 33 94% 0 10 6 4 0 27 22 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 3 2 1 0 0 0
MLB Averages 58% 81% 29% 95%

* 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.

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