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Lamar Johnson

Lamar Johnson

Positions: First Baseman and Designated Hitter
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: September 2, 1950 in Bessemer, AL
High School: Wenonah HS (Birmingham, AL)
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 3rd round of the 1968 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 18, 1974
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Rangers 1974-1982
Agents: George Andrews [*]
Final Game: October 2, 1982
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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
1974 CHW AL 23 1B 7 6 3 48.0 42 40 2 0 8 1.000 -0 -3 7.88 6.00 .992 9.69 9.66
1974 CHW AL 23 DH 3 2
1975 CHW AL 24 1B 6 5 2 47.0 50 46 2 2 4 .960 -0 -13 9.19 8.00 .990 9.84 9.82
1975 CHW AL 24 DH 2 2
1976 CHW AL 25 1B 34 27 17 230.2 232 210 18 4 20 .983 -2 -9 8.90 6.71 .992 9.85 9.89
1976 CHW AL 25 DH 34 27
1976 CHW AL 25 LF 1 1 0 10.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -36 0.00 0.00 2.25 2.20
1976 CHW AL 25 OF 1 1 0 10.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -36 0.00 0.00 2.43 2.50
1977 CHW AL 26 DH 68 43
1977 CHW AL 26 1B 45 38 36 354.2 382 346 32 4 31 .990 -4 -13 9.59 8.40 .990 10.02 9.95
1978 CHW AL 27 1B 108 93 87 838.0 966 887 71 8 74 .992 4 5 10.29 8.87 .992 10.05 9.95
1978 CHW AL 27 DH 36 36
1979 CHW AL 28 1B 94 90 49 718.0 822 748 63 11 62 .987 -2 -4 10.17 8.63 .992 10.08 9.96
1979 CHW AL 28 DH 37 36
1980 CHW AL 29 1B 80 77 48 628.1 734 671 56 7 70 .990 5 10 10.41 9.09 .992 10.02 10.00
1980 CHW AL 29 DH 66 65
1981 CHW AL 30 1B 36 32 17 255.1 282 264 15 3 31 .989 -2 -8 9.83 7.75 .993 10.06 10.03
1981 CHW AL 30 DH 3 2
1982 TEX AL 31 DH 77 72
1982 TEX AL 31 1B 12 12 8 98.2 111 105 4 2 6 .982 -4 -46 9.94 9.08 .992 9.85 9.81
9 Seasons 1B 422 380 267 3218.2 3621 3317 263 41 306 .989 -5 -2 10.01 8.48 .992 10.02 9.95
1 Season OF 1 1 0 10.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -36 0.00 0.00 2.43 2.50
1 Season LF 1 1 0 10.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -36 0.00 0.00 2.25 2.20
9 Seasons TOT 423 381 267 3228.2 3621 3317 263 41 306 .989 -6 -2 9.98 8.46 .992 10.00 9.94
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/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
1974 CHW AL 23 1B -0 -3 -0 0 -0 0
1975 CHW AL 24 1B -0 -13 -0 -0 -0 0
1976 CHW AL 25 1B -2 -9 -2 -1 -1 0
1976 CHW AL 25 LF -0 -36 -0 -0 0 0
1977 CHW AL 26 1B -4 -13 -5 -2 -3 1
1978 CHW AL 27 1B 4 5 3 4 -1 1
1979 CHW AL 28 1B -2 -4 -2 0 -2 0
1980 CHW AL 29 1B 5 10 5 1 4 0
1981 CHW AL 30 1B -2 -8 -2 -0 -1 0
1982 TEX AL 31 1B -4 -46 -4 -2 -2 0
9 Seasons 1B -5 -2 -7 0 -7 2
1 Season LF -0 -36 -0 -0 0 0
9 Seasons TOT -6 -2 -8 -0 -7 2 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1974 CHW AL 23 10 8 10 7 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0
1975 CHW AL 24 8 7 8 6 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
1976 CHW AL 25 82 55 82 35 0 0 34 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 34 22 1
1977 CHW AL 26 118 81 118 45 0 0 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 68 33 0
1978 CHW AL 27 148 129 148 108 0 0 108 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36 14 0
1979 CHW AL 28 133 126 133 94 0 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 6 0
1980 CHW AL 29 147 142 147 80 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66 5 0
1981 CHW AL 30 41 34 41 36 0 0 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 0
1982 TEX AL 31 105 84 105 12 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 77 21 0
9 Seasons 792 666 792 423 0 0 422 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 326 109 1
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 -- 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%
1974 CHW AL 23 205 65% 78% 23% 7 100% 0 40 2 35 3 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0
1975 CHW AL 24 207 66% 83% 29% 5 100% 0 49 0 49 1 3 3 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
1976 CHW AL 25 1048 57% 83% 24% 50 94% 0 210 15 196 0 19 17 9 5 0 1 4 2 2 0 1 20 0 0 1 19 0 1 1 0 1 100%
1977 CHW AL 26 1546 54% 81% 24% 91 91% 1 347 20 321 5 38 30 17 10 0 1 4 0 4 0 3 32 2 1 2 28 5 4 1 3 9 78%
1978 CHW AL 27 3650 61% 83% 27% 223 96% 1 886 65 810 12 88 72 42 16 3 3 8 1 7 0 6 74 7 2 1 65 10 8 3 5 13 100%
1979 CHW AL 28 3139 67% 83% 27% 173 93% 0 748 57 686 8 63 62 29 12 1 4 11 5 6 0 5 62 1 1 0 52 3 10 4 6 9 89%
1980 CHW AL 29 2707 70% 83% 29% 145 93% 1 675 36 633 5 55 56 33 10 1 4 5 1 4 0 3 73 3 0 0 64 3 8 0 7 9 56%
1981 CHW AL 30 1091 68% 82% 27% 53 94% 1 260 19 237 5 21 12 5 4 0 1 3 1 2 0 2 30 0 1 0 27 1 3 2 1 1 100%
1982 TEX AL 31 459 57% 82% 25% 16 75% 0 105 6 97 2 3 4 1 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 6 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 0 0
9 Seasons 14052 63% 83% 27% 763 94% 4 3320 220 3064 41 293 258 139 60 5 14 39 11 27 1 22 307 13 5 4 270 22 35 12 22 42 83%
MLB Averages 61% 82% 28% 94% 89%

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%
1976 CHW AL 25 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 33 64% 73% 27% 1 0%
1 Season 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 33 64% 73% 27% 1 0%
MLB Averages 59.5% 2.9% 61% 82% 27% 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

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1979 AL  11 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1978 AL  4 (5th)
1980 AL  5 (5th)

                           

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