Matthew Joyce

Matthew R. Joyce (twitter: @sweetswingin20)

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: August 3, 1984 in Tampa, FL
High School: Armwood HS (Seffner, FL)
School: Florida Southern College (Lakeland, FL)
Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 12th round of the 2005 amateur draft.
Signed June 9, 2005. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 5, 2008
Teams (by GP): Rays/Tigers 2008-2012
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$500k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 2.123, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2016 [*],
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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
2008	DET	AL	23	OF	84	57	50	570.1	142	136	2	4	0	.972	9	3	19	6	2.18	1.64	.986	2.31	2.28
2008	DET	AL	23	LF	60	41	37	409.1	99	94	2	3	0	.970	6	3	17	9	2.11	1.60	.984	2.05	2.03
2008	DET	AL	23	RF	25	16	13	161.0	43	42	0	1	0	.977	3	0	25	0	2.35	1.68	.985	2.15	2.13
2008	DET	AL	23	DH	3	2
2009	TBR	AL	24	OF	9	8	6	68.0	15	15	0	0	0	1.000	0	-4	0	-70	1.99	1.67	.987	2.33	2.30
2009	TBR	AL	24	RF	5	4	4	36.0	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-1	-10	-33	1.50	1.20	.982	2.12	2.10
2009	TBR	AL	24	CF	4	4	2	32.0	9	9	0	0	0	1.000	0	-3	11	-112	2.53	2.25	.992	2.73	2.70
2009	TBR	AL	24	DH	1	1
2010	TBR	AL	25	OF	63	53	40	472.0	122	115	4	3	0	.975	3	5	7	12	2.27	1.89	.986	2.30	2.28
2010	TBR	AL	25	RF	53	46	34	397.0	106	99	4	3	0	.972	3	6	8	18	2.34	1.94	.984	2.10	2.08
2010	TBR	AL	25	LF	13	7	6	75.0	16	16	0	0	0	1.000	0	-1	0	-16	1.92	1.23	.983	2.06	2.05
2010	TBR	AL	25	DH	11	10
2011	TBR	AL	26	OF	136	120	107	1093.0	242	231	8	3	3	.988	-4	-4	-5	-4	1.97	1.76	.986	2.28	2.26	AS
2011	TBR	AL	26	RF	126	112	102	1006.1	222	211	8	3	3	.986	-4	-2	-4	-2	1.96	1.74	.986	2.09	2.07	AS
2011	TBR	AL	26	LF	15	8	5	86.2	20	20	0	0	0	1.000	0	-2	6	-28	2.08	1.33	.982	2.13	2.11	AS
2011	TBR	AL	26	DH	1	1																		AS
2012	TBR	AL	27	OF	47	43	33	388.1	75	73	2	0	0	1.000	-1	3	-4	9	1.74	1.60	.988	2.15	2.14
2012	TBR	AL	27	LF	32	28	21	244.1	49	47	2	0	0	1.000	3	3	14	15	1.80	1.53	.984	1.94	1.93
2012	TBR	AL	27	RF	21	15	12	144.0	26	26	0	0	0	1.000	-4	0	-37	0	1.62	1.24	.989	1.95	1.94
	5 Seasons			OF	339	281	236	2591.2	596	570	16	10	3	.983	6	3	3	1	2.03	1.73	.986	2.27	2.25
	5 Seasons			RF	230	193	165	1744.1	403	384	12	7	3	.983	-2	3	-1	2	2.04	1.72	.985	2.09	2.07
	4 Seasons			LF	120	84	69	815.1	184	177	4	3	0	.984	9	3	13	4	2.00	1.51	.984	2.03	2.01
	1 Season			CF	4	4	2	32.0	9	9	0	0	0	1.000	0	-3	11	-112	2.53	2.25	.992	2.73	2.70
	5 Seasons			TOT	339	281	236	2591.2	596	570	16	10	3	.983	6	6	3	2	2.03	1.73	.986	2.27	2.25
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.

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	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rof
2008	DET	AL	23	LF	6	17	3	2	1	3	3	9	2	1
2008	DET	AL	23	RF	3	25	3	3	0	0	0	0	2	-1
2009	TBR	AL	24	RF	-0	-10	-0	0	-0	0	-1	-33	-1	0
2009	TBR	AL	24	CF	0	11	0	-0	0	0	-3	-112	-3	0
2010	TBR	AL	25	RF	3	8	-1	-5	3	4	6	18	2	2
2010	TBR	AL	25	LF	0	0	0	-1	1	0	-1	-16	0	-1
2011	TBR	AL	26	RF	-4	-4	-4	1	-6	1	-2	-2	-5	0
2011	TBR	AL	26	LF	0	6	1	-0	2	-1	-2	-28	0	-1
2012	TBR	AL	27	LF	3	14	1	1	-0	2	3	15	-2	3
2012	TBR	AL	27	RF	-4	-37	-4	-2	-2	-1	0	0	0	0
	5 Seasons			RF	-2	-1	-6	-2	-4	4	3	2	-2	1
	4 Seasons			LF	9	13	5	1	4	4	3	4	0	2
	1 Season			CF	0	11	0	-0	0	0	-3	-112	-3	0
	5 Seasons			TOT	6	3	-1	-1	0	7	6	2	-5	3

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR
2008	DET	AL	23	92	59	92	84	60	0	25	85	3	10	2
2009	TBR	AL	24	11	9	11	9	0	4	5	9	1	2	0
2010	TBR	AL	25	77	63	77	63	13	0	53	66	11	13	1
2011	TBR	AL	26	141	121	141	136	15	0	126	136	1	16	0
2012	TBR	AL	27	49	43	49	47	32	0	21	47	0	6	0
	5 Seasons			370	295	370	339	120	4	230	343	16	47	3

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%
2008	DET	AL	23	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	7	0	5	2	0	5	4	0	1	0	0	6	3	0	30	16	53.3%	14	0	0.0%	0	714	56%	79%	42%	84	50%
2009	TBR	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	50.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	137	39%	74%	38%	13	46%
2010	TBR	AL	25	3	0	2	1	1	4	0	3	0	0	26	17	1	7	2	0	9	7	0	3	2	0	11	9	0	56	37	66.1%	18	1	1.8%	3	1674	47%	75%	43%	206	50%
2011	TBR	AL	26	3	0	3	0	1	8	2	3	1	2	49	24	1	25	5	1	24	18	0	12	2	1	16	10	0	126	59	46.8%	64	3	2.4%	5	4200	53%	76%	41%	432	50%
2012	TBR	AL	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	4	0	6	2	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	21	9	42.9%	12	0	0.0%	0	606	54%	72%	36%	61	43%
	5 Seasons			7	0	6	1	2	12	2	6	1	2	98	52	2	44	12	1	41	31	0	16	4	1	36	23	0	235	122	51.9%	109	4	1.7%	8	7331	52%	75%	41%	796	49%
	MLB Averages																														47.2%			2.3%			57%	76%	39%		50%

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%
2008	DET	AL	23	3	0	2	1	1	2	0	1	1	0	29	28	0	18	9	0	11	7	0	7	3	0	7	7	0	72	54	75.0%	18	0	0.0%	2	1837	56%	74%	40%	211	46%
2010	TBR	AL	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	8	5	62.5%	3	0	0.0%	0	316	56%	77%	45%	34	47%
2011	TBR	AL	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	4	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	13	6	46.2%	7	0	0.0%	0	358	65%	77%	42%	45	44%
2012	TBR	AL	27	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	9	7	0	12	6	0	8	6	1	3	1	0	3	3	0	35	23	65.7%	11	1	2.9%	1	1037	53%	75%	37%	104	48%
	4 Seasons			3	0	2	1	1	4	0	3	1	0	47	41	0	33	16	0	24	14	1	11	4	0	13	13	0	128	88	68.8%	39	1	0.8%	3	3548	56%	75%	40%	394	46%
	MLB Averages																														63.8%			2.2%			57%	76%	39%		47%

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%
2009	TBR	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	142	42%	75%	39%	13	69%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	142	42%	75%	39%	13	69%
	MLB Averages																														45.6%			1.8%			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 2011 *	Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2012 AL 2 (3rd)	Total Zone Runs as LF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 9 (24th)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 2012 AL 1.000 (1st)
Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2011 AL .986 (5th)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 2012 AL 1.000 (1st)

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