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Jerry Kenney

Gerald Tennyson Kenney

Positions: Third Baseman, Shortstop and Centerfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: June 30, 1945 in St. Louis, MO
High School: Beloit HS (Beloit, WI)
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1964. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 5, 1967
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Indians 1967-1973

Final Game: April 19, 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 Awards
1967 NYY AL 22 SS 18 17 17 153.0 83 29 50 4 5 .952 -2 -15 4.65 4.39 .963 4.62 4.63
1969 NYY AL 24 3B 83 74 72 685.0 277 63 207 7 20 .975 16 29 3.55 3.25 .955 3.16 3.15
1969 NYY AL 24 CF 31 31 29 259.0 69 67 2 0 1 1.000 -2 -11 2.40 2.23 .982 2.50 2.50
1969 NYY AL 24 OF 31 31 29 259.0 68 66 2 0 1 1.000 -2 -11 2.36 2.19 .978 2.13 2.13
1969 NYY AL 24 SS 10 9 8 77.0 44 17 27 0 8 1.000 1 11 5.14 4.40 .966 4.96 4.96
1970 NYY AL 25 3B 135 107 102 1031.2 428 111 300 17 18 .960 10 11 3.59 3.04 .949 3.07 3.06
1970 NYY AL 25 2B 2 2 2 18.0 10 3 7 0 1 1.000 0 33 5.00 5.00 .979 5.35 5.30
1971 NYY AL 26 3B 109 88 81 818.0 321 69 237 15 20 .953 12 18 3.37 2.81 .956 3.04 3.03
1971 NYY AL 26 SS 5 3 2 27.0 17 5 12 0 4 1.000 1 49 5.67 3.40 .965 4.90 4.88
1971 NYY AL 26 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 9.50
1972 NYY AL 27 SS 45 33 26 314.2 194 57 131 6 30 .969 2 8 5.38 4.18 .967 4.99 4.97
1972 NYY AL 27 3B 1 0 0 3.2 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 98 2.45 1.00 .950 2.95 3.00
1973 CLE AL 28 2B 5 4 4 38.0 21 9 12 0 1 1.000 1 25 4.97 4.20 .980 5.45 5.40
4 Seasons 3B 328 269 255 2538.1 1027 243 745 39 58 .962 39 18 3.50 3.01 .953 3.08 3.07
4 Seasons SS 78 62 53 571.2 338 108 220 10 47 .970 2 4 5.16 4.21 .966 4.88 4.88
1 Season OF 31 31 29 259.0 68 66 2 0 1 1.000 -2 -11 2.36 2.19 .978 2.13 2.13
1 Season CF 31 31 29 259.0 69 67 2 0 1 1.000 -2 -11 2.40 2.23 .982 2.50 2.50
2 Seasons 2B 7 6 6 56.0 31 12 19 0 2 1.000 1 28 4.98 4.43 .980 5.42 5.37
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 9.50
6 Seasons TOT 445 368 343 3425.0 1464 429 986 49 108 .967 40 14 3.72 3.18 .958 3.35 3.37
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
1967 NYY AL 22 SS -2 -15 -1 1 -2 -1
1969 NYY AL 24 3B 16 29 16 9 6 1
1969 NYY AL 24 CF -2 -11 -1 2 -3 -1
1969 NYY AL 24 SS 1 11 1 0 1 0
1970 NYY AL 25 3B 10 11 11 7 3 -1
1970 NYY AL 25 2B 0 33 0 0 0 0
1971 NYY AL 26 3B 12 18 13 4 9 -1
1971 NYY AL 26 SS 1 49 1 1 -0 0
1971 NYY AL 26 1B
1972 NYY AL 27 SS 2 8 1 4 -3 1
1972 NYY AL 27 3B 0 98 0 0 0 0
1973 CLE AL 28 2B 1 25 1 -0 1 0
4 Seasons 3B 39 18 40 20 19 -1
4 Seasons SS 2 4 2 7 -5 0
1 Season CF -2 -11 -1 2 -3 -1
2 Seasons 2B 1 28 1 0 1 0
1 Season 1B
6 Seasons TOT 40 14 42 29 13 -1 -1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1967 NYY AL 22 20 17 20 18 0 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1969 NYY AL 24 130 114 130 123 0 0 0 0 83 10 0 31 0 31 0 13 2
1970 NYY AL 25 140 109 140 137 0 0 0 2 135 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
1971 NYY AL 26 120 91 120 114 0 0 0 0 110 5 0 0 0 0 0 4 10
1972 NYY AL 27 50 33 50 45 0 0 0 0 1 45 0 0 0 0 0 4 6
1973 CLE AL 28 5 4 5 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 465 368 465 442 0 0 0 7 329 78 0 31 0 31 0 24 29
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 -- 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%
1969 NYY AL 24 2798 64% 81% 30% 265 94% 4 62 47 7 8 207 167 32 2 3 7 0 7 0 7 21 12 2 18 2 1 1 5 80%
1970 NYY AL 25 4312 67% 83% 32% 431 88% 0 110 84 11 15 300 249 42 4 7 17 0 14 3 16 18 14 1 16 2 2 0 15 33%
1971 NYY AL 26 3341 66% 83% 34% 318 90% 2 68 44 17 7 243 196 39 2 6 15 0 9 6 10 20 7 5 13 6 3 3 12 58%
1972 NYY AL 27 18 78% 67% 22% 1 100% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 10469 66% 82% 32% 1015 90% 6 240 175 35 30 751 612 114 8 16 39 0 30 9 33 59 33 8 47 10 6 4 32 50%
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 89% 65%

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
1967 NYY AL 22 636 64% 79% 30% 70 86% 0 27 14 12 1 47 41 6 0 0 4 0 4 0 3 5 2 0 1 1 0 4 2 2 1 0 1
1969 NYY AL 24 313 68% 79% 30% 34 94% 0 18 9 8 1 28 24 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 3 0 4 1 0 8 3 5 0 0 0
1971 NYY AL 26 103 65% 84% 44% 15 100% 0 6 4 1 1 12 9 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 0 1 0 4 3 1 0 0 0
1972 NYY AL 27 1304 72% 82% 35% 164 90% 2 57 23 29 5 136 106 26 1 3 6 0 5 1 5 31 14 3 6 3 0 27 18 9 3 0 2
4 Seasons 2356 69% 81% 33% 283 90% 2 108 50 50 8 223 180 39 1 3 10 0 9 1 8 48 22 3 11 6 0 43 26 17 4 0 3
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 91%

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%
1969 NYY AL 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 13 9 0 4 0 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 11 4 0 33 14 42.4% 19 0 0.0% 2 1123 71% 80% 25% 135 50%
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 13 9 0 4 0 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 11 4 0 33 14 42.4% 19 0 0.0% 2 1123 71% 80% 25% 135 50%
MLB Averages 42.9% 2.3% 64% 79% 26% 56%

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
1970 NYY AL 25 66 50% 85% 35% 12 75% 0 4 3 1 0 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
1973 CLE AL 28 156 56% 77% 19% 15 100% 0 9 4 5 0 12 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
2 Seasons 222 55% 79% 24% 27 89% 0 13 7 6 0 19 17 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
MLB Averages 64% 79% 28% 94%

* 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

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1970 AL  300 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1969 AL  17 (2nd)
1970 AL  10 (4th)
1971 AL  12 (3rd)
Career  39 (35th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1969 AL  3.55 (2nd)
1970 AL  3.59 (1st)
1971 AL  3.37 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1969 AL  3.25 (3rd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1969 AL  .975 (3rd)
1970 AL  .960 (5th)

                                         

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