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Rusty Kuntz

Russell Jay Kuntz

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: February 4, 1955 in Orange, CA
School: California State University Stanislaus (Turlock, CA)
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 11th round of the 1977 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 1, 1979
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/Tigers/Twins 1979-1985

Final Game: April 24, 1985
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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
1979 CHW AL 24 OF 5 4 2 26.0 13 12 1 0 1 1.000 2 92 4.50 2.60 .981 2.46 2.44
1979 CHW AL 24 RF 3 3 1 18.0 9 8 1 0 1 1.000 1 93 4.50 3.00 .980 2.25 2.23
1979 CHW AL 24 CF 1 0 0 3.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1 280 9.00 3.00 .983 3.00 2.90
1979 CHW AL 24 LF 1 1 1 5.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -24 0.00 0.00 2.16 2.20
1980 CHW AL 25 OF 34 16 9 162.2 48 45 2 1 1 .979 2 16 2.60 1.38 .979 2.47 2.46
1980 CHW AL 25 LF 20 7 4 83.2 24 21 2 1 1 .958 1 17 2.47 1.15 .980 2.36 2.35
1980 CHW AL 25 CF 10 5 5 52.0 18 18 0 0 0 1.000 1 21 3.12 1.80 .983 2.92 2.91
1980 CHW AL 25 RF 6 4 0 27.0 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 0 4 1.67 0.83 .976 2.13 2.12
1981 CHW AL 26 OF 51 8 5 187.2 54 54 0 0 0 1.000 4 25 2.59 1.06 .983 2.48 2.47
1981 CHW AL 26 LF 28 2 2 92.0 25 25 0 0 0 1.000 2 20 2.45 0.89 .979 2.38 2.38
1981 CHW AL 26 CF 13 3 3 60.0 21 21 0 0 0 1.000 3 54 3.15 1.62 .988 2.90 2.89
1981 CHW AL 26 RF 13 3 0 35.2 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -10 2.02 0.62 .980 2.17 2.15
1981 CHW AL 26 DH 12 0
1982 CHW AL 27 CF 21 6 4 76.1 20 20 0 0 0 1.000 1 13 2.36 0.95 .985 2.84 2.83
1982 CHW AL 27 OF 21 6 4 83.1 21 21 0 0 0 1.000 0 7 2.27 1.00 .982 2.47 2.46
1982 CHW AL 27 RF 1 0 0 7.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -51 0.00 0.00 2.31 2.30
1983 TOT AL 28 OF 57 41 32 363.0 111 106 3 2 1 .982 -6 -19 2.70 1.91 .981 2.50 2.48
1983 TOT AL 28 CF 52 38 29 333.0 103 99 2 2 1 .981 -6 -22 2.73 1.94 .987 2.93 2.91
1983 CHW AL 28 OF 27 14 9 127.0 41 40 0 1 0 .976 -2 -24 2.83 1.48 .981 2.50 2.48
1983 CHW AL 28 CF 25 14 9 123.0 41 40 0 1 0 .976 -3 -26 2.93 1.60 .987 2.93 2.91
1983 CHW AL 28 LF 2 0 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 60 2.25 0.50 .980 2.25 2.30
1983 CHW AL 28 DH 1 0
1983 MIN AL 28 OF 30 27 23 236.0 70 66 3 1 1 .986 -3 -16 2.63 2.30 .981 2.50 2.48
1983 MIN AL 28 CF 27 24 20 210.0 62 59 2 1 1 .984 -3 -19 2.61 2.26 .987 2.93 2.91
1983 MIN AL 28 RF 3 3 3 26.0 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 0 14 2.77 2.67 .978 2.25 2.23
1984 DET AL 29 OF 67 35 20 342.2 77 74 2 1 1 .987 -8 -27 2.00 1.13 .983 2.51 2.49
1984 DET AL 29 RF 37 28 13 222.1 43 42 0 1 0 .977 -2 -13 1.70 1.14 .979 2.23 2.21
1984 DET AL 29 CF 22 7 7 94.1 24 22 2 0 1 1.000 -5 -69 2.29 1.09 .986 3.01 2.99
1984 DET AL 29 LF 12 0 0 26.0 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 0 9 2.42 0.58 .981 2.28 2.26
1984 DET AL 29 DH 10 3
1985 DET AL 30 DH 3 0
1985 DET AL 30 1B 1 0 0 3.0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 -0 -40 0.00 0.00 .990 9.90 9.70
6 Seasons OF 235 110 72 1165.1 324 312 8 4 4 .988 -5 -5 2.47 1.36 .982 2.49 2.48
6 Seasons CF 119 59 48 618.2 189 183 4 2 2 .989 -6 -12 2.72 1.57 .986 2.93 2.91
5 Seasons LF 63 10 7 210.2 57 54 2 1 1 .982 3 17 2.39 0.89 .980 2.35 2.34
6 Seasons RF 63 41 17 336.0 73 70 2 1 1 .986 -1 -5 1.93 1.14 .979 2.22 2.19
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 3.0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 -0 -40 0.00 0.00 .990 9.90 9.70
7 Seasons TOT 236 110 72 1168.1 325 312 8 5 4 .985 -5 -5 2.47 1.36 .982 2.51 2.51
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
1979 CHW AL 24 RF 1 93 1 1 0 0
1979 CHW AL 24 CF 1 280 1 0 1 0
1979 CHW AL 24 LF -0 -24 -0 -0 0 0
1980 CHW AL 25 LF 1 17 1 1 0 0
1980 CHW AL 25 CF 1 21 1 -0 1 0
1980 CHW AL 25 RF 0 4 0 0 -0 0
1981 CHW AL 26 LF 2 20 2 0 1 0
1981 CHW AL 26 CF 3 54 2 1 1 1
1981 CHW AL 26 RF -0 -10 -0 -1 0 0
1982 CHW AL 27 CF 1 13 -0 0 -0 1
1982 CHW AL 27 RF -0 -51 -0 -0 0 0
1983 CHW AL 28 CF -3 -26 -1 -2 1 -2
1983 CHW AL 28 LF 0 60 0 0 -0 0
1983 MIN AL 28 CF -3 -19 -4 -4 0 1
1983 MIN AL 28 RF 0 14 0 -0 0 0
1984 DET AL 29 RF -2 -13 -2 -0 -2 0
1984 DET AL 29 CF -5 -69 -5 -3 -2 0
1984 DET AL 29 LF 0 9 0 0 -0 0
1985 DET AL 30 1B -0 -40 -0 -0 0 0
6 Seasons CF -6 -12 -7 -9 1 1
5 Seasons LF 3 17 3 2 1 0
6 Seasons RF -1 -5 -1 0 -1 0
1 Season 1B -0 -40 -0 -0 0 0
7 Seasons TOT -5 -5 -6 -7 1 0 1
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1979 CHW AL 24 5 4 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 0 0 0
1980 CHW AL 25 36 16 36 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 10 6 36 0 4 1
1981 CHW AL 26 67 8 67 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 13 13 54 12 3 23
1982 CHW AL 27 21 6 21 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 1 22 0 0 1
1983 MIN AL 28 31 27 31 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 3 30 0 0 1
1983 CHW AL 28 28 14 28 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 25 0 27 1 4 1
1984 DET AL 29 84 38 84 67 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 22 37 71 10 15 13
1985 DET AL 30 5 0 5 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 0
7 Seasons 277 113 277 236 0 0 1 0 0 0 63 119 63 245 26 31 40
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%
1979 CHW AL 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 11 64% 91% 55% 4 75%
1980 CHW AL 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 6 3 50.0% 3 0 0.0% 0 215 71% 85% 25% 28 64%
1981 CHW AL 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 3 3 0 8 6 75.0% 2 0 0.0% 0 265 57% 81% 25% 39 54%
1982 CHW AL 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 7 7 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 332 64% 80% 23% 44 45%
1983 MIN AL 28 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 25 17 1 19 1 0 3 1 0 5 1 0 4 2 1 56 22 39.3% 32 2 3.6% 0 944 52% 82% 28% 136 44%
1983 CHW AL 28 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 0 6 1 0 4 2 0 3 0 0 5 4 0 26 8 30.8% 18 0 0.0% 0 544 65% 82% 25% 75 53%
1984 DET AL 29 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 1 1 8 1 12.5% 6 1 12.5% 1 420 50% 81% 26% 26 85%
6 Seasons 2 0 2 0 0 4 0 1 3 0 45 27 1 29 3 0 8 4 0 13 2 0 17 12 2 112 48 42.9% 61 3 2.7% 1 2731 58% 82% 26% 352 52%
MLB Averages 44.1% 2.5% 59% 82% 27% 64%

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%
1979 CHW AL 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 66.7% 1 0 0.0% 1 88 70% 78% 28% 10 80%
1980 CHW AL 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 33.3% 2 0 0.0% 0 110 69% 89% 26% 11 45%
1981 CHW AL 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.0% 2 0 0.0% 0 165 62% 83% 27% 11 73%
1982 CHW AL 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 26 77% 77% 27% 1 0%
1983 MIN AL 28 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 1 25.0% 2 1 25.0% 0 129 75% 73% 25% 12 67%
1984 DET AL 29 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 5 2 40.0% 3 0 0.0% 0 943 47% 81% 29% 44 95%
6 Seasons 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 6 1 1 4 3 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 1 0 17 6 35.3% 10 1 5.9% 1 1461 55% 81% 28% 89 80%
MLB Averages 41.9% 3.2% 59% 82% 27% 59%

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%
1979 CHW AL 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 50.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 20 90% 95% 25% 1 0%
1980 CHW AL 25 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 7 6 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 14 10 71.4% 3 1 7.1% 1 362 62% 81% 23% 47 47%
1981 CHW AL 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0 4 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 4 4 0 17 11 64.7% 6 0 0.0% 0 374 60% 84% 26% 46 54%
1983 CHW AL 28 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 15 47% 93% 27% 1 100%
1984 DET AL 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 0 116 62% 82% 35% 7 100%
5 Seasons 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 13 12 0 7 1 1 3 2 0 2 0 0 8 7 0 33 22 66.7% 10 1 3.0% 1 887 62% 83% 26% 102 54%
MLB Averages 59.7% 3.0% 59% 82% 27% 55%

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%
1985 DET AL 30 14 79% 79% 0% 1 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 14 79% 79% 0% 1 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 59% 82% 27% 95% 90%

* 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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