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Carney Lansford

Carney Ray Lansford

Positions: Third Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: February 7, 1957 in San Jose, CA
High School: Wilcox (Santa Clara, CA)
Drafted by the California Angels in the 3rd round of the 1975 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 8, 1978
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Angels/RedSox 1978-1992
Agents: Jerry Kapstein, previously: Leigh Steinberg [*]
Final Game: October 4, 1992
Relatives: Brother of Joe Lansford
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 12, 2012, 12:12AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #308. Mike Tiernan… #309. Larry Doyle… #310. Tony Fernandez… #311. CARNEY LANSFORD… #312. Joe Judge… #313. Ed Konetchy… #314. Dave Concepcion… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1978 21 CAL AL 121 500 453 63 133 23 2 8 52 20 9 31 67 .294 .339 .406 .746 113 184 4 4 5 7 2 *5/6 RoY-3
1979 22 CAL AL 157 712 654 114 188 30 5 19 79 20 8 39 115 .287 .329 .436 .764 109 285 16 3 12 4 2 *5
1980 23 CAL AL 151 670 602 87 157 27 3 15 80 14 5 50 93 .261 .312 .390 .703 94 235 12 0 7 11 2 *5
1981 24 BOS AL 102 438 399 61 134 23 3 4 52 15 10 34 28 .336 .389 .439 .828 133 175 6 2 1 2 3 *5 MVP-6,SS
1982 25 BOS AL 128 539 482 65 145 28 4 11 63 9 4 46 48 .301 .359 .444 .803 114 214 15 2 1 8 2 *5 MVP-32
1983 26 OAK AL 80 328 299 43 92 16 2 10 45 3 8 22 33 .308 .357 .475 .832 135 142 8 3 0 4 4 5/6
1984 27 OAK AL 151 651 597 70 179 31 5 14 74 9 3 40 62 .300 .342 .439 .781 122 262 12 3 2 9 6 *5
1985 28 OAK AL 98 432 401 51 111 18 2 13 46 2 3 18 27 .277 .311 .429 .740 108 172 6 4 4 5 1 5
1986 29 OAK AL 151 640 591 80 168 16 4 19 72 16 7 39 51 .284 .332 .421 .753 111 249 16 5 1 4 2 53/4
1987 30 OAK AL 151 631 554 89 160 27 4 19 76 27 8 60 44 .289 .366 .455 .821 123 252 9 9 5 3 11 *53
1988 31 OAK AL 150 607 556 80 155 20 2 7 57 29 8 35 35 .279 .327 .360 .687 96 200 17 7 5 4 4 *5/34 AS
1989 32 OAK AL 148 616 551 81 185 28 2 2 52 37 15 51 25 .336 .398 .405 .803 131 223 21 9 1 4 2 *53 MVP-17
1990 33 OAK AL 134 564 507 58 136 15 1 3 50 16 14 45 50 .268 .333 .320 .652 87 162 10 6 2 4 4 *5/3
1991 34 OAK AL 5 16 16 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 .063 .063 .063 .125 -64 1 0 0 0 0 0 /5
1992 35 OAK AL 135 561 496 65 130 30 1 7 75 7 2 43 39 .262 .325 .369 .694 100 183 14 7 7 8 0 *53/6
15 Seasons 1862 7905 7158 1007 2074 332 40 151 874 224 104 553 719 .290 .343 .411 .753 111 2939 166 64 53 77 45
162 Game Avg. 162 688 623 88 180 29 3 13 76 19 9 48 63 .290 .343 .411 .753 111 256 14 6 5 7 4
OAK (10 yrs) 1203 5046 4568 617 1317 201 23 94 548 146 68 353 368 .288 .343 .404 .747 112 1846 113 53 27 45 34
CAL (3 yrs) 429 1882 1709 264 478 80 10 42 211 54 22 120 275 .280 .326 .412 .738 105 704 32 7 24 22 6
BOS (2 yrs) 230 977 881 126 279 51 7 15 115 24 14 80 76 .317 .372 .442 .814 122 389 21 4 2 10 5

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1978 21 CAL AL 500 12 1 1 1 -6 3 16 27 2.9 34 3.5 -0.6 $21,000 *5/6 RoY-3
1979 22 CAL AL 712 9 4 0 0 -2 4 21 36 3.6 38 3.8 -0.2 $ *5
1980 23 CAL AL 670 -4 1 0 2 -16 1 19 2 0.2 19 2.0 -1.8 $ *5
1981 24 BOS AL 438 19 0 0 3 1 -1 13 35 3.8 34 3.6 0.2 $ *5 MVP-6,SS
1982 25 BOS AL 539 11 -1 5 -2 -8 -1 16 20 2.1 28 2.9 -0.8 $440,000 *5 MVP-32
1983 26 OAK AL 328 16 -4 0 -1 5 1 10 27 2.8 22 2.2 0.6 $ 5/6
1984 27 OAK AL 651 19 2 -1 1 -1 1 19 40 4.1 41 4.2 -0.1 $ *5
1985 28 OAK AL 432 7 -1 2 0 -16 1 13 6 0.6 22 2.2 -1.6 $900,000 5
1986 29 OAK AL 640 10 3 7 -1 2 -3 19 37 3.8 35 3.5 0.3 $1,200,000 53/4
1987 30 OAK AL 631 21 5 -1 1 8 0 19 53 5.3 45 4.5 0.8 $1,300,000 *53
1988 31 OAK AL 607 -3 8 2 0 -1 1 19 26 2.7 27 2.8 -0.1 $1,300,000 *5/34 AS
1989 32 OAK AL 616 30 1 1 -2 -7 0 19 43 4.5 49 5.1 -0.6 $1,375,000 *53 MVP-17
1990 33 OAK AL 564 -8 0 0 1 -3 0 19 9 0.8 12 1.2 -0.4 $1,275,000 *5/3
1991 34 OAK AL 16 -4 0 0 0 -0 0 1 -3 -0.4 -3 -0.3 -0.1 $1,275,000 /5
1992 35 OAK AL 561 2 1 4 0 -2 0 19 24 2.5 26 2.7 -0.2 $1,150,000 *53/6
15 Seasons 7905 137 20 20 3 -46 7 242 382 39.3 429 43.9 -4.6 $10,236,000
OAK (10 yrs) 5046 90 15 14 -1 -15 1 157 262 26.7 276 28.1 -1.4 $9,775,000
CAL (3 yrs) 1882 17 6 1 3 -25 8 56 65 6.7 91 9.3 -2.6 $21,000
BOS (2 yrs) 977 30 -1 5 1 -7 -2 29 55 5.9 62 6.5 -0.6 $440,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1979 22 CAL AL ALCS BAL L 4 18 17 2 5 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 2 .294 .333 .294 .627 5 1 0 0 0 0
1988 31 OAK AL ALCS BOS W 4 17 17 4 5 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 .294 .294 .529 .824 9 0 0 0 0 0
1988 31 OAK AL WS LAD L 5 20 18 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 .167 .250 .167 .417 3 0 0 0 0 0
1989 32 OAK AL ALCS TOR W 3 13 11 2 5 0 0 0 4 2 0 2 1 .455 .538 .455 .993 5 0 0 0 0 0
1989 32 OAK AL WS SFG W 4 19 16 5 7 1 0 1 4 0 0 3 1 .438 .526 .688 1.214 11 1 0 0 0 0
1990 33 OAK AL ALCS BOS W 4 18 16 2 7 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 .438 .438 .500 .938 8 0 0 2 0 0
1990 33 OAK AL WS CIN L 4 17 15 0 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 .267 .313 .267 .579 4 0 0 1 0 0
1992 35 OAK AL ALCS TOR L 5 19 18 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 .167 .211 .167 .377 3 1 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons (8 Series) 33 141 128 17 39 3 0 2 18 4 1 10 10 .305 .355 .375 .730 48 3 0 3 0 0
5 ALCS 20 85 79 10 25 2 0 1 12 3 1 4 7 .316 .349 .380 .729 30 2 0 2 0 0
3 WS 13 56 49 7 14 1 0 1 6 1 0 6 3 .286 .364 .367 .731 18 1 0 1 0 0

Standard Fielding

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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
1978 CAL AL 21 3B 117 292 93 182 17 18 .942 -7 2.35 .954 2.98 RoY-3
1978 CAL AL 21 SS 2 6 1 4 1 0 .833 0 2.50 .963 4.85 RoY-3
1978 CAL AL 21 DH 1 1 RoY-3
1979 CAL AL 22 3B 157 405 135 263 7 29 .983 -2 2.54 .953 3.03
1980 CAL AL 23 3B 150 420 151 250 19 29 .955 -16 2.67 .951 3.00
1981 BOS AL 24 3B 86 263 70 180 13 17 .951 1 2.91 .950 2.94 MVP-6,SS
1981 BOS AL 24 DH 16 16 MVP-6,SS
1982 BOS AL 25 3B 114 309 83 216 10 19 .968 -8 2.62 .954 3.05 MVP-32
1982 BOS AL 25 DH 13 13 MVP-32
1983 OAK AL 26 3B 78 233 60 163 10 19 .957 5 2.86 .955 3.05
1983 OAK AL 26 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.70
1984 OAK AL 27 3B 151 423 137 268 18 27 .957 -1 2.68 .950 2.73
1985 OAK AL 28 3B 97 209 85 119 5 11 .976 -16 2.10 .953 2.82
1986 OAK AL 29 3B 100 218 67 147 4 13 .982 1 2.14 .948 2.71
1986 OAK AL 29 1B 60 437 413 22 2 24 .995 1 7.25 .991 9.33
1986 OAK AL 29 2B 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 1.00 .980 5.00
1986 OAK AL 29 DH 3 3
1987 OAK AL 30 3B 142 354 98 249 7 15 .980 9 2.44 .952 2.74
1987 OAK AL 30 1B 17 67 58 9 0 5 1.000 -1 3.94 .992 9.48
1987 OAK AL 30 DH 4 4
1988 OAK AL 31 3B 143 340 113 220 7 16 .979 -1 2.33 .954 2.69 AS
1988 OAK AL 31 1B 9 13 12 1 0 2 1.000 0 1.44 .992 9.49 AS
1988 OAK AL 31 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 5.10 AS
1988 OAK AL 31 DH 1 1 AS
1989 OAK AL 32 3B 136 300 104 183 13 11 .957 -6 2.11 .943 2.70 MVP-17
1989 OAK AL 32 1B 15 96 91 5 0 9 1.000 -0 6.40 .993 9.69 MVP-17
1989 OAK AL 32 DH 3 3 MVP-17
1990 OAK AL 33 3B 126 303 100 194 9 22 .970 -3 2.33 .944 2.73
1990 OAK AL 33 1B 5 29 28 1 0 2 1.000 -0 5.80 .992 9.52
1990 OAK AL 33 DH 5 5
1991 OAK AL 34 3B 4 3 0 3 0 0 1.000 -0 0.75 .953 2.80
1991 OAK AL 34 DH 1 1
1992 OAK AL 35 3B 119 257 86 162 9 10 .965 0 2.08 .950 2.77
1992 OAK AL 35 1B 18 119 112 5 2 13 .983 -2 6.50 .993 9.64
1992 OAK AL 35 SS 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 1.00 .970 4.70
1992 OAK AL 35 DH 1 1
15 Seasons 3B 1720 4329 1382 2799 148 256 .966 -44 2.43 .951 2.85
6 Seasons 1B 124 761 714 43 4 55 .995 -2 6.10 .992 9.46
3 Seasons SS 4 7 2 4 1 0 .857 0 1.50 .964 4.77
2 Seasons 2B 2 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 0.50 .980 5.05
15 Seasons TOT 1850 5098 2098 2847 153 311 .970 -46 2.67 .957 3.30
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1998 BBWAA ( 0.6%)

All-Star Games
1988 *

Awards (yr lg award)
1992 ML Hutch Award

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1981 AL (6, 28%)
1982 AL (32, 0%)
1989 AL (17, 5%)
0.33 Career Shares (578th)

Silver Sluggers
1981 AL (3B)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1987 AL  5.3 (6th)
1989 AL  4.5 (10th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1981 AL  3.6 (8th)
1989 AL  5.1 (8th)
Career  43.9 (210th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1981 AL  .336 (1st)
1989 AL  .336 (2nd)

On-Base% s c a p y
1981 AL  .389 (5th)
1989 AL  .398 (5th)

At Bats s c a p y
1979 AL  654 (2nd)
Career  7,158 (245th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1979 AL  712 (5th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1979 AL  114 (5th)
1981 AL  61 (6th)

Hits s c a p y
1979 AL  188 (4th)
1981 AL  134 (2nd)
1989 AL  185 (8th)
Career  2,074 (229th)

Doubles s c a p y
1981 AL  23 (8th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1979 AL  115 (4th)
1980 AL  93 (9th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1988 AL  29 (10th)
1989 AL  37 (6th)

Singles s c a p y
1979 AL  134 (6th)
1981 AL  104 (2nd)
1986 AL  129 (10th)
1989 AL  153 (3rd)
Career  1,551 (171st)

Runs Created s c a p y
1981 AL  68 (7th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1981 AL  170 (7th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1981 AL  .696 (6th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1987 AL  9 (4th)
1989 AL  9 (2nd)
Career  64 (243rd)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1980 AL  11 (1st)
1982 AL  8 (7th)
1984 AL  9 (6th)
Career  77 (103rd)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1987 AL  11 (6th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1988 AL  17 (10th)
1989 AL  21 (4th)
Career  166 (194th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1981 AL  10 (5th)
1989 AL  15 (6th)
1990 AL  14 (8th)
Career  104 (105th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1979 AL  19.5 (7th)
1980 AL  14.5 (10th)
1987 AL  22.3 (9th)
Career  180.4 (109th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1981 AL  14.3 (8th)
1986 AL  11.6 (7th)
1987 AL  12.6 (7th)
1988 AL  15.9 (4th)
1989 AL  22.0 (1st)
1992 AL  12.7 (8th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1979 AL  506 (2nd)
1980 AL  480 (6th)
Career  5,484 (228th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1981 AL  2.3 (7th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1979 AL  157 (1st)
1980 AL  150 (2nd)
1984 AL  151 (3rd)
Career  1,720 (25th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1979 AL  135 (1st)
1980 AL  151 (1st)
1984 AL  137 (3rd)
1988 AL  113 (3rd)
1989 AL  104 (5th)
1990 AL  100 (5th)
Career  1,382 (48th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1984 AL  268 (4th)
Career  2,799 (49th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1978 AL  17 (5th)
1980 AL  19 (2nd)
1981 AL  13 (5th)
1984 AL  18 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1987 AL  9 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1981 AL  2.91 (4th)
1984 AL  2.68 (4th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1979 AL  .983 (1st)
1982 AL  .968 (5th)
1985 AL  .976 (1st)
1986 AL  .982 (1st)
1987 AL  .980 (1st)
1988 AL  .979 (1st)
1989 AL  .957 (5th)
1990 AL  .970 (2nd)
1992 AL  .965 (2nd)
Career  .966 (20th)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 4 (421), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 30 (789), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 33 (574), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 25 (470), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  3. Pinky Higgins (899)
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  5. Ken Griffey (895)
  6. Jose Cardenal (895)
  7. Claudell Washington (894)
  8. George Kell (890) *
  9. Felipe Alou (885)
  10. Tommy Davis (880)
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  3. George Kell (934) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Gregg Jefferies (950)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Gregg Jefferies (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Gregg Jefferies (949)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Gregg Jefferies (944)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Gregg Jefferies (953)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Gregg Jefferies (944)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Gregg Jefferies (938)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  11. Buddy Bell (910)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  12. Harvey Kuenn (901)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  13. B.J. Surhoff (904)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  14. B.J. Surhoff (910)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
197821California Angels$21,0002/10/79 TSN
198225Boston Red Sox$440,0001983 TSN GuidePlayer loss; asked $650K
198528Oakland Athletics$900,0003/3/86 TSN
198629Oakland Athletics$1,200,0001986 USA Today survey
198730Oakland Athletics$1,300,0001987 USA Today survey
198831Oakland Athletics$1,300,000*
198932Oakland Athletics$1,375,0001989 USA Today survey
199033Oakland Athletics$1,275,000*
199134Oakland Athletics$1,275,000USA Today survey
199235Oakland Athletics$1,150,00011/4/92 Toronto SunIncludes $550,000 incentives
Career to date (may be incomplete)$10,236,000
Disputed Salaries
*1988 - $1,535,000 - 12/13/88 NYT -
*1990 - $1,325,000 - 11/21/90 NYT -
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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