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James Loney

James Anthony Loney (twitter: @jamesloney_7)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: May 7, 1984 in Houston, TX
High School: Lawrence E Elkins HS (Missouri City, TX)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1st round (19th pick) of the 2002 amateur draft.
Signed June 11, 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 4, 2006
Team: Dodgers 2006-2012
2012 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$6.38M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 5.012, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: CAA Sports (Joe Urbon) [*]
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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 Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
2006 LAD NL 22 1B 39 20 18 228.2 228 212 15 1 17 .996 1 4 7 21 8.93 5.82 .994 9.43 9.36
2006 LAD NL 22 OF 2 0 0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0 -300 0 0.00 0.00 2.25 2.20
2006 LAD NL 22 RF 2 0 0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0 -300 0 0.00 0.00 2.10 2.10
2007 LAD NL 23 1B 93 85 81 774.2 795 725 61 9 87 .989 -4 2 -7 3 9.13 8.45 .993 9.21 9.17 RoY-6
2007 LAD NL 23 OF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -1 -120 -1200 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.30 RoY-6
2007 LAD NL 23 RF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -1 -120 -1200 0.00 0.00 1.80 2.20 RoY-6
2008 LAD NL 24 1B 158 150 149 1362.2 1498 1364 121 13 123 .991 -3 1 -3 1 9.81 9.40 .992 9.34 9.28
2009 LAD NL 25 1B 155 147 140 1341.0 1361 1269 85 7 110 .995 7 5 6 4 9.09 8.74 .993 9.29 9.21
2010 LAD NL 26 1B 160 149 144 1338.2 1368 1286 78 4 103 .997 3 4 2 4 9.17 8.53 .993 9.23 9.13
2011 LAD NL 27 1B 150 134 125 1203.2 1208 1129 74 5 90 .996 -3 11 -3 11 9.00 8.02 .994 9.33 9.31
2011 LAD NL 27 DH 1 0
2012 LAD NL 28 1B 46 38 35 356.1 366 331 33 2 29 .995 2 5 8 17 9.19 7.91 .993 9.42 9.34
7 Seasons 1B 801 723 692 6605.2 6824 6316 467 41 559 .994 3 32 0 5 9.24 8.47 .993 9.30 9.24
2 Seasons OF 3 0 0 7.0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 -1 -274 -171 0.00 0.00 2.31 2.23
2 Seasons RF 3 0 0 7.0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 -1 -274 -171 0.00 0.00 2.06 2.13
7 Seasons TOT 804 723 692 6612.2 6824 6316 467 41 559 .994 1 30 0 5 9.23 8.44 .993 9.29 9.21
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
2006 LAD NL 22 1B 1 7 1 0 1 0 4 21 4 0
2006 LAD NL 22 RF -2 -300 -2 -2 0 0 0 0 0 0
2007 LAD NL 23 1B -4 -7 -5 -0 -5 1 2 3 1 0
2007 LAD NL 23 RF -0 -120 -0 -0 0 0 -1 -1200 -1 0
2008 LAD NL 24 1B -3 -3 -3 0 -4 0 1 1 -1 1
2009 LAD NL 25 1B 7 6 6 2 3 1 5 4 3 1 -1
2010 LAD NL 26 1B 3 2 1 -0 1 2 4 4 -1 1 1
2011 LAD NL 27 1B -3 -3 -4 -2 -2 1 11 11 7 1 0
2012 LAD NL 28 1B 2 8 3 3 -0 -0 5 17 5 0 -1
7 Seasons 1B 3 0 -2 3 -5 5 32 5 18 3 0
2 Seasons RF -2 -274 -2 -2 0 0 -1 -171 -1 0
7 Seasons TOT 1 0 -4 1 -5 5 0 30 5 17 3 0 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2006 LAD NL 22 48 20 48 41 0 0 39 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 10 1
2007 LAD NL 23 96 85 96 94 0 0 93 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 6 0
2008 LAD NL 24 161 150 161 158 0 0 158 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
2009 LAD NL 25 158 147 158 155 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
2010 LAD NL 26 161 149 161 160 0 0 160 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
2011 LAD NL 27 158 134 158 150 0 0 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14 0
2012 LAD NL 28 48 38 48 46 0 0 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
7 Seasons 830 723 830 804 0 0 801 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 1 51 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 -- 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%
2006 LAD NL 22 938 58% 75% 33% 40 95% 0 212 9 200 3 14 15 12 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 17 1 0 0 16 1 1 0 1 2 100%
2007 LAD NL 23 3371 59% 76% 32% 184 91% 2 725 53 662 12 59 61 38 16 2 1 9 3 3 3 4 87 5 4 1 83 10 4 1 3 12 83%
2008 LAD NL 24 5783 57% 75% 35% 294 91% 1 1364 58 1278 27 101 120 81 25 0 7 13 1 7 5 9 123 4 3 0 116 7 7 3 3 22 91%
2009 LAD NL 25 5637 62% 73% 29% 279 96% 0 1269 103 1125 41 102 85 47 19 0 6 7 1 3 3 3 110 3 3 3 102 11 7 1 5 17 88%
2010 LAD NL 26 5711 61% 73% 31% 278 96% 0 1286 87 1155 41 116 78 50 16 1 2 4 0 1 3 2 103 5 1 3 95 11 8 2 6 16 94%
2011 LAD NL 27 5056 63% 74% 30% 280 94% 3 1129 97 998 32 106 74 42 15 4 1 5 2 1 2 2 90 4 2 2 84 9 5 3 1 12 75%
2012 LAD NL 28 1452 63% 72% 30% 69 94% 1 331 21 299 11 16 33 20 6 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 29 0 0 0 29 1 0 0 0 8 75%
7 Seasons 27948 60% 74% 31% 1424 94% 7 6316 428 5717 167 514 466 290 100 8 18 41 8 16 17 22 559 22 13 9 525 50 32 10 19 89 87%
MLB Averages 58% 76% 32% 93% 83%

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%
2006 LAD NL 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 25 60% 88% 40% 2 0%
2007 LAD NL 23 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 5 60% 100% 60% 1 0%
2 Seasons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 66.7% 1 0 0.0% 0 30 60% 90% 43% 3 0%
MLB Averages 47.2% 2.3% 58% 76% 40% 50%

* 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

Putouts† s c a p y
2008 NL  1,364 (3rd)
2010 NL  1,286 (3rd)
Active  6,316 (19th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
2008 NL  158 (3rd)
2009 NL  155 (5th)
2010 NL  160 (1st)
2012 NL  46 (3rd)
Active  801 (14th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
2008 NL  1,364 (3rd)
2010 NL  1,286 (3rd)
Active  6,316 (14th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
2008 NL  121 (5th)
2012 NL  33 (3rd)
Active  467 (16th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
2008 NL  13 (3rd)
Active  41 (15th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
2008 NL  9.81 (4th)
Active  9.24 (15th)
Career  9.24 (97th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
Active  8.47 (18th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
2010 NL  .997 (3rd)
2011 NL  .996 (4th)
Active  .994 (13th)
Career  .994 (46th)

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