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Joe Lovitto

Joseph Lovitto

Positions: Centerfielder and Third Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: January 6, 1951 in San Pedro, CA
High School: San Pedro HS (San Pedro, CA)
Drafted by the Washington Senators in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1969 amateur draft (January). (All Transactions)
Debut: April 15, 1972
Team: Rangers 1972-1975

Final Game: September 16, 1975
Died: May 19, 2001 in Arlington, TX
Buried: Moore Memorial Gardens, Arlington, TX
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1972 TEX AL 21 OF 103 90 76 805.2 246 233 7 6 2 .976 6 10 2.68 2.33 .983 2.22 2.21
1972 TEX AL 21 CF 77 71 62 618.2 208 197 8 3 2 .986 6 13 2.98 2.66 .987 2.65 2.64
1972 TEX AL 21 RF 25 19 14 172.1 39 36 0 3 0 .923 0 0 1.88 1.44 .980 2.12 2.11
1972 TEX AL 21 LF 6 0 0 14.2 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 1.84 0.50 .980 1.90 1.88
1973 TEX AL 22 3B 20 12 11 112.0 49 23 21 5 3 .898 -4 -42 3.54 2.20 .950 3.00 2.98
1973 TEX AL 22 CF 3 0 0 7.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -17 2.57 0.67 .985 2.83 2.77
1973 TEX AL 22 OF 3 0 0 8.1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -14 3.24 1.00 .980 2.27 2.27
1973 TEX AL 22 RF 2 0 0 1.1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 6.75 0.50 .980 2.02 2.05
1973 TEX AL 22 DH 1 0
1974 TEX AL 23 OF 107 73 69 720.0 214 201 7 6 1 .972 2 3 2.60 1.94 .980 2.41 2.40
1974 TEX AL 23 CF 106 73 69 719.0 213 200 7 6 1 .972 2 4 2.59 1.95 .986 2.93 2.92
1974 TEX AL 23 1B 5 4 1 28.0 23 23 0 0 3 1.000 -0 -13 7.39 4.60 .992 9.71 9.66
1974 TEX AL 23 RF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 1.80 2.20
1975 TEX AL 24 OF 38 21 17 243.1 66 62 3 1 1 .985 3 13 2.40 1.71 .979 2.37 2.36
1975 TEX AL 24 CF 25 16 13 174.0 49 47 2 0 2 1.000 2 14 2.53 1.96 .983 2.84 2.83
1975 TEX AL 24 LF 17 5 4 69.1 18 16 1 1 0 .944 1 12 2.21 1.00 .977 2.18 2.17
1975 TEX AL 24 1B 2 1 0 9.0 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -27 9.00 4.50 .990 9.80 9.80
1975 TEX AL 24 DH 2 0
1975 TEX AL 24 C 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 6.00 0 0 0
4 Seasons OF 251 184 162 1777.1 529 499 17 13 4 .975 11 8 2.61 2.06 .981 2.32 2.31
4 Seasons CF 211 160 144 1518.2 472 446 17 9 5 .981 10 8 2.74 2.19 .986 2.81 2.81
3 Seasons RF 28 19 14 174.2 40 37 0 3 0 .925 0 0 1.91 1.32 .980 2.12 2.11
2 Seasons LF 23 5 4 84.0 21 19 1 1 0 .952 1 10 2.14 0.87 .978 2.13 2.10
1 Season 3B 20 12 11 112.0 49 23 21 5 3 .898 -4 -42 3.54 2.20 .950 3.00 2.98
2 Seasons 1B 7 5 1 37.0 32 32 0 0 3 1.000 -1 -16 7.78 4.57 .992 9.73 9.70
1 Season C 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 6.00 0 0 0
4 Seasons TOT 279 201 174 1926.1 610 554 38 18 10 .970 7 4 2.77 2.12 .979 2.50 2.56 0 0 0
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO 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
1972 TEX AL 21 CF 6 13 4 9 -4 2
1972 TEX AL 21 RF 0 0 1 1 -0 -1
1972 TEX AL 21 LF 0 0 0 0 0 0
1973 TEX AL 22 3B -4 -42 -4 -2 -2 0
1973 TEX AL 22 CF -0 -17 -0 -0 0 0
1973 TEX AL 22 RF 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1974 TEX AL 23 CF 2 4 -2 0 -2 4
1974 TEX AL 23 1B -0 -13 -0 0 -0 0
1974 TEX AL 23 RF 0 0 0 0 0
1975 TEX AL 24 CF 2 14 1 1 0 1
1975 TEX AL 24 LF 1 12 1 0 0 0
1975 TEX AL 24 1B -0 -27 -0 -0 0 0
1975 TEX AL 24 C
4 Seasons CF 10 8 4 9 -6 7
3 Seasons RF 0 0 1 1 -0 -1
2 Seasons LF 1 10 1 0 0 0
1 Season 3B -4 -42 -4 -2 -2 0
2 Seasons 1B -1 -16 -1 -0 -0 0
1 Season C
4 Seasons TOT 7 4 1 9 -8 0 6

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1972 TEX AL 21 117 90 117 103 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 77 25 103 0 9 10
1973 TEX AL 22 26 12 26 24 0 0 0 0 19 0 0 3 2 5 1 0 6
1974 TEX AL 23 113 77 113 109 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 106 1 107 0 2 4
1975 TEX AL 24 50 22 50 39 0 0 2 0 0 0 17 25 0 42 2 9 7
4 Seasons 306 201 306 275 0 0 7 0 19 0 23 211 28 257 3 20 27
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%
1972 TEX AL 21 3 0 3 0 1 8 0 1 4 2 46 29 2 18 0 2 9 4 0 12 2 0 21 15 1 106 50 47.2% 51 5 4.7% 3 2658 60% 78% 27% 355 57%
1973 TEX AL 22 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 32 53% 84% 16% 2 100%
1974 TEX AL 23 6 0 5 1 2 7 0 3 2 2 45 29 2 30 5 1 8 5 0 9 1 1 15 13 0 107 53 49.5% 50 4 3.7% 3 3018 58% 81% 27% 397 52%
1975 TEX AL 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 5 2 0 1 0 0 5 2 0 3 2 1 17 8 47.1% 8 1 5.9% 1 712 61% 84% 23% 103 46%
4 Seasons 9 0 8 1 3 17 0 4 7 4 94 60 4 53 7 3 18 9 0 26 5 1 39 30 2 230 111 48.3% 109 10 4.3% 7 6420 59% 80% 27% 857 53%
MLB Averages 45.6% 2.5% 63% 81% 27% 58%

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%
1972 TEX AL 21 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 2 0 14 5 35.7% 9 0 0.0% 0 714 72% 76% 23% 59 63%
1973 TEX AL 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 33.3% 2 0 0.0% 0 11 45% 82% 27% 4 25%
1974 TEX AL 23 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 4 0% 75% 50% 0
3 Seasons 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 4 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 2 0 17 6 35.3% 11 0 0.0% 0 729 71% 77% 23% 63 60%
MLB Averages 41.8% 3.3% 63% 81% 27% 53%

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%
1972 TEX AL 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 66.7% 1 0 0.0% 0 66 58% 82% 26% 8 38%
1975 TEX AL 24 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 5 5 0 6 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 14 8 57.1% 6 0 0.0% 1 297 57% 82% 24% 32 53%
2 Seasons 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 6 6 0 8 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 17 10 58.8% 7 0 0.0% 1 363 57% 82% 24% 40 50%
MLB Averages 59.7% 2.9% 63% 81% 27% 48%

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%
1973 TEX AL 22 493 66% 83% 26% 45 82% 1 23 18 1 4 20 14 4 0 2 5 0 4 1 5 3 0 1 2 1 1 0 2 0%
1 Season 493 66% 83% 26% 45 82% 1 23 18 1 4 20 14 4 0 2 5 0 4 1 5 3 0 1 2 1 1 0 2 0%
MLB Averages 63% 81% 28% 89% 68%

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%
1974 TEX AL 23 125 58% 74% 22% 3 100% 0 23 0 23 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0
1975 TEX AL 24 37 27% 89% 24% 1 100% 0 9 0 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 162 51% 77% 22% 4 100% 0 32 0 32 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0
MLB Averages 63% 81% 28% 94% 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1972 AL  8 (5th)

Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1972 AL  3 (5th)
1974 AL  6 (3rd)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1972 AL  6 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1972 AL  7 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1972 AL  2.98 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
1972 AL  2.66 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y
1972 AL  2.68 (4th)

             

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