Carlos Martínez

Carlos Alberto Escobar Martinez
born Carlos Alberto Escobar Martinez

Positions: First Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 5", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: August 11, 1965 in La Guaira, Vargas, Venezuela
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1983. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 2, 1988
Teams (by GP): Indians/WhiteSox/Angels 1988-1995

Final Game: July 20, 1995
Died: January 24, 2006 in La Guaira, Vargas, Venezuela
Buried: Cementerio Municipal de La Guaira, La Guaira, Vargas, Venezuela
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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
1988	CHW	AL	22	3B	15	15	10	127.0	44	7	33	4	1	.909	2	18	2.83	2.67	.954	2.71	2.69
1988	CHW	AL	22	DH	2	0
1989	CHW	AL	23	3B	68	66	58	560.0	182	45	121	16	12	.912	-4	-9	2.67	2.44	.943	2.73	2.70
1989	CHW	AL	23	1B	34	21	13	213.0	232	217	13	2	13	.991	-1	-6	9.72	6.76	.993	9.79	9.69
1989	CHW	AL	23	LF	10	8	4	65.0	23	21	0	2	0	.913	-2	-39	2.91	2.10	.977	2.16	2.14
1989	CHW	AL	23	OF	10	8	4	65.0	23	21	0	2	0	.913	-2	-39	2.91	2.10	.980	2.42	2.39
1989	CHW	AL	23	DH	1	0
1990	CHW	AL	24	1B	82	72	54	627.0	678	632	38	8	50	.988	1	2	9.62	8.17	.992	9.63	9.53
1990	CHW	AL	24	DH	3	1
1990	CHW	AL	24	LF	1	0	0	1.2	0	0	0	0	0		-1	-720	0.00	0.00		2.16	2.20
1990	CHW	AL	24	OF	1	0	0	1.2	0	0	0	0	0		-1	-720	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.40
1991	CLE	AL	25	DH	41	41
1991	CLE	AL	25	1B	31	28	16	227.2	249	229	12	8	30	.968	-3	-17	9.53	7.77	.992	9.75	9.74
1992	CLE	AL	26	1B	37	29	22	264.0	284	263	20	1	40	.996	-0	-1	9.65	7.65	.993	9.68	9.64
1992	CLE	AL	26	3B	28	27	11	213.1	53	13	37	3	6	.943	-2	-10	2.11	1.79	.950	2.78	2.77
1992	CLE	AL	26	DH	4	2
1993	CLE	AL	27	3B	35	33	20	263.1	76	27	44	5	5	.934	-7	-32	2.43	2.03	.951	2.69	2.66
1993	CLE	AL	27	1B	22	19	4	145.2	146	135	7	4	12	.973	0	0	8.77	6.45	.993	9.57	9.48
1993	CLE	AL	27	DH	19	19
1995	CAL	AL	29	3B	16	11	9	99.0	31	5	25	1	7	.968	2	24	2.73	1.88	.952	2.61	2.58
1995	CAL	AL	29	1B	4	1	1	23.1	20	20	0	0	2	1.000	-0	-15	7.71	5.00	.993	9.60	9.50
1995	CAL	AL	29	DH	2	2
	6 Seasons			1B	210	170	110	1500.2	1609	1496	90	23	147	.986	-4	-3	9.51	7.55	.992	9.67	9.60
	5 Seasons			3B	162	152	108	1262.2	386	97	260	29	31	.925	-9	-8	2.54	2.20	.948	2.72	2.69
	2 Seasons			OF	11	8	4	66.2	23	21	0	2	0	.913	-3	-56	2.84	1.91	.980	2.43	2.39
	2 Seasons			LF	11	8	4	66.2	23	21	0	2	0	.913	-3	-56	2.84	1.91	.977	2.16	2.15
	7 Seasons			TOT	383	330	222	2830.0	2018	1614	350	54	178	.973	-16	-7	6.25	5.13	.984	6.40	6.47
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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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.
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof
1988	CHW	AL	22	3B	2	18	2	0	1	0
1989	CHW	AL	23	3B	-4	-9	-5	-5	-0	1
1989	CHW	AL	23	1B	-1	-6	-1	-1	-0	0
1989	CHW	AL	23	LF	-2	-39	-2	1	-3		0
1990	CHW	AL	24	1B	1	2	1	1	-1	0
1990	CHW	AL	24	LF	-1	-720	-1	0	-1		0
1991	CLE	AL	25	1B	-3	-17	-3	-2	-1	0
1992	CLE	AL	26	1B	-0	-1	-0	0	-0	0
1992	CLE	AL	26	3B	-2	-10	-2	0	-2	0
1993	CLE	AL	27	3B	-7	-32	-7	-2	-5	0
1993	CLE	AL	27	1B	0	0	0	1	-1	0
1995	CAL	AL	29	3B	2	24	2	-1	3	0
1995	CAL	AL	29	1B	-0	-15	-0	0	-0
	6 Seasons			1B	-4	-3	-4	-1	-3	0
	5 Seasons			3B	-9	-8	-10	-7	-3	1
	2 Seasons			LF	-3	-56	-3	1	-4		0
	7 Seasons			TOT	-16	-7	-17	-7	-10	1	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	3B	LF	OF	DH	PH	PR
1988	CHW	AL	22	17	15	17	15	0	15	0	0	2	0	2
1989	CHW	AL	23	109	95	109	105	34	68	10	10	1	6	4
1990	CHW	AL	24	92	73	92	82	82	0	1	1	3	13	0
1991	CLE	AL	25	72	69	72	31	31	0	0	0	41	2	0
1992	CLE	AL	26	69	58	69	62	37	28	0	0	4	11	0
1993	CLE	AL	27	80	71	80	55	22	35	0	0	19	9	0
1995	CAL	AL	29	26	14	26	19	4	16	0	0	2	6	0
	7 Seasons			465	395	465	369	210	162	11	11	72	47	6

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%
1989	CHW	AL	23	896	56%	81%	32%	54	83%	0	216	9	197	8	24	13	12	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	13	0	0	0	12	0	1	0	1	4	100%
1990	CHW	AL	24	2607	59%	79%	33%	132	95%	1	634	45	576	14	47	37	25	7	2	2	8	4	3	1	2	50	0	0	1	49	1	1	0	1	4	50%
1991	CLE	AL	25	1021	54%	82%	35%	51	88%	0	229	12	214	5	22	12	6	5	0	0	8	3	3	2	5	30	1	0	0	30	1	0	0	0	0
1992	CLE	AL	26	1134	63%	81%	34%	61	95%	0	263	20	241	1	20	20	15	2	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	40	1	0	0	37	1	3	2	1	3	67%
1993	CLE	AL	27	659	55%	80%	30%	33	88%	1	136	8	125	2	16	7	3	1	1	2	4	2	1	1	1	12	0	0	0	10	1	2	0	2	3	33%
1995	CAL	AL	29	112	76%	74%	30%	0		0	20	0	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
	6 Seasons			6429	59%	80%	33%	331	91%	2	1498	94	1373	30	129	89	61	16	3	6	23	9	10	4	10	147	2	0	1	140	4	7	2	5	14	64%
	MLB Averages				58%	80%	33%		93%																											85%

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%
1988	CHW	AL	22	544	64%	77%	32%	43	86%	1	7	5	0	2	33	26	5	0	1	4	0	3	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	50%
1989	CHW	AL	23	2381	63%	83%	33%	189	83%	4	45	33	4	8	121	97	21	2	3	17	1	13	3	14	12	11	1	12	0	0	0	11	64%
1992	CLE	AL	26	921	61%	79%	30%	61	75%	0	13	11	0	2	37	27	7	1	1	3	0	3	0	3	6	5	0	5	1	1	0	0
1993	CLE	AL	27	1183	62%	80%	32%	83	76%	1	28	19	3	6	44	38	5	0	1	5	0	1	4	4	5	2	0	2	2	0	2	8	38%
1995	CAL	AL	29	396	69%	81%	30%	33	88%	0	4	2	1	1	26	17	9	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	7	6	0	6	0	0	0	2	50%
	5 Seasons			5425	63%	81%	32%	409	81%	6	97	70	8	19	261	205	47	3	6	30	1	21	8	25	31	24	1	25	4	2	2	23	52%
	MLB Averages				58%	80%	33%		86%																								67%

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%
1989	CHW	AL	23	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	0	2	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	11	6	54.5%	5	0	0.0%	0	305	60%	80%	46%	46	46%
1990	CHW	AL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	9	67%	100%	67%	2	0%
	2 Seasons			2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	0	3	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	12	6	50.0%	6	0	0.0%	0	314	61%	81%	46%	48	44%
	MLB Averages																														61.2%			2.6%			58%	80%	41%		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

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Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1990 AL 8 (5th) 1991 AL 8 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1990 AL 8 (5th)
1991 AL 8 (3rd)

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