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Jim Mason

James Percy Mason

Positions: Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: August 14, 1950 in Mobile, AL
High School: Murphy HS (Mobile, AL)
Drafted by the Washington Senators in the 2nd round of the 1968 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 26, 1971
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Rangers/Expos/BlueJays/Senators 1971-1979

Final Game: September 24, 1979
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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
1971 WSA AL 20 SS 3 3 3 26.0 22 8 13 1 1 .955 -1 -28 7.27 7.00 .965 4.92 4.87
1972 TEX AL 21 SS 32 32 30 276.1 153 52 93 8 14 .948 -1 -4 4.72 4.53 .967 4.99 4.97
1972 TEX AL 21 3B 10 10 8 81.1 21 6 13 2 0 .905 -2 -28 2.10 1.90 .954 2.98 2.96
1973 TEX AL 22 SS 74 64 52 562.0 337 113 206 18 43 .947 -6 -13 5.11 4.31 .963 5.10 5.07
1973 TEX AL 22 2B 19 8 6 90.1 56 30 24 2 8 .964 -4 -58 5.38 2.84 .980 5.44 5.41
1973 TEX AL 22 3B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 3.00
1974 NYY AL 23 SS 152 144 108 1217.0 696 241 430 25 87 .964 -5 -5 4.96 4.41 .965 4.98 4.96
1975 NYY AL 24 SS 93 73 48 641.0 359 134 209 16 45 .955 -2 -4 4.82 3.69 .959 4.85 4.84
1975 NYY AL 24 2B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.40
1976 NYY AL 25 SS 93 70 46 630.1 386 128 245 13 47 .966 12 23 5.33 4.01 .967 4.99 5.01
1977 TOT AL 26 SS 54 32 24 336.1 188 75 108 5 20 .973 -0 -0 4.90 3.39 .963 4.82 4.79
1977 TOR AL 26 SS 22 20 15 183.1 103 49 51 3 9 .971 -2 -14 4.91 4.55 .963 4.82 4.79
1977 TEX AL 26 SS 32 12 9 153.0 85 26 57 2 11 .976 2 16 4.88 2.59 .963 4.82 4.79
1977 TEX AL 26 3B 1 0 0 2.0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 -1 -360 0.00 0.00 .960 3.15 3.00
1977 TEX AL 26 DH 1 0
1978 TEX AL 27 SS 42 20 12 221.1 128 41 79 8 12 .938 0 1 4.88 2.86 .964 4.92 4.87
1978 TEX AL 27 3B 11 11 4 79.0 21 6 13 2 2 .905 0 6 2.16 1.73 .954 3.00 2.98
1978 TEX AL 27 2B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.40
1978 TEX AL 27 DH 1 0
1979 MON NL 28 SS 33 14 12 171.1 87 31 53 3 9 .966 -2 -15 4.41 2.55 .965 5.00 4.98
1979 MON NL 28 3B 6 2 2 32.0 13 4 9 0 1 1.000 2 79 3.66 2.17 .951 2.90 2.88
9 Seasons SS 576 452 335 4081.2 2356 823 1436 97 278 .959 -5 -1 4.98 3.92 .964 4.96 4.94
5 Seasons 3B 29 23 14 195.1 56 16 35 5 3 .911 -0 -0 2.35 1.76 .953 2.97 2.96
3 Seasons 2B 21 8 6 93.1 56 30 24 2 8 .964 -5 -60 5.21 2.57 .980 5.44 5.41
9 Seasons TOT 626 483 355 4370.1 2468 869 1495 104 289 .958 -9 -3 4.87 3.78 .964 4.88 4.87
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
1971 WSA AL 20 SS -1 -28 -1 0 -1 0
1972 TEX AL 21 SS -1 -4 0 -2 2 -1
1972 TEX AL 21 3B -2 -28 -2 -1 -1 0
1973 TEX AL 22 SS -6 -13 -6 -0 -5 0
1973 TEX AL 22 2B -4 -58 -3 -2 -1 -1
1973 TEX AL 22 3B 0 0 0 0 0
1974 NYY AL 23 SS -5 -5 -6 -4 -3 1
1975 NYY AL 24 SS -2 -4 -2 -0 -2 0
1975 NYY AL 24 2B -0 -120 -0 -0 0
1976 NYY AL 25 SS 12 23 12 8 4 0
1977 TOR AL 26 SS -2 -14 -2 -1 -1 0
1977 TEX AL 26 SS 2 16 2 1 1 0
1977 TEX AL 26 3B -1 -360 -1 -1 0 0
1978 TEX AL 27 SS 0 1 1 3 -2 -1
1978 TEX AL 27 3B 0 6 0 -0 1 0
1978 TEX AL 27 2B -0 -120 -0 -0 0
1979 MON NL 28 SS -2 -15 -2 -2 -0 0
1979 MON NL 28 3B 2 79 2 2 0 0
9 Seasons SS -5 -1 -4 4 -7 -1
5 Seasons 3B -0 -0 -0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 2B -5 -60 -4 -2 -1 -1
9 Seasons TOT -9 -3 -7 1 -9 -2
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
1971 WSA AL 20 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1972 TEX AL 21 46 42 46 42 0 0 0 0 10 32 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1973 TEX AL 22 93 72 93 92 0 0 0 19 1 74 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
1974 NYY AL 23 152 144 152 152 0 0 0 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 NYY AL 24 94 73 94 93 0 0 0 1 0 93 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1976 NYY AL 25 93 70 93 93 0 0 0 0 0 93 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1977 TEX AL 26 36 12 36 33 0 0 0 0 1 32 0 0 0 0 1 3 7
1977 TOR AL 26 22 20 22 22 0 0 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1978 TEX AL 27 55 31 55 54 0 0 0 1 11 42 0 0 0 0 1 2 1
1979 MON NL 28 40 16 40 39 0 0 0 0 6 33 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
9 Seasons 634 483 634 623 0 0 0 21 29 576 0 0 0 0 2 14 13
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 -- SS*

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 643 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1971 WSA AL 20 117 62% 79% 28% 14 86% 0 9 2 5 2 12 8 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1972 TEX AL 21 1196 60% 77% 28% 126 87% 2 52 22 24 6 94 80 12 0 1 8 0 7 1 6 14 4 2 5 2 0 13 6 7 0 0 0
1973 TEX AL 22 2498 63% 80% 26% 265 89% 3 113 58 50 5 206 146 45 2 5 18 0 5 13 16 43 16 5 11 3 3 39 22 17 4 3 1
1974 NYY AL 23 5132 65% 81% 28% 542 90% 3 237 109 96 32 427 323 80 2 17 26 2 15 9 17 85 38 11 19 4 3 77 49 27 7 5 2
1975 NYY AL 24 2715 65% 82% 26% 281 89% 4 135 61 56 18 209 154 50 2 4 16 1 14 1 14 44 16 5 16 2 1 40 21 19 3 1 1
1976 NYY AL 25 2594 63% 85% 32% 309 93% 0 130 56 54 20 250 198 47 0 3 13 0 11 2 9 47 19 2 13 2 5 43 22 20 2 2 0
1977 TEX AL 26 652 50% 81% 28% 80 79% 0 27 11 12 4 57 41 15 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 11 4 1 5 0 0 10 5 5 0 0 0
1977 TOR AL 26 784 55% 84% 28% 77 96% 1 49 24 17 8 53 43 9 1 0 3 0 2 1 2 9 2 3 1 2 0 8 5 3 0 0 0
1978 TEX AL 27 938 48% 85% 31% 91 87% 2 40 8 20 12 78 60 14 0 1 8 0 4 4 3 12 3 2 4 0 1 10 5 5 2 1 1
1979 MON NL 28 705 67% 84% 27% 68 88% 0 33 13 14 6 50 38 10 0 1 3 0 3 0 2 10 4 0 1 1 0 8 4 3 1 1 0
9 Seasons 17331 62% 82% 28% 1853 90% 15 825 364 348 113 1436 1091 285 7 34 98 3 62 33 72 276 106 32 75 16 13 249 140 106 19 13 5
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 91%

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%
1972 TEX AL 21 350 68% 77% 27% 28 68% 0 6 5 0 1 14 9 5 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0%
1973 TEX AL 22 3 100% 67% 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
1977 TEX AL 26 10 70% 80% 40% 1 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1978 TEX AL 27 322 44% 80% 30% 20 85% 0 6 3 1 2 13 8 5 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 50%
1979 MON NL 28 125 51% 80% 28% 15 93% 0 5 3 1 1 11 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 100%
5 Seasons 810 56% 78% 29% 64 78% 0 17 11 2 4 38 27 11 0 2 5 0 5 0 5 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 6 33%
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 89% 67%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

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 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1973 TEX AL 22 416 62% 80% 25% 27 89% 1 30 6 21 3 23 20 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 8 2 2 1 1 8 2 6 0 0 0
1975 NYY AL 24 6 67% 50% 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
1978 TEX AL 27 12 75% 75% 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
3 Seasons 434 62% 79% 24% 27 89% 1 30 6 21 3 23 20 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 8 2 2 1 1 8 2 6 0 0 0
MLB Averages 62% 81% 28% 94%

* 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

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1974 AL  25 (4th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1974 AL  152 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1974 AL  25 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1979 NL  2 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1976 AL  12 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1976 AL  5.33 (1st)

Youngest s c a p y
1971 AL  born 1950-08-14 (8th)

             

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