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Bengie Molina

Benjamin Jose Molina

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: July 20, 1974 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
High School: Vega Alta (Vega Alta, PR)
Signed by the California Angels as an amateur free agent in 1993. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 21, 1998 (Age 24)
Teams (by GP): Angels/Giants/BlueJays/Rangers 1998-2010
Agents: Octagon, previously: Melvin Roman [*]
Final Game: October 3, 2010 (Age 36)
Relatives: Brother of Jose Molina and Brother of Yadier Molina
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1998 ANA AL 23 C 2 0 0 3.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 3.00 0.50 .990 7.20 7.05 0 0 0 0 0
1999 ANA AL 24 C 30 30 24 256.0 213 192 19 2 2 .991 1 5 7.42 7.03 .991 6.98 6.87 3 12 15 10 40% 33% 0
2000 ANA AL 25 C 127 123 115 1091.0 751 683 61 7 9 .991 6 7 6.14 5.86 .991 6.93 6.85 6 35 69 40 37% 30% 1 RoY-4
2000 ANA AL 25 DH 2 2 RoY-4
2001 ANA AL 26 C 94 89 81 781.2 568 527 36 5 4 .991 3 5 6.48 5.99 .990 7.17 7.11 4 23 60 28 32% 29% 0
2001 ANA AL 26 DH 1 1
2002 ANA AL 27 C 121 114 104 1014.1 768 707 60 1 6 .999 10 12 6.81 6.34 .993 6.96 6.89 5 34 43 35 45% 32% 1 GG
2003 ANA AL 28 C 117 109 97 949.2 740 672 63 5 10 .993 10 2 13 2 6.97 6.28 .991 6.79 6.72 4 40 45 36 44% 30% 3 GG
2004 ANA AL 29 C 89 89 73 762.0 656 597 56 3 5 .995 -3 -1 -5 -1 7.71 7.34 .992 7.12 7.07 6 40 51 18 26% 32% 2
2004 ANA AL 29 DH 5 2
2005 LAA AL 30 C 105 100 84 873.1 691 641 47 3 5 .996 -1 3 -1 4 7.09 6.55 .992 6.79 6.72 10 40 44 20 31% 30% 0
2005 LAA AL 30 DH 11 9
2006 TOR AL 31 C 99 98 84 842.0 664 614 48 2 6 .997 -7 -3 -10 -4 7.08 6.69 .992 7.09 6.99 11 29 68 15 18% 30% 1
2006 TOR AL 31 DH 16 15
2007 SFG NL 32 C 129 125 112 1104.0 877 808 61 8 4 .991 0 4 0 5 7.08 6.74 .991 7.39 7.36 16 41 53 23 30% 25% 2
2008 SFG NL 33 C 136 132 107 1128.1 1063 987 71 5 6 .995 3 3 3 3 8.44 7.78 .993 7.65 7.60 5 54 68 36 35% 27% 2
2008 SFG NL 33 DH 1 1
2009 SFG NL 34 C 123 120 103 1042.0 1024 942 77 5 8 .995 -9 -10 -10 -11 8.80 8.28 .993 7.77 7.70 4 50 85 25 23% 29% 1
2009 SFG NL 34 DH 1 1
2010 TOT MLB 35 C 113 105 81 897.2 817 751 60 6 5 .993 -8 -3 -11 -4 8.13 7.18 .991 7.75 7.68 4 45 79 24 23% 28% 1
2010 TOT MLB 35 DH 2 2
2010 SFG NL 35 C 58 55 40 458.1 433 396 36 1 4 .998 -5 1 -13 3 8.48 7.45 .992 8.05 7.97 3 28 47 14 23% 29% 1
2010 SFG NL 35 DH 1 1
2010 TEX AL 35 C 55 50 41 439.1 384 355 24 5 1 .987 -3 -4 -8 -10 7.76 6.89 .990 7.44 7.37 1 17 32 10 24% 26% 0
2010 TEX AL 35 DH 1 1
13 Seasons C 1285 1234 1065 10745.0 8833 8122 659 52 70 .994 5 -3 1 0 7.35 6.83 .992 7.23 7.16 78 443 680 310 31% 29% 14
13 Seasons TOT 1285 1234 1065 10745.0 8833 8122 659 52 70 .994 5 -3 1 0 7.35 6.83 .992 7.23 7.16 78 443 680 310 31% 29% 14
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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
1998 ANA AL 23 C 0 0 0
1999 ANA AL 24 C 1 5 1
2000 ANA AL 25 C 6 7 6
2001 ANA AL 26 C 3 5 3
2002 ANA AL 27 C 10 12 10
2003 ANA AL 28 C 10 13 10 2 2 -1 -3 6
2004 ANA AL 29 C -3 -5 -3 -1 -1 0 -1 -1
2005 LAA AL 30 C -1 -1 -1 3 4 0 4 -1
2006 TOR AL 31 C -7 -10 -7 -3 -4 0 -1 -3
2007 SFG NL 32 C 0 0 0 4 5 -1 4 0
2008 SFG NL 33 C 3 3 3 3 3 -2 1 6
2009 SFG NL 34 C -9 -10 -9 -10 -11 0 -1 -7 -2
2010 SFG NL 35 C -5 -13 -5 1 3 0 0 2 -1
2010 TEX AL 35 C -3 -8 -3 -4 -10 0 0 -3 0
13 Seasons C 5 1 5 -3 0 0 -5 -4 4
13 Seasons TOT -3 -0 -3 -3 0 0 -5 -4 4

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1998 ANA AL 23 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1999 ANA AL 24 31 30 31 30 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2000 ANA AL 25 130 125 130 127 0 127 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0
2001 ANA AL 26 96 90 96 94 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0
2002 ANA AL 27 122 114 122 121 0 121 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
2003 ANA AL 28 119 109 119 117 0 117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
2004 ANA AL 29 97 91 97 89 0 89 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 0
2005 LAA AL 30 119 109 119 105 0 105 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 7 0
2006 TOR AL 31 117 113 117 99 0 99 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 3 0
2007 SFG NL 32 134 125 134 129 0 129 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
2008 SFG NL 33 145 133 145 136 0 136 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 0
2009 SFG NL 34 132 121 132 123 0 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 0
2010 SFG NL 35 61 56 61 58 0 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0
2010 TEX AL 35 57 51 57 55 0 55 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
13 Seasons 1362 1267 1362 1285 0 1285 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 71 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1998 ANA AL 23 11 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1999 ANA AL 24 1106 4.54 5.03 10 100% 0 0 192 7 3 5 176 19 3 0 0 5 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 1 100%
2000 ANA AL 25 4825 4.88 5.31 34 85% 1 1 685 18 5 17 645 59 13 0 0 7 7 0 2 5 0 9 0 3 4 8 50%
2001 ANA AL 26 3352 4.19 4.56 17 94% 1 0 527 10 4 7 506 36 6 0 0 4 5 0 1 4 1 4 0 1 1 3 67%
2002 ANA AL 27 4266 3.58 3.90 38 100% 0 0 720 28 1 11 679 47 9 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 6 0 1 1 2 100%
2003 ANA AL 28 4102 4.32 4.70 34 91% 0 0 672 23 5 9 634 63 7 0 0 17 5 1 0 4 0 10 0 0 1 3 67%
2004 ANA AL 29 3268 4.31 4.59 25 92% 0 1 597 16 1 12 568 56 5 0 0 30 3 0 1 2 1 5 0 1 1 5 80%
2005 LAA AL 30 3664 3.55 3.81 27 93% 0 0 641 19 2 12 608 47 5 0 1 19 3 0 0 3 0 5 0 2 2 7 86%
2006 TOR AL 31 3592 4.40 4.71 36 97% 0 0 614 25 1 6 582 48 9 0 0 24 2 1 0 1 0 6 0 0 0 8 88%
2007 SFG NL 32 4763 4.10 4.38 46 91% 0 1 808 24 5 11 768 61 18 1 0 18 8 0 1 7 1 4 0 1 2 17 88%
2008 SFG NL 33 4922 4.28 4.56 39 92% 0 0 987 23 1 14 949 71 11 0 1 22 5 1 0 4 0 6 0 0 1 11 73%
2009 SFG NL 34 4426 3.74 4.02 36 83% 0 1 942 17 6 6 913 77 15 1 0 34 5 1 1 3 0 8 0 3 3 16 81%
2010 SFG NL 35 1937 3.46 3.57 17 100% 0 0 396 10 1 5 380 36 6 0 1 15 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 6 100%
2010 TEX AL 35 1876 3.93 4.20 14 71% 0 0 355 5 2 3 345 24 4 1 0 9 5 0 1 4 1 1 0 0 0 6 50%
13 Seasons 46110 4.11 4.42 373 92% 2 4 8137 225 37 118 7754 644 111 4 3 204 52 4 7 41 4 70 0 12 17 93 78%
MLB Averages 4.41 4.80 92% 85%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1998 ANA AL 23 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1999 ANA AL 24 3 12 432 15 10 8 40% 13 9 2 1 0 0 0 0 37 12 1.04 0.78
2000 ANA AL 25 6 35 1826 69 40 34 37% 61 35 8 4 0 1 1 0 144 45 1.18 1.13
2001 ANA AL 26 4 23 1235 60 28 19 32% 50 26 9 2 1 0 0 0 112 36 1.39 1.24
2002 ANA AL 27 5 34 1472 43 35 32 45% 41 30 2 4 0 1 1 0 105 38 1.43 1.25
2003 ANA AL 28 4 40 1550 45 36 31 44% 42 29 3 3 0 4 3 1 121 44 0.98 0.98
2004 ANA AL 29 6 40 1202 51 18 17 26% 48 15 3 3 0 0 2 2 124 25 1.32 1.21
2005 LAA AL 30 10 40 1332 44 20 17 31% 38 18 5 2 1 0 0 0 125 22 1.35 1.12
2006 TOR AL 31 11 29 1247 68 15 13 18% 58 15 10 0 0 0 1 0 136 20 1.32 1.09
2007 SFG NL 32 16 41 1815 53 23 16 30% 48 18 5 3 0 2 2 0 141 25 1.25 1.46
2008 SFG NL 33 5 54 1919 68 36 32 35% 59 33 9 3 0 0 2 1 162 39 1.37 1.35
2009 SFG NL 34 4 50 1623 85 25 23 23% 74 24 11 1 0 0 1 0 167 28 1.28 1.32
2010 SFG NL 35 3 28 706 47 14 12 23% 43 14 4 0 0 0 1 0 104 15 1.06 1.31
2010 TEX AL 35 1 17 658 32 10 10 24% 28 8 4 2 0 0 0 0 76 9 1.23 1.20
13 Seasons 78 443 17021 680 310 264 31% 603 274 75 28 2 8 14 4 1554 358 1.27 1.20
MLB Averages 30% 1.27 1.24

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 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

Gold Gloves
2002 AL (C)
2003 AL (C)
All multiple winners

Def. Games as C s c a p y
2000 AL  127 (5th)
2007 NL  129 (3rd)
2008 NL  136 (4th)
2009 NL  123 (5th)
Career  1,285 (53rd)

Putouts as C s c a p y
2007 NL  808 (3rd)
2008 NL  987 (4th)
2009 NL  942 (2nd)
Career  8,122 (25th)

Assists as C s c a p y
2000 AL  61 (2nd)
2002 AL  60 (3rd)
2003 AL  63 (3rd)
2004 AL  56 (2nd)
2007 NL  61 (4th)
2008 NL  71 (2nd)
2009 NL  77 (3rd)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
2000 AL  7 (5th)
2007 NL  8 (5th)

Double Plays Turned as C s c a p y
2000 AL  9 (2nd)
2003 AL  10 (2nd)
2009 NL  8 (5th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
2005 AL  10 (1st)
2006 AL  11 (3rd)
2007 NL  16 (1st)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
2006 AL  68 (4th)
2008 NL  68 (4th)
2009 NL  85 (1st)
Career  680 (88th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
2000 AL  40 (1st)
2002 AL  35 (2nd)
2003 AL  36 (2nd)
2008 NL  36 (2nd)
2009 NL  25 (2nd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
2002 AL  44.9 (1st)
2003 AL  44.4 (1st)
2008 NL  34.6 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
2000 AL  6 (2nd)
2002 AL  10 (1st)
2003 AL  10 (1st)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
2004 AL  7.71 (3rd)
2005 AL  7.09 (5th)
2008 NL  8.44 (1st)
2009 NL  8.80 (2nd)
Career  7.36 (36th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
2004 AL  7.34 (1st)
2006 AL  6.69 (5th)
2008 NL  7.78 (2nd)
2009 NL  8.28 (2nd)
Career  6.83 (27th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
2001 AL  .991 (4th)
2002 AL  .999 (1st)
2004 AL  .995 (4th)
2005 AL  .996 (4th)
2006 AL  .997 (2nd)
2008 NL  .995 (4th)
2009 NL  .995 (3rd)
Career  .994 (13th)

                           

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