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Eric Munson

Eric Walter Munson

Positions: Third Baseman, Catcher and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: October 3, 1977 in San Diego, CA
High School: Mount Carmel HS (San Diego, CA)
School: University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 1st round (3rd pick) of the 1999 amateur draft.
Signed June 24, 1999. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 18, 2000
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Astros/DevilRays/Athletics 2000-2009

Final Game: September 21, 2009
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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
2000 DET AL 22 1B 3 1 0 12.0 17 16 0 1 2 .941 -0 -20 12.00 5.33 .993 9.38 9.27
2001 DET AL 23 1B 17 17 15 146.0 157 142 14 1 14 .994 -2 -12 9.62 9.18 .993 9.39 9.31
2002 DET AL 24 DH 14 13
2002 DET AL 24 1B 4 4 4 34.0 33 29 3 1 3 .970 -0 -14 8.47 8.00 .993 9.32 9.22
2003 DET AL 25 3B 91 88 84 781.0 237 68 150 19 13 .920 -11 -2 -17 -3 2.51 2.40 .955 2.67 2.64
2003 DET AL 25 DH 3 0
2004 DET AL 26 3B 94 87 59 740.2 244 51 177 16 17 .934 -8 -12 -13 -19 2.77 2.43 .951 2.64 2.62
2004 DET AL 26 DH 7 1
2004 DET AL 26 C 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 7.20 7.10 0 0 0 0 0
2005 TBD AL 27 DH 3 3
2005 TBD AL 27 3B 2 1 1 13.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -1 -55 -92 1.38 1.00 .955 2.77 2.75
2005 TBD AL 27 1B 1 0 0 3.0 3 3 0 0 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 9.00 3.00 .993 9.60 9.50
2005 TBD AL 27 LF 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 120 0 9.00 1.00 .990 1.80 2.10
2005 TBD AL 27 OF 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 120 0 9.00 1.00 .990 2.70 2.30
2006 HOU NL 28 C 37 30 21 275.1 208 197 10 1 2 .995 -1 -1 -4 -4 6.77 5.59 .992 7.37 7.32 4 16 15 8 35% 28% 0
2006 HOU NL 28 1B 4 2 2 25.0 30 29 1 0 4 1.000 0 0 19 0 10.80 7.50 .994 9.43 9.35
2006 HOU NL 28 DH 1 1
2007 HOU NL 29 C 43 36 24 309.1 231 215 14 2 2 .991 -4 -7 -16 -27 6.66 5.33 .991 7.39 7.36 2 16 26 3 10% 25% 1
2007 HOU NL 29 1B 5 0 0 10.2 11 11 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 34 0 9.28 2.20 .993 9.20 9.16
2009 OAK AL 31 DH 1 0
3 Seasons 3B 187 176 144 1534.2 483 120 328 35 30 .928 -20 -15 -15 -11 2.63 2.40 .953 2.66 2.63
3 Seasons C 81 66 45 585.2 439 412 24 3 4 .993 -5 -8 -10 -16 6.70 5.38 .991 7.38 7.34 6 32 41 11 21% 26% 1
6 Seasons 1B 34 24 21 230.2 251 230 18 3 24 .988 -1 0 -7 0 9.68 7.29 .993 9.38 9.29
1 Season LF 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 120 0 9.00 1.00 .990 1.80 2.10
1 Season OF 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 120 0 9.00 1.00 .990 2.70 2.30
9 Seasons TOT 303 266 210 2352.0 1174 763 370 41 58 .965 -26 -23 -13 -12 4.34 3.74 .976 4.49 4.63 6 32 41 11 21% 26% 1
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-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
2000 DET AL 22 1B -0 -20 -0 -0 0 0
2001 DET AL 23 1B -2 -12 -2 -2 1 0
2002 DET AL 24 1B -0 -14 -0 0 -0 0
2003 DET AL 25 3B -11 -17 -11 1 -12 0 -2 -3 -3 1
2004 DET AL 26 3B -8 -13 -8 -3 -5 0 -12 -19 -10 0
2004 DET AL 26 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2005 TBD AL 27 3B -1 -55 -1 -1 0 0 -1 -92 -1
2005 TBD AL 27 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2005 TBD AL 27 LF 0 120 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2006 HOU NL 28 C -1 -4 -1 -1 -4 0 0 0
2006 HOU NL 28 1B 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2007 HOU NL 29 C -4 -16 -4 -7 -27 0 -2 -3
2007 HOU NL 29 1B 0 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 3B -20 -15 -20 -3 -17 0 -15 -11 -14 1
3 Seasons C -5 -10 -5 -8 -16 0 -2 -3
6 Seasons 1B -1 -7 -1 -2 1 0 0 0 0
1 Season LF 0 120 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons TOT -26 -13 -21 -4 -17 0 0 -5 -23 -12 -14 1 0 -2 -3

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2000 DET AL 22 3 1 3 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2001 DET AL 23 17 17 17 17 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2002 DET AL 24 18 17 18 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 1 0
2003 DET AL 25 99 88 99 91 0 0 0 0 91 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 0
2004 DET AL 26 109 88 109 95 0 1 0 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 7 17 0
2005 TBD AL 27 11 4 11 4 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 3 7 0
2006 HOU NL 28 53 33 53 41 0 37 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15 0
2007 HOU NL 29 50 36 50 47 0 43 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
2009 OAK AL 31 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
9 Seasons 361 284 361 302 0 81 34 0 187 0 1 0 0 1 29 54 0
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 -- 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%
2003 DET AL 25 3415 56% 82% 34% 240 86% 4 68 56 5 7 150 119 24 5 2 19 1 9 9 13 13 11 0 12 1 1 0 10 70%
2004 DET AL 26 3207 59% 78% 34% 258 82% 2 51 33 6 12 177 134 37 1 6 16 1 7 8 11 17 16 1 17 0 0 0 17 53%
2005 TBD AL 27 56 45% 73% 25% 3 67% 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 6678 57% 80% 34% 501 84% 6 120 90 11 19 328 254 61 6 8 35 2 16 17 24 30 27 1 29 1 1 0 27 59%
MLB Averages 58% 77% 31% 89% 63%

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%
2004 DET AL 26 3 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2006 HOU NL 28 1219 4.90 5.30 9 89% 0 0 197 7 0 0 190 10 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 50%
2007 HOU NL 29 1398 5.85 6.14 18 94% 0 0 215 12 1 4 198 14 5 0 0 4 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 4 100%
3 Seasons 2620 5.39 5.73 27 93% 0 0 412 19 1 4 388 24 6 0 0 8 3 0 0 3 0 4 0 0 0 6 83%
MLB Averages 4.42 4.80 93% 86%

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
2004 DET AL 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2006 HOU NL 28 4 16 444 15 8 4 35% 14 7 1 1 0 0 0 0 41 9 1.45 1.29
2007 HOU NL 29 2 16 523 26 3 3 10% 24 3 2 0 0 0 1 0 55 5 1.15 1.16
3 Seasons 6 32 967 41 11 7 21% 38 10 3 1 0 0 1 0 96 14 1.26 1.26
MLB Averages 29% 1.27 1.24

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%
2000 DET AL 22 54 65% 78% 33% 4 75% 0 16 1 15 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
2001 DET AL 23 647 54% 80% 30% 28 96% 0 142 5 136 1 12 14 8 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 14 0 0 1 12 2 2 0 2 0
2002 DET AL 24 151 48% 79% 27% 7 86% 0 31 1 30 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
2005 TBD AL 27 10 40% 90% 40% 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
2006 HOU NL 28 99 63% 80% 42% 3 100% 0 29 0 29 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
2007 HOU NL 29 42 60% 67% 24% 3 100% 0 11 2 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 1003 55% 79% 31% 45 93% 0 232 9 222 1 21 16 10 3 0 0 3 0 2 1 3 24 0 0 1 22 2 2 0 2 0
MLB Averages 58% 77% 31% 95% 82%

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%
2005 TBD AL 27 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 3 67% 67% 67% 1 100%
1 Season 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 3 67% 67% 67% 1 100%
MLB Averages 63.8% 2.4% 58% 77% 40% 46%

* 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 as 3B s c a p y
2003 AL  19 (3rd)
2004 AL  16 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
2004 AL  2.77 (4th)

                           

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