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Héctor Ortiz

Hector (Montanez) Ortiz

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: October 14, 1969 in Rio Piedras, P.R.
High School: Luis Hernaiz Verone HS (Canovanas, PR)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 35th round of the 1988 amateur draft.
Signed June 14, 1988. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 14, 1998
Teams (by GP): Royals/Rangers 1998-2002

Final Game: May 15, 2002
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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
1998 KCR AL 28 C 3 1 1 12.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -100 3.00 1.33 .990 7.12 7.07 0 3 0 0 0
1998 KCR AL 28 1B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 9.00 9.30
2000 KCR AL 30 C 26 26 23 223.0 149 130 18 1 1 .993 0 0 5.97 5.69 .991 6.93 6.85 0 11 17 7 29% 30% 1
2001 KCR AL 31 C 55 46 40 410.0 311 280 28 3 1 .990 2 6 6.76 5.60 .990 7.17 7.11 1 23 27 17 39% 29% 0
2001 KCR AL 31 DH 1 0
2002 TEX AL 32 C 7 4 3 38.0 23 22 0 1 0 .957 0 0 5.21 3.14 .993 6.96 6.89 0 1 0 0 0
4 Seasons C 91 77 67 683.0 487 436 46 5 2 .990 1 2 6.35 5.30 .990 7.08 7.02 1 38 44 24 35% 30% 1
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 9.00 9.30
4 Seasons TOT 92 77 67 684.0 487 436 46 5 2 .990 1 2 6.34 5.24 .990 7.08 7.04 1 38 44 24 35% 30% 1
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
1998 KCR AL 28 C -1 -100 -1
1998 KCR AL 28 1B 0 0 0 0 0
2000 KCR AL 30 C 0 0 0
2001 KCR AL 31 C 2 6 2
2002 TEX AL 32 C 0 0 0
4 Seasons C 1 2 1
1 Season 1B 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons TOT 1 2 0 0 0 1

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1998 KCR AL 28 4 1 4 4 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2000 KCR AL 30 26 26 26 26 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2001 KCR AL 31 56 46 56 55 0 55 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
2002 TEX AL 32 7 4 7 7 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
4 Seasons 93 77 93 92 0 91 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 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 -- 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 KCR AL 28 63 12.75 15.00 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2000 KCR AL 30 981 5.45 5.73 8 75% 0 0 131 4 2 4 120 17 2 0 0 6 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 33%
2001 KCR AL 31 1814 5.31 5.77 16 100% 0 0 280 10 1 4 265 28 5 0 0 6 3 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 100%
2002 TEX AL 32 140 1.89 2.13 2 100% 1 0 22 2 0 1 19 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons 2998 5.30 5.72 26 92% 1 0 437 16 3 9 408 45 7 0 0 12 5 0 2 3 0 2 0 0 0 5 60%
MLB Averages 4.51 4.93 93% 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 KCR AL 28 0 3 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
2000 KCR AL 30 0 11 375 17 7 6 29% 14 5 3 0 0 2 1 0 33 11 1.47 1.13
2001 KCR AL 31 1 23 667 27 17 16 39% 22 14 5 3 0 0 0 0 65 21 1.09 1.00
2002 TEX AL 32 0 1 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
4 Seasons 1 38 1110 44 24 22 35% 36 19 8 3 0 2 1 0 103 32 1.24 1.04
MLB Averages 31% 1.28 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%
1998 KCR AL 28 4 50% 50% 25% 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
1 Season 4 50% 50% 25% 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
MLB Averages 58% 77% 30% 93% 81%

* 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

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
2001 AL  38.6 (4th)

                                         

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