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Junior Ortiz

Adalberto (Colon) Ortiz

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 174 lb.

Born: October 24, 1959 in Humacao, Puerto Rico
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1977. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 20, 1982 (Age 22)
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Indians/Twins/Mets/Rangers 1982-1994
Agents: Ray Negron [*]
Final Game: August 8, 1994 (Age 34)
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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
1982 PIT NL 22 C 7 4 4 45.0 30 27 3 0 0 1.000 0 0 6.00 4.29 .985 6.28 6.30 0 3 2 1 33% 32% 0
1983 TOT NL 23 C 71 58 38 499.1 335 293 31 11 2 .967 -9 -22 5.84 4.56 .984 6.57 6.54 6 23 70 23 25% 33% 0
1983 PIT NL 23 C 4 2 2 20.2 20 20 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 8.71 5.00 .984 6.58 6.55 0 0 0 0 0
1983 NYM NL 23 C 67 56 36 478.2 315 273 31 11 2 .965 -9 -23 5.72 4.54 .984 6.57 6.54 6 23 70 23 25% 33% 0
1984 NYM NL 24 C 32 23 17 214.2 152 136 13 3 3 .980 -1 -6 6.25 4.66 .986 6.53 6.51 3 9 22 9 29% 31% 0
1985 PIT NL 25 C 23 20 15 178.1 131 115 14 2 3 .985 0 0 6.51 5.61 .987 6.42 6.42 0 8 18 10 36% 30% 1
1986 PIT NL 26 C 36 28 21 253.2 181 165 13 3 2 .983 -3 -14 6.32 4.94 .985 6.93 6.94 7 13 27 10 27% 32% 1
1987 PIT NL 27 C 72 55 41 491.0 361 313 39 9 2 .975 -4 -10 6.45 4.89 .987 6.94 6.90 6 29 57 26 31% 29% 0
1988 PIT NL 28 C 40 33 28 290.2 178 152 23 3 2 .983 -7 -29 5.42 4.38 .987 6.56 6.57 1 23 33 5 13% 29% 0
1989 PIT NL 29 C 84 65 50 594.1 368 334 32 2 2 .995 -6 -12 5.54 4.36 .986 6.67 6.68 9 22 74 23 24% 32% 0
1990 MIN AL 30 C 68 45 40 432.0 272 247 25 0 6 1.000 3 8 5.67 4.00 .991 6.42 6.35 6 16 21 15 42% 34% 4
1990 MIN AL 30 DH 3 2
1991 MIN AL 31 C 60 41 31 370.2 221 203 17 1 2 .995 3 10 5.34 3.67 .990 6.49 6.48 3 18 15 13 46% 34% 1
1992 CLE AL 32 C 86 69 54 652.2 445 402 38 5 2 .989 -3 -6 6.07 5.12 .989 6.20 6.18 5 31 59 27 31% 34% 2
1993 CLE AL 33 C 95 84 59 707.2 504 441 58 5 13 .990 6 10 6.35 5.25 .991 6.56 6.50 2 25 47 39 45% 36% 0
1994 TEX AL 34 C 28 18 15 185.1 125 106 18 1 1 .992 2 13 6.02 4.43 .991 6.79 6.74 2 15 10 10 50% 31% 2
13 Seasons C 702 543 413 4915.1 3303 2934 324 45 40 .986 -19 -5 5.97 4.64 .988 6.57 6.54 50 235 455 211 32% 32% 11
13 Seasons TOT 702 543 413 4915.1 3303 2934 324 45 40 .986 -19 -5 5.97 4.64 .988 6.57 6.54 50 235 455 211 32% 32% 11
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
1982 PIT NL 22 C 0 0 0
1983 PIT NL 23 C 0 0 0
1983 NYM NL 23 C -9 -23 -9
1984 NYM NL 24 C -1 -6 -1
1985 PIT NL 25 C 0 0 0
1986 PIT NL 26 C -3 -14 -3
1987 PIT NL 27 C -4 -10 -4
1988 PIT NL 28 C -7 -29 -7
1989 PIT NL 29 C -6 -12 -6
1990 MIN AL 30 C 3 8 3
1991 MIN AL 31 C 3 10 3
1992 CLE AL 32 C -3 -6 -3
1993 CLE AL 33 C 6 10 6
1994 TEX AL 34 C 2 13 2
13 Seasons C -19 -5 -19
13 Seasons TOT -19 -5 -19

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1982 PIT NL 22 7 4 7 7 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1983 NYM NL 23 68 56 68 67 0 67 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1983 PIT NL 23 5 2 5 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1984 NYM NL 24 40 23 40 32 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1985 PIT NL 25 23 20 23 23 0 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1986 PIT NL 26 49 28 49 36 0 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
1987 PIT NL 27 75 55 75 72 0 72 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1988 PIT NL 28 49 33 49 40 0 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1989 PIT NL 29 91 65 91 84 0 84 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
1990 MIN AL 30 71 47 71 68 0 68 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 0
1991 MIN AL 31 61 41 61 60 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1992 CLE AL 32 86 69 86 86 0 86 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1993 CLE AL 33 95 84 95 95 0 95 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1994 TEX AL 34 29 18 29 28 0 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
13 Seasons 749 545 749 702 0 702 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 81 1
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%
1982 PIT NL 22 185 3.40 3.80 1 100% 0 0 27 1 0 0 26 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1983 NYM NL 23 2071 4.00 4.44 22 100% 2 0 272 9 5 11 247 32 7 1 0 1 11 0 4 7 0 3 0 2 3 7 100%
1983 PIT NL 23 84 5.23 5.23 2 100% 0 0 20 1 2 1 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1984 NYM NL 24 925 3.35 4.36 6 83% 0 0 138 4 1 4 129 11 2 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 3 0 1 1 0
1985 PIT NL 25 812 5.49 6.20 7 100% 0 0 117 6 2 6 103 14 2 0 0 4 2 0 1 1 0 3 0 1 1 1 100%
1986 PIT NL 26 1102 4.01 4.26 13 100% 1 0 164 11 2 6 145 14 2 0 0 2 3 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 100%
1987 PIT NL 27 2117 4.66 5.28 17 100% 1 1 319 10 4 14 290 36 5 0 0 8 9 0 1 8 0 2 0 0 0 2 100%
1988 PIT NL 28 1264 4.03 4.61 17 88% 0 0 153 7 2 5 139 22 7 0 1 6 3 0 2 1 1 2 0 1 2 7 86%
1989 PIT NL 29 2569 3.85 4.47 17 100% 0 0 334 8 0 13 313 33 7 1 0 6 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 7 100%
1990 MIN AL 30 1839 3.46 4.29 24 92% 0 0 248 17 2 6 223 25 5 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 5 80%
1991 MIN AL 31 1552 3.64 3.98 8 100% 0 0 202 7 0 3 192 18 1 0 0 6 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
1992 CLE AL 32 2830 4.44 4.81 20 100% 2 0 402 17 1 11 373 39 4 0 0 8 5 0 3 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 100%
1993 CLE AL 33 3085 4.27 4.74 31 94% 1 1 441 16 3 14 408 57 12 0 1 4 5 1 1 3 0 13 0 2 2 8 75%
1994 TEX AL 34 845 6.46 7.14 6 83% 0 0 106 0 0 3 103 18 5 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 75%
13 Seasons 21280 4.19 4.73 191 96% 7 2 2943 114 24 97 2707 321 59 2 2 50 45 1 15 29 2 41 0 9 12 43 88%
MLB Averages 3.93 4.38 95% 88%

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
1982 PIT NL 22 0 3 63 2 1 1 33% 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 0.80 0.63
1983 NYM NL 23 6 23 783 70 23 21 25% 68 21 2 1 0 1 0 0 120 26 1.08 1.24
1983 PIT NL 23 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1984 NYM NL 24 3 9 366 22 9 8 29% 21 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 45 10 1.23 1.18
1985 PIT NL 25 0 8 339 18 10 7 36% 17 7 1 2 0 1 1 0 31 12 0.78 0.90
1986 PIT NL 26 7 13 401 27 10 6 27% 24 10 3 0 0 0 1 0 57 14 1.20 1.01
1987 PIT NL 27 6 29 728 57 26 21 31% 51 20 4 3 2 3 0 0 116 30 1.30 1.27
1988 PIT NL 28 1 23 468 33 5 4 13% 27 4 5 1 1 0 0 0 67 8 1.03 1.07
1989 PIT NL 29 9 22 943 74 23 17 24% 65 16 9 5 0 2 0 0 135 30 1.19 1.48
1990 MIN AL 30 6 16 708 21 15 11 42% 20 14 1 0 0 1 4 0 58 19 1.31 1.28
1991 MIN AL 31 3 18 577 15 13 10 46% 14 11 1 1 0 1 1 0 42 14 1.28 1.56
1992 CLE AL 32 5 31 1101 59 27 25 31% 53 25 5 1 1 1 2 0 114 31 1.34 1.39
1993 CLE AL 33 2 25 1174 47 39 37 45% 45 30 2 6 0 3 0 0 99 38 1.13 1.24
1994 TEX AL 34 2 15 339 10 10 8 50% 10 8 0 2 0 0 2 1 36 12 1.07 1.27
13 Seasons 50 235 8012 455 211 176 32% 417 176 34 22 4 13 11 1 926 245 1.18 1.28
MLB Averages 32% 1.30 1.28

* 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

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1987 NL  9 (5th)

Double Plays Turned as C s c a p y
1993 AL  13 (1st)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1989 NL  9 (2nd)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
1993 AL  45.3 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
1993 AL  6 (4th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
1989 NL  .995 (2nd)

                           

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