Ricky Otero

Ricardo (Figueroa) Otero

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 7", Weight: 150 lb.

Born: April 15, 1972 in Vega Baja, P.R.
High School: Vega Baja (Vega Baja, PR)
Drafted by the New York Mets in the 45th round of the 1990 amateur draft.
Signed September 10, 1990. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 26, 1995
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Mets 1995-1997

Final Game: August 17, 1997
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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
1995	NYM	NL	23	OF	23	8	5	102.1	32	31	1	0	0	1.000	2	18	2.81	1.39	.979	2.15	2.14
1995	NYM	NL	23	LF	15	5	3	62.1	19	19	0	0	0	1.000	2	29	2.74	1.27	.972	1.86	1.86
1995	NYM	NL	23	CF	9	3	2	40.0	12	11	1	0	0	1.000	0	0	2.70	1.33	.984	2.48	2.47
1996	PHI	NL	24	CF	100	98	88	834.1	260	248	8	4	2	.985	-6	-9	2.76	2.56	.984	2.49	2.47
1996	PHI	NL	24	OF	100	98	88	834.1	259	247	8	4	2	.985	-6	-9	2.75	2.55	.978	2.13	2.12
1997	PHI	NL	25	OF	42	33	28	312.1	99	95	4	0	1	1.000	1	3	2.85	2.36	.980	2.13	2.12
1997	PHI	NL	25	CF	40	33	28	309.1	99	95	4	0	1	1.000	1	3	2.88	2.48	.983	2.41	2.39
1997	PHI	NL	25	LF	1	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		1.80	1.90
1997	PHI	NL	25	RF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.00
	3 Seasons			OF	165	139	121	1249.0	390	373	13	4	3	.990	-4	-4	2.78	2.34	.979	2.13	2.12
	3 Seasons			CF	149	134	118	1183.2	371	354	13	4	3	.989	-5	-5	2.79	2.46	.984	2.47	2.45
	2 Seasons			LF	16	5	3	64.1	19	19	0	0	0	1.000	2	28	2.66	1.19	.972	1.86	1.86
	1 Season			RF	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		1.80	2.00
	3 Seasons			TOT	165	139	121	1249.0	390	373	13	4	3	.990	-4	-4	2.78	2.34	.979	2.13	2.12

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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	Rof
1995	NYM	NL	23	LF	2	29	2	1	1	0
1995	NYM	NL	23	CF	0	0	-1	-2	1	1
1996	PHI	NL	24	CF	-6	-9	-7	-2	-5	1
1997	PHI	NL	25	CF	1	3	3	3	-0	-2
1997	PHI	NL	25	LF	0	0	0	0	0
1997	PHI	NL	25	RF	0	0	0	0	0
	3 Seasons			CF	-5	-5	-5	-1	-5	0
	2 Seasons			LF	2	28	2	1	1	0
	1 Season			RF	0	0	0	0	0
	3 Seasons			TOT	-4	-4	-4	0	-4	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1995	NYM	NL	23	35	8	35	23	15	9	0	24	11	5
1996	PHI	NL	24	104	98	104	100	0	100	0	100	5	1
1997	PHI	NL	25	50	33	50	42	1	40	1	42	10	2
	3 Seasons			189	139	189	165	16	149	1	166	26	8

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 -- CF*

				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%
1995	NYM	NL	23	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	40.0%	2	1	20.0%	0	172	70%	81%	39%	21	57%
1996	PHI	NL	24	4	0	2	2	0	8	0	2	2	4	39	26	1	28	5	0	15	1	2	14	1	1	30	17	1	126	50	39.7%	71	5	4.0%	3	3645	66%	79%	42%	486	52%
1997	PHI	NL	25	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	1	1	15	4	1	15	3	1	2	1	0	10	0	0	16	6	0	58	14	24.1%	42	2	3.4%	2	1389	61%	74%	37%	174	56%
	3 Seasons			4	0	2	2	0	13	0	3	3	5	56	32	2	45	8	1	18	2	3	24	1	1	46	23	1	189	66	34.9%	115	8	4.2%	5	5206	65%	78%	40%	681	54%
	MLB Averages																														41.7%			1.9%			58%	77%	39%		52%

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%
1995	NYM	NL	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	2	1	0	2	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	12	5	41.7%	7	0	0.0%	0	253	59%	81%	43%	40	48%
1997	PHI	NL	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		0	0		0	16	88%	81%	31%	0
	2 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	2	1	0	2	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	12	5	41.7%	7	0	0.0%	0	269	60%	81%	42%	40	48%
	MLB Averages																														60.7%			2.7%			58%	77%	39%		46%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				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%
1997	PHI	NL	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		0	0		0	3	67%	67%	33%	0
	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%	33%	0
	MLB Averages																														43.2%			2.5%			58%	77%	39%		49%

* 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

Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1996 NL 8 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1996 NL 2.76 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1996 NL 2.56 (1st)	Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y 1996 NL 2.75 (1st)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1996 NL 2.55 (1st)

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