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Hunter Pence

Hunter Andrew Pence (twitter: @HunterPence3)

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: April 13, 1983 in Fort Worth, TX
High School: Arlington HS (Arlington, TX)
School: University of Texas at Arlington (Arlington, TX)
Drafted by the Houston Astros in the 2nd round of the 2004 amateur draft.
Signed July 14, 2004. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 28, 2007
Teams (by GP): Astros/Phillies 2007-2012
2012 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible (Super 2), 1 yr/$10.4M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.156, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2014 [*], Agents: Rick Thurman,BHSC, previously: Billy Martin Jr. [*]
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All-Star

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 Awards
2007 HOU NL 24 OF 108 108 102 960.1 308 296 6 6 0 .981 1 -1 1 -1 2.83 2.80 .984 2.30 2.29 RoY-3
2007 HOU NL 24 CF 95 95 90 844.2 270 260 6 4 0 .985 -1 -1 -1 -1 2.83 2.80 .987 2.71 2.70 RoY-3
2007 HOU NL 24 RF 14 13 12 115.2 38 36 0 2 0 .947 2 0 22 0 2.80 2.57 .981 2.18 2.17 RoY-3
2008 HOU NL 25 OF 156 154 153 1366.1 357 340 16 1 4 .997 -4 9 -4 7 2.34 2.28 .985 2.21 2.20
2008 HOU NL 25 RF 156 154 153 1366.1 357 340 16 1 4 .997 -4 9 -4 8 2.34 2.28 .982 2.12 2.11
2009 HOU NL 26 OF 157 156 155 1375.2 337 316 16 5 2 .985 0 17 0 14 2.17 2.11 .986 2.20 2.18 AS
2009 HOU NL 26 RF 157 156 155 1375.2 337 316 16 5 2 .985 0 17 0 15 2.17 2.11 .986 2.08 2.06 AS
2010 HOU NL 27 RF 156 155 151 1370.1 355 340 9 6 2 .983 -11 2 -9 2 2.29 2.24 .986 2.10 2.07
2010 HOU NL 27 OF 155 155 151 1370.1 355 340 9 6 2 .983 -11 2 -9 1 2.29 2.25 .987 2.17 2.15
2011 TOT NL 28 OF 153 152 148 1342.2 301 284 11 6 3 .980 0 1 0 0 1.98 1.93 .986 2.16 2.15 AS,MVP-16
2011 TOT NL 28 RF 153 152 148 1342.2 301 284 11 6 3 .980 0 1 0 0 1.98 1.93 .983 2.05 2.04 AS,MVP-16
2011 HOU NL 28 OF 100 99 96 860.0 217 203 9 5 3 .977 -2 1 -3 1 2.22 2.12 .986 2.16 2.15
2011 HOU NL 28 RF 100 99 96 860.0 217 203 9 5 3 .977 -2 1 -3 1 2.22 2.12 .983 2.05 2.04
2011 PHI NL 28 OF 53 53 52 482.2 84 81 2 1 0 .988 3 1 7 2 1.55 1.57 .986 2.16 2.15
2011 PHI NL 28 RF 53 53 52 482.2 84 81 2 1 0 .988 3 0 7 0 1.55 1.57 .983 2.05 2.04
2012 PHI NL 29 OF 51 51 51 459.1 85 79 4 2 0 .976 -2 -5 -5 -13 1.63 1.63 .983 2.09 2.07
2012 PHI NL 29 RF 51 51 51 459.1 85 79 4 2 0 .976 -2 -5 -5 -13 1.63 1.63 .980 1.96 1.95
6 Seasons OF 780 776 760 6874.2 1743 1655 62 26 11 .985 -15 23 -3 4 2.25 2.20 .985 2.19 2.18
6 Seasons RF 687 681 670 6030.0 1473 1395 56 22 11 .985 -14 24 -3 4 2.17 2.11 .984 2.08 2.06
1 Season CF 95 95 90 844.2 270 260 6 4 0 .985 -1 -1 -1 -1 2.83 2.80 .987 2.71 2.70
6 Seasons TOT 780 776 760 6874.2 1743 1655 62 26 11 .985 -15 46 -3 8 2.25 2.20 .985 2.19 2.18
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 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
2007 HOU NL 24 CF -1 -1 -3 1 -4 2 -1 -1 -1 1
2007 HOU NL 24 RF 2 22 2 1 2 0 0 0 1 -1
2008 HOU NL 25 RF -4 -4 -9 -6 -3 5 9 8 -1 8
2009 HOU NL 26 RF 0 0 -6 8 -14 6 17 15 9 6
2010 HOU NL 27 RF -11 -9 -11 -4 -6 0 2 2 4 -1
2011 HOU NL 28 RF -2 -3 -4 -5 0 2 1 1 -2 4
2011 PHI NL 28 RF 3 7 -0 0 -0 3 0 0 -2 1
2012 PHI NL 29 RF -2 -5 -4 -6 2 2 -5 -13 -8 3
6 Seasons RF -14 -3 -32 -12 -20 18 24 4 1 20
1 Season CF -1 -1 -3 1 -4 2 -1 -1 -1 1
6 Seasons TOT -15 -2 -40 -16 -23 25 46 8 0 21

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2007 HOU NL 24 108 108 108 108 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 95 14 109 0 0 0
2008 HOU NL 25 157 154 157 156 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 156 156 0 2 0
2009 HOU NL 26 159 156 159 157 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 157 157 0 2 0
2010 HOU NL 27 156 155 156 156 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 156 156 0 1 0
2011 HOU NL 28 100 99 100 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 100 0 1 0
2011 PHI NL 28 54 53 54 53 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53 53 0 1 0
2012 PHI NL 29 51 51 51 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 51 51 0 0 0
6 Seasons 785 776 785 781 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 95 687 782 0 7 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 -- 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%
2007 HOU NL 24 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 4 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 2 2 0 15 7 46.7% 8 0 0.0% 0 502 62% 74% 36% 63 57%
2008 HOU NL 25 1 0 1 0 1 16 2 2 3 6 64 36 1 40 17 6 24 13 0 14 6 0 38 24 0 180 96 53.3% 77 7 3.9% 9 5871 59% 75% 41% 651 54%
2009 HOU NL 26 5 0 5 0 2 16 2 4 3 7 71 45 1 59 23 4 21 9 3 16 5 0 31 20 0 198 102 51.5% 87 8 4.0% 8 6005 59% 74% 37% 657 50%
2010 HOU NL 27 6 0 4 2 1 9 1 3 1 3 78 46 1 51 21 0 32 14 2 22 5 1 40 24 0 223 110 49.3% 109 4 1.8% 5 5903 61% 75% 38% 683 51%
2011 HOU NL 28 5 0 4 1 2 9 2 2 0 3 61 33 2 42 14 1 18 13 1 7 3 1 19 8 0 147 71 48.3% 72 5 3.4% 4 3751 63% 75% 39% 435 48%
2011 PHI NL 28 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 17 10 0 11 7 1 5 2 0 6 4 0 4 4 0 43 27 62.8% 15 1 2.3% 1 1980 61% 72% 37% 192 43%
2012 PHI NL 29 2 0 2 0 1 4 0 2 0 2 15 9 0 13 4 1 7 6 1 4 1 0 7 3 0 46 23 50.0% 21 2 4.3% 2 1878 54% 75% 38% 169 49%
6 Seasons 22 0 18 4 8 56 7 13 8 22 315 183 5 217 86 13 108 58 7 71 24 2 141 85 0 852 436 51.2% 389 27 3.2% 29 25890 60% 75% 39% 2850 50%
MLB Averages 47.2% 2.4% 57% 76% 39% 50%

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%
2007 HOU NL 24 4 0 2 2 2 6 0 1 4 1 41 30 2 37 9 1 15 6 0 16 2 0 31 17 0 140 64 45.7% 73 3 2.1% 3 3725 59% 77% 40% 494 54%
1 Season 4 0 2 2 2 6 0 1 4 1 41 30 2 37 9 1 15 6 0 16 2 0 31 17 0 140 64 45.7% 73 3 2.1% 3 3725 59% 77% 40% 494 54%
MLB Averages 45.5% 1.8% 57% 76% 39% 53%

* 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

All-Star Games
2009
2011 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2011 NL (16, 2%)
0.02 Career Shares (1361st)

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
2008 NL  156 (1st)
2009 NL  157 (2nd)
2010 NL  156 (1st)
2011 NL  153 (3rd)
2012 NL  51 (1st)
Active  687 (12th)

Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
2008 NL  340 (1st)
2009 NL  316 (2nd)
2010 NL  340 (2nd)
2011 NL  284 (4th)
Active  1,395 (10th)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
2008 NL  16 (1st)
2009 NL  16 (1st)
2010 NL  9 (3rd)
2011 NL  11 (1st)
2012 NL  4 (1st)
Active  56 (8th)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
2009 NL  5 (4th)
2010 NL  6 (1st)
2011 NL  6 (3rd)
2012 NL  2 (4th)
Active  22 (9th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
2008 NL  156 (3rd)
2009 NL  157 (4th)
2010 NL  155 (3rd)
2012 NL  51 (2nd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
2008 NL  16 (1st)
2009 NL  16 (1st)
2011 NL  11 (3rd)
2012 NL  4 (4th)
Active  62 (21st)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
2010 NL  6 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y
2007 NL  2.83 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
2007 NL  2.80 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y
2008 NL  2.34 (3rd)
2010 NL  2.29 (3rd)
Active  2.17 (6th)
Career  2.17 (40th)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
2008 NL  2.28 (3rd)
2009 NL  2.11 (4th)
2010 NL  2.24 (3rd)
Active  2.11 (5th)
Career  2.11 (26th)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
2008 NL  .997 (3rd)
Active  .985 (9th)
Career  .985 (35th)

Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y
2007 NL  2.83 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
2007 NL  2.80 (2nd)

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