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Cliff Pennington

Clifton Randolph Pennington

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: June 15, 1984 in Corpus Christi, TX
High School: Mary Carroll HS (Corpus Christi, TX)
School: Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)
Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 1st round (21st pick) of the 2005 amateur draft.
Signed June 17, 2005. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 12, 2008
Team: Athletics 2008-2012
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$490k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 2.114, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Matt Sosnick, Paul Cobbe [*]
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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 Awards
2008 OAK AL 24 2B 16 15 15 136.0 77 33 44 0 17 1.000 -2 -3 -14 -26 5.10 4.81 .987 5.01 4.96
2008 OAK AL 24 SS 10 6 5 56.0 30 10 16 4 5 .867 -4 -5 -86 -107 4.18 2.60 .971 4.39 4.35
2008 OAK AL 24 3B 9 8 3 64.0 20 8 11 1 2 .950 -1 -2 -26 -38 2.67 2.11 .958 2.74 2.71
2009 OAK AL 25 SS 60 60 60 533.2 279 90 181 8 41 .971 -7 -9 -15 -20 4.57 4.52 .972 4.36 4.31
2010 OAK AL 26 SS 156 147 137 1304.2 739 218 496 25 100 .966 14 13 13 12 4.93 4.58 .973 4.40 4.36
2011 OAK AL 27 SS 147 143 133 1272.1 612 216 374 22 90 .964 -3 -9 -2 -8 4.17 4.01 .972 4.36 4.33
2011 OAK AL 27 DH 1 0
2012 OAK AL 28 SS 48 47 45 424.2 240 85 150 5 32 .979 5 2 13 6 4.98 4.90 .981 4.54 4.53
5 Seasons SS 421 403 380 3591.1 1900 619 1217 64 268 .966 5 -8 2 -2 4.60 4.36 .974 4.40 4.36
1 Season 2B 16 15 15 136.0 77 33 44 0 17 1.000 -2 -3 -14 -26 5.10 4.81 .987 5.01 4.96
1 Season 3B 9 8 3 64.0 20 8 11 1 2 .950 -1 -2 -26 -37 2.67 2.11 .958 2.74 2.71
5 Seasons TOT 446 426 398 3791.1 1997 660 1272 65 287 .967 2 -13 1 -4 4.59 4.33 .974 4.39 4.35
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
2008 OAK AL 24 2B -2 -14 -3 -3 0 1 -3 -26 -5 2
2008 OAK AL 24 SS -4 -86 -4 -1 -3 0 -5 -107 -5 0
2008 OAK AL 24 3B -1 -26 -1 -2 0 0 -2 -38 -2 0
2009 OAK AL 25 SS -7 -15 -7 -5 -2 0 -9 -20 -11 1
2010 OAK AL 26 SS 14 13 12 8 4 2 13 12 7 2
2011 OAK AL 27 SS -3 -2 -5 -0 -4 2 -9 -8 -10 1
2012 OAK AL 28 SS 5 13 3 0 3 1 2 6 1 1
5 Seasons SS 5 2 -0 1 -1 5 -8 -2 -18 5
1 Season 2B -2 -14 -3 -3 0 1 -3 -26 -5 2
1 Season 3B -1 -26 -1 -2 0 0 -2 -37 -2 0
5 Seasons TOT 2 1 -4 -3 -1 6 -13 -4 -25 7 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2008 OAK AL 24 36 29 36 34 0 0 0 16 9 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
2009 OAK AL 25 60 60 60 60 0 0 0 0 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 OAK AL 26 156 147 156 156 0 0 0 0 0 156 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
2011 OAK AL 27 148 143 148 147 0 0 0 0 0 147 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
2012 OAK AL 28 48 47 48 48 0 0 0 0 0 48 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
5 Seasons 448 426 448 445 0 0 0 16 9 421 0 0 0 0 1 4 5
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 -- SS*

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 643 63 463 163 363 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
2008 OAK AL 24 263 68% 76% 28% 25 68% 0 10 6 4 0 16 14 1 0 1 4 0 0 4 4 5 0 1 2 1 0 4 1 3 1 0 0
2009 OAK AL 25 2275 60% 77% 34% 214 88% 1 90 29 48 13 181 146 32 1 1 8 1 3 4 6 41 12 6 15 3 3 40 18 21 1 0 1
2010 OAK AL 26 5479 62% 77% 33% 578 90% 13 218 98 100 20 496 391 79 6 6 25 0 11 14 20 100 36 5 35 7 8 94 42 51 5 2 3
2011 OAK AL 27 5426 58% 76% 31% 475 88% 6 216 98 94 24 374 296 65 2 4 22 1 10 11 18 90 27 13 35 4 3 85 40 42 3 0 2
2012 OAK AL 28 1805 53% 78% 31% 191 90% 1 85 40 34 12 150 118 28 0 4 5 1 1 3 4 32 15 1 7 1 3 30 16 14 2 1 1
5 Seasons 15248 59% 76% 32% 1483 89% 21 619 271 280 69 1217 965 205 9 16 64 3 25 36 52 268 90 26 94 16 17 253 117 131 12 3 7
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 89%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

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 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
2008 OAK AL 24 588 64% 76% 29% 52 85% 0 33 14 17 2 44 32 9 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 17 9 1 5 0 16 5 11 1 1 0
1 Season 588 64% 76% 29% 52 85% 0 33 14 17 2 44 32 9 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 17 9 1 5 0 16 5 11 1 1 0
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 93%

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%
2008 OAK AL 24 282 62% 73% 28% 19 84% 0 8 5 3 0 11 10 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 3 67%
1 Season 282 62% 73% 28% 19 84% 0 8 5 3 0 11 10 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 3 67%
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 87% 65%

* 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† s c a p y
2010 AL  496 (2nd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
2010 AL  25 (1st)
2011 AL  22 (3rd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
2010 AL  156 (1st)
2011 AL  147 (4th)
2012 AL  48 (4th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
2010 AL  218 (4th)
2012 AL  85 (2nd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
2010 AL  496 (2nd)
2012 AL  150 (4th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
2010 AL  25 (1st)
2011 AL  22 (2nd)
2012 AL  5 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
2010 AL  14 (1st)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
2010 AL  4.93 (1st)
2012 AL  4.98 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
2010 AL  4.58 (2nd)
2012 AL  4.90 (4th)

                                         

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