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Hosken Powell

Hosken Powell

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: May 14, 1955 in Selma, AL
Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 1st round (3rd pick) of the 1975 amateur draft (June Secondary). (All Transactions)
Debut: April 5, 1978
Teams (by GP): Twins/BlueJays 1978-1983

Final Game: July 1, 1983
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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 Awards
1978 MIN AL 23 OF 117 99 81 896.2 232 219 9 4 2 .983 2 3 2.29 1.95 .979 2.47 2.45
1978 MIN AL 23 RF 117 99 81 896.2 232 219 9 4 2 .983 2 3 2.29 1.95 .978 2.24 2.22
1979 MIN AL 24 OF 93 81 65 719.1 175 165 6 4 3 .977 -5 -8 2.14 1.84 .981 2.46 2.43
1979 MIN AL 24 RF 85 75 61 661.1 162 154 5 3 3 .981 -4 -8 2.16 1.87 .980 2.25 2.22
1979 MIN AL 24 LF 8 6 4 58.0 13 11 1 1 0 .923 -0 -4 1.86 1.50 .980 2.22 2.20
1979 MIN AL 24 DH 5 2
1980 MIN AL 25 OF 129 118 113 1092.2 285 265 11 9 1 .968 9 9 2.27 2.14 .979 2.47 2.46
1980 MIN AL 25 RF 129 118 113 1092.2 285 266 10 9 1 .968 9 9 2.27 2.14 .975 2.13 2.12
1981 MIN AL 26 OF 64 57 44 500.2 132 122 6 4 1 .970 -3 -7 2.30 2.00 .983 2.48 2.47
1981 MIN AL 26 RF 52 45 32 394.1 107 101 3 3 1 .972 -0 -1 2.37 2.00 .980 2.16 2.15
1981 MIN AL 26 LF 12 12 12 106.1 24 21 2 1 0 .958 -3 -29 1.95 1.92 .979 2.38 2.38
1981 MIN AL 26 DH 8 8
1982 TOR AL 27 OF 75 61 25 478.0 116 111 2 3 0 .974 -2 -5 2.13 1.51 .982 2.47 2.46
1982 TOR AL 27 RF 69 55 22 431.0 108 103 2 3 0 .972 -2 -4 2.19 1.52 .981 2.27 2.26
1982 TOR AL 27 DH 19 14
1982 TOR AL 27 LF 8 6 3 47.0 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -13 1.53 1.00 .981 2.30 2.28
1983 TOR AL 28 OF 33 24 7 179.2 53 52 0 1 0 .981 5 33 2.60 1.58 .981 2.50 2.48
1983 TOR AL 28 RF 29 23 6 166.1 57 57 0 0 0 1.000 7 51 3.08 1.97 .978 2.25 2.23
1983 TOR AL 28 LF 5 1 1 13.1 1 0 0 1 0 .000 -2 -189 0.00 0.00 .980 2.30 2.30
1983 TOR AL 28 1B 1 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 4.50 1.00 .990 9.90 9.80
1983 TOR AL 28 DH 1 0
6 Seasons OF 511 440 335 3867.0 993 934 34 25 7 .975 6 2 2.25 1.89 .980 2.47 2.45
6 Seasons RF 481 415 315 3642.1 951 900 29 22 7 .977 11 4 2.30 1.93 .978 2.20 2.19
4 Seasons LF 33 25 20 224.2 46 39 4 3 0 .935 -5 -29 1.72 1.30 .980 2.32 2.30
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 4.50 1.00 .990 9.90 9.80
6 Seasons TOT 512 440 335 3869.0 994 934 35 25 8 .975 6 2 2.25 1.89 .980 2.47 2.47
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/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
1978 MIN AL 23 RF 2 3 2 5 -3 0
1979 MIN AL 24 RF -4 -8 -2 -2 -1 -2
1979 MIN AL 24 LF -0 -4 -0 0 -1 0
1980 MIN AL 25 RF 9 9 5 4 0 4
1981 MIN AL 26 RF -0 -1 2 -1 2 -2
1981 MIN AL 26 LF -3 -29 -2 -1 -0 -1
1982 TOR AL 27 RF -2 -4 0 -2 2 -2
1982 TOR AL 27 LF -0 -13 -0 0 -1 0
1983 TOR AL 28 RF 7 51 7 3 4 0
1983 TOR AL 28 LF -2 -189 -1 -0 -1 -1
1983 TOR AL 28 1B 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons RF 11 4 13 8 6 -2
4 Seasons LF -5 -29 -3 -1 -2 -2
1 Season 1B 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons TOT 6 2 10 7 4 -4

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1978 MIN AL 23 121 99 121 117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 117 117 0 12 3
1979 MIN AL 24 104 83 104 93 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 85 93 5 20 1
1980 MIN AL 25 137 118 137 129 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 129 129 0 15 0
1981 MIN AL 26 80 65 80 64 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 52 64 8 13 1
1982 TOR AL 27 112 75 112 76 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 69 77 19 35 2
1983 TOR AL 28 40 24 40 34 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 29 34 1 12 0
6 Seasons 594 464 594 513 0 0 1 0 0 0 33 0 481 514 33 107 7
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%
1978 MIN AL 23 4 0 3 1 2 9 0 1 1 3 44 11 1 25 8 2 12 8 2 19 7 0 24 16 0 124 50 40.3% 69 5 4.0% 4 3820 57% 83% 25% 433 52%
1979 MIN AL 24 3 0 3 0 1 5 0 1 3 1 38 15 1 19 4 0 12 6 0 10 1 2 11 4 1 90 30 33.3% 56 4 4.4% 1 2807 62% 84% 25% 310 50%
1980 MIN AL 25 9 0 9 0 1 10 0 5 3 2 67 29 2 40 14 1 17 10 0 22 6 1 27 20 0 173 79 45.7% 90 4 2.3% 6 4632 62% 83% 24% 518 53%
1981 MIN AL 26 3 0 3 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 17 5 0 10 2 1 8 5 0 8 1 0 17 12 0 60 25 41.7% 34 1 1.7% 2 1684 60% 83% 26% 202 51%
1982 TOR AL 27 3 0 3 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 28 12 0 18 6 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 12 8 0 64 26 40.6% 38 0 0.0% 2 1859 53% 82% 27% 216 48%
1983 TOR AL 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 5 0 6 1 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 3 2 0 23 10 43.5% 13 0 0.0% 0 689 52% 78% 28% 95 60%
6 Seasons 22 0 21 1 5 29 0 9 7 8 204 77 4 118 35 4 54 31 2 64 15 3 94 62 1 534 220 41.2% 300 14 2.6% 15 15491 59% 83% 25% 1774 52%
MLB Averages 41.9% 3.0% 60% 82% 27% 51%

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%
1979 MIN AL 24 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 7 4 57.1% 2 1 14.3% 0 240 79% 83% 28% 28 43%
1981 MIN AL 26 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 5 2 2 5 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 14 4 28.6% 8 2 14.3% 0 457 53% 85% 24% 57 40%
1982 TOR AL 27 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 4 50.0% 3 1 12.5% 0 192 57% 82% 34% 18 44%
1983 TOR AL 28 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.0% 3 0 0.0% 0 72 43% 65% 13% 9 0%
4 Seasons 3 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 1 2 15 7 3 7 1 0 8 2 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 32 12 37.5% 16 4 12.5% 0 961 60% 82% 26% 112 38%
MLB Averages 59.6% 2.9% 60% 82% 27% 47%

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%
1983 TOR AL 28 7 71% 57% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
1 Season 7 71% 57% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 94% 88%

* 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

Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1980 AL  129 (5th)

Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1980 AL  266 (3rd)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1978 AL  9 (5th)
1980 AL  10 (5th)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1980 AL  9 (1st)
1981 AL  3 (4th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1980 AL  9 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1980 AL  9 (3rd)
1983 AL  7 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1980 AL  2.27 (3rd)
1981 AL  2.37 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1980 AL  2.14 (4th)
1981 AL  2.00 (3rd)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1978 AL  .983 (5th)

                                         

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