Alexei Ramírez

Alexei Fernando (Rodriguez) Ramirez (Cuban Missile)

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: September 22, 1981 in Pinar del Rio, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent in 2008. (All Transactions)
Debut: March 31, 2008
Team: WhiteSox 2008-2012
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2015, 4 yrs/$32.5M (12-15) & 16 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.000, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Jaime Torres [*]
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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	CHW	AL	26	2B	121	117	98	1017.1	575	237	327	11	71	.981	0	-6	0	-7	4.99	4.66	.987	5.01	4.96	RoY-2
2008	CHW	AL	26	SS	16	2	2	53.0	24	8	15	1	4	.958	-1	-2	-29	-45	3.91	1.44	.971	4.40	4.35	RoY-2
2008	CHW	AL	26	CF	11	6	6	63.0	18	16	1	1	0	.944	-1	-2	-21	-38	2.43	1.55	.989	2.71	2.69	RoY-2
2008	CHW	AL	26	OF	11	6	6	63.0	18	16	1	1	0	.944	-1	-2	-21	-38	2.43	1.55	.986	2.31	2.28	RoY-2
2008	CHW	AL	26	3B	1	0	0	1.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0	0	240	0	9.00	1.00	.960	2.70	2.70	RoY-2
2008	CHW	AL	26	DH	1	0																		RoY-2
2009	CHW	AL	27	SS	148	147	140	1293.2	650	220	410	20	94	.969	-4	2	-4	2	4.38	4.26	.972	4.36	4.31
2010	CHW	AL	28	SS	156	154	149	1376.2	768	249	499	20	109	.974	9	20	8	17	4.89	4.79	.973	4.40	4.36	SS
2011	CHW	AL	29	SS	155	154	150	1382.0	690	217	457	16	99	.977	7	7	6	6	4.39	4.35	.972	4.36	4.33
2011	CHW	AL	29	DH	1	1
2012	CHW	AL	30	SS	49	49	49	439.2	203	68	131	4	28	.980	6	0	16	0	4.07	4.06	.981	4.55	4.53
	5 Seasons			SS	524	506	490	4545.0	2335	762	1512	61	334	.974	17	27	4	7	4.50	4.34	.973	4.39	4.35
	1 Season			2B	121	117	98	1017.1	575	237	327	11	71	.981	0	-6	0	-7	4.99	4.66	.987	5.01	4.96
	1 Season			OF	11	6	6	63.0	18	16	1	1	0	.944	-1	-2	-21	-38	2.43	1.55	.986	2.31	2.28
	1 Season			CF	11	6	6	63.0	18	16	1	1	0	.944	-1	-2	-21	-38	2.43	1.55	.989	2.71	2.69
	1 Season			3B	1	0	0	1.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0	0	240	0	9.00	1.00	.960	2.70	2.70
	5 Seasons			TOT	657	629	594	5626.1	2929	1015	1841	73	405	.975	16	17	3	3	4.57	4.35	.976	4.48	4.43

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	Rdp	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rof
2008	CHW	AL	26	2B	0	0	0	3	-3	0		-6	-7	-6	0
2008	CHW	AL	26	SS	-1	-29	-1	-2	0	0		-2	-45	-2	0
2008	CHW	AL	26	CF	-1	-21	-0	0	-0		-1	-2	-38	-2		0
2008	CHW	AL	26	3B	0	240	0	0	0	0		0	0	0
2009	CHW	AL	27	SS	-4	-4	-3	-2	-1	-1		2	2	2	0
2010	CHW	AL	28	SS	9	8	7	8	-1	2		20	17	18	1
2011	CHW	AL	29	SS	7	6	5	-0	5	2		7	6	4	3
2012	CHW	AL	30	SS	6	16	6	6	-0	0		0	0	1	0
	5 Seasons			SS	17	4	13	11	3	3		27	7	23	4
	1 Season			2B	0	0	0	3	-3	0		-6	-7	-6	0
	1 Season			CF	-1	-21	-0	0	-0		-1	-2	-38	-2		0
	1 Season			3B	0	240	0	0	0	0		0	0	0
	5 Seasons			TOT	16	3	14	14	-0	3	-1	17	3	15	4	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	CF	OF	DH	PH	PR
2008	CHW	AL	26	136	125	136	134	121	1	16	11	11	1	2	2
2009	CHW	AL	27	148	147	148	148	0	0	148	0	0	0	0	0
2010	CHW	AL	28	156	154	156	156	0	0	156	0	0	0	1	1
2011	CHW	AL	29	158	155	158	155	0	0	155	0	0	1	2	0
2012	CHW	AL	30	49	49	49	49	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	0
	5 Seasons			647	630	647	642	121	1	524	11	11	2	5	3

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	CHW	AL	26	224	60%	75%	33%	23	78%	0	8	4	4	0	15	9	6	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	4	2	1	1	0	0	4	3	1	0	0	0
2009	CHW	AL	27	5554	60%	77%	32%	508	89%	2	220	87	104	29	410	342	58	1	6	20	2	12	6	16	94	34	6	28	9	4	83	40	42	7	4	3
2010	CHW	AL	28	5879	55%	77%	32%	581	93%	1	249	102	119	28	499	400	84	1	8	20	4	8	8	11	109	38	5	37	4	10	101	43	53	7	3	4
2011	CHW	AL	29	5865	54%	76%	32%	550	91%	3	217	107	89	21	457	366	78	2	6	16	0	9	7	14	99	38	4	29	3	14	94	42	47	4	1	1
2012	CHW	AL	30	1827	52%	74%	29%	171	94%	0	68	41	22	5	131	106	23	0	1	4	0	2	2	4	28	13	1	11	1	0	26	14	12	0	0	0
	5 Seasons			19349	56%	76%	32%	1833	91%	6	762	341	338	83	1512	1223	249	4	21	61	6	31	24	46	334	125	17	106	17	28	308	142	155	18	8	8
	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	CHW	AL	26	4365	58%	77%	33%	409	91%	0	237	99	115	23	327	280	41	1	3	11	1	9	1	6	71	26	20	16	3	67	20	47	4	2	2
	1 Season			4365	58%	77%	33%	409	91%	0	237	99	115	23	327	280	41	1	3	11	1	9	1	6	71	26	20	16	3	67	20	47	4	2	2
	MLB Averages				57%	76%	31%		93%

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%
2008	CHW	AL	26	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	1	14.3%	6	0	0.0%	1	265	61%	73%	35%	30	57%
	1 Season			1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	1	14.3%	6	0	0.0%	1	265	61%	73%	35%	30	57%
	MLB Averages																														45.6%			1.8%			57%	76%	39%		53%

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	CHW	AL	26	3	33%	67%	67%	1	100%	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			3	33%	67%	67%	1	100%	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	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

Silver Sluggers 2010 AL (SS)	Assists† s c a p y 2010 AL 499 (1st) 2011 AL 457 (2nd)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 2009 AL 20 (3rd) 2010 AL 20 (5th)	Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 2008 AL 11 (5th)
Def. Games as SS s c a p y 2009 AL 148 (3rd) 2010 AL 156 (1st) 2011 AL 155 (2nd) 2012 AL 49 (1st)	Putouts as SS s c a p y 2009 AL 220 (4th) 2010 AL 249 (2nd) 2011 AL 217 (5th) Active 762 (24th)	Assists as SS s c a p y 2009 AL 410 (3rd) 2010 AL 499 (1st) 2011 AL 457 (2nd) Active 1,512 (24th)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 2009 AL 20 (3rd) 2010 AL 20 (3rd) 2011 AL 16 (3rd) 2012 AL 4 (5th)
Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y 2010 AL 9 (4th) 2012 AL 6 (4th) Active 17 (17th) Career 17 (81st)	Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y 2010 AL 4.89 (2nd) Active 4.50 (14th) Career 4.50 (93rd)	Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y 2010 AL 4.79 (1st) Active 4.34 (11th)	Fielding % as SS s c a p y Active .974 (14th) Career .974 (39th)

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