Johnny Ray

John Cornelius Ray

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: March 1, 1957 in Chouteau, OK
School: University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR)
Drafted by the Houston Astros in the 12th round of the 1979 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 2, 1981
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Angels 1981-1990
Agents: Tom Selakovich [*]
Final Game: September 30, 1990
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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
1981	PIT	NL	24	2B	31	25	24	237.0	150	52	96	2	22	.987	1	4	5.62	4.77	.982	5.52	5.54
1982	PIT	NL	25	2B	162	162	157	1453.2	914	381	512	21	89	.977	10	8	5.53	5.51	.978	5.42	5.43	RoY-2
1983	PIT	NL	26	2B	151	138	135	1274.2	784	319	452	13	102	.983	20	19	5.44	5.11	.978	5.33	5.31	SS
1984	PIT	NL	27	2B	149	134	133	1258.1	743	331	400	12	90	.984	7	6	5.23	4.91	.979	5.41	5.39
1985	PIT	NL	28	2B	151	145	140	1308.2	746	305	423	18	89	.976	-14	-13	5.01	4.82	.982	5.47	5.47
1986	PIT	NL	29	2B	151	144	130	1286.2	764	280	479	5	89	.993	14	13	5.31	5.03	.980	5.21	5.22
1987	TOT	MLB	30	2B	148	144	135	1274.0	762	300	448	14	103	.982	-1	-1	5.28	5.05	.982	5.18	5.14
1987	PIT	NL	30	2B	119	115	108	1023.1	618	248	358	12	84	.981	1	1	5.33	5.09	.982	5.19	5.16
1987	CAL	AL	30	2B	29	29	27	250.2	144	52	90	2	19	.986	-2	-11	5.10	4.90	.980	5.12	5.06
1987	CAL	AL	30	DH	1	1
1988	CAL	AL	31	2B	104	102	87	886.2	537	194	328	15	64	.972	-4	-5	5.30	5.02	.982	5.12	5.08	AS
1988	CAL	AL	31	LF	41	41	31	341.0	80	75	0	5	0	.938	-9	-31	1.98	1.83	.977	2.26	2.24	AS
1988	CAL	AL	31	OF	40	41	31	341.0	80	75	0	5	0	.938	-9	-31	1.98	1.88	.979	2.47	2.45	AS
1988	CAL	AL	31	DH	6	6																AS
1989	CAL	AL	32	2B	130	130	122	1157.1	693	279	403	11	98	.984	-6	-7	5.30	5.25	.981	5.24	5.18
1990	CAL	AL	33	2B	100	95	86	856.1	543	241	295	7	82	.987	-4	-6	5.63	5.36	.984	5.23	5.18
1990	CAL	AL	33	DH	1	1
	10 Seasons			2B	1277	1219	1149	10993.1	6636	2682	3836	118	828	.982	22	2	5.34	5.10	.980	5.31	5.29
	1 Season			LF	41	41	31	341.0	80	75	0	5	0	.938	-9	-31	1.98	1.83	.977	2.26	2.24
	1 Season			OF	40	41	31	341.0	80	75	0	5	0	.938	-9	-31	1.98	1.88	.979	2.47	2.45
	10 Seasons			TOT	1317	1260	1180	11334.1	6716	2757	3836	123	828	.982	13	1	5.24	5.01	.980	5.22	5.20
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
1981	PIT	NL	24	2B	1	4	-0	2	-2	1
1982	PIT	NL	25	2B	10	8	9	1	8	1
1983	PIT	NL	26	2B	20	19	19	8	12	1
1984	PIT	NL	27	2B	7	6	7	6	1	0
1985	PIT	NL	28	2B	-14	-13	-12	-5	-7	-2
1986	PIT	NL	29	2B	14	13	15	9	6	-1
1987	PIT	NL	30	2B	1	1	2	3	-1	-1
1987	CAL	AL	30	2B	-2	-11	-2	-0	-2	0
1988	CAL	AL	31	2B	-4	-5	-4	-5	1	0
1988	CAL	AL	31	LF	-9	-31	-7	-3	-4		-2
1989	CAL	AL	32	2B	-6	-7	-8	0	-9	2
1990	CAL	AL	33	2B	-4	-6	-3	-1	-3	-1
	10 Seasons			2B	22	2	22	18	3	0
	1 Season			LF	-9	-31	-7	-3	-4		-2
	10 Seasons			TOT	13	1	15	15	-1	0	-2

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	LF	OF	DH	PH
1981	PIT	NL	24	31	25	31	31	31	0	0	0	2
1982	PIT	NL	25	162	162	162	162	162	0	0	0	0
1983	PIT	NL	26	151	138	151	151	151	0	0	0	5
1984	PIT	NL	27	155	134	155	149	149	0	0	0	12
1985	PIT	NL	28	154	145	154	151	151	0	0	0	6
1986	PIT	NL	29	155	144	155	151	151	0	0	0	10
1987	PIT	NL	30	123	115	123	119	119	0	0	0	7
1987	CAL	AL	30	30	30	30	29	29	0	0	1	0
1988	CAL	AL	31	153	149	153	145	104	41	41	6	4
1989	CAL	AL	32	134	130	134	130	130	0	0	0	4
1990	CAL	AL	33	105	96	105	100	100	0	0	1	7
	10 Seasons			1353	1268	1353	1318	1277	41	41	8	57

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 -- 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
1981	PIT	NL	24	1008	49%	82%	27%	105	94%	1	53	16	24	13	96	80	11	1	2	2	1	1	0	1	22	5	5	6	0	16	6	10	2	1	0
1982	PIT	NL	25	6184	61%	80%	28%	621	94%	2	379	120	169	90	516	454	55	2	3	22	2	19	1	17	89	29	19	24	8	83	32	49	6	3	3
1983	PIT	NL	26	5355	62%	78%	26%	549	94%	0	330	113	151	66	457	388	61	3	5	13	2	10	1	10	104	29	17	32	6	93	39	52	9	2	7
1984	PIT	NL	27	5179	67%	80%	26%	487	98%	0	324	129	131	64	409	351	50	2	9	12	0	12	0	11	92	34	15	27	3	82	32	50	4	3	0
1985	PIT	NL	28	5574	59%	79%	27%	484	97%	0	302	101	140	61	418	349	59	0	2	18	1	17	0	16	86	24	13	33	3	77	36	38	7	5	2
1986	PIT	NL	29	5501	57%	80%	32%	524	97%	2	279	80	132	67	481	420	48	0	5	5	0	5	0	5	89	29	8	32	1	81	33	43	5	3	2
1987	PIT	NL	30	4387	55%	80%	30%	403	93%	1	243	76	107	60	359	303	43	0	4	12	1	11	0	9	84	22	18	28	0	73	28	44	8	7	1
1987	CAL	AL	30	1087	59%	81%	29%	99	95%	0	53	22	26	5	89	75	12	0	1	2	0	2	0	2	20	6	7	5	0	19	5	14	1	1	0
1988	CAL	AL	31	3841	54%	82%	33%	386	92%	0	194	68	96	30	326	274	44	1	1	15	0	13	2	12	64	22	11	23	1	59	24	35	5	5	0
1989	CAL	AL	32	4841	61%	80%	35%	450	93%	4	278	88	133	57	407	352	46	2	7	11	2	7	2	7	99	35	22	26	2	88	28	59	10	6	4
1990	CAL	AL	33	3701	70%	79%	35%	351	93%	0	238	76	115	47	292	245	41	1	11	7	0	6	1	6	80	23	13	21	3	65	25	39	9	2	7
	10 Seasons			46658	60%	80%	30%	4459	95%	10	2673	889	1224	560	3850	3291	470	12	50	119	9	103	7	96	829	258	148	257	27	736	288	433	66	38	26
	MLB Averages				59%	81%	29%		94%

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%
1988	CAL	AL	31	5	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	20	16	0	13	1	1	5	3	0	6	1	0	11	11	0	55	32	58.2%	21	1	1.8%	-1	1493	54%	81%	40%	153	50%
	1 Season			5	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	20	16	0	13	1	1	5	3	0	6	1	0	11	11	0	55	32	58.2%	21	1	1.8%	-1	1493	54%	81%	40%	153	50%
	MLB Averages																														60.3%			2.9%			59%	81%	32%		54%

* 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

Hall of Fame 1996 BBWAA ()	All-Star Games 1988 *	Silver Sluggers 1983 NL (2B)	Assists† s c a p y 1982 NL 512 (3rd) 1986 NL 479 (3rd)
Total Zone Runs† s c a p y 1983 NL 20 (2nd) 1986 NL 14 (5th)	Def. Games as 2B s c a p y 1982 NL 162 (1st) 1983 NL 151 (5th) 1984 NL 149 (4th) 1985 NL 151 (4th) 1986 NL 151 (4th) Career 1,277 (64th)	Putouts as 2B s c a p y 1982 NL 381 (1st) 1983 NL 319 (5th) 1984 NL 331 (4th) 1989 AL 279 (5th) Career 2,682 (77th)	Assists as 2B s c a p y 1982 NL 512 (1st) 1983 NL 452 (4th) 1986 NL 479 (3rd) 1989 AL 403 (4th) Career 3,836 (53rd)
Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y 1982 NL 21 (1st) 1984 NL 12 (5th) 1985 NL 18 (2nd) 1987 NL 12 (4th) 1988 AL 15 (2nd)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1988 AL 5 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y 1982 NL 10 (2nd) 1983 NL 20 (1st) 1984 NL 7 (4th) 1986 NL 14 (1st) Career 22 (66th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y 1982 NL 5.53 (4th) 1987 NL 5.33 (2nd) 1990 AL 5.63 (2nd) Career 5.34 (23rd)
Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y 1982 NL 5.51 (2nd) 1983 NL 5.11 (4th) 1987 NL 5.09 (3rd) 1988 AL 5.02 (3rd) 1989 AL 5.25 (3rd) 1990 AL 5.36 (1st)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 1986 NL .993 (2nd) Career .982 (71st)

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