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Lenn Sakata

Lenn Haruki Sakata

Positions: Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: June 8, 1954 in Honolulu, HI
High School: Kalani HS (Honolulu, HI)
School: Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA)
Drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1st round (10th pick) of the 1975 amateur draft (January Secondary). (All Transactions)
Debut: July 21, 1977
Teams (by GP): Orioles/Brewers/Yankees/Athletics 1977-1987

Final Game: June 28, 1987
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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1977 MIL AL 23 2B 53 50 35 420.1 265 102 159 4 43 .985 6 17 5.59 4.92 .978 5.42 5.38
1978 MIL AL 24 2B 29 24 18 208.2 119 50 66 3 12 .975 -2 -10 5.00 4.00 .980 5.47 5.42
1978 MIL AL 24 DH 1 0
1979 MIL AL 25 2B 4 4 4 35.0 23 10 13 0 5 1.000 -1 -21 5.91 5.75 .978 5.50 5.42
1980 BAL AL 26 2B 34 20 12 202.0 129 55 72 2 18 .984 2 11 5.66 3.74 .981 5.60 5.58
1980 BAL AL 26 SS 4 0 0 6.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 60 1.50 0.25 .960 4.95 4.97
1980 BAL AL 26 DH 3 0
1981 BAL AL 27 SS 42 32 23 285.0 164 52 106 6 23 .963 0 0 4.99 3.76 .967 4.99 4.98
1981 BAL AL 27 2B 20 9 6 101.1 73 30 42 1 10 .986 0 0 6.39 3.60 .982 5.54 5.52
1981 BAL AL 27 DH 1 0
1982 BAL AL 28 2B 83 44 39 476.1 257 106 145 6 34 .977 3 7 4.74 3.02 .981 5.35 5.33
1982 BAL AL 28 SS 56 50 35 426.1 240 76 154 10 27 .958 1 4 4.86 4.11 .965 4.87 4.84
1983 BAL AL 29 2B 60 36 29 364.2 203 84 117 2 36 .990 2 5 4.96 3.35 .981 5.36 5.32
1983 BAL AL 29 C 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.70 0 0 0 1 100% 33% 0
1983 BAL AL 29 DH 1 0
1984 BAL AL 30 2B 76 38 34 408.2 244 80 161 3 33 .988 11 33 5.31 3.17 .980 5.24 5.21
1984 BAL AL 30 LF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.30
1984 BAL AL 30 OF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.50
1985 BAL AL 31 2B 50 22 20 264.0 151 58 87 6 18 .960 -2 -11 4.94 2.90 .982 5.29 5.24
1985 BAL AL 31 DH 1 0
1986 OAK AL 32 2B 16 10 9 96.0 61 21 39 1 4 .984 1 10 5.62 3.75 .981 5.10 5.05
1986 OAK AL 32 DH 1 0
1987 NYY AL 33 3B 12 12 7 86.0 28 3 23 2 1 .929 0 7 2.72 2.17 .952 2.77 2.74
1987 NYY AL 33 2B 6 2 1 23.0 12 5 7 0 3 1.000 -0 -5 4.70 2.00 .980 5.13 5.07
11 Seasons 2B 431 259 207 2600.0 1537 601 908 28 216 .982 19 9 5.22 3.50 .980 5.37 5.32
3 Seasons SS 102 82 58 717.1 405 128 261 16 50 .960 2 3 4.88 3.81 .966 4.92 4.90
1 Season 3B 12 12 7 86.0 28 3 23 2 1 .929 0 7 2.72 2.17 .952 2.77 2.74
1 Season LF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.30
1 Season OF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.50
1 Season C 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 5.40 5.70 0 0 0 1 100% 33% 0
11 Seasons TOT 547 353 272 3405.1 1970 732 1192 46 267 .977 21 7 5.08 3.52 .977 5.21 5.18 0 0 0 1 100% 33% 0
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO 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.
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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 Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1977 MIL AL 23 2B 6 17 3 1 2 3
1978 MIL AL 24 2B -2 -10 -2 -0 -1 0
1979 MIL AL 25 2B -1 -21 -1 0 -1 0
1980 BAL AL 26 2B 2 11 2 0 1 0
1980 BAL AL 26 SS 0 60 0 0 0 0
1981 BAL AL 27 SS 0 0 0 1 -1 0
1981 BAL AL 27 2B 0 0 0 -0 0 0
1982 BAL AL 28 2B 3 7 3 0 2 0
1982 BAL AL 28 SS 1 4 0 3 -3 1
1983 BAL AL 29 2B 2 5 1 0 1 1
1983 BAL AL 29 C 0 0 0
1984 BAL AL 30 2B 11 33 10 6 4 1
1984 BAL AL 30 LF 0 0 0 0 0
1985 BAL AL 31 2B -2 -11 -2 4 -6 0
1986 OAK AL 32 2B 1 10 2 2 0 -1
1987 NYY AL 33 3B 0 7 0 -1 1 0
1987 NYY AL 33 2B -0 -5 -0 -0 0 0
11 Seasons 2B 19 9 15 13 2 4
3 Seasons SS 2 3 1 5 -4 1
1 Season 3B 0 7 0 -1 1 0
1 Season C 0 0 0
1 Season LF 0 0 0 0 0
11 Seasons TOT 21 7 16 17 -1 5 0
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1977 MIL AL 23 53 50 53 53 0 0 0 53 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1978 MIL AL 24 30 24 30 29 0 0 0 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
1979 MIL AL 25 4 4 4 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1980 BAL AL 26 43 20 43 37 0 0 0 33 0 5 0 0 0 0 3 6 4
1981 BAL AL 27 61 41 61 58 0 0 0 20 0 43 0 0 0 0 1 1 7
1982 BAL AL 28 135 94 135 132 0 0 0 83 0 56 0 0 0 0 0 11 6
1983 BAL AL 29 66 36 66 60 0 1 0 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12
1984 BAL AL 30 81 38 81 77 0 0 0 76 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 15
1985 BAL AL 31 55 22 55 50 0 0 0 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14
1986 OAK AL 32 17 10 17 16 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
1987 NYY AL 33 19 14 19 17 0 0 0 6 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
11 Seasons 564 353 564 533 0 1 0 430 12 104 1 0 0 1 8 28 62
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
1977 MIL AL 23 1824 61% 82% 27% 168 96% 0 102 34 56 12 160 135 21 0 1 4 1 3 0 3 44 10 10 15 2 41 17 23 3 2 1
1978 MIL AL 24 910 65% 86% 30% 82 95% 0 49 20 24 5 66 58 8 0 1 3 0 3 0 2 12 4 3 3 1 11 4 7 1 0 1
1979 MIL AL 25 151 44% 81% 25% 13 100% 0 9 2 7 0 13 10 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 2 0 4 2 2 0 0 0
1980 BAL AL 26 879 56% 79% 26% 79 97% 0 54 12 32 10 73 61 11 1 2 2 0 2 0 2 17 6 3 6 1 17 7 10 0 0 0
1981 BAL AL 27 448 59% 88% 30% 40 98% 0 28 5 18 5 41 36 5 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 9 3 4 2 0 9 2 7 0 0 0
1982 BAL AL 28 1971 67% 83% 25% 173 95% 0 106 43 53 10 147 132 14 0 0 5 0 5 0 5 33 15 7 6 3 31 9 22 1 1 0
1983 BAL AL 29 1539 62% 82% 26% 127 97% 0 83 27 45 11 117 97 18 0 2 2 0 2 0 2 35 13 5 10 1 32 12 20 3 0 2
1984 BAL AL 30 1711 62% 82% 27% 164 99% 1 78 21 42 15 159 126 31 1 2 3 0 3 0 1 33 8 6 16 1 31 17 14 2 2 0
1985 BAL AL 31 1151 54% 81% 27% 95 97% 0 59 18 32 9 86 77 8 0 1 6 1 3 2 3 19 7 2 6 1 17 8 9 1 0 1
1986 OAK AL 32 422 52% 83% 27% 47 94% 0 21 8 11 2 39 28 9 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 1 1 0 3 1 2 1 1 0
1987 NYY AL 33 92 71% 79% 38% 6 100% 0 5 2 3 0 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0
11 Seasons 11098 61% 83% 27% 994 97% 1 594 192 323 79 908 767 128 2 11 27 2 21 4 18 213 71 42 67 10 199 79 119 12 6 5
MLB Averages 59% 82% 28% 95%

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
1980 BAL AL 26 22 77% 77% 32% 2 100% 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1981 BAL AL 27 1216 54% 83% 27% 127 91% 0 53 23 25 6 107 84 21 0 1 6 1 5 0 5 24 6 2 11 1 1 22 8 13 2 0 2
1982 BAL AL 28 1809 64% 84% 27% 198 90% 0 76 39 29 8 154 132 19 1 2 10 0 10 0 8 27 11 1 7 1 3 25 12 11 1 0 0
3 Seasons 3047 60% 84% 27% 327 91% 0 129 62 54 14 263 218 40 1 3 16 1 15 0 13 51 17 3 18 2 4 47 20 24 3 0 2
MLB Averages 59% 82% 28% 91%

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%
1987 NYY AL 33 350 63% 82% 33% 26 92% 0 3 2 0 1 22 20 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1 Season 350 63% 82% 33% 26 92% 0 3 2 0 1 22 20 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 59% 82% 28% 90% 72%

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%
1984 BAL AL 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 75% 100% 25% 0
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 75% 100% 25% 0
MLB Averages 59.5% 2.9% 59% 82% 28% 53%

Advanced Fielding -- C*

Pitching Stats Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA ERA RAvg Fld F2O% XI FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag SO Tot 1B 2B 3B K23 Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 263 n23 GB bFld bF2O%
1983 BAL AL 29 4 9.00 9.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 4 9.00 9.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 3.89 4.36 96% 91%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year Tm Lg Age PB WP SBO SB CS CSctch CS% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS RBA RK SBlev CSlev
1983 BAL AL 29 0 0 0 0 1 0 100% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.98
1 Season 0 0 0 0 1 0 100% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.98
MLB Averages 33% 1.30 1.27

* 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

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1984 AL  11 (3rd)
Career  19 (74th)

                                         

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