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Michael Saunders

Michael Edward Brett Saunders

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: November 19, 1986 in Victoria, British Columbia, CAN
High School: Lambrick Park SS (Victoria, BC)
School: Tallahassee Community College (Tallahassee, FL)
Drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 11th round of the 2004 amateur draft.
Signed June 13, 2004. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 25, 2009
Team: Mariners 2009-2012
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$489k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 1.138, Arb Eligible: 2014, Free Agent: 2017 [*], Agents: Mike McCann [*]
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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
2009 SEA AL 22 LF 39 34 33 312.1 90 89 0 1 0 .989 8 0 30 0 2.56 2.28 .987 2.12 2.09
2009 SEA AL 22 OF 39 34 33 312.1 90 89 0 1 0 .989 8 0 30 0 2.56 2.28 .987 2.33 2.30
2009 SEA AL 22 DH 5 0
2010 SEA AL 23 OF 89 85 81 755.2 209 197 8 4 4 .981 2 4 3 6 2.44 2.30 .986 2.30 2.28
2010 SEA AL 23 LF 77 74 71 647.2 177 165 8 4 4 .977 1 3 3 6 2.40 2.25 .983 2.07 2.05
2010 SEA AL 23 CF 14 11 10 108.0 32 32 0 0 0 1.000 1 1 7 11 2.67 2.29 .990 2.73 2.71
2010 SEA AL 23 DH 6 1
2011 SEA AL 24 OF 56 47 43 443.1 140 139 1 0 0 1.000 6 4 16 10 2.84 2.50 .986 2.28 2.26
2011 SEA AL 24 CF 46 42 38 376.1 119 118 1 0 0 1.000 3 3 9 10 2.85 2.59 .990 2.61 2.59
2011 SEA AL 24 LF 12 5 5 67.0 21 21 0 0 0 1.000 3 1 54 18 2.82 1.75 .982 2.14 2.11
2012 SEA AL 25 CF 49 47 47 417.2 128 125 2 1 0 .992 -3 -2 -9 -6 2.74 2.59 .991 2.53 2.53
2012 SEA AL 25 OF 49 47 47 417.2 128 125 2 1 0 .992 -3 -2 -9 -5 2.74 2.59 .988 2.15 2.14
4 Seasons OF 233 213 204 1929.0 567 550 11 6 4 .989 12 6 8 3 2.62 2.41 .987 2.27 2.25
3 Seasons LF 128 113 109 1027.0 288 275 8 5 4 .983 12 4 14 4 2.48 2.21 .984 2.09 2.07
3 Seasons CF 109 100 95 902.0 279 275 3 1 0 .996 0 2 0 2 2.77 2.55 .990 2.59 2.58
4 Seasons TOT 233 213 204 1929.0 567 550 11 6 4 .989 12 12 8 7 2.62 2.41 .987 2.27 2.25
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
2009 SEA AL 22 LF 8 30 10 7 3 -2 0 0 2 -2
2010 SEA AL 23 LF 1 3 2 3 -0 -1 3 6 0 2
2010 SEA AL 23 CF 1 7 1 1 -1 0 1 11 1 0
2011 SEA AL 24 CF 3 9 4 2 2 -1 3 10 2 -1
2011 SEA AL 24 LF 3 54 3 1 2 0 1 18 1 0
2012 SEA AL 25 CF -3 -9 -4 -1 -3 1 -2 -6 -3 1
3 Seasons LF 12 14 15 11 4 -3 4 4 3 0
3 Seasons CF 0 0 0 3 -2 0 2 2 0 0
4 Seasons TOT 12 8 15 13 2 -3 12 7 3 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2009 SEA AL 22 46 34 46 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 0 0 39 5 1 6
2010 SEA AL 23 100 86 100 89 0 0 0 0 0 0 77 14 0 91 6 4 7
2011 SEA AL 24 58 47 58 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 46 0 56 0 0 4
2012 SEA AL 25 50 47 50 49 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 49 0 49 0 3 0
4 Seasons 254 214 254 233 0 0 0 0 0 0 128 109 0 235 11 8 17
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 -- 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%
2009 SEA AL 22 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 17 13 0 10 1 0 5 4 0 4 1 0 13 12 0 49 31 63.3% 18 0 0.0% 0 1343 56% 78% 45% 161 55%
2010 SEA AL 23 4 0 1 3 0 8 1 5 0 2 42 30 0 22 8 1 17 9 1 8 2 0 21 17 3 110 66 60.0% 39 5 4.5% 3 2766 60% 80% 42% 346 49%
2011 SEA AL 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 4 3 75.0% 1 0 0.0% 0 270 54% 79% 42% 31 68%
3 Seasons 5 0 2 3 1 8 1 5 0 2 61 45 0 32 9 1 22 13 1 13 3 0 35 30 3 163 100 61.3% 58 5 3.1% 3 4379 58% 79% 43% 538 52%
MLB Averages 64.0% 2.2% 57% 76% 39% 47%

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%
2010 SEA AL 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 4 0 12 7 58.3% 5 0 0.0% 0 458 63% 79% 44% 58 55%
2011 SEA AL 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 23 14 0 12 2 0 4 1 0 6 2 0 12 6 0 57 25 43.9% 32 0 0.0% 1 1546 55% 77% 39% 205 58%
2012 SEA AL 25 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 19 13 1 8 3 0 1 1 0 5 1 0 11 5 0 44 23 52.3% 20 1 2.3% 1 1749 51% 76% 41% 227 56%
3 Seasons 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 2 1 0 45 29 1 23 5 0 6 3 0 11 3 0 28 15 0 113 55 48.7% 57 1 0.9% 2 3753 54% 77% 40% 490 57%
MLB Averages 45.4% 1.8% 57% 76% 39% 53%

* 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 as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
2010 AL  8 (3rd)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
2010 AL  4 (3rd)

Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
2012 AL  49 (5th)

Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
2012 AL  125 (3rd)

Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
2012 AL  2 (3rd)

Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
2012 AL  1 (5th)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
2012 AL  125 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
2009 AL  8 (5th)
Active  12 (16th)

Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y
2012 AL  2.74 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y
2012 AL  2.59 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y
2012 AL  2.74 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
2012 AL  2.59 (3rd)

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