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Richie Sexson

Richmond Lockwood Sexson

Positions: First Baseman and Leftfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 6", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: December 29, 1974 in Portland, OR
High School: Prairie (Brush Prairie, WA)
Drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 24th round of the 1993 amateur draft.
Signed June 14, 1993. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 14, 1997
Teams (by GP): Brewers/Mariners/Indians/Diamondbacks/Yankees 1997-2008
Agents: Casey Close [*]
Final Game: August 13, 2008
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 12:19AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #744. Jim Gentile… #745. Mark Loretta… #746. Bobby Lowe… #747. RICHIE SEXSON… #748. Dode Paskert… #749. Geoff Jenkins… #750. Cleon Jones… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1997 22 CLE AL 5 11 11 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .273 .273 .273 .545 42 3 2 0 0 0 0 /3
1998 23 CLE AL 49 183 174 28 54 14 1 11 35 1 1 6 42 .310 .344 .592 .936 135 103 3 3 0 0 0 3/
1999 24 CLE AL 134 525 479 72 122 17 7 31 116 3 3 34 117 .255 .305 .514 .818 101 246 19 4 0 8 0 3
2000 25 TOT MLB 148 607 537 89 146 30 1 30 91 2 0 59 159 .272 .349 .499 .848 112 268 11 7 0 4 2 37/D
2000 25 CLE AL 91 356 324 45 83 16 1 16 44 1 0 25 96 .256 .315 .460 .774 93 149 8 4 0 3 0 33
2000 25 MIL NL 57 251 213 44 63 14 0 14 47 1 0 34 63 .296 .398 .559 .957 142 119 3 3 0 1 2 33
2001 26 MIL NL 158 667 598 94 162 24 3 45 125 2 4 60 178 .271 .342 .547 .889 127 327 20 6 0 3 5 *3
2002 27 MIL NL 157 652 570 86 159 37 2 29 102 0 0 70 136 .279 .363 .504 .867 128 287 17 8 0 4 7 *3 AS
2003 28 MIL NL 162 718 606 97 165 28 2 45 124 2 3 98 151 .272 .379 .548 .927 140 332 18 9 0 5 7 *3 AS,MVP-12
2004 29 ARI NL 23 104 90 20 21 4 0 9 23 0 0 14 21 .233 .337 .578 .914 126 52 2 0 0 0 0 3
2005 30 SEA AL 156 656 558 99 147 36 1 39 121 1 1 89 167 .263 .369 .541 .910 144 302 14 6 0 3 4 *3 MVP-15
2006 31 SEA AL 158 663 591 75 156 40 0 34 107 1 1 64 154 .264 .338 .504 .842 117 298 17 4 0 4 5 *3
2007 32 SEA AL 121 491 434 58 89 21 0 21 63 1 0 51 100 .205 .295 .399 .694 85 173 12 5 0 1 1 *3
2008 33 TOT AL 96 327 280 29 62 9 0 12 36 1 0 43 86 .221 .321 .382 .703 88 107 9 0 0 4 0 3/D
2008 33 SEA AL 74 292 252 27 55 8 0 11 30 1 0 37 76 .218 .315 .381 .696 87 96 8 0 0 3 0 3/D
2008 33 NYY AL 22 35 28 2 7 1 0 1 6 0 0 6 10 .250 .371 .393 .764 102 11 1 0 0 1 0 3
12 Seasons 1367 5604 4928 748 1286 260 17 306 943 14 13 588 1313 .261 .344 .507 .851 120 2498 144 52 0 36 31
162 Game Avg. 162 664 584 89 152 31 2 36 112 2 2 70 156 .261 .344 .507 .851 120 296 17 6 0 4 4
CLE (4 yrs) 279 1075 988 146 262 47 9 58 195 5 4 65 257 .265 .314 .507 .822 103 501 32 11 0 11 0
SEA (4 yrs) 509 2102 1835 259 447 105 1 105 321 4 2 241 497 .244 .334 .474 .808 114 869 51 15 0 11 10
MIL (4 yrs) 534 2288 1987 321 549 103 7 133 398 5 7 262 528 .276 .366 .536 .902 133 1065 58 26 0 13 21
ARI (1 yr) 23 104 90 20 21 4 0 9 23 0 0 14 21 .233 .337 .578 .914 126 52 2 0 0 0 0
NYY (1 yr) 22 35 28 2 7 1 0 1 6 0 0 6 10 .250 .371 .393 .764 102 11 1 0 0 1 0
AL (8 yrs) 810 3212 2851 407 716 153 10 164 522 9 6 312 764 .251 .328 .484 .813 110 1381 84 26 0 23 10
NL (5 yrs) 557 2392 2077 341 570 107 7 142 421 5 7 276 549 .274 .365 .538 .902 133 1117 60 26 0 13 21

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1997 22 CLE AL 11 -1 0 0 -1 0 0 0 -2 -0.2 -2 -0.2 0.0 $ /3
1998 23 CLE AL 183 7 -1 1 1 -2 -3 6 9 0.9 11 1.1 -0.2 $175,000 3/
1999 24 CLE AL 525 -1 -2 -1 -1 -5 -8 18 1 0.2 5 0.5 -0.3 $219,000 3
2000 25 CLE AL 356 -7 0 3 -1 -7 -5 12 -5 -0.4 2 0.2 -0.6 $247,000 33
2000 25 MIL NL 251 14 -1 1 0 4 -4 7 21 2.0 17 1.7 0.3 $ 33
2001 26 MIL NL 667 22 -2 -1 -3 -0 -10 18 24 2.4 24 2.4 0.0 $1,125,000 *3
2002 27 MIL NL 652 22 -1 -1 -1 1 -10 18 28 2.9 27 2.8 0.1 $3,125,000 *3 AS
2003 28 MIL NL 718 36 -2 2 -2 -13 -11 19 29 2.9 42 4.3 -1.4 $5,125,000 *3 AS,MVP-12
2004 29 ARI NL 104 3 1 -1 0 3 -2 3 7 0.7 4 0.4 0.3 $8,725,000 3
2005 30 SEA AL 656 37 0 -1 -2 -7 -10 22 39 3.9 46 4.6 -0.7 $6,000,000 *3 MVP-15
2006 31 SEA AL 663 11 -3 -1 -1 -3 -11 22 14 1.4 17 1.7 -0.3 $13,000,000 *3
2007 32 SEA AL 491 -12 -1 2 -1 -5 -8 17 -8 -0.8 -3 -0.3 -0.5 $15,500,000 *3
2008 33 SEA AL 292 -3 -1 2 -1 -13 -5 10 -11 -1.1 2 0.2 -1.3 $15,500,000 3/D
2008 33 NYY AL 35 0 0 0 0 -4 -1 1 -4 -0.4 0 0.0 -0.4 $ 3
12 Seasons 5604 128 -13 5 -13 -51 -88 173 142 14.4 192 19.4 -5.0 $68,741,000
CLE (4 yrs) 1075 -2 -3 3 -2 -14 -16 36 3 0.5 16 1.6 -1.1 $641,000
SEA (4 yrs) 2102 33 -5 2 -5 -28 -34 71 34 3.4 62 6.2 -2.8 $50,000,000
MIL (4 yrs) 2288 94 -6 1 -6 -9 -35 62 102 10.2 110 11.2 -1.0 $9,375,000
ARI (1 yr) 104 3 1 -1 0 3 -2 3 7 0.7 4 0.4 0.3 $8,725,000
NYY (1 yr) 35 0 0 0 0 -4 -1 1 -4 -0.4 0 0.0 -0.4 $

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1998 23 CLE AL ALDS BOS W 3 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 .000 .500 .000 .500 0 0 0 0 0 0
1998 23 CLE AL ALCS NYY L 3 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 1 0 0 0 0
1999 24 CLE AL ALDS BOS L 3 7 6 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 .167 .286 .167 .452 1 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons (3 Series) 9 17 14 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 7 .071 .235 .071 .307 1 1 0 0 0 0
2 ALDS 6 11 8 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 4 .125 .364 .125 .489 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 ALCS 3 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 1 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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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
1997 CLE AL 22 1B 2 12 11 1 0 0 1.000 0 6.00 .992 9.25
1998 CLE AL 23 1B 45 365 321 38 6 36 .984 -3 7.98 .992 9.33
1998 CLE AL 23 OF 3 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1 1.33 .985 2.30
1998 CLE AL 23 LF 3 2 1 19.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1 51 1.89 1.33 .985 2.08 2.07
1998 CLE AL 23 DH 2 2
1999 CLE AL 24 1B 61 575 517 51 7 48 .988 1 9.31 .992 9.35
1999 CLE AL 24 OF 49 69 66 3 0 0 1.000 -6 1.41 .984 2.27
1999 CLE AL 24 LF 48 40 33 366.1 62 59 3 0 0 1.000 -6 -21 1.52 1.29 .985 2.08 2.05
1999 CLE AL 24 DH 21 21
1999 CLE AL 24 RF 3 1 0 14.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 1 77 3.86 2.00 .982 2.12 2.07
2000 TOT MLB 25 1B 84 766 669 91 6 61 .992 6 9.05 .992 9.19
2000 CLE AL 25 OF 58 82 79 3 0 0 1.000 -9 1.41 .985 2.33
2000 MIL NL 25 1B 57 542 471 66 5 50 .991 4 9.42 .992 9.16
2000 CLE AL 25 1B 27 224 198 25 1 11 .996 2 8.26 .993 9.26
2000 CLE AL 25 LF 58 51 47 463.0 82 79 3 0 0 1.000 -9 -23 1.59 1.41 .985 2.16 2.14
2000 CLE AL 25 DH 8 8
2001 MIL NL 26 1B 158 1493 1356 129 8 126 .995 -0 9.40 .993 9.16
2002 MIL NL 27 1B 154 1350 1224 119 7 134 .995 1 8.72 .992 9.31 AS
2002 MIL NL 27 DH 1 1 AS
2003 MIL NL 28 1B 162 1504 1363 130 11 131 .993 -13 -13 9.22 .993 9.51 AS,MVP-12
2004 ARI NL 29 1B 23 227 199 27 1 19 .996 3 0 9.83 .993 9.44
2005 SEA AL 30 1B 151 1275 1148 120 7 121 .995 -7 -12 8.40 .994 9.49 MVP-15
2005 SEA AL 30 DH 5 5 MVP-15
2006 SEA AL 31 1B 150 1349 1235 110 4 115 .997 -3 4 8.97 .994 9.40
2006 SEA AL 31 DH 8 8
2007 SEA AL 32 1B 116 1074 1000 72 2 102 .998 -5 -12 9.24 .995 9.27
2007 SEA AL 32 DH 3 3
2008 TOT AL 33 1B 92 78 61 684.0 704 646 56 2 58 .997 -16 -8 -29 -14 9.24 7.63 .994 0.00 9.18
2008 SEA AL 33 1B 73 72 56 604.0 618 568 48 2 52 .997 -13 -6 -25 -12 9.18 8.44 .994 0.00 9.18
2008 SEA AL 33 DH 1 1
2008 NYY AL 33 1B 19 6 5 80.0 86 78 8 0 6 1.000 -4 -2 -56 -30 9.68 4.53 .994 0.00 9.18
12 Seasons 1B 1198 78 61 684.0 10694 9689 944 61 951 .994 -38 -41 -66 -71 9.24 8.88 .993 0.00 9.33
3 Seasons OF 110 155 149 6 0 0 1.000 -13 1.41 .985 2.30
3 Seasons LF 109 93 81 848.1 148 142 6 0 0 1.000 -14 -20 1.57 1.36 .985 2.12 2.10
1 Season RF 3 1 0 14.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 1 77 3.86 2.00 .982 2.12 2.07
12 Seasons TOT 1308 78 61 684.0 10849 9838 950 61 951 .994 -51 -41 -90 -71 9.24 8.25 .993 0.00 8.74
Lg 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
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2002 *
2003 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2003 NL (12, 5%)
2005 AL (15, 2%)
0.07 Career Shares (1016th)

Slugging % s c a p y
2005 AL  .541 (7th)
Career  .507 (80th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2005 AL  .910 (8th)
Career  .851 (167th)

Games Played s c a p y
2003 NL  162 (1st)
2006 AL  158 (9th)

At Bats s c a p y
2003 NL  606 (8th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
2003 NL  718 (3rd)

Total Bases s c a p y
2003 NL  332 (4th)

Triples s c a p y
1999 AL  7 (9th)

Home Runs s c a p y
2001 NL  45 (6th)
2003 NL  45 (2nd)
2005 AL  39 (6th)
Career  306 (124th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2001 NL  125 (9th)
2003 NL  124 (4th)
2005 AL  121 (6th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2003 NL  98 (8th)
2005 AL  89 (4th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
2001 NL  178 (2nd)
2003 NL  151 (4th)
2005 AL  167 (1st)
2006 AL  154 (2nd)
Career  1,313 (103rd)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2003 NL  140 (9th)
2005 AL  144 (7th)

Runs Created s c a p y
2003 NL  126 (6th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2003 NL  37 (9th)
2005 AL  37 (8th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2003 NL  3.5 (9th)
2005 AL  3.5 (8th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2003 NL  75 (8th)
2005 AL  76 (6th)
2006 AL  74 (5th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2003 NL  272 (7th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1999 AL  8 (10th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1999 AL  19 (9th)
2001 NL  20 (6th)

AB per HR s c a p y
2001 NL  13.3 (7th)
2003 NL  13.5 (6th)
2005 AL  14.3 (5th)
Career  16.1 (30th)

Outs Made s c a p y
2001 NL  463 (7th)
2003 NL  467 (9th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2003 NL  42.41 (10th)
2005 AL  40.13 (9th)
Career  155.81 (247th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2003 NL  4.0 (9th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2003 NL  4.7 (6th)
2005 AL  2.9 (9th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2003 NL  4.0 (10th)
2005 AL  3.9 (9th)

Putouts† s c a p y
2001 NL  1,356 (1st)
2003 NL  1,363 (3rd)
2005 AL  1,148 (5th)
2006 AL  1,235 (4th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
2001 NL  158 (2nd)
2002 NL  154 (3rd)
2003 NL  162 (1st)
2005 AL  151 (2nd)
2006 AL  150 (3rd)
Career  1,198 (98th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
2001 NL  1,356 (1st)
2003 NL  1,363 (3rd)
2005 AL  1,148 (5th)
2006 AL  1,235 (4th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
2001 NL  129 (2nd)
2002 NL  119 (2nd)
2003 NL  130 (2nd)
2005 AL  120 (1st)
2006 AL  110 (2nd)
2007 AL  72 (5th)
Career  944 (60th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
2001 NL  8 (5th)
2003 NL  11 (2nd)
2005 AL  7 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
2001 NL  9.74 (2nd)
2007 AL  9.73 (2nd)
Career  9.24 (40th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
2001 NL  9.40 (1st)
2003 NL  9.22 (4th)
2006 AL  8.97 (5th)
2007 AL  9.24 (3rd)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
2006 AL  .997 (3rd)
2007 AL  .998 (3rd)
2008 AL  .997 (3rd)
Career  .994 (33rd)

Salary s c a p y
2007 AL  $15,500,000 (8th)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 1 (733), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 35 (695), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 46 (420), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 21 (674), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  5. Fred McGriff (954)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Lee May (928)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Ryan Howard (928)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Ryan Howard (933)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Cecil Fielder (930)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
199823Cleveland Indians$175,00011/23/98 USA Today
199924Cleveland Indians$219,0004/6/99 USA Today
200025Cleveland Indians$247,0004/5/00 AP
200126Milwaukee Brewers$1,125,0004/6/01 USA Today
200227Milwaukee Brewers$3,125,0004/3/02 AP
200328Milwaukee Brewers$5,125,0004/3/03 AP
200429Arizona Diamondbacks$8,725,0004/7/04 AP
200530Seattle Mariners$6,000,000
200631Seattle Mariners$13,000,000
200732Seattle Mariners$15,500,000
200833Seattle Mariners$15,500,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$68,741,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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