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Jimmy Sexton

Jimmy Dale Sexton

Positions: Shortstop, Pinch Runner and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: December 15, 1951 in Mobile, AL
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1970. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 2, 1977
Teams (by GP): Astros/Athletics/Mariners/Cardinals 1977-1983

Final Game: October 2, 1983
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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
1977 SEA AL 25 SS 12 12 9 96.0 56 12 40 4 10 .929 0 1 4.88 4.33 .963 4.82 4.79
1978 HOU NL 26 SS 58 37 27 339.1 157 59 95 3 18 .981 -1 -4 4.08 2.66 .966 4.88 4.84
1978 HOU NL 26 3B 8 0 0 23.1 4 0 3 1 0 .750 -0 -21 1.16 0.38 .952 3.01 2.98
1978 HOU NL 26 2B 3 2 1 16.0 10 3 6 1 1 .900 1 52 5.06 3.00 .977 5.29 5.27
1979 HOU NL 27 SS 11 6 5 61.0 35 10 23 2 6 .943 -1 -22 4.87 3.00 .965 5.00 4.98
1979 HOU NL 27 3B 4 0 0 7.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 1.29 0.25 .950 2.83 2.88
1979 HOU NL 27 2B 2 0 0 1.2 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 5.40 0.50 .980 5.40 5.40
1981 OAK AL 29 DH 3 0
1981 OAK AL 29 3B 1 0 0 4.0 3 0 3 0 0 1.000 1 180 6.75 3.00 .950 2.92 2.90
1982 OAK AL 30 SS 47 38 27 338.1 164 56 101 7 17 .957 -3 -11 4.18 3.34 .965 4.87 4.84
1982 OAK AL 30 3B 8 7 4 57.0 26 7 17 2 1 .923 1 27 3.79 3.00 .954 3.06 3.05
1982 OAK AL 30 DH 5 0
1983 STL NL 31 SS 4 0 0 13.2 9 2 7 0 2 1.000 1 61 5.93 2.25 .967 4.87 4.82
1983 STL NL 31 3B 2 1 1 11.0 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -22 2.45 1.50 .950 2.70 2.70
5 Seasons SS 132 93 68 848.1 421 139 266 16 53 .962 -5 -6 4.30 3.07 .965 4.88 4.85
5 Seasons 3B 23 8 5 102.1 37 10 24 3 1 .919 1 15 2.99 1.48 .953 2.99 2.96
2 Seasons 2B 5 2 1 17.2 11 3 7 1 1 .909 1 48 5.09 2.00 .977 5.30 5.32
6 Seasons TOT 160 103 74 968.1 469 152 297 20 55 .957 -3 -3 4.17 2.81 .964 4.69 4.59
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
1977 SEA AL 25 SS 0 1 0 0 -0 0
1978 HOU NL 26 SS -1 -4 -2 -2 -0 1
1978 HOU NL 26 3B -0 -21 -0 0 -1 0
1978 HOU NL 26 2B 1 52 1 0 1 0
1979 HOU NL 27 SS -1 -22 -1 1 -2 0
1979 HOU NL 27 3B 0 0 0 0 0 0
1979 HOU NL 27 2B 0 0 0 0 -0 0
1981 OAK AL 29 3B 1 180 1 1 0 0
1982 OAK AL 30 SS -3 -11 -2 -1 -1 -1
1982 OAK AL 30 3B 1 27 1 0 1 0
1983 STL NL 31 SS 1 61 1 1 0 0
1983 STL NL 31 3B -0 -22 -0 -0 0 0
5 Seasons SS -5 -6 -5 -1 -3 0
5 Seasons 3B 1 15 1 1 0 0
2 Seasons 2B 1 48 1 0 0 0
6 Seasons TOT -3 -3 -3 0 -3 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1977 SEA AL 25 14 12 14 12 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1978 HOU NL 26 88 39 88 66 0 0 0 3 8 58 0 0 0 0 0 6 27
1979 HOU NL 27 52 6 52 18 0 0 0 2 4 12 0 0 0 0 0 20 20
1981 OAK AL 29 7 0 7 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 7
1982 OAK AL 30 69 45 69 55 0 0 0 0 8 47 0 0 0 0 5 0 14
1983 STL NL 31 6 1 6 5 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
6 Seasons 236 103 236 157 0 0 0 5 23 133 0 0 0 0 8 27 70
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
1977 SEA AL 25 427 63% 83% 25% 44 89% 1 12 2 6 4 40 28 10 1 1 4 0 4 0 4 10 5 0 2 0 0 9 6 2 1 0 1
1978 HOU NL 26 1425 57% 81% 25% 130 93% 0 57 33 20 4 96 81 15 0 0 3 0 2 1 2 18 8 4 4 1 0 18 12 5 0 0 0
1979 HOU NL 27 259 54% 81% 23% 23 91% 0 12 3 9 0 23 19 3 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 6 1 1 3 0 1 6 2 4 0 0 0
1982 OAK AL 30 1476 58% 81% 22% 140 87% 0 57 31 23 3 102 77 22 0 0 6 0 6 0 6 17 7 1 5 2 0 16 8 7 1 1 0
1983 STL NL 31 59 53% 97% 31% 8 88% 0 2 0 2 0 7 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 3646 58% 81% 24% 345 90% 1 140 69 60 11 268 210 52 1 2 15 0 14 1 14 53 22 7 14 3 1 51 30 18 2 1 1
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 90%

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%
1978 HOU NL 26 108 52% 76% 27% 7 71% 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1979 HOU NL 27 24 54% 75% 29% 1 100% 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1981 OAK AL 29 19 47% 84% 21% 3 100% 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1982 OAK AL 30 248 54% 83% 26% 24 88% 0 7 6 1 0 17 12 2 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1983 STL NL 31 52 40% 94% 23% 4 75% 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 451 52% 82% 26% 39 85% 0 10 9 1 0 26 20 3 1 0 3 0 3 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 89% 68%

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
1978 HOU NL 26 61 64% 77% 31% 6 100% 0 3 0 1 2 7 7 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1979 HOU NL 27 8 38% 75% 25% 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 0 0 0
2 Seasons 69 61% 77% 30% 7 100% 0 3 0 1 2 8 8 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 60% 82% 28% 94%

* 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.

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