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Grady Sizemore

Grady Sizemore

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: August 2, 1982 in Seattle, WA
High School: Cascade HS (Everett, WA)
Drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 3rd round of the 2000 amateur draft.
Signed June 16, 2000. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 21, 2004
Team: Indians 2004-2011
2012 Contract Status: Free Agent, 1 yr/$5M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 7.056, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: CAA Sports (Joe Urbon) [*]
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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
2004	CLE	AL	21	CF	42	38	38	348.1	106	105	0	1	0	.991	8	4	26	14	2.71	2.50	.988	2.64	2.62
2004	CLE	AL	21	OF	42	38	38	348.1	106	105	0	1	0	.991	8	4	26	13	2.71	2.50	.985	2.30	2.28
2005	CLE	AL	22	CF	155	152	150	1370.0	379	373	3	3	1	.992	14	10	12	9	2.47	2.43	.989	2.69	2.66	MVP-23
2005	CLE	AL	22	OF	155	152	150	1370.0	379	373	3	3	1	.992	14	10	12	8	2.47	2.43	.986	2.30	2.28	MVP-23
2006	CLE	AL	23	CF	160	159	151	1379.1	419	409	7	3	1	.993	9	0	8	0	2.71	2.60	.989	2.65	2.61	AS,MVP-11
2006	CLE	AL	23	OF	160	159	151	1379.1	419	409	7	3	1	.993	9	0	8	0	2.71	2.60	.986	2.30	2.27	AS,MVP-11
2006	CLE	AL	23	DH	1	1																		AS,MVP-11
2007	CLE	AL	24	CF	160	157	150	1408.2	405	399	4	2	2	.995	6	-4	5	-3	2.57	2.52	.989	2.71	2.68	AS,MVP-12,GG
2007	CLE	AL	24	OF	160	157	150	1408.2	405	399	4	2	2	.995	6	-4	5	-3	2.57	2.52	.987	2.30	2.28	AS,MVP-12,GG
2007	CLE	AL	24	DH	1	1																		AS,MVP-12,GG
2008	CLE	AL	25	CF	151	151	150	1338.0	386	382	2	2	1	.995	-2	-3	-2	-3	2.58	2.54	.989	2.71	2.69	AS,MVP-10,GG,SS
2008	CLE	AL	25	OF	151	151	150	1338.0	386	382	2	2	1	.995	-2	-3	-2	-2	2.58	2.54	.986	2.31	2.28	AS,MVP-10,GG,SS
2008	CLE	AL	25	DH	6	6																		AS,MVP-10,GG,SS
2009	CLE	AL	26	CF	92	92	89	806.1	260	259	1	0	0	1.000	6	-5	8	-7	2.90	2.83	.992	2.73	2.70
2009	CLE	AL	26	OF	92	92	89	806.1	260	259	1	0	0	1.000	6	-5	8	-7	2.90	2.83	.987	2.33	2.30
2009	CLE	AL	26	DH	14	14
2010	CLE	AL	27	CF	32	31	30	269.2	65	64	0	1	0	.985	-6	-3	-29	-13	2.14	2.00	.990	2.73	2.71
2010	CLE	AL	27	OF	32	31	30	269.2	65	64	0	1	0	.985	-6	-3	-29	-13	2.14	2.00	.986	2.30	2.28
2011	CLE	AL	28	CF	57	56	50	479.1	126	123	1	2	0	.984	-2	-6	-5	-15	2.33	2.18	.990	2.61	2.59
2011	CLE	AL	28	OF	56	56	50	479.1	126	123	1	2	0	.984	-2	-6	-5	-15	2.33	2.21	.986	2.28	2.26
2011	CLE	AL	28	DH	11	11
	8 Seasons			CF	849	836	808	7399.2	2146	2114	18	14	5	.993	32	-7	5	-1	2.59	2.51	.989	2.69	2.66
	8 Seasons			OF	848	836	808	7399.2	2146	2114	18	14	5	.993	32	-7	5	-1	2.59	2.51	.986	2.30	2.28
	8 Seasons			TOT	848	836	808	7399.2	2146	2114	18	14	5	.993	32	-14	5	-2	2.59	2.51	.986	2.30	2.28
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-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	Rof	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rof
2004	CLE	AL	21	CF	8	26	8	3	5	0	4	14	1	2
2005	CLE	AL	22	CF	14	12	12	7	4	2	10	9	8	0
2006	CLE	AL	23	CF	9	8	9	8	2	0	0	0	2	-3
2007	CLE	AL	24	CF	6	5	6	1	5	0	-4	-3	0	-4
2008	CLE	AL	25	CF	-2	-2	4	-1	5	-6	-3	-3	1	-2
2009	CLE	AL	26	CF	6	8	6	3	3	-1	-5	-7	1	-5
2010	CLE	AL	27	CF	-6	-29	-6	-2	-3	-1	-3	-13	0	-2
2011	CLE	AL	28	CF	-2	-5	-3	1	-4	1	-6	-15	-5	-1
	8 Seasons			CF	32	5	37	20	17	-5	-7	-1	8	-15
	8 Seasons			TOT	32	5	37	20	17	-5	-14	-2	8	-15

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	CF	OF	DH	PH	PR
2004	CLE	AL	21	43	38	43	42	42	42	0	1	1
2005	CLE	AL	22	158	152	158	155	155	155	0	5	0
2006	CLE	AL	23	162	160	162	160	160	160	1	2	0
2007	CLE	AL	24	162	158	162	160	160	160	1	2	1
2008	CLE	AL	25	157	157	157	151	151	151	6	0	0
2009	CLE	AL	26	106	106	106	92	92	92	14	0	0
2010	CLE	AL	27	33	31	33	32	32	32	0	1	1
2011	CLE	AL	28	71	67	71	57	57	57	11	4	0
	8 Seasons			892	869	892	849	849	849	33	15	3

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 -- 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%
2004	CLE	AL	21	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	12	0	13	6	0	5	3	0	6	0	0	15	9	0	59	30	50.8%	29	0	0.0%	0	1488	57%	76%	42%	188	56%
2005	CLE	AL	22	3	0	3	0	1	3	0	2	0	1	72	54	0	41	7	0	15	7	0	12	1	1	37	25	0	177	94	53.1%	82	1	0.6%	2	5689	62%	78%	41%	684	55%
2006	CLE	AL	23	3	0	1	2	0	7	0	4	0	2	103	69	0	70	9	3	21	9	0	26	3	0	43	24	1	263	114	43.3%	145	4	1.5%	3	6006	64%	80%	41%	835	50%
2007	CLE	AL	24	2	0	2	0	0	4	1	1	1	0	78	54	0	60	13	0	19	8	0	22	3	0	45	32	1	224	110	49.1%	113	1	0.4%	3	5990	59%	79%	40%	790	51%
2008	CLE	AL	25	2	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	73	49	0	50	11	1	20	8	0	21	1	0	30	12	0	194	81	41.8%	112	1	0.5%	1	5737	60%	78%	41%	723	53%
2009	CLE	AL	26	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	52	32	0	46	8	0	14	5	0	9	2	0	19	16	0	140	63	45.0%	77	0	0.0%	1	3540	60%	78%	42%	491	53%
2010	CLE	AL	27	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	11	0	15	4	0	5	1	0	5	0	0	9	8	0	52	24	46.2%	28	0	0.0%	0	1188	56%	78%	35%	147	44%
2011	CLE	AL	28	2	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	29	18	0	18	6	0	12	5	0	3	0	0	12	9	0	74	38	51.4%	36	0	0.0%	1	2052	53%	77%	39%	246	50%
	8 Seasons			14	0	12	2	3	18	2	8	2	4	445	299	0	313	64	4	111	46	0	104	10	1	210	135	2	1183	554	46.8%	622	7	0.6%	11	31690	60%	78%	41%	4104	52%
	MLB Averages																														45.1%			1.9%			58%	76%	40%		52%

* 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

All-Star Games 2006 * 2007 * 2008 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2005 AL (23, 1%) 2006 AL (11, 6%) 2007 AL (12, 4%) 2008 AL (10, 11%) 0.22 Career Shares (708th)	Gold Gloves 2007 AL (OF) 2008 AL (OF) All multiple winners	Silver Sluggers 2008 AL (OF)
Def. Games as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2005 AL 155 (2nd) 2006 AL 160 (1st) 2007 AL 160 (1st) 2008 AL 151 (1st) Active 849 (10th)	Putouts as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2005 AL 373 (4th) 2006 AL 409 (1st) 2007 AL 399 (5th) 2008 AL 382 (2nd) Active 2,114 (9th)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2006 AL 7 (3rd)	Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y Active 14 (23rd)
Def. Games as OF s c a p y 2005 AL 155 (4th) 2006 AL 160 (1st) 2007 AL 160 (3rd) 2008 AL 151 (4th)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 2005 AL 373 (5th) 2006 AL 409 (1st) 2007 AL 399 (5th) 2008 AL 382 (2nd) Active 2,114 (22nd)	Total Zone Runs as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2004 AL 8 (2nd) 2005 AL 14 (1st) 2006 AL 9 (3rd) Active 32 (7th) Career 32 (41st)	Range Factor/9Inn as CF (s.1954)† s c a p y 2006 AL 2.71 (5th) 2009 AL 2.90 (4th) Active 2.59 (13th) Career 2.59 (83rd)
Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2006 AL 2.60 (3rd) 2009 AL 2.83 (3rd) Active 2.51 (9th)	Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 2005 AL .992 (4th) 2006 AL .993 (5th) 2007 AL .995 (3rd) 2008 AL .995 (4th) 2009 AL 1.000 (1st) Active .993 (3rd) Career .993 (6th)	Total Zone Runs as OF s c a p y 2005 AL 14 (4th) Active 32 (19th)	Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y 2006 AL 2.71 (5th) 2009 AL 2.90 (5th) Active 2.59 (12th) Career 2.59 (65th)
Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 2006 AL 2.60 (3rd) 2009 AL 2.83 (3rd) Active 2.51 (7th) Career 2.51 (71st)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 2007 AL .995 (4th) 2009 AL 1.000 (1st) Active .993 (3rd) Career .993 (8th)

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