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Matt Tolbert

Christopher Matthew Tolbert

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: May 4, 1982 in McComb, MS
High School: Centreville HS (Centreville, MS)
School: University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS)
Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 16th round of the 2004 amateur draft.
Signed June 16, 2004. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 1, 2008
Team: Twins 2008-2011
2012 Contract Status: 1st-Year Arb Eligible (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 3.057, Arb Eligible: 2012, Free Agent: 2015 [*],
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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
2008 MIN AL 26 3B 17 9 7 89.1 37 9 24 4 4 .892 -1 -3 -9 -40 3.32 1.94 .958 2.74 2.71
2008 MIN AL 26 SS 14 10 9 90.0 41 14 26 1 4 .976 -2 -2 -21 -27 4.00 2.86 .971 4.39 4.35
2008 MIN AL 26 2B 11 8 5 75.0 46 15 30 1 7 .978 -2 -2 -35 -32 5.40 4.09 .987 5.02 4.96
2008 MIN AL 26 DH 3 0
2009 MIN AL 27 2B 36 31 29 285.0 186 74 110 2 29 .989 -1 -4 -5 -17 5.81 5.11 .986 4.76 4.70
2009 MIN AL 27 3B 27 20 19 190.1 56 11 43 2 5 .964 4 6 25 38 2.55 2.00 .957 2.68 2.65
2009 MIN AL 27 SS 3 0 0 8.0 6 2 4 0 2 1.000 0 0 45 0 6.75 2.00 .972 4.39 4.30
2009 MIN AL 27 DH 2 0
2009 MIN AL 27 1B 1 0 0 1.0 1 1 0 0 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 9.00 1.00 .990 9.00 9.00
2010 MIN AL 28 2B 20 13 10 131.2 63 21 41 1 7 .984 -0 -2 -2 -18 4.24 3.10 .984 4.80 4.75
2010 MIN AL 28 3B 14 7 6 73.0 30 8 21 1 1 .967 3 3 44 49 3.58 2.07 .956 2.64 2.61
2010 MIN AL 28 1B 4 0 0 8.0 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 5.62 1.25 .994 9.34 9.22
2010 MIN AL 28 SS 3 0 0 4.0 4 2 2 0 1 1.000 -1 0 -180 0 9.00 1.33 .972 4.50 4.37
2010 MIN AL 28 DH 2 0
2010 MIN AL 28 OF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0 -240 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.30
2010 MIN AL 28 RF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0 -240 0 0.00 0.00 1.80 2.10
2011 MIN AL 29 2B 36 26 24 244.0 142 61 78 3 23 .979 -3 5 -13 25 5.13 3.86 .984 4.76 4.73
2011 MIN AL 29 SS 31 22 21 210.0 110 41 66 3 19 .973 -3 -1 -18 -6 4.59 3.45 .972 4.36 4.33
2011 MIN AL 29 3B 6 4 3 37.0 5 2 3 0 1 1.000 -2 -2 -81 -65 1.22 0.83 .954 2.63 2.60
2011 MIN AL 29 DH 5 0
4 Seasons 2B 103 78 68 735.2 437 171 259 7 66 .984 -6 -3 -10 -4 5.26 4.17 .985 4.79 4.75
4 Seasons 3B 64 40 35 389.2 128 30 91 7 11 .945 4 4 11 12 2.79 1.89 .957 2.68 2.65
4 Seasons SS 51 32 30 312.0 161 59 98 4 26 .975 -5 -3 -20 -11 4.53 3.08 .972 4.37 4.34
2 Seasons 1B 5 0 0 9.0 6 6 0 0 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 6.00 1.20 .993 9.30 9.18
1 Season OF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0 -240 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.30
1 Season RF 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0 -240 0 0.00 0.00 1.80 2.10
4 Seasons TOT 224 150 133 1447.1 732 266 448 18 104 .975 -8 -2 -7 -1 4.44 3.19 .977 4.16 4.14
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 Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
2008 MIN AL 26 3B -1 -9 -1 0 -1 0 -3 -40 -2 -1
2008 MIN AL 26 SS -2 -21 -2 -1 -0 0 -2 -27 -2 0
2008 MIN AL 26 2B -2 -35 -2 -2 0 0 -2 -32 -2 0
2009 MIN AL 27 2B -1 -5 -2 -6 3 1 -4 -17 -5 0
2009 MIN AL 27 3B 4 25 4 3 1 0 6 38 5 1 0
2009 MIN AL 27 SS 0 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 MIN AL 27 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 MIN AL 28 2B -0 -2 -0 -0 -0 0 -2 -18 -2 0
2010 MIN AL 28 3B 3 44 3 2 1 0 3 49 1 0 1
2010 MIN AL 28 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 MIN AL 28 SS -1 -180 -1 -0 -0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 MIN AL 28 RF -0 -240 -0 0 -0 0 0 0 0 0
2011 MIN AL 29 2B -3 -13 -3 1 -4 0 5 25 3 1
2011 MIN AL 29 SS -3 -18 -3 -2 -2 0 -1 -6 -2 1
2011 MIN AL 29 3B -2 -81 -2 -1 -2 0 -2 -65 0 0 -1
4 Seasons 2B -6 -10 -7 -7 -0 1 -3 -4 -6 1
4 Seasons 3B 4 11 4 4 -0 0 4 12 4 1 -1
4 Seasons SS -5 -20 -5 -3 -2 0 -3 -11 -4 1
2 Seasons 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season RF -0 -240 -0 0 -0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Seasons TOT -8 -7 -9 -6 -3 1 0 -2 -1 -6 3 -1 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2008 MIN AL 26 41 27 41 36 0 0 0 11 17 14 0 0 0 0 3 6 3
2009 MIN AL 27 71 51 71 64 0 0 1 36 27 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 9
2010 MIN AL 28 48 20 48 40 0 0 4 20 14 3 0 0 1 1 2 5 8
2011 MIN AL 29 87 52 87 71 0 0 0 36 6 31 0 0 0 0 5 11 9
4 Seasons 247 150 247 211 0 0 5 103 64 51 0 0 1 1 12 23 29
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
2008 MIN AL 26 329 59% 82% 34% 32 94% 0 15 6 8 1 30 27 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 7 4 0 2 0 6 2 4 1 1 0
2009 MIN AL 27 1183 59% 79% 33% 130 91% 0 74 32 37 5 110 92 16 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 29 14 5 5 3 27 8 19 2 2 0
2010 MIN AL 28 541 56% 80% 31% 53 89% 1 21 9 9 3 41 35 6 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 7 2 1 4 0 7 4 3 0 0 0
2011 MIN AL 29 1055 60% 78% 32% 93 94% 0 61 26 29 6 78 69 6 0 1 3 0 3 0 3 23 9 4 4 1 19 5 14 4 3 1
4 Seasons 3108 59% 79% 33% 308 92% 1 171 73 83 15 259 223 30 0 3 7 0 5 2 6 66 29 10 15 4 59 19 40 7 6 1
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 93%

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%
2008 MIN AL 26 404 61% 79% 31% 38 82% 0 9 7 1 1 24 19 5 0 1 4 0 0 4 3 4 2 1 3 1 0 1 1 0%
2009 MIN AL 27 817 54% 77% 29% 55 95% 0 11 9 1 1 43 34 9 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 3 100%
2010 MIN AL 28 309 53% 83% 38% 30 90% 3 8 4 1 3 21 17 3 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 100%
2011 MIN AL 29 155 77% 77% 26% 8 63% 0 2 2 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0%
4 Seasons 1685 58% 78% 31% 131 88% 3 30 22 3 5 91 72 18 1 3 7 0 3 4 5 11 9 1 10 1 0 1 7 71%
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 87% 65%

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
2008 MIN AL 26 388 50% 76% 31% 35 89% 1 14 6 4 4 26 22 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 4 2 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 0
2009 MIN AL 27 31 45% 58% 35% 3 100% 0 2 0 2 0 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
2010 MIN AL 28 17 53% 88% 41% 1 100% 0 2 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
2011 MIN AL 29 906 57% 78% 34% 89 83% 2 41 22 14 5 66 49 13 0 2 3 0 0 3 2 19 7 1 8 0 1 17 8 9 2 1 1
4 Seasons 1342 55% 77% 33% 128 85% 3 59 28 21 10 98 74 19 0 3 4 0 0 4 3 26 10 2 11 0 1 24 12 12 2 1 1
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 89%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
2009 MIN AL 27 3 0% 100% 67% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
2010 MIN AL 28 34 65% 62% 18% 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 37 59% 65% 22% 0 0 6 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 57% 76% 31% 93% 83%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

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 MIN AL 28 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% 50% 1 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% 50% 1 0%
MLB Averages 47.3% 2.4% 57% 76% 39% 50%

* 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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