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Fred Whitfield

Fred Dwight Whitfield

Positions: First Baseman and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: January 7, 1938 in Vandiver, AL
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1956. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 27, 1962
Teams (by GP): Indians/Reds/Cardinals/Expos 1962-1970

Final Game: August 11, 1970
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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
1962 STL NL 24 1B 38 30 15 262.0 311 282 25 4 32 .987 -1 -5 10.55 8.08 .990 9.79 9.70
1963 CLE AL 25 1B 92 85 74 768.0 751 690 51 10 64 .987 -6 -10 8.68 8.05 .990 9.48 9.49
1964 CLE AL 26 1B 79 71 39 597.1 637 596 36 5 63 .992 -2 -3 9.52 8.00 .991 9.43 9.41
1965 CLE AL 27 1B 122 110 95 1006.1 1019 932 80 7 79 .993 0 0 9.05 8.30 .991 9.56 9.53 MVP-21
1966 CLE AL 28 1B 132 129 122 1159.1 1191 1104 76 11 96 .991 -4 -4 9.16 8.94 .991 9.59 9.58
1967 CLE AL 29 1B 66 61 43 531.2 547 494 49 4 51 .993 -1 -2 9.19 8.23 .991 9.53 9.55
1968 CIN NL 30 1B 41 33 18 272.2 312 285 21 6 28 .981 -0 -2 10.10 7.46 .992 10.09 10.12
1969 CIN NL 31 1B 14 6 4 62.1 66 57 8 1 5 .985 0 4 9.39 4.64 .992 9.82 9.76
1970 MON NL 32 1B 4 4 4 33.1 42 34 7 1 3 .976 1 32 11.07 10.25 .992 9.67 9.65
9 Seasons 1B 588 529 414 4693.0 4876 4474 353 49 421 .990 -12 -3 9.26 8.21 .991 9.58 9.58
9 Seasons TOT 588 529 414 4693.0 4876 4474 353 49 421 .990 -12 -3 9.26 8.21 .991 9.58 9.58
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
1962 STL NL 24 1B -1 -5 -1 -1 -0 0
1963 CLE AL 25 1B -6 -10 -6 -4 -2 0
1964 CLE AL 26 1B -2 -3 -2 0 -2 0
1965 CLE AL 27 1B 0 0 -1 -2 1 1
1966 CLE AL 28 1B -4 -4 -5 -2 -3 1
1967 CLE AL 29 1B -1 -2 -1 -1 -0 0
1968 CIN NL 30 1B -0 -2 -0 0 -0 0
1969 CIN NL 31 1B 0 4 0 0 0 0
1970 MON NL 32 1B 1 32 1 0 0 0
9 Seasons 1B -12 -3 -14 -8 -6 2
9 Seasons TOT -12 -3 -14 -8 -6 2

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1962 STL NL 24 73 30 73 38 0 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 0
1963 CLE AL 25 109 85 109 92 0 0 92 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 2
1964 CLE AL 26 101 71 101 79 0 0 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 0
1965 CLE AL 27 132 110 132 122 0 0 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0
1966 CLE AL 28 137 129 137 132 0 0 132 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1967 CLE AL 29 100 61 100 66 0 0 66 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38 0
1968 CIN NL 30 87 33 87 41 0 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 52 0
1969 CIN NL 31 74 6 74 14 0 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 64 0
1970 MON NL 32 4 4 4 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 817 529 817 588 0 0 588 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 265 2
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 -- 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%
1962 STL NL 24 1121 64% 80% 28% 74 93% 3 281 30 247 4 17 24 15 2 2 4 4 0 4 0 4 32 1 1 0 27 3 5 1 4 4 75%
1963 CLE AL 25 3247 62% 77% 25% 178 92% 1 695 62 618 17 52 50 41 5 0 3 10 3 7 0 6 64 0 0 0 59 0 4 0 4 15 47%
1964 CLE AL 26 2529 63% 76% 27% 130 91% 0 602 31 560 11 53 36 27 6 1 1 5 1 3 1 4 63 2 1 0 58 4 5 1 4 6 83%
1965 CLE AL 27 4163 62% 75% 24% 237 95% 2 931 60 840 32 96 75 56 11 2 0 7 1 6 0 5 81 3 1 1 76 6 3 2 1 10 80%
1966 CLE AL 28 4799 65% 77% 25% 272 96% 1 1117 95 1007 14 104 74 52 7 2 6 11 1 10 0 8 96 2 2 0 83 5 11 4 7 11 100%
1967 CLE AL 29 2201 64% 74% 24% 132 92% 0 495 15 470 10 65 43 32 4 0 0 4 0 4 0 3 51 2 0 0 50 2 1 1 0 12 100%
1968 CIN NL 30 1139 63% 77% 28% 68 84% 0 284 19 263 2 20 21 16 3 1 0 6 1 5 0 2 29 0 0 1 27 1 2 0 2 13 69%
1969 CIN NL 31 305 64% 76% 22% 17 100% 0 61 6 56 0 6 5 4 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 100%
1970 MON NL 32 146 62% 79% 29% 12 83% 0 34 2 32 0 1 7 6 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 67%
9 Seasons 19650 63% 76% 25% 1120 93% 7 4500 320 4093 90 414 335 249 39 8 14 49 8 40 1 33 424 10 5 2 388 21 31 9 22 76 78%
MLB Averages 63% 79% 28% 94% 86%

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1965 AL (21, 2%)
0.02 Career Shares (1361st)

Putouts† s c a p y
1966 AL  1,104 (5th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1965 AL  122 (5th)
1966 AL  132 (4th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1966 AL  1,104 (4th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1965 AL  80 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1963 AL  10 (3rd)
1966 AL  11 (5th)
1968 NL  6 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1966 AL  8.94 (4th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1965 AL  .993 (5th)
1966 AL  .991 (5th)

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