Craig Worthington

Craig Richard Worthington

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: April 17, 1965 in Los Angeles, CA
Drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1st round (11th pick) of the 1985 amateur draft (June Secondary). Player signed June 9, 1985. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 26, 1988
Teams (by GP): Orioles/Rangers/Reds/Indians 1988-1996

Final Game: May 14, 1996
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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
1988	BAL	AL	23	3B	26	26	22	221.1	76	20	53	3	4	.961	3	16	2.97	2.81	.954	2.71	2.69
1989	BAL	AL	24	3B	145	144	134	1273.2	410	113	277	20	22	.951	-10	-9	2.76	2.69	.943	2.73	2.70	RoY-4
1990	BAL	AL	25	3B	131	122	109	1076.1	326	90	218	18	28	.945	-5	-6	2.58	2.35	.944	2.75	2.73
1990	BAL	AL	25	DH	2	2
1991	BAL	AL	26	3B	30	30	26	253.1	79	26	51	2	3	.975	-1	-4	2.74	2.57	.955	2.79	2.79
1992	CLE	AL	27	3B	9	7	6	64.0	28	6	18	4	2	.857	-2	-30	3.38	2.67	.950	2.78	2.77
1995	TOT	MLB	30	3B	28	22	17	194.1	54	15	38	1	3	.981	5	30	2.45	1.89	.951	2.61	2.59
1995	CIN	NL	30	1B	4	3	2	28.0	26	24	2	0	3	1.000	0	17	8.36	6.50	.993	9.71	9.65
1995	CIN	NL	30	3B	2	0	0	5.0	4	2	2	0	0	1.000	0	72	7.20	2.00	.945	2.70	2.75
1995	TEX	AL	30	3B	26	22	17	189.1	50	13	36	1	3	.980	4	29	2.33	1.88	.952	2.61	2.58
1996	TEX	AL	31	3B	7	6	5	51.0	12	2	9	1	1	.917	1	24	1.94	1.57	.956	2.56	2.54
1996	TEX	AL	31	1B	6	0	0	14.0	20	16	4	0	1	1.000	1	51	12.86	3.33	.992	9.26	9.18
	7 Seasons			3B	376	357	319	3134.0	985	272	664	49	63	.950	-8	-3	2.69	2.49	.946	2.73	2.71
	2 Seasons			1B	10	3	2	42.0	46	40	6	0	4	1.000	1	29	9.86	4.60	.993	9.56	9.37
	7 Seasons			TOT	386	360	321	3176.0	1031	312	670	49	67	.952	-7	-3	2.78	2.54	.948	2.82	2.88

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
1988	BAL	AL	23	3B	3	16	3	2	1	0
1989	BAL	AL	24	3B	-10	-9	-11	-3	-8	1
1990	BAL	AL	25	3B	-5	-6	-7	-1	-6	2
1991	BAL	AL	26	3B	-1	-4	-1	-3	2	0
1992	CLE	AL	27	3B	-2	-30	-2	-2	1	0
1995	CIN	NL	30	1B	0	17	0	0	0	0
1995	CIN	NL	30	3B	0	72	0	0	0	0
1995	TEX	AL	30	3B	4	29	4	2	3	0
1996	TEX	AL	31	3B	1	24	1	1	-0	0
1996	TEX	AL	31	1B	1	51	1	0	0	0
	7 Seasons			3B	-9	-3	-12	-4	-8	3
	2 Seasons			1B	1	29	1	1	1	0
	7 Seasons			TOT	-7	-3	-10	-3	-7	3

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	3B	DH	PH	PR
1988	BAL	AL	23	26	26	26	26	0	26	0	0	0
1989	BAL	AL	24	145	144	145	145	0	145	0	0	0
1990	BAL	AL	25	133	124	133	131	0	131	2	0	0
1991	BAL	AL	26	31	30	31	30	0	30	0	1	0
1992	CLE	AL	27	9	7	9	9	0	9	0	0	0
1995	TEX	AL	30	26	22	26	26	0	26	0	0	0
1995	CIN	NL	30	10	3	10	6	4	2	0	5	0
1996	TEX	AL	31	13	6	13	13	6	7	0	1	1
	7 Seasons			393	362	393	386	10	376	2	7	1

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 -- 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%
1988	BAL	AL	23	948	51%	81%	32%	73	93%	0	21	16	1	4	53	44	8	0	1	3	0	1	2	2	5	3	0	3	1	0	1	1	100%
1989	BAL	AL	24	5475	58%	85%	33%	428	87%	0	114	98	7	9	272	215	52	1	1	20	0	12	8	18	21	19	1	21	0	0	0	18	61%
1990	BAL	AL	25	4653	52%	81%	32%	330	89%	4	91	75	5	11	217	163	45	5	3	18	0	9	9	14	28	24	1	27	0	0	0	17	59%
1991	BAL	AL	26	1115	54%	82%	33%	84	85%	1	26	20	2	4	51	43	7	0	1	2	0	2	0	2	3	2	0	2	1	0	1	2	100%
1992	CLE	AL	27	284	71%	84%	33%	28	82%	0	6	5	0	1	18	15	2	0	1	4	0	1	3	3	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
1995	TEX	AL	30	787	49%	78%	33%	51	90%	0	13	11	0	2	36	29	5	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	3	2	0	3	0	0	0	1	100%
1995	CIN	NL	30	24	71%	67%	21%	4	100%	0	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1996	TEX	AL	31	230	63%	75%	31%	13	85%	0	2	2	0	0	9	7	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
	7 Seasons			13516	55%	82%	33%	1011	88%	5	275	229	15	31	658	518	121	7	8	49	0	25	24	41	63	52	2	58	3	0	2	39	64%
	MLB Averages				58%	79%	33%		86%																								66%

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%
1995	CIN	NL	30	115	58%	78%	29%	7	100%	0	24	2	21	1	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0
1996	TEX	AL	31	50	50%	84%	36%	6	100%	0	16	1	14	0	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			165	56%	80%	31%	13	100%	0	40	3	35	1	4	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	0
	MLB Averages				58%	79%	33%		93%																											85%

* 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

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y 1989 AL 145 (3rd)	Putouts as 3B s c a p y 1989 AL 113 (2nd)	Assists as 3B s c a p y 1989 AL 277 (3rd)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1989 AL 20 (2nd)
Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y 1988 AL 3 (4th)	Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y 1989 AL 2.69 (5th)

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