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Kevin Youkilis

Kevin Edmund Youkilis (Youk or The Greek God of Walks)

Positions: First Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: March 15, 1979 in Cincinnati, OH
School: University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH)
Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 8th round of the 2001 amateur draft.
Signed June 11, 2001. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 15, 2004
Team: RedSox 2004-2012
2012 Contract Status: Free Agent (team option), 4 yrs/$41.13M (09-12) & 13 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 7.093, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: Joe Bick [*]
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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 BOS AL 25 3B 65 54 52 506.0 158 47 106 5 7 .968 8 5 19 12 2.72 2.35 .951 2.64 2.62
2004 BOS AL 25 DH 2 0
2005 BOS AL 26 3B 24 14 12 139.0 39 10 29 0 3 1.000 -2 -4 -13 -35 2.53 1.63 .957 2.76 2.73
2005 BOS AL 26 1B 9 5 4 47.0 48 48 0 0 4 1.000 0 0 8 0 9.19 5.33 .994 9.59 9.49
2005 BOS AL 26 2B 2 1 0 7.0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 2.57 1.00 .985 5.01 4.90
2006 BOS AL 27 1B 127 117 95 1030.0 1110 1035 70 5 110 .995 3 10 4 12 9.66 8.70 .994 9.54 9.40
2006 BOS AL 27 LF 18 17 11 134.0 39 36 3 0 0 1.000 1 -6 12 -54 2.62 2.17 .986 2.06 2.03
2006 BOS AL 27 OF 18 17 11 134.0 39 36 3 0 0 1.000 1 -6 12 -53 2.62 2.17 .986 2.30 2.27
2006 BOS AL 27 3B 16 10 4 92.0 41 11 27 3 1 .927 -4 -1 -48 -13 3.72 2.38 .960 2.85 2.80
2007 BOS AL 28 1B 135 124 114 1094.0 1080 990 90 0 101 1.000 10 10 11 11 8.88 8.00 .995 9.37 9.27 GG
2007 BOS AL 28 3B 13 12 8 108.0 38 5 30 3 4 .921 1 1 13 11 2.92 2.69 .957 2.63 2.60 GG
2008 BOS AL 29 1B 125 110 99 984.2 1014 923 87 4 92 .996 2 5 3 6 9.23 8.08 .994 9.26 9.18 AS,MVP-3
2008 BOS AL 29 3B 36 32 14 252.0 96 23 70 3 5 .969 9 6 43 29 3.32 2.58 .958 2.74 2.71 AS,MVP-3
2008 BOS AL 29 OF 2 0 0 8.2 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 69 0 3.12 1.50 .987 2.28 2.30 AS,MVP-3
2008 BOS AL 29 RF 2 0 0 8.2 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 69 0 3.12 1.50 .987 2.18 2.15 AS,MVP-3
2009 BOS AL 30 1B 78 77 65 647.0 618 565 52 1 56 .998 6 11 12 20 8.58 7.91 .994 9.13 9.02 AS,MVP-6
2009 BOS AL 30 3B 63 56 50 494.1 155 52 99 4 5 .974 1 1 2 2 2.75 2.40 .957 2.68 2.65 AS,MVP-6
2009 BOS AL 30 LF 2 2 1 14.0 5 3 1 1 0 .800 0 -2 0 -171 2.57 2.00 .988 2.12 2.10 AS,MVP-6
2009 BOS AL 30 OF 2 2 1 14.0 5 3 1 1 0 .800 0 -2 0 -171 2.57 2.00 .988 2.31 2.30 AS,MVP-6
2010 BOS AL 31 1B 101 97 92 862.0 884 809 72 3 66 .997 4 7 6 10 9.20 8.72 .994 9.32 9.23
2010 BOS AL 31 3B 2 2 1 15.0 8 3 5 0 0 1.000 -0 -1 -40 -80 4.80 4.00 .956 2.64 2.60
2011 BOS AL 32 3B 112 111 92 948.2 273 87 177 9 15 .967 6 0 8 0 2.50 2.36 .954 2.62 2.60 AS
2011 BOS AL 32 1B 6 5 5 44.2 42 37 5 0 2 1.000 2 1 54 27 8.46 7.00 .993 9.31 9.23 AS
2011 BOS AL 32 DH 4 4 AS
2012 BOS AL 33 3B 21 20 17 171.0 49 13 34 2 2 .959 0 -1 3 -7 2.47 2.24 .944 2.56 2.55
2012 BOS AL 33 1B 7 6 3 46.1 47 42 5 0 4 1.000 -0 1 -3 26 9.13 6.71 .995 9.48 9.46
8 Seasons 1B 588 541 477 4755.2 4843 4449 381 13 435 .997 29 45 7 11 9.14 8.21 .994 9.34 9.24
9 Seasons 3B 352 311 250 2726.0 857 251 577 29 42 .966 20 6 9 2 2.73 2.35 .954 2.66 2.64
3 Seasons OF 22 19 12 156.2 47 42 4 1 0 .979 2 -8 14 -61 2.64 2.09 .986 2.30 2.28
2 Seasons LF 20 19 12 148.0 44 39 4 1 0 .977 1 -8 11 -64 2.61 2.15 .986 2.07 2.04
1 Season RF 2 0 0 8.2 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 69 0 3.12 1.50 .987 2.18 2.15
1 Season 2B 2 1 0 7.0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 2.57 1.00 .985 5.01 4.90
9 Seasons TOT 964 872 739 7645.1 5749 4742 964 43 477 .993 51 35 8 5 6.72 5.92 .988 6.81 6.66
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
2004 BOS AL 25 3B 8 19 9 3 6 -1 5 12 5 1
2005 BOS AL 26 3B -2 -13 -2 0 -2 0 -4 -35 -4 0
2005 BOS AL 26 1B 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2005 BOS AL 26 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2006 BOS AL 27 1B 3 4 3 3 0 0 10 12 7 0
2006 BOS AL 27 LF 1 12 0 -2 2 1 -6 -54 -6 1
2006 BOS AL 27 3B -4 -48 -4 0 -4 0 -1 -13 -1
2007 BOS AL 28 1B 10 11 10 4 7 0 10 11 7 1
2007 BOS AL 28 3B 1 13 1 -0 2 0 1 11 1 0
2008 BOS AL 29 1B 2 3 2 -1 4 0 5 6 4 1
2008 BOS AL 29 3B 9 43 9 7 2 0 6 29 6 0
2008 BOS AL 29 RF 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 BOS AL 30 1B 6 12 6 3 4 0 11 20 10 0 0
2009 BOS AL 30 3B 1 2 2 4 -2 -1 1 2 0 0 0
2009 BOS AL 30 LF 0 0 0 -2 -171 -1 -1
2010 BOS AL 31 1B 4 6 4 2 3 0 7 10 7 0 -1
2010 BOS AL 31 3B -0 -40 -0 0 -0 0 -1 -80 -1 0 0
2011 BOS AL 32 3B 6 8 6 7 -1 0 0 0 2 -1 0
2011 BOS AL 32 1B 2 54 2 1 1 0 1 27 1 0 0
2012 BOS AL 33 3B 0 3 0 0 -0 -1 -7 -2 0 0
2012 BOS AL 33 1B -0 -3 -0 -1 1 -0 1 26 1 0
8 Seasons 1B 29 7 29 10 18 -0 45 11 37 0 1
9 Seasons 3B 20 9 22 22 0 -2 6 2 6 -1 1
2 Seasons LF 1 11 0 -2 2 1 -8 -64 -7 0
1 Season 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season RF 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons TOT 51 8 52 31 20 -2 1 35 5 36 -1 2 0
Lg Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2004 BOS AL 25 72 54 72 65 0 0 0 0 65 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 1
2005 BOS AL 26 44 20 44 35 0 0 9 2 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 3
2006 BOS AL 27 147 144 147 147 0 0 127 0 16 0 18 0 0 18 0 1 0
2007 BOS AL 28 145 136 145 143 0 0 135 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
2008 BOS AL 29 145 142 145 144 0 0 126 0 36 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 1
2009 BOS AL 30 136 135 136 135 0 0 78 0 63 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 0
2010 BOS AL 31 102 99 102 102 0 0 101 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2011 BOS AL 32 120 120 120 117 0 0 6 0 112 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
2012 BOS AL 33 26 26 26 26 0 0 7 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 937 876 937 914 0 0 589 2 352 0 20 0 2 22 6 24 5
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%
2005 BOS AL 26 194 42% 71% 34% 8 100% 0 48 0 47 1 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
2006 BOS AL 27 4463 56% 77% 32% 248 94% 3 1035 73 940 24 98 70 51 9 1 4 5 3 2 0 2 110 3 1 0 103 4 7 1 6 13 69%
2007 BOS AL 28 4607 53% 75% 31% 261 97% 0 990 73 896 21 96 90 65 17 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 101 1 4 1 86 6 14 5 9 11 91%
2008 BOS AL 29 4174 53% 74% 30% 222 96% 1 923 76 823 25 60 87 67 10 1 6 4 2 2 0 2 92 0 2 2 82 6 10 3 7 11 82%
2009 BOS AL 30 2847 53% 75% 28% 151 94% 1 565 49 506 9 49 52 34 9 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 56 1 1 1 51 3 5 1 4 8 88%
2010 BOS AL 31 3700 53% 77% 30% 197 94% 1 809 68 727 14 55 72 59 4 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 66 0 0 1 60 2 6 2 4 9 67%
2011 BOS AL 32 186 62% 70% 25% 12 100% 0 37 2 35 0 6 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 100%
2012 BOS AL 33 190 49% 73% 35% 10 100% 0 42 3 39 0 2 5 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 0
8 Seasons 20361 54% 75% 30% 1109 95% 6 4449 344 4013 94 374 381 283 51 7 20 13 6 5 2 5 435 5 8 5 391 21 43 12 31 54 80%
MLB Averages 58% 76% 32% 94% 84%

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%
2004 BOS AL 25 2172 51% 78% 33% 168 89% 4 47 37 5 5 106 89 15 2 0 5 0 5 0 5 7 4 0 5 0 0 0 4 100%
2005 BOS AL 26 618 55% 79% 33% 39 97% 0 10 9 0 1 29 23 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 1 100%
2006 BOS AL 27 431 59% 81% 32% 45 84% 0 11 11 0 0 27 22 4 1 0 3 0 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 50%
2007 BOS AL 28 453 52% 75% 35% 38 87% 0 5 3 0 2 30 23 6 1 0 3 0 2 1 3 4 3 0 4 0 0 0 1 0%
2008 BOS AL 29 1104 54% 76% 32% 98 92% 1 23 20 1 2 70 57 12 0 1 3 0 3 0 3 5 4 0 5 0 0 0 4 100%
2009 BOS AL 30 2105 51% 74% 30% 160 90% 1 52 45 4 3 99 83 12 1 3 4 0 3 1 4 5 4 0 4 1 1 0 6 67%
2010 BOS AL 31 62 73% 71% 32% 10 80% 0 3 3 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
2011 BOS AL 32 4073 54% 76% 29% 272 90% 1 87 70 7 10 177 145 26 1 3 9 2 6 1 7 15 6 2 11 3 2 1 14 64%
2012 BOS AL 33 742 57% 75% 33% 49 88% 0 13 9 2 2 34 25 7 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 100%
9 Seasons 11760 53% 76% 31% 879 90% 7 251 207 19 25 577 472 88 7 8 29 2 22 5 26 42 27 2 35 4 3 1 34 74%
MLB Averages 58% 76% 32% 87% 66%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

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%
2006 BOS AL 27 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 2 10 6 2 9 4 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 25 14 56.0% 8 3 12.0% 0 610 59% 79% 46% 96 41%
2009 BOS AL 30 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 6 3 50.0% 3 0 0.0% 1 78 38% 74% 42% 14 29%
2 Seasons 1 0 1 0 1 4 0 1 1 2 13 8 2 10 4 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 31 17 54.8% 11 3 9.7% 1 688 57% 78% 45% 110 39%
MLB Averages 63.8% 2.3% 58% 76% 40% 46%

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
2005 BOS AL 26 30 53% 103% 40% 2 100% 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 30 53% 103% 40% 2 100% 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 58% 76% 32% 92%

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%
2008 BOS AL 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 39 56% 56% 31% 3 100%
1 Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 100.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 39 56% 56% 31% 3 100%
MLB Averages 46.9% 2.3% 58% 76% 40% 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2008 (1B)
2009 *
2011 *

Awards (yr lg award)
2008 AL Hank Aaron Award

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2008 AL (3, 51%)
2009 AL (6, 38%)
0.89 Career Shares (282nd)

Gold Gloves
2007 AL (1B)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
2007 AL  135 (4th)
Active  588 (20th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
Active  4,449 (20th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
2006 AL  70 (5th)
2007 AL  90 (4th)
2008 AL  87 (5th)
Active  381 (19th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
2011 AL  87 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
2007 AL  10 (2nd)
2009 AL  6 (3rd)
Active  29 (6th)
Career  29 (33rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
Active  9.14 (16th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
Active  8.21 (21st)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
2006 AL  .995 (5th)
2007 AL  1.000 (1st)
2010 AL  .997 (3rd)
Active  .997 (2nd)
Career  .997 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
2004 AL  8 (2nd)
Active  20 (13th)
Career  20 (61st)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
2011 AL  .967 (3rd)

                           

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