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Fred Whitfield
Fred Dwight Whitfield

Bats Left, Throws Left
Height 6' 1", Weight 190 lb.

Debut May 27, 1962
  vs. MLN 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Final Game August 11, 1970
Born January 7, 1938 in Vandiver, AL

Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1956. (All Transactions)

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Batting  Glossary /
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 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1962 24 STL NL  73  158   20   42   7  1   8   34   1  0   7  30  .266  .299  .475   96   75   0   1   1   1   6
 1963 25 CLE AL 109  346   44   87  17  3  21   54   0  1  24  61  .251  .302  .500  121  173   2   7   5   4   1
 1964 26 CLE AL 101  293   29   79  13  1  10   29   0  5  12  58  .270  .301  .423  100  124   2   2   3   2   5
 1965 27 CLE AL 132  468   49  137  23  1  26   90   2  2  16  42  .293  .316  .513  131  240   2   4   7   2  12 MVP-21
 1966 28 CLE AL 137  502   59  121  15  2  27   78   1  2  27  76  .241  .283  .440  105  221   0   5   9   4   7
 1967 29 CLE AL 100  257   24   56  10  0   9   31   3  3  25  45  .218  .290  .362   90   93   1   0   8   1   4
 1968 30 CIN NL  87  171   15   44   8  0   6   32   0  3   9  29  .257  .302  .409  107   70   0   0   1   2   3
 1969 31 CIN NL  74   74    2   11   0  0   1    8   0  0  18  27  .149  .315  .189   42   14   0   0   0   0   0
 1970 32 MON NL   4   15    0    1   0  0   0    0   0  0   1   3  .067  .125  .067  -47    1   0   0   0   0   1
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 9 Seasons      817 2284  242  578  93  8 108  356   7 16 139 371  .253  .298  .443  107 1011   7  19  34  16  39
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        453   48  115  18  2  21   71   1  3  28  74  .253  .298  .443  107  200   1   4   7   3   8
 Career High    137  502   59  137  23  3  27   90   3  5  27  76  .293  .316  .513  131  240   2   7   9   4  12
Special Batting  Glossary
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1962 24 STL NL  167  123   21   4.6   112| .266  .282| .299  .351| .475  .429| .774  .780|  96  .501  -1.9  -0.2 100%
 1963 25 CLE AL  383  270   54   5.4    95| .251  .255| .302  .322| .500  .394| .802  .716| 121  .613   8.6   0.9   0%
 1964 26 CLE AL  311  228   34   4.0    95| .270  .254| .301  .323| .423  .395| .724  .718| 100  .475  -0.8  -0.1   0%
 1965 27 CLE AL  492  351   71   5.4    93| .293  .252| .316  .322| .513  .386| .829  .708| 131  .634  16.4   1.7  50%
 1966 28 CLE AL  538  395   61   4.2    90| .241  .248| .283  .315| .440  .383| .723  .698| 105  .528   0.8   0.1  33%
 1967 29 CLE AL  284  209   26   3.4    86| .218  .245| .290  .315| .362  .368| .652  .683|  90  .451  -3.5  -0.4  50%
 1968 30 CIN NL  182  133   20   4.1    86| .257  .259| .302  .318| .409  .364| .711  .682| 107  .558   1.1   0.1   0%
 1969 31 CIN NL   92   63    6   2.6    99| .149  .265| .315  .336| .189  .393| .504  .729|  42  .289  -5.3  -0.6   0%
 1970 32 MON NL   16   15    0   0.0   103| .067  .266| .125  .338| .067  .406| .192  .744| -47  .000  -3.2  -0.3   0%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 9 Seasons      2465 1787  293   4.4    93| .253  .254| .298  .322| .443  .387| .741  .709| 107  .541  12.2   1.2  30%

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Fielding  Glossary
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  GS   Inn  
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1962 24 STL NL 1B 38 282 25 4 32 .987 .990 8.08 8.04 10.55 9.79 30 262.0 1963 25 CLE AL 1B 92 690 51 10 64 .987 .990 8.05 8.59 8.68 9.48 85 768.0 1964 26 CLE AL 1B 79 596 36 5 63 .992 .991 8.00 8.12 9.52 9.43 71 597.3 1965 27 CLE AL 1B 122 932 80 7 79 .993 .991 8.30 7.88 9.05 8.94 110 1006.3 1966 28 CLE AL 1B 132 1104 76 11 96 .991 .991 8.94 7.58 9.16 7.76 129 1159.3 1967 29 CLE AL 1B 66 494 49 4 51 .993 .991 8.23 8.32 9.19 9.53 61 531.7 1968 30 CIN NL 1B 41 285 21 6 28 .981 .992 7.46 8.91 10.10 10.09 33 272.7 1969 31 CIN NL 1B 14 57 8 1 5 .985 .992 4.64 8.84 9.39 9.82 6 62.3 1970 32 MON NL 1B 4 34 7 1 3 .976 .993 10.25 8.38 11.08 9.68 4 33.3
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1962 24 STL NL 1B 38 282 25 4 32 .987 .990 8.08 8.04 10.55 9.79 30 262.0 1963 25 CLE AL 1B 92 690 51 10 64 .987 .990 8.05 8.59 8.68 9.48 85 768.0 1964 26 CLE AL 1B 79 596 36 5 63 .992 .991 8.00 8.12 9.52 9.43 71 597.3 1965 27 CLE AL 1B 122 932 80 7 79 .993 .991 8.30 7.88 9.05 8.94 110 1006.3 1966 28 CLE AL 1B 132 1104 76 11 96 .991 .991 8.94 7.58 9.16 7.76 129 1159.3 1967 29 CLE AL 1B 66 494 49 4 51 .993 .991 8.23 8.32 9.19 9.53 61 531.7 1968 30 CIN NL 1B 41 285 21 6 28 .981 .992 7.46 8.91 10.10 10.09 33 272.7 1969 31 CIN NL 1B 14 57 8 1 5 .985 .992 4.64 8.84 9.39 9.82 6 62.3 1970 32 MON NL 1B 4 34 7 1 3 .976 .993 10.25 8.38 11.08 9.68 4 33.3
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+ Position Total 1B* 588 4474 353 49 421 .990 .991 8.21 8.11 9.26 9.00 529 4693.0 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+ Overall Total 588 4474 353 49 421 .990 .991 8.21 8.11 9.26 9.00 529 4693
An Important note about our fielding stats

Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

MVP (YrLg-Rk-Shr)
1965-AL-21-0.02
Car-1327-0.02 shares

Home Runs
1965 AL-26-5
1966 AL-27-9

RBI
1965 AL-90-5

Extra-Base Hits
1965 AL-50-10

Sac. Flies
1963 AL-7-6

Intentional Walks
1966 AL-9-8

At Bats per Home Run
1966 AL-18.6-7

         

Gray Ink: Batting - 12 (1259) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 6.0 (2291) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank
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Explanation of Similarity Scores


Transactions 

Before 1956 Season: Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent.

December 15, 1962: Traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Cleveland Indians for Ron Taylor and Jack Kubiszyn.

November 21, 1967: Traded by the Cleveland Indians with George Culver and Bob Raudman to the Cincinnati Reds for Tommy Harper.

Before 1970 Season: Released by the Cincinnati Reds.

April 2, 1970: Signed as a Free Agent with the Montreal Expos.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
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