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	Pos					Pct. of			Left Field Fielding Statistics								Batting Statistics as Left Fielder																							Win Shares
Year	Rank	WSQ Leader	Tm	Age	WSQ	Total			Games	PO	Assts	Err	DP	F Pct.			At Bats	Hits	2B	3B	HR	Runs	RBI	BB	IBB	SO	HP	SH	SF	SB	CS	GDP	BA	OBA	SA	OPS	RC			B WS	F WS	T WS	BWS/G	FWS/G	TWS/G
1901						0.0%
1902						0.0%
1903	13	Ed Delahanty	WAS	35	3.13	1.8%			20	34	3	1	0	.974			76	25	5	0	0	11	10	6			1	0		1			.329	.386	.395	.781	13			2.6	0.4	3.0	.130	.020	.150
1904	2	Jesse Burkett	STL	35	26.89	17.8%			200	358	31	21	6	.949			786	222	24	18	3	107	43	90			8	11		23			.282	.362	.370	.732	120			33.0	5.0	38.0	.165	.025	.190
1905	3	Jesse Burkett	BOS	36	21.87	20.8%			235	422	22	33	1	.931			894	212	27	15	4	119	69	86			10	38		24			.237	.311	.314	.625	105			20.5	5.1	25.6	.087	.022	.109
1906						0.0%
1907						0.0%
1908						0.0%
1909						0.0%
1910	8	Topsy Hartsel	PHI	35	8.56	7.0%			83	113	8	7	2	.945			285	63	10	3	0	45	22	58			0	8		11			.221	.353	.277	.630	36			7.3	1.6	8.9	.088	.019	.107
1911	6	Nixey Callahan	CHI	37	8.03	7.8%			93	137	8	6	2	.960			380	107	11	4	2	52	49	12			2	17		37			.282	.307	.347	.654	52			7.3	1.5	8.8	.078	.016	.095
1912	10	Nixey Callahan	CHI	38	5.48	8.5%			107	166	3	11	0	.939			408	111	9	7	1	45	52	12			3	22		19			.272	.298	.336	.634	46			5.8	1.1	6.9	.054	.010	.064
1913						0.0%
1914						0.0%
1915						0.0%
1916						0.0%
1917						0.0%
1918	7	George Whiteman	BOS	35	7.57	5.8%			65	89	5	7	1	.931			202	54	13	0	1	23	26	19		8	2	11		8			.267	.336	.347	.683	25			6.5	1.1	7.6	.100	.017	.117
1919						0.0%
1920						0.0%
1921						0.0%
1922						0.0%
1923	10	Bobby Veach	DET	35	4.03	5.3%			72	117	4	4	1	.968			266	80	12	4	3	36	37	30		22	4	11		6	4		.301	.380	.410	.790	43			7.1	1.1	8.2	.099	.015	.114
1924	9	Bobby Veach	BOS	36	10.66	11.0%			130	270	15	13	2	.956			519	153	35	9	5	77	99	47		18	5	28		5	5		.295	.359	.426	.785	79			9.8	2.9	12.7	.075	.022	.098
1925	3	Ken Williams	STL	35	24.36	9.4%			102	242	11	12	4	.955			411	136	31	5	25	83	105	37		14	3	11		10	5		.331	.390	.613	1.003	96			17.6	2.2	19.8	.173	.022	.194
1926	6	Ken Williams	STL	36	11.10	7.8%			91	186	12	11	2	.947			343	96	15	7	17	54	73	39		23	1	14		5	4		.280	.355	.513	.868	59			9.6	1.8	11.4	.105	.020	.125
1927	5	Ken Williams	STL	37	19.23	18.4%			215	439	28	16	5	.967			811	248	44	10	19	112	133	77		48	7	26		12	10		.306	.371	.455	.826	139			21.4	4.0	25.4	.100	.019	.118
1928	7	Ken Williams	BOS	38	9.21	10.1%			127	253	10	8	0	.970			462	140	25	1	8	59	67	37		15	1	15		4	9		.303	.356	.413	.769	65			9.5	2.2	11.7	.075	.017	.092
1929	10	Charlie Jamieson	CLE	35	5.53	7.9%			93	192	8	4	1	.980			364	106	22	1	0	56	26	50		12	1	7		2	13		.291	.378	.357	.735	46			5.3	1.9	7.2	.057	.020	.077
1930	4	Babe Ruth	NY	35	19.08	11.6%			146	255	10	12	0	.957			547	176	32	4	19	118	107	85		42	3	20		9	6		.322	.416	.499	.915	118			19.8	1.9	21.7	.136	.013	.149
1931	4	Babe Ruth	NY	36	18.55	4.2%			51	85	2	3	1	.967			190	71	11	1	16	53	58	46		18	0	0		2	1		.374	.496	.695	1.191	64			12.9	0.6	13.5	.253	.012	.265
1932	5	Babe Ruth	NY	37	16.68	3.5%			44	70	3	3	0	.961			152	52	4	2	14	40	46	43		21	1	0		1	1		.342	.490	.671	1.161	49			11.4	0.5	11.9	.259	.011	.270
1933	4	Babe Ruth	NY	38	14.64	4.4%			55	89	3	3	1	.968			187	56	9	1	14	40	42	46		37	1	0		2	2		.299	.440	.583	1.023	50			11.2	0.3	11.5	.204	.005	.209
1934	7	Babe Ruth	NY	39	7.28	2.8%			34	60	1	2	0	.968			112	32	5	1	7	24	26	32		19	1	0		0	1		.286	.448	.536	.984	27			5.6	0.6	6.2	.165	.018	.182
1935	9	Earle Combs	NY	36	5.57	4.7%			57	108	2	1	0	.991			239	67	6	3	2	38	28	29		8	0	1		1	2		.280	.358	.356	.714	33			4.7	1.3	6.0	.082	.023	.105
1936	1	Goose Goslin	DET	35	26.15	12.4%			144	266	11	13	1	.955			572	180	33	8	24	122	125	85		50	0	3		14	4		.315	.403	.526	.929	121			20.6	2.0	22.6	.143	.014	.157
1937	7	Al Simmons	WAS	35	9.38	12.6%			137	307	9	8	6	.975			575	153	30	11	12	87	114	59		51	6	4		3	3		.266	.341	.419	.760	84			10.6	3.2	13.8	.077	.023	.101
1938	3	Al Simmons	WAS	36	16.96	9.1%			112	212	4	4	1	.982			439	133	21	6	20	74	89	35		37	2	2		2	1		.303	.357	.515	.872	76			13.2	1.8	15.0	.118	.016	.134
1939	7	Earl  Averill	DET	37	7.85	6.2%			75	144	3	4	0	.974			290	76	19	6	9	54	54	40		28	1	10		4	2	4	.262	.353	.462	.815	51			6.4	1.8	8.2	.085	.024	.109
1940						0.0%
1941	6	Rip Radcliff	STL/DET	35	8.10	13.4%			161	310	13	10	2	.970			675	197	24	11	9	80	92	46		44	2	6		8	7	16	.292	.339	.400	.739	88			11.3	3.8	15.1	.070	.024	.094
1942	3	Bob Johnson	PHI	35	25.89	12.8%			148	316	18	13	1	.963			546	159	35	7	13	77	79	81		61	1	1		3	2	16	.291	.384	.452	.836	98			23.4	2.7	26.1	.158	.018	.176
1943	5	Bob Johnson	WAS	36	14.51	11.1%			121	278	14	2	2	.993			462	114	22	6	6	58	59	56		59	2	0		8	5	11	.247	.331	.359	.690	57			11.6	3.1	14.7	.096	.026	.121
	Pos					Pct. of			Left Field Fielding Statistics								Batting Statistics as Left Fielder																							Win Shares
Year	Rank	WSQ Leader	Tm	Age	WSQ	Total			Games	PO	Assts	Err	DP	F Pct.			At Bats	Hits	2B	3B	HR	Runs	RBI	BB	IBB	SO	HP	SH	SF	SB	CS	GDP	BA	OBA	SA	OPS	RC			B WS	F WS	T WS	BWS/G	FWS/G	TWS/G
1944	1	Bob Johnson	BOS	37	39.39	16.7%			200	396	26	10	3	.977			759	226	46	9	18	124	130	105		84	4	8		6	8	17	.298	.386	.453	.839	138			29.6	3.3	32.9	.148	.017	.165
1945	2	Johnny Dickshot	CHI	35	22.68	38.8%			443	913	40	23	9	.976			1725	472	72	26	23	220	201	205		151	3	15		30	10	35	.274	.352	.386	.738	241			51.3	7.3	58.6	.116	.016	.132
1946						0.0%
1947	10	Taffy Wright	CHI	35	5.57	2.8%			35	69	2	2	0	.973			139	45	5	0	1	17	19	17		6	0	2		3	2	3	.324	.397	.381	.778	21			4.7	0.6	5.3	.134	.017	.151
1948						0.0%
1949						0.0%
1950						0.0%
1951	10	Bud Stewart	CHI	35	4.51	6.1%			90	134	4	3	0	.979			272	71	14	4	8	41	46	34		21	2	4		2	5	7	.261	.347	.430	.777	37			5.5	1.4	6.9	.061	.016	.077
1952	7	Bud Stewart	CHI	36	6.83	4.6%			57	103	1	2	0	.981			214	57	10	0	5	22	29	27		16	1	4		3	0	1	.266	.351	.383	.734	30			5.6	1.1	6.7	.098	.019	.118
1953						0.0%
1954	1	Ted Williams	BOS	35	41.78	9.6%			115	213	5	4	0	.982			382	131	23	1	28	92	86	136	17	32	1	0	3	0	1	11	.343	.513	.628	1.141	117			27.3	1.9	29.2	.237	.017	.254
1955	1	Ted Williams	BOS	36	35.14	10.4%			141	252	8	5	0	.981			448	159	27	4	32	106	99	100	18	40	2	1	3	2	2	10	.355	.472	.647	1.119	128			26.0	3.5	29.5	.184	.025	.209
1956	2	Ted Williams	BOS	37	33.11	15.6%			200	314	9	11	3	.967			633	204	34	6	25	112	98	136	12	60	3	4	1	3	1	20	.322	.444	.513	.957	141			26.5	3.4	29.9	.133	.017	.150
1957	1	Ted Williams	BOS	38	54.80	13.9%			182	302	4	1	0	.997			574	201	33	2	40	113	107	147	35	58	5	3	1	0	3	12	.350	.486	.624	1.110	168			40.0	3.8	43.8	.220	.021	.241
1958	2	Ted Williams	BOS	39	32.15	31.3%			399	672	26	20	4	.972			1370	406	66	8	63	220	214	200	19	166	20	10	12	31	17	43	.296	.391	.494	.885	262			56.3	7.3	63.6	.141	.018	.159
1959	1	Minnie Minoso	CLE	36	35.84	25.1%			316	542	22	12	1	.979			1065	305	60	3	37	152	167	139	9	89	18	6	9	12	11	19	.286	.375	.453	.828	187			39.6	7.3	46.9	.125	.023	.148
1960	1	Ted Williams	BOS	41	28.63	29.1%			383	640	28	10	4	.985			1357	415	65	5	64	225	244	206	13	138	20	8	13	21	15	28	.306	.402	.503	.905	273			60.4	7.2	67.6	.158	.019	.177
1961	3	Minnie Minoso	CHI	38	22.16	17.1%			293	511	18	17	4	.969			1042	272	46	6	38	160	147	105	5	91	18	1	17	12	4	25	.261	.334	.426	.760	152			29.2	5.0	34.2	.100	.017	.117
1962	10	Charlie Maxwell	CHI	35	9.02	4.6%			77	150	3	4	1	.975			251	66	6	2	10	35	41	37	3	30	0	1	3	0	0	8	.263	.354	.422	.776	39			7.9	1.6	9.5	.103	.021	.123
1963	12	Charlie Maxwell	CHI	36	3.20	5.7%			98	132	6	5	1	.965			325	78	13	4	6	46	37	44	1	41	6	4	4	7	5	9	.240	.338	.360	.698	41			5.5	1.2	6.7	.056	.012	.068
1964						0.0%
1965	20	Hector Lopez	NY	35	1.42	2.5%			49	65	1	0	0	1.000			139	37	7	2	6	16	21	7	1	28	0	1	1	1	2	5	.266	.299	.475	.774	17			2.8	0.8	3.6	.057	.016	.073
1966	28	Jimmy Piersall	CAL	36	0.06	1.0%			25	23	0	0	0	1.000			36	6	1	0	0	3	5	2	0	7	0	2	2	0	0	2	.167	.200	.194	.394	1			-	0.2	0.2	.000	.008	.008
1967						0.0%
1968						0.0%
1969	26	Chuck Hinton	CLE	35	0.86	2.8%			66	88	2	5	1	.947			148	35	4	2	1	17	12	11	2	20	1	1	1	1	0	5	.236	.292	.311	.603	13			2.0	0.5	2.5	.030	.008	.038
1970	14	Felipe Alou	OAK	35	5.71	6.0%			149	180	7	4	2	.979			360	99	13	1	7	38	39	19	1	24	1	5	7	7	3	5	.275	.307	.375	.682	43			5.9	2.2	8.1	.040	.015	.054
1971						0.0%
1972	8	Don Buford	BAL	35	7.68	7.1%			126	197	7	3	1	.986			453	97	9	2	5	52	29	79	11	85	4	3	1	7	3	10	.214	.335	.276	.611	46			8.1	2.5	10.6	.064	.020	.084
1973						0.0%
1974						0.0%
1975						0.0%
1976	8	Carl Yastrzemski	BOS	36	10.15	2.6%			51	93	3	2	0	.980			179	59	10	2	7	36	43	26	3	21	0	1	5	1	0	5	.330	.405	.525	.930	39			7.2	1.0	8.2	.141	.020	.161
1977	2	Carl Yastrzemski	BOS	37	30.13	6.6%			138	285	16	0	1	1.000			508	151	25	3	27	96	94	69	6	34	0	0	10	9	1	8	.297	.375	.518	.893	104			19.1	4.2	23.3	.138	.030	.169
1978	12	Carl Yastrzemski	BOS	38	9.75	2.8%			64	122	7	2	2	.985			225	57	7	2	8	32	38	45	6	20	0	1	2	1	2	2	.253	.375	.409	.784	37			7.2	1.3	8.5	.113	.020	.133
1979	12	Lou Piniella	NY	35	7.62	6.3%			145	259	12	6	0	.978			512	149	25	3	13	63	74	35	5	41	2	6	9	3	4	13	.291	.333	.428	.761	74			10.9	3.0	13.9	.075	.021	.096
1980	14	Carl Yastrzemski	BOS	40	5.82	6.7%			172	266	15	5	2	.983			491	153	25	0	10	81	49	54	4	43	0	3	3	13	4	18	.312	.378	.424	.802	78			13.0	2.7	15.7	.076	.016	.091
1981						0.0%
1982	4	John Lowenstein	BAL	35	26.25	4.3%			111	198	2	0	0	1.000			302	97	15	2	23	68	60	52	9	54	1	3	2	7	6	5	.321	.420	.613	1.033	74			18.5	2.2	20.7	.167	.020	.186
1983	9	John Lowenstein	BAL	36	15.56	5.0%			136	192	9	3	1	.985			356	100	17	2	15	60	60	50	1	68	1	0	4	2	2	4	.281	.367	.466	.833	65			14.2	2.3	16.5	.104	.017	.121
1984	13	Ben Oglivie	MIL	35	7.00	10.6%			286	450	16	12	3	.975			815	211	24	3	17	82	85	81	7	121	3	3	6	7	6	14	.259	.326	.358	.684	97			15.9	3.7	19.6	.056	.013	.069
1985	5	Ken Griffey	NY	35	13.55	10.3%			253	459	15	12	3	.975			787	218	44	6	19	114	129	80	4	97	3	2	16	8	9	13	.277	.340	.421	.761	115			20.5	4.1	24.6	.081	.016	.097
1986	2	Brian Downing	CAL	35	26.78	15.7%			371	685	24	15	4	.979			1230	354	65	3	38	177	186	141	6	172	21	6	19	11	8	31	.288	.366	.438	.804	204			35.8	6.3	42.1	.096	.017	.113
	Pos					Pct. of			Left Field Fielding Statistics								Batting Statistics as Left Fielder																							Win Shares
Year	Rank	WSQ Leader	Tm	Age	WSQ	Total			Games	PO	Assts	Err	DP	F Pct.			At Bats	Hits	2B	3B	HR	Runs	RBI	BB	IBB	SO	HP	SH	SF	SB	CS	GDP	BA	OBA	SA	OPS	RC			B WS	F WS	T WS	BWS/G	FWS/G	TWS/G
1987	13	Brian Downing	CAL	36	6.62	4.0%			112	151	3	1	0	.994			322	85	18	0	10	44	42	35	2	45	5	0	3	3	0	13	.264	.342	.413	.755	47			6.8	1.1	7.9	.061	.010	.071
1988	16	Dave Parker	OAK	37	5.50	2.3%			54	96	3	5	0	.952			176	40	6	1	7	18	24	16	1	36	0	0	1	0	1	0	.227	.290	.392	.682	23			4.5	0.7	5.2	.083	.013	.096
1989	17	Fred Lynn	DET	37	3.95	4.3%			103	183	6	1	1	.995			299	70	6	1	9	33	32	32	1	68	1	1	4	1	1	4	.234	.307	.351	.658	33			4.9	0.9	5.8	.048	.009	.056
1990	12	Ken Griffey	SEA	40	6.47	3.8%			95	164	2	3	1	.982			304	82	10	2	10	38	49	28	0	41	0	2	2	2	0	11	.270	.329	.414	.743	40			7.8	1.7	9.5	.082	.018	.100
1991	21	Ken Griffey	SEA	41	2.40	4.1%			103	172	3	4	0	.978			312	77	19	3	3	28	35	22	0	43	6	1	3	10	5	8	.247	.306	.356	.662	35			4.7	1.9	6.6	.046	.018	.064
1992						0.0%
1993	15	Dan Gladden	DET	35	5.66	4.4%			92	197	8	4	1	.981			354	95	18	5	12	55	59	16	0	54	2	6	2	7	5	9	.268	.302	.449	.751	45			6.3	1.8	8.1	.068	.020	.088
1994	2	Tony Phillips	DET	35	17.23	12.2%			170	383	10	9	1	.978			600	167	28	3	21	133	67	133	2	125	7	1	4	29	10	7	.278	.413	.440	.853	123			20.4	3.2	23.6	.120	.019	.139
1995	2	Rickey Henderson	OAK	36	21.59	19.7%			392	741	19	15	3	.981			1445	403	76	5	44	230	185	192	11	198	8	6	6	54	19	28	.279	.365	.430	.795	238			36.2	5.4	41.6	.092	.014	.106
1996	3	Tony Phillips	CHI	37	23.95	14.6%			316	588	22	15	4	.976			1192	330	66	9	42	218	176	189	11	231	8	1	15	27	13	18	.277	.375	.453	.828	208			31.2	5.3	36.5	.099	.017	.116
1997	11	Tim Raines	NY	37	8.96	7.0%			168	266	2	6	0	.978			577	162	28	3	11	99	71	71	2	95	4	2	9	18	14	13	.281	.359	.397	.756	85			12.2	2.3	14.5	.073	.014	.086
1998	2	Rickey Henderson	OAK	39	23.56	10.2%			232	402	7	5	3	.988			698	182	23	0	16	127	71	139	1	136	5	2	4	71	13	10	.261	.385	.362	.747	106			24.5	3.3	27.8	.106	.014	.120
1999	27	Tony Phillips	OAK	40	0.37	3.4%			112	111	1	2	0	.982			192	38	11	0	5	20	18	22	0	28	0	2	2	2	2	5	.198	.278	.333	.611	17			0.7	1.1	1.8	.006	.010	.016
2000	11	B.J. Surhoff	BAL	35	10.35	12.4%			280	535	9	8	2	.986			990	265	50	5	25	161	119	126	3	138	4	6	7	43	15	17	.268	.350	.404	.754	140			18.4	4.5	22.9	.066	.016	.082
2001	7	Greg Vaughn	TB	35	12.19	12.0%			297	492	12	7	4	.986			853	236	40	3	27	126	116	114	6	177	7	3	8	34	6	21	.277	.364	.426	.790	141			27.4	5.3	32.7	.092	.018	.110
2002	7	Mark McLemore	SEA	37	13.36	11.7%			274	467	12	13	0	.974			899	233	50	5	27	135	116	133	4	174	6	4	8	22	8	20	.259	.356	.416	.772	137			21.2	4.0	25.2	.077	.015	.092
2003	22	B.J. Surhoff	BAL	38	3.64	2.0%			50	67	1	1	0	.986			170	55	13	0	2	21	26	13	1	13	0	2	2	2	2	3	.324	.368	.435	.803	28			4.2	0.4	4.6	.084	.008	.092
2004	19	Eric Young	TEX	37	3.14	3.4%			81	127	3	3	0	.977			260	81	11	2	3	40	21	20	1	27	3	2	0	6	8	7	.312	.367	.404	.771	36			5.5	1.3	6.8	.068	.016	.084
2005	23	B.J. Surhoff	BAL	40	0.93	3.8%			86	148	5	2	0	.987			321	78	5	3	4	47	24	13	0	40	0	4	2	17	1	4	.243	.271	.315	.586	29			1.3	1.2	2.5	.015	.014	.029
2006	24	Jeff Conine	BAL	40	2.53	2.3%			56	84	5	1	1	.989			198	58	10	3	4	18	26	14	2	18	0	1	1	2	2	4	.293	.338	.434	.772	28			2.7	0.6	3.3	.048	.011	.059
2007	1	Raul Ibanez	SEA	35	34.85	19.1%			429	677	31	10	3	.986			1581	483	111	9	62	256	294	166	19	236	10	4	24	3	4	42	.306	.370	.505	.875	296			52.5	6.7	59.2	.122	.016	.138
2008	2	Raul Ibanez	SEA	36	26.24	16.2%			372	677	26	6	6	.992			1338	393	87	6	46	177	227	109	17	229	8	2	9	8	6	27	.294	.348	.471	.819	218			39.2	6.9	46.1	.105	.019	.124
2009	2	Johnny Damon	NY	35	26.32	6.1%			132	220	6	5	2	.978			531	152	35	2	24	106	81	66	1	90	1	2	1	12	0	8	.286	.366	.495	.861	101			19.1	1.6	20.7	.145	.012	.157
2010	8	Bobby Abreu	LA	36	8.81	3.4%			74	122	3	2	2	.984			266	80	24	1	10	54	29	46	2	60	1	0	1	12	3	5	.301	.404	.511	.915	58			10.1	1.0	11.1	.136	.014	.150
		Copyright © 2009-10 by Andre Lower
		Sources:
		All-Time Major League Handbook
		Win Shares Digital Update
		baseball-reference.com
		ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia