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Roberto Clemente, the all-time leader in games played as a right fielder. Games played (most often abbreviated as G or GP) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated (in any capacity); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.
Harry Hooper is the all-time leader in career assists as a right fielder with 333; [1] [2] [3] he is the only right fielder with more than 300 career assists. Jason Heyward, who had 69 assists through the 2024 season to place him tied for 110th all-time, is the leader among active players.
For most of his career, Kaline played in the outfield, mainly as a right fielder where he won ten Gold Glove Awards and was known for his strong throwing arm. [2] He was selected to 18 All-Star Games , including selections each year between 1955 and 1967.
[18] According to The Sporting Life, Shafer "was for years considered the best man in his position." [13] In 2001, statistician Bill James ranked Shafer as the 99th greatest right fielder of all time. [19] After his baseball career ended, Shafer worked at a race track as a book-writer. [20]
His 191 triples are 10th most all time. [31] Waner recorded one six-hit game, 5 five-hit games, and 55 four-hit games in his career. [32] Stengel once stated that Waner was the best right fielder in National League history. [33]
Right-handed pitchers generally record more putouts due to their facing first base after the follow-through of their pitching motion; the top 24 leaders are all right-handed. Greg Maddux is the all-time leader in career putouts by a pitcher with 546; [9] [10] [11] he is the only pitcher to record more than 400 career putouts.
The Major League Baseball All-Time Team was chosen in 1997 to comprise the top manager and top player in each of 13 positional categories across Major ... Right fielder:
His 1894 ratio of 1.44 RBIs per game remains the all-time major league record. [12] Also, his 28 triples was the second highest total in major league history up to that time and remains the fifth highest of all time. [25] Thompson also led the National League with a career-high .696 slugging percentage, [6] and he hit for the cycle on August 17 ...