Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Willie Mays, the all-time leader in games played as a center 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.
The position of the center fielder. A center fielder, abbreviated CF, is the outfielder in baseball who plays defense in center field – the baseball and softball fielding position between left field and right field. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the center fielder is assigned the number 8. [1]
In the sport of baseball, each of the nine players on a team is assigned a particular fielding position when it is their turn to play defense. Each position conventionally has an associated number, for use in scorekeeping by the official scorer: 1 (), 2 (), 3 (first baseman), 4 (second baseman), 5 (third baseman), 6 (), 7 (left fielder), 8 (center fielder), and 9 (right fielder). [1]
Michael Anthony Taylor [1] (born March 26, 1991) is an American professional baseball center fielder for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Washington Nationals, Kansas City Royals, Minnesota Twins, and Pittsburgh Pirates.
Boyce Cedric Mullins II [1] (born October 1, 1994) is an American professional baseball center fielder for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2018. He was an All-Star and won the Silver Slugger Award in 2021.
Pages in category "Major League Baseball center fielders" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 530 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Josh Gibson slides into home during the East-West All-Star Game of the Negro Leagues at Comiskey Park in Chicago, on August 13, 1944. With his statistics set to become officially part of MLB ...
The center fielder normally plays behind the shortstop and second baseman, who play in or near the infield; unlike catchers and most infielders (excepting first basemen), who are virtually exclusively right-handed, center fielders can be either right- or left-handed.