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Barry Bonds, the all-time leader in games played as a left 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.
Barry Bonds' 158 career assists are the most by a National League left fielder since 1920. Alfonso Soriano had 22 assists for the Nationals in 2006, the most by a left fielder since 1983. Gary Ward's 24 assists in 1983 are the most by a left fielder since 1936. Stats updated as of the end of the 2024 season.
Barry Bonds is the all-time leader in career putouts as a left fielder with 5,226. [36] [37] Rickey Henderson (5,215) [38] is second all-time, and the only other player with over 5,000 career putouts as a left fielder. Andrew Benintendi, the active leader and 94th all-time in putouts by a left fielder. Rickey Henderson holds the American League ...
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In 2001, James ranked Musial the tenth-greatest baseball player in history, and the second-best left fielder of all time. [179] According to Baseball-Reference.com, he ranks fifth all-time among hitters on the Black Ink Test, and third all-time on the Gray Ink Test—measures designed to compare players of different eras.
The position of the left fielder. In baseball, a left fielder, abbreviated LF, is an outfielder who plays defense in left field. Left field is the area of the outfield to the left of a person standing at home plate and facing towards the pitcher's mound. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the left fielder is assigned the ...
One of the best defensive players of his generation, Jones enters his fifth year on the Hall of Fame ballot having seen a huge bump in support. Andruw Jones was one of the best center fielders of ...
Though left fielders generally receive fewer fielding chances than other outfielders, Veach regularly covered more ground and accepted more chances than the league average for all outfielders. His 1921 range factor of 2.72 is one of the highest season totals for a left fielder in Major League history. His 384 putouts in 1921 and 26 assists in ...