List of Major League Baseball career assists as a third baseman leaders

Brooks Robinson, the all-time leader in career assists by a third baseman.

In baseball, an assist (denoted by A) is a defensive statistic, baseball being one of the few sports in which the defensive team controls the ball. An assist is credited to every defensive player who fields or touches the ball (after it has been hit by the batter) prior to the recording of a putout, even if the contact was unintentional. For example, if a ball strikes a player's leg and bounces off him to another fielder, who tags the baserunner, the first player is credited with an assist. A fielder can receive a maximum of one assist per out recorded. An assist is also credited if a putout would have occurred, had another fielder not committed an error. For example, a shortstop might field a ground ball cleanly, but the first baseman might drop his throw. In this case, an error would be charged to the first baseman, and the shortstop would be credited with an assist.

A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run. In the scoring system used to record defensive plays, the third baseman is assigned the number '5'.

Brooks Robinson^[1][2][3] is the all-time leader in career assists as a shortstop with 6,205. Robinson is the only third baseman with more than 6,000 career assists.

Key[]

List[]

Evan Longoria, the active leader in assists as a third baseman and 40th all-time

• Stats updated as of the end of the 2021 season.

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• "Career Leaders & Records for Assists as 3B". Baseball-Reference.com.