What does FC mean in BASEBALL

FC stands for Fielder's Choice, which is an abbreviation used in baseball to denote plays where it cannot be determined if the fielder made a putout or an assist on a play.

When scoring a Fielder's Choice, the batter is usually credited with reaching base safely, even though no hit was recorded. The fielder who made the play gets credited with either an assist or a putout depending on whether he successfully completed the play himself or had assistance from another fielder.

Typically, when there is a ground ball or fly ball and two fielders are converging on the ball at roughly equal speed, neither one is able to make an obvious catch so the outcome of the play can't be easily determined. In those cases, it's scored as Fielder's Choice.

If multiple runners advance due to a fielder's choice, it depends on what happened and who made the throw. Generally credit goes to whoever fielded the ball and threw to advance runners further down the bases than they had initially reached before being forced back due to other runners already occupying their base paths ahead of them.

No, fielding percentage does not count errors for fielders choices since these types of plays cannot be ruled as errors due to their subjective nature as it cannot be definitively determined who exactly caused any potential misplays on these types of plays. As such these types of plays are not counted against fielding percentages.