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2019 Projections (Preseason PECOTA - seasonal age 31)
PA AVG HR R RBI SB DRC+ WARP
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Birth Date12-17-1987
Height5' 8"
Weight210 lbs
Age36 years, 4 months, 8 days
BatsR
ThrowsR
-0.32015
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2018
0.32019
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WARP Summary

MLB Statistics

YEAR TEAM AGE G PA H 2B 3B HR BB SO HBP SB CS AVG OBP SLG DRC+ DRAA BRR FRAA BWARP
2012 MIA 24 93 316 84 11 3 2 21 58 2 7 0 .295 .342 .375 95 -1.8 2.1 4.1 1.4
2013 MIA 25 102 395 90 13 1 3 23 57 7 3 1 .249 .305 .316 81 -7.6 -1.8 8.1 0.9
2014 MIA 26 111 340 78 11 1 3 19 61 3 1 2 .252 .300 .323 76 -8.7 -1.3 0.4 -0.1
2015 MIA 27 55 94 17 3 1 0 1 18 2 0 0 .189 .215 .244 55 -4.6 -0.7 -0.1 -0.3
2016 NYA 28 9 23 5 2 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 .227 .261 .455 94 -0.1 0.0 -0.3 0.0
2019 SFN 31 81 228 71 13 1 4 10 49 1 0 1 .330 .360 .456 101 1.3 1.7 -2.0 0.9
Career4511396345537137524615114.269.315.35285-21.40.110.22.8

Statistics for All Levels

'opp' stats - Quality of opponents faced - have been moved and are available only as OPP_QUAL in the Statistics reports now.
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YEAR Team Lg LG G PA oppAVG oppOBP oppSLG BABIP BPF BRAA repLVL POS_ADJ DRC+ DRC+ SD FRAA BRR DRAA BWARP
2005 NWJ A- NYP 22 89 .246 .321 .349 .288 92 -1.8 1.0 0.3 97 0 2.5 -0.1 0.1 0.4
2005 JCY Rk APL 45 164 .253 .322 .380 .306 107 -0.7 4.0 1.8 103 0 3.8 1.3 0.8 1.1
2006 SCO A- NYP 44 167 .000 .000 .000 .311 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2007 QUD A MDW 82 316 .252 .321 .371 .279 91 -8.9 9.3 2 90 0 6.3 1.1 -3.0 1.6
2007 PMB A+ FSL 50 174 .270 .333 .410 .238 93 -14.4 5.4 2.4 50 0 2.0 1.7 -9.1 0.2
2008 PMB A+ FSL 107 445 .252 .325 .369 .333 96 -1.5 13.3 4.3 107 0 11.6 2.4 -3.8 2.8
2008 SFD AA TXS 26 120 .271 .343 .410 .310 89 -4.4 3.5 1.1 67 0 -1.3 -1.5 -6.5 -0.5
2009 SFD AA TXS 64 276 .263 .340 .392 .238 117 -18.8 7.8 1.3 48 0 -2.2 0.9 -19.5 -1.2
2009 MEM AAA PCL 52 178 .273 .335 .413 .374 83 7.4 5.2 2 106 0 -2.1 0.4 1.9 0.7
2010 MEM AAA PCL 102 344 .277 .347 .435 .274 96 -14.2 11.3 3.8 72 0 3.2 1.3 -11.7 0.7
2011 SFD AA TEX 27 104 .257 .319 .393 .253 111 -6.9 3.1 -0.1 69 0 2.7 -1.0 -3.0 0.2
2011 MEM AAA PCL 81 258 .279 .352 .433 .325 92 0.4 8.0 1 88 0 0.5 -0.6 -3.0 0.6
2012 MIA MLB NL 93 316 .246 .306 .383 .357 97 1.7 8.7 -0.3 95 9 4.1 2.1 -1.8 1.4
2012 NWO AAA PCL 36 160 .276 .345 .422 .322 87 -4.2 4.8 0.8 76 0 1.3 -0.4 -4.0 0.2
2012 COL int WBQ 3 15 .000 .000 .000 .417 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2013 MIA MLB NL 102 395 .251 .310 .385 .287 96 -11.4 10.4 -0.5 81 10 8.1 -1.8 -7.6 0.9
2013 JUP A+ FSL 4 14 .254 .327 .378 .500 88 1.3 0.4 0.1 143 0 -0.2 -1.0 0.3 0.0
2013 NWO AAA PCL 17 73 .242 .321 .374 .418 83 8.5 2.1 0.2 153 0 0.9 0.0 3.6 0.7
2014 MIA MLB NL 111 340 .247 .309 .376 .304 99 -6.9 8.8 -0.1 76 12 0.4 -1.3 -8.7 -0.1
2014 NWO AAA PCL 6 22 .264 .329 .397 .118 78 -4.9 0.7 0.1 22 0 1.2 0.1 -2.1 0.0
2015 MIA MLB NL 55 94 .257 .318 .409 .236 87 -6.7 2.5 0.4 55 10 -0.1 -0.7 -4.6 -0.3
2015 NWO AAA PCL 36 147 .265 .331 .394 .322 87 -7.1 4.1 0.5 68 0 -1.5 -0.8 -7.2 -0.5
2016 NYA MLB AL 9 23 .251 .327 .418 .222 106 -0.1 0.7 0 94 16 -0.3 0.0 -0.1 0.0
2016 SWB AAA INT 131 546 .255 .315 .377 .361 102 11 15.3 0.7 130 0 5.2 -3.4 10.8 2.9
2016 DOM Wnt CS 4 16 .000 .000 .000 .154 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2017 SWB AAA INT 99 405 .257 .323 .397 .324 100 -4.1 12.0 -0.8 108 0 4.8 -0.8 3.7 1.9
2018 OKL AAA PCL 81 340 .271 .335 .418 .348 99 8.6 10.0 3.5 108 0 -0.6 -1.2 4.3 1.6
2018 DOD Rk AZL 8 27 .245 .346 .337 .440 95 2.8 0.9 0.1 189 0 1.6 -0.1 2.4 0.5
2018 LIC Wnt DWL 7 32 .000 .000 .000 .400 93 2.4 0.9 0.1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2019 SFN MLB NL 81 228 .253 .322 .431 .409 95 6.9 6.9 0.8 101 11 -2.0 1.7 1.3 0.9
2019 SAC AAA PCL 24 97 .296 .372 .506 .351 99 1.5 3.3 0.2 112 0 0.7 -0.9 1.9 0.5

Statistics For All Levels

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Year Team lvl LG PA AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG ISO SF SH
2005 JCY Rk APL 164 145 27 38 4 0 0 42 11 14 22 3 2 .262 .337 .290 .028 1 1
2005 NWJ A- NYP 89 77 7 19 5 0 0 24 11 7 12 1 0 .247 .337 .312 .065 1 1
2006 SCO A- NYP 167 149 22 42 2 0 0 44 13 12 17 2 1 .282 .337 .295 .013 3 3
2007 PMB A+ FSL 174 163 17 34 2 1 0 38 11 8 21 0 1 .209 .249 .233 .025 1 1
2007 QUD A MDW 316 292 31 75 8 0 0 83 30 14 25 5 2 .257 .303 .284 .027 2 2
2008 PMB A+ FSL 445 402 56 115 15 4 1 141 31 37 63 1 2 .286 .346 .351 .065 4 4
2008 SFD AA TXS 120 106 11 28 5 0 1 36 11 5 22 2 1 .264 .311 .340 .075 4 4
2009 SFD AA TXS 276 251 27 52 7 1 1 64 16 21 39 1 0 .207 .268 .255 .048 3 3
2009 MEM AAA PCL 178 164 22 52 7 0 0 59 14 10 27 3 0 .317 .360 .360 .043 2 2
2010 MEM AAA PCL 344 330 41 84 12 1 4 110 27 11 35 2 1 .255 .282 .333 .079 1 1
2011 SFD AA TEX 104 101 5 23 7 0 2 36 10 3 16 0 0 .228 .250 .356 .129 0 0
2011 MEM AAA PCL 258 229 22 65 21 1 1 91 23 19 35 2 0 .284 .336 .397 .114 4 5
2012 COL int WBQ 15 13 3 5 1 1 0 8 3 1 1 0 0 .385 .467 .615 .231 0 0
2012 MIA MLB NL 316 285 29 84 11 3 2 107 28 21 58 7 0 .295 .342 .375 .081 5 3
2012 NWO AAA PCL 160 141 14 37 7 1 0 46 14 10 27 4 0 .262 .327 .326 .064 1 4
2013 MIA MLB NL 395 361 33 90 13 1 3 114 34 23 57 3 1 .249 .305 .316 .066 2 2
2013 NWO AAA PCL 73 66 8 25 3 1 2 36 9 4 11 0 0 .379 .411 .545 .167 2 0
2013 JUP A+ FSL 14 14 0 6 1 0 0 7 1 0 2 0 0 .429 .429 .500 .071 0 0
2014 NWO AAA PCL 22 21 2 2 1 0 0 3 3 0 5 0 0 .095 .091 .143 .048 1
2014 MIA MLB NL 340 310 26 78 11 1 3 100 28 19 61 1 2 .252 .300 .323 .071 1
2015 MIA MLB NL 94 90 6 17 3 1 0 22 7 1 18 0 0 .189 .215 .244 .056 0 1
2015 NWO AAA PCL 147 140 10 38 3 0 0 41 6 4 24 0 1 .271 .288 .293 .021 2 1
2016 DOM Wnt CS 16 16 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 .125 .125 .125 .000 0 0
2016 NYA MLB AL 23 22 5 5 2 0 1 10 2 1 3 0 0 .227 .261 .455 .227 0 0
2016 SWB AAA INT 546 511 64 163 33 3 7 223 67 25 79 2 1 .319 .349 .436 .117 7 1
2017 SWB AAA INT 405 373 44 105 29 0 4 146 48 24 60 1 0 .282 .329 .391 .110 3 1
2018 DOD Rk AZL 27 25 3 11 1 0 0 12 3 0 1 0 0 .440 .444 .480 .040 1 0
2018 OKL AAA PCL 340 314 38 100 21 1 4 135 43 16 40 4 1 .318 .353 .430 .111 6 0
2018 LIC Wnt DWL 32 29 5 10 2 1 0 14 3 2 5 0 0 .345 .375 .483 .138 1 0
2019 SAC AAA PCL 97 87 12 28 4 0 2 38 16 9 11 0 0 .322 .392 .437 .115 0 0
2019 SFN MLB NL 228 215 27 71 13 1 4 98 23 10 49 0 1 .330 .360 .456 .126 2 0

Plate Discipline

YEAR Pits Zone% Swing% Contact% Z-Swing% O-Swing% Z-Contact% O-Contact% SwStr% CSAA
2012 1225 0.5151 0.4571 0.8143 0.5943 0.3114 0.8960 0.6486 0.1857 -0.0063
2013 1438 0.5028 0.4882 0.8276 0.6556 0.3189 0.9114 0.6535 0.1724 -0.0034
2014 1279 0.5309 0.4566 0.8390 0.5876 0.3083 0.8947 0.7189 0.1610 -0.0037
2015 348 0.5029 0.5115 0.7809 0.6171 0.4046 0.8889 0.6143 0.2191 0.0066
2016 88 0.5000 0.4205 0.8378 0.6136 0.2273 0.8889 0.7000 0.1622 0.0000
2019 896 0.4743 0.5078 0.8088 0.6494 0.3800 0.8877 0.6872 0.1912 0.0000
Career52740.50760.47710.82120.62060.32910.89790.67210.1788-0.0028

Injury History  —  No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Date On Date Off Transaction Days Games Side Body Part Injury Severity Surgery Date Reaggravation
2013-05-04 2013-06-10 15-DL 37 32 Left Trunk Strain Ribcage - -
2013-03-20 2013-03-27 Camp 7 0 - Low Back Tightness - -
2010-08-26 2010-09-04 Minors 9 0 Not Disclosed -

Compensation

Year Team Salary
2023 MIN $2,000,000
2022 SFN $4,500,000
2021 SFN $3,250,000
2020 SFN $1,375,000
2019 SFN $
2018 LAN $
2017 NYA $
2016 NYA $
2015 MIA $531,500
2014 MIA $
2013 MIA $491,500
2012 MIA $
YearsDescriptionSalary
6 yrPrevious$12,148,000
6 yrTotal$12,148,000

 

Service TimeAgentContract Status
8 y 81 dMDR Sports1 year (2024)

Details
  • 1 year (2024). Signed by San Diego as a free agent 4/15/24 (minor-league contract).
  • 1 year/$2M (2023). Signed by Minnesota as a free agent 2/21/23. Performance bonuses: $25,000 each for 325, 375 plate appearances. $50,000 for 425 PAs. $75,000 each for 475, 502 PAs.
  • 1 year/$4.5M (2022). Signed by Cincinnati as a free agent 3/16/22.
  • 1 year/$3.25M (2021). Lost arbitration with San Francisco 2/18/21 ($3.9M-$3.25M).
  • 1 year/$1.375M (2020). Re-signed by San Francisco 12/3/19 (avoided arbitration).
  • 1 year (2019). Signed by San Francisco as a free agent 1/13/19 (minor-league contract). Contract selected by San Francisco 5/7/19.
  • 1 year (2018). Signed by LA Dodgers as a free agent 1/19/18 (minor-league contract).
  • 1 year (2017). Re-signed by NY Yankees as a free agent 1/17 (minor-league contract).
  • 1 year (2016). Signed by NY Yankees as a free agent 1/8/16 (minor-league contract). Contract selected by NY Yankees 9/18/16.
  • 1 year/$531,500 (2015). Re-signed by Miami 3/3/15. Sent outright to Triple-A by Miami 10/12/15.
  • 1 year/$511,500 (2014). Re-signed by Miami 3/1/14.
  • 1 year/$491,500 (2013). Re-signed by Miami 2/13.
  • 1 year (2012). Signed by Miami as a free agent 11/22/11 (minor-league contract). Contract purchased by Miami 5/20/12.
  • Signed by St. Louis 2005 as an amateur free agent from Colombia.

2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT PA R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG DRC+ VORP FRAA WARP
90o 54 15 3 0 1 2 9 0 0 .294 .333 .412 102 0.0 2B 0, 0.0
80o 36 10 2 0 1 1 6 0 0 .294 .314 .441 95 0.0 2B 0, 0.0
70o 23 5 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 .238 .273 .286 90 0.0 2B 0, 0.0
60o 12 3 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 .273 .273 .364 86 0.0 2B 0, 0.0
50o 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 82 0.0 2B 0, 0.0
Weighted Mean410000100.250.250.250830.02B 0,0.0

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DateQuestionAnswer
2013-01-22 13:00:00 (link to chat)Thanks for the chat, R.J. Please rank the following infielders by 2013 fantasy upside: Josh Rutledge, Logan Forsythe, Jed Lowrie, Everth Cabrera, Chris Nelson, Adeiny Hechavarria, and Donovan Solano.
(Todd from Oakland)		Hey Todd,

I'm not too good at fantasy (as Marc Normandin can attest) but I'd rank 'em something like:

Lowrie - Hurt often but probably the best hitter of the bunch
Cabrera - Should swipe a ton of bags and he has the positional advantage over Forsythe
Rutledge - Not as good as last year but he can hit and that park will help
Forsythe - Park hurts
Nelson - Park should help
Solano - I think I undersold him last year, but I don't know that I can put him higher
Hechavarria - Not sold that he's a fantasy contributor (R.J. Anderson)


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