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Portrait of José Oquendo

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Career Summary
Years PA AVG OBP SLG DRC+ WARP
17 3737 .256 .346 .317 93 9.9
Birth Date7-4-1963
Height5' 10"
Weight160 lbs
Age61 years, 7 months, 27 days
BatsB
ThrowsR
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
1983 NYN 19 120 353 70 7 0 1 19 60 2 8 9 .213 .260 .244 58 -16.7 -1.5 0.7 -0.4
1984 NYN 20 81 211 42 5 0 0 15 26 2 10 1 .222 .284 .249 71 -6.4 1.3 -0.6 0.3
1986 SLN 22 76 158 41 4 1 0 15 20 0 2 3 .297 .359 .341 85 -2.4 1.9 -1.9 0.3
1987 SLN 23 116 312 71 9 0 1 54 29 0 4 4 .286 .408 .335 103 1.4 3.3 4.5 1.8
1988 SLN 24 148 518 125 10 1 7 52 40 0 4 6 .277 .350 .350 105 3.3 -3.8 1.8 1.7
1989 SLN 25 163 650 162 28 7 1 79 59 0 3 5 .291 .375 .372 110 8.6 -3.0 -1.1 2.3
1990 SLN 26 156 553 118 17 5 1 74 46 0 1 1 .252 .350 .316 92 -4.4 -2.8 -4.1 0.3
1991 SLN 27 127 441 88 11 4 1 67 48 1 1 2 .240 .357 .301 94 -1.8 1.7 5.8 1.9
1992 SLN 28 14 40 9 3 1 0 5 3 0 0 0 .257 .350 .400 92 -0.2 -0.8 0.1 0.0
1993 SLN 29 46 89 15 0 0 0 12 8 0 0 0 .205 .314 .205 82 -1.7 -0.3 1.7 0.3
1994 SLN 30 55 152 34 2 2 0 21 16 0 1 1 .264 .364 .310 89 -1.7 0.0 -2.3 0.2
1995 SLN 31 88 260 46 8 3 2 35 21 0 1 1 .209 .316 .300 90 -2.4 0.3 5.4 1.2
Career11903737821104241444837653533.256.346.31793-24.4-3.610.09.9

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
1979 GRH A- NWN 64 257 .000 .000 .000 .278 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1980 LYN A+ CRL 109 363 .000 .000 .000 .200 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1981 LYN A+ CRL 124 472 .000 .000 .000 .291 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1982 TID AAA INT 114 393 .000 .000 .000 .239 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1983 NYN MLB NL 120 353 .259 .318 .377 .257 96 -26.7 9.6 4.4 58 7 0.7 -1.5 -16.7 -0.4
1983 TID AAA INT 13 42 .000 .000 .000 .138 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1984 NYN MLB NL 81 211 .258 .318 .370 .255 95 -9.5 5.7 2.6 71 13 -0.6 1.3 -6.4 0.3
1984 TID AAA INT 38 120 .000 .000 .000 .172 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1985 LOU AAA AA 133 432 .000 .000 .000 .224 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1986 SLN MLB NL 76 158 .254 .319 .378 .339 98 0.8 4.4 0.9 85 12 -1.9 1.9 -2.4 0.3
1987 SLN MLB NL 116 312 .260 .324 .400 .315 94 7.4 9.2 -0.4 103 10 4.5 3.3 1.4 1.8
1988 SLN MLB NL 148 518 .249 .308 .362 .290 97 5.9 13.5 0.7 105 8 1.8 -3.8 3.3 1.7
1989 SLN MLB NL 163 650 .250 .313 .370 .319 98 13.1 17.0 -0.4 110 9 -1.1 -3.0 8.6 2.3
1990 SLN MLB NL 156 553 .257 .316 .386 .274 98 -6.4 14.8 -0.5 92 10 -4.1 -2.8 -4.4 0.3
1991 SLN MLB NL 127 441 .252 .315 .373 .272 98 -1.3 11.9 0.3 94 12 5.8 1.7 -1.8 1.9
1992 SLN MLB NL 14 40 .254 .319 .379 .281 103 0.4 1.0 0.2 92 16 0.1 -0.8 -0.2 0.0
1992 ARK AA TXS 2 7 .000 .000 .000 .429 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1992 LOU AAA AA 20 76 .000 .000 .000 .279 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1993 SLN MLB NL 46 89 .271 .330 .401 .227 102 -6.4 2.6 0.7 82 11 1.7 -0.3 -1.7 0.3
1994 SLN MLB NL 55 152 .268 .329 .410 .298 101 -4.1 4.6 1.1 89 12 -2.3 0.0 -1.7 0.2
1995 SLN MLB NL 88 260 .262 .327 .404 .222 98 -9.5 7.8 0.8 90 11 5.4 0.3 -2.4 1.2

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
1979 GRH A- NWN 257 220 24 50 8 0 1 61 14 33 45 9 6 .227 .328 .277 .050 2 2
1980 LYN A+ CRL 363 301 38 51 10 3 0 67 26 47 59 14 6 .169 .271 .223 .053 13 13
1981 LYN A+ CRL 472 393 59 98 8 6 0 118 38 71 61 38 14 .249 .363 .300 .051 5 5
1982 TID AAA INT 393 337 40 72 8 3 0 86 22 41 50 24 16 .214 .288 .255 .042 14 14
1983 TID AAA INT 42 34 3 4 0 0 0 4 3 5 6 2 0 .118 .225 .118 .000 1 1
1983 NYN MLB NL 353 328 29 70 7 0 1 80 17 19 60 8 9 .213 .260 .244 .030 1 3
1984 TID AAA INT 120 113 8 18 1 0 1 22 8 5 14 8 0 .159 .200 .195 .035 1 1
1984 NYN MLB NL 211 189 23 42 5 0 0 47 10 15 26 10 1 .222 .284 .249 .026 2 3
1985 LOU AAA AA 432 384 38 81 8 1 1 94 30 24 41 13 4 .211 .257 .245 .034 15 15
1986 SLN MLB NL 158 138 20 41 4 1 0 47 13 15 20 2 3 .297 .359 .341 .043 3 2
1987 SLN MLB NL 312 248 43 71 9 0 1 83 24 54 29 4 4 .286 .408 .335 .048 4 6
1988 SLN MLB NL 518 451 36 125 10 1 7 158 46 52 40 4 6 .277 .350 .350 .073 3 12
1989 SLN MLB NL 650 556 59 162 28 7 1 207 48 79 59 3 5 .291 .375 .372 .081 8 7
1990 SLN MLB NL 553 469 38 118 17 5 1 148 37 74 46 1 1 .252 .350 .316 .064 5 5
1991 SLN MLB NL 441 366 37 88 11 4 1 110 26 67 48 1 2 .240 .357 .301 .060 3 4
1992 LOU AAA AA 76 64 8 17 2 0 0 19 6 11 3 0 1 .266 .373 .297 .031 0 0
1992 SLN MLB NL 40 35 3 9 3 1 0 14 3 5 3 0 0 .257 .350 .400 .143 0 0
1992 ARK AA TXS 7 7 3 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 .429 .429 .429 .000 0 0
1993 SLN MLB NL 89 73 7 15 0 0 0 15 4 12 8 0 0 .205 .314 .205 .000 1 3
1994 SLN MLB NL 152 129 13 34 2 2 0 40 9 21 16 1 1 .264 .364 .310 .047 1 1
1995 SLN MLB NL 260 220 31 46 8 3 2 66 17 35 21 1 1 .209 .316 .300 .091 1 4

Plate Discipline

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Injury History  —  No longer being updated

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

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2019 Preseason Forecast

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BP Chats

DateQuestionAnswer
2014-09-29 14:00:00 (link to chat)Give me one prediction for every manager opening.
(manny99 from Do you care?)		Completely guessing on all of these, with some guesses being more educated than others, but...
Rangers: Tim Bogar keeps the job
Astros: A.J. Hinch
Diamondbacks: Jose Oquendo
Twins: someone internal, like Paul Molitor (Daniel Rathman)
2014-09-29 14:00:00 (link to chat)Hey, Diamondbacks fan here. Any idea who might our new manager be?
(Mike from Phoenix)		Said this earlier, can't get past the feeling that the La Russa connection will pave the way for Jose Oquendo. (Daniel Rathman)
2014-05-28 14:15:00 (link to chat)Why hasn't someone hired Jose Oquendo away from the Cardinals yet?
(Michael from STL)		I don't know. Maybe he likes it so much in St. Louis that his demands are always higher than other quality managerial candidates'. Maybe he hasn't interviewed well. Maybe he just hasn't happened to say what the people who were thinking of hiring him were hoping to hear. Would be nice to see him get a shot, since we've been hearing that he deserves one for quite some time. (Ben Lindbergh)
2011-12-20 13:00:00 (link to chat)Best baseball-themed Christmas present you've ever got?
(Toby from Target)		Hmm. I'm going to whiff on this, probably. It's hard to remember former gifts on demand. A family friend once gave me a piece of paper that Juan Marichal had signed. Just a scrap, about as big as my pinkie, because that was all the person had with him at the time. I really like that present because it was so worthless, materially speaking. When I was a kid collecting baseball cards, memorabilia became very money-based, like I had this deluded sense that I was investing and that I was somehow wealthy because I got a $7 John Smoltz rookie card in a pack. Baseball-card collecting was fun, but it was a particular sort of laborious fun. That Juan Marichal scrap was just 100 percent unsellable, though, so I never had to worry about it the way I worried about my cards, or about other memorabilia I had. I could just look at it.

One year, I got in trouble and my parents took away all my baseball cards as punishment. I managed to smuggle one card free (Jose Oquendo, 1988 Topps), but the rest were taken and hidden. For Christmas, they gave me my cards back. That was amazing at the time, but now that I think about heyyyyyyyy that present sort of sucks.

For my birthday this year, I got this shirt. I like it: http://www.tauntr.com/content/just-fire-it-through-internet-shirt

What about everybody else? Lay 'em on me. (Sam Miller)
2011-11-16 13:30:00 (link to chat)Same leadoff Q as for Derek yesterday: what's your take on the Matheny managerial signing? (Incidentally, are we ever going to get a full-blown Transaction Analysis on this one? I'm really surprised not to have seen that. Or did I miss it?)
(Bill from New Mexico)		Bill, thanks for asking--R.J. has been doing the bulk of the TA stuff as I try to clear the last book-related work off my plate, and I haven't been able to get to Matheny. I'm not sure how much you're missing, though. I wrote a long TA about Robin Ventura after he was hired, and while I hope it was an enjoyable read, I don't know if I or anyone else came away from it with a much firmer handle on how Ventura is actually going to manage and impact his new team. There's just no in-game record to go on. It does seem curious that they went with an in-house guy who wasn't Jose Oquendo, but Matheny sounds like a capable choice, to the extent that we can tell. Hell, every game on TV he played in during the second half of his career involved some broadcaster saying, "This guy is going to be a manager someday," so at the very least, it's nice to see all that blather amount to something. (Ben Lindbergh)
2010-11-16 13:00:00 (link to chat)Oh, come on, go out on a limb and predict SOME kind of surprise. We won't hold it against you if you're wrong. Really. Trust me. For starters, will there be anything yet on the next Mets manager? (If it's Jose Oquendo, who all jumps ship from the Cardinals?)
(BillJ from New Mexico)		I don't have any inside info on the Mets' managerial search, but I'd expect there to be some news by then, since teams prefer not to leave leadership questions unresolved into the heart of winter. Fine, you want a surprise? While holding court in the lobby of the Swan and Dolphin Resort, Scott Boras will demand less money for a client. You heard it here first. (Ben Lindbergh)


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Advanced Catching Metrics

Year lvl CSAA Framing Runs Blocking Chances EPAA Blocking Runs SB Attempts SRAA TRAA Throwing Runs FRAA Adj. FRAA
1988 mlb -.001 0.0 1 .000 0.0 0 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 1.8

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