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Career Summary
Years PA AVG OBP SLG DRC+ WARP
23 10861 .279 .341 .463 121 46.4
Birth Date5-14-1942
Height6' 2"
Weight205 lbs
Age81 years, 11 months, 11 days
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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
1964 CIN 22 12 28 2 1 0 0 3 9 0 0 0 .080 .179 .120 64 -1.0 0.0 0.2 0.0
1965 CIN 23 104 307 73 14 4 12 21 67 2 0 2 .260 .315 .466 108 4.3 -2.9 2.6 0.8
1966 CIN 24 99 278 68 10 4 4 14 44 2 1 0 .265 .304 .381 86 -3.5 -1.6 -2.5 -0.5
1967 CIN 25 156 644 174 28 7 26 33 102 4 0 3 .290 .328 .490 129 22.7 0.7 -19.8 2.3
1968 CIN 26 160 690 176 25 7 18 51 92 6 3 2 .282 .338 .430 129 25.6 3.5 1.3 6.0
1969 CIN 27 160 704 185 31 2 37 63 131 2 4 2 .294 .357 .526 140 40.4 -3.4 8.0 7.2
1970 CIN 28 158 681 186 28 6 40 83 134 4 8 3 .317 .401 .589 157 52.9 0.4 -8.0 7.0
1971 CIN 29 158 664 164 22 3 25 51 120 1 4 1 .269 .325 .438 117 17.5 -3.7 -1.8 3.4
1972 CIN 30 136 576 146 33 7 21 55 121 0 4 2 .283 .349 .497 130 20.8 3.7 -1.1 3.3
1973 CIN 31 151 647 177 33 3 27 74 117 3 3 1 .314 .393 .527 152 41.7 0.2 -10.9 4.0
1974 CIN 32 158 667 158 28 2 28 61 112 2 1 3 .265 .331 .460 122 20.1 -2.0 -4.8 2.1
1975 CIN 33 137 574 144 28 3 20 54 101 3 1 2 .282 .350 .466 119 15.8 -1.8 3.6 2.5
1976 CIN 34 139 586 137 32 6 19 50 88 5 10 5 .260 .328 .452 118 13.7 -1.7 5.8 2.6
1977 MON 35 154 633 158 32 6 19 63 111 2 4 3 .283 .352 .463 119 16.9 -3.5 4.8 2.5
1978 MON 36 148 590 158 38 3 14 38 104 2 2 0 .290 .336 .449 112 9.6 -0.1 4.5 2.1
1979 MON 37 132 537 132 29 4 13 38 82 3 2 1 .270 .322 .425 101 2.2 -3.2 0.8 0.5
1980 BOS 38 151 635 161 31 3 25 41 93 1 1 0 .275 .320 .467 115 12.7 -7.5 -5.4 0.6
1981 BOS 39 84 336 77 11 3 9 27 66 0 0 0 .252 .310 .395 95 -2.3 -3.5 0.4 -0.2
1982 BOS 40 69 215 51 14 2 6 19 48 0 0 1 .260 .326 .444 97 -0.2 0.1 0.1 0.3
1983 PHI 41 91 285 61 11 2 6 28 57 1 1 0 .241 .316 .372 84 -5.0 -1.6 -2.3 -0.6
1984 CIN 42 71 149 33 6 1 2 11 21 0 0 0 .241 .295 .343 82 -2.7 -0.3 -2.2 -0.3
1985 CIN 43 72 207 60 8 0 6 22 22 0 0 2 .328 .396 .470 124 6.5 -0.6 0.1 0.9
1986 CIN 44 77 228 51 12 1 2 25 25 0 0 0 .255 .333 .355 93 -1.5 0.4 -2.9 -0.1
Career2777108612732505793799251867434933.279.341.463121307.2-28.3-29.646.4

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
1964 CIN MLB NL 12 28 .243 .305 .355 .125 108 -3 0.7 -0.4 64 11 0.2 0.0 -1.0 0.0
1965 CIN MLB NL 104 307 .247 .307 .367 .300 105 2.9 7.8 -4.5 108 11 2.6 -2.9 4.3 0.8
1966 CIN MLB NL 99 278 .257 .308 .374 .302 107 -4.3 7.1 -4 86 13 -2.5 -1.6 -3.5 -0.5
1967 CIN MLB NL 156 644 .248 .306 .362 .309 105 22.7 15.5 0.8 129 9 -19.8 0.7 22.7 2.3
1968 CIN MLB NL 160 690 .243 .295 .339 .303 99 18.7 15.2 2.1 129 10 1.3 3.5 25.6 6.0
1969 CIN MLB NL 160 704 .251 .314 .369 .316 105 35.7 18.1 2.5 140 10 8.0 -3.4 40.4 7.2
1970 CIN MLB NL 158 681 .260 .328 .399 .348 102 55.4 18.5 2.2 157 10 -8.0 0.4 52.9 7.0
1971 CIN MLB NL 158 664 .251 .311 .365 .298 97 13.4 16.3 1.2 117 12 -1.8 -3.7 17.5 3.4
1972 CIN MLB NL 136 576 .250 .315 .369 .330 96 33.9 13.5 -8.7 130 10 -1.1 3.7 20.8 3.3
1973 CIN MLB NL 151 647 .253 .316 .373 .352 99 42 17.0 -10.9 152 8 -10.9 0.2 41.7 4.0
1974 CIN MLB NL 158 667 .254 .322 .366 .280 99 18.2 17.3 -11.1 122 9 -4.8 -2.0 20.1 2.1
1975 CIN MLB NL 137 574 .259 .324 .371 .313 102 16.6 15.1 -9.6 119 9 3.6 -1.8 15.8 2.5
1976 CIN MLB NL 139 586 .254 .316 .358 .278 104 11.7 14.8 -9.3 118 9 5.8 -1.7 13.7 2.6
1977 MON MLB NL 154 633 .260 .321 .396 .317 98 21.3 17.7 -11.2 119 9 4.8 -3.5 16.9 2.5
1978 MON MLB NL 148 590 .254 .314 .373 .334 98 16.6 15.3 -9.8 112 11 4.5 -0.1 9.6 2.1
1979 MON MLB NL 132 537 .263 .322 .388 .297 97 3.6 15.0 -9.6 101 10 0.8 -3.2 2.2 0.5
1980 BOS MLB AL 151 635 .272 .329 .401 .286 107 9.2 17.1 -10.9 115 9 -5.4 -7.5 12.7 0.6
1981 BOS MLB AL 84 336 .258 .319 .373 .291 106 -1.2 8.5 -5.4 95 13 0.4 -3.5 -2.3 -0.2
1982 BOS MLB AL 69 215 .263 .323 .401 .317 106 1.2 5.8 -3.4 97 14 0.1 0.1 -0.2 0.3
1983 PHI MLB NL 91 285 .261 .323 .386 .285 102 -1.6 7.7 -4.5 84 11 -2.3 -1.6 -5.0 -0.6
1984 CIN MLB NL 71 149 .256 .315 .369 .270 99 -5.2 4.0 -1.8 82 13 -2.2 -0.3 -2.7 -0.3
1985 CIN MLB NL 72 207 .254 .315 .378 .344 93 12.1 5.6 -3.2 124 14 0.1 -0.6 6.5 0.9
1986 CIN MLB NL 77 228 .254 .322 .377 .278 105 -0.5 6.3 -3.6 93 9 -2.9 0.4 -1.5 -0.1

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
1964 CIN MLB NL 28 25 1 2 1 0 0 3 1 3 9 0 0 .080 .179 .120 .040 0 0
1965 CIN MLB NL 307 281 40 73 14 4 12 131 47 21 67 0 2 .260 .315 .466 .206 1 2
1966 CIN MLB NL 278 257 25 68 10 4 4 98 39 14 44 1 0 .265 .304 .381 .117 3 2
1967 CIN MLB NL 644 600 78 174 28 7 26 294 102 33 102 0 3 .290 .328 .490 .200 7 0
1968 CIN MLB NL 690 625 93 176 25 7 18 269 92 51 92 3 2 .282 .338 .430 .149 7 1
1969 CIN MLB NL 704 629 103 185 31 2 37 331 122 63 131 4 2 .294 .357 .526 .232 7 3
1970 CIN MLB NL 681 587 107 186 28 6 40 346 129 83 134 8 3 .317 .401 .589 .273 7 0
1971 CIN MLB NL 664 609 72 164 22 3 25 267 91 51 120 4 1 .269 .325 .438 .169 3 0
1972 CIN MLB NL 576 515 64 146 33 7 21 256 90 55 121 4 2 .283 .349 .497 .214 6 0
1973 CIN MLB NL 647 564 73 177 33 3 27 297 101 74 117 3 1 .314 .393 .527 .213 6 0
1974 CIN MLB NL 667 596 81 158 28 2 28 274 101 61 112 1 3 .265 .331 .460 .195 8 0
1975 CIN MLB NL 574 511 74 144 28 3 20 238 109 54 101 1 2 .282 .350 .466 .184 6 0
1976 CIN MLB NL 586 527 77 137 32 6 19 238 91 50 88 10 5 .260 .328 .452 .192 4 0
1977 MON MLB NL 633 559 71 158 32 6 19 259 91 63 111 4 3 .283 .352 .463 .181 9 0
1978 MON MLB NL 590 544 63 158 38 3 14 244 78 38 104 2 0 .290 .336 .449 .158 5 1
1979 MON MLB NL 537 489 58 132 29 4 13 208 73 38 82 2 1 .270 .322 .425 .155 7 0
1980 BOS MLB AL 635 585 73 161 31 3 25 273 105 41 93 1 0 .275 .320 .467 .191 8 0
1981 BOS MLB AL 336 306 35 77 11 3 9 121 39 27 66 0 0 .252 .310 .395 .144 3 0
1982 BOS MLB AL 215 196 18 51 14 2 6 87 31 19 48 0 1 .260 .326 .444 .184 0 0
1983 PHI MLB NL 285 253 18 61 11 2 6 94 43 28 57 1 0 .241 .316 .372 .130 3 0
1984 CIN MLB NL 149 137 9 33 6 1 2 47 15 11 21 0 0 .241 .295 .343 .102 1 0
1985 CIN MLB NL 207 183 25 60 8 0 6 86 33 22 22 0 2 .328 .396 .470 .142 2 0
1986 CIN MLB NL 228 200 14 51 12 1 2 71 29 25 25 0 0 .255 .333 .355 .100 3 0

Plate Discipline

YEAR Pits Zone% Swing% Contact% Z-Swing% O-Swing% Z-Contact% O-Contact% SwStr% CSAA

Injury History  —  No longer being updated

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

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2019 Preseason Forecast

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

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BP Chats

DateQuestionAnswer
2013-03-26 13:00:00 (link to chat)Will this year be the rookie season of the greatest Cuban born player of all time? Is that too high of a mountain to climb? Or only a mountain too high to accurately see over?
(Paul from DC)		Out of curiosity, I used the Baseball-Reference Play Index to find the top 5 Cuban-born players by WAR.

1. Rafael Palmeiro 66.1
2. Luis Tiant 61.8
3. Tony Perez 50.1
4. Bert Campaneris 49.2
5. Minnie Minoso 47.5

That seems really ambitious for Gerardo Concepcion.

Unless you meant Puig. Then it's still really ambitious. (Zachary Levine)
2010-07-23 13:00:00 (link to chat)How about Fred McGriff? Big HR guy with no steroid taint.
(SIERAmist from Clean Coal Fantasyland, WV)		Unless he's added a few homers since December, what I wrote back then (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=9871) still applies:

For years now, there's been talk of the fact that with his 493 homers, McGriff might unseat Dave Kingman (442 homers) as the player with the highest total not to make the Hall of Fame. Jose Canseco (462 homers) has already erased the so-called "Kingman Line," but then his transgressions insured he'd never make Cooperstown anyway. There's bound to be a certain nostalgia among voters for McGriff, who hit the majority of his shots before the pharmaceutically-fueled assault on the single-season home-run record began, and an acknowledgment that the round-numbered milestone he fell short of means less today than it did a generation ago.

Even so, McGriff doesn't have a particularly strong case for Cooperstown. Despite the two home-run titles, he's well short of the Black Ink of a typical Hall of Famer (though that Jamesian metric fails to adjust for expansion). He never won an MVP award (his top single-season WARP total of 6.8 isn't quite MVP territory), and while he did place in the top 10 in the voting in six straight seasons (1989-1994), he only cracked the top five in 1993. JAWS-wise, that stretch of six-win seasons still isn't enough for him to measure up to the average Hall of Famer on peak score, and he's even further below the standard on career WARP. The shape of his JAWS line is very similar to that of Tony Perez (59.0/41.3/50.2), but that particular Doggie had five pennants, two rings, and a more famous dynasty to his name. The guess here is that he'll fall far short, but linger on the ballot for a long time. (Jay Jaffe)
2009-08-19 14:00:00 (link to chat)Jay, I think it's impossible to use a specific number to measure HOF worthiness...3000 hits, 500 homers, 300 wins. You can pull a "Curtis Martin" and be effective for several years just due to good health and luck. I think you have to be great for a short period of time, in baseball I put that at 6-8 years, or very good for a long period of time, 12+ years. Do you agree?
(GregLowder from DC)		Among actual voters, by which I mean the BBWAA ones, not the VC ones, career length is a much bigger factor than you give it credit for being. With a few exceptions (Rice, Sutter, Brock, Tony Perez) guys who get elected by the writers generally have had good to great peaks AND very good long careers. (Jay Jaffe)
2008-11-14 13:00:00 (link to chat)How great would Eric Davis truly have been if not for the injuries?
(Brandon from Charleston)		Well, he was pretty great as it was. He probably wouldn't have been too different, with perhaps a couple more years around the level of that 1986-1989 peak. I don't know if it would have been enough to get him into the Hall of Fame, given that his first manager was Pete Rose, who was more focused on getting himself, Tony Perez, and other 40-something pals into the lineup than he was breaking in this kid with the great speed. Davis lost some playing time that way in what would have been the healthy, or healthier, part of his career. As it was, he was one of the most exciting players I ever saw, and my personal inspiration for one of our forthcoming projects. (Steven Goldman)
2008-02-07 14:00:00 (link to chat)Bill James HOF book showed that about 10% of at bats have gone to hall of famers over the years other than the '20s and '30s, which were higher. This seems like a good barometer. It also seems the '80s & '90s will be lower than this. I think the bar has been raised too high, c.f. Alan Trammell and Tim Raines. Your thoughts?
(WillMeier from Muskegon, MI)		It does seem that the BBWAA has become more picky over the years--but then again, they've elected Tony Perez, Bruce Sutter and, next year, Jim Rice. Hard to say they're upholding a standard.

Remember that we're not dealing with complete information yet. Only players who ended their careers by 1988 have gone through a full ballot cycle. No one has been elected by the VC yet, and that system will change four more times before lunch. (Joe Sheehan)
2008-01-10 13:00:00 (link to chat)Joe, do you thing Rice would be the worst BBWAA choice ever? I think he might be better than Brock, but Brock had enough mitigating circumstances (3000 hits, stolen base record, 3 really good world series) that it is sort of understandable.
(djackson from New York)		He's better than Bruce Sutter and a little bit better, I think, than Tony Perez. The BBWAA has some older weird picks, too. I think Herb Pennock is their nadir.

Brock has markers Rice doesn't. (Joe Sheehan)


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