Years	PA	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	WARP
16	4009	.234	.301	.398	89	5.4

MLB Statistics

YEAR	TEAM	AGE	G	PA	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	HBP	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	DRAA	BRR	FRAA	BWARP
2004	KCA	23	71	258	56	9	0	12	15	79	0	1	1	.235	.280	.424	77	-7.0	-1.4	-12.1	-0.8
2005	KCA	24	118	430	97	21	1	12	23	94	3	2	2	.242	.287	.389	81	-9.6	-0.6	-11.1	-0.1
2006	KCA	25	114	409	91	21	1	11	26	84	7	0	2	.245	.306	.396	78	-9.8	-1.3	-14.8	-0.6
2007	KCA	26	113	399	77	18	0	18	36	92	10	0	1	.222	.308	.429	101	2.1	-1.1	11.4	3.1
2008	KCA	27	109	418	83	23	1	9	38	96	6	0	3	.224	.304	.365	84	-7.0	0.2	-2.9	1.0
2009	KCA	28	59	202	46	12	4	8	13	55	1	1	1	.247	.299	.484	87	-2.8	-1.3	-4.3	0.0
2010	TOR	29	118	437	115	25	0	20	16	111	6	0	0	.281	.314	.489	104	2.4	1.0	-12.2	1.0
2011	FLO	30	140	530	106	15	1	16	54	115	7	0	1	.227	.316	.367	98	-0.8	-0.3	-14.4	0.8
2012	MIA	31	106	398	66	15	1	12	49	103	3	0	0	.192	.297	.347	88	-5.4	-0.7	1.5	1.4
2013	NYN	32	101	407	79	11	0	15	29	99	8	2	1	.215	.285	.367	92	-3.0	1.1	-15.4	0.0
2013	PIT	32	9	24	8	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	88	-0.3	0.0	-1.4	-0.1
2014	ANA	33	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	72	-0.2	-0.1	0.0	0.0
2014	SEA	33	27	92	19	2	0	1	8	24	0	0	0	.226	.293	.286	71	-2.9	0.8	-2.1	-0.1
Career			1090	4009	844	172	9	134	307	959	51	6	12	.234	.301	.398	89	-44.2	-3.8	-77.8	5.4

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
1999	MIC	A	MDW	0	12	.000	.000	.000	.143			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1999	AUB	A-	NYP	0	263	.000	.000	.000	.297			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2000	MIC	A	MDW	0	450	.000	.000	.000	.334			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2001	LEX	A	SAL	122	498	.000	.000	.000	.295			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2002	ROU	AA	TXS	120	494	.000	.000	.000	.309			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2003	NWO	AAA	PCL	78	293	.000	.000	.000	.309			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2004	KCA	MLB	AL	71	258	.270	.337	.432	.297	102	-8.5	7.7	4.3	77	10	-12.1	-1.4	-7.0	-0.8
2004	NWO	AAA	PCL	65	254	.000	.000	.000	.316			0.0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2005	KCA	MLB	AL	118	430	.267	.323	.419	.286	104	-11.7	12.4	7.5	81	7	-11.1	-0.6	-9.6	-0.1
2006	KCA	MLB	AL	114	409	.270	.329	.428	.289	112	-12.9	12.3	7.4	78	10	-14.8	-1.3	-9.8	-0.6
2007	KCA	MLB	AL	113	399	.266	.330	.414	.243	103	-2.3	11.8	7.1	101	9	11.4	-1.1	2.1	3.1
2008	KCA	MLB	AL	109	418	.267	.331	.416	.275	102	-12.6	12.1	7.3	84	12	-2.9	0.2	-7.0	1.0
2009	KCA	MLB	AL	59	202	.271	.336	.434	.306	105	-0.5	5.8	2.2	87	11	-4.3	-1.3	-2.8	0.0
2009	OMA	AAA	PCL	7	27	.253	.319	.379	.278	79	1.6	0.8	0.2	95	0	-0.3	-0.3	-0.1	0.0
2010	TOR	MLB	AL	118	437	.252	.319	.399	.335	112	5.1	12.0	6.6	104	11	-12.2	1.0	2.4	1.0
2010	NHP	AA	EAS	3	12	.249	.333	.358	.167	113	1.1	0.3	-0.1	147	0	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.1
2011	FLO	MLB	NL	140	530	.254	.314	.392	.268	94	-4.8	14.3	8.5	98	12	-14.4	-0.3	-0.8	0.8
2012	MIA	MLB	NL	106	398	.251	.311	.398	.235	95	-9.1	10.9	6.6	88	13	1.5	-0.7	-5.4	1.4
2013	NYN	MLB	NL	101	407	.255	.312	.396	.250	97	-6	10.7	6.3	92	8	-15.4	1.1	-3.0	0.0
2013	PIT	MLB	NL	9	24	.256	.318	.399	.421	99	-0.5	0.6	0.4	88	8	-1.4	0.0	-0.3	-0.1
2014	ANA	MLB	AL	5	5	.288	.354	.402	.333	99	-0.4	0.1	0	72	14	0.0	-0.1	-0.2	0.0
2014	SEA	MLB	AL	27	92	.258	.322	.395	.305	88	-1.2	2.4	0.8	71	14	-2.1	0.8	-2.9	-0.1
2014	SLC	AAA	PCL	33	135	.276	.338	.439	.344	103	0.8	4.0	0.9	113	0	-2.5	-0.6	1.1	0.3

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
1999	AUB	A-	NYP	263	233	36	57	17	0	3	83	29	25	48	7	1	.245	.331	.356	.112	0	0
1999	MIC	A	MDW	12	10	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	2	3	0	0	.100	.250	.200	.100	0	0
2000	MIC	A	MDW	450	390	57	110	33	0	10	173	71	55	81	2	4	.282	.378	.444	.162	0	0
2001	LEX	A	SAL	498	443	72	122	24	1	22	214	73	37	84	4	9	.275	.346	.483	.208	2	2
2002	ROU	AA	TXS	494	448	48	118	29	3	12	189	89	31	93	2	3	.263	.320	.422	.158	0	0
2003	NWO	AAA	PCL	293	274	32	70	18	2	2	98	39	14	53	1	0	.255	.300	.358	.102	1	1
2004	KCA	MLB	AL	258	238	36	56	9	0	12	101	30	15	79	1	1	.235	.280	.424	.189	1	4
2004	NWO	AAA	PCL	254	227	31	68	11	0	12	115	35	21	39	0	1	.300	.368	.507	.207	1	1
2005	KCA	MLB	AL	430	401	40	97	21	1	12	156	47	23	94	2	2	.242	.287	.389	.147	2	1
2006	KCA	MLB	AL	409	371	37	91	21	1	11	147	50	26	84	0	2	.245	.306	.396	.151	1	4
2007	KCA	MLB	AL	399	347	41	77	18	0	18	149	48	36	92	0	1	.222	.308	.429	.207	6	0
2008	KCA	MLB	AL	418	370	48	83	23	1	9	135	48	38	96	0	3	.224	.304	.365	.141	4	0
2009	OMA	AAA	PCL	27	27	3	7	1	0	2	14	4	0	7	0	0	.259	.259	.519	.259	0	0
2009	KCA	MLB	AL	202	186	16	46	12	4	8	90	36	13	55	1	1	.247	.299	.484	.237	1	1
2010	NHP	AA	EAS	12	11	2	3	0	0	2	9	6	1	3	0	0	.273	.333	.818	.545	0	0
2010	TOR	MLB	AL	437	409	53	115	25	0	20	200	66	16	111	0	0	.281	.314	.489	.208	6	0
2011	FLO	MLB	NL	530	466	41	106	15	1	16	171	57	54	115	0	1	.227	.316	.367	.139	1	2
2012	MIA	MLB	NL	398	343	29	66	15	1	12	119	41	49	103	0	0	.192	.297	.347	.155	2	1
2013	NYN	MLB	NL	407	368	38	79	11	0	15	135	60	29	99	2	1	.215	.285	.367	.152	2	0
2013	PIT	MLB	NL	24	24	1	8	0	0	0	8	2	0	5	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.000	0	0
2014	ANA	MLB	AL	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.000	0
2014	SEA	MLB	AL	92	84	9	19	2	0	1	24	6	8	24	0	0	.226	.293	.286	.060	0
2014	SLC	AAA	PCL	135	119	13	35	8	0	2	49	15	13	22	0	0	.294	.370	.412	.118	1

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%	CSAA
2008	1537	0.5172	0.4821	0.7409	0.6868	0.2628	0.8040	0.5641	0.2591	-0.0004
2009	730	0.5000	0.5397	0.6827	0.7534	0.3260	0.7491	0.5294	0.3173	0.0057
2010	1605	0.4685	0.5514	0.7051	0.7340	0.3904	0.8043	0.5405	0.2949	0.0099
2011	1954	0.4964	0.4923	0.7432	0.6969	0.2907	0.7959	0.6189	0.2568	-0.0038
2012	1489	0.5151	0.4446	0.7085	0.6089	0.2701	0.7794	0.5385	0.2915	-0.0067
2013	1669	0.4937	0.5015	0.7061	0.6905	0.3172	0.7627	0.5858	0.2939	-0.0099
2014	379	0.4855	0.4960	0.7287	0.7174	0.2872	0.8030	0.5536	0.2713	0.0054
Career	9363	0.4974	0.4987	0.7189	0.6917	0.3073	0.7868	0.5682	0.2811	-0.0013

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
2013-07-20	2013-07-21	DTD	1	1	-		Cramp		-	-
2013-03-17	2013-03-20	Camp	3	0	-	General Medical	Illness	Flu	-	-
2011-05-17	2011-05-18	DTD	1	0		Forearm	Contusion		-
2010-08-05	2010-08-20	15-DL	15	12	Right	Thumb	Laceration		-
2009-05-31	2009-07-06	15-DL	36	32		Low Back	Cartilage Injury	Herniated Disc	-
2008-07-03	2008-07-04	DTD	1	1		Groin	Soreness		-
2006-09-16	2006-09-23	DTD	7	5	Left	Thigh	Strain	Hamstring	-
2004-08-08	2004-08-09	DTD	1	1		Hand	Contusion	Foul Tip	-
2001-08-08	2001-08-19	Minors	11	0	Right	Fingers	Fracture	Middle Finger	-	-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2015	ATL	$
2014	SEA	$1,000,000
2013	NYN	$6,500,000
2012	MIA	$6,500,000
2011	FLO	$5,000,000
2010	TOR	$2,000,000
2009	KCA	$2,900,000
2008	KCA	$2,200,000
2007	KCA	$440,000
2006	KCA	$349,500
2005	KCA	$318,500

Years	Description	Salary
10 yr	Previous	$27,208,000
10 yr	Total	$27,208,000

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
10 y 64 d	Levinsons ACES	1 year (2015)

Details

1 year (2015). Signed by Atlanta as a free agent 1/26/15 (minor-league contract). Retired 3/26/15.
1 year/$1M (2014). Signed by Seattle as a free agent 1/15/14. May earn additional $3M in performance bonuses based on games started and plate appearances. DFA by Seattle 7/9/14. Released 7/15/14. Signed by LA Angels as a free agent 7/21/14 (minor-league contract). Contract selected by LA Angels 9/2/14. Sent outright to Triple-A by LA Angels 10/7/14 (refused assignment).
3 years/$18M (2011-13). Signed by Florida as a free agent 11/17/10. $1.5M signing bonus. 11:$4.5M, 12:$6M, 13:$6M. Acquired by Toronto in trade from Miami 11/13/12. Acquired by NY Mets in trade from Toronto 12/17/12. Acquired by Pittsburgh in trade from NY Mets 8/27/13. (Mets paid Pirates $0.25M in the deal.)
1 year/$2M (2010). Signed by Toronto as a free agent 12/11/09.
1 year/$2.9M (2009). Re-signed by Kansas City 1/20/09 (avoided arbitration). Non-tendered by Kansas City 12/10/09.
1 year/$2.2M (2008). Re-signed by Kansas City 1/18/08 (avoided arbitration). Bereavement list 5/16/08.
1 year/$0.44M (2007). Re-signed by Kansas City 2/07.
1 year/$0.3495M (2006). Renewed by Kansas City 3/06.
1 year/$0.3185M (2005). Re-signed by Kansas City 3/05.
1 year/$0.3M (2004). Re-signed by Houston 2/04. Recalled 6/04. Acquired by Kansas City in trade from Houston 6/04 (Beltran deal).
Contract purchased by Houston 11/01. Optioned to Triple-A 3/03.
Drafted by Houston 1998 (7-212) (Taylorsville HS, Salt Lake City, Utah).

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PCT	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	VORP	FRAA	WARP
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	0	0	?	?	.000	.000	.000	0	0.0	?	0.0

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BP Chats

Date	Question	Answer
2014-02-10 13:00:00 (link to chat)	What do you think about Ryan Lavarnway and his perspectives as MLB player? (navarra from Ukraine)	Poor man's John Buck? (Jeff Moore)
2013-04-10 20:00:00 (link to chat)	Until Brian McCann returns, should I stick with vanilla Ryan Doumit or take a chance on Buck, Gattis, Arencibia or Pierzynski? (non-keeper points league) Thanks. (rjblakel from Australia)	If your add/drop rules are liberal, you can certainly ride John Buck's hot hand. But Ryan Doumit is fine, and A.J. Pierzynski really isn't much worse/is about the same. (Mike Gianella)
2012-03-06 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Derek, how badly will Marlins Park hurt Miami's hitters? Marc Normandin has a post today at SBNation indicating things don't look promising from a HR perspective. On a related note, would you keep Gaby Sanchez at $13 in an 8-team, NL-only, 5x5 league with no keeper limit concerns? (GBSimons from Boise, ID)	Yeah, I've been saying for a while that the deeper fences could hurt their power hitters. I'm pretty much avoiding Marlins power guys this year unless they come at a discount. Stanton is really expensive, so I'm not owning him anywhere despite really liking his skills. John Buck could be a catcher bust since all he has is power. Logan Morrison might not be as bad because the far right field fence is actually shallower, and as a lefty with pull power he could manage to not lose much. In an 8-team NL-only league, I throw Sanchez back at that price unless your keeper system causes some heavy inflation. (Derek Carty)
2011-12-20 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Did the Rangers really screw up by not trading one of Salty, Ramirez and Teagarden when their values were all high? (rwinter from Boston)	In the sense that they didn't trade prospects who flopped, sure. You could say that about every team and every prospect who flopped. Did the Angels err in not trading Brandon Wood when he was a top-10 prospect? In retrospect, of course, but there was no way of knowing that. The fact that all three of those players flopped in their own ways supports the decision to keep all of them, though, instead of treating them as depth. Catchers have a brutal attrition rate. Baseball America's top 100 in 2000 included six catchers: Eric Munson, Ben Petrick, Matt LeCroy, Jayson Werth (Orioles), Steve Lomasney, Ryan Christianson. In 2001: Joe Lawrence, Dane Sardinha, Brandon Inge, J.R. House. In 2002: Mauer, Josh Phelps, House, John Buck, Werth (Blue Jays), Victor Martinez. In 2003: Mauer, Martinez, Jeff Mathis, Justin Huber, Buck. In 2007, when the Rangers had to make this decision, Kevin Goldstein ranked the catchers in the minors. He named 17 players. These are the 17: Jeff Clement Bryan Anderson J.R. Towles Teagarden Hank Conger John Jaso Ramirez Nick Hundley Tony Recker Jesus Montero Brett Hayes Francisco Hernandez Lou Palmisano Landon Powell Shawn Riggans Jamie Skelton Brian Jeroloman Out of those 17, there are basically one and a half every day catchers, maaaaaaybe another one in Hank Conger, and a DH. We thought the Rangers had three catchers, plus Gerald Laird. In fact, they had Gerald Laird. Also: 2007 Baseball Prospectus Annual: "When Teagarden is behind the dish, he's one of the top defensive catchers around. If he can stay there, he's Mickey Tettleton with defensive chops." 2008 Baseball Prospectus Annual: "If you want to get really dreamy and optimistic, think Mickey Tettleton with Gold Glove-level skills, and you get the picture." This is why comps are the best/worst. (Sam Miller)
2011-03-02 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Donning your GM-cap for a moment....if you had been in Detroit making decisions, would you have made the deal with Victor Martinez? Or would you have found a cheaper DH-bat and kept the 1st round pick in this mucho-hyped upcoming draft? Thank you. (lemppi from Iowa)	A lot depends on how serious they are about getting him time behind the plate as well as at DH, because if he starts 60 games or more as a catcher, it's hard to turn that down for what it means for an offense, especially when the alternatives for playing-time partners for Alex Avila were one low-OBP right-handed swing-and-miss slugger or another. Considering how much money got thrown at guys like John Buck, I think Dombrowski paid a premium in the right way. (Christina Kahrl)
2010-11-23 13:00:00 (link to chat)	What do the Red Sox do at catcher with Victor Martinez headed to Detroit? (Frank from Dover)	If it's me, I'm signing Yorvit Torrealba or Miguel Olivo to a two-year deal and hoping Salty shows enough to merit playing time in front of them. Both of those free agents are at least average defensively while delivering adequacy in one of the two key offensive categories (OBP for Yorvit, SLG for Miggy). Neither made $3 million last year, so neither should be too expensive, though John Buck's contract may have blown up the market. (Jay Jaffe)
2010-07-09 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Re: Snoop's World Cup question, there's some adult film star offering her "services" to her Twitter followers if the Netherlands win. Blue Jays question: do you see a market for Alex Gonzalez or All-Stars (!) John Buck / Jose Bautista if the Jays are sellers at the deadline? (SeanDoyle from Toronto)	I just wanted to post a question with "adult film star" and Alex Gonzalez in it. Gonzalez? Not a worthwhile market. Buck, maybe, since catching is at a premium. Bautista--I don't know if anyone wants to touch that. In my mixed keeper league, Bautista is still a free agent. I would hope that every GM in baseball is at least that aware of how these things work. (Marc Normandin)

BP Roundtables

Date	Roundtable Name	Comment
2010-07-13 16:30:00	All-Star Game	John Buck is a reminder that All-Stars should be actual stars, not just guys that had a fluke first half. (Steven Goldman)

Advanced Catching Metrics

Year	lvl	CSAA	Framing Runs	Blocking Chances	EPAA	Blocking Runs	SB Attempts	SRAA	TRAA	Throwing Runs	FRAA Adj.	FRAA
2004	mlb	-.013	-9.0	2822	.001	-1.2	40	-.002	.000	0.1	-10.5	-12.1
2005	mlb	-.010	-12.3	5150	.001	-1.1	75	-.049	.001	2.3	-10.1	-11.1
2006	mlb	-.010	-12.9	5019	.001	-1.6	46	-.028	-.006	1.2	-13.9	-14.8
2007	mlb	.009	10.8	4705	.000	0.4	49	.027	-.003	-0.9	9.3	11.4
2008	mlb	.003	2.5	4670	.001	-1.1	64	.054	.003	-2.3	-1.3	-2.9
2009	mlb	-.008	-3.5	2047	-.001	0.7	43	.035	.001	-0.9	-3.6	-4.3
2009	aaa	-.004	-0.2	145	.000	0.0	4	.007	.000	0.0	0.2	-0.3
2010	mlb	-.011	-11.0	4662	-.001	0.6	58	.009	-.006	-0.5	-11.3	-12.2
2010	aax	.000	0.0	40	.000	0.0	0	.000	.000	0.0	0.4	0.0
2011	mlb	-.012	-13.0	5233	.000	0.3	86	.000	-.002	0.2	-13.0	-14.4
2012	mlb	-.003	-3.1	4284	-.001	1.7	53	-.010	-.002	0.3	-1.8	1.5
2013	mlb	-.017	-15.6	4064	.000	0.2	49	.008	-.007	-0.2	-12.8	-16.8
2014	aaa	-.006	-1.4	852	.000	0.0	21	.054	.000	-0.8	-2.5	-2.5
2014	mlb	-.009	-1.5	775	.002	-0.4	12	.019	-.002	-0.1	-2.3	-2.1

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