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Portrait of Lou Palmisano

Lou Palmisano C

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Career Summary
Years PA AVG OBP SLG DRC+ WARP
6 .000 .000 .000 0 0.0
Birth Date9-16-1982
Height6' 0"
Weight205 lbs
Age41 years, 7 months, 9 days
BatsR
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

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
2003 HEL Rk PIO 47 203 .000 .000 .000 .446 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2004 BLT A MDW 113 464 .000 .000 .000 .365 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2005 BRV A+ FSL 118 475 .254 .318 .356 .289 94 2.1 1.3 0.2 107 0 0.0 -1.8 5.3 0.5
2006 HUN AA SOU 99 393 .251 .327 .369 .280 92 2.6 8.4 5 79 0 -3.4 -0.2 -9.8 0.0
2007 HUN AA SOU 103 421 .264 .337 .395 .304 94 15.4 13.4 7.8 126 0 -0.1 -0.5 14.1 3.5
2008 BRV A+ FSL 19 79 .244 .329 .358 .339 94 2.7 2.3 -1.5 121 0 0.0 -1.0 0.5 0.0
2008 BRR Rk AZL 8 34 .270 .349 .372 .320 96 0.5 1.1 -0.7 132 0 0.0 -0.6 -1.4 -0.2

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
2003 HEL Rk PIO 203 174 32 68 13 2 6 103 43 18 29 13 2 .391 .467 .592 .201 0 0
2004 BLT A MDW 464 409 59 120 22 3 7 169 65 43 93 3 2 .293 .372 .413 .120 1 1
2005 BRV A+ FSL 475 432 47 110 16 7 5 155 49 34 65 3 1 .255 .316 .359 .104 1 1
2006 HUN AA SOU 393 332 39 80 17 1 4 111 37 48 65 2 0 .241 .333 .334 .093 8 8
2007 HUN AA SOU 421 351 49 90 22 1 11 147 63 57 80 8 2 .256 .373 .419 .162 0 0
2008 BRR Rk AZL 34 29 4 8 2 1 0 12 1 5 4 1 0 .276 .382 .414 .138 0 0
2008 BRV A+ FSL 79 72 8 22 2 0 2 30 8 5 11 0 1 .306 .367 .417 .111 0 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Injury History  —  No longer being updated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

Date On Date Off Transaction Days Games Side Body Part Injury Severity Surgery Date Reaggravation

Compensation

Year Team Salary

 

Service TimeAgentContract Status

Details
  • sent outright to Triple-A 3/22/09 after MIL declined to accept him back as Rule 5
  • signed 2/19/09, 1 year/$0.4M (09)
  • acquired in trade from BAL 12/11/08 Rule5-MIL 12/11/08
  • sent outright to Triple-A 9/10/08 designated for assignment 9/5/08 optioned to Triple-A 3/11/08
  • re-signed 2/21/08, 1 year (08)
  • contract purchased 11/19/07 sent to minor-league camp 3/06 $0.5M signing bonus
  • Broward CC 03 3-69

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
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BP Chats

DateQuestionAnswer
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)


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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
2005 afa .000 0.0 731 .000 -0.1 25 -.009 .000 0.2 0.1 0.0
2006 aax .000 0.0 2872 .001 -0.7 62 .020 .000 -0.7 -3.0 -3.4
2007 aax .000 0.0 4389 .000 0.4 99 .011 .001 -0.6 -0.9 -0.1

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